Nice picking pattern on that guitar. Nice vocals and lyrics.

Someday, we will always have that person that makes it easy to smile

By a river or fire river was one of my songs that i wrote over a time of disaster but it came out really beautiful and mellow,written by Gary Hayward.Artwork David Dunn.Vocals and rythm guitar gary hayward,lead guitar kelvin goddard,keyboards the late steve virtue,drum programming john dowie

By a River

A composition I'm extremely fond of, feauting one of my most dearest themes which I simply had to repeat it in the Coda.
As a musical piece it is straightforward, and unassuming in its texture and scope, but I believe it has a certain fable-like, enchanting feeling, thus the poem title, although structurally it is very close to a sonata. 
I've explored others mode a bit ( I've modulated to F Lydian briefly), which is something I'll likely do in the future.

Poem for Piano, F Minor

This is a song about depression and survival. 

When I wrote it I still had another 25 years of surviving it ahead of me. But I'd made a decision years before, when I was 14, that no matter how bad it got it would always get better, sooner or later. And it always did, at least for a while. And knowing that somehow made it just a little bit easier to smile.


[This is a new mix. Drums by John Bennetts have been added and everything else has been changed, at least a little.]

Verse 1:
It’s more than a song
But less than a dream
I know what I say
Is not what I mean
Pretending my words
Aren’t meant to deceive
I’m playing with doubt
I want to believe

I know that it’s hard
To explain why I’m here
I complain though I know
There is nothing to fear
But the fear and the doubt
That wind through my mind
Are inventions of mine
That help pass the time

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 2:
I’m more than a child
But less than a man
I know where I’ve been
But not who I am
I'll say that I'm strong
I'll tell you I’m free
But none of that's true
I just want it to be

Once I entered a room
I pulled down the shade
I turned out the lights
I wanted to fade
But I noticed the wall
Right there looking at me
Pretending to be blind
I really wanted to see

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 3:
It all seemed to happen
A while ago
At a time I was lost
I just didn’t know
That doubting was simply
A game that I had
It gave me a reason
For feeling this bad

There are times there are changes
My memory moves
Preaching the patterns
I’ve worn into grooves
Repeating mistakes
I made in my youth
Learning the lines
And calling them truth
I can’t help but change
Can't help but survive
I might drown in doubt
But I'll still be alive

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Easy to Smile

Easy To Smile

Translation above

Sur un texte de Christian Portet https://soundcloud.com/christian-portet

En dessous du toit

En dessous du toit
Y a toi et moi
Et on vit là
Depuis des mois
En dessous du toit
Y a un piano
Qu’est fait pour tes doigts
Qui joue jamais faux

Refrain :
En dessous du toit
Y a toi et moi
Et c’est si bon
D’oublier les saisons

En dessous du toit
Sur ce piano
Qui a vu d’autres doigts
Pleurer leurs émois
En dessous du toit
Y a toi qui joue
Moi qui t’écoute
Jusqu’au bout
 (refrain)

En dessous du toit
Y a un pauvre hère
Qui est comme moi
Qui n’sait rien faire
En dessous du toit
Quand ça va pas
On regarde en dessous
Tous les autres fous

Refrain :
En dessous du toit
Y a toi et moi
Et c’est si bon
D’oublier les saisons
Et c’est si bon 
D’oublier les saisons

Paroles de Christian Portet
Musique de Myckaël Marcovic, 30 mars 2024


With text by Christian Portet https://www.facebook.com/christian.portetmapage

Under the roof

Under the roof
There's you and me
And we've been living there
For months now
Under the roof
There's a piano
Made for your fingers
That never plays out of tune

Refrain :
En dessous du toit
There's you and me
And it's so good
To forget the seasons

Under the roof
On this piano
That has seen other fingers
Cry out their emotions
Under the roof
There's you playing
I listen to you
Till the end
 (refrain)

Under the roof
There's a poor wretch
Who's like me
Can't do a thing
Under the roof
When the going gets tough
We look underneath
All the other fools

Refrain :
Under the roof
There's you and me
And it's so good
To forget the seasons
And it's so good 
To forget the seasons

Words by Christian Portet
Music by Myckaël Marcovic, March 30, 2024

En dessous du toit (Christian Portet / Myckaël Marcovic)

Mixed by https://www.billytuckersound.com/
Mastered By Jack Endino. https://www.endino.com/about.html

Jaded And Lazier

Mortify Us  (Bach)

Many thanks to my friend Annie Dieu-Le-Veut for the opportunity.
https://soundcloud.com/annie-dieu-le-veut
Even today, modern politicians are educated by what's been dubbed a "manual of statecraft", penned by the so-called Father of Modern Political Philosophy and Political Science, the 16th century Venetian, Niccolò Machiavelli. 

In Machiavelli's book, The Prince, they are taught that no matter how evil the means that they employ are, to achieve victory, the ends will justify those means. Then as the victors, all they have to do is to rewrite the history, to present themselves as the good guys. 
Words:

Last night, I dreamed of Machiavelli,
Who, it seems, hasn’t learned much since the days of the Medici.
His pretext of seizing power for the ‘good of God’,
Was straight out of the playbook of Cesar Borgia....
So it seemed from my talk with poor, deluded Niccolo.

Looking into my eyes and holding my hands
He plied me with cunning plots and plans,
Dripping in evil criminality, and base intent
To create chaos for the existing world order
No means was too foul, not even murder.

The end will justify the means, my dear,
Don’t worry your pretty head.
He said.
I wasn’t buying it, though,
And so I said:

All around us in the world today that we see,
Has been caused by those with such a strategy.
The end doesn’t justify the means, at all.
It is the means themselves which create the evil
Of famine, pollution and perpetual war,
Driven by madness, greed and holy preachings;
This is the end created by your teachings.
We now have nation pitted against nation,
Because the way, the means, IS the destination.

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, April 2024

Music by Combstead
© Mark Combs, April 2024

Cover Art by by pizarro2021 at DeviantArt.

Machiavelli  - Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Buried My Head

Genie In The Mist

Lead Vox/Reading + Backing Vocals Arrangement by Stephanie Rodriguez M.

Words, melody, piano part (Yamaha U3 acoustic piano tuned to 432 Hz) by Ivano Bersini.

Cover art by a friend/un amico. 

Thank you very much to all listeners-:)
*****
Poems see beyond reality, poems are part of Us: thus, thus, thus, the song begins

Sleeping stars fall 
Fall worn-out images 
Forbidden dreams fall 
Fall mundane signs 
Dull luminous signs fall 
Fall curtains
That obscure Truth.

The memory of Us shining beings emerges,
strong is the ancient beat of Our heart.
The memory of Us shining beings emerges,
strong is the ancient beat of Our heart.

Poems
rebellious waves
poems
sincere waves
poems
search for truth
poems and truth

if you close your eyes
you might find them
reality
unspoken truth,
poetry
manifest truth.

The night
Glides over My face
Like soft dew
that in the morning
leaves
the marks of a battlefield
where ancient emotions
melt and heal
in the strength
of the sun's rays.


The memory of Us shining beings emerges,
strong is the ancient beat of Our heart.

Poems
rebellious waves
poems
sincere waves
poems
search for truth
poems and truth

if you close your eyes
you might find them
reality
unspoken truth,
poetry
manifest truth.

Dew petals
glide over my eyes
like binary codes
travelling fast
towards the future
and leave Our world
now ancient
already silent
defrauded of emotions.


Poems see beyond reality, poems are part of Us.
___________
Note
​Any element that refers to a person, such as personal pronouns, etc. will be capitalized (e.g.: We, You, Me…) to remind us that We are part of the primordial energy from which everything originated, in Us the divine spark is present, We are souls and not merely biological mechanisms with a limited life cycle (with this conviction and deep feelings I also wrote my previous publications).
​
Thus, it represents a way for Me to honour and re-evaluate the human being, which should not be considered separate from the whole, instead perceiving its subtle connections to the entire Creation, of which We are a part.

***********

 Poesie
(Original Italian version)


Le poesie vedono oltre la realtà, le poesie sono parte di Noi: così, così, così, inizia la canzone.

Cadono stelle assopite 
Cadono immagini usurate 
Cadono sogni proibiti 
Cadono insegne mondane 
Cadono insegne luminose spente 
Cadono sipari
che oscurano la Verità.

Emerge il ricordo, di Noi esseri splendenti
forte è il battito del Nostro antico cuore.
Emerge il ricordo, di Noi esseri splendenti
forte è il battito del Nostro antico cuore.


Poesie
onde ribelli
poesie
onde sincere
poesie
ricerca della verità
poesie e verità

se chiudi gli occhi
potresti trovarle
realtà
verità sottaciuta
poesia
verità manifesta.


La notte
scivola sul Mio viso
come morbida rugiada
che al mattino
lascia
i segni di un campo di battaglia
dove le emozioni antiche
si sciolgono e guariscono
nella forza
dei raggi del sole.

Emerge il ricordo, di Noi esseri splendenti
forte è il battito del Nostro antico cuore.

Petali di rugiada 
scivolano sui miei occhi
come codici binari
che viaggiano veloci
verso il futuro
e abbandonano il Nostro mondo
oramai antico,
già silenzioso
defraudato delle emozioni.

Le poesie vedono oltre la realtà, le poesie sono parte di Noi.

______
Nota
Ogni particella che si riferisce alla persona, quali pronomi personali, ecc. iniziano con la lettera maiuscola (es: Noi, Ci, Vi, Me...) per ricordarCi che Noi siamo parte dell'Energia primordiale da cui tutto è scaturito, in Noi è presente la scintilla divina, Noi siamo anime e non semplici meccanismi biologici con un ciclo di vita limitato (con questa Mia convinzione e sensazione profonda ho scritto anche le Mie precedenti pubblicazioni).

Rappresenta così per Me un modo di onorare e rivalutare l'Essere umano, che non dovrebbe considerarSi separato dal tutto, percependo invece la sottile connessione con l'intero Creato, di cui siamo parte.

Poems

LYRICS - 

Picking pieces of my brain, outta my bloody nose. 
I think there's fent in my cocaine, but i don't really wanna know.

She said I'm leaving, and don't give me a call.
...but my face is pressed up to the phone 
and I'm humming with the dial tone. 

Living life for others, and spending hundred dollar bills.
I want a new life so damn bad but it's something I don't wanna build.

I've been not eating, and texting old friends from school,
but my number's blocked or they moved on,
either way I'll say it's cool.

You don't know what it's like.
Sleeping alone
Laying there in the dark. 
Cold and alone. 

I still remember how you tasted,
before my mouth went numb. 

I'm not ignorant or blind,
baby, I'm just coked. 


Living out of hotels,
locking every door. 

My truck smells like cigarettes
with ashes on the floor.

Going back to rehab to try and settle down.
Then falling in and out of love with a girl from another town.

Baby, turn and run while you still can,
cause I'll break your pretty heart.

Then mend it all back together,
just to tear it all back apart.

I lost you, I lost myself.
Somewhere in the park. 

Maybe someday I'll find that one
to follow me into the dark.

Coked

I write songs.  I'm not a performer any more than I need to be to have my songs heard once in a while. I hope that better musicians than I encounter my songs and decide to play them.  I just write songs to have them exist in the world. If the world likes them then the world can do with them what it will.  All these recordings are demos.  I've tried to make them as musically interesting as I can but they are all awaiting the skilled hand of someone who knows how to make songs shine.

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