This one resonates well brother, gorgeous!

We've had our differences Trev but this is beautiful. Cheers and love.

This is such an amazing song that just punches you right in the feels, I don’t care who you are! That’s masterful music right there! Perfection!🙌❤️

This is swret man! all these tracks are cool Trev. 

This is beautiful lounge ballad that I composed in 2020 after watching 'Normal People' on BBCThree whilst in lockdown.
It is a story of a steamy summer romance between two young people who are poles apart in their popularity in their sixth form college.
Produced between myself and Colin Guthrie who plays all acoustic guitar and mixed the track beautifully x

June 8th 2021

That Summer

"The Falalala Song" (A Song About Christmas)

“Were not our hearts burning within us?"
     ~Luke 24:32

Come and sing a song about Christmas
One about the lovely baby Jesus
Who came with light to pierce
Through all the darkness

Bright stars and shining angels
Wise shepherds, ordinary people
Guided by a thrill of hope 
To a humble stable

That one day we might join Him at His table

Hallelujah 
Jesus is brought to us this day
So with the Heavenly Host 
We sing His praise

Fa la la la. fa la la la-la-la
Fa la la la. fa la la la
Fa la la la. fa la la la-la-la

Our hearts were groaning within us
For the dawn of Light at Christmas
This is the morning 
That would change everything

Peace and goodwill to everyone
Bought by the one Begotten Son
Fa la la la
Fa la la la-la-la!

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Credits:
Vocals, Guitar, Toy Whistle, Production - John David Lawson
Upright Bass - Stephen K. Donnelly (Canada)
Baritone Sax - Dabido (Canada)
Accordion - Ratko Pavlovic (Germany)
Drums - Mario Ibarra (Zacatecas, México)
Conga, Maracas, Güiro, Cowbell,  - Alejandro Pérez Morales (Colombia)
Additional Percussion - Andres Linares (Argentina)
Clarinet - Stasys Makštutis (Lithuania)
Background Vocals - John David Lawson, Giuliana Benedetti (Italy), Jim Snedeker (USA)
Artwork generated in collaboration with DALL-E 2.0

Change log:
2022-11-17 drums and extra guitar added, chorus extended

"The Falalala Song (A Song About Christmas)", music and lyrics © 2021 John David Lawson. All rights reserved.

The Falalala Song (A Song About Christmas)

The Falalala Song

A meme is an inheritable unit of culture as one follows the so called meme theory.. I wondered if there‘s something more ancient such as the origin of all ideas and feelings per se which nobody can remember of. but is a spooky, mysterious thing connecting all together. This song is a flow of images to create kind of a science fiction short film. Saying this I realize it might be inspired by Stanislaw Lem or Stanley Kubrick.

You will hear the song enwrought by different guitar tunes intermingling with an ocean drum and a Hungarian zither. Of course this track lives again from the beautiful additional voice of Lily of Snow ❤️. 

Somewhere hidden in white noise
there‘s a feeling inside
a hazy vibe in between the lines
waxed and waned by the turns of the tide. 

However we try to conceive it
We ain’t got no words for this
just a thought dispersing when you follow it
And all we talk is mourn the things we miss

Murmurs in the cosmic background
melancholia behind
encrypted somewhere beyond the void
it has always kept us entwined

However we try to behold it
We ain’t got no view for this
just a flash the moment when you blink your eyes
And all our talk is mourning for
And all we see is growing out of abyss 

It‘s the source but not the reason
It is all the doors standing ajar
It‘s the prospects but not the decision
You can evolve into whatever you are

However much we try to recall
we ain’t got no memes for this
just a dream that fades away when we awake
And all the talk is mourning for.      
(And all we talk is mourn the things we miss)
And all we sense is growing out 
(And all we see is growing out of abyss)
And all we do is fail to reminisce

But it’s a guide and not your leader
It‘s a map but it is not the course
It‘s a trip without a meter 
You can find a route and make it yours

And it is freedom without secession
It‘s the origin but not the fate
It‘s diversity but not dissociation     
Step in to whatever makes you resonate

Somewhere hidden in white noise
there‘s a feeling inside
a hazy vibe in between the lines
waxed and waned by the turns of the tide. 


(Words and music by Mark Korthals)

No memes for this

Hey, Banjo
Words and music by John David Lawson

Hey banjo
Can you give me a happy tune
Isn't that what you do
If I could learn to play you
Would you tell truth?

I could whistle
Toot on a pennyflute
Strum two chords on a uke
Maybe those things would sound cute
If they weren't so cruel

My piano 
Gathers dust in the studio
Harmonica just blows
Cello is far too mellow
Accordion bellows

Hey banjo 
Can you help me with my head
To write again, at least try
To forget what a friend had said
Hoping it was a lie

'Cause someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Someone's in the kitchen ohh
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
The rest you know

Hey banjo 
Guess I got played by you
Got taken in by your tune
And if I never hear five strings again
That would be too soon

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Credits:
Vocals, piano, guitar, banjo, harmonica, accordion - John David Lawson
Photo by Morgan Lane on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/wlY66otjq28

"Hey, Banjo", music and lyrics © 2023 John David Lawson. All rights reserved.

Hey, Banjo

Tonight

Personnel: Derek, Sean, Ray. Its basically "Killer in the hall" played backwards.

NO LONGER BOYS

Don (Warden of Wah) McCarthy– electric guitar
Nathan McCarthy– electric bass
David (Wobbly Saucer) Partridge– vocals, keys, percussion
Words and music by David Partridge
Produced in Nova Scotia by David Partridge

No aliens were harmed in the production of this track.

GLOVE BOX
If your heart fits in the glove box  
I could take you for a ride 
I have got a lot of baggage , so 
There’s not much room inside 
I can’t say how far we’re going but 
It’s not back where we’ve been 
If we get out of this parking lot, 
We win.  

I set out to find love but 
Not been down that way in years 
I was hopeful but you can’t ignore 
The grinding of the gears
Got a whole trunk full of worn out parts
And a back seat full of sin
If we get out of this parking lot 
We win.  
 
The glove box may be all we have
I know there used to be a map
I opened up the window 
And it flew out of her lap 
 
If your heart fits in the glove box  
I could take you for a ride 
There is evidence of heartache  but
You haven’t specified.
So dreams are in the rear view mirror–
This is where we begin
If we get out of this parking lot 
We win.     
If we get out of this parking lot, we win.

GLOVE BOX

Darragh Murphy on guitars. Ray helped with the pianos bits.

THE LIFFEY

Song by Derek. Production Svengali: Darragh Murphy. Additional ears provided by Trevor Francis and Ray Gamortez.

A SONG LIKE THIS

Words are never enough
That’s what the song says
And we all know

But I have to challenge that
Sometimes they’re all we need
To make us whole

And words can cut so deep
They can divide us
And put us at war

And I say if I had the right words
I could put it all right
And maybe be enough

I think of you as I look out at the rain
All I ever want is to heal your pain

If I had a voice
That could reach a million ears
I would tell them all
That there’s a better way

And if I had a choice
I would stay with you for years
Or at least until
You got bored of me

And I sound it out
An echo into space
A vacuum in the dark
That only I can hear

At least I got
You to notice me
Even if you can’t
Understand

I think of you as I look out at the rain
All I ever want is to heal your pain

I think of you as I look out at the rain
And all I ever wanted was to see you soar

To see you soar 
To see you fly
Above the clouds

To see you fly
To see you rise up
Beyond the universe


Where its unknown what could we become

To see us all fly see beyond our world
To see us all fly beyond ourselves
To see us all try to be better

Words - Original version

9th and title track of my upcoming album Brummie Family, Main vocal and lyrics Trevor Francis Burchell.  Ray Jenkins everything else including Production..May, the tittle track from my upcoming album " Brummie Family "
lyrics 
  Remember the days When we would just play
Along on the grass , always untill late 
Together we would be, always us three everyday. 
Then we'd head home, but never alone 
Sometimes we'd race, always first I got home
Then late ate night, maybe we'd fight them and me.

Oh I call them my sister's 
Sometimes my blood my skin my blisters 
Oh how I miss ya,s 
And would like to make them see 
I could be a better brother 
So please don't wish for another 
And I have to tell you
Don't mind if the whole world see.

On to the one,  who calls me her son 
Has always been there since my life begun
And when I get scared, she holds me right there tenderly 
Back when I was young my life it was great
Every day every meal always hot on a plate
With all your advice which mostly was right now I see

Of course I mean my mother 
Who loves me more like no other 
Oh it's my duty to show you 
How much you mean to me
So every day I will tell her
Just how much I love her
Then shout it louder 
Don't  mind if the whole world see
I love my family 
Oh I love my  Oh I love  oh I love you all

Then there's me dad, all the times that we had
Always kicking a ball, you me Alan and so many more 
Those days may have gone but in my heart they live in safe for me.

Oh yeah this is my family a prouder man no there can't be 
And so let the world see how much you mean to me
I hope this pulls us together 
So that were there for each other 
No matter the weather 
Said we will always be  
A brummie family 

Brummie Family

Brummie singer songwriter who with huge help from friends. is now finally going to release an album :Brummie Family: in May2020. so many ppl to mention Ray Jenkins,AdamGrossman, Ray Chapman,Micheal Myers, for playing on the album. still a few tunes on my page that wont be on album but are fine works imo with those tracks in mind i would like to thank Phil Faulkner. all links to this page will be active midMay2020.  THANK YOU for your support it really  fills me with smilesxx

Brummie Family

Trevor Francis

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