Songwriters Vol4

COOL 🌺  2024/2025

Sounds from the Acoustic Guitar / Free Download

Music by Kate Stanton & 12 Below
Lyrics by Edwin C. Balder
Art by 12 Below

My friend, indie songwriter/lyricist Edwin H. Balder, sent me these lyrics as a Christmas gift late last year. He encouraged me as I was recovering from a major health blow & surgery. Now it is Ed's turn. He's having some health struggles yet continues to write. We want to encourage him. 12 Below and I hoped to surprise him with music set to his lyrics. 

Ed, we are all rooting for you--prayers, positive vibes, and healing music your way!! Thank you for inspiring so many of us. @edwin-balder

Passages

Passages (Featuring lyrics by Edwin H. Balder)

As Woody Guthrie once said, "Way over yonder in the minor key."

10 BOX FULL OF MEMORIES

Words and Music Dave Rose
Lyrics

Its getting late and where are you
still running round town with god knows who
But when your new found friends 
well they're all long gone
You'll stagger homeward to your precious one

And lie here in my arms and lie to me
what I don't know won't hurt me so just lie...

And it's not as if we haven't been here before
Now the shoutings over the silence roars and there's a taxi by the door
And so you run to him but you'll tire of him and you know you will
Then I'll be waiting like so many times before

To lie here in my arms
and lie to me
What I don't know won't hurt me so
Just lie

Just Lie

this was going to be a disco type song, like love is in the air, but it did not sound right with a dance beat, so stripped out all of that, added a 12 str and toned down the keyboard. the vocals will prolly get a do over next week

You don’t have to smile at me when you pass me on the street
You don’t have to cross against the light so we might ‘accidentally’ meet
You don’t have to ask my friends if i still live alone
Or tell my folks you said to say hello
You don’t have to be so kind

You don’t have to come up to my table in a restaurant
And put your hand on top of mine and act so familiar while we talk
You don’t have to find any reason to spend time with me
Or send me little notes I’ll always keep
it’s gonna make me lose my mind

I’ll only fall in love
I’ll only think of you
I’ll only lie awake and wonder, if you’re thinking of me too
I’ll only act a fool
And I’ll want to marry you
It’s all cause of you
You’re too good to be true
I’ll just fall in love

Please don’t ever let me hold you close beneath the starry skies
Pde give me any reason to look deep into your eyes
And if i should ever start to wonder what my life would be
If you were always next to me  I’ll blame you, 
For making me feel this way

I'll Only Fall In Love

La question ne se pose pas (..): il y a trop de vent.  Boris Vian  😉😉😉

English translation (very very far from perfect...🥵)

How do people face it
How do they do
walking alone on this string
Straight ahead
Without a net, unattached, without motive
Without a breath, without looking, almost invisible
How do people face it
How do they do
 thinking of happy days, days gone by
Without sorrow, without regret, or bitterness
It all happened so fast, moon after moon
I mustn't bend
Too far forward
Because each time it triggers
A hurricane
I mustn't explore
that question
Because each time it triggers
some twisting winds
How do people face it
How do they do
loving so deeply, often wrongly
Unwisely
Challenging fate, time and all grudges
Seeking eternity for each one
How do people face it
How do they do
I often think about this and
I often bow
I follow the motion that draws in and bewitches
I am the species that glides down the slide
I mustn't bend
Too far forward
Because each time it triggers
A hurricane
I mustn't explore
that question
Because each time it triggers
some twisting winds

Comment font les gens ?

Contains inspired and recreated elements from 'Running up that Hill' by Kate Bush. All rights to the original composition remain with the respective copyright holders.

Host

Back home tonight, cool music and just a glass of wine...

Just A Glass Of Wine

Five Years

Here's a flashback from my past that's still in the present moment!
 
Somehow, I just Know you'll love this one! :-D

This was the first thing to come out of my opening improvisational set at 'The Light House Pub' on Saturna Island as I let my fingers do the talkin' on December 16th 2015. 😎 

 I was playing my Kawai ES7 Digital Stage Piano, and everything just flowed!

So... my friends and Listeners, here's a taste of what can emerge 'outta the Blue' when my Muse just wants to come out n play!  😉


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2015 - 2025
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2015 - 2025

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Together

Hello,
Here are some songs wot I wrote. Mostly recorded at home as a sort of one man band set up.
Sometimes other musicians play on the tunes too.

A little stroll on the mild side 🎧

"Dave was awarded 4th best tambourinist in his cul de sac whilst still only 37, he still plays tambourine today whilst his peers have abandoned tambourine. Think that speaks volumes to Dave's commitment to his music". (Big Hits Magazine}



I have a tendency to remove songs to tweak them and reload. Sometimes they never return 🤔

Headphones recommended.