A SONG WITH YOU
Copyright 2022 Watson/O'Brien; All Rights Reserved
Music by Bobby Watson; Lyrics by Alex O’Brien

Lead and Backing Vocals: Susan Fidler
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Mandolin, Mandola, Fiddle: Bobby Watson
Engineering Mixing and Mastering: Tommy Hellsten

I’d love to write 
A song with you
Sweet rhythm
Sing your lyric too
Share a chorus
Brighten up our blues
I’d love to write 
A song with you

I’d love to sing
A song with you
Sweet harmony
Filling up the room
Share the lead
Make love sound new
I’d love to sing 
A song with you

A song with you
Would complete my soul
A song with you
Would soar high take hold
Like that old time 
Rock and roll
A song with you
Would always be gold

A song with you
Would beat hate and fear
A song with you
Could bring joy near
A song could
Wash away our tears
A song could make
It all so clear 

I’d love to write a song with you
I’d love to sing a song with you
I’d love to play a song with you

I’d love to play 
A song with you
Be inspired
Hear your notes ring true
Buck the beat
Get in the groove
I’d love to play 
A song with you

I’d love to write 
A song with you
Hear the rhythm
Sing your lyric too
Share a chorus
Brighten our blues
I’d love to write 
A song with you

A song with you
Would complete my soul
A song with you
Would soar high take hold
Like the old time
Rock and roll
A song with you
Would always be gold 

I’d love to sing
A song with you
Sweet harmony
Filling up the room
Share the lead
Make love sound new
I’d love to sing 
A song with you

A song with you
Would complete my soul
A song with you
Would soar high take hold
Like that old time
Rock and roll
A song with you
Would always be gold 

A song with you (I’d love to write a song with you)
A song with you (I’d love to write a song with you) 
A song with you (I’d love to write a song with you) 
I’d love to write a song with you

A Song With You

Well, I found another version of this song. Interesting to compare to the version I posted before. This version would have been recorded a little later when we lived in an apt together after college and played out as a duo a bit. If I remember right this is more of a live sound capture with little to no overdubs (?). We are both playing and singing here and the sound quality is a little better. Still on a Tascam cassette.  Just posting these for fun and I think sometimes it is interesting to hear different versions of a song recorded over time.

Mend Our Love (2)

Orion's Belt

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my BandCamp PWWO #08 album)

Happy Monday my SC friends. Today I am supremely excited to offer you (the listener) my next collaborative creation of 2023; and for those keeping track at home, this is my 4th collab with the legendary (at least, in my mind) Stone Catcherye (https://soundcloud.com/stonecatcherye, https://stonecatcherye.bandcamp.com/). 

Stoney’s lyrics speak for themselves; but I gotta say, I am sharing the sentiment. We hope you enjoy our latest collab, ‘Scintilla’ (and we hope you have some bell bottoms lying around… cuz this is not a drill). :D

Lyrics:

there's a small piece inside of me
defenselessness be thy name
it's a party where nothing's free
who would care to explain

dark. all it takes is a spark
a trace of love in your heart
are you brilliant or just smart
then dig down deeper

there's a small piece inside of me
that's shown interest to scream
it's a riot inside of me
and my brain's the police
in contempt and unbendingly
I surrender, it seems

dark. all it takes is a spark
a trace of love in your heart
are you brilliant or just smart
then dig down deeper

heart. need to get back my spark
get in the state of the art
not let this peel me apart
and dig down deeper

if I dig deep enough,
maybe I'll bury me...

heart. need to get back my spark
get in the state of the art
not let this peel me apart
and dig down deeper

dark. all it takes is a spark
a trace of love in your heart
are you just brilliant or smart
then dig down deeper

if I dig deep enough maybe I'll plant a seed
put in all that I have just to feel that in green
if I care for this deep, it will grow to a tree
and I'll save all it's sap and pick up all of it's leaves

F.W. Friends

Scintilla | Stone Catcherye & GrevusAnjl

Iopia

Fault

Dear friends, our summer is coming soon!
My little Granddaughter inspired me - she claims that new babies are miracles!!

Approximate translation into English 

Summer in Sweden

When our summer it comes here - to our country
to our town - then all the children want to go out
but what are they going to do there - they are running around
and they climb trees - and when the evening comes they fall asleep so sweetly
But when the sun wakes up again, the little miracles come out

But something is happening now - very sad
everything gets wet - but the children don't care
but it might be fun for them - something new is happening
They scratch each other - and when the evening comes they fall asleep so sweetly
But when the sun wakes up again, the little miracles come out

Has anyone cycled in the rain - great fun
lovely splash - but what do they say when kids get home
it may not be easy - to explain to them
why everything is so dirty - but when the evening comes the children fall asleep so sweetly
But when the sun wakes up again, the little miracles come out

In Swedish
Sommar i Sverige

När vår sommar den kommer hit - till vårt land
till vår stad - då vill alla barnen ut
men vad ska dom göra där - de skuttar runt
och dom klättrar i träd - o när kvällen kommer de somnar så sött
Men när solen åter vaknar då kommer de små miraklerna fram

Men det är nåt som händer nu - jätte trist
allt blir blött - men det struntar barnen i
men det kanske blir kul för dom - det händer nåt nytt
De kladdar på varann - o när kvällen kommer de somnar så sött
Men när solen åter vaknar då kommer de små miraklerna fram

Är det någon som har cyklat i regn - jättekul
härligt stänk - men vad säger dom när man kommer hem
det blir kanske inte lätt - att förklara för dom
varför allting är så skitt - men när kvällen kommer barnen somnar så sött
Men när solen åter vaknar då kommer de små miraklerna fram

Sommar i Sverige (Summer in Sweden)

Dreaming of the endless ocean ... That's what I put into it!
It's powerful music!!
Good luck crossing the endless seas of your life!!
(果てしない海に夢を抱いて…そんな気持ちを込めました！
力強い曲です！貴方の人生における果てしない海を渡れるよう
幸運を祈ります！)

thank you for listening!!
DAW: Cubase pro 12

Dreaming of this endless sea

Beat Me With Your Beat

A song written by my son, Jack @ 12 years old… he produced it.. I put my drums and percussion..,and edited it to my take… my first collaboration! From  3 years ago!!

Freedom - F1R3 / K2 and the Three

all vocals by clive hawkins:

can you believe, can you believe,
what you cannot see.
do you believe? do you believe?
love can set you free.

bridge:  love's a mystery........never kind to me.

Do you believe?

To celebrate 2000, I took a year off to write songs, novels, plays, and stories - and I've been doing that since. At the end of my first year, I won first prize in the USA Songwriting Contest in the Lyric Category for 'Drum Machines and Beauty Queens.' This led to co-writing songs with many excellent musicians, including those represented in songs posted here. 

More recently, I was one of seven finalists in the Crisis Lyric Category of the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest for 'Lockdown Blues,' and one of nine nominees in the 2021 International Song Awards with 'Didn't the River Know' and 'Blue and Gold.'

For the past two years, I've been collaborating with many talented musicians on Kompoz. I release many of these songs here and compile the best into albums released under Captain Stormfield's Trip on Spotify and other platforms (see links below).

A Song With You

AlexEOB