I Wish I May I Wish I Might

Do Dream........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azR75YuyMbo
"AlwaysAndForever" Download album at, https://invisibleriserecords.bandcamp.com/album/alwaysandforever?from=search&search_item_id=2168008471&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=182636118&search_page_no=1&search_rank=2&search_sig=a83b9c0c185428d2ea79ffb5bcc9df2a

Are You Dreaming

Please listen and follow on Spotify!! https://open.spotify.com/album/68clzodTe7f56kaypMK8ag?si=wifcYdf4Q6OVKqd5Z6vdmQ 

Music, lyrics, performance: Melina 
Arrangement: Cihan Sezer 
Guitar: Paul Dwyer

Dear strangers who call me friend, I've been feeling down
Would you listen, would you care, you've been a little blind
Because I've been pretending to be okay this whole time I've been around with 
Last night's mascara stain running down my eye lid

Maybe I'm too good at hiding, too good at smiling
but faking gets tiring at nights when I'm alone
and I don't have a hand to hold
 
Maybe I'm too good at hiding, too good at smiling
but faking gets tiring while you have your two big
set of hearts to keep you warm 

Dear strangers who call me friend, I've been feeling sick
Would you pour me a cup of tea and hand it to me quick 
Because I've been pretending to be okay this whole time I've been around with 
Past regrets and hopeless dreams and yesterday's filth

(chorus)

Dear strangers who call me friend, I've been feeling good finally 
but how'd you even know that I ever cried oh so silently
it's both of our faults for being ghosts and living distantly 
But I remember trying, trying, trying 

(chorus)

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dear strangers

The Sweet Disorder presents The Cloaks - High

A one take garage rock classic from The Cloaks rumoured to have blown Montague John Druitt's vocals for a week.

Taken from the compilation album - Beneath the Cloak

Beneath the Cloak

The Cloaks - High

This is a new one from Observation Ward, out now! 
freestream www.stephsweet.co.uk
He Told You Twice

Love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to hurt you bad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out

You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again
You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be 
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again

His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you
His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you

Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to hurt you bad
Bruising inside out

You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again
You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again

His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you

Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out

He Told You Twice ©steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved

Observation Ward

He Told You Twice

Pierre Bordetti Productions (c) 07/2019.
Always a little nostalgic of this golden period for music and all the rest!
Toujours un peu nostalgique de cette période dorée pour la musique et tout le reste!
Vintage
Do you remember,
Oh my friend,
Do you remember,
Oh my brother,
Do you remeber,
It was the "Love and peace",
Long hair and glassy eyes,
We were listening to Led zeppelin,
Jimi Hendrix, Clapton, Rory Gallagher,
and all the others,
We discovered freedom,
to think, to smoke, to make love,
Do you remember,
Oh my friend,
Do you remember,
Oh my brother,
Do you remeber,
It was the "Love and peace",
It was the "Love and peace",
It was the "Love and peace",

Vintage

Track taken from recently released album Outer Light, https://open.spotify.com/album/0ndLczwHq4MJv7KqeQqEgb
 Lyrics and vocals by the very talented Anula Suszek.  Please check out her other great work 
 https://soundcloud.com/anulasuszek.

Tread Carefully Feat. Anula Suszek (album version)

Just noodling with my new Yosemite single coils, modded on my Japanese Squier Strat. 
Neck first, bridge after. 
Comments appreciated!

2019

Been Here Before

Everybody has a plan
Until they get punched in the face
Everybody thinks they can
Until they can’t finish the race
I used to think I had plenty of time
To get it right
But there’s no way to slow down
The relentless, endless night
We’ll spend the rest of
Our lives growing old
We’ll spend the rest of
Our lives growing old
But tonight, we’re still young
But tonight, we’re still young

clintmusic 8

Tonight We're Still Young

Lyrics based on recent current events and a particularly deranged episode of Rick and Morty.

Clintmusic 9

Messages From Elsewhere

Berlin Heel by Steph Sweet
Video Link https://youtu.be/qcWsjexxPwk
I wrote and recorded this a month ago, just a throwaway, superfuzzy, trashy indie pop song about foot fetishists
And so much has happened since...
But we can still dance, yeah? xx

Berlin Heel

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The lyrics to this song are a variation on those in The Riverton's “Papa Oom Mow Mow” released in 1962, and used most famously by The Trashmen in “Surfin' Bird” in 1963.
     These nonsense words create a deep and compelling rhythm which I felt would be very appropriate to this track - which is really about comparing a heavy 4:4 rock beat to an equally heavy 5:4 rock beat.
     While classical, traditional and jazz based music are quite comfortable with eccentric rhythms, Rock has not been so (with a few notable exceptions, such as Pink Floyd's “Money”).   I wrote this song to try to figure out why.   I still don't know why, but here is the song.

The cover art is an Image by Iván Tamás from Pixabay

Autobiography of a Lab Rat

Surfin' Rat

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A Song For DB

I’ll Want You Later

Seeing change in purple fields                                                         
Like a snaking new-born creek                                                         
And all the guys play bubble gum                                                                
In three four time it’s such a stunt   
But I’ll want you later (I’ll want you, I’ll want you)                        
Yes I’ll want you later (I’ll want you, I’ll want you)
And as we lurch from slope to flat                                                         
 I know you’re more than just a bag                                                     
 Right now it’s just conceptualize                                                                     
But wait until you see my eyes
Cause I’ll want you later (I’ll want you, I’ll want you)                          
Yes I’ll want you later (I’ll want you, I’ll want you)
I’ll want you cause you’re fragrant and I see your curves               
I’ll want you ‘til the river flows with words to learn
And you may lie an empty hollow                                                                  
As the sun returns tomorrow                                                              
Who can say today what’s kind                                                         
 I’m sure one day you’ll feel so right   
So I’ll want you later (I’ll want you, I’ll want you)                          
Yes I’ll want you later (I’ll want you, I’ll want you)

I'll Want You Later

A little Sci-Fi tale about a dystopian future where humans have made life uninhabitable and machines have taken control to restore the balance

What have we done?
How did we let this happen?
Everything is so different now
The machines we made are in control

People thought they ruled the planet
But, you’re just a cog in the machine
Balance has been restored
Balance has been restored

But, you can’t love
You have no soul
But, you can’t love
You have no soul

You destroyed the atmosphere
Your race is selfish and cruel
You killed all life on earth
Why did you do that?

What are people for?
What are people for?
What are people for?
What are people for?

People are how the universe experiences itself

Balance has been restored
Balance has been restored
Balance has been restored

What Are People For..

Playing with a Wampler Reflection Reverb Pedal coming right after the Strymon Iridium, into the DI then into the interface on a PRS SE Custom 24.

Wampler Reflection Reverb

Catch Up Lady

My catchup lady she’s so good to me 
She was born to please 
Like a summer squeeze
My catchup lady she just calls it fun
She’s a real temptation
There’s no obligation

She’s happy in herself she don’t hunt me on her phone
I just let her know and she opens up her home
It’s fresh mint mmmm and coffee in the pot
She’s a black skirt lady cool and boiling hot
Yeah she gives little bit of her afternoon to me
She’s an Oasis and a kind of mystery
Cause she don’t reveal anything of her life
As I drop off her step to the dust and the vice

Hey she’s so pretty and she’s older than me
The crossing of our paths a kind of symmetry
Causes I got a busy life and I’m running for the door
But back on the street I’m feeling good and tall
It’s that feeling that you get when you’re winning every race
While looking all around there’s people in a state
And I know that she’s always got time enough for me
And it works both ways hey I love her she’s a dream

My catchup lady she’s so good to me – don’t hunt me on her phone 
My catchup lady she’s so good to me – Got coffee in the pot
My catchup lady she’s so good to me - Opens up her home
My catchup lady she’s so good to me – She’s and boiling hot

Catch Up Lady

Written for the 70th birthday of family friend Johanna.

Lyrics:
	here’s a thought 'tween you and me
		about the world we share
	in the beat of these busy streets
		there's seldom time to spare
	memories of the past, strong now,
		fade at last
	we might forget the flavours of
		the potions we were sold
	but we’ll recall the sum of all
		the stories that they told

	the destinies of mice and men
		cannot be foretold
	we pursue, as all must do,
		our syncopated goals
	we seek to find some peace of mind,
		bring nothing to leave behind
	though our youth might run its course
		our lives are not forlorn
	so celebrate both long and late
		the date that you were born

cover image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

A Birthday Thought

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My new album "Dreams of the Byzantines" is streaming June 13th, 2025. Please check out my new website darrencsullivan.com for videos and albums to purchase.

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I Wish I May I Wish I Might

Darren Sullivan