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Finally something reasonably heavy! Rock on! Climate change is a real thing. Denying it doesn't change that. End political statement.
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Ghani Khan was an amazing poet and I'm always awed by his descriptions and sincerity. And I don't even speak his language! Please read his poetry at http://www.pashtoonkhwa.com/files/books/ghanikhan_poetry.pdf (it has translations) if you like…
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People generally like this song better than the rest. Let me know what you think. ^^
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Sounds eerily similar to one of Bullet for My Valentine's newer songs. Rest assured, I recorded this far before they created that album.
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And then Jim jumped up and sang this one with the house band down the cellar..........
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I posted this song a few days ago and Bethan liked the music so much she wrote her own words. Here it is, a co-write across the Atlantic.
SITTING BY THE WINDOW, NOTHING TO DO
WAITING FOR THE TIME WHEN THE SUN SHINES THROUGH
THE SUN SHINES…
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I'M AN EAGLE
I'm an eagle
I'm an arrow
I'm a falcon
I'm a sparrow
...and I feel the wind crossing my feathers in the morning
Flying high above the fields. Swoop down without a warning
I'm an eagle
I'm an arrow
I'm a falcon
I'm…
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Saw a black man on TV one night. His name was John Ferguson. This is his story. He's not a songwriter.
DAMNED IF I DO - G
I got thrown in jail for killing a guy
Then I went crazy, waiting to die
So, now they can't kill me
Because I'm…
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PROLOG
I was born in California. I was raised in California.
To me, the world was California. Evrything else
was some strange place. One place I knew about
was Tennessee, where my mom grew up. I heard
stories about her dad being a miner…
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FRUSTRATED ARTIST
He was a frustrated artist
trying to sell his pictures on the street.
He was a frustrated artist
never selling quite enough to eat,
so, he overcompensated for the lack of
compensation for the pictures that he
drew…
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Cover of a 19th century minstrel tune attributed to S.S. Steele, popularize by the late great John Hartford. This is my own arrangement. I use it as a backing track for alive set without the banjo and lead vocal tracks.
BTW- that banjo is an…
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"Is one dead baby worth all this sorrow?"
"Gotta get outta bed if you're going to make history."
Scenes from John Steinbeck's book, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE.
"There's something going on out in California and I'd like to know what it is." Preacher…
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A Christmas song about what really matters.........i got the idea for the music listening to Jarvis and his accordian the other evening so thanks J........
A CHRISTMAS SONG (Lyrics)
Welcome to christmas eve the show begins again
were going…
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I met an old man on the way
He wore a mask like Sister Ray
And this is what he had to say -
"We want more songs about elves & flowers."
I asked him - "Are you sure ?"
He replied "Yes ! More !"
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Lyrics:
Trading Smiles
Trading smiles on a cloudy day
Wish good fortune come your way
A passing glance, I’m on my way
Trading smiles
Courtesy seems all but gone
No idea what went wrong
For most of us, it’s been too long
Trading…
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In 1951 I was eight years old but it's all like yesterday. The tumbleweeds and the horny toads. Flying kites so far into the desert air that I couldn't see them.
Palmdale, California, 1951
Pretty yellow chickens hating in the sun
Fertilizer…
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Improvisation for banjo with a rabbit banging around in the background.
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With hosts: John McIntire and Gab Bonesso.
http://www.wtfwithjohnmcintire.blogspot.com
http://www.theimaginaryrealityofgabbonesso.blogspot.com
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from the album "Que Vive!"
sour taste mars this reunion, my charade
keep the noise down to a silent rage
dearly beloved starts the fairy tale, one side
the driest eyes, the other, flooding fields and lay them waste
I’m never honestly surprised…
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Modern life, will it tip you over the edge, sadly for some it does.....
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You're always welcome,
To take this elevator,
Through my mainframe,
To the dome, To my brain,
See the colors strewn around,
Memories flickering in and out,
And there's a sound in the background,
A sweet song ringing throughout,
I dreampt…
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I'm walking in my imagination,
Looking for a new satisfaction,
Cutting my mind into a fraction,
So I can separate real from creation,
I ride the ten o' clock train,
Through tracks in my brain,
And, as all of my chains,
Go silently down…
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Kiss you goodbye – SKEEN 110422
Skeen Remix 120606
Verse 1:
I kick off my shoes though I feel like a run
I tried to go to work but the work’s all done
I wanna cut it out,
but all that I can think about is you, on - ly you
Always on…
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins, June 2011. BMI.
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Someone's forgot to turn the seance off again.
From the album LIFE IS HARSH IN THE LAND OF GHOSTS THEME PARK
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Another Church song out of the way-back machine
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... just a polite request... :)
Check out the video!
Lyrics:
we won't be until you end this bull s--t
Close the f--king door
Why debate,
he does not measure up to me any day/way/place
Why debate, I'd measure my c--- to this degenerate…
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A chant about traveling through life, by not missing the train.
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I never met Jesse,
but I heard her howl in the night,
but I heard her pups yelping for
whiter they yelp for. She was strong
and she was there. And in the Texas
night out on the prairie between
Lillian and Alvarado I could hear them
singing…
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The big game dev company that made final Fantasy also made this beautiful number. THe music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda was at its best. I feel like I couldn't be any closer to the edge of my seat otherwise.
So after a few weaks of working…
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Apologies to Peter and the rest of Genesis - from back when they were good - 1974
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.
The Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their…
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I have tried to capture that "stabbing"feeling that comes when someone says, "You were really pissed last night! Do you remember what you did?" And of course you don't remember! So you don't know whether you were a dickhead, or an arsehole or…
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This is the end section of a recent live performance. It consists of myself and Paul Mimlitsch. It has a nice dreamy quality to it. My remote recorder has issues with pops and clicks and this was an outdoors performance. I edited out what I…
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Found this on my hard drive.
This was the backing for a vocal that never got sung.
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whilst still waiting for the dilruba,which arrives today from india,working on the raga bhairagi.....
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From the album IT WAS A DARK & STORMY NIGHT... [2007], in which the ghost of St Malachy in conjured up to confirm his famous prophecies regarding the time of the last Pope [the next one after the current one, apparently- google "prophesies…
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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Another song with Vili Ross. I wrote this one today......this morning and today was the first time I worked with Vili....and the two of us just get along, as persons and musically.
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If you've got 6 minutes to kill this is for you.
Fall 2010
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I decided to re-visit a song I wrote a few months earlier for the Faces of Humanity album/videos. It seemed to fit in extremely well with a lot of my current life and the album I've begun writing this month :) Enjoy!
Feel free to check out…
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My parody of Rebecca blacks song Friday for a video I'm making.
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Theme for an imaginary film about conspiracy and the Kennedy shooting ?
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This song features my brother, Chris Hamilton on sax.
We dedicate this tune to our teacher and friend, Kevin Sparks.
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HAPPY
Everybody asks me why I'm so happy
They will get the message when they see your face...
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
Buddy Holly's music has been very central to my life.
Sometimes I try to write a Buddy Holly song.
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One day I was up on my ladder, cleaning the leaves out of the gutters when I realized why I was there, doing that.
YOUR VOICE
I hear your voice and I go get my ladder
I pull on my gloves. I climb up to the gutters
When the leaves gather…
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I've been told that drowning is a dreamy way to go.
THE ANGELS CRIED "NO!"
He lived high on the mountain top
He lived there with his love
He tumbled to the valley deep
When she gave him a shove
And when he hit the valley deep
It must…
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Vocals: Rebecca Riss
Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Drums: Gerald Langenfeld
Bass: Preston Miller
Guitars: Mike Woodford
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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I had BIG trouble with…
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The circus clown turns his pedestal
Into a royal throne
wraps his words in fear and anger
tells us what we’ve always known
while the ringmaster takes the sideline
and steps down from the stage
he knows his days are numbered
when cheers turn…
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This is the new version!
Lyrics: Andrew Furlong
Vocals: Mark A. Shrider
Guitars: Mark A. Shrider
Bass: Andy Gupta
Music & Mix: Steffen Offermann
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Just a little rock song.
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A very bitter account of leaving a job.
Don't burn the bridge they say
Yet here I stand any way
With a can of gas and a match
In my hand
Thinking how after all this time
Still not sure what's yours and what's mine
And neither of us is…
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Do you wonder
What became of me?
Cause I wonder
What became of you
Since you wandered
Wandered far away
Full of wonder
I couldn't make you stay
So I wonder what became of you
Did you do the things you had to do?
Will you find your…
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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Wanted to write lyrics for this one, but ran out of time :(
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Sometimes, when a woman gives birth, two holes become one. Consider this song a PSA.
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One of my two contributions to a "Beatlesfest" we had over on songcrafters.org a few months back.
I still can't believe I covered this... having done it though, it feels like nothing is sacred. And, more worryingly, I feel I might possibly…
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Lyrics & Vocals: Todd Swain
Guitar: Paul D. May
Fiddle: Mara Shea
Accordions: Andreas Diewald
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This is a little folk/shanty tune that started as a quick little instrumental draft and…
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"Smell of Spring"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Indistinct conversations happen all the time.
Keep your secrets to yourself and I will tell you mine.
Teach an old dog new tricks, giving a boy a gun.
"Encourage Anger" is the game, and you…
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This is an Acoustic piece that was inspired by a Journey in a Dream I had that took me to a strange place between earth and another place in space and time, I went to a train station and entered a train that went up into space to some very strange…
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Goodbye Blue Monday
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Goodbye blue Monday
There's nothing else to say
We always knew
we would part this way
Time comes to say goodbye
To pause perhaps and wonder why
Why we always had to be
So blue, so blue
I can see that life…
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Part spoken word, part electronica, part art-rock, but just plain weird!
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