    Hold On is track 9 on the album Focal Point.

    The main piano riff came from a song I wrote called "Still it rains" but after witnessing the Tsunami tragedy on TV on boxing day 2004 the song became "Hold On".

    That Tsunami left 230,000 people dead or missing and another 2 million homeless. Our attention has since moved away but the effects of such a catastrophe are very much a reality for many people, especially children, in that area.

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lyrics
    LYRICS

    Despite ourselves we cannot win
    No magic cream for fragile skin
    When the world decides you’ve had your time
    Prepare yourself to get in line

    Hold on to what you’ve got
    ‘cos it can all go tomorrow
    Hold on to every one you need
    Hold on
    Things can change

    In spite of this we don’t give in
    From sudden ends the new begins
    When the world decides
    To play its hand
    Prepare yourself
    Forget your plans

    Hold on to what you’ve got
    

Hold On

i did this track in mono...
i wanted to get some sort of old school feel that they had in those 1960's orchestrated pop productions.
i'm no whizz kid,so it's not one hundred per cent there...but i did like the feeling of having everything in mono as one single complete sound coming out of any speaker, with no modern stereo spread.
in the attached video you have me with a brown paper bag over my head...[ me at my most beautiful]
i suppose the bag over my moosh is a metaphor of a dunces hat....
y'see a lot of the time i feel really stupid...
i find as i get older i can get real touchy,and burn on a short fuse,where once it was all like water off a ducks back....
when i was younger i just let go of all the bollox real fast...
i think that's a far more beautiful headspace to be in,and i want to get back there without suffering fools glady.
like so many songwriters, the words are often just me having a dialogue with myself...and that's loosely all that's happening here...
me taking stock of what a total windbag i can sometimes be...blaming everything before eventually blaming myself....
i have a very addictive personality,and i'm told these flaws i talk about are typical of such a person...
i have turned to all sorts of things to medicate and drown out all the noise inside my head...drugs....sex...the usual.
i can only hope the song speaks to others in some way.
loads and loads of love
mary of the wilderness



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Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Roscoe Chenier (miXendorp edit)

Parte dunha colección de cancións a mellorar. Alguén se anima?.
Part of a set of songs to be improved. Anyone?

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We are the Blues

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Acoustic guitar, overdubbed voices and simple percussion. If this seems like a departure, it's the first of many.

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Update 3 October 2012: My grandmother whom this song concerns passed away peacefully this afternoon. She didn't seem to know. She didn't seem to mind.

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Now Is the Only Time 
©2011, Ignatius Zoo

My mother's mother was born in 1924 
She's still around, but she don't know me anymore 
She kinda knows my name back from when I was a kid 
But she seems to think that I should look the way I useta did 
She receives me like a lady, graciously 
I introduce myself each time, she's always pleased to meet 
It's like she is the hostess at a party that never ends 
And every hour, she gets to meet me once again 
Each time 
Each and every single time 
Now is her only time

This time 
Now is her only time 
She doesn't seem to know 
She doesn't seem to mind 
It just doesn't make sense 
It's always present tense 
Each moment is a blend 
Of happy accidents 
Each time 
Each and every single time

Sound the alarm, the library's burning down 
Soon it will be nothing but ashes on the ground 
The air is filled with burning pages of history 
Carried by the wind like crispy autumn leaves 
So high 
They disappear into the sky

As easy as it comes 
That's as easy as it goes 
Where the wheel stops, no one knows 
Make this the only time

In time 
We're going to decline 
We're gonna go blind 
We're gonna lose our minds 
And then we're gonna die 
Make this the only time 
Make this the only time 
Now is the only time 
Now is the only time


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A set of songs to be improved. Anyone?
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