Chris Harris' version of a song I wrote the music for.

Dramatic stuff

FAWM 2021

Where's The Gravy

There has always been a rumour that if you wore a red uniform in the old Star Trek and no one ever knew your name, that you were not long for this world and would soon be dispatched by some alien force to a better place.

I thought it would be interesting to explore what that might be like from the viewpoint of the doomed crewman, a minor character in the drama, but made of flesh and blood and filled with hopes and dreams like everyone else.

These lyrics explore his or her journey that takes them to that fateful moment.

So....

Who wants to be a "Starship man in Red"? Any takers?

I'd still go.


C.
Who’d wanna be the Starship
Man in Red
A close to even chance you end up dead

That’s more knowledge than a man should know
But I’d still go I’d still go

V1.
All of my life I wanted to be the man
Who flies up to the stars
and when the chance it came along
I had to grab it with open arms

V2.
The Federation Acadamy
Was like a surrogate family to me
And, when I fell out 
Man I had something to shout about

PC.
First day on the Enterprise
And man I just felt alive
They beamed me up to the holodeck
The best experience I’ve had yet

I get assiged to the landing crew
Hope I remember what I’ve gotta do
I try to recall what was said
And some strange reason my uniform is red

C.

V3.
One of the things that drives me insane
Is nobody ever remembers my name
It’s almost like I’m a disposable prop
And nobody cares or blows their top

V4.
To these guys I’m just a pair of hands
To take the hit in some barren lands
If there’s a union for the space force guys
I might strike before the battle cries

PC.

Last day on the Enterprise
Man I won’t be leaving alive
Beaming down to the planet now
Cannon fodder is what I am now

Here I am in the landing crew
And I forget what I should do
No one remembers what I said
And for some strange reason my uniform is red

Starship Man (In Red)

Now I am completely aware there is a Pink Floyd album with the same name but the name seemed to suit the topic covered very well.

What is the topic? The absolute evils of social media and how it is rotting our once great civilisation from the inside out.

Division is stoked for profit, they deliberately provoke you into outrage in order to generate more revenue and division is the best earner of all. They live in your head rent free and they pick your pocket while doing so.

You must be free to speak, whatever you have to say and whether it might upset someone or not. That is your absolute right. Free speech is like being pregnant, you are either all in or you are not.

Believe me, whether you know it or not when you support censorship and virtual book burning they will be coming for you next. Count on it.

It's all about the money, THEY BELIEVE IN NOTHING.

Thanks to @billwhite51 for the cover art suggestion

Enjoy

Lyrics: 
(V1)
Someone’s making money
When they ring the division bell
Driving a wedge between us
How hate grows more well who can tell

(V2)
A sweet little distraction
Coupled with a sleight of hand
The truth is faster than the eye
But it’s on its horse riding out of town

(PC)
And I know
There must be a way to make love grow

(C)
That thing in your hand
Controlling your mind
And burning your thoughts
Making you blind

It’s not on your side
It’s rotting your brain
and know you’re being played
It makes you insane

Divison bell
Is ringing out loud
Distrubute the pitchfork
Out to the crowd

Burning the heretics
Until the heretic is you

(V3)
Invisible enemies
Gather around your cyber grave
And they laugh at your silence
At all the things you fear to say

(V4)
The control is absolute
Fear clamps like a vice
Promised endless freedom
Disappears like the mist into the night

(PC)
And I know
There must be a way to make love grow

(C)

The Division Bell

Currently we have unrest in SA
The Streets are not a safe place
Fire and bullets are common place
Every journey must be carefully planned

Zuma is in jail for contempt of court
not His many crimes
But He is a hero
To many who no longer have hope
In a Justice system that grinds slowly
Politicians who seek profit not the building of a nation

Apartheid may be in the grave
But this is not how free people behave

[David] I had to change the words a bit but hopefully not enough to conceal the message

Lyrics: 
V1

I don't understand
Hatred has gripped
This torn Land
Hurt runs deep inside
No healing
Just a plaster of disguise

V2
Fatherless Nation
Kids raised in hate
Must try to unlearn their ways
Before it is too late

CHORUS

Children of the Rainbow Nation
Apart we stand
When all the hope is gone from you
How can we stay in this barren land (2)

V3
Embracing destruction
They stripped the land
Of all of the bounties
They promised to put in our hands

Bridge

We have been through it all
The peace and the war
The persecution of our hopes
We’ve seen it all

Cry Beloved Country
Oh Beautiful place
Torn apart by Greed
Torn apart by Class and Race

Chorus Repeat

Apart We Stand (Children of The Rainbow Nation)

This one was trickier then I expected as the original chorus threw a spanner right in the works.

Once shortened down it all fell into place a bit better.

Lyrics: 
WE MISS A LOT
Where do you go 
When you shut down your heart
 What do you do 
While you’re sitting in the dark
I’m here to talk 
But you’re already gone
 Maybe times heals
 But life chugs along

[ch] 
Oh, we miss a lot 
When we’re lost in our thoughts 
You know the world’s gonna turn
 Whether we like it or not (2)

We can tell lies when
 We perceive what’s true 
There’s shades of gray 
In everything we do

We live and we love
 I don’t cast any stones 
We are all here 
Trying to feel at home

[ch] 
Oh, we miss a lot 
When we’re lost in our thoughts 
You know the world’s gonna turn
 Whether we like it or not (2)

[br] People sing about love
 Lovers dance with desire 
It’s simple, but really it’s not 
When we can’t see what we’ve got (2)

Repeat ch

©2021 Kristi McKeever

We Miss a Lot

We Miss A Lot

Living In This Time

This Well Is Dry (feat. David Taro)

Under The Same Sky

A New World Tomorrow

When We're Good

Come On Back To Me

Permanent Solution 

© 2022 Cindy Prince

  Don't give up 
Life will change 
Night will be over 
The sun will shine again  

Don't leave now 
Wait and you'll see 
The skies will open up
 If you just let it be  

Chorus 

I've heard it said that suicide 
Is a permanent solution for a temporary problem 
It sounds complicated but it's not 
I've heard it said that there is always hope 
Looking inside you’ll surely find it 
You are loved, in case you forgot  

  Don't turn away 
Please don't end it 
You can overcome 
Let your friends in

  Tell yourself 
You are so brave
Stay away from the light 
Walk out that cave

Bridge 
Don't ever be afraid to ask for help
 Please will you reach out (2)
 Don't be alone as you go through hell 
You are so cared about (2)

Chorus

Permanent Solution

PC
Breathing deep
Waiting on you
Don’t you know

Chorus
It’s all about time

V1
When you walk away
I just want to say stay a while
It happens every time
But I keep it inside
I know you have to go

PC
But I need you here
And I think you forget
Life moves fast

C
It’s all about time
V2

There’s no paradise
Just the promise of real life
Living it everyday
But we can’t run away
I know you want to go
I hope you will

Bridge
Stay a while, and fight for us
It’s never too late
I just want some more time, with you

PC
Stay a while, and fight for us
It’s never too late

Chorus
It’s all about time

PC
And I need you here
I think you forget
Life moves fast

Chorus
It’s all about time

PC
Seconds minutes hours
Moving past us we can’t stop it
And we can’t turn back

Chorus
It’s all about time

It's About Time

But You'll Be Happy

(The Future Is) A Foreign Place

The Last Goodbye

He's nine folks and directed the whole process expertly

Stuck In My Mind

Pastures Green

Time And Again

Roar!

Echoes

Midnight Run

Emergence

Into The Night

Jonny's Got A Gun

Graffiti On My Heart

Some mild orchestration added to this fantastic track by

https://marthienel.com/

Very very little to do with me but a feast for the ears.

Silhouettes & Shadows

Special arrangement by my two talented sons

My Old Town

A new song about the futility and ultimate emptiness of a materialistic lifestyle.

Hope you like it.

Not For Sale

New version with revised 12 string guitar, new vocals and some light percussion

My Old Town (An Emigrant's Lament)

A song about a woman facing up to the fact she is dying and trying to reconcile the life she lived.

Vocals by Erin Sullivan

VERSE 1

Sweet life
Something that you take for granted
Until it’s gone 
Or moving on its way out

Good friends and lovers
The only thing that matters in the end
Is counting your friends 
On more than one hand

When one door closes
Smell the roses
And never forget, never forget
Never forget what is right

CHORUS

When you’re looking back
Back in time
Seeing the world that you’re leaving behind  

As we face that far shore
And our life needs accounting for
I can only hope I lived it right
As I drift into the night

VERSE 2  

In the end
The truth is I don’t want to go 
But the reaper’s knocking on my door
To carry me to that far shore

And I will miss you all
I will miss the love and pain
Until I see you again
Until I see you all again

When one door closes
Smell the roses
And never forget, never forget
Never forget what is right

That Far Shore

That Far Shore (feat. Erin Sullivan)

A song by Erin Asher Sullivan

Arrangement by David Harrington based on original acoustic version.

A dark little tale of murder most foul in the icy depths of winter.

Took him on a winter walk late last night
Through shadows carved by the blade of the moonlight
My hand in his, mama bade us go
Cross the stubbled fields gone smooth with snow
The world asleep
No one to know

Found the path by the maple tree
While the wind cut sharp like the ghost of a melody
We passed the place where we once lay
By the riverbank on a summer day
When his careless words
Took my hopes away

Led him down to the frozen shore
Where he let me tell him that I love him many times before
Like mama said, I kissed him twice
Then said, now darlin’ wouldn’t it be nice if we could
Take a walk
Across the ice

Dried my hair by mama’s fire
While I cried for the price that I’d pay for my own desire
Mama said, don’t worry, that ain’t no thing
No one’s gonna know until at least the spring
And you’ll be long gone
With your lover’s ring

Two sets of prints out and one set home
The woods don’t seem so friendly when you walk alone
Mama says the air smells like snow
She says it’s time for me to pack my things and go
While the world’s asleep
No one to know

I took him on a winter walk

Winter Walk (feat. Erin Sullivan)

Song by Theresa Johnson.

Arrangement by David Harrington

One step forward, two steps back
Pressing onward, stay on track
Fighting battles deep inside my mind
Bracing currents with the rising tide
Am I hoping to find a pot of gold
Am I searching for elusive rainbows

I'm rowing upstream
Wondering what I'll find
I'm rowing upstream
Escaping from the grind
I'm rowing upstream
I'm rowing upstream

Who is crazy, me or them
Insanity, in my head
Would they even tell me if I'm lost
Or just float on by without a pause
Do I still belong here anymore
Do I know what it is I'm fighting for

I'm rowing upstream
Wondering what I'll find
I'm rowing upstream
Escaping from the grind
I'm rowing upstream
I'm rowing upstream

I could rest my body, turn around and sail away
Is it worth all of this fighting, if I can't win anyway

I'm rowing upstream
I'm rowing upstream

I'm rowing upstream
Wondering what I'll find
I'm rowing upstream
Escaping from the grind
I'm rowing upstream
I'm rowing upstream

One step forward, two steps back
Pressing onward, stay on track

Upstream

Alien Comfort

Works by Cindy prince
Music and Arrangements David G Harrington

So many fell, so many died
So much trauma for the ones who survived
Many lost souls, still alive by chance
Began the tradition of the ghost dance

A spiritual movement from a Paiute man
His dream helped him to understand
The movement spread far and wide
Many would line up, side to side

They danced in unison, they danced in sorrow
Wondering if there'd see many tomorrows
It was a circle dance that led to rapture
They vowed they'd never again be captured

David G Harrington

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