The Long Malaise

A song written and recorded by Eric Feltham 

Lyrics:

The sun is rising Up all night again
Hope to see that things have changed
I give a glance but the doctor turns away...

She lays there in a helpless way
All my strength couldn't save the day
As I try to find the words to say
She softly says to me

I see the light in the distance and its calling me away
I heard your voice through the nighttime and its begging me to stay
There’s an ocean between us and the place I’m meant to be

There’s an ocean between us, so far away
There’s an ocean between us and now she’s gone so far away.

I see her smile as she slips away what I wouldn’t do for another yesterday

So Far Away

A&E SoundForge "Strangers to Me"

Music and lyrics by Andrew Feltham

Strangers to Me

Here is a little ditty for ya!

Song by Eric Feltham

Lyrics:
Set out in the forest for a morning walk met a man on a stump and we had a talk
He said Ive been here since there were no trees now go away son and leave me be

He said

I can’t understand a word you say don’t go drifting out of your lane
Come back when you’ve found your way you can't keep cutting against the grain

I then met a man by the waterfall the plaque on the wall said he knew it all
He said ive talked to many people in my life listen to me son and take my advice

He said

I can’t understand a word you say don’t go drifting out of your lane
Come back when you’ve found your way you can't keep cutting against the grain

Against The Grain

Song written and performed by Eric Feltham

Lyrics:

And when we come to journeys end and find that much has been pretend
The things that made the bills to pay, we’ll have no use for there

If I could do it all again, I wouldn’t of bought  those fancy clothes
Instead, I’d buy a winter coat and maybe warmer shoes…

Buyer's Remorse

When I wrote this song, I had a female voice mind. I sent it to Nat Daniels and asked her if she was interested in singing it.  Long story short, both Nat and Craig got their creative juices flowing and came up with this beautiful rendition of the song. Ive always admired their work and it was a privilege to be able to do this with them. I hope you all like it!

Music and lyrics by Eric Feltham

Vocals by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy

Piano Nat Daniels

Produced by Nat Daniels

Buyer's Remorse (Collab with Daniels & Durgy)

Ive been working on this song for some time now. I was hoping to have it come out before thanksgiving. Its a little bit about the future and a little bit about the past.

Lyrics:


Someone told me long ago about a land so far away
 For fortune and for freedom we left out homes for better days.
No one thought that life would come to this though we counted out the cost
Now the simplest necessity is the thing that I miss most

What was lost, what was lost, I often think about the world we lost. What was lost what was lost, I often think about the world we lost

Bitter nights and winter days weigh heavy on my mind
Last time the ice had melted there weren’t many of us alive
Though a simple life and privation has always been my way
When the days grow short and the weeds are tall you got to get on your knees and pray.

Dornland

Re Mixed and remastered one of my older songs.

A Song For A Dead Man

Remix of one of my older songs. Hope you all like it!

Suffering Much

Here is a little ditty I wrote. Hope you all dig it!

The Old Oak Tree

Here is a new song I wrote. Hope you all like it.

Half in a daze hours I’ve spent, listening to bards and talking heads
Searching the past for  forgotten shame, digging up graves for someone to blame

Beating the drum and sharpening swords, kindling a flame to burn all the words
Offering service  to bury the truth, with old arguments long in the tooth


Ive heard it all since I was young, in every scene and song that was sung
Replace the old ones with sages in kind, poor sightless men leading the blind

Tell me again what the book says, that you don’t believe but you’ve never read
Bolstering folly to hinder the truth, the old argument long in the tooth.

The Old Argument

Here is a new song I wrote and recorded. Its sort of the second part for my song "The road to Nowhere" Hope you enjoy!

A Way Home

Here is a new track I wrote and recorded.

The song was written as part of a concept album that I started a year or so ago. I may never actually record the full album but might release the songs over time. The album was going to be about my ancestors living in Newfoundland and the stories i heard over the years.

This one is about the story of how Braggs Island (where my grandfather was born) got its name. I heard the story from my late cousin Sam Feltham. He said there was a small community living on the Island and one tough winter they ran out of supplies and were in a bad way. A man named Bragg and his two sons loaded a boat with supplies and attempted to bring relief to them. In the process and storm developed and the ship sank and Bragg and his sons were drowned. They named the Island after them in honor of the selfless sacrifice they made.

I tried to capture with sound the feeling of sailing on icy seas. Also I wanted to tell the story in an artistic way. Not sure if the song is any good but hope some of you enjoy it.

Eric

Bragg's Island

Here is a new track for you all. Its just a rock instrumental inspired by the rooster I own named  Kornpop. Just keep the rooster in mind as you listen!

KORNPOP

A song about the northern lights and their mysterious appearance in unusual circumstances a long, long time ago...

I hear the cries of winter I cant stand to see the sight
Like waves they came crashing but now lie  still there in the night

Its far too late for many lying on once peaceful land
I wonder who if any fell directly by my hand

The morning brings a shiver as I lay behind the  wall
But I cant stay much longer as I hear the fallen call.

Shadows cast by the setting sun another days work is done
Close my eyes but I can't sleep through the long cold night

I feel the light burning in my eyes as I gaze at the distant sky
All around me I can see the northern lights.

Northern Lights

Here is a rerecording of one of my older songs. Started from scratch. Hope you all like it!

Song written and recorded by Eric Feltham

My sons and my daughters, listen to  wisdom of old
There is a path in life that you should walk in 
And its called the straight and narrow road

Now many start on the path but few will make it to the end 
But stay on the straight and narrow road
You may be called to the left and you may be called to the right but
Stay on the straight and narrow road.

Now you may be tempted by silver and gold and pleasures a thousand fold 
And you may get weary of he journey and want to quit
but the good lord will always make a way

Sometimes its a long and lonely road when the ones that love you hurt you 
and enemies are all around
Just keep you gaze straight ahead and pray to the one who made you 
and keep your feet on the ground

Now many start on the path but few will make it to the end 
But stay on the straight and narrow road
You may be called to the left and you may be called to the right but
Stay on the straight and narrow road

The Straight And The Narrow

Here is something a bit different. I was working one day and made this tune up in my head. I attempted to record it and hope you all enjoy it to some degree. I haven't played the flute in a long time, so I'm a bit rusty, but anyway...

Farewell to the Redcoats

Kelsey's Lament

This song explores the promises of a bright technological future, but behind the promises, is there something more sinister? 

I live my life vicariously through the people I see on my screen
I never have to go anywhere I can live my whole life in my chair
They told us all that we were gonna be start children, they didn’t say but I think that plan fell through

I live my life vicariously through the people I see on my screen
Lifes as easy as one two three my decisions are all made for me
My teacher told me we all came from  animals, I guess that why they keep us in this cage

I live my life vicariously through the people I see on my screen
What I desire I can see from a to z to the birds and the bees
I heard it said they we are living in a brave new world. Sometimes it feels were still living in 84

Vicarious

Electronic Looking Glass (Live Unplugged)

Electronic Looking Glass

Song written and recorded by Eric feltham

A Song For A Deadman

Song written and recorded by Eric Feltham

My sons and my daughter, listen to  wisdom of old
There is a path that you should walk in life
And its called the straight and narrow road

Now many start on the path but few will make it to the end 
But stay on the straight and narrow road
You may be called to the left and you may be called to the right but
Stay on the straight and narrow road.

Now you may be tempted by silver and gold and pleasures a thousand fold but
Stay on the straight and narrow road
And you may get weary of he journey and want to leave 
but the good lord will always make a way

Sometimes its a long and lonely road when the ones that love you hurt you 
and enemies are all around
Just keep you gaze straight ahead and pray to the one who made you 
and keep your feet on the ground

Now many start on the path but few will make it to the end 
But stay on the straight and narrow road
You may be called to the left and you may be called to the right but
Stay on the straight and narrow road

The Straight And The Narrow (Old Version)

A song I wrote and recorded.

Lyrics:

Who would ever rob a blind man A widow or an orphan
If he had more wealth than the kings of old
Who deceived all the masses fancy speech and fancy glasses
All in the name of riches untold

Rich men flounder as they’re tossed about by waves
Dead kings silent as they roll in their graves
Seasons change and kingdoms fall when
All for one and none for all

Watch the fools in who you follow, with all their lies to swallow
Don’t envy them and all that they own
Remember love you neighbor do good in all your labor
We all shall reap from the seeds we have sown

Green grass withers by the evening of the day
Flowers blossom and they soon begin to fray
All that’s good and from above will be counted as gain
But whats below has come from dust and all will dust be again.

Dust Again

Written and recorded by Eric Feltham

Lyrics:

Sometimes I sit and I stare  at the sky, thinking about life and the days that have gone by
When people were free and they lived off the land
Fruits of the fields that were worked by hand

Gone are the days, the days of old
Gone is the peace the simple life hold
Gone are the  virtues and gone are the ways
Telling you gone are the days, gone are the days

I see a home  but the people are gone
All that is left are the walls of stone
Then there were crops that would blow in the breeze
Once fertile fields are now covered in trees

Gone are the days the days of old
Gone are the days before our lives were sold
To people who only chase dishonest gain
No way for us to escape, gone are the days.

Gone Are The Days

A song I wrote and recorded.

Working hard is what I do, And I got to pay a bill or two
See I got a home and a family
These two hands earn daily bread, so I can keep my children fed
Now there’s  something I just want to say.

I eat my lunch with dirty hands, I aint ashamed of what I am
Got a blue collar round my neck, I break my back for my paycheck
I don’t have money to gills, but I got skills that pay the bills
I hope you understand, I eat my lunch with dirty hands

I don’t get young folks these days, seems to me they’ve lost their way
I hate to sound like an old man with his rants
But I like to wear pants that fit, so when im working they don’t split
See my daddy didn’t raise his boys to wear their mommas pants.

I eat my lunch with dirty hands,I aint afraid to work the land
Toting hay and plowing ground, I work until the sun goes down
If you go to a booth to get a tan, or drive a truck made in japan
Then you wont understand, I eat my lunch with dirty hands

I don’t drive no limousine, save that for the beauty queen
Give me a 4x4 or two or three
I don’t have no  fancy yacht, but I’m sure thankful for what I got
A man needs a home and country where he can be free

I eat my lunch with dirty hands, cause im a blue collar man
Im always haulin or a choppin wood, I bust my knuckles underneath the hood
I don’t mind working in the rain, where there’s no pain there is no gain
I know you understand, yall eat your lunch with dirty hands

Blue Collar Man (I Eat My Lunch With Dirty Hands)

A song I wrote and recorded

Lyrics:

This life is a one-way street and I wish that I 
Could go back in time and make some changes
Always chasing better days but they’re far behind.
Now I’m looking for a peace that lasts forever.

How do we get on the road to nowhere
Where do we sleep tonight
Where do find dreams that last forever
How do we get a second chance in life

Took a shot on the open road and cut  my ties
Too late to heed the words they were saying
Spent my life taking bad advice and now its time
To hit the road and find what I’ve been missing

Living on the road I don’t have a home
Just a trailer full of my belongings
This is all I got
This is my last shot
I have dream but I don’t know where im going.

The Road to Nowhere

A Song written and sung by Eric Feltham

Lyrics:

Come all you young and old gather round me
Ill show you the theater of hypocrisy
They put on a show , put on a play
Deceit on their lips they  lead your  babies astray

There’s nowhere to run nowhere to hide electronic looking glass peering inside
Only four walls a ball and a chain bending the rules for their own selfish gain

Food for the thinking man words for the wise
You ask them no questions they tell you no lies
Don’t try to reason your only a fool
The rules don’t apply to them they’re only for you

Sit back and waste away just do as your told
While others come steal all your silver and gold
Whether you stand or lie down in a ditch
Paupers and peasants lick the boots of the rich

Electronic Looking Glass (Original Version)

First, I would like to say thank you for reading this. That means that you liked my songs enough to see what I’m about. That means a lot to me.
I’m a working man and a family man. The years digging ditches and breaking my back to put food on the table, has given me enough ammo to write a song or two. I like to write songs about real life with all of its struggles, beauty and grit…

In this digital age of perfect music I'm trying to leave the human imperfections in the tracks. Most parts are done straight through with no splices. A missed note or chord here or there, bit out of time...trying to keep it raw. Maybe I go too far sometimes?

I don't play games on SoundCloud. If I like your music ill like it and follow you. I wont unfollow you even if you don't follow me back!  If you do I'll be delighted though!

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