This is one classy song. Love the interplay between the drums and piano. Great words.

Your sense of rhythm is just wonderful. Have you listened to any Willie Nelson? His vocals are a master class in phrasing and where it's possible to land within a measure (as are your songs!).

Mmm, had missed this one until today - really liked this one, Cristhopper. It's got quite a chill vibe while also letting the lyrics carry the weight, which is brilliant given the topic.

Another collaboration with Mark Anderson where I sent him the tune, and he then wrote the lyrics to fit the tune.

To fall in love
(Mark I. Anderson)

Listen to these words
Let them fall upon your soul
Like you’ve never heard before
Like you’ll never let them go
Tonight, let the fire burn us
Tonight, let two hearts learn 
This is how it feels / oh, to fall in love

Hold me close and whisper
The things that love will say
I’ll hold you close to kiss you
At the closing of each day
Tonight, is all we need
Tonight, you can believe
This is how it feels / oh, to fall in love

(Bridge)
The mystery of the ages – hidden in our kiss
Time reveals her secrets – when I’m holding you like this

Listen to our passion
Hear the rhythmic beat
Two hearts pounding faster than
Even time could keep
Tonight, we’ll just let go
Tonight, we’ll let it show us
This is how it feels / oh, to fall in love

This is how it feels / oh, to fall in love

To Fall In Love (demo)

Copyright Erin Wolf 2022
Week 3 Prompt - Standing In the Doorway

Note about the song: First song written with covid. Bit of a ramble on this, hit record and just ran with it. It was a challenge to try to focus on something a bit more structured. I'm honestly just glad to have been able to get this out. Be well, friends. 

mmm, mmm, mmm

the fog is closing in on my mind
the virus spreading through
having one hell of a time
my joints are aching and
my body's feeling low
but i know i gotta keep my 
head held high for
those else in tow

mmm, mmm, mmm

i see my daughter as she
doesn't say a word
just keeps her focus high
and she sings like a bird
i know i gotta meet that 
perch up in the air
and i know i give my blessings
for every 'nother new day here

mmm, mmm, mmm
oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

i know that this will turn out
the way it's meant to be
but let me tell ya something honestly
i'm surprised that i'm not 
feeling lower than hell
i'm glad for everything 
i been through 
leading up to this spell

mmm, mmm, mmm

so i'll let the fog have a minute
then i'll come back, too
and i'll just pray that
i find another day with you
and maybe at the end of it all
there'll be a knock and I'll see you
standing in the doorway
just welcoming me through

mmm, mmm, mmm
oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

'til then i'll just sit here
in this small room
and thank my lucky stars that 
i'm probably not facing my doom
i'll just sit here patiently
and keep on keeping on
and i hope that i'll have 
another day to write another song

mmm, mmm, mmm
oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

oh woah oh, oh woah oh, oh woah oh

Another Day of Covid Haze

WEEK 3 23/01/22
just a sketch idea-found this week challenging. 
PROMPT : STANDING IN THE DOORWAY

Matchless 
Like a precious jewel a treasure in a field-
Matchless
Hidden 'neath the soil of toil and broken faded dreams
Hidden 'neath the soil 
Matchless

Cashless
Songs of deep lament
Our empty spirits yield- Cashless
Ridden full of earth and dirt and broken cistern seas
Ridden full of earth 
Cashless

Catch us
In the sandstone halls
The fade then cut to grey- catch us
Standing in the doorway segue to my life unseen
Standing in the door
Catch us

Standing Week 3

Cover of "When I'm Gone" by Phil Ochs
Originally released in April 1966
Original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-BBVQLnxI

Photo credit: Boston Herald article, "Phil Ochs: 'Gone' but not forgotten
https://www.bostonherald.com/2011/03/11/phil-ochs-gone-not-forgotten/

I was introduced to this song by John McCutcheon in July 2021 and again in January 2022. Within an hour of hearing it a second time, I took a listen to Phil's version (linked above), and then set to learn a very basic picking cover. Here's my first attempt.

When I'm Gone (Phil Ochs Cover)

Listen, I know, I said that i’d come back
I’d sleep on your porch - the planes sleep on the tarmac
Distance don’t matter when love’s strong enough
I used to think
I used to think that it was

Falling asleep to the sound of the protest
My city’s always done it better
Tell me our love's true because
I used to think
I used to think that it was

So you’re out in Boston
I’m saying that I’ll buy a ticket tomorrow too often
You’re saying that tomorrow’s too late
I’m torn between going and making mistakes

Listen, I know, this ain’t coming easy
I know you know I’m making this hard  
Time doesn’t matter when love’s strong enough
I used to think
I used to think that it was

Used To Think That It Was - song a Week 2022, Week 5

Prompt NO WINDOW

1
No sunshine no rain
No window no pane
No nothings gonna hold me back

2
No justice no rule
No sorrow no fool
No nothing's gonna hold me back

no nothing
no nothing

3
No riches no fame
No fortune no gain
No nothing s gonna hold me back

4
No slander no shame
No mourning no grave
No nothing s gonna hold me back

no nothing
no nothing

5
No promise no clue
No treasure  no jewel
No nothing s gonna hold me back

6
No story no rhyme
No language no sign
No nothing s gonna hold me back

no nothing
no nothing
no nothing
no nothing

7
No worries no plans
No products no brands
No nothing s gonna hold me back

8.
No mercy no hate
No longing no stain
No nothing s gonna hold me back

no nothing
no nothing
no nothing
no nothing
no nothing
no nothing

No Window week 6

I ran into the following excerpt that inspired this song. I hope you find something in it that hooks your mind up just like it did for me.

“Hypocrisy is unavoidable and necessary. If people were required, at all times, to live up to ideals of honesty, loyalty, and compassion in order for those ideals to exist, there would be no ideals. Being a moral person is a struggle in which everyone repeatedly fails, becoming a hypocrite in each of those moments. A just and peaceful society depends on hypocrites who ultimately refused to abandon the ideals they betray.” 
Michael Gerson

*****

Couldn't if I tried

couldn't help to be the first to walk away
troubled, stone-in-hand
who am I to say that I know better?

what's the point in making claims I couldn't possibly sustain and
is it better than to look the other way and to throw my hands up?

they say i should let go
that it's indefensible
not worth the effort
and just hypocritical
but i'd hate myself
because I'm not that cynical
they say to let go
but I couldn't if I tried
but I couldn't if I tried
no I couldn't if I tried

how can anybody face the doom and gloom,
the elephant in the room
when we often fail at making sense?

what's the point in making claims no one could possibly sustain and
is it better than to look the other way and to throw our hands up?

most of us are tryna be better
and all of us are far from there
should we just give up
since we know we'll fail again?

Couldn't If I Tried

Sample of the track Breathe from the forthcoming digital release - 6 Songs About Love?

6 Songs About Love? 

Breathe

Original music by Evan McDoniels
Photo credit by Wendy Wei used with free permission of Pexels.com

Epiphonic Petrichoir

3 hour flip.
Original track - https://youtu.be/H1qv7Z4D5qA 
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum, Bass & Guitar Programming

Loop Diggers Sunday Roulette Challenge 107 B-Films - E N U F

Disquiet Junto Project 0575: On Ice

Ice storm in a tea cup (disquiet0575)

Using the same sample I recorded back in 2013, treated with a bit of reverb here, some multi-tracking with pitch drops, (mmm, pitch drops), some copy ‘n paste, a bit of The Mangle and a smattering of various Audacity effects, I have created something pleasing (to me), if a bit hurried and unoriginal.

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The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.

More on this 575th weekly Disquiet Junto project — On Ice (The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it) — at: https://disquiet.com/0575/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /

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