beautiful melody and vocal..music can be powerful, things need to change..say what has to be said, describe what is going on,,do what has to be done

Big colourful soundscape here & sweet vocals. Congrats!

@sound23-941370948: Thanks! Jen has a tremendous voice!

Cool song, Alex!! Great lyrics!! Great collaboration!!

Beautiful song bathed in a sweetness of melody and lovely vocals.  A superb and uplifting production.

Nice, loose rhythm and enjoying the melodic bass lines.

Beautiful Theme and Love the Sound🎶💯🫶

MUSIC SAYS IT ALL

© 2022 Vanier/O'Brien/Carie; All Rights Reserved
Music by Pascal Vanier and Jennifer Carie; Lyrics by Alex O'Brien

Jennifer Carie: vocals
Rob Glass: bass
John Henderson: guitars
Pascal Vanier: all other instruments, mixing

In my mind there is a space
Where I can keep my thoughts and visions
Every day I get wiser
I never can stop wishing
That soon the times will change
All the people will get along
If we can’t do it in words
We can do it in a song

Music says it all, if people would just listen
Dreams come true, people keep on wishing

If we try to end the hate
We will escape from this curse
There’s just no use in crying
Life can’t get much worse
There are things I want to say
That can’t be said in words
Let my music say it all
Like singing of the birds

Music says it all, if people would just listen
Dreams come true, people keep on wishing

The days get much longer
When you can’t seem to understand
Why there’s fear and endless struggle
In every corner of this land
As I grow much older
I’ll be forgotten in the end
But maybe they’ll play my music
Known only by my friends

Music says it all, if people would just listen
Dreams come true, people keep on wishing


RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: July 4, 2023

Music Says it All

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).

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