The Complete Atlantic Riff Playlist

New Atlantic Riff single Seeds of Destruction now on Soundcloud

It does feel like home listening you great singers, songwriters, lyricist, musician friends! Most are the newer songs, reflective or mood-setting, with intermissions of nicely played instrumentals. Hope you guys enjoy the collection :)   

Musically yours!
Sam.

(I'm sorry that I've locked my reposts for a week and was not able to actually repost some songs, but don't want to wait on this fantastic set, so please share it for me, ok?) 



Feels Like Home (Repost Art)

January 2016 Songs by Wild Christopher

relax

Memorial Day songs from Wild Christopher

US Presidential Election Playlist - Wild Christopher

Atlantic Riff

Catch by Atlantic Riff

Heartstrings - Atlantic Riff

'Stand' 

The 5th track from the debut EP "My Happy Place by Atlantic Riff.

Stand (by Atlantic Riff)

“Rise” by Atlantic Riff

I know it’s been said before
I know it’s been sung
But time is short my friend
Our chances are one

These walls we built together
Bid them farewell
They‘re holding us back anyway
It’s a blessing they fell

In the rubble 
And remains of belief
Find your way
Find your relief

If it takes a scream from the mountainside
A dive into the deep
Rise
We will rise

Reach for the truth
Touch the hand of, of the divine
I know it, I believe it
One day we’ll rise

The spirit hardens
Beliefs in concrete
Melt us on the inside
Give us a hunger to seek

This life it packs a punch yeah
Words are the sword
But heal these wounds I plead
Harm me no more

If it takes a scream from the mountainside
A dive into the deep
Rise
We will rise

Reach for the truth
Touch the hand of, of the divine
I know it, I believe it
We will rise

Sail above the mountain
Swim out of the deep
Use our hunger
We’ll touch the hand we seek

Rise, we will rise
I believe we will rise
Rise, we will rise
One day we will rise

Time is short my friend
Our chances are one

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All rights reserved.

https://youtu.be/VYOe048q1KU

Rise

A special thanks to Clouders For: 
for his wonderful track 'Guit Me' and making it available for downloading.  

"Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking don't they?" - Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz.

“Season of Promises”

They say the wizard gonna solve all our problems
Pull us up from this here rock bottom yeah
Over there sits the one we call the tin man 
Hear the coins dropping into his tin can

Fooled easy again
So who’s really the fool around here?
Trippin’, trippin’, trippin’ over what they say
Pleasing everybody ‘til election day

Relying on the Lion-hearted
Politicking, ignore how it started

Some people without brains 
do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

It’s the season of promises yeah
Say it clearly yes you’re certain
More tales of how we’ll prosper
Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain
The season of promises

Shake the hands with rings of gold yeah
Walking down the yellow brick road yeah
We’ll fly over the rainbows
‘til there’s no place to call home

Fooled easy again
So who’s really the fools around here?
Trippin’, trippin’, trippin’ over what they say
Pleasing everybody ‘til election day

It’s the season of promises yeah
Say it clearly yes you’re certain
More tales of how we’ll prosper
Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain
The season of promises…
The season of promises…
The season of promises…

Some people without brains 
do an awful lot of talking, don't they?
Some people without brains 
do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

It’s the season of promises yeah
Say it clearly yes you’re certain
More tales of how we’ll prosper
Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain
The season of promises…
The season of promises…
The season of promises…

Music by Clouders For: https://soundcloud.com/clouders_for/guit-me

Vocals by Chris Barnett of Atlantic Riff (soundcloud.com/atlantic-riff)

Chris Barnett’s soundcloud page is https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics

Photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/

Season Of Promises - Music by Clouders For:

This is my first collab and it's with Anne Lee. I love her voice.

I wrote this song to describe the catharsis that comes from the sense of total loss in this world, during a time that I would consider a very low point in my life. The strong negative feelings I once felt, the mantra needed to get through the hours when nothing was distracting enough to cope. "The person that broke me can't possibly fix me it's more than we both can afford".

Waltz Of Regret - Crisp Bellemono f. Anne Lee

A forth collaboration with the multi-talented Jack Morefield. 

I have been holding on to this one closely, like a beloved child that I would like to keep from heading out into this harsh world of ours.  But I guess it is time to let go.  

"Where We Are"

Links:
Music by Jack Morefield (soundcloud.com/jackwm)
Wild Christopher: (soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics/sets/my-collaborations-by-wild)

This and all of The Jack Morefield Collaborations have been wonderfully produced by Jack Morefield. 

Photo by Let Ideas Compete (https://www.flickr.com/photos/question_everything/3973722860)

Where We Are (by Jack Morefield & Chris Barnett)

Prod by. T-Minus + Boi-1da

Additional prod. Mike dean + Travis Scott

My end of the year choices was spent on the kids. 

Sincerely, Travis

Wonderful Ft.The Weeknd

Simply too beautiful a song not to cover ... 

Lyrics :

Rows and flows of angel hair 
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere, 
I've looked at clouds that way.

But now they only block the sun, 
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done, 
But clouds got in my way.

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, 
The dizzy dancing way that you feel
As every fairy tale comes real, 
I've looked at love that way.

But now it's just another show, 
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know, 
Don't give yourself away.

I've looked at love from both sides now 
From give and take but still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud, 
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, 
I've looked at life that way.

But now old friends are acting strange, 
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained 
In living every day.

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

I've looked at life from both sides now 
From up and down, and still somehow 
It's life's illusions I recall 
I really don't know life at all

It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life
I really don't know life at all

Both sides now - Joni Mitchell cover

A Christmas present from one of the best Soundcloud bands around called Splintered Finger letting me sing to this track.  This one goes out to all my great math teachers.  

"Simple Math" 

https://soundcloud.com/fraudstein
https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics

You can ask if I believe in us
Am I up to the task…
I’m counting on it my love
For us it’s simple math

A simple love equation
No need to drive us crazy
I’m the one and your one makes two

A simple love equation
I’m in a situation
All adds up to you

There are many angles
Try to put us –in-a-box
But I’m standing with an angel
I’m never gonna stop

People making calculations
Won’t temper expectations
My answer is you

Photo by https://flic.kr/p/7Jc27G



Simple Math (Splintered Finger / Chris Barnett)

Don't Let Them Go Away

With Florence Lee of keroacsaq - https://soundcloud.com/kerouacsaq
Synth Engineer - Brett Bixby - https://soundcloud.com/brettbixby

Drama In The Making - w Florence Lee

The latest single by Atlantic Riff.   Available on iTunes and other retail outlets. 

Seeds Of Destruction

“2 Minutes”

https://soundcloud.com/clouders_for
https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics

What can we do with 2 minutes?
What can we change about the world?

Love your brothers
Love your sisters too
Love thy neighbors
Do unto others as they should do to you

What can we change in 2 minutes?
Can we make a change for me and you?

Love your brother
Love your sister too
Love thy neighbor
Do unto others as they should do to you

What can we change in 2 minutes?

Photo by: Dan Markeye ( https://flic.kr/p/AB8ruW)

Free Download

2 Minutes (Hans and Wild Christopher)

Acoustic guitar by @Guiville
Vocals, lyrics by Roses​Are​Blue♥ @bluecherrykiss

(Sat 23 Jan) Thanks for all of the listens & comments everyone!!! Big thanks from me and Rose! Gui x

Included on https://soundcloud.com/guiville/sets/interlude-guiville-nov-2016

guiville.com

Thin Line feat. Roses​Are​Blue♥

Ay up internet. Broke out the recordery machine for the first time in over a year! Made some noises with a new Christmas toy - 3 string cigar box slide, accompanied by tenor banjo, leccy guitar, digital bass sim, harmonica, foot stomper, djembe and rusty growlings lol. Pour yourself a drink. 

Rolling And Tumblin'

A little something to get some of us through the Blizzard of 2016.  TURN THIS ONE UP.  

“The Shining”

Red-rum
Red-rum

Dreams
Visions
Beliefs
All gonna happen

Blow it up
Name recognition
Shine like a star
Shine like the star you are

Keep on shining
You got it
You got The Shining

Keep on shining
You got it
You got The Shining
The Shining (x3)

Shine Boy Shine
You got The Shining
Shine Boy Shine
You got The Shining

Wake up
Feel it in your SouL
Keep on believing
Keep on believing

Wake up
You’ve got a story to be told
It will be told

These dreams wake you at night
One day they will come alive
Alive

So Shine like a star
Shine like the star you are
You are

Shine Boy Shine
You got The Shining
Shine Boy Shine
You got The Shining

Shine
You got The Shining
The Shining
Shine

Photo by https://flic.kr/p/4j1E8Q

Music by SouL Muzick Production
Lyrics created & owned by Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2016

With respects to Stephen King

iTunes

The Shining (Prod. by SouL Muzick)

Recorded a few christmas''s ago whilst quite drunk!

Ice Moon Jam 2010

For anyone not yet familiar with "FatHeads" they are those huge graphics you see of people's faces in stadiums and of heroes for your walls.  

The lyrics for this song were initially inspired by a very interesting lunch with some old friends before Christmas and if it was possible to get me a FatHead Jesus with expedited shipping...  As soon as one of us said that phrase, I knew it was a "keeper".     - Wild Christopher

“FatHead Jesus”

https://soundcloud.com/extremeloungeterror
https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics

Hey Hey
Wait a minute
Hold on, got a story for you

Don’t you hate it when
You get caught up in
The web of your own lies?

Once you sell the truth
You gotta do what you gotta do
To keep them believing in you (yeah)
And your Unicorns and fairy dust

Earn their trust, Take the coins
Right out there pockets
Slick Willie’s back in town

Ignore your conscience 
Cause if you think about it
It will only bring you down

And who wants to be…
Who wants to be…. down?

So pray to your FatHead Jesus
While living like a heathen
But watch yourself
Avoid the mirror
Cause the eyes will shimmy away
Pray to your FatHead Jesus
While you’re living like a heathen
But watch yourself
Avoid the mirror
Cause the eyes will give you away 

Hey Yeah

So Keep on Praying (woo) to your FatHead Jesus
Fathead Jesus
Watch yourself
Cause the eyes give you away

So don’t think about it
Cause if you think about it
It will only bring you down

So pray to your FatHead Jesus
While living like a heathen
But watch yourself
Avoid the mirror
Cause the eyes will give you away 
Yeah
Give you away
Eyes give you away

Photo by: https://flic.kr/p/9uFoND

"The songs I write aren't about me. Except for the parts that are." - Wild Christopher

Lyrics created & owned by Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2016

FatHead Jesus (with ELT Project)

From the Album "Time Reveals All Wounds"
Available on:
Amazon: http://a.co/3Czd9q3
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-reveals-all-wounds-wave-one-ep/id1209819095
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0X9VAZ1ct8TCnmWhsQlTag
Bandcamp (complete album $2):  https://wildchristopher.bandcamp.com/album/time-reveals-all-wounds

In memory of those brave souls that give more than anyone should be asked to give.  May there be peace on earth.

Music by Brian Wilson: https://soundcloud.com/rexgoliath-1
Vocals and Lyrics by Wild Christopher: https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics

"Little Bit Broken (A Soldier’s Surrender)”

Can you feel a difference?
Or does nothing become of it?
Become of it yet?

We’re a little bit broken.
Try to rise above it.
Above it
Above it
Yeah

You say you don’t understand it
I’m not surprised
I don’t understand it all myself

We’re told it’s for the better
For the betterment of man.
Of man.
This man?

We’re a little bit broken
We’re a little on the outside
We’re a little bit lonely
As we surrender our lives

No pain like goodbye
For a dead man walking
Walking
I’m a dead man walking

Praying for forgiveness
Or a transport to another place
Or another way

Take all of my baggage
And jump on plane
Or a train
That leads away from here

 A shadow of myself
Triggers memories
of believing in always
And sunny days

Need a ray of sunshine
In all this rain
Can I catch a break 
From this bitter pain?

We’re a little bit broken
We’re a little on the outside
So much unspoken
Of what we’re feeling on the inside
Ready to surrender 
Surrender
Surrender
Surrender
Surrender Our Lives

A Soldier’s Surrender is No Surrender
It’s not what we’re here for

A little bit broken
Heartbreak is a cost
Families left lonely
From the lives that are lost

Cover Art created using https://flic.kr/p/84ATp4

Time Reveals All Wounds - Wave One

Little Bit Broken

Little Bit Broken (Time Reveals All Wounds)

Virtually Living

This is my second song with Dan and I always so enjoy these collaborations!  Dan is a great musician to partner with - thanks again Dan!

“Better Yesterdays”

music by https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart
words by https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics

Back when things were simple
Or maybe it was just me
It seemed like a deep breath
Oh it tasted so sweet
And the sun rose and stood a little longer at its peak

Oh I miss those good old days

If things weren't always better yesterday
Why does it always feel that way?

When looking back isn't it funny what we can see
What we gloss right over and the mistakes that we repeat?
Healing the wounds that when fresh and cut so deep

What is trouble today is the fodder for laughter tomorrow

If things weren't always better yesterday
Why does it always feel that way?

The sun shines just as bright
In fact it might shine a little bit brighter today

If things weren't always better yesterday
Why does it always feel that way?

I believe our days will get even better
I believe the world is a better place
So let's make our new tomorrow
And leave our yesterdays in their place

Cause things weren't always better yesterday
It just always feels that way

Time to stopping missing those good old days

Photo by https://flic.kr/p/2x5jwm

Written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2016

Better Yesterdays (Dan Lockhart and Wild Christopher)

The latest single "Dreamer" by Atlantic Riff.

Also available on all the usual retail sites.

Dreamer by Atlantic Riff

“Live Forever”

In slow motion you see the glass is breaking
Not sure how much of this you’ll be taking
Voice inside your head said run away, run away 
Run away

Howl at the moon
Tear at the shirt you’re wearing
And live forever
Live forever

Rip off the chains you’re bearing
And live forever
Live forever

Jump up and let it pour right out of you
And live forever
Live forever

Plans you should be making
Sleeping in again 
and thinking fooling yourself 
Fooling yourself

Dreams you should be started
Only half baking
Sleepwalker’s dance

Living in frustration
Letting yourself down
Trying to get it together
Trying to get it together

Howl at the moon
Tear at the shirt you’re wearing
And live forever
Live forever

Rip off the chains you’re bearing
And live forever
Live forever

Jump up and let it pour right off of you
And live forever
Live forever

Howl at the moon
Tear at the shirt you’re wearing
Howl at the moon
Rip off these chains you’re bearing
And live forever
Live forever
And live forever
And live forever

Music by Rob Mason
Lyrics written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2017

Return of the Riff

Live Forever

Catch by Atlantic Riff

Amazon: http://a.co/5FsbNeV
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1uJOV49L7MwYvC1fjHoqyF

Catch

“Down” by Atlantic Riff

We met it was a time of newness and wonder
I guess we missed the sound of the thunder 

I try to pick you up
Stand behind you 
But down you go 
Down you go

The tide is picking up
Waves are getting rough
And down you go
Down you go

You don’t have to say it
I am the King of Excuses
Should we give it up
Or try to push right through it

I try to pick you up
Stand behind you 
But down you go 
Down you go

The tide is picking up
Waves are getting rough
And down you go
Down you go

But I can’t let you go
I can’t let you go
No I can’t let you go
I won’t let you go

I go out of my mind
Thinking about you leaving
We fought through the hard times
So you don’t even have to say it

I can pick you up
Stand behind you 
And down we’ll go 
Down we go

I go out of my mind
Thinking about you leaving
We fought through the hard times
So you don’t even have to say it

Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2018

Down

“Heartstrings” by Atlantic Riff

Stranded 
Pulling me away from the light
Sometimes in the night 
I hear the sound of heartstrings

Stranded and standing alone 
Inside my mind I hear a beat
It keeps me alive
My heartstrings
Heartstrings

On and on and on 
I feel the pull of the flame
No one else here to blame
Only need to heal my pain

On and on and on
I dream of a better day
Someone else to sing along 
To my heartstrings

Stranded
Swimming up against the tide
Sometimes I cross the line
Cross the line

Bending not breaking
Stringing me along 
Still I fight ‘til I find the one 
To harmonize with my heartstrings

On and on and on 
I feel the pull of the flame
No one else here to blame
Only need to heal my pain

On and on and on
I dream of a better day
Someone else to sing along
To my heartstrings

On and on and on…

Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2018

Heartstrings - Single

Heartstrings

Atlantic Riff are Chris Barnett from Virginia, USA (https://soundcloud.com/wild-christopher-lyrics) and Rob Mason from Norwich, UK (https://soundcloud.com/robsterm).

Thanks for checking us out. 

Chris & Rob. 