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Give Me a Call
Did I say something wrong
Did I let you down
Do you think of me when no ones around
Because I think of you
And I think a lot
Of everything we had and what we’ve still got
You know you could call
Or I could too
But everything…
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I’ve always liked Isaac Watt’s (1674 – 1748) hymn “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” but have thought the tune, a Gregorian chant, doesn’t adequately emphasize the words. It occurred to me that it might work well with a blues rhythm and I…
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Dark Glitch Piece i had sitting in the backlog works.
Hypertension Amame.
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Hanging out with the kitties, doggies, and [OTHER*].
*may contain birds, snakes, a lizard, and a tortoise.
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I had this song worked out pretty much completely but it was only about a minute long. What to do? I just repeated the whole thing and stuck an extra phrase at the end to wrap it up. Boom, two and a half minutes.
Rhythm guitar is my SG…
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Literally everything I've done this month could be titled "Social Distance" or "Shelter in Place" or "Holy shit this is scary as hell".
I don't think I ever really plan to write a big dumb sludgy rock song, but they always show up and here…
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Another one with an attempt to sort of improvise the rhythm guitar part. Some of it at least. Also, another one with a melody that... well... seemed like a good idea at the time.
The rhythm guitar is a Gibson SG, the lead is a Gibson Les…
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I've been writing melodies and lyrics earlier in the process than I'm really used to. Normally I sit at the mic and write and record everything at once. Lately I've been writing a melody with a piano track, then writing lyrics that fit, and…
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There are a few things from this month's batch of songs that I tried to kind of improvise the rhythm guitar part. I looped a section of the song and without figuring out what I wanted to do ahead of time I hit record and saw what happened. This…
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So we're locked down, and got bored, so we downloaded the stems for Fleetwood Mac's track, ditched all the vocals and rerecorded them.
Billy then remixed and mastered the track.
I hope we haven't butchered it too much if it's one of your…
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We're all in the same boat with nobody at the rudder and hoping the swell will take us through to the otherside. we've been given time to to think about life while the door is closed. When it opens again lets put all those wrongs to right because…
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One thing I like about covers is turning a song on its head, so that's what I did with this tune from the great ABS album "The Far Side Of Paradise". I hope I made Lane proud.
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So... I usually try to come up with a little story about each song when I post. This time... I got nothing. It's in 7/8 and there was one section that I screwed up the guitar part about a million times. Other than that? I got nothing.
The…
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In light of what's going on today my mind has been racing nonstop to digest the situation. I had to put this track into a higher perspective.
-Creation
-Destruction
-Rebirth
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This is the parable of the lost sheep and the Shepard the left the other 99 to go get the lost one.
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Some people will always surprise you with their particular styles of sayin hello..
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I'll admit it right up front . . . This is the result of an idle mind.
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Well the virus has my friend and music partner in Krakow Poland sheltering in place but we are using the time to write and record..here is our latest...we tried to write in the style of Motown...check it out ... all music and production by Art…
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BECAUSE OF YOU
Because of you, I took her picture off the wall
Because of you, I packed her skate board and her clock
Because of you, I stashed it all behind the couch
Because of you, I'll never have to throw it out
I know with you that…
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This song features my first attempt at recording myself playing a drumkit. I only did four takes, sorry.
Lyrics:
They’re gonna say I stole this song
And I knew it all along
They own the copyright on C, G, C, G, D
They’re gonna sue the…
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This one is the only track that I am a little disappointed in. I thought it would be a banger and a lead-off track, but I had trouble getting it to exactly where I thought it would be. I think the problem is that I am nowhere near as good a singer…
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There is actually a LOT of goose poop at my office park, but I opted to use the joke title referring to my favorite Beach Boys song.
FWIW, the drum loops came from https://www.organicdrumloops.com/
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A post on the Facebook RPM group featured a quote from an aging Dave Grohl complaining about Kids These Days and Their Terrible Music, pointing out that the current number-one song was about someone's butt. So, I wrote a song about my butt…
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I wrote this song for my brother, who'd recently had surgery. Yes, I know it's long. I cut something close to three minutes out of it...FWIW it's supposed to butt right up against the next track "Oldie Bear" but you can't really do that in an…
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Worked with a couple of college interns last year who'd never heard of any band I like. I felt like an asshole bragging about going to shows that happened 20 years before they were born.
Lyrics:
Oldie Bear was there at woodstock
Dancin…
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I wrote the backing track a couple years ago after watching the documentary “It Might Get Loud.” It somehow evolved into a li’l tribute to Bob Dylan (Bob really deserves so much better). The words allude to a number of Dylan’s songs: “Like a Rolling…
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I've finally got the studio back together after the move into the new house and this is the first recording. John put together the backing track and i added my bit so here goes the first of many more to come i hope.....
DRAIN THE SWAMP (Big…
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The second song for my ridiculous post-RPM Challenge album in a month yet again thing.
I was working on a guitar part for another song when I played the riff for this by accident. I dropped everything and made sure I had it recorded. I was…
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My post-RPM Challenge plan is to just keep going. Here's my first March 2020 Challenge song.
I am trying to go much more raw and low-fi than usual. One guitar straight into one amp. No doubling, not extensive overdubs. Same with the vocals…
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An angry little tune about the pres(id)ent situation.
EOB strat>russian big muff pi>guitar disruptor>ibanez DE7 delay
Isolation
Quarantine
But people all around
The sickness of not caring
No empathy to be found
Bail out banks…
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I have never written a song about the RPM Challenge itself, until now. Have we really been here for 15 years? It needed to be fun, it needed to be a great dance number. I had the gtr riff, and realized it would be even better as a horn line. The…
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This one came solely as the chorus melody and the basic hook "So I'll sing my song for Carolina" It's all I had for months, but I thought it was a good chorus line so I kept humming it to see if it would sprout further ideas. The mid section is…
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I have had this riff for a while. It needed a song. It needed cowbell. It got both, and it's a great song to drive to.
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Bill J. - rant, static, recording
Kevin C. - editing, mixing
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Bill J. - guitar, static
Kenny T. - bass
Kevin C. - drums, cat toys, recording, mixing
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Bill J. - guitar, voice, static
Jana M-J. - voice, piano
Kevin C. - voice, recording, mixing
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I asked Bill early in February to record an AM radio rant for our RPM Challenge album, and boy, did he deliver. :)
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I hear the whispers again, so best I start
Mending my broken heart
I’ve gone to weaving again, needle and thread
Mending my aching head
Can’t you tell I just wanted to love you, but you were making other plans
So fare thee well and remember…
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DEEPER
Every day I sink a little deeper
Two steps up. Three steps back.
I'd rather be dead than be a sleeper
I'm not coming back...
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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From an idea in a poem by Pete Thompson.
CALEBB'S RETRIEVE
jmt/Pete Thompson
The crowd is restless
It's a quarter til noon
They're for a hangin'
And it better be soon
Sun's beaten' down
The Law's not in town
Hangman's dirty boots…
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Bill set his loop pedal to repeat the quickest note he could, and we played along with it.
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Introductory jam with Bill on guitar and Kevin on drums.
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Endeetone who’s popularly known with his title as the “Beatlord” is here with his first official single and this time he has successfully amazed us all with his exceptional performance, serenading us with his wonderful voice as he also follows…
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This one's mostly MIDI clips in the Superior Drummer 3 and EZKeys plugins in Reaper. I fumbled along on my new MIDI keyboard controller to add the bass part using a sound from SampleTank. Pretty happy with it except for the abrupt end of the last…
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Gilronan made this up to sing this to his girls as they played dress-up with cold weather accessories.
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Chris’s tune lyrics, vocals drums, bass and acoustic guitar, Toms electric guitar, Johnnys Keys
Vibe
Fix me baby, give me a fix
Open up your bag of tricks
Build it up now, lay the bricks
Sugar on top, then stir the mix
All that rhythm…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris Drums
Johnny Keys
I’m Not Saying
An old expression goes
“The more you learn the less that you know”
Now i’m not preaching but perhaps we’ve been teaching it wrong
And it grows old in…
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Chris’s tune, lyrics, vocals, acoustic guitar, bass
Toms Mandolin
Johnnys keys
Grey Matters
Pale grey.. my blanket of birth... For what it’s worth
No one can say
Frozen hue.. bequeathed to me..
The powers that be
But what colors…
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Garys tune, lyrics, vocals, guitar
Toms bass Chris drums
Johnny Keys
WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT GIRL I USED TO KNOW
AS SPARKLING FRESH AS NEWLY FALLEN SNOW
A HEART TURNED TO STONE
SO SYNICLE AND ALL ALONE
TIME WONT HEAL THE PAIN
ONLY EMPTYNESS…
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Tom and Chris’s tune, Toms lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, mando, banjo, harp and some keys
Chris drums - Johnny Keys
Poor Mans Paradise
I was born in a thunderstorm
Rolling down highway one
With the poor mans tax upon my back
Before…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, mando,
Chris drum / back vocal
John Otto - Penny Whistle / great keys/ Spirit
Ummmerica....
Well my girl n me got a front row seat
To the next world war
We stood in line for quite some time
Its…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris drums Johnny Keys
You Were There
You were there
With yellow flowers in your hair
And the summer air seemed to get us high
The county fair
Was lit up like a caution flare
And it was there…
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This is the band mix of this song:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/playlists/rpm2020---finished-mixes,-so-far/good-people-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
The only note worth making is that unlike almost every other song I worked on this year, the…
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This is a last minute bit of guitar goofiness. I own three Gibson guitars and have been wanting to write a silly instrumental that includes all of them. This is it. The rhythm guitar is my '79 ES 335 Pro, the lead on the left is my '18 SG Standard…
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The waking dream ends before it began. Trailing off to quantum uncertainty.
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Although they would probably not admit it, writing credits to Carl Barnhardt and Kevin Martin.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
The Vaseline Queen of Abilene
There’s a little town out west of Sabine
Where the wind spins the turbine…
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A track over twenty years in the making. I came up with it sitting in front of the TV with an unplugged borrowed Rickenbacker 360 (thanks, Mark). The Santana vibe just happened. I made a four track cassette recording of it just to get it down…
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Just a little instrumental.
HYGGE
/ˈh(y)o͞oɡə,ˈho͝oɡə/
noun: hygge
A quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture).
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Sometimes we don't resist the brightest flame until it's too late.
ACETYLENE
Baby, you burn - I never learn until I'm on fire
A dangerous game - the hottest flame I've ever seen
I can't look away from your blinding display, drawn by desire…
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A few years back in a Portsmouth, NH bar, I saw a guy sitting across from a girl who was looking at him with such adoration and love - and I'm pretty sure the guy had no idea. This song's for you, young man. I hope you realized what you had…
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There's a line in an Indigo Girls song that says, "If you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality, a hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof." For me, ever since hearing the words "cruel mortality," they have always…
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Welcome to my RPM album. The line "You might not get what you want - You'll get what you deserve" came to me without me truly understanding it.
By the time I finished recording the album, it all made sense.
WHAT YOU DESERVE
Is this what…
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This one is a turd and a half. I knew it was a loser from the word go but my February rule is everything that can be completed will be. As a result we have a song where the guitars are half assed, the lyrics are half assed, the vocals are half…
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There is almost no snow this year, it appears for some time from nowhere and immediately disappears. I look at this all out the window, and found myself looking more and more often back at the past experience. Is this a sign of age? Hmm, I certainly…
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This one was fun to play while I was working on it, but now it's kind of a turd. I don't know if I am going to drop anything from this year's RPM Challenge album, but if I do this is definitely a candidate. The lyrics are cheese, the singing…
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The miracle here is that I was able to upload this using the guest wifi at Disney World and it didn't take six days! Nice!
The lyrics are about how I used to be a cynical asshole when it came to love and relationships and then I met my wife…
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Alternate arrangement of this:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/deja-vu-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
The guitars are a Les Paul through two Fender Bassbreakers.
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This is the moment when my good time with the saxophone came to an end. It's just a simple 12-bar blues but I had this groovy idea for some pseudo ensemble playing at the beginning of the song and my sax skills were not up to the challenge…
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I woke up this morning with an idea for a strummy riff in my head. I telecommuted to work today and in the couple of hours before I had to punch in to work I wrote all the sections and recorded the rhythm guitars to a guide drum track. During…
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Another band mix of an acoustic song. I had a hard time getting GarageBand's drummer to fit. I went from way too busy to way too passive to mildly too busy and decided to live with it. I think the problem was probably the 7/4 time signature…
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The plan for the RPM Challenge this year is to do an album with two distinct parts. Side One (if you'll indulge the ancient way of thinking) will be a straight up bar band. The instrumentation will be my normal guitar/bass/drums/vocals. Side…
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Back in 1991 I was a music major at UMass Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. I was in the audio program and I was flunking out because I had zero math skills. I was not flunking out in the instrumental music courses though. I played guitar at…
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This one is a coffee shoppe arrangement but as soon as I had the guitar parts down I thought it would sound good with drums and bass. As soon as I had that thought I decided to do two versions of each acoustic song.
Verse 1
There’s got to…
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I setup a drum loop and started playing and this is what happened. The verse is a 12-bar, the chorus is the V chord section of a 12-bar. There were a lot of punch ins for both the rhythm guitar and the bass, but there was no copy and paste anywhere…
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This is an alternate mix of an RPM2020 song. I'm hoping half of my album will be arranged for acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and saxophone. I also want to do an alternate mix of each of those songs with the usual three piece rock band arrangement…
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The first RPM2020 song. For this song I setup a click track and just started playing. There are only two phrases and there are punch in's everywhere and many of them are just plain bad.
I don’t believe what I want to believe
I only believe…
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a guitar and mood n stuff drifting aimlessly as aural wallpaper
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I literally destroyed the whammy recording this.
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the old song from 1993 mixed with tonites work on c-sound. :) just tooling about in c-sound. Q thing.
someone comment on the drift at the end of this.. my reply is thus --- that drift was made in 1993 when I after I think I had an mac two…
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from my tapes from 2009 it is part of three tapes digitized ... :) the high resolution is here
https://soundcloud.com/h92o/sets/tape-archives-set-one-new-recorder-high-quality-all
I put most of the audio tapes on video too.. and uploaded…
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* hello
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1. Please format me
2. I'm not only a user, i'm a developer
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live at Growl "Colours of Time" cd release
Mark Cook - Warr guitar
thanks to Shawn Sutherland for recording
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live at GROWL "Colours of Time" cd release
with Mark Cook - Warr guitar
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Altered performance by the Sounds Modern Ensemble and audience percussion
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live at GROWL "Colours of Time" cd release
Mark Cook-Warr guitar
thanks Shawn Sutherland for recording
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Son of the Queen
Isolating the cross-hatched memories of those starless nights when we searched for light to pour through the wounds we carry around, fashioned after and fawning, we, now downward, fall. A cast-iron bodice over the whimsical has…
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Mania for Breaking
With my mouth full of birds, and having taken just the tonic, I find the sky filled with my words; painted in distances hobbled and haunted. The way out is hidden from my view, and my hands are soiled with my birth. Spiralling…
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Coolest Kid Record present brand new song by ISAHLIFE titled NORMAL prod. By Hammudi.
Enjoy.
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Jim Goodin/William Newbold/Roger Sundstrom
mix by Kavin
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Made with LMMS 000 quickly banged out this one before I submerge into the LMMS.. --- ==
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This is the annual End of the year Mixtape by DjScuba and it's The MixHighestParty2019, 1hour powerUp mix, better be on your dancing shoes before engaging this mix... Seasons Greetings...
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After d dropping of Shina mi, Ft A-Lyrics Oluwagentle sonofmêrcy.. Decided to drop another song tittled majen jiya (suffer is not my portion
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related video complete with airplanes crashing in flames!
https://youtu.be/VPpjba7-3Ls
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Free the bubbles at the bottom of your stein. The world is counting on you.
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