Cool song Dirk! Sounds great!✌🏼😎👍

All being well the lyrics say enough to suggest what this is about.  Funnily enough, it's not about me, how I was feeling, it's about my perceived view of someone else feelings, towards me coming into their life at the time.  What a grotesquely overblown ego!  Maybe knowing that takes something away from the song.  Such thoughts don't come into my mind any more thought 🤣

In any case it's about feeling repaired, care of someone else with a better mind for best interests and all that.

Mostly written in 2007, aside from a new lyric that I wrote yesterday to replace a repeated lyric that I had for some reason, something that didn't do the original song any favours at all. 

Lyrics

If I try I just might 
Change my ways break my cage
If I loose I could choose 
Different things Use my wings

If I fall I am told
Loosen up Won’t hurt as much
Cut your strings then fall again

I could face another time in time
Adding more to those I’ve left behind
Making every move I make fit well
Yet fail to change the stories that I tell
Lately I’ve been taken by the hand
Something that I never really planned
States of change that really frighten me 
But something in this hand is keeping me

Safe and life feels much easier 
To achieve and I’m less insecure 
And believe that I’ve got something more
Something more

If I cry I will find 
Parts of me I rarely see
As I show my old bones 
Those old things I use for strings
If I fall I am told
Pick it up, make no fuss 
Take my hand, you can stand!

I could win, loose well , if I just try
But never know while dragging far behind
Blaming just the game, scream “it’s not fair!”
While failing to admit I’m running scared
Refusing to commit, to not give out
Not see just how I’m fleshing out my doubts
For everything I did before each fall
Before you picked me up and made it all

Safe and life feels much easier 
To achieve and I’m less insecure 
And believe that I’ve got something more
Something more

Safe and life feels much easier 
To achieve and I’m less insecure 
And believe that I’ve got something more
Something more

Something More (2007)

GRATITUDE - It's all about the music!

It took me some time to finish this tune, as I composed this almost a decade ago. For some reason, many other musical projects kept distracting me from investing the kind of time this tune, “GRATITUDE”, required and I believe deserved. 
But, I decided to not let it remain on the back burner any longer. 
I’m happy to say I finally got it done.

This tune is all about the gratitude I have towards everything that encompasses music. There’s gratitude simply for music existing in the first place. It’s my heartfelt tribute towards the art of music in all its forms. It is also just as much a tribute to ALL the musicians, from all walks of life, famous and not so famous... with some of course being highly influential and motivational for me on a personal level, all of which have been a source of inspiration in one way or another over the course of my life.

The essence of music is one of those big unanswered mysteries in the human experience. Why is it that we humans perceive the sounds of music in the way we do? No one has ever really come up with a plausible explanation, yet music remains as a special art form that has existed throughout modern civilization and has been expressed in countless ways. It’s pretty incredible… isn’t it?!

So, I conclude with the hopes that you will give a good listen to my tune “GRATITUDE”. 
After all this is a tribute to every one out there... whether you are a fellow musician, or the non-musician that simply loves to listen to music and one that embraces this wonderful and diverse art form.

All music performed (guitars and keys) and sequenced (bass and drums) by Audric Jankauskas

GRATITUDE (Audric Jankauskas-2024)

RAMBLIN by LucyScrew

album "Echoes of Destiny"
nowyyorg 2024 
https://www.reverbnation.com/nowyyorg/album/316913-echoes-of-destiny

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‘Colorful crochet’ fisherman wanders the streets sipping a calyx staring blankly colorful crochet unknown a poster half torn with the portrait of a woman with close-fitting dress with calyx-shaped breasts breasts wanting to coming out he drops the calyx Busting red wine flows through the maze of sidewalk the wine activates the planet the planet begins to turn he puts the hands in the pockets tear the lining of the pockets a child shoots him with a plastic pistol and goes away jumping and laughing he faints into the liner of the pockets: the long corridors of dreams where tears come together in the wishing well where poets taste the sault the salt that breaks the chains of fear where the voice strips the shadows

Colorful Crochet - with Luciole Langevine in vocals - texte in description

This is a track I created months ago. I think I had it posted for a second but then took it down to edit it some more. It totally has the sound i try and create so I figured its time to put it up and out. I hope you feel it as much as I do. All music, guitars and production done by this guy and his simple little set up. Turn it up and enjoy....

Down into it (Instrumental)

I've been writing songs for ages and ages, because it's something I enjoy doing, and that's about it. 

I've added dates to titles, however, these aren't always dates recorded, mostly just dates written because the original offerings, back then, had little to be desired with consideration to production values and all that stuff!  For the older tracks some tracks have the old backing with a modern vocal (often with a lyric rewrite), the original vocal with a new backing (when I could work with the original vocal, but not the original backing), the original song newly recorded in all areas, and less often the original vocal and backing, but with a few additions, "No" is one such example.  Otherwise, most of it is newer stuff, post 2018, and is as is, when written and recorded.    

I've had to re-record some things on account of my abilities to record demos and all that being very limited once upon a time.  

In the early days I only had a Farfisa F1 workstation thing (it's amazing what I managed to do on that), later an Atari ST, with Cubase 2 probably, a Proteus 2000, and Fostek 8 track recorder thing, and now I've got Native Instruments 14, and Cubase 12, in what amounts to an astonishingly good set up compared to my earlier resources, for about the same money as that older rubbish was back then. 

I still use the microphone I've had since I was 18, though did just recently upgrade that as well, however still pick up and use the old one, as it's still good - a Sure SM58 with a dent in it! My upgraded mic is a Sure SM7B, which is great, and I see it all the time on TV and podcasts, so must have made a good choice! 

My musical chops are focused on the piano, my main instrument, and the ukulele, which I play a lot as well.  Not doing a lot of piano-orientated songs at the moment, but I do sometimes, and mostly try to get the best out of my Native Instruments stuff.  I'm barely scratching the surface with all of the NI stuff I've got.

Something More (2007)

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