An mid-tempo singer songwriter style song that involves a question a guy was once asked as a schoolboy....

The Question

A slow ballad about love lost forever.....

My Crying Eyes

An uptempo song about someone who is fed up with being on their own! Produced at 432Hz.

Change my ways

Change My Ways

A song about a girl from a small town, lost love and a return.....

Small town girl

Small Town Girl

A song about some of the great singers we have lost over the years. Some of the references are obvious, others less so! I deliberately kept the backing simple so as not to blur the message!

If they were only still here

If They Were Only Still Here

A song that I started in 2019. I love to sail and its long been a dream of mine to blue water sail. this is my vision of that experience.....one day! 
The track has an ambient feel and Celtic pipes blended with synths (for me at least) enhance the overall feel in the break. 
I hope that you enjoy it! If you do, please leave me a comment, I really do appreciate the feedback!

Winward Ho

Windward Ho

A ballad about a love affair that can never really be but a hope that it will....

Smiles and Possibilities

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A uptempo song about life, our choices and mortality...deep but in a good way!  Please leave a comment if you like it, that would be really appreciated! Thankyou!

There's a time

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Close your eyes and let this instrumental prog rock/Ambient composition take you to a place where for a few minutes you can escape the increasing tensions that surround us all.  You will discover room to breath within the music and it's moments of calm reflection.

The other side of Midnight

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This is a song within a song. Someone explaining that they want to write a song for their ex following a breakup, but doesn't know how or where to start and emotions are stopping them.

Tears in my eyes

Tears In My Eyes

An uptempo driving song about the driver, the journey, the experience and the reason which is interwoven within the lyrics

Drive through the night

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Drive Through The Night

This uptempo song begins with a couple of bars of Bach's Tocatta Fugue and then jumps into the main song which is about Man's destruction of Mother Earth and how we are ultimately killing ourselves.....

We are the Axeman

A 'big ballad' style song about a war Veteran who is contemplating his life, mistakes that have been made and his possible future. Its quite a long song but I think it needs to be....

So many mistakes (The Veteran)

So Many Mistakes (The Veteran)

This song rolls along telling a story about growing up, the paths we take and discovering what's important in life!

Never in my plan

Never In My Plan

This song wrote itself, a slow 'Eco ballad' with a powerful message.I  sat at my piano and started playing, this song was the result. it wasn't planned and I wasn't intending to write anything. The words say it all, 'If you can't hear the Earth's cry then listen to your conscience'....

The Cry

A country/singer-songwriter style comedy song about a guy who thinks his life is rocket powered!

The Rocket

The album was composed in 2017 but was only released to a small audience. The album has now been remastered and a narrative added to enhance the story-telling of each track. Two additional tracks were also added and these are included in Part 2 which is due for release in 2023 which will then be followed by the complete release. The complete album will be available on on my Bandcamp page.

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars Part 1

Mission To Mars Part 1

This is song about an old flame that hasn't quite gone out and the emotions that are brought back by a guitar being played in the distance somewhere on a beach at sunset.....

Distant Guitar

This song is dedicated to 'Lucky'...my little furry friend...

My Little Furry Friend

A song about a guy who's relationship has ended and believes that his life has too....

Broken

This is a song for those who are disillusioned with the way they are treated by Governments who continually seek to control everything that we see, do and say.....

Nothing to say

Nothing To Say

This is a song about positivity and living for the future, not so long ago I thought illness might seriously affect my life but thanks to some dedicated doctors and nurses I was lucky enough to get through it relatively unscathed. This song is dedicated to them!

This life is mine

This Life Is Mine

This song was inspired by the Titanic musicians who played until the very end. 
The song is written as if it's a call from the passengers and written around the idea that they call from the grave across time to the here and now....

As they made music

As They Made Music (The ship goes on)

A tongue-in-cheek hi-octane song about a guy who aspires to be a movie heart throb! PLAY IT LOUD! 😊

Valentino

An emotional ballad about lost love, amid the certainties and uncertainties of life and love and it's emotions...

Missing You

Missing you

This is a track about dreams and dreaming!

Butterfly

This is a song about time and how it affects us

It Flies

A rolling shanty style song! The lyrics written by Jay Rich https://soundcloud.com/richsoundz-534267642
tell a woeful tale of Press gangs, deceit and revenge!!

Lyrics Below

I'll tell you a tale, happened in the Blind Beggar:
A tavern once property of Mother Riddle
They say that this witch was in league with the devil
So crooked and stooping her decrepit figure

Her prey were young men who at her expense supped:
She'd fill them with drink while providing a room
Meantime, the press gangs, finding them in their cups
Would spirit them off by the light of the moon

Mini-break

And Old Mother Riddle would pile up her gains:
Her excuse being dupes always take the King's shilling
The truth was that it had been slipped their drunk way
With no single wight (man) able-bodied or willing

Chorus 1

Away, away, how she cast them away, And sadly it lasted for many a day
Away, away, wretched men met their end, At the hands of a rogue masquerading as friend

Break 1

And so would continue this inhumane scam
Until one dark day at her bar would present
A young and bold stranger, a smart, sober man
And fate took a turn, as Ma Riddle soon learned

This stranger was different, his blue gaze direct:
Ma fell to mute silence, her old heart a quiver
Requesting no victuals (Food) he stood and assessed
Her discomfited face, then declared her a sinner

Mini-break

My father, said he, at not quite nineteen years
Is from a sunk warship long lost to the depths
It's taken a lifetime of grieving and tears
To see his betrayer pay off her old debts

Chorus 2

Away, away, how she cast them away And it would last for so many a day
Away, away, those drowned men met their end At the hands of a scoundrel who posed as a friend

Break 2

Bridge:

Old Mother Riddle
She played a mean fiddle
Though not the sort sweet music would make
Her greed was her downfall
But she'd lose it all
And scheme herself into a premature grave

Mini-break

Well Mother Riddle she pleaded and bargained
With the young stranger so grimly resolved:
He said though you're old, your grave sins bring no pardon:
Your only hope is to pray for your soul

It's my intention to show you the snow
So give me your gold and the deeds to your home
Then you'll go forth so the deep winter cold
Freezes your skin and creeps through your old bones

Break 3

And call yourself blessed for to keep your bright eyes:
This bleak season will get all your damnable kind
Though tempting it is to deprive you of sight:
Render you like this tavern: cursed and beggar blind

Chorus 3

Away, away, how he cast her away Whence she could never (once) come back again
Away, away, how she met a bad end, At the hands of a nemesis that fate would send

Mother Riddle & the Blind Beggar

Old Mother Riddle & The Blind Beggar

This song relates to world events/war and how it's fast becoming the new normal for those of us that are not directly involved. Its a worrying trend and this song acknowledges the innocent's that have suffered and are still suffering, I at least hear you and hope this track may enable others to do the same. Lyrics below.

Intro

This world it gets smaller, everyday of our lives
And it’s people are dying, killed with bombs, guns and lies
Mankind needs to wakeup and put an end to this strife
Instead of just accepting the loss of so, so many lives

Chorus

Together we stand and divided we fall
Is nobody listening to the Innocent’s call

Break

Will the evil that surrounds us and threatens all that we know
Be ever really vanquished unless we fight it toe to toe
Is war part of our makeup and could we ever change that stance
Were Lennon’s words just wasted, or should we still give peace a chance

Chorus

How many more will be born just to die
At the whim of an ego who’s truth is just a lie

Break

We are all human beings, we all have hopes and dreams
We live such different lives and may have never heard the screams
There are no, no easy answers, but there’s no reason we shouldn’t try
To all sit down together and leave the Deity’s to fight

Chorus

Together we’ll stand and and divided we’ll fall
If nobody listens to the Innocent’s call

Break

This world it gets more dangerous and we should not close our eyes
When so many of it’s people need to fight just to survive
If we all, all pulled together, used our hearts not just our minds
Then maybe we could change things and leave this madness far behind

Chorus

Together we stand or divided we fall
We all need to listen to the Innocent’s call

Can you hear them, just listen,
Can you hear them, just listen

Together We Stand (The Innocent's Call)

A gentle song about a fleeting encounter in a coffee shop and the lasting effect it has on someone.

I don’t know her name

I Don’t Know Her Name

An old song of mine about lost love which I have re-arranged and re-recorded as a ballad. The previous version was too uptempo for the lyrics and didn't fit in with the overall feel that it needed to work as it should.
I like it,
I hope you do too.

Hurricane

This is a dark song about a trip to a childhood home after many years to discover that things are not how they once were....

Those Times

Award winning Singer-Songwriter, Composer and Producer.

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I love words and I love to make music, I have always written my own music and have always tended to lean towards instrumentals, My more recent songs are vocal compositions but the instrumentals still appear as and when they need to! My influences are many and varied, Vangelis, Tomita, The Alan Parsons Project, Paul Simon, John Denver, Billy Joel, Bob Segar, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Neil Diamond, to name a few, so many good bands and  songwriters! 
I write new stuff nearly everyday but only record a few. I do this mostly for me and it’s great when other people like my stuff! Hopefully you are one of those people!

Nashville International Song and Lyric writing Competition.
Directors Award 'The lonely'

World Songwriting Awards:-

Finalist Spring 2020. "Best Modern country Song"  'Then you're gone'
Finalist Summer 2020 "Best Modern Country Song"  'I don't know here name'
Finalist Fall 2020  "Best Modern Country Song"  'Wonderful life'.
Finalist Winter 2021 "Best Modern Country Song". 'The Question'
Finalist Summer 2021 "Best Modern Country Song" "Small town Girl"
Finalist Winter 2022 'Best Pop Song'. "Playing a game"
Finalist Spring 2022. 'Best Jazz Song'. "Tears in my eyes"
Finalist Summer 2022. 'Best Modern Country Song'. "Never in my plan"
Finalist Fall 2022. 'Best Alternative Song'. "So many mistakes (The Veteran)".
Finalist Winter 2023. 'Best Pop Song'. "All through the night"
Finalist Summer 2023 'Best Modern Country Song'. "This life is mine"
Finalist Fall 2023 'Best Rock Song'. "Nothing to say"

Please feel free to contact me here on Soundcloud or the email below. You can further support me by purchasing my music via the soundcloud buy button or directly here! 

clivepett.bandcamp.com
clp9658@gmail.com

thankyou!

Clive Pett

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