@seeyousoonnico: Thanks--your kind words are much appreciated!

Have you heard the secret language
Of the nighthawk as it flies overhead
Have you heard the lonesome calling
Of the dove as it searches for a friend
Have you heard the nighttime singing
Of the cricket in a dry river bed

Night and day
In all the sights and sounds
If you look all around
Night and day
In all the sights and sounds
He’s waiting to be found

Have you seen the tiny wonder
Of the hummingbird flap its wings so fast
Have you seen the calm unfurling 
Of owls wings like sails on a ship’s mast
Have you seen the startling shade
Of the vulture’s shadow as it flies past

Night and Day

Night And Day

I SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BY NOW

Copyright 2023 Pontarollo/O'Brien/Godfrey/Pride/Midipunk/Sanders
Music by Stephane Pontarollo, Brent Godfrey, Kris Pride, Pete Midipunk, Mike Sanders
Lyrics by Alex O'Brien, SOCAN; All Rights Reserved

Stephane Pontarollo: guitars, bass, keyboard 2, trumpets, production, mixing/mastering
Brent Godfrey: vocals
Kris Pride: backing vocals
Pete Midipunk: drums
Mike Sanders: keyboard 1

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
Love will always fade
Wars will always rage
And no one is a sage

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
Faith will always fail
Plagues rain down like hail
And there’s no Holy Grail

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
Beauty wastes away
A hero’s feet turn to clay
And sunny skies always go gray

I should have learned by now (Yeah, you should have learned by now)
I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
I really should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)

Take a million stories
Spread them ‘cross the land
They may be inspiring
But few will understand
Take a million deep breaths
Watch your life unfold
Never dream of your death
Still you’re growing old

It’s a cruel, dark world 
Hard to find the pearls (You should have learned by now)
I’ve been searching for all my life
Someone please shine me a light

It’s a bitter end (You should have learned by now)
Take comfort in your friends (You should have learned by now)
I’ve been searching for all my days
But I know I can’t be saved

I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)
I should have learned by now (You should have learned by now)

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: November 14, 2023

I Should Have Learned By Now

04 GÖD

Old rehearsal sound file.
The sound is bad but the groove is great.
Enjoy 😃.

Sound quality is poor due to one shot recording.
Sorry.

Mirage (Rehearsal 20120701) / 蜃気楼

Original music by: FPMORINSTUDIO/Francois Pierre Morin, Credit photo : Jean Nicolas Morin Mont-Tremblant Canada

Walk on Mars

Written by David Cooper and Ralph Donkin.

Performed and produced by David Cooper.

Music by David Cooper

Lyrics by Ralph Donkin

Drank a few beers
And a little rum
At the end of the night
I'd make my way home
Home was a house 
Half way up to the sky
Where I'd look down 
On the birds flying by

When life was so slow
And I did what I pleased
When my days were so full
Many moments to seize
When time was my own
With so much to waste
When life was straightforward
And not two faced

DON'T TAKE LIFE FOR GRANTED
TAKE IT ALL IN
WHEN WILL IT END
WHERE DID IT BEGIN
NOW I'M SO GRATEFUL
FOR THOSE LITTLE THINGS
THE AUTUMNS THE WINTERS
THE SUMMERS AND SPRINGS

But soon that time
Had  gone so fast
And soon that time
That I thought would last
Had disappeared
To who knows where
And all of a sudden
There's no time to spare

Don't Take Life For Granted (Cooper/Donkin Collaboration)

yeh...a passionate thing going on...lets dreaming of better life

Crazy Love

Credit to Overdrive, who took a simple song with simple lyrics, worked around the chaos and created something of pure magic. Taking what nobody else heard and making it into a reality. This song came to life, representing exactly how I felt when I wrote it. I’ll forever be grateful for this simple act of grace and amazing talent. Thank you Overdrive for everything!

Step Up

Parts 1, 2 and 3 mixed into one. Next time no more small parts or snippets when it's supposed to be a longer track.

La Deluge

Tommy: bass
Scotty: guitars, adlibs
Looperman: drums

420 '23 Demo 5 (the last demo)

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Transfiguraciones En Sol Mayor

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).

I Should Have Learned By Now

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