Written in 2001 when I started playing guitar again, I finally got around to recording it! This song is about not taking advantage of what is before you - before it disappears.

The river has run dry

An emotional song about a woman longing for the family Christmases of the past.

Christmas Song

Cette chanson est un hommage à mon grand-père Eugène.
Merci à Monsieur Gontrand pour son interprétation.
Les arrangements ont été faits à partir de Band-in-a-Box (contrebasse, batterie, piano) et de Suno AI (guitare acoustique, violon).

J’ai pris de la distance
Face aux conflits chroniques
Qui pourrissent l’Existence
J’ai fui les polémiques

Refrain :
Et découvrir les gènes
De mon grand-père Eugène
Fut la confirmation
De ma soif d’évasion

J’ai pris de la distance
Loin de tout voisinage
Ignorant les nuisances
Des villes et des villages

J’ai pris de la distance
Physique ou bien mentale
Ce fut une évidence
Comme un besoin vital

J'ai pris de la distance (avec Monsieur Gontrand)

"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky."  ~ RUMI


With each solar flare
Reaching down, are you there (does anybody care?)
So much light and heat
Isn’t my love sweet?

I am always near
Always shining here
But you never say hello
Will you ever know?

I shine free rays on everyone
everyone
Not once have I ever asked for anything in return
I shine on everyone
Feel my fire in your soul
Rivulets of gold
Fire, source of life
Shining on so bright

Beating like a drum
Watching like an eye (how you suffer so)
Making everything glow
As you reap what you sow

Everything I do
It's because of you
I'll burn this light until
You reclaim your will

I shine free rays on everyone
everyone
Not once have I ever asked for anything in return
I shine on everyone
Feel your fire in you soul
Rivulets of gold
Fire, source of life
Shine with all my might

Year of the Sun

Music copyright David Snyder 2025
ASCAP/DAY OF FAITH RECORDS
David Snyder: Guitar, Bass, Piano, Strings


So this one is a little strange, and I don’t quite know what to think of it myself. Here is how it came to be.
I sat down at the piano and in one take (one of my one take experiments) wrote a chord progression and piano part for a twenty minute piece of “trance music” to help me go into a trance like state when I am writing. (I use that every day now BTW.) Then I snipped off the first five minutes (have no idea why) and decided to add a lead part on the bass. Never done that before, using a “lead bass” as opposed to a lead guitar.
The I went back and added a lead guitar loaded with effects and feedback for the second half. I had both the Les Paul and my jazz bass wired to send midi, and used that to trigger string parts, so I could have some string parts that were the same notes as the bass and guitar.
The end result is this.
I call it Watchers at the Gates of Dawn.
Again, I have NO IDEA what to make of this, but I kinda like it,  and am kinda thinking about doing a whole album like this. There is something I like about it but I can’t say what. The chord progression (which BIAB analyzed for me seems) kind of cool, but definitely trippy.

THE WATCHERS AT THE GATES OF DAWN

J'ai écrit les paroles et j'ai composé la musique de cette chanson.
Les arrangements ont été faits avec Band-in-a-Box (guitares) et Suno AI (voix, violon ).

Faut pas s’app’ler Einstein
Pour savoir qu’un instant
N’est que très relatif
Face à l’usure du Temps
Les grains du Sablier
S’avalent comme des pilules
Quand on n’les digère plus
Les accrocs s’accumulent

Les plages de sable fin
Deviennent sables mouvants
Les relations humaines
S’enlisent le plus souvent
Des exceptions existent
Entre gens tolérants
Dont l’ego modéré
N’est pas prépondérant

Faut pas s’app’ler Einstein
Pour faire sienne cette formule :
" A trop se fréquenter,
On risque la bascule ! "  
Les grains du Sablier
S’avalent comme des pilules
Quand on n’les digère plus
Les accrocs s’accumulent

Faut pas s'app'ler Einstein

I Need A Lot More Jesus

Another best friend and musician has passed.  
Scott and I met in 1967 and played in bands together from then until we retired from the music business years later. We remained best friends even after our playing days were over.  RIP Scott. 

This is my tribute to him. 

Via my breath and keyboard controllers I am playing the Swam violin and Cello.  Band-in-a-Box is supplying the balance of the tracks using my sound sources.

Ode to Scott

Lyrics: R.W. Davis
Music, vocals, production: me
Image by kues1 on Freepik

No No No No

For Dennis

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Scott Collingwood

Screaming Eagle

No Suno cover this time . . . this is a song I've had around of a little while.  Ray Cochrane helped out by laying down an excellent bass track.  My biggest challenge was getting my vocal to sit in the mix where I wanted it.  Fingers-crossed that  I hit close  enough to home.  Hope you enjoy the tune.  

Staring at the night sky
The stars and all their kin
Thinking about the fine lines
The space that we’ve been spinning in
The force that pulls together
You and I and everything
And the common ties
Of love and gravity

I keep asking for forgiveness
But it only make things worse
No matter how I try to 
Find the secrets to your universe
The laws of love’s attraction
Well, they seem to be my curse
As I try find the way to you from me

But all I see Is this 
Black hole in front of me
And will I be some traveller 
That’s bound to wander endlessly
Down this broken path desperately 
Seeking some kind of love to last in me
That can pull you close and keep you
Gravity

All these endless orbits
Elliptic in my head
Swing us round in circles
Can’t we just go straight instead
All of my confessions
By now they should have led
All along the way to you from me

Words and Music:  Dj Lekich

(c)2025 Dj Lekich

Gravity

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 river has run dry

Andrew of the antipodes