This song Is defiantly wrote about myself as I always shrug my shoulders to worries and problems, I always disagree and speak my mind when I think it’s right but to be fair who doesn’t.  For this song I done things differently as I was unsure on the melody of the song but after recording the others I then decided to make it up as I went along and surprisingly the tempo and feel of the song went really well, I guess it’s true what they say some of the most on the spot ideas and songs can turn out great. In a way I basically shrugged my shoulders during writing it, singing and recording it, I think that goes well with the theme of the song. 

Lyrics:
I’m trying my best
But it doesn’t seem to be working
Now it’s time to sit back
And shrug my shoulders
Chorus:
I shrug my shoulders
And I turn my head
I shrug my shoulders
 And I roll my eyes

I shrug my shoulders
It’s my way of showing that I don’t care
That I don’t give a damn
That I’m to lazy to dignify a reply
That I don’t even know
And I’m just too lazy to find out
To the worlds problems
And everyone’s worries including mine
(Chorus)

Why worry just look away
If a problem a rises just use some of your time to put it right
(Chorus)
Tempo changes into…
Isn’t that a life….
Isn’t that a life….
Isn’t that a life…..
Isn’t that a life……I’m living the life

Back to original tempo:
Don’t take it to heart
Don’t over think things
Don’t let it bug you
Don’t let it disturb your sleep
Just be like me
(Chorus)
(Chorus repeats to an end)


Shrug My Shoulders

I’ve wrote an Halloween song in the past titled “Zombie on the Weekend” but this time I wanted to reference the word Halloween in lyric form, but with so many routes a song could be wrote I then decided to make it a little cheesy by writing a song with a chorus about being unable to write a song.

I also experimented a lot more with the audio mixing and editing possibilities this time with the added sound effects also created by myself. 

Lyrics:

(Wind and howl intro)
Chorus:
I want to write a good Halloween song
But I don’t know how it should go
I want to write a good Halloween song
But I don’t know what I should add

Should I add
Pumpkins and pies
Ghosts in the skies
Strange womanly cries
Or witches, warts and fly’s
I really don’t have a basis
Should I mention the masked faces?
Or would that be too obvious
(Chorus)



Should I say
How zombies bite
How spiders might
How pumpkins glow
How coffins creek
How monsters moan
And how vampires sleep
(Centro)
Or should I say
How devils dance
How black cats prance (cat sound effect)
How owls hoot
How crows fly
How skeletons lie
How werewolves howl
And how reapers smell foul

(Chorus Centro’s twice)
(Chorus)
should I say
How jack o lanterns walk
How taverns are packed
How blackbirds squawk
How Halloween banners hang
How haunted manors scare a man
How dungeon chambers compete
With the Addams down the street

(Small Centro)
Or should I mention
The castle keepers
Cobweb eaters
Trick or Treaters
Wicked widows
Zombie grooms
And how Jack stole Santa’s sack (Sleigh audio)

I’m not very good at writing this Halloween song
Halloween song
Halloween song (repeats)
(End audio ideas)

Halloween Song

Another new Halloween song I wrote, this time on the made up narrative of a Mr and Mrs O Lantern getting married in a morgue with a set of other horror characters I made up such as Mr Rigor Mortis. 
        A set of lyrics that cleverly combine and juxtapose the marriage narrative with that of the Halloween concept, so listen to the wicked wedding of the sinister widow and zombie groom. 

Song wrote and sung by myself along with the track picture also designed by myself from drawn art and laptop editing. This was also fun experimenting with the audio and my best zombie sound effect impressions to add. 

Lyrics:
We’re gathered here in this morgue today
To embalm together the
Chorus:
Wicked widow and zombie groom
Wicked widow and zombie groom
Wicked widow and zombie groom

Expected on the guest list are:
The ghosts and goblins
Headless harry
Poltergeist Pete
And franks feet
Along with Mr Rigor Mortis
The corpse cousins
The rotten family
The pumpkin parents
And the best bereavements
And the band performing will be the 
Halloween horrors and the crazy coroners
Singing their new track the cob web eaters
Their all gathered from their coffins and graves
To announce that these two are dead right for each other
So let’s wed the witch
And marry the monster

Then join us later for the Wake
Held at Crem Castle
Where the dead will re-animate
As you tuck into your burial buffet
And witness the last dance
Where the ghostly gown of Mrs O Lantern
Will twist on the dance floor

(Chorus repeats to an end)
(what i'd like to call the Zombies going to the circus, i was really happy with this audio edit)

Wicked Widow and Zombie Groom

Halloween Heaven:- a song I wrote on the theme of a ghost couple going to Halloween Heaven which I made as a metaphor for a Cemetery (Grave Yard).  This song along with my first other two Halloween songs of “Halloween Song” and “Wicked Widow and Zombie Groom”- they all link together as a clever song trilogy in lots of ways from the subtle track picture designs to the lyric reference’s.  The new corpse couple can now meet the Wicked Widow and Zombie Groom.  

Again track picture also designed by myself having an interest in Art, using drawn characters and merging and editing them together within laptop software. 

Lyrics:
They’ve slipped away but they just don’t realize
They think their only dreaming, resting their eyes
But they’ll sleep easy
Knowing that their together
Knowing that the difficult bits finally over

Chorus:
As the two become one in Halloween Heaven
Where you don’t divorce the dead (Twice)

Their names are there to be read
On the headstones of eternal happiness
At the shared plot that now reads
Let us lay to rest this bride and groom
Who loved in life and sadly died on their honeymoon
This has caused grave grief
As Mr Rigor Mortis is now their to meet
The new corpse couple





(Chorus)
They can now say hello to the newly weds
Mr and Mrs O Lantern
Who they can now locate
As they’ve succumb to an unfair fate
(Chorus Centro four lines)

Life can be rotten
While death can be sad
So let’s horde memories
And never throw them away
So let’s enjoy our time
Before we’re all old and grey
And on our way to Halloween Heaven

(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)
(Chorus repeats to an end, then endro)

Halloween Heaven

Failure like Guy Fawkes- my attempt at writing a Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night) song something I haven’t taken the time and musical effort to try before. With the theme of making Bonfire night a good night and not a failure like Guy Fawkes, along with including lyrics that sum up the typical British November 5th get together. My first Bonfire Night song :) Track picture also designed by myself from a combination of drawn Art and old firework photography that i captured as i'm also a photographer at DunnWood Photography. 

Lyrics:
Let’s celebrate bonfire night
Let’s cheer for the failed attempt
With burgers and hot dogs
With fires to light
Fireworks to flare
And sparklers to wave
With names to be spelt

Chorus:
Oh let’s make it a great night
And not a
Failure like Guy Fawkes..
A failure like Guy Fawkes……
Failure like Guy Fawkes..
A failure like Guy Fawkes……

Let’s remember the fifth
Let’s add some colour to the sky
With a warzone vibe
With cats and dogs all alone to hide and cry
With family and friends to fuse together
And soaked fireworks
As we battle with the British weather
(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)

Let’s watch the fountains of colour
Let’s watch time spin away
With a man-made mist
With streets of smoke
Pennies to save
And a number to remember
Oh who knew gunpowder could be so much fun

(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)

Let’s enjoy explosions
Let’s breathe in ash
With the burning man in mind
With boxes leading up to a bang
With fun to have being low key terrorists for the night

(Chorus repeats to an end)

Failure Like Guy Fawkes

A song I wrote on the power of songs from reminiscing memories, all away to inspiring those to also take up music themselves. I was listening to the chords of the Ghost Guitar that changed everything and inspired a new creative hobby and interest of mine, the best of all with a passion in Music. I experimented with some audio ideas, also myself on bottleneck slide. 

Lyrics:
Intro
Chorus:
I’m listening to the chords of the Ghost Guitar…..
I’m listening to the chords of the Ghost Guitar…..
 I’m listening to the chords of the Ghost Guitar…..

Can’t you hear them haunting me?
Can’t you hear them letting rip
They refuse to rest in peace
They want to ring out
(Beat)
Can’t you hear them thretting away?
Can’t you hear them getting louder?
They make your soul feel like the sky on a sunny day
(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)

Their living in the shadows of our lives
Listen to the sound of the strings
Like religion on a record
Watch the fingers kiss the strings
Sit back and reminisce to your childhood on the swings

(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)
Can’t you hear them waking me up at all hours in the morning?
Can’t you hear them making our lives a music video?
(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)
(Chorus repeats to an end)
(Beat to end on etc.)

Ghost Guitar

A new song I wrote a month or so back, with the great metaphorical title idea, I decided to base this song’s theme on the chaotic world of the moaner’s and keyboard warrior majorities who feel they need to always express their opinions and live through the eyes of social media. You know, the ones who get offended by every word known to mankind. 

Lyrics:
Is there anything else to this world or is it just a giant place to keep all of the
Chorus:
Bruised egos….and broken eggs……
Bruised egos….and broken eggs……
Bruised egos….and broken eggs…………

Don’t say too much
Don’t use big words
You know their fragile
So keep them in a cool dry place
You wouldn’t want them to crack
You wouldn’t want to damage their shelf life
Or fry their little minds
Don’t boil them with the truth
You know what their like
I’ve had enough of all these
(Chorus)
It’s a never ending cycle
Year after year
It’s just a copy and paste
When will we have change?
When will someone shut up the
(Chorus Centro)
Bring it back to their attention that now one cares 
and that you can only be insulted if you’re afraid of words
Their logics scrambled
And you never see them come out from their shell
They just hide online with pointless things to tell
They just crack me up
With all the weird thoughts that they cart around

(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)
Their soft on the inside
Their damaged goods
Won’t someone hatch up a plan
For a better world that doesn’t consist of
(Chorus)
You best stop them, best before it’s too late
Best before there past their sell by date
(Chorus Centro)
(Chorus repeats to an end.)

Bruised Egos and Broken Eggs

Decorations upon the tree: this is actually the first Christmas song I ever wrote within 2010 I believe, but It was before I had learnt the guitar to a level of adding the music to it, so I let it sit until now when I decided it was time to attempt finding the correct chords for the finished piece, along with new verse’s that needed adding. It was difficult thinking of its theme just as all Christmas songs are, but I think I’ve done it some kind of justice. It was also a great experience to return to a very old song.

Lyrics:
Chorus:
Decorations upon the tree
 OH OW
Christmas is calling me (Twice)

It’s trying to tell me that there’s only 25 days to go
To get everything done in time

Chorus:
Decorations upon the tree
OH OW
Someone’s singing to me (Twice)

Whispers of winter and expected snow
As the songs whistle stories about the closest of couples and mistletoe
(Chorus Centro-twice)

Chorus:
Decorations upon the tree
OH OW
Someone’s singing to me (Twice)

And I feel so free…
As free as I can be
When I see a Christmas card
The festive feeling hits me hard
(Chorus Centro-twice)

Chorus:
Decorations upon the tree
 OH OW
Christmas is calling me (Twice)

And I feel so festive…
It’s the best time to live
When I’m stuffing my face with sweets
When there’s grit and sleet covered streets
(Chorus Centro)

Decorations upon the tree…OH OW
Decorations upon the tree…OH OW
Decorations upon the tree…OH OW
Decorations upon the tree…OH OW

(Chorus repeats to a faded end)

Decoration Upon The Tree

Merry Christmas Misery Guts: A song I wrote on wishing someone you don’t like or someone who doesn’t embrace Christmas with decorations; all the best, basically wishing the miserable one’s a Merry Christmas. 
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Merry Christmas Misery Guts
Merry Christmas Misery Guts
Merry Christmas Misery Guts

How can you not decorate?
What is it you hate?
Why don’t you like this season
Is there a valid reason
It’s only momentary
So start being more merry
I know we don’t see eye to eye
But here’s a card to wish you all the best, so
(Chorus)
Bridge:
Oh you’re such a happy soul
I bet you can’t wait for the snow

Where’s the tinsel
It’s the time of love not the time of being miserable
Give us a grin
Don’t be a grump
Don’t you know?
Your face might get stuck like that
If you don’t like Christmas
Then what’s worth living
I just don’t understand
And I don’t think I ever will

(Chorus)
Where ever you are
Whoever you’re with
(Chorus repeats to an end)

Merry Christmas Misery Guts

Coming down the stairs to Christmas: Having fun writing my new festive ideas, this one I wrote with the inspiration of recalling the memories as a kid of coming down the stairs with excitement and seeing the tree and gifts in the living room. I also had more fun using my sleigh sound percussion stick for the extra audio effects along with my electro Acoustic guitar as the main.

Lyrics:
I remember when I was younger
Waking up with overwhelming joy
Waking up with excitement in my eyes
For day 25 had arrived

Chorus:
Coming down the stairs to Christmas
Coming down the stairs to Christmas
Coming down the stairs…to Christmas
When my feet couldn’t move fast enough
(Chorus Centro)
(Chorus)

And seeing the fire on full
Crackers to pull
Trimming’s that shine
And no sign of snow

(Chorus)
(Chorus Centro)



To an unopened pile
To an end of impatiently waiting a while
To a dark tree
To presents labelled for me

(Chorus)

I remember when I was younger
Waking up with overwhelming joy
Waking up with excitement in my eyes
For day 25 had arrived

(Chorus)
(Chorus repeats getting slower, fading slightly)
(End idea of chord progression)

       End.

Coming down the stairs to Christmas

Goodbye for now: A song I wrote on saying so long to Christmas, but this will also be my last song for the time being as I’ve yet again completed my second Soundcloud profile, the next time you’ll hear from me it will hopefully be on my Facebook page under Acoustic James, link on my profile!   
         
With new songs to be found there, or with other future music collaborations as something I wish to explore next. This song originally started out as a basic idea but gradually during recording it for some strange reason took on a more country vocal range, it’s just a bit of fun to finish my profile. Goodbye for now! Also a borderline new year themed song as I say so long to Christmas.

Lyrics:
Chorus:
Oh goodbye for now
See you next December
Oh goodbye for now
See you next year

It was fun, now it’s done
So put that tree back in its box
And say so long
(Chorus)
Now you can re-cover
From more gifted clutter
Now you can breathe
As the decorations start to leave
(Chorus centro)
(Chorus)
I can’t wait
Until I’m sat back down writing festive songs again
I can’t wait
Until the forecast is snow
But the usual is rain
(Chorus repeats to an end)

Goodbye For Now

James Woodward (Acoustic James) find me over on Facebook. 


Track Picture images and music © of Acoustic James (James Woodward). Also designed by myself being a photographer at Dunnwood Photography.

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