A  lovely, warm lyric about loss. A fine musical arrangement of a super tune. A very catchy chorus!

"Melancholy Man" is a song written by Mike Pinder that was first released on the Moody Blues' 1970 album A Question of Balance. It was also released as a single in some countries, but not in the UK or US, although in the US it was later released as the b-side of "The Story in Your Eyes"
Midder critic Will Fenton described the lyrics as "a reflection on the struggles of life, with a focus on the need for inner peace and hope in the face of adversity." Music journalist Mark Murley said of the lyrics that "the song's lyrical imagery is just mysterious and indefinite enough to invite speculation over its meaning. In 1996 Pinder said of the lyrics that:

The single most incorrect interpretation of "Melancholy Man" had been that maybe it was a song about me being melancholy. I used that as a way of saying that there are different levels of melancholy, and that this was a melancholy for the whole world, because of the impending breakdown of the structure in all things that we have seen happen since the song came out, 26 years ago. What we're seeing now is just more results of what was being done then, and what continues to be done by the industrial giants and governments of the world, and the greedy little cigar-smoking guys like on the album cover".                            Wikipedia

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Image: Непарадное в парадных Александр Стрелков

Melancholy Man-The Moody Blues (Cover)

Mood Of Indigo (2025) Remastered


https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gfC439N-UBc&si=Rx6LiN02bgkwVXxr


https://open.spotify.com/album/2aosm7Od4rbWyCIiRBR5ln?si=qrp6eeGRQean5GQplYHiTg


https://music.apple.com/us/song/alzarsi-la-mattina/1854720065



Alzarsi la mattina.mp3

Over The Edge

Over The Edge (Collab MrDjBighouse)

White Flower (d)_2


dedi to all the listeners🤗⚘🌈⭐

working with an original m.m.j track i developped this...hope you enjoy🤷



https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=odL2d3Rywjo&si=emix7KMBkDEuujR_

https://open.spotify.com/track/78dxpc1iSWhNPG8bN1v9iK?si=xi1OMhTsSZSPcAUyPf6lRQ

https://music.apple.com/us/song/incognito/1856042436






INCOGNITO.mp3

My Fifth Collaboration with Sandi J. 🇺🇸🌟🤩💫✨🌟🤩💫✨♥️🇺🇸

STARS Feat. Sandi J.

Memories  by Zitou & Wildsilences

dream (leon solo) 🎻

" Praise ye the Lord" is an Air form Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio "Solomon", written in 1748.
The anonymous libretto is currently thought to have been written by the English Jewish poet/playwright Moses Mendes. It is based on the biblical stories of the wise king Solomon from the First Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles.

violin - Clarke Alonzi, Anna Downes
viola - Philip Hayman
organ - Helen Roberts
voice - Robert Llewellyn

We hope you'll enjoy!

lyrics

Praise ye the Lord for all his mercies past,
Whose truth, whose justice will for ever last.

Praise ye the Lord  (Solomon - Georg Friedrich Handel)

I’m pleased to share “If the Stars and the Clouds and the Sea,” released with the always-fabulous Einstein’s Dad team. This song was inspired by my Uncle Tommy, who took his own life on New Year’s Eve, 1979 — but it speaks to anyone who has ever lost someone.

A huge thank you to Bruce Haag for the heartfelt vocal performance, and to Steve Shouse, Richard Angus Bradley, Mario Licata, and Kev Zed for their brilliant musicianship.

IF THE STARS AND THE CLOUDS AND THE SEA
Copyright 2025 Shouse/O'Brien/Bradley/Haag/Licata/Zed
Music by Steve Shouse, Richard Bradley, Bruce Haag, Mario Licata, Kev Zed
Lyrics by Alex O'Brien; SOCAN; All Rights Reserved

Steve Shouse: guitar, keyboards
Richard Bradley: lead guitar, keyboards, engineering, production
Bruce Haag: vocals
Mario Licata: bass
Kev Zed: drums and percussion

LYRIC

If the stars could write
They’d write your name across the sky
And every bird that did fly by
Would sing a song that makes hearts sigh
Every soul would wonder why
You left this world behind
If the stars could write
If the stars could write

If the clouds could love
They’d hold you close within their mounds
And tell you all the dreams they’ve found
Your feet would never touch the ground
And happiness would know no bounds
With you wrapped in their folds
If the clouds could love
If the clouds could love

If the sea could breathe
It would exhale the gift of life
And lift you to the highest heights
Forgive you for your darkest nights
And lead you to where hope burns bright
And peace is all you know
If the sea could breathe
If the sea could breathe

If the stars could write
And if the clouds could show their love
And the sea's breath lift you above
Just maybe it would be enough
To prove you've got the stuff
To fly high with the doves
To soar with the doves
To soar with the doves

If the stars and the clouds and the sea
If the stars and the clouds and the sea
If the stars and the clouds and the sea
Only knew, they’d set you free
If they only knew, they would set you free
If they only knew, they would set you free
If they only knew, they would set you free
If they only knew, they would set you free


RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: December 3, 2025

If the Stars and the Clouds and the Sea

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).

If the Stars and the Clouds and the Sea

AlexEOB

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