Royal Sloan

Pat Guiney - guitar, vocals
Mike Ryan - vocals
Jake Tamarkin - bass
Chris Weinland - drums

I Don't Think So

Eighth and final  track on a loose concept album I did for the RPM challenge 11 years ago. Amen is the finale of the story as the protagonist and the band of survivors have found a sanctuary and vow to keep from making the mistakes of the society that destroyed itself. 

We have destroyed society though some horrific mechanism, perhaps nuclear war, and our protagonist travels the wasteland with his guitar looking for other musicians, hope and a chance for some of us to start anew. I used a pretty convoluted recording process, but I like the songs, I hope you do too.

The Pact

Amen

Dream Until You Fly

PLEASE DON'T GO BACK HOME

This track pretty much speaks for itself.  Only a few of my songs are really autobiographical.  This is one.

I still find myself inside the system, the medical mechanical machinery

Little Big C was re-mixed and re-mastered June 2023.

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Verse 1:
Walking along, minding my business
Pretty much an ordinary day to me
When I encountered a remarkably small
A diminutive little big C

Verse 2:
It hit me as an almighty interruption
In the middle of my day to day
It didn't seem to make any kind of sense
How could I be sick when I was feeling Ok

Chorus:
Now I find myself inside the system
The medical mechanical machinery
All i want is to get out alive
Minus that little bitty ol' C

Verse 3:
I'm not one to bemoan my fate
Or say "how could this have happened to me"
Maybe it’s genetic maybe it’s just bad luck
Doesn’t seem to matter to the Little Big C

Verse 4:
People tell me if I change the way the way I think
Or the things that I eat and this will all go away
Nice to think it all could be that simple
But I'm pretty sure C doesn't roll that way


Chorus:
I still find myself inside the system
The medical mechanical machinery
All i want is to get out alive
Minus that little bitty ol' C


Bridge:
The doc read out some numbers
Such and such percent
At the time i couldn't puzzle out
What it was he meant
Cuz I don't think I heard another word
After I heard big C
But pretty soon all those numbers
Became important to me


Verse 5:
I'm not the first that ever got this message
And I know that I won't be the last
Everything is moving so impossibly slowly
But somehow it’s feeling too damn fast

Verse 6:
So far I’ve been lucky - dodged a bullet
Haven’t needed chemo or surgery
But I’ve still got another five years
Till they let me out of the machinery

Chorus:
And I still find myself inside the system
The medical mechanical machinery
All i want is to get out alive
Minus that little bitty ol' C

Little Big C

Prize to all

Let to Smail

....in qual tempo sospeso...tra il buio e il tuo sorriso🎶🌙..

Insonnia (studio)

A song I wrote. I was thinking about writing of the last seconds alive, and the moment of death and I thought of the words "momento mori" at one point. So I just checked and curiously turns out they used to misspell and mispronounce "memento mori" so often, that they even stopped considering that a mistake...

*lyrics:

The lastest words
The lastest thoughts
The lastest wish
The lastest will

Memento mori
The post scriptum
The postmortem
Contraction


Rest In Peace
Sovereign
The last wish
The last will

The moment of pain
Memento mori
The moment of truth
Memento mori
The moment of freedom !
Momento mori
The moment of


Free from life
Free from death
Free of pain
Sovereign

The moment of pain
Memento mori
The moment of truth
Memento mori
The moment of freedom !
Momento mori

The moment of...

Momento Mori

very early demo, all placeholder, work in progress, subject to change, not properly mixed, will update file as it progresses

flying at last (very early demo)

Time To Get Away

I know I’m running out of time,
I wonder in my mind what lies ahead of me
The days they pass by so quick
The clock with every tick recalls a memory

My life with every single page, 
tells the story age, is catching up with me
I have no regrets, all the things I’ve said
I said with sincerity

So when my day is done
I say to every one
I Love you all goodbye
Teach me to fly,  Away !

But for now, I give thanks
To my wife and my family
Blessed beyond belief
With the love they have given me

So I give thanks to every day 
And for the energy 
To stay fit and well, who can tell
What tomorrow brings

So when the stars align
It’s finally my time
I will give a sigh 
Teach me to fly,   Away !

Teach Me To Fly. ( Mackay)

Latest Album "Caught In A Moment" released June 20, 2020 along with new video for "Trying To Breathe" released on June 17, 2020. Checkout the link below. Just a simple singer/song writer here. Have a great passion for song writing and singing my songs. Enjoy spending my time in my studio in the mountains of California. Spend my summers at my home in the mountains and my winters in southern California. Although at one time I had a regular gig in San Francisco, I now love to play at small gatherings. 

   Even love to take my guitar to the beach and sit on the sand and sing to the ocean. Or sit out on my deck and sing to nature. Love to have friends at my home to play or write a song together as we sit out on a warm summer evening.

Dream Until You Fly

C. Christopher Carder

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