Just a one-take demo with the rain pounding on a tin-roofed room. 

Lyrics:
Daylight ebbs and flows
Who am I, to know where it goes?
Crawling my way back home
I found myself, but I was alone

And it's high time that I learned
To accept my own reflection
Every leap of faith I take
Leads me in the wrong direction
Who decides a twist of fate?
Who divides the lines we make?
Either too little or too late
No time at all or forced to wait

I know I'm burning slow
But I dare not turn to face the scene
I'll dig a deeper hole
Hide my face in the spaces in between

And it's high time that I learned
To accept my own reflection
Every leap of faith I take
Leads me in the wrong direction
Who decides a twist of fate?
Who divides the lines we make?
Either too little or too late
No time at all or forced to wait

Should I take this chance to hold your hand?
Do you know where I am?
Would you know if I left?
Should I take this chance to hold your hand?
Do you know where I stand?
Would you know if I left?

Would You Know If I Left?

Recorded in under 5 minutes, this was an experiment to see if I could sing something properly heartbreaking in 60 seconds. Not original, but it's still sad, right?
Originally by Margot and the Nuclear So-and-Sos 

Lyrics:

If my woman was a fire she'd burn out before I wake
And be replaced by pints of whisky, cigarettes and outer space
Darling I'm drunk, and everything that I have loved has turned to stone
So pack your bags and come back home

And I'm wasted, you can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost

Broadripple Is Burning (cover)

Working away at a few more demo recordings, so here's one from a favourite band of mine, Twin Falls. Check them out at www.twinfalls.co.uk

Lyrics:
Every step I take, you've got me wanting more
I know I'm not what you wanted, but I'm all you can afford
Sipping coffee in an armchair, the girl with the black hair
Says "I can wait
For heaven, as long as that takes
I can change"

Every Step We Take in the Snow (Twin Falls cover)

More practice with new recording equipment, original can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP_O3fP9P0A 

Lyrics:
Flying crow, fly alone
A careless soul that sings for everyone
When the world closes
A steady blade tears a seal
A fallen angel selling secrets we can steal
While brushing off the rust, we'll go insane
A beaten dog in anguish counts his days
So
Come down with me
It's time to leave
Come down with me
I think we ought to go
It's time to leave

Leaving Song (The Exies cover)

It's a reworked version of a reworked version of one of the best tunes out.  No One Knows, by Queens of the Stone Age. Go and listen to it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE 

Lyrics:

We get these rules to follow
That and this, these and those
No one knows
We get this pills to swallow
How they stick in your throat
Tastes like home

And I realise you're mine
Indeed, a fool of mine
And I realise you're mine
I sink by

I drift along the ocean
Dead lifeboats in the sun
I come undone
I journeyed through the desert
Of the mind, with no hope
I follow

And I realise you're mine
Indeed, a fool of mine
And I realise you're mine
I sink by


No One Knows (Queens of the Stone Age cover)

'Dopey' is a podcast about drugs, addiction, and dumb shit. It's also my #1 go-to podcast, because it's always interesting, heartwarming, shocking, challenging, and fun.
However, co-host Chris was recently taken over by his addictions, and died on July 24 2018. It's gutting news, and he is already missed by people all around the world. In memory of Chris, this is my cover of the Dopey theme song, 'So Good So Bad', written by Dave. 
Toodles. 

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Lyrics: (sorry Dave, I messed some of them up)

I want to take a walk around the world
I wonder, would it do me any good?
Until I've got some money in my pocket, then I guess
I'll just have to walk around my neighbourhood

I want to be good, so bad
I want to be good, so bad, so bad
I want to be good, so bad
That desire's all I've ever had

I want to take a tour around the sky
Watch all of the people pass me by
I want to see a LearJet fall and take a dive
Just to show all these people what it means to be alive

I want to be good, so bad
I want to be good, so bad, so bad
I want to be good, so bad
That desire's all I've ever had

This city's getting smaller and smaller
It's high noon where I stand
This city's getting smaller and smaller
It's high noon where I stand

I wonder would they pay it any mind?
If I left this busted city far behind
I'll take the high road, however far it winds
Because peace and love are very very very hard to find

I want to be good, so bad
I want to be good, so bad, so bad
I want to be good, so bad
That desire's all I've ever had

So Good So Bad (Dopey theme song cover)

New microphone made for new inspiration to record, so I had a play around with The Gutter Twin's badass tune 'Idle Hands' in GarageBand, working out an acoustic arrangement of it as I went. Original can be seen here, check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUmdjgW-r0

Lyrics:

With my idle hands, there's nothing I can do 
But be the Devil's plaything 
I know that I've been used 
Your lips are cold, they suffer me 
They drag me under, baby 
Into your suffering

So let your hands do what they will do 
Stand aside, make your maker's move 
And your old eyes don't look the same 
They've seen better things in the light 
Just like stones like me, they grow through mine 
They grow through mine

My eyes have seen, they have been shown 
This is an occupation 
To stand alone 
I suffer you, you suffer me 
We are the Devil's plaything 
Into this reckoning

So let your hands do what they will do 
Stand aside, make your maker's move 
And your old eyes don't look the same 
They've seen Heaven, baby, then been denied 
Cast like stones like me, they grow through mine 
They grow through mine

Idle Hands - Gutter Twins Cover

Just an excerpt from All Misery/Flowers by the Gutter Twins, figured I'd record it and practice playing round with layering. The original song is much longer/better, but this is the part I like to jam the most. 
Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vB03XT5xEo

Lyrics: 
If you could hear me, love 
I'd tell to you my story 
To you and only you 
So love, that you might save me 
I woke up from a dream 
I woke up, I was crying 
I saw an animal 
With eyes like mine on fire 
I saw my own true love 
She was a sullen flower 
Was she forgive-me-nots? 
White lilies, or red roses 
And then from far away 
What's that, I see come riding? 
Upon a pale white horse 
Come riding fast as lightning 
Oh, if you could hear me, love 
I'd tell you my story 
So that you might save me 
So that you might save me

Chris Ebin Halkyard

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