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Broken Spurs

What does forever mean to you?
She asked
I just didn’t know
I just couldn’t say

Is it a year, a month or a day?
She asked
I just didn’t know
I just couldn’t say

Just when I thought I found the words
Just when I thought I’d found the courage
Just when I thought… 

It all flew away
Up up and 
away
so high

And I’m 
just holding on
And I’m 
just holding on
to you

Step back and try to look inside
There’s nothing to hide
You might like what you find 

Some things last and some things just break
We won’t know which
until it’s too late
Until it’s too late
 
Talk is cheap I want to see results
She said
I just couldn’t think straight
I just couldn’t communicate

The more we do the less we say
I said I think that’s OK
It’s forever and a day

Forever and a Day

Just some fun. My muse was the artist Ai-Da, pictured. Do the robot ;-) 
Video: https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/19/the-artist-in-the-machine-meet-ai-da-the-ai-robot-debuting-her-work-in-london-s-design-mus
Ai-Da being Interviewed by The Lords Committee: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-63221954 

RUAI?

When I’m by you
RUAI?
When I’m by you

I don’t need to recharge
When I’m by you
I don’t need a password
When I’m by you
When I look into your eyes
All I see are blue skies
When I whisper in your ear
All I hear’s a faint hum
When you hold me really tight
It’s hard to catch my breath right

When I’m by you
RUAI?
When I’m by you

I don’t need to update
When I’m by you
I don’t need a signal
When I’m by you
When I look into your eyes
All I see are blue skies
When I whisper in your ear
All I hear’s a faint hum
When you hold me really tight
It’s hard to catch my breath right

When I’m by you
RUAI?
When I’m by you
RUAI?

When I look into your eyes
All I see are blue skies
When I whisper in your ear
All I hear’s a faint hum
When you hold me really tight
It’s hard to catch my breath right

When I’m by you
When I’m by you
When I’m by you
RUAI?
When I’m by you...

© Phil McWalter May 2021

RUAI?

16 shells from a thirty-ought Six. A Tom Waits Classic that I sat down to self-vocalize today...

16 Shells From A 30.06 - Tom Waits [LANG|V COVER]

Collaboration with the awesome LANG/V (@user-489232384 https://linktr.ee/langvmusic)

LYRICS

(Juxta)
I think you must be mistaken
I’m not the person you are seeking
I may sound the same I may look familiar
But the river of time eroded a new path

You may think that nothing changes
But I am here to tell you that’s a lie
My horizons have expanded
But it looks like life has passed you by

(LANG/V)
Hello my friend 
it sounds you think 
That life has 
passed you by
Your boundaries have 
all but shrunken
You think I’m 
Telling lies?

your trundle trunk is 
Overflowing like the 
horizons you described

that river’s path 
That started sweet,
Those rivers 
here run muddy 
from the blood
And from the flies
Little piggy best get 
Running before the 
Lord gets him 
In his sights

Stay clear from the spirits 
Keeping your soul afloat -
The one you drink 
or the ones you spoke...
The things that take 
you down the creek
Are the ones that 
Will sink your boat

The River Of Time by Juxta (feat. LANGV)

An instrumental that is actually build around nothing. Just happiness.

Music by Ortwin Wendt

Enlightening Snapshots

Up And About

I'm putting up new original material on my Spotify channel https://open.spotify.com/artist/2PtcG937rHfQWJwv0Zi4um?si=t1ppLngORgmuqz9qeoDOzw 
Mostly original tracks, a few covers here and there. Thank you for even getting this far. Thoughts, opinions, suggestions all welcome. It's pretty lonely out here toiling over every sound wave and grubby plugin. Any feedback is appreciated and if you've got a track you want me to hear send it over - what comes around goes around etc. A huge shout out to Len Rice for all his production suggestions on this and other tracks of mine - a true expert, check him out https://soundcloud.com/lenrice
One day I hope to get some collaborations going and a far off dream is to re awaken all these tracks in a live environment with a live band and maybe even a live audience. For now the dream keeps me going. Thanks for listening.

I'm trying to use as much real instrumentation as possible: a Taylor and a Norman acoustic guitars, a Fender Strat Roadhouse that goes out of tune if I even look at it, a cheap Vintage mandolin that hurts to play and listen to, an 80 year old zither banjo that screams 'I was never destined for this' and a borrowed Aria Pro II bass that a friend can never be bothered to take home on the bus. Synths are a plasticky Roland FA06 and a fun but dumb Korg minilogue. Throw in some Native Instruments software primarily for smoochy piano and strings, a £15 melodica full of tramp spit, some harps in impossible tunings, and a box of percussion and assorted prehistoric flints (are you really still reading this??). 

All recorded on Logic Pro X on an ancient iMac that is going to explode any minute and take my entire oeuvre with it. And most likely burn the house down.

Forever and a Day

C h r i s t i a n T W a l s h