A little song I wrote for St. Patrick's Day to pay tribute to a bar I used to frequent by the name of Lydia's. She has been gone for a few years now, but the memories live on!

Oh, Dear Lydia!

funny money

© ℗ Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded at Deadline Studios, Leicester
Photography: Thanks to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography
Guitar played: Taylor 714 CE in standard tuning

Some Day Soon

Sunrise

All the love
I can feel.
I don’t need
my own war.

What is life?
Why we hurt?
Why we lie
to ourselves?

Why do you want to fake it?
Why can’t you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to take it!

I believe.
I can be.
What I am.
I am me.

I am that.
I can see.
What I give
I feel free.

Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to fake it!
There is no need to take it!

What is death?
What is fate?
Why we dare,
Who we are?

All the fakes
Smile around.
Their disguise
Fades away.

Are you real?
Ego ideal?
Is this love?
Guiding me?



Why can't you simply face it? / Love!
There is no need to take it! / Love!
There is no need to break it! / Love!
There is no need to fake it!



Why do you want to fake it?
Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it.
There is no need to take it.

Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to fake it!
There is no need to take it!

Why do you want to fake it?
Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to take it!

Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to take it! / to break it!
There is no need to break it! / to take it!
There is no need to fake it!

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Lyrics, Vocals & Drums by @melakki
Bass Guitar, Synthesizers & Artwork by @boolapp-goro
Mix & Master by Björn (BLRStudios)
Recorded & published by 2:45

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I Am

No Reason

As the rain keeps pouring down
I can't stop myself from feeling
As the wind blows all astray
I can't find my way

As sound of love is gone
As you told me to be free
As the smell of fear arrives

I close my eyes

1 - I close my eyes to see, the power in me
2 - I close my heart, to make sure it never falls apart
3 - I close my ears to hear, my own symphony
4 - close my creation, to live in my own imagination

No reason to cry

As the storm comes rollin' in
I can't handle these emotions
As the taste of pain appear
I don't want you near

As the voice of faith i lost
N' As you told me to belive
As the scent of spirit flies
I close my eyes

1 - I close my eyes to see, the power in me
2 - I close my heart, to make sure it never falls apart
3 - I close my ears to hear, my own symphony
4 - close my creation, to live in my own imagination

No reason to cry
No reason to cry
No reason to cry

No Reason

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade
By David Husted

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade Sun Drops    
Melting on an ocean's horizon   

I Wipe the mud from my knees
over madness
The windows are weeping as I lay dreaming 
Of stranded Islands
Empty and stripped clean


Ohhh… Your corners curve like lemonade
Zoo keepers  open up in their cages 
Bubble gum wrappers floating flames flickering orange    
We're  Basking in an almost; Ireland and Italy in Brooklyn

V2
Einstein and Heisenberg in parliament
Embers proliferating magic
Thriving through the time fields sucking information from the cosmos
Our very constitutions dust and water; 
Gold and oil on the alter now;  be a ghost to this chatter
Plot our lives in advance,……….     Of the rising sands

Ch
Ohhh… Your corners curve like lemonade
Zoo keepers  open up in their cages now
Bubble  gum wrappers floating flames flickering orange    
We're  Basking in an almost; Ireland and Italy in Brooklyn

Bridge

We will not Run
We will not run   

Ch 

The Chorus has a psychedelic vibe to it but with its own unique twists and turns.  I tried not to box myself into corners with my lyrics and used a very open ended process to my word smithing.  I felt know need to present you anything too "air-tight" in terms of story or arrangement.  This is what I love about song writing. I toss up ideas (the crazier the better) and see what happens.  Once I have a kaleidoscope of working pieces I gently mold them into forms that contain loose tendrils of cohesiveness and meaning but only just barely.  This is one of those song's I created with no preconceptions or creative borders and I just let my mind go where it wanted to.  Sometimes this works and sometimes it is a disaster.  In this case I arrived at something I liked enough to share with you.  

Never mind that Dave, what is the song about?  

It has something to do with the excruciating beauty of a sunrise.  It has something to do with love.  It has something to do with how quickly time moves forward.  It has something to do with how impermanent everything really is (including us).  It has something to do with how lucky we are to be the tiniest spark of a flame witnessing this miracle before us for the most minuscule parenthesis in time.  It has something to do with stepping out of my self imposed cage, and yet not running away and hiding.  It has something to do with staring this beautiful, wild catastrophe of existence right in the face and enjoying the ride.   Far Out Dude. Now go put your favorite tie dye shirt on, grab a cup a coffee and listen to my song : )!   Groovy Man…..Will Do!  

May your corners curve like lemonade.

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade

Lothlorien

Produced By Martin Reed.

Here Is The Amazing Mahan Mahan Remix, https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan/the-wave-dzan-martin-reed?in=its-tophonicus/sets/mysteries-of-the-blim-the-2021

Kung Flu

Powerful

Thyme

My most recent song (3rd of 3) written mid to late January. I had the title with a different tune, but it didn't fit. This is not a song as such, more the audio description of a feeling.  Recorded 'live' at home February 2021 again during lockdown.  Words & Music by Dave Renegade (c) Deadly Romantic Music 2021.

I dedicate this to the memory of Mark Keds. Some of the words were written after an conversation with Jerome following Mark's passing.
Photo by Tom Gold of Goldwood Images
Photo edited and coloured by Dave Twist

The Hurtful Kind (live)(Lockdown Demos #8)

Rico Blade - Acoustic Guitar, synth strings
Kelly Mason - Vocals