Love the drums as well, they're spot on for this. The chorus closer is great in its melody and timing.

lovely shift in the Bridge (?) love the belief/retrieve rhyme. -sad and poignant song. :)

Claes, this is really spectacular! This is your first time playing piano? You fooled me, friend. The snare is perfect here, and I really love the message within the lyrics. What a song, my friend!

a bit "beetle-ish". nice job with an interesting prompt.

This evokes what I've heard of Brian May's solo music. So beautiful.

Magnificent production, Claes -- that drum kicking in really hit the spot! Your voice sounds great on this -- really well done!

Lovely piano, man. I also love the line "there's no victor at the end of a war"

Great statements on both our personal wars and the macroscopic of international war. Agreed on the drum coming in like the classic war snare , well done. The vocal rounds and harmonies were really impressive/inspiring to me, id like to learn how to 

Shoes Untied
by Erin Wolf, Laurie & David Easterling © 3/122020 Little Chute, WI and Oak Ridge, TN

Week 10 Prompt: Foundations
*Disclaimer: The following tune is a song about grief and may cause some strong emotional responses in listeners.*

The horizon’s blue
Not a cloud in the sky
I think I see heaven
You’re not by my side
Yesterday you were with me
For life’s wild ride
I stand here alone
Raindrop in my eye

The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need restoration   
The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need restoration   

The music plays 
I hear the sound
It doesn’t move me
Like when you were around 
I used to stand
On solid ground  
‘Til shifting sands
Knocked me down

Sitting here for hours with my shoes untied
They keep sayin’ it’ll be alright
But I can’t find any hope tonight 

The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need restoration   
The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need...

Shoes Untied

A week late with a song for the SAW2021 "You Could Turn Back,
But Why Would You Want To" prompt, due to a week and a half on vacation. 
Tried getting started writing the lyrics on the plane to my destination, when the pilot announced that the navigation system was not working (this was before take off, luckily). So, from the word "navigation" came the initial idea to the song.
Many, many thanks to Erin Wolf for adding her beautiful voice to the chorus!


The shell brakes open, a beak poking out
A few more tries, and soon a chick stumbles about
Hungry and cold he starts to wail
Then his mamma brings him food every 5 minutes without fail

He eats and he grows, soon weeks have flown by
The nest is getting smaller, is it time to fly?
His wings not yet strong enough, and his legs not very steady
He sings about the day when he’ll be ready

Chorus:
I’m gonna fly - Across the sky
Navigate the air, as if no one else is there
Soar high - As a kite
On my maiden voyage flight

The day arrives when he spreads his wings and flies
Like in his song, he takes to the skies
This is surely freedom at its best
Why would he ever want to go back to the nest?

High above an eagle eye has locked in on its prey
And in a flash the end is here to the maiden voyage day
Trapped in talons, freedom gone, along with his last breath
His spirit leaves, singing, victorious over death

Chorus


Song and image Copyright © Claes Akerblom 2021

Maiden Voyage

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021
featuring guitar & worn-out voice

Week 13 Prompt: Cracking paint

sitting on the kitchen floor
staring at the wall
i see the cracking paint
as it chips and falls

hear these creaking floorboards
under my feet
this old house is falling down
but it ain't yet beat

oh oh oh
oh woah oh

see the breaks
in the window panes
letting in the drafts
just the same

hearing the leaking faucet run
just a pain no fun
i know that this could seem like a tale
a metaphor of a kind for you and me

oh oh oh
oh woah oh

if this old house could tell a story
or two
this house would tell the story
of me and you

of how we laughed, loved,
and cried
but also tell the story of
how our love died

This Old House

Copyright Dan Tanz & Erin Wolf 2021

Pedal Steel: Dan Tanz
Guitar, Vocals, Lyrics: Erin Wolf
Arrangment: Dan Tanz & Erin Wolf

**Thank you to Dan Tanz (aka Songwriter Circle) for adding pedal steel to the track and taking it to the next level! He's an insanely talented singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, and y'all need more of his music in your life. Links below.**

Dan Tanz YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYqTzE61DyhHUQaR5dI7ZA
Dan Tanz Virtual Tip Jar:
PayPal - paypal.me/dantanzmusic
Venmo - @DanTanz

Erin Wolf solo version: https://youtu.be/My65U4DPIXs

Week 14 Prompt: Inside there's a fire

you say your heart
is frozen and cold
ain't nothing left
so i might as well go

but i know you better
i know it ain't true
deep down you're hurtin'
you don't know what to do

oh i know
inside there's a fire
it just needs some space to breathe
so it doesn't expire

a little love
and some tender care
oh trust me, dear
you got a fire in there

i know you're scared
to love again
easier to be alone
than 'nother turn 'round the bend

but i know you better
this i know is true
deep down you're hopin'
that this love is true

oh i know
inside there's a fire
it just needs some space to breathe
so it doesn't expire

a little love
and some tender care
oh trust me, dear
you got a fire in there

a little love
and some tender care
oh trust me, dear
you got a fire in there

You Got A Fire In There (feat. Dan Tanz)

Wouldn’t it just be lovely if we had a little motor home?
We could drive to Plimpton, we could sleep beside the sea!
We could have adventures, in a rolling cabin all our own
Then we could stop along the way and have a cup of tea!

Wouldn’t it just be lovely if we had a little motor home?
Don’t you think so, Albert? Shall we go and have a look?
We could travel far and wide with other seas to be beside
There MUST be more to life than tidy gardens and a book...

Motor Home

Copyright Erin Wolf & Julia Tindall Bloom 2021
Image by Gentle07 from Pixabay 
Sound effects/loops from BandLab

Julia Tindall Bloom: https://soundcloud.com/julia-tindall-bloom & https://juliabloom.org
Cabin of Love: https://soundcloud.com/cabin-of-love

--

see the blood moon rising
on the horizon
shivers on your skin

the dust has settled now
we've no place to call home
living in

this empty house
we used to call our own
abandoned and forlorn

nowhere left to run
from you
or anyone

i bid you farewell
and pack my things
time to go

pictures wrapped in paper
fastened tight with
thickened twine

and i remember
that cold december
when you were mine

so long ago
or so it seems
another life

time for goodbye
time for goodbye
time for goodbye
time for...

my heart is breaking
with the sting
of your lies

i thought i knew you better
than i did
after all this time

these walls have seen my tears
and heard my cries
in the night

the cold and empty sheets
left behind
bare in the moonlight

time for goodbye
time for goodbye
time for goodbye
time for...

Thickened Twine (feat. Julia Tindall Bloom)

Glasgow Songwriting Festival with lots of good tutors and inspiration.
This was written after an afternoon with Boo Hewerdine

Every Road

This is the song I don't hear in the background
This is the pressure that's building inside
This is my weakness, my  fear of rejection
The tension that keeps me awake in the night

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

This is the shadow I'm casting out blindly
This is the part I don't want you to see
Here is the darkness I smuggle inside me
the part that I've been hiding even from me

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

This is the conflict that's breaking the pattern
This is that chaos that starts to emerge
This is the change that is trying to happen
The call to a greater more beautiful world

Can you hear it?
Can you feel it?

Can You Hear It

Lullaby for Madelyn - Song a Week 2021, Week 3

Copyright Donna Piano & Erin Wolf 2018-2021

Lyrics: DPiano (https://soundcloud.com/donna-piano)
Music: EWolf (https://soundcloud.com/erinwolf)
Video: https://youtu.be/pK_EwgG8eM8

The road was never easy
And we took the long way
All the trials and tribulations
That you faced each day

We’ve given it all
Having loved and lost
There’s no amount of money
To value the cost

Dear Girl I used to be
Take a moment and meet me
The woman you will become
Still marching to her own drum

The good and the bad
All taught us lessons
Making us thankful
Counting our blessings

Your future self is thankful 
For all you went through
Always make the best and
Keep doing what you do

Dear Girl I used to be
Take a moment and meet me
The woman you will become
Still marching to her own drum

Dear Girl I used to be
Take a moment and meet me
The woman you will become
Still marching to her own drum
Still marching to her own drum

Dear Girl I Used To Be (with Donna Piano)

My contribution to week 7 of Song A Week 2021. The theme this week was Nik Newark's Drum & Fife, which at first I had no clue what to make of it. So, I zeroed in on the Drum & Fife. Just a side note; the song is in Eb minor simply because, being the first time playing the piano, there are less of the black keys to keep track of than the white ones. :)

Lyrics:
When I start to grumble, that's the rumble of my battle drum
and when I've stopped listening watch for the whistling, of bombs in flight
Am I about to start a fight? All because, I want to be right?

Chorus:  There is no victor at the end of a war
	only the wounded with open sores, that time won't heal
	now tell me, how do you feel, about war?

You start to sweat, perceiving a threat that isn't real
all your efforts are in vain, you need someone to blame, when nothing goes right
Are you about to start a fight? All because, you have fear inside?

(Chorus)

I have my opinions and beliefs - and you have yours, you have yours
I also have my baggage to retrieve - and you have yours, yes you have yours
Rarely do we match, so there's bound to be a clash
without negotiation, co-operation, and understanding, we would have ourselves a war

Are we about to start a fight? All because, we want to show our might?

(Chorus)
There is no victor at the end of a war

Song AND image Copyright © Claes Akerblom 2021

Battle Drum (demo)

Mainly a guitarist, and sometimes singer-songwriter, I am influenced mostly by the singer-songwriters from the 60's and early 70's.

Battle Drum (demo)

Claes

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