Name: The lost sock by Andrew of the antipodes
Duration: 3 min 7 s
Description: Written pre-2004 and originally 'You can't (be my baby)', replaced with new lyrics to become 'The lost sock' in 2024 and finally recorded in March 2025.

A song suggesting the relationship is sinking,  But there's still the hope of patching it up.

The vid:  https://youtu.be/HHU67XaGPzw

Down Down Down

© 2025 J. Merritt, B. Merritt & P. Fulham  
Janice Merritt: lead vocal, harmony vocals, background vocals, melody, arrangement and mix 
Bud Merritt: lyric, mix, arrangement, mastering, RealTracks*, RealDrums*, MIDISuperTrack and photo
 Peter Fulham: guitar solos/fills, mix and arrangement 
 Thanks to *PG Music.

Sinkhole

V1
Been wandering around the high ground
While wondering about the low ground 
It’s been so long I’ve forgotten why
Searching for a clue to where I’m bound 

Ch
Now I’m floundering about in a sinkhole  
Reckon my middle ground fell through
Why are those people staring down at me
Could it be they simply enjoy the view

V2
I once thought every road went somewhere 
I spent too long trying to tell my own fortune 
Wasted time trying to separate needing from wanting 
It was easy to turn reality into distortion  
 
Ch

SOLO

Bridge
I acted like doing nothing was something
Another recipe for failure  in the making 

Ch

Sinkhole

Written pre-2004 and originally 'You can't (be my baby)', replaced with new lyrics to become 'The lost sock' in 2024 and finally recorded in March 2025.

The lost sock

Here Before

Everyone needs a Wiggle Room all to themselves.  
The vid:  https://youtu.be/9oeb3QokOqk
That's Dave Bell of Blue Attitude on guitar.  I played bass and sang.  [We each did our part in our own Wiggle Room]

Wiggle Room

Road Hog is just the title of the Band-in-a-Box style that I used. 

The drums and guitar tracks are supplied by Band-in-a-Box using my sound sources: guitar - Clavichord, drums - Steven Slates SSD-5.

I am playing my Squire bass and Xaviere 335 P90s guitar. Via my keyboard controller the Arturia B3 organ and the synth leads; my custom sound.

Road Hog

R.W. Davis: lyrics
Me: music, vocals, mix, master
Freepik.com: graphic

Surely You Jest

This song was written while watching a video that Joliz shot from inside a car going through a car wash. There was just something very inspiring and contemplative about this 2 minute trip.

Video included here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqi_xf16f0M]Video

I rolled into a car wash
In a flood of soap and rain
A self-contained storm
Where the outcome is the same

Steam on the windshield
A ghost in the glass
Held an unlit cigarette
Saw the present and the past

The radio was static
Some broken English song
The DJ said “this is Berlin” 
But I knew he got it wrong

You left me in Kreuzberg
With your paintings and your gin
You said “love's a revolution”
But you never let me in

I stayed too long at Kottbusser Tor
Thinking you'd come down
In your fashion army coat
Like a queen without a crown

Neon bleeds on cobblestones
Your name in every drip
I saw your shadow on a bar stool
And a guy with a crooked lip

Now the soap’s all in the gutters
And the world comes back in grey
This city’s got a talent
For fading things away

The glass is clean on this old wreck
It’s time to retreat
And somewhere past the Fernsehturm  
The silence fills your seat

2 Minutes In A Car Wash (with Joliz)

It was raining here yesterday and I couldn't do any yard work so I just sat down and recorded this little quick and dirty song. 

I am playing my jazz guitar and via by breath and keyboard controllers the Swam tenor sax.  Band-in-a-Box is supplying the rest of the  tracks using my sound sources.

Rainy Days

carolpsych060525


         High On Life

    Worn-out shoes but I’m walking tall
    Empty pockets but I’ve got it all
   The sun keeps shining when it sees my grin
   The world’s my prize and I’m cashing in

   Don’t need no gold my soul’s on fire   
   Living for love not some high-rise spire
   I’ll sing my song let it cut through the strife
   I’m short on cash but high on life

   The breeze it whispers hey boy feel free
  The moon’s a lamp and it’s smiling at me
  No fancy suit just a jacket of stars
  I’m cruising streets (oops) I’m driving cars

   Don’t need no gold my soul’s on fire
   Living for love not some high-rise spire
   I’ll sing my song let it cut through the strife
   I’m short on cash but high on life

   Dreams ain’t heavy they’re easy to hold
   The heart’s the engine not silver or gold
   Laugh with the river and dance with the skies
   I may be broke but I never compromise

   Don’t need no gold my soul’s on fire
   Living for love not some high-rise spire
   I’ll sing my song let it cut through the strife
   I’m short on cash but i'm high on life
   I’m short on cash but i'm high  on   life


  
 






High On Life

I've been a guitarist since the age of 15 and writing songs since then, albeit more prolifically since 2000. I prefer strong melodies and to borrow chords to move outside of the diatonic. Usually, the song mix contains my vocals, guitars and sometimes bass, with drums, keys and other instruments auto-generated. The tracks uploaded in my Soundcloud are attempts to 'illustrate' the idea and sound I imagined when writing the songs. At best, the quality of recordings are demo quality. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!

The lost sock

Andrew of the antipodes

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