Olivier's Toads

Rodolfo https://soundcloud.com/rplanes first shared this beautiful piece with me 2 years ago, which has had a gradual development since I first wrote the lyrics back then. More recently Ce Mastro https://soundcloud.com/cemastro added some exciting backing vocals which transformed the chorus and then even more recently we invited Dave McKeown https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown to contribute some lovely sax that we believed was just what the song needed. Rodolfo's song has such a feeling of romantic innocence yet with a wonderful rhythmic flow, that I hoped the words might feel from a simpler time. We hope you all enjoy our song of innocence (and inexperience) which thankfully is a work of fiction. Thanks again to Rodolfo for sharing this magical piece and his great skills as well as Ce and Dave's unique gifts to make this one happen. 
We thank you all for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix.
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals
Me - Lead vocals and lyrics
Dave McKeown - Sax solo and fills

https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/almost-lovers

Almost Lovers (by Rodolfo Planes / Mark Bennett)

Once we were almost lovers, without a care.
We weren’t like all the others, somehow we just didn’t dare.
We never faced the fact,
What we had wasn’t real,
Didn’t have to deal,
With the truth while we were putting on an act
We’d have to pay,
And quite how that would feel.

The moment when I discovered, not wanting to share,
You with any of the others, that I just couldn’t bear.
But when my back was turned,
You made out with a guy,
I thought was my friend.
Then I knew that my world had been overturned,
Put out to dry,
And what a way to end.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Were never really lovers, just make believe.
Like sister and brother, with only ourselves to deceive.
I should have known right then,
I’d be out on my ear 
Instead of in love.
Waiting for the finale, not knowing when,
I’d disappear,
When the push comes to shove.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Almost Lovers - Continental Collision (featuring Ce Mastro & Dave McKeown) Now Available on Bandcamp

A Place

The first piece from my "Preludes (for piano)", which I wrote using 12-tone technique. This piece is dedicated to my former composition tutor, Mr. Peter Nickol. https://www.impulse-music.co.uk/peternickol/

Preludes (for piano) - I - "For Peter Nickol" [2021] *NEW RECORDING*

Be Right Back

[Verse]
I learned to smile,
The way they do,
But their laughter fades,
And I’m left confused.
Words are easy,
But meanings hide,
In the space between,
Where I reside.

[Chorus]
I see the world, just like they do,
But I’ll never look in their eyes.
I blend right in, in the light of day,
But inside, I'm lost in their lies.

[Verse]
Their faces shift,
But I can’t see,
The lines they draw,
Weren’t meant for me.
I read the books,
I know the rules,
But in their world,
I’m just a fool.

[Chorus]
I see the world, just like they do,
But I’ll never look in their eyes.
I blend right in, in the light of day,
But inside, I'm lost in their lies.

[Bridge]
Behind the mask,
I wear so well,
Is a heart that aches,
A silent yell.

[Chorus]
I see the world, just like they do,
But I’ll never look in their eyes.
I blend right in, in the light of day,
But inside, I'm lost in their lies.
I'm lost in their lies

The Space Between [I'll Never Look In Their Eyes]

Freefall * Instrumental

Acoustic guitar depicts a young boy looking for his home

Which Way is Home?

Art Of Nature

Clouds

Buddha bless

Once upon a day
Came in my head a way 
To relieve the pain and
Take it out from here
.....
And I hear THE SCORE

Against The Tide

THE SCORE - Golden Age

I wish I could follow everyone back...

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