These are great uplifting lyrics. So happy that you saved this one from the attic. And the unusual structure works well. Great song!

Very catchy songwriting at play here! Loving the lyrics of this

A well crafted, uplifting song ……. Lovely vocals - another great reworking of a previously recorded song! Excellent stuff Dirk :)

Loving this theatrical vibe in your songs. Great-great singing!

Let's Go Back To The Forest

This was written in 2006 (re-recorded in 2023) with a genuine sense of gratefulness towards some key friends back then, girlfriends in particular, still around, whom at that time I had around me a lot, a time when I wasn't so adept at problem-solving relatively simple life challenges, when I think back.

Anyway, having gotten a good deal older, and having listened to this just recently, and while re-recording it, it occurred to me that I must have at times been an enormous weight on the shoulders of some of my friends - something of an energy vampire, without meaning to be.    A certain amount of arrested development in my case, perhaps!   I had my good points, certain aspects of attraction, I was young and charismatic, most of the time, however, I must have really been a drain on occasion.   

Weirdly I go on about nourishment at some point, and hunger, so maybe I was thinking of myself as an energy vampire when I was writing it, though I doubt it.  

My artwork is, as you may have guessed, a prompt-generated AI smash-up that I quite like.  Generated by my own prompts.  Took me ages to get something I liked!

Quite an unusual song structure for me A B C A B C D E F C D E (something like that).  

Lyrics

Song from an Energy Vampire (or the Luckiest Man Alive)

I fall to safety again
Into the arms of a friend
When I feel lost
They’ve got me spotted

The eyes of one of many angels that guard me
Taking time to help me through what could harm me
When I think of all the strength that they give me
I am the luckiest man alive

More than the guy with money to burn
That’s just a piece of what I have learned

Love has no bounds
It gets me around
I’ve got the view
When I sometimes loose

They’re just a call away and I could feel better
I don’t need them to write it down in a letter
Just a word or two and I will know better
That I’m the luckiest man alive

More than the guy who only feels worth
When tied to the money and homes he has earned

***

Oh oh and I am blessed by my ladies
Oh oh and I am best when they take me

Into the arms of their loving smile
It’s all I need to feel unchanging
In the waves of the coming tide
I’m swept aside, and I’m the luckiest man alive

I’ve been drinking on their healing water
I am nourished by the well of another
When they're around I never feel hunger
I am the luckiest man alive

More than the guy with money to burn
That’s just a piece of what I have learned

Oh oh and I am blessed by my ladies
Oh oh and I am best when they take me

Into the arms of their loving smile
It’s all I need to feel unchanging
In the waves of the coming tide
I’m swept aside, and I’m the luckiest man alive

Luckiest Man Alive (2006)

Strolling

Piano+chant : en hommage à l'univers incroyablement onirique, poétique du peintre Antoine Watteau ( et au 18ème siècle, siècle des ombres et des Lumières)

Comme Dans Une Toile De Watteau

Maspalomas

Original by : FPMORISTUDIO/Francois Pierre Morin

Morning light

刃。

渦巻く脅威　故にここは戦場へ
幾重にも重なる　想いは乱れ
溶けだす感情は　頬に流れ落ちて
忘れたい思い出さえ　蘇る
渦巻く脅威　故に僕は戦場です
幾重にも重なる　想いは刃

言葉を引き金に　僕等
傷付け合うのです　いつも

渦巻く脅威　心は荒れ模様
降り出した　雨　濡れた　アスファルト

言葉を引き金に　僕等
傷付け合うのです　いつも
言葉は時として　嗚呼
心を無くす　程　痛い

渦巻く脅威　故にここは戦場へ
幾重にも重なる　想いは乱れ
交わした刃　気付けばほら　諸刃
放つ言葉の先　僕が立っていた
時の徒　痛む心　相対して
僕に刺さる　幾千の刃

言葉を引き金に　僕等
傷付け合うのです　いつも
言葉は時として　嗚呼
心を無くす　程　痛い

言葉を引き金に　僕等
傷付け合うのです　いつも
言葉と引き換えに　僕等
心を　無くしてる　今も

刃[DEMO]

Gleeful Power

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A collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/aedificium and myself about the extinction of the Dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago.
Thanks for listening.
Arranged and produced by, Mike Hllton &, Aedificium © 22/11/2023 
You-Tube - https://youtu.be/2izIAqiFSTU

Mike Hilton - Electric, Acoustic & Bass guitars
Aedificium - Percussion & further arrangement
Cover art - New York Times

Extinction

Extinction (collaboration with Aedificium)

What if the stars
And cars
The oceans and hills
The moon
And houses
Were all just 
beautiful dust
What if all these things 
Had just
Grown too huge for us
Now impositions
Making all the rules
Where once it was said
By you 
By me 
By us
What if the stars and cars
The oceans and hills
The moon and houses
were all just 
Beautiful dust
I love to gaze up high
I love to drive real fast
I love to dive deep in 
And climb up hillsides
I need shelter from storms
And from the night
And i love to watch the moon
Mocking in her flights
What if all these things 
Were only beautiful dust.

Beautiful Dust

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.

Luckiest Man Alive (2006)

Dirk Diamond

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