Really like the up-lifting lyrics, vocal and upbeat music, Lawrence!

I love the loud/soft variations, Lawrence. Great vocals too, cool sound!!!

Positive philisophical vibes. Nice Lawrence x

You're right - just roll with it - people overanalyse - accept the ups and downs and do good for others and you'll be fine - cool song!

Hell yeah my friend!!! Long time no hear but we are talkin now!! Theres only one sound like this and I'm glad I can hear it man! Your music has always been the sound of happiness and and I love hearing it and I hope you can keep on for long time!!

Fantastic rock song, love that beat and your charming warm voice. Happy New Year my Aussie friend!!

Every day, just roll with it--state of mind--positive attitude--great music--love this beat Lawrence !!

I like that "tapping" and wish it would appear more and not just at the top and tail

Awesome song and lyrics, well doneLawrence !

A song about left and right, light and dark, good and bad. When you're cruising through life in the middle somewhere, something will eventuate to tip it left or right, to the light or dark, etc; sometimes several times a day...just roll with it...it ain't going to change...

The clinking sound you hear at the intro, middle and outro is me tapping an empty coffee glass with a plastic pen. Whilst I was listening to a playback of the song, I tapped along with the track's intro. I still had the mic on so heard it through the headphones and thought it sounded good; so I recorded it and placed it in the song.

Words

Happiness 
Is just a state of mind
It makes you feel so good
You'll want it all of the time
Make it last
'cause it will just fade away
There's no need to worry
That's just the way it flows

Don't fight it
Feel it
Go with the flow
And just roll

Don’t fight it
Just roll
Feel it’s flow
And you'll find happiness again

Break
Roll baby roll
Just feel the flow
Roll baby roll
Just let it flow

Sadness
Is a state of mind
Can take you down
And sometimes it makes you cry
Just feel it
There ain't no shame
All you need is
Time

Break

Hey yeah yeah yeah yeah, ooooh
Hey yeah yeah yeah
Roll baby roll, just feel the flow
Roll baby roll
Sadness is just a state of mind
Just a state of mind
Just a state of mind
Roll baby roll, roll baby roll, feel the flow, yeah roll, just roll, roll, just roll
Just a state of mind
Just a state of mind

Roll

I’ve traveled the seas and I’ve wandered the lands
I’ve sprinkled the seeds grown into these grass
Encircled by peaks I’m unable to pass
I feel like a stone being crushed into sand

You can run all you want you can cower and hide
Fall asleep with a gun and wake up with a knife
The Devil has come to ruin our plans 
These are the deeds of a desperate man
You can dig all you want I’ve got nothing to hide
No blood on my hands no guilt in my mind
My body is old but I give what I can
These are the deeds of a desperate man

I came to a town where nobody smiled 
And tilted my hat to a woman and child
I offered support but the people were shy
Their soil ablaze and the desert is dry

You can run all you want you can cower and hide
Cloak your skin from the sun fornicate with the night
The Devil has come to ruin our plans 
These are the deeds of a desperate man
You can dig all you want I’ve got nothing to hide
Overcome by the heat and it messed with my mind
My shoulders are frail but I do what I can
These are the deeds of a desperate man

You can run all you want you can cower and hide
Fall asleep with a gun and wake up with a knife
The Devil has come to ruin our plans 
These are the deeds of a desperate man
You can dig all you want I’ve got nothing to hide
No blood on my hands no guilt in my mind
My body is old but I give what I can
These are the deeds of  a desperate man

Desperate Man

This sing is about regret in losing your temper. About insulting the people you disagree with. It does more harm than good

How I Lost The Civil War

The cakewalk was more than a recreational dance; it also gave a chance for enslaved people to ridicule those who tyrannized them.

Photo: Bert Williams and George Walker who popularized cakewalk dancing more than anyone.

Cakewalk Into Town (Taj Mahal)

My Island

Lyrics;
Summertime and the living is...
Hey! I Know that guy! ...

I saw him
Yes, I saw him
Santa Claus
chiilin'
in his big driveway
Had to be a reindeer's dream
Santa in the summer
With a four wheel sleigh

Hot August sun
All dressed in black
Santa having summer fun

A big white beard
A big ole tummy
Winter cheer
His summer disposition is sunny

He's the jolly old man
With a shiny Caddy
Right here
in Fishers Indiana
Not the place
I thought I'd see

He's even cool
In the heat of day
Resting up                                        
Before the great big giveaway

A big white beard
A big ole tummy
Winter cheer
His summer disposition is sunny

Yes it's Summer
And Santa's living life
Just like anyone
up and down this street

Summertime's
Not the time

But there he was we all saw him
Me, my kids, my wife
Kicking back in Fishers
The surprise of our life

So strange to see the man
Dressed all in black
Not the red and white
And bag of toys upon his back
In Fishers Indiana
With a big Cadillac
But yeah, I saw him!

A big white beard
A big ole tummy
Winter cheer
His summer disposition is sunny

Summer Santa

The ancient mystery about Men & Women, still trying to figure each other out!

Good luck w that xD

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Samples used

Ella Fitzgerald - You don't know what love is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkYRDMidxA

SRV - Little Wing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s

Steve Vai - Tender Surrender ( small samples )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw74sDWPH7U

Movie - Strangers when we meet (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19JXVQoQVUw

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Remixed by LS / 2022.

Woman, stop asking me these difficult questions

Lyrics / copyright jo richter:
THE PASSlNG

the day slopes
down the hill
his residence rests on

the clouds in his gaze
match the clouds in the sky
as the winds gently shape them

he has a slow meal
within shifting structures
of people who rush by

stopped at a corner
he sees squatters evicted
from ivory lodgings

matching his steps
to the patterns of stones
he rewrites the pavement

past the outskirts of town
he watches a beetle
scuttle along a fencepost

he walks past the tree
he has been dreaming of
for ten years in a row now

in liquified air
this moment freezes
unseeing his life

The Passing--Tragic Exuberance--  Jo Richter's Poetry(Sonlc Structures and Silent Stretches)

We Are Not The 1%,We Are Everybody Else.

unwanted memory

This is a colab between myself and The Shaolin Sniper, The original song had no leadwork and Mathis did such a great job that i remixed the song and added his leadwork!!

In the 90's i really had a hard time finding anything musically i liked. Being a kid of the late 70's and 80's... that was the kind of music i wanted to listen to. There were 2 bands that came along in the 90's that i couldn't help liking the grooves in there music and that was Tool and Helmet. This song was inspired by these 2 groups

All music written and performed by: John Baker
All lyrics and vocals written and performed by: The Shaolin Sniper
All guitar leads written and performed by: Mathis

Lyrics:
How could you go away so fast
Why did my best dream end in a a nightmare?
In the blink of an eye all the good times are gone
I never thought death would split us apart so fast
And I start to believe that the best things never last
And every one told me that time would heal the pain
But the pain just seems to grow
and this hole in my soul is now out of control
If I could just touch you and hold you again
And say to your face how much i missed you again
And love you and kiss you and feel you again
I know it's not to be and it's too late
but I just wanna say I'm forever gonna miss you
I miss how you would be there waiting
When I would come back home
And you would always be there for me when I was stressed
And needed a helping hand
on..it's all in the past
And I start to believe that the best things never last
And every one told me that time would heal the pain
But the pain just seems to grow
and this hole in my soul is now out of control
If I could just touch you and hold you again
And say to your face how much i missed you again
And love you and kiss you and feel you again
I know it's not to be and it's too late
but I just wanna say I'm forever gonna miss you
Gone away too soon
Gone away too soon
If I could just touch you and hold you again
And say to your face how much i missed you again
And love you and kiss you and feel you again
I know it's not to be and it's too late
but I just wanna say I'm forever gonna miss you.

Miss You

...just a tiny bit of fading noise...

ex-drummer, ukulele player, sometimes guitar player, keyboard tinkerer and harmonica player. Love to listen to and create music...

Roll

Lawrence Farr

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