Name: Just The Same by Clive Pett
Duration: 4 min 38 s
Description: Bluesy pop/rock song about two people who are the same in different ways..

Bluesy pop/rock song about two people who are the same in different ways..

Just the same

Just The Same

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

The Rocket

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A VOICE (INTRO)

Original composition….Alejandro Gonzalez M.

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This is the first track off the new album "There to here (Part 2)" An instrumental with Doors influence. Also available at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7bld1sXMZIFPQb8S8XaNyl?si=f23eb4eb707a45b3
2	and YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKfktZLon0

There to Here  Pt. 2

Doors Open

Doors Open (Instrumental)

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

Nothing For You

I was inspired to this lyric by a book on a Cornish fishing tragedy of Victorian times, full of evocative sepia-tinted photos. So the song just cried out to be written. It's from way back, with music and vox by a late American co-writer I did many good songs with. Copyright 2008 Jay Rich and Michael Frazier. Lyrics below:

                   The Cruel Sea

V1:

A fisherman's son of the port I was born
Nor for other trades had I thought to be torn
Our family's lifeblood so long maritime:
Spending our lives with the gulls and the brine

Ch1:

The sea, the cruel sea
Her bounty and majesty
Of her are many things most truly said
The sea, the cruel sea
Her shameless treachery
That fateful night it all came to a head

*****Mini-break*****

V2:

Roused from our sleep by a loud siren call
How I wished to God I had not seen it all:
Young widows bereft and prostrate on the ground
The cries of the children a heart-rending sound

Ch2:

The sea, the cruel sea
Changed everything for me:
Lambs to the slaughter, her victims she led
The sea, the cruel sea
Destroyed our community
On that dark day that she piled up our dead

*****Mini-break*****

V3:

And for my part I would know tragedy:
See five of my kinsmen claimed prematurely
I recall their coffins stacked high in the nave
And vowed to myself I'd fill no early grave

Ch3:

The sea, the cruel sea
Won't be my destiny
And though a child, I could still understand
The sea, the cruel sea:
A farmer I chose to be
And to this day my feet won't leave the land

Ch4:

The sea, the cruel sea
The anguish and misery
I can't forgive the destruction she wrought
The sea, the cruel sea
Ruined many a family
Who can't forget the sad lesson she taught

*****Mini-break*****

Ch5:

The sea, the cruel sea:
Merciless enemy
Don't take her on, not for anyone's sake
The sea, the cruel sea:
Curse her harsh tyranny
And all the heartbreak she leaves in her wake

Outro:

Yes, and all the heartbreak she leaves in her wake
And all the heartbreak she leaves in her wake
Bless all those poor souls she saw fit to take




The Cruel Sea (Michael Frazier music/vocals)

Piano ballad pro demo with session vocals. My lyrics and music, copyright Jay Rich 2024. The second title, Pro Patria Mori, refers to the Wilfred Owen poem Dulce et Decorum Est (it is sweet and right) Pro Patria Mori (to die for one's country). Owen took the line from the Roman poet Horace and quite rightly called it 'the old lie'. These are Owen's (a sad casualty, dying just a week before Armistice) unsentimental words:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

My scathing lyrics below:

The Aggrieved Dead/Pro Patria Mori

V1:

Suppose for just a moment
That heaven's truly real
And the dead could all come back
To tell us how they feel

V2:

Especially those fallen
In the two world wars
What would long lost soldiers
Say to mine and yours

Lift:

I can see the warning signs:
What they'd make of modern times
Maybe they could offer us advice

Ch1:

Would they say we died for you
And this is all that you can do
Most of us were way too young
To lose our unlived lives by brutal tank and gun
You stab each other in the street
Your standards are down at your feet
And what it feels like watching you
Is that the sharpest knife has run our hearts right through

*****Break*****

Bridge:

So yes we're really well aggrieved
Like we've been meanly deceived:
Signing up for King and country
Fighting for our peace and freedom
Nothing much has come of it
Nor will, nothing's right or fit
Broken Britain, you ain't kidding
Now we're cynical and bitter
There was no real point in winning
Save to check the long-gone threat of Hitler

Ch2:

Would they all say we died in vain
'Cause there ain't been no worthwhile change
So many young are feral thugs
Who waste their money, get blind drunk, and take hard drugs
As adults you got no real sense:
You just go starting wars again
So if we could turn back time
We'd surely never ever face that firing line

Outro:

Owen's moving poems
Said we suffered such indignity
Pro patria mori - the lie:
For this land we'd never die
How we wish we'd done things differently
So differently, so differently, so differently




The Aggrieved Dead/Pro Patria Mori (solo write pro demo, session vocals)

Longtime followers of Mark Henes know that he has a habit of shifting eﬀortlessly from punk to country and back. On his foreboding new single, he fully embraces the former, with thrashing electric guitars backing up his signature booming baritone to create an energetic anthem for the end of times.

“Nostradamus is upon us, and what do you think will come?” Henes sings in the songs opening lines. It’s pretty clear that the future looks bleak from his perspective, but rather than wallow in pity, Mark uses his lyrical gifts to find reason for celebration in the face of hopelessness. The intricate guitar play and thundering drums provide listeners with a much needed sense of catharsis for the chaotic times we’re living in.

As he prepares the release of his debut full length album ‘Crystallized Reflections,’ it is clear that Mark is not content to be pigeon holed into just one sound. If this single is any indication, he is ready for a long and unpredictable career.

‘Nostradamus Is Upon Us’ is available everywhere Aug. 7, 2020

Crystallized Reflections

Nostradamus Is Upon Us

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

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Just The Same

Clive Pett

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