Love the guitars & folk rock vibe!! Really catchy!!

Throwback vibes here. Great momentum and guitar work. Durge

Refreshing vocals and light guitar playing are cool combined 🎸🌞🎶

I know I'm a little late to this but this is a sure fire hit in a sane world... but there again we don't have much sanity right now. This is a beauty Chris, so hooky and the lyrics really mean so much to me. Best to you, Mark

a hint of tradition, with some great rock and roll Chris.... the clock is ticking.

gives me some wonderful campfire feelings. straight to the heart folk / country stuff you put up here, man

Opening the door.

Rhythms Of Grace

Collected Dew Accros The Land

This song was written by one of Australia's greatest songwriters, Archie Roach, in 1990 and was included in his first album “Charcoal Lane”.   I have seen Archie live many times – he gives such great performances that I was a bit dubious about posting my own version of his song.   I justify the posting on two grounds: one, this is not one of Archie's best known songs, and, two, I have done this song many times in small venues.
	 If you wish to hear what this song really should sound like, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wy9sxcxOFU for Archie Roach's original version.

	The cover image is by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

Lyrics:
	Sitting here in a lonely old guest house
	I'm sure that my life is all through
	Scratching fleas and watching a grey mouse
	and making love to the memory of you

	For without you I'm weak and uncertain
	And I feel so naked and cold
	Like a window without any curtains
	My innermost feelings unfold

	The drink I just had
	It wasn't as bad as the first
	But drinking won't do
	When it's only for you I thirst

	For your kiss it quenches all burning
	It's sweeter than the sweetest of wine
	Now you're gone I find myself yearning
	For the love that I left behind

	Nobody can heal the pain that I feel inside
	And if I said I'm strong and I'm never wrong
	I lied

	Nobody can heal the pain that I feel inside
	And if I said I'm strong and I'm never wrong
	I lied. I lied.

I've Lied

I've Lied (Archie Roach cover)

This song was inspired by watching videos made by Mark Horvath (invisiblepeople.tv) who is raising awareness of issues relating to homelessness. Please check out his work and his Youtube channel and social media:

www.youtube.com/user/invisiblepeopletv
www.twitter.com/hardlynormal

The Tenderloin area of San Francisco has almost become synonymous with homelessness, poverty and destitution. Some who live or have lived on the streets of the district call it "the tender life", despite the harsh reality that it is anything but...

The current pandemic has taken a heavy toll on a vast number of the most vulnerable people in society, but sadly the economic devastation that the pandemic is causing is only likely to massively exacerbate the homelessness crisis, not just in the USA of course, but everywhere, not least as government measures to protect people from eviction come to an end.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/a-true-emergency-covid-19-pushes-homeless-crisis-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin-to-the-brink

Lyrics:
Help me
For I am on the street tonight
I'd help myself
But I just cannot seem to light...

...the darkness of the tender life
Is going to make you want to cry
Don't hide your eyes tonight

Tell myself
That everything will be alright
But I don't know
Where I will call my home tonight

The darkness of the tender life
Is going to make you want to cry
Don't hide your eyes tonight

Rescue me
I'm sick and tired of being alone
Sanctuary
I need some place I call my own

The darkness of the tender life
Is going to make you want to cry
Don't hide your eyes tonight

Written and recorded 22 & 23rd August 2020

Artwork adapted from a photograph on piqsels.com (royalty-free)
https://www.piqsels.com/en/public-domain-photo-oertq

Invisible People

The Tender Life

Faith and social issues can be contentious and polarising. But for me, both combined is a marriage made in heaven. As a young songwriter I wanted to explore that, and this was one of those attempts. It is based on the ‘I Am’ sayings, and I thank you for listening.

Drawing: Qesheth (BP)

Another version by Raging Rausch: https://soundcloud.com/raging-rausch/brian-peters-i-saw-jesus-raging-rausch-cover-version-8

I Saw Jesus (Brian Peters)

I saw Jesus in a man who didn’t have a home
He was left to wander alone
Nowhere to go, no place to rest
And nothing secure
Jesus, won’t you be the door
Jesus, won’t you be the door

I saw Jesus in a woman holding empty hands
Living out of empty cans
Her children starve, it’s been a while 
Since they were fed
Jesus, won’t you be the bread
Jesus, won’t you be the bread

I saw Jesus in a boy within a prison cell
What he’s done he cannot tell
Accusers lie, and so his life
Will end at youth
Jesus, won’t you be the truth
Jesus, won’t you be the truth

[I saw Jesus in a little girl of eight
In her hands she held her fate
Away from home the city’s cold
But she must stay
Jesus, won’t you be the way
Jesus, won’t you be the way]*

I saw Jesus in a baby who has not a prayer
Death and illness ever near
May last the night,
Tomorrow baby won’t survive
Jesus, won’t you be the life
Jesus, won't you be the life

[I saw Jesus in a people living under siege
Never having what they need
Their lives have been a horror
Of eternal night
Jesus, won’t you be the light
Jesus, won’t you be the light]*

*omitted verses

I Saw Jesus

Merci à Georges Alberto de m'avoir permis de réaliser cet arrangement sur sa jolie chanson  interprétée par Mariam . 
Thanks to Georges Alberto for allowing me to do this arrangement on his beautiful song interpreted by Mariam.
V@M : Lyrics & Music 
Mariam : Vocals
Pascal Basso :  Instrumental arrangements - Production  
Lyrics :
Verse 1
I was never someone who cry,
I was wrong maybe to denied.
Even when I'd seen the other side.
I'd hided my pain so deep inside.
Chorus
But today now i realise,
In the same way when i disagreed.
Still I'd know that i had no faith in me
What they said was a compromise.
Verse 2
Places I've seen, I've searched a million times
To find someone who understands my mind.
So many times I've told my share of lies,
Out of time bearing no disguise.
Chorus
But today now i realise,
In the same way when i disagreed.
Still I'd know that i had no faith in me
What they said was a compromise.
Ad-Lib End
I was never someone who cry,
I'd hided my pain so deep inside

But Today 🌷     ( V@M and Mariam .  prod pb )

A simple song/jam that got me out of a rut during a difficult time... not one of my best, but a personal favourite

Recorded 4th December 2020

You're out of time, baby
You're out of time
You're out of line, baby
You're out of line

And if you don't care,
I'm going to find you out
And if you don't know me by now...

You're out of time, baby,
You're out of time
You're out of line, baby
You're out of line

And if you don't care
I'd rather find out now
And if you're not fair
I won't be hanging 'round
And if you don't know
You're going to find out now
And if you don't know me by now...

Artwork based on a photograph by JP Lavery
Used under Creative Commons license at Unsplash.com
https://unsplash.com/@jpvalery

Out of time

Another one-night jam session, written and recorded 3rd July 2019

Photography by Patrick Tomasso
https://unsplash.com/@impatrickt
Used under Creative Commons license

Help me

Written some time in 2014, recorded December 2020...

Artwork based on a photograph by Warren Wong
https://unsplash.com/@wflwong
Used under Creative Commons license

I Can't Let You Go

I DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOU OH NO
I DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOU 
I DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOU BECKY
I DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOU

BUT THE LITTLE I KNOW
MAKES ME WISH I KNEW A LITTLE MORE
YES THE LITTLE I KNOW
MAKES ME WISH I KNEW YOU 

YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME AT ALL
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME BECKY
YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME OR SO
THAT MAKES IT FIFTY/FIFTY

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS

AND IF YOU SPOT AN ABSENTEE
TONIGHT IN THIS ROOM
WELL IT MIGHT VERY WELL BE ME
JUST ASK DAISY MACMUSHROOM

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS

JE NE SAIS RIEN DE VOUS BECKY
OU BIEN SI PEU DE CHOSE
MAIS JE CONNAIS UN JEREMY
QUI FAIT QUE J’OSE

CE QU’IL M’A DIT DE VOUS
SI JE N’ABUSE
ME DONNE ENVIE D’UN RENDEZ-VOUS
UN JOUR À SAINT-JEAN DE LUZ
EN TOUT BIEN TOUT HONNEUR

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT ANYONE
THAT’S FOR ETERNITY
BUT TODAY YOUR WHOLE WORLD IS ONE
LET’S SAY FIFTY/FIFTY

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS

FIFTY FIFTY (Lyrics) Song for Becky

Hi, I'm Chris and I am a research scientist by day and a songwriter in my spare time. I joined SC in 2013 and I mainly record acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies, but also like playing electric guitar, bass, keyboards and using drum loops.

My musical influences include Syd Barrett, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon, and increasingly fellow SoundClouders; My favourite bands include Yes, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Rush and Steely Dan, and I also listen a lot to The Beatles, Elton John, The Who, Van Morrison, Genesis, King Crimson,  Jethro Tull, Sparks, Stevie Wonder, The Grateful Dead to name but a few...

Anyway, please feel free to get in touch - I can make any tracks (in whole or in part) available if you want them for collaborative reasons, or if you just want them for your mp3 collection :)


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