The SWR Project - Shock and Awe
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Shock and Awe

As we watch… You say anything you please
And we watch… You don’t have to believe
And we watch… As your power corrupts
And we know… Your paranoid and distrust

And we shout… You use a God’s name
And we shout… For your own perverse gain
And we shout… As your ego makes choices
And we know… Your plans are born of psychosis

As we march… Your followers obey
And we march… Listening to lies you say
And we march… They believe your propaganda
And we know… Their hatred and their anger

It’s not about freedom, it’s control and privilege
Your arrogance your vanity, your conceited image

You bully and tease, you break the law
A game for the insane, of ‘Shock and Awe’

As we pray… You conceive your spin
And we pray… You intimidate to win
And we pray… You trick others to fall
And we know… You aren’t that smart at all

It’s not about freedom, it’s control and privilege
Your arrogance your pride, your conceited image

You bully and tease, you break the law
A game for the insane, of ‘Shock and Awe’

You’re making it up, for your TV show
Controlling the narrative, where realities forgo
Choosing to be blinkered, not trying to inspire
And the world watches on, at the end of an empire

Just lies upon lies, you bury the truth
Your incestuous flaws, in ‘Shock and Awe’

Shock and Awe

The SWR Project - The Ballad Of Mary Read (Spanish Ladies)
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

The Ballard Of Mary Read (Spanish Ladies)

She was born of shame and raised in lies
Disguised as a boy just to survive
She took to the sea to escape that life
Cutlass in hand a musket and knife

They cursed her name they called her sin
A woman who fought like the Devil’s own kin
To loot and plunder by day and by night
Eventually soaked she lost her fight

The chains don’t break and the tides don’t turn
A cold wind calls and the powder won’t burn
No grave for her no stone no name
A pirates fate is bound in chains
A pirates fate is bound in chains

She held her blade till the day she fell
Locked in the dark to rot in her cell
With child unborn her spirit grew weak
No ship to sail no future to seek

The chains don’t break and the tides don’t turn
A cold wind calls and the powder won’t burn
No grave for her no stone no name
A pirates fate is bound in chains
A pirates fate is bound in chains

A pirates fate is bound in chains

[Spanish Ladies]

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu you sweet ladies of Spain
For we've received orders to sail for old England
We hope that some day we may sail here again

We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt sea
Til we strike soundings in the Channel of old England
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues

We hove our ship to with the wind at sou' west boys
We hove our ship to our soundings to clear
And we billowed the top sail the sail of down channel
We headed down channel to old England dear

We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt sea
Til we strike soundings in the Channel of old England
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu you sweet ladies of Spain
For we've received orders to sail for old England
We hope that some day we will sail here again

We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt sea
Til we strike soundings in the Channel of old England
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues

The Ballard Of Mary Read (Spanish Ladies)

The SWR Project - Crusades
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Crusades

Let there be light and forbidden fruit
The blind lead the blind in a frivolous pursuit
For a Golden Calf lambs to the slaughter
Baptism of fire turning wine into water

Wolves in sheep's clothing lead you astray
Cast pearls before swine repent and obey
Those who use the sword will die by the blade
Put your house in order atonement to pay

And I wasted too much time
On something that was never mine

He’s under your bed he’s in your head
Tells you he’s right all day and night
He’s under the stairs he hears your prayers
Hidden within watching you sin
He’s everywhere crusades begin
Father release your rosary screams
Checking your sickness in his book of dreams
Faith in forgiveness crusades begin

Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Haman’s leading for power and lust
Your brother's keeper is lost and scared
His flesh and blood the cross you bear

An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth
Matt seven fifteen the behemoths let lose
The salt of the earth suffer and pray
Echo hail Mary’s a judgement day

As I stood on the firing line
I found out you weren’t divine

He’s under your bed he’s in your head
Tells you he’s right all day and night
He’s under the stairs he hears your prayers
Hidden within watching you sin
He’s everywhere crusades begin
Father release your rosary screams
Checking your sickness in his book of dreams
Faith in forgiveness crusades begin

He’s under your bed he’s in your head
Tells you he’s right all day and night
He’s under the stairs he hears your prayers
Hidden within watching you sin
He’s everywhere crusades begin

Crusades

The SWR Project - How Long
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

How Long

Wet autumn nights, revealing your fears
A broken mind, Shattered in the tears
My stolen Heart, Lost to your eyes
Listening to your words, lured by your cries

In a winters chill, a warm home to find
We lived for others, working combined
Sharing our lives, Enchanted by you
What you’d become, And everything you do

In Spring you said, I didn’t want you
When there’s nothing further, from the truth
You were all my dreams, all my desires
Everything I could wish for, all I required

How long is long enough, To forget the pain
How long is long enough, To get in touch again
How long is long enough, To get in touch, again

And the seasons move on, life passes by
With new lives to live, new reasons to cry
Only pictures remind us, what we don’t show
What could have been, Summers we’ll never know

How long is long enough, To forget the pain
How long is long enough, To get in touch again
How long is long enough, To get in touch, again

How Long

The SWR Project - Where Are You Now
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Where are you now					

Where are you now
Where are you now
It dissed you, and dismissed you, and it twisted your past
It kissed you, and it fixed you, then it tore you apart

Where are you now
Where are you now
Made you pay, stole limbs away, it saw you fall from grace
As you decay, it ignored you pray, as you struggle with malaise

Where are you now
Where are you now
Divulge the truth, they indulge you, but ignore what occurred 
They begrudge you, and misjudge you, and they hold you to their word

Where are you now
Where are you now
Tired of listening, to the sickening, ignoring all they say
Your christening, reconditioning, you’ll find a winning way

Where are you now

How precious life is, your special and unique
They can’t label you, or tell you that your weak 
Never feel regret, for what you couldn’t be
Your far more than that, be yourself be free 
Where are you now

Where are you now
Where are you now

All life’s, broken promises, can’t pull you apart
It’s living, with the lies, and ignoring bleeding hearts 

Where are you now

How precious life is, your special and unique
They can’t label you, or tell you that your weak 
Never feel regret, for what you couldn’t be
Your far more than that, be yourself be free 
Where are you now

Where Are You Now

The SWR Project - Essence
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Essence

And you're searching for a metaphor, a way to explain
Life’s love and friendships, all of the pain
As literal ideas, keep drifting by
Only a few words linger, asking you, why

As the story of your Journey, slowly unfolds
The pages ahead, grow fewer and old
Each line you've written, a person you’ve met
A soul you’ve touched, a mark you’ve, left

Some will remember, only your grace,
Others the damage, you left in your place
Maybe they smiled, at your laughter and your jokes
Or perhaps they mask the scares, your flaws provoked

It’s a kaleidoscope a shifting scene
Footnotes you’ve never seen

You're in a thousand novels
Each line a piece of you
With chapters lost to time
Only you know the truth
Only you know what’s you

Whether part of a sentence, a paragraph a verse
You ask yourself repeatedly, why does it hurt
A hero to some, the villain to others
In countless tales, with forgotten lovers

Trying to guess the ending, when our last words are known
A few lines in an epilogue, to mark what you condone
You sacrificed hearts, your motives unclear
Shame now residing, where pride once appeared

Does it hurt because you never cried
Or because you never even tried

You're in a thousand novels
Each line a piece of you
With chapters lost to time
Only you know the truth
Only you know what’s you

As faded recollections, keep drifting by
Only a few words linger, asking you why
Life is beautiful, but owes you no presence
It’s fragile it’s fleeting, and pain is its, essence

Pain is its essence.


Essence

This Is The Life - Fletch, Steve P & Julie - The SWR Project
Written - Amy MacDonald

Oh, the wind whistles down, the cold dark street tonight
And the people they were dancin', to the music vibe
And the boys chase the girls with the curls in their hair
While the shy tormented youth sit way over there
And the songs they get louder, each one better than before

And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

So you're headin' down the road in your taxi for four
And you're waitin' outside Jimmy's front door
But nobody's in, and nobody's home till four
So you're sittin' there with nothin' to do
Talkin' about Robert Riger and his motley crew
And where you gonna go, and where you gonna sleep tonight

And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you're singin' the songs, thinkin' this is the life
And you wake up in the mornin', and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go?
Where you gonna sleep tonight?

Where you gonna sleep tonight?

This is the Life (Cover) - Fletch, Steve P & Julie - The SWR Project

I Ain't Ever Loved No One (Cover) - Fletch, Steve P & Julie B - The SWR Project
Written By : Donovan Woods

I guess before I met ya
I didn't know better
You swept in out of nowhere
When I thought I'd never go there
And you set the bar
for this stubborn heart
And when you met my family,
Everybody knew that you had me wrapped
I ain't ever loved no one like that
And when I said I loved ya,
I didn't care if you said it back
I ain't ever loved no one like that

If you'd have just kept walkin'
And we'd never got to talkin'
I could go on existin'
Not knowin' what I was missin'
But you set the bar
for this stubborn heart
When you met my family,
Everybody knew that you had me wrapped, I ain't ever loved no one like that
When I said I loved ya, I didn't care if you said it back
I ain't ever loved no one like that

And maybe I'll love again, then again, maybe I won't
Maybe you feel the same, maybe you don't
How would I know?

'Cause when you met my family,
Everybody knew that you had me wrapped
I ain't ever loved no one like that
And when I said I loved ya,
I didn't care if you said it back
I ain't ever loved no one like that
I ain't ever loved no one like that
I ain't ever loved no one like that
I ain't ever loved no one like that



I Ain't Ever Loved No One (Cover) - Fletch, Steve P & Julie B - The SWR Project

The SWR Project - Salt Water
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Salt Water

And we’re walking, on sand through waves
We’re talking, we’re feeling brave
And we’re remembering, feeling betrayed
We’re recalling, mistakes we’ve made  

As we wander, to distant shores
Across dunes ‘n shingle, our souls explore		
Taking the chance, we slowly explain
How we felt, in those moments of pain

And we’re listening, to each other pray
We’re longing, to feel less afraid
And we’re missing, our masquerade
But forgiving, mistakes we’ve made, mistake we made

It was always us, in our hearts
Only ever fates, that kept us apart
The time lost, where poems die		
Salt water, on toes and in eyes

As our misgivings, fade away
Holding hands, our love portrays
Knowing a truth, this can never be
Our touching lips, steal a final scene, a final scene

It was always us, in our hearts
Only ever fates, that kept us apart
The time lost, where poems die		
Salt water, on toes and in eyes

The time lost, discloses lies 
Salt water, on toes and in eyes

Time lost, our ghosts deny
Salt water, on toes and in eyes
The time lost, where poets die		
Salt water, stings our eyes,  salt water, stings our eye

Salt Water

The SWR Project - Alluring Extremes
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Alluring Extremes

There is no path, the destinations unknow
We’re all misplaced, travelling alone
None of us know where, we’re meant to be
None of us can predict, with any certainty
And never trust anyone, who claims they can see

No-one knows why, we're really here
The meaning of it all, and why we persevere
Just finding our way, a truth a mantra
Forging a trail, our own raison d'être
And never trust anyone, who claims they know the answer

Can you be lost, if you don't know where you’re going?
Can you be lost, if your escaping where you've been?
We’re on our unique journey, trying to evade the weeds
Tempted by the visions, of alluring extremes
Tempted by the promise, of alluring extremes

There are no wrong choices, only different routes
Easy and hard options, short cuts to pursue
Don’t be fooled by glitter, efforts not biased
Karma can be hazardous, and life is non-compliant
And never trust anyone, who claims they have triumphed

Can you be lost, if you don't know where you’re going?
Can you be lost, if your escaping where you've been?
We’re on our unique journey, trying to evade the weeds
Tempted by the visions, of alluring extremes
Tempted by the promise, of alluring extremes
Tempted by the vision, of alluring extremes

Alluring Extremes

'The SWR Project'.  Three friends on opposite sides of the globe making music together. Ambient Folk ideas merged together from our different worlds.  We hope you enjoy the SWR Sound.

Written & Vocals - Fletch
Music - Fletch (GB), Steve P. (USA) & Julie B. (CAN)


Some things change, some things never do... Take it easy...  Fletch :)

Salt Water

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