@steven-manuel: Hi Steven, much appreciated. Yes definitely naivety...Hollywood is a dream for some. This guy is optimistic but will get burned...I've never been and I'm not too tempted...I'm playing with the myth. My reference to oranges is the dream of California (Woody Guthrie style) that was even before the dream of Hollywood. cheers

nice tune Mr SuperSwede! I so enjoy the way you make your music and the way it sounds too.. Like candy for my ears... Love it;-)

love the gentle picking and the relaxed vocals :)

Bergman youré sing with a great bright voice,and making great music here.

Recordings: April 2011 NW1 London
Remix: 11 September 2013 Linköping Sweden

Hollywood

Looking at you
Looking at me
Two mirrors reflecting mine
Smiling at you
Smiling at me
The edges of my life define

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But it never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

Laughing at you
Laughing at me
Two notes in harmony
Crying with you
Crying with me
Makes my sorrow taste so sweet

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But it never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

Feeling your little head on my shoulder 
Holding your little heartbeat a little closer
How could I know as you grow a little older
This is a love I won't get over

Growing with you
Growing past me
Taking steps I feared to take
Hoping that you
Never lose hope, dear
This world is yours to make

My life was in color
Now the details I can see
And I knew what love was
But I never felt so deep
Looking at you I see
The very best of me

The Very Best Of Me

O LIVING FLAME OF LOVE (Oh llama de amor viva)
From the Album "Ars Poética" by Tracy McDonnell (2023)
(Suite San Juan, Movement V)

O living flame of love, 
How tenderly you wound my soul
In her profoundest core!
You are no longer shy.  Do it now, I ask you: 
Break the membrane of our sweet union.

O soothing cautery!
O wound that is a joy!  
O gentle hand!  O delicate touch!
Tasting of eternity, repaying every debt.   
Killing, you turn my death to life.

O lamps of human fire, in deep transparency
The lowest caverns of the senses, once shadowy and blind
Flare in light and warmth 
And wake the lover with amazing joy!

How lovingly and soft you make my heart recall 
Where you alone lie secretly
And with your honeyed breath
Replete with grace and glory
How tenderly you make me love!

O lamps of human fire, in deep transparency 
The lowest caverns of the senses, once shadowy and blind
Flare in light and warmth 
And wake the lover with amazing joy!

* * *
Text: St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) from the poem “¡Oh llama de amor viva!” as translated by Willis Barnstone. © 1972 by Willis Barnstone & © 1968 by Indiana University Press. Adapted & arranged by Tracy Alexandra McDonnell. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Music: Tracy Alexandra McDonnell. Lead & Harmony Vocals / Piano: Tracy McDonnell. Acoustic Guitars: Gantt Mann Kushner. Acoustic Bass: Jon Nazdin. Drums: David Lopez. © 1999 by Tracy Alexandra McDonnell.  Recorded by Gantt Mann Kushner @ Gizmo Recording Company, Silver Spring, MD. Mixed by Tracy McDonnell & Gantt Mann Kushner. Mastered by Bill Wolf @ Wolf Productions, Alexandria, VA. Produced by Tracy McDonnell. © 2023 Tracy Alexandra McDonnell. Icon: "San Juan de la Cruz" (St. John of the Cross) by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM. © Seraphic Icons, courtesy of Trinity Stores, trinitystores.com. All rights reserved.

O Living Flame Of Love (Oh llama de amor viva)

Amazing Grace - Tribute to Randy Travis

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THE RAILWAY SONG

Blue Sky

I wrote this in January 2005, and have performed it solo many times but it took a while to get it recorded.

Each verse (and the bridge) is a scene from the Ithaca, NY area.

Lyrics:

a flash of gold
a flash of green
a flash of something old you
thought you never should've seen
a flash of alabaster
a flash of white, and after that
a flash of insight into
something gray you'd thought was unclean

rolling down the hillside,
tired and in no gear
the city lights below you,
up ahead a deer just crossed the road
 
you missed the sign,
but it occurs to you that
you are here.
 
you bought your ticket,
you paid the price:
you made your way here
slogging through the snow and ice
the sound and motion
wake you from sleep, mm
but it's the silence
that pulls you in deep.
 
come and dance with me,
i'm sitting very still
come sing your passion to the rooftops
and in the mumbled echo you might hear your name
 
there's only one way
to find out whether
you are here.
 
circling to land
the end of the line
no connecting flights
there's only one way to travel,
and that's forward in time.
 
i had a vision,
it went like this:
a quiet sunbeam
and a forest kiss
it led me forward, but
now it's so far away
and when I glimpse it, it
only leads to yesterday
 
how can i run in darkness, flying into fear?
but if i listen close and stay standing here,
will it come to me?
 
it all comes to this,
and this is you,
and you are here.

Unstoppable

Olivia

Dark On The Wind (Words & Music by Nigel Foote)

Lovers and strangers
Who knows the dangers
Gather ye roses while ye may boy
For the days they do roll
And a young tree grows old
I hear the thunder, dark on the wind

Yesterday’s faces
Distant embraces
Eyes that fan the fires for you boy
Impossible choices
Soft inner voices
I watch the leaves blow away in the wind

Chorus:
Will you marry me
Will you be true
Yes I will marry you
Do I lie to myself or to you

Prohibited feelings
Trespassed emotions
Love’s bitter-sweet trade in old hearts boy
Catches you dreaming
Endlessly scheming
I feel the rain splash cool on my skin

Chorus:
Will you marry me
Will you be true
Yes I will marry you
Do I lie to myself or to you

Eye-witness strangers
Clandestine exchanges
A room with a view of the harbour
You say it’s the last time
Just like the last time
I see the lightning flash blue on your skin

Chorus:
Will you marry me
Will you be true
Yes I will marry you
Do I lie to myself or to you

Lovers and strangers
Who knows the dangers
Gather ye roses while ye may boy
For the days they do roll
And a young tree grows old
I hear the thunder, dark on the wind
(Repeat last line x 2)

Musicians:
Nigel Foote: acoustic guitar and vocal / Pete Drummond: drums / Andrew Knight: Bass, E-Bow, electric guitars / John Stuart: Congas / Dawn Egan and Lisa Williams: Harmony Vocals

RECORDED – Windwood Studios, Blue Mountains NSW, Australia
ENGINEER – Terry Cox
PRODUCER – Andrew Knight
MASTERED – Don Bartley at Studios 301, Sydney

PHOTO – Nigel Foote
CONTACT – nigel@folksinger.com.au

Dark On The Wind

MISTER SIMON

Dear SC friends, I have a new album "Embers" on YouTube, Apple and Spotify etc 
https://spotify.link/cbJ583K3mDb

And Apple music, youtube etc...

/Bergman

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