Name: Echoes of Christmas Past by Clay Allen
Duration: 3 min 6 s
Description: A Mix of Pop, Country, R&B and Contemporary Jazz Christmas Songs

Drink With Our Friends

The Whiskey Still Burns

Solitary Tracks

Straight Line Boots

Only Me

Rage in the Arena

How I Like My Women

Found and Lost (Marvin Shelton-ASCAP)

[Verse]
Have you ever been to the beach
and something shiny catches your eye?
Then you find that it's just out of reach
and you watch it wash out with the tide

Pre-chorus
Well, that's me and her
No matter how hard I tried
She went and left me hurting
without a reason why


[CHORUS]
I find it hard to believe, how easily she could leave
After I done gave her all of me
Oh, lost and found, got turned around
there’s a price for love and my heart paid the cost
Oh, where in the world is that girl, 
I found and lost?

[Verse]
Stumbled upon her, wasn’t even looking
like nothing I’d ever seen
She was the lure, I’m the fish that took it
But she’s the one that got away from me

[CHORUS]
I find it hard to believe, how easily she could leave
After I done gave her all of me
Oh, lost and found, got turned around
there’s a price for love and my heart paid the cost
Oh, where in the world is that girl, 
I found and lost?

[Solo]

[Bridge]
Oh, she’s the one that can’t be found
But I’m the one that’s lost…somehow

[CHORUS]
I find it hard to believe, how easily she could leave
After I done gave her all of me
Oh, lost and found, got turned around
there’s a price for love and my heart paid the cost
Oh, where in the world is that girl? Can you help me find that girl, 
I found and lost? I found and lost?

Found and Lost

“Dream in Reverse” is a bleak, slow-burning portrait of a man pushed to the edge—unemployed, unseen, and unraveling. Every line drips with quiet despair: ghosted job apps, mounting debt, chronic illness, and the cold indifference of a world that’s moved on without him.

Driven by sparse instrumentation and cracked vocals, the track walks the line between resignation and decay.

There’s no light at the end of this tunnel—just the fading hum of an Uber engine, the scratch of a pen on bankruptcy forms, and a whisper that says, “Maybe next never.”

Dream in Reverse

Letting You Go (Marvin Shelton-ASCAP)

[Verse 1]
It don’t seem right, seeing a grown man cry
Keep it all inside, it’ll be alright
But that’s not the way I feel.
This broken heart is real

[CHORUS]
I guess it’s a good thing that I didn’t know
That we’d part ways somewhere down the road
Cuz I would have up and run
Never done the things we’ve done
So if you don’t mind I’m taking it slow, letting you go

[Verse 2]
When you and I met for the first time
Oh how I tried so hard to catch your eye
I knew what we had was real
That’s still the way I feel

[CHORUS]
I guess it’s a good thing that I didn’t know
That we’d part ways somewhere down the road
Cuz I would have up and run
Never done the things we’ve done
So if you don’t mind I’m taking it slow, letting you go

[Solo]
[Bridge]
I knew what we had was real
Dammit that’s how I feel

[CHORUS]
I guess it’s a good thing that I didn’t know
That we’d part ways somewhere down the road
Cuz I would have up and run
Never done the things we’ve done
So if you don’t mind I’m taking it slow
If you don’t mind I’m taking it slow, letting you go
letting you go


Letting you Go

In the Ashes
M.Shelton-ASCAP

Verse-
That Sun is working overtime today
“It’s gonna be a scorcher”, the weatherman said
“Red flag day, be ready to run if there’s a change in the wind”
Cuz’ the devil’s loose and bringing hell up over the ridge
We turn the key, lock the front door,
That’ll keep our home safe for sure

CHORUS-
Wildfire rages. Claiming faces in 8x10 memories on the wall
Fire don’t care, it just takes it all.
One more house, crashes down. Surrounded by smoke, nothing left at all
But the fact is, we don’t belong in the ashes

½ Verse-
FEMA says, “too early to tell
find another place to stay, look somewhere else for help”
Still holding a key to a front door
that aint there no more

CHORUS-
Wildfire rages. Claiming faces in 8x10 memories on the wall
Fire don’t care, it just takes it all.
One more house, crashes down. Surrounded by smoke, nothing left at all
But the fact is, we don’t belong in the ashes

SOLO-

BRIDGE-
We are strong…we’ll go on. Yeah, we will rise

CHORUS 2-
Wildfire rages. Claiming faces. Our memories, we still have them all
We don’t need to put them on a wall
There’s no doubt, life’s about “After the smoke, still standing tall
And the fact is, we won’t be found in the ashes”

In the Ashes

A Mix of Pop, Country, R&B and Contemporary Jazz Christmas Songs

Echoes of Christmas Past

I am a lyricist just trying to get noticed. I am not a musician like most of you although I know what my lyrics should sound like in my head, and I use whatever I have at my disposal to create that sound. That includes AI. Then I take the Stems and put them into FL Studio to get the final sound I want.  I just want to write songs for people, artists, whomever and hear them come to life on the radio and streaming services. I can only play drums, and my singing voice sounds like an old coon hounds wail and since I can't afford to pay studio artists, I get the help from wherever is possible. I have so many poems and journal entries of my life and experiences on this planet that aren't doing anyone any good sitting on my computer, so I decided to try to bring them to life.

Echoes of Christmas Past

Clay Allen

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