do it again

Awakening

Love Shines Bright

Damage Control

I don't intend to preach to anyone. I don't usually talk about anything specific in my songs, but for once, and thanks to the positive influence of Carl, the creator of The Beautiful Dark, in this song I express an idea, a concrete feeling beyond my usual soliloquies or the usual non-committal pop lyrics. I am committed to peace. Greetings to everyone.
Lyrics:
I can't choose between the victims
wich ones deserve respect and wich ones deserve spit on their graves
I can't choose between the victims
wich ones deserve respect and wich ones deserve spit on their graves
Haters are murderers.
murderers are on both sides of every conflict
evil reaches haters hearts
and makes them its instrument
and manages to spread everywhere
i can't choose between the victims
they are everywhere and they are all innocent.
i can't choose between the victims
they are everywhere and they are all innocent
I can't hate
I really don't know how to do it
i can't hate
I really don't know how to hate
but if i knew, i would hate the murderers, i would hate the violence and terrorism. 
i would hate to hate.
I can't choose between the victims
they are poor and rich, men and women too
i can't choose between the victims
they are young and old, and they all are getting cold
i can't choose between the victims
they come in every skin color there is, even white
no religion are save from hate
christian people die for their religion
no religion are save from hate
christian people die for their religion
in the world
I can't choose between the victims
wich ones deserves respect and wich ones deserve spit on their graves
I feel sorry for the victims who fell in gaza and for those who fell in yemen, in syria and sudan an in israel and ukraine and in new york city and madrid and in orem, utah
i know that your heart is noble and that it bleeds with the pain of the victims. don't choose, please don't choose
i can't choose between the victims
i can't choose between the victims
i can't choose between the victims

I can't choose between the victims

This was the demo vocal I sent to the lads for perusal. Full finished track below and connect with all involved easily if you wish 🫡🎶🧬


Listen to I Feel the Same as You {Feel the whole crew here}, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/UsgigHJii9XxtgtdU1

I Feel the same as you (Live Vocal Demo) [Eclectic Collective]

Intense (2025)

'strike two'

scotty: acoustic pearl export, epiphone casino, fender squire 3/4 bass. Just blowing off some steam, y'all. 

strike two

remembering

“41st”
LOFI track from our eastern LoFiLab.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/HpebMeMOttk?si=Qf-wQ59laODuP59_
Cover pic: Arpad Kajel www.instagram.com/bergarpi

41st

This track is an experiment  with mixing light opera and pop. For me it also represents a difference in the way I present the track. For historical purposes, I have always used my name as the artist. Simply because it was practical for purposes of filing the tracks on my PC. I have never hidden that for the last 12 months I have been posting AI assisted music. In all cases (except for a few cases which have been made known in the track description, I have been totally responsible  for the lyrics, never using any lyrics without, usually, having done some major editing. In fact getting on for 400 songs were written over the years, before I had even known about AI programs like Suno. Many of those songs also have the original music, melodies and chord harmonies. But getting the lyrics set to music was always a priority for me. With this in mind, I shall start to talk about The CIRCLE80 initiative. The CIRCLE80 initiative is John Dyhouse and SUNO AI, and I may even mention the |Suno "persona"  I created to use as a vocalist, for example this track introduces Angelina Lee as the featured vocalist.

A crumpled sheet of paper

All my own AI assisted tracks, are free to download.

I have been writing songs since1959 until the present. As a songwriter, I am more than happy with the wide range of songs I have written over the years. But my musical skills are quite limited and the early demos on Soundcloud are of me singing  and accompanying myself on guitar or latterly ukulele. I can strum the strings well enough, but there my skills end.

Recently I discovered Suno AI and the results astounded me. I could finally produce demos of my songs to be proud of. I am currently going thru my catalogue of songs and producing AI assisted demos. I know many musicians turn away from AI but it has a place for me. There is no other way I could have obtained some 300 demos to this level. I do not and do not intend to look for any reward except the satisfaction that hearing my own songs gives me.

I am still writing and hope to have many more years of songs left in me, Enjoy if you can and I would love to hear your comments on the tracks, if the music moves you at all.

You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@shadfan66