Conover/Steen   E I G H T E E N

I just don’t know
What is it that you bring to this.
I just don’t know
What is it that I offer. 

If we could answer 
questions just like these.
I just can’t see
What is it that we offer…

All we are  
Is all that we can be…

When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl
When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl

All we are  
Is all that we can be…

When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl

I just don’t know
What is it that you bring to this.
I just don’t know
What is it that I offer. 

If we could answer 
questions just like these.
I just can’t see
What is it that we offer…


When I call you
It’s never to soon Girl….. 
All We Are Is All That We Can Be
All We Are Is All That We Can Be

Repeat and reach for the stars*   

Music bed track composed and performed by Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, lyrics, micro edit arrangement and final Mix by conover @conover

All That We Can Be  (Conover/Steen)

Please read the whole story is below the lyrics
Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play

The sky is dark but don't you worry
Ever thing will turn out right

Dear Prudence
Won't you come out................
to Play

The sun is up
The sky is blue
It's beautiful
And so are you....

Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence
Won't you come out to play


The sky is dark but don't you worry
Everything will turn out right

Dear Prudence.................
Won't you come out................
to Play


Remember Play?

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, percusion and Mix by Conover @conover

The details:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-real-dear-prudence-on-meeting-beatles-in-india-20150904

History:
Background on the original Beatles session :
Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 28-30 August 1968
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Barry Sheffield

Released: 22 November 1968 (UK), 25 November 1968 (US)

John Lennon: vocals, backing vocals, guitar
Paul McCartney: backing vocals, bass, piano, drums, flugelhorn, tambourine, handclaps
George Harrison: backing vocals, lead guitar, handclaps
Mal Evans, Jackie Lomax, John McCartney: backing vocals, handclaps

Available on:
The Beatles (White Album)

Written by John Lennon in India, Dear Prudence was about Mia Farrow's younger sister, who refused to leave her chalet at the meditation retreat in Rishikesh, and had to be coaxed out by Lennon and George Harrison.

 
Prudence Farrow had become infatuated with meditation, locking herself away from the rest of the group and falling into deep states against the advice of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Dear Prudence is me. Written in India. A song about Mia Farrow's sister, who seemed to go slightly barmy, meditating too long, and couldn't come out of the little hut that we were livin' in. They selected me and George to try and bring her out because she would trust us. If she'd been in the West, they would have put her away.
We got her out of the house. She'd been locked in for three weeks and wouldn't come out, trying to reach God quicker than anybody else. That was the competition in Maharishi's camp: who was going to get cosmic first. What I didn't know was I was already cosmic. [Laughs.]
John Lennon
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Prudence later confirmed she was more fanatical in her pursuit of enlightenment than those around her.

Being on that course was more important to me than anything in the world. I was very focused on getting in as much meditation as possible, so that I could gain enough experience to teach it myself. I knew that i must have stuck out because I would always rush straight back to my room after lectures and meals so that I could meditate. John, George and Paul would all want to sit around jamming and having a good time and I'd be flying into my room. They were all serious about what they were doing but they just weren't as fanatical as me...
At the end of the course, just as they were leaving, George mentioned that they had written a song about me but I didn't hear it until it came out on the album. I was flattered. It was a beautiful thing to have done.
Prudence Farrow
A Hard Day's Write, Steve Turn

Dear Prudence  (Conover/Steen)

Music by Erik Steen
Lyric and Vocals by Conover

All things will come back 2U
If what you want is love
It might not fit you like a glove…

If what you think you need to proceed 
Includes obnoxious large amounts of greed
Tie yourself down 
and let the lemmings go around
Hold yourself back
All things will come back to you 
All things will come back to you

If what you want is love
It might not fit you like a glove…

If what you think you need to proceed 
Includes obnoxious large amounts of greed
Tie yourself down 
and let the lemmings go around
Hold yourself back
All things will come back to you .......

https://soundcloud.com/steenmusic

All Things Come Back 2U   Conover/Steen

I hear you calling
I feel your voice across the wind
And when I'm falling
I fill with lyrics from within

And when I'm walking in the woods
I hear you talking and it's good

You're counting down until you grow
Until you learn about this world
You shop around
You walk around inside this world
Inside this world

You are this world
You whirled around inside this world
You knocked around until you found your purpose and sense.
In this World

I hear you calling
I feel your voice across the wind
And when I'm falling
I fill with lyrics from within

And when I'm walking in the woods
I hear you talking and it's good

You're counting down until you grow
Until you learn about this world
You shop around
You walk around inside this world
Inside this world

You are this world
You whirled around inside this world
You knocked around until you found your purpose and sense.
In this WorldYou are this world
You whirled around inside this world
You knocked around until you found your purpose and sense.
In this World

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, lyrics, electric guitar solo and Mix by Conover @conover

You Are This World  (Conover/Steen)

It's just a feeling
You can do it now
It's just a feeling
You can do it now

Now that you have found the things
 that really make you come alive.
Running though that energy
you sharpen all your instincts and apply.   
You can fly 
If you just apply
Everything that you want to do
can surely come true. 

It's just a feeling
It's just a feeling
 
I know it's out there for you
Bring it inside of your heart

It's Just a feeling
You can do it now
It's just a feeling
You can do it now.........

Now that you have spent the time
 destiny has so provided 
Everybody’s got to learn your secret 
there you go it's all in front of you 

I know it's out there for you
Bring it inside of your heart
 

Go out and change the world

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, lyrics, arrangement edits and Mix by Conover @conover

It's Just A Feeling (Conover/Steen)

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals and Mix by Conover @conover

The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Manhattan, New York City. The hotel has been housed in two historic landmark buildings in New York. The first, bearing the same name, was built in two stages, as the Waldorf Hotel and the Astoria Hotel, which accounts for its dual name. That original site was situated on Astor family properties along Fifth Avenue, opened in 1893, and designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the construction of the Empire State Building. The present building, at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, is a 47-story 190.5 m (625 ft) Art Deco landmark designed by architects Schultze and Weaver, which was completed in 1931. The current hotel was the world's tallest hotel from 1931 until 1963, when it was surpassed by Moscow's Hotel Ukraina by 7 metres (23 ft). An icon of glamour and luxury,[5] the current Waldorf Astoria is one of the world's most prestigious and best known hotels.[6] Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts is a division of Hilton Hotels, and a portfolio of high-end properties around the world, now operate under the name, including New York.

From its inception, the Waldorf Astoria gained international renown for its lavish dinner parties and galas, often at the center of political and business conferences and fundraising schemes involving the rich and famous. Particularly after World War II it played a significant role in world politics and the Cold War, culminating in the controversial World Peace Conference of March 1949 at the hotel, in which Stalinism was widely denounced. Conrad Hilton acquired management rights to the hotel on October 12, 1949, and the Hilton Hotels Corporation finally bought the hotel outright in 1972. It underwent a $150 million renovation by Lee Jablin in the 1980s and early 1990s, and in October 2014 it was announced that the Anbang Insurance Group of China had purchased the Waldorf Astoria New York for US$1.95 billion, making it the most expensive hotel ever sold. On July 1, 2016, Anbang announced that it would convert some of the Waldorf's hotel rooms into condominiums, closing the hotel for a three-year renovation on March 1, 2017.

The Waldorf Astoria and Towers has a total of 1,413 hotel rooms as of 2014. In 2009, when it had 1,416 rooms, the main hotel had 1,235 single and double rooms and 208 mini suites, while the Waldorf Towers, from the 28th floor up to the 42nd, had 181 rooms, of which 115 were suites, with one to four bedrooms. Several of the luxury suites are named after celebrities who lived or stayed in them such as The Cole Porter Suite, The Royal Suite, named after the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the MacArthur Suite and the Churchill Suite. The most expensive room, the Presidential Suite, is designed with Georgian-style furniture to emulate that of the White House. It was the residence of Herbert Hoover from his retirement for over 30 years, and Frank Sinatra kept a suite at the Waldorf from 1979 until 1988. The hotel has three main restaurants, Peacock Alley, The Bull and Bear Steak House, and La Chine, a new Chinese restaurant that replaced Oscar's Brasserie in late 2015. Sir Harry's Bar, named after British explorer Sir Harry Johnston, is the home of the Rob Roy and the Bobbie Burns cocktails.

When Your Old And Gracious  (Conover/Steen)

We're taking a parallel vacation
We’ll Fly
Our compass has truly lost it's way…. today.
If you could wire me at convenient times
Why why why
We could be sharing all our days 
These days go by
Bye Bye baby bye-bye
Bye Bye baby bye-bye

We're taking a parallel vacation
Are compass has truly lost its way...today

With a different itinerary
We might be heading home
With a different outlook now
We could be falling back in love again.

We are taking a parallel vacation
We’ll Fly
Our compasses has truly lost their way…. today.
If you could wire me at convenient times
We could be sharing all our days
These day's go by 
Bye Bye baby bye-bye
Bye Bye baby bye-bye

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, synth and lyrics by Conover @conover

Parallel Vacation (Conover/Steen)

Just up the path was 
Travis corner
Fully replete with cakes and treats
All we needed was air 
All we wanted was sunshine
Where is the sunshine
I fell in love with you that fall.
And all you wanted was Paul on your lunchbox
Paul on your notebook too
George and Ringo add nothing to your world
and John was acting a bore
In 1964 
Just up the path was 
Travis corner
That was the center of our world
All we needed was freedom
And we're all waiting for sunshine
Where is the sunshine
I fell in love with you that fall
and all you wanted was Paul 
George and Ringo add nothing to your world
and John was acting a bore
Yes John was acting a boy
In 1964 

Do you remember? Do you.........

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, arrangement edits, lyrics and Mix by Conover @conover
Mastered at Abbey Road Studio by Alex Gordon
https://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-gordon

Travis Corner 1964   (Conover/Steen)

Theme inspired by Chris Squire 

I modified the melodies from the track "I've Seen All Good People": Your Move" by the band "Yes" 
This is considered our tribute to Chris Squire, the bass player of Yes that recently passed away. TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
Music By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, arrangement and Mix by Conover @conover
Thanks © 2016 Conover/Steen

Yes, No Or Maybe?   (Conover/Steen)

Free as a bird, 
it's the next best thing to be. 
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry, 
like a homing bird I'll fly 
as a bird on wings.
Whatever happened to 
the lives that we once knew?  
Can we really live without each other?
Where did we lose the touch 
that seemed to mean so much? 
It always made me feel so...
Free as a bird, 
like the next best thing to be. 
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry, 
like a homing bird I'll fly 
as a bird on wings.
Whatever happened to 
the life that we once knew? 
Always made me feel so free.
Free as a bird. 
Free as a bird. 
Fly my friend...... Fly

 Beatles cover by Conover/Steen
Here is the information on the original process of the Beatles reuniting with John after his passing. 
https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/free-as-a-bird/

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, Orchestra Drums, Mix, Master and editing by Conover @conover

Free as a Bird  (Conover/Steen)

Green lights were made for purposes like her’s
With onward and upward trajectories.
Street signs and caution signals nowhere to be found
The way she ran her life effectively.

Way way back when we crossed each other's path
Down in the crossroads
We’ll let you do the math.
Who would have wondered?
Who would have known? 
What would be the outcome in 20 inches of snow.

guitar solo

Trust was the occupant we always rested on.
As years moved forward the children kept us driving on.
The toll that fell upon a life that never strayed.
Would reap the joys we found and cherish to this day

Way way back when we crossed each other's path
Down in the crossroads
We’ll let you do the math.
Who would have wondered?
who would have known?
What would be the outcome in 20 inches of snow.

Green lights were made for purposes like her’s
With onward and upward trajectories.
Street signs and caution signals nowhere to be found
The way she ran her life effectively.

Music Arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, lyrics, arrangement edits and Mix by Conover @conover

20 Inches Of Snow (Conover/Steen)

When I was a boy, I had a dream, all about the things I'd like to be
Soon as I was in my bed, music played inside my head
When I was a boy, I had a dream

When I was a boy, I learned to play, far into the night and drift away
Don't want to work on the milk or the bread, I just want to play that music in my head.
When I was a young boy, I had a dream

And radio waves, kept me company
In those beautiful days, when there was no money
When I was a boy, I had a dream

When I was a boy, I had a dream, finding out what life could really mean
Don't want a job cause it drives me crazy, just wanna sing, "Do you love me, baby?"
When I was a boy, I had a dream

And radio waves kept me company
In those beautiful days, when there was no money
When I was a boy, I had a dream

When I was a boy

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, percusion and mix  by Conover @conover

When I Was A Boy   ELO cover  (Conover/Steen)

I knew him well… Conover/Steen

Oooh! I knew him well
He's the one that raised me
Oooh! I knew him well
Wish that I could talk to him right now*

I know these roads
We would go and we’d drive so far
He’s show the maps to me
He would show me how to look so far ahead*

Oooh! I knew him well
He's the one that raised me
Oooh! I knew him well
Wish that I could talk to him right now*

Tell everybody on the other side hello
Tell everybody on the other side hello
Tell everybody on the other side hello
Tell everybody on the other side hello
Tell everybody that we're having fun and say hello hello
We'll pass the hat and then we'll have some wine and say hello hello
I miss him so*
And now my friend I must go...

To all who miss their Dad* 

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals and lyrics by Conover @conover

I knew him well...       Conover/Steen

How long has this been going on?
How long has this been going on?
They're saying no 
She's no kind of girl for you
As big as the ocean is blue
That lifeboat was never built for two   
They're saying no 
She's no kind of girl for you
As big as the ocean is blue
That lifeboat was never built for two  

She's just the girl for me
She's just the girl for me you'll see, 
you'll see

Now you can turn and face the Pyrenees
Or you can scream and drop to your knees.
But that's not gonna change a thing for me and you,
That will remain the same.
That will stay the same.

They're saying no 
She's no kind of girl for you
As big as the ocean is blue
That lifeboat was never built for two   
 
How long has this been going on?
How long? 
How long will this take baby.
How long must we wait baby.

Now you can turn and face the Pyrenees
Or you can scream and drop to your knees.
But that's not gonna change a thing for me and you,
That will remain the same.
That will stay the same.
That will remain the same.
That will stay the same.

How long has this been going on?
How long has this been going on?
How long has this been going on?
How long?

How long must we wait baby?
How long baby?

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, lyrics, arrangement edits and Mix by Conover @conover

How Long? Conover/Steen

Just like any other day, this one was the same.
Just another mess around day.
Just another wasted
I should have taken hold of the chances laid before me.
Afraid if I could fly
Afraid if I would crash and fall

I just want to say
Doesn't change a thing anyway
I just want another chance
To live my life again

Always knew the day would come
When I would have to say
Now there's nowhere left to run
And I can see no way

Just like any other day, this one was the same.
Just another mess around day.
Just another wasted day

Here we go

I just want another chance
To live my life again
I just want another chance
To live my life again

Life:
Live it like it mattered

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Vocals, arrangement edits and Mix by Conover @conover
Lyrics and melody and all Guitars by Chris Wiggs https://soundcloud.com/chris-wiggs

Mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road
http://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/alex-wharton

To Live My Life Again   Conover/Steen/Wiggs

In the  morning you bring me my coffee in a special tarnished mug,
And when you fry up some eggs inside a copper pan with love   
As I scribe a check to the paperboy with my
Mont Blanc Pen  
Life is good it's so sentimental
When you're rich as hell
And when the markets are starting to tumble it tends to blemish the spell.   

I bought a car 
I only drive it weekends 
Somehow I forgot to put the top up.
And it's filling up with snow  

Life is good it's so sentimental
When you're rich as hell
And when the markets are starting to tumble it tends to blemish the spell.
Life is good it's so sentimental
When you're rich as hell
And when the markets are starting to tumble it tends to blemish the spell.  
 

In the evening you bring me the stories of our children as they grow
And then it's off to bed with there faces happy and aglow
Life is good it's so sentimental
When you're rich as hell
And when the markets are starting to tumble it tends to blemish the spell. 
Life is good it's so sentimental
When you're rich as hell
And when the markets are starting to tumble it tends to blemish the spell.

Music by Claes Steen
Arrangment,Lyrics and vocals by conover
mix by Conover and Warnick
Mastered by Andy Walter at Abbey Road Studios https://www.abbeyroad.com/engineer/andy-walter

Tarnished Mug (Conover & Steen)

She’s smack dab in the middle. 
She's in a very precarious place.  
This week she brought on thunder 
But somehow….. She's keeps a smile on her face 
KellyAnne where is and what do you plan to do?   
With the time on your hands you'll be having so soon
KellyAnne where is and what do you plan to do?   
With the time on your hands you'll be having so soon

Jussi Welin: guitar https://soundcloud.com/juswel
Claes Steen: Music composition for rhythm track https://soundcloud.com/cermat
conover: vocals,horn,lyrics,organ,bass, editing, mix and mastering
Thanks to Chris Wiggs for additional production assistance
This was Mixed on Audience ClairAudient 1+1 v2+ studio monitors.

Kellyanne (Conover/Steen/Welin)

Music arrangement By Claes Steen @cermat
Production,Vocals, Additional orchestration and keyboards by Conover
Electric guitar by Jussi Welin soundcloud.com/juswel
Mastered on Ampex 456 Grandmaster 1" tape


Love is Good.. It's in there

Love Is Inside Of You (Conover Steen & Welin)

If there was only two traits that came through in my music, I would hope that it would seem to be effortless and inevitable.
The Kind Place Studio