Travelling with Ghosts

Yesterday you told me that you‘ll leave our home today 
I think it’s okay cause you’re eighteen now anyway

It seems to me like someone pushed fast-forward on my tape
Keep holding back the memories in my head so they won't escape

Farewell my son, be safe when travelling with ghosts
They like to whisper in your ear, the things you fear the most

And when you‘re old and grey like your father is by now
Most likely you will think of me and drop a line somehow

Farewell my son, be safe when travelling with ghosts
They like to whisper in your ear, the things you fear the most

And when the time has come for you to meet your dad again
We‘ll be sitting on our cloud together, smiling now and then 

Happy birthday David!



Thanks a million for pre-listening: Michele, Gary, Judith and Brenda!

Travelling With Ghosts (David’s 18th birthday)

This song is about a polar bear wandering around the streets of my town.

Polar Bear

File Updated: 26th December 2024 @ 10:23am GMT

Written 25th December 2024

Lyrics
I am breaking free
This bubble can't be
There is fire in here
I'm bright
I cheer
I think I've caused some duress
...just manifesting success
My passion
For humans
A vastly important chest in our breasts
Only one heart holds the key to TBD
And now it has broken free
So please stop poking me

I love yee
Let's make this plane with no above me
I love yee
You see this plane... no below

It feels so sure this priceless prize
I realise I'll deal you many dreams
You're music for colour
Body
Two minds indemnified
Hails arose your colour so sweet

I love yee
We're healing the holy
I love yee
We're just pure energy
I love yee
We're healing the holy
I love yee
We're just pure sun light seed

📜Music for Colour

Pour tous les amis du monde § For all friends in the world.
  English translation after the French text
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L’amitié c’est nous,  autour d’un feu d’camp,  
Beuglant des chansons, on s’marait tout l’temps. 
Les guitares jouaient et nos voix s'envolaient
Souvenirs gravés de ces temps enchantés

 L'amitié, c'est nous, le monde à   refaire
Des blagues, des disputes, des rêves à l’envers
Au petit matin, les bouteilles vidées
Gueules enfarinées , les rêves sont envolés 

Tant q’on sera là, et quoi qu’il arrive         
Continuons not’route, libre  à la dérive.
 nos cœurs de gamins, nos âmes vagabondes, 
illumine le monde

L’amitié c’est nous avec ou sans enfants
Le boulot, la famille on s’voit moins souvent 
Dans  nos cœurs aimant, sont toujours vivant 
Nos  rires d’antan,  et nos vingt printemps 

L'amitié  c’est nous, avec des cheveux blancs
Une  histoire qui dure, à faire mentir le temps
Nos belles aventures , ont fait     nos destins,
Rires aux coins des yeux, témoins de nos chemins.                         

Tant q’on sera là, et quoi qu’il arrive         
Continuons not’route, libre  à la dérive.
Nos cœurs de gamins, nos âmes vagabondes, 
Illumine le monde

----------------- AUTO TRANSLATE 
Friendship is us, around a campfire,
Bellowing songs, we were always laughing.
The guitars were playing and our voices were soaring
Engraved memories of these enchanted times

Friendship is us, the world to be remade
Jokes, arguments, upside down dreams
In the early morning, the emptied bottles
Floury faces, dreams are gone

As long as we're here, and whatever happens
Let's continue our journey, free to drift.
our childish hearts, our wandering souls,
light up the world

Friendship is us with or without children
Work, family we see each other less often
In our loving hearts, are still alive
Our laughter of yesteryear, and our twenty springs

Friendship is us, with white hair
A story that lasts, to make time lie
Our beautiful adventures have made our destinies,
Laughter in the corners of our eyes, witnesses of our paths.

As long as we're here, and whatever happens
Let's continue our journey, free to drift.
Our childish hearts, our wandering souls,
Light up the world

_---_

photo  Photo de Min An: https://www.pexels.com/fr-fr/photo/silhouette-de-personnes-au-coucher-du-soleil-853168/

Amitié

Vidéo : https://youtu.be/0H3VKS--Tsk

Tout s'efface   (Translated after the French text )
Texte : Say M
Chant : Did Wilkops
Musique : Alain Illos

Je te lis
Tu me lis
Mais on n'se livre pas
Tes mots quittent les lignes
Quand mes pensées t'échappent
On ajoute
Plus de vide
On s'évide même parfois
Rien ne change à vrai dire
Les mêmes mots les mêmes phrases
Synonymes homonymes
Tout s'efface après ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
Tout s'efface
Tout s'efface
Tu me lies
Je te lie
Les contraires nous éloignent
À défaut on s'attire
On s'arrime au clivage
Tout s'efface
Tout s'efface
Synonymes homonymes
Tout s'efface après ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
On a usé nos yeux
À vouloir dire mieux qu'ça
Tout s'efface
Tout s'efface...


All fades away 

I read you
You read me
But we don't surrender
Your words leave the lines
When my thoughts escape you
We add
More emptiness
We even escape sometimes
Nothing really changes
The same words the same phrases
Synonyms homonyms
Everything fades after that
We've worn out our eyes
Trying to say better than that
We've worn out our eyes
To say better than that
All fades away
It's all fading away
You bind me
I bind you
Opposites drive us apart
By default we attract
We cling to the divide
All fades away
All fades away
Synonyms homonyms
All fades away after that
We've worn out our eyes
Trying to say better than that
We've worn out our eyes
To say better than that
All fades away
It's all fading away...


Tout s'efface avec Did Wilkops

A song dedicated to stage and film characters who died, most often tragically.
Video can be found here:  https://youtu.be/AwLtPgyiiUU?si=lx0amDyhckL1Mqjc

When you least expect it
The sudden news will push you like a knife
A dull, familiar pain
The old scars will open again

At night, by a small tuner
Frost has bitten my brain and hands
Cold announcer's voice
He made me known how drowning tastes...

Thin Ice, Fragile glass
Janis J., Brian Jones
Jimi H., Anna J.
Fragile Ice Thin glass
Steve McQueen, Romy S.
Johnnie L. , Elvis P.
Dead movie, Dead blues
Fragile glass, Thin Ice
Lead time.

Look, it's the plain meanness
It's not good way to say "goodbye"
You can't leave just like that
In the mid-sleep and half-dreams

Still you record is rotating
Still a screen is shinning with your image
Under the cold light of stars
How hard it is to live for those who remain...

Thin Ice, Fragile glass
Janis J., Brian Jones
Jimi H., Anna J.
Fragile Ice Thin glass
Steve McQueen, Romy S.
Johnnie L. , Elvis P.
Dead movie, Dead blues
Fragile glass, Thin Ice
Lead time.


Czas ołowiu, Budka Suflera, cover (translation in description)

Emilio, aka https://soundcloud.com/stranger-something and https://soundcloud.com/olla-de-insomnio send me this wonderful instrumental. A very special thank you to Alejandro Venegas for playing these great drums. Later on he mixed and mastered it, he also provided this picture. It was a great pleasure to write and sing along, a Big Thank You for that…

Vuelo Lejano

1
Oh,
Wait
Is it already that late ?
And we still hesitate
Let us concentrate…
Let ’s collaborate…
Yeah…
Seriously…
This is supposed to be 
Just another love song
But 
We cannot sort out heart from mind, 
And that won’t be different this time

And with  .4 k per second
Just spinning around ourselves

No giggling please…
Fasten your deep senses
This is a far flight
And it’s only one-way…

Let us concentrate - ah -
Here today
There is no escape…

No giggling please…
Let’s collaborate…
This is supposed to be 
Just another love song
We won’t sort out heart from mind
And that won’t be different this time

And with 3.2 k per second, 
Ahaa, ahaa…
Circling around the sun
Ohh,
No giggling please…
Fasten your deep senses
This is a far flight
And it’s only one-way…
It’s only one way…
One way-y-y-y-y-y-y-y…yeah…

- solo - 					

2
So many lovesongs have been sung
So why again now a further one ?
Because it must not be left undone
Cannot leave it undone
Just cannot leave it undone…

Ohh,
There are turbulences

No joking please
There is trouble ahead
Hitting the unprepared -
Ohh, this is a hard way…

While we float
With some 30 k/s 
Around the milky way
And other hundreds of k/s
Trundling other ways
Within a thousand days
That is quite a stray
Even if you don’t move a single hoof…

No giggling please
This is supposed to be another love song
No joking please
This is a far flight
No giggling please
This is a heart’s way
And it’s only…
It's only one-way,
It's only one way…

Vuelo Lejano (wt Stranger Something)

Texte et voix La Gazelle https://soundcloud.com/amandine-esno
Musique par HyLGZ22

Le soleil dans les interstices parcourt ma peau encore chaude de tous mes rêves inachevés
je brave le sol froid sous mes pieds j’ouvre les rideaux sur mes possibles
ciel bleu et haut, mer sombre lointaine
c’est dans cette étendue que j’avance
tout m’appelle je frissonne à l’odeur salée de cet océan aux pins mêlés.

Je suis sorcière dans ma longue robe noire
ma langue murmure sans que je m’en aperçoive
d’antiques psaumes et des sortilèges habiles
mes mains pleines de charme caressent l’avenir
la certitude me tient debout la tête haute

Nous sommes des embarcations
lancées sur un océan agité
Certains devront sortir les rames
d'autres juste gonfler la voile

Les beaux senaus avantagés par leurs mats, leur robustesse
Et les esquifs plus modestes plus discrets
Seront par le vent ballottés
Sans cesse trouver son chemin et apprendre alors
Les tempêtes essuyées nous indiquent le nord

Les bateaux se croisent parfois se heurtent
Mains décharnées aux gouvernails meneurs

Je veux baisser les voiles
Jeter au loin rames et amarres
Desserrer les poings
me laisser amadouer
Bercée par nos langages adoués

Ne plus subir les courants
Laisser venir depuis la grève
Le flot et le jusant
Entre deux retenues deux courants je m'apaise

Mes pieds avancent dans les clapotis
je ne ressens pas les vagues
je les passe comme d’anciens habits
et ma robe se met à flotter autour de moi
de mes mains je salue les ondes les plus lointaines

J’appartiens à ce sable sous mes pieds à ces eaux qui m’appellent
à la terre toute entière c’est elle qui me dompte et m’apprivoise
c’est à elle que je me livre
je veux communier pour ceux qui luttent
je veux remercier pour ceux qui brûlent
je veux être nature et légère

Gothic Futuristic Oratorio #2

This is my version of ‘Spirit’ by the Waterboys.
I was asked to perform it at a storytelling event last week. A storyteller was planning to read the words as part of his performance but asked me to perform it as a song. So I learnt it over lunch- which wasn’t too hard as only two chords! The Waterboys do magnificent two chord songs. I’ve loved this song for about 40 years. I had a lot of fun making it my own with harmonium and slowed down guitar.

Spirit

let this one speak for itself

lyrics

I like to play a tune on my guitar
when the words I want are just too far
when the world gets too bleak
I can't find the words that I seek
so I like to play a tune on my guitar

when there is just too much
senseless hate and pain
people doing things I can';t explain
my mind goes numb and I start to strum
yes I like to play a tune on my guitar

when I sit and strum
the pain seems to be gone
I don't see the room spinning round me
my mind just wanders off
I just think about the notes
my fingers seem to know just where to go
yes I like to play a tune on my guitar

but then I have to stop
and I have to get up
and the world is just the same as before
I hope the day will come
when we sit down as one

and all play a tune on our guitars

it's a big sandbox so let's all play

File Updated: Friday 31st Jan 2025 @ 14:44 GMT

Tempo 77 bpm
Timing 4/4
Tuning 444 Hz A (& drop a further semitone)

Lyrics
Let's let reason role in
Critical thought now, only!
Multiple sources
Knowledge clean
Societies scientific dream
Reason, please.
Our scientific dream...

You're lost in politics
Why with such a strange bunch of bollix's
Boxed thought
Lies, with minds in survival mode
Poking "their" other side
Not in my life!
Not on my Earth!
Not in this Sol system
Found out with children's worth


This song pines the need for humanity to fully embrace science and real reason especially in the face of modern political influence and it's relative lies and source as an insular disease for individuals.

Politics like anything is a science and with a humanity that embraces science first for everything which in my view it should, then we as individuals need to start reasoning the world properly from all sources... We can only then formulate opinions properly on important subjects and then we as individuals can see through the leaders that lie their way to political power. Only when we ourselves see our real truth (found with proper research and CRITICAL thought) do we see through the lies of others...
The disease is settling for one opinion that confirms your own bias that you want to be true because you believe it to be. That's not scientific. That's a cult

Scientific Dream

I am an artist, writer and musician from Hastings, UK.  I make slightly wonky acoustic folk-pop, often with unusual guitar tunings.
I record my own songs, musical versions of my own poetry and poems by my favourite poets such as Rilke and Yeats. 
Musically my current obsession is Judee Sill.
But it always comes back to the music of my childhood- The Cocteau Twins, The Waterboys, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush.

Spirit

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