Recent SWR Recordings

The SWR Project - You Can't Dream
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch, Steve P & Julie B
(C) The SWR Project 2024

You Can’t Dream

Shine Electra
Your radiant light
Exquisite beauty
Body and Mind

My Redeemer
Savior or foe
Anxious muse
Fervid or cold

You don’t understand
You can’t see
You don’t understand
Me
(You can’t dream)

Broken belief
You can’t trust
Lingering fears
Love in lust
(You can’t dream)

Your voice is hollow
Words misaligned
Fragile lucidity
Hope can’t find

You don’t understand
Or know what to do
You don’t understand
You
(You can’t dream)

You don’t understand
Or regret your excuse
You don’t understand
Truth

You don’t understand

You Can't Dream

The SWR Project - Take My Heart
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch, Steve P & Julie B
(C) The SWR Project 2024

Take My Heart

Take my heart,
Set it free,
But leave my soul intact
It’s all that’s left of me.

Take my past,
Forget in your embrace,
Be gentle with my story
It’s an open wound to face.
Take my pride,
Lose it in your joy,
Handle my mind with care
It’s fragile to destroy.

Take my heart, Take my heart.

Take my doubts,
Dispel them with your touch,
Be kind to this body
It’s been through so much.
Take my fears,
And with your courage crush
Be patient with my love
It’s trying again to trust

Take my heart, Take my heart.

Take my heart,
Set it free,
But leave my soul intact
It’s all that’s left of me.

Take my heart, Take my heart.

Take My Heart

The SWR Project - The Writers House
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch, Steve P & Julie B
(C) The SWR Project 2025

The Writers House

Will you take me back, to the Western Isles
Lewis where perspective, calms and beguiles

When you travel there, you fade away
Disappear into silence, of unfamiliar ways
Blend into shadow, in Stornoway’s haze
Frozen in history, by a Callanish gaze

Wild Uig Bay, in the glinting moonlight
A dram of Abhainn Dearg, to keep you warm at night
Giants at Dun Borranish, with stories to write
Longing to return, when fortune is right

Will you take me back, to the Western Isles
Lewis where perspective, calms and beguiles
The Writers House, where dreams are explained
Your vision exists, and your music is made
Take me, Take me

Leave chaos behind, and the speed of decay
Those feelings of anxiety, and having to obey 
To a simpler pace, with echoes of yesterday
A land in tune, with what think and say

Will you take me back, to the Western Isles
Lewis where perspective, calms and beguiles
The Writers House, where dreams are explained
Your vision exists, and your music is made
Take me, Take me

Writers House

The SWR Project - I See You
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch, Steve P & Julie B
(C) The SWR Project 2025

I See You								

And I see you becoming
Devotion burning bright
I see you belonging
To a mothers light
	
And I see you clutching
Comfort soft and slight 
I see you brushing
Wrapping holding tight

And I see you speaking
Fables to recite
I see you recalling
Til my eyes find the night			

And I see you growing
And I see you glowing
In mothers rites
In your mothers light
I see you

And I see you knowing
Sharing your insight
And I see you showing
Moments to excite

And I see you loving
In times of fright
And I see you belonging
In a mothers light 

And I see you growing
And I see you glowing
In mothers rites
In your mothers light
I see you
And I see you
You

I See You

The SWR Project - Take It
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch, Steve P & Julie B
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Take It

Scared of a promise
Scared to be honest
Ask yourself questions
What are your intentions
Answers feel sadness
Disguised in madness

Scared of a time
Scared to entwine
You’ve always been the same
Know what you became
Believe your insight
Cautious to requite

You can take it easy
Take it with care
Fake it forever
Break it or repair

You can take from me
Take it and declare
Forsake it for fear
Mistake it for despair
You can take it
You can take it, if you dare

Scared of response
Scared of your wants
Lives may have changed
Worlds now rearranged
Closure is the game
Fascination still remains

You can take it easy
Take it with care
Fake it forever
Break it or repair

You can take from me
Take it and declare
Forsake it for fear
Mistake it for despair
You can take it
You can take it, if you dare

You can take it
Take it

Take It

The SWR Project - Thunder Falls
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Music : Fletch, Steve P & Julie B
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Thunder Falls								

A thousand feet risen, in a bitter night
The howling wind, cut’s like a knife
Through hidden valleys, mountains squalls
From distant shores, to Thunder Falls

In a desolate land, trapped in clouds 
The torrid rain, envelops and shrouds
Bringing the flood, a water wall
Swelling the gorge, at Thunder, Falls
At Thunder Falls

Rapids surround
The deafening sound
Of cascading currents
Destructive torrents
And the devil is scheming 
White water screaming
Hope has no meaning
And the river is bleeding
At Thunder Falls
At Thunder Falls

They came for calm, came for peace
Came to escape, came for relief 
Trapped in a storm, stunned and enthralled
Nature transformed , at Thunder Falls
At Thunder Falls

Rapids surround
The deafening sound
Of cascading currents
Destructive torrents
And the devil is scheming 
White water screaming
Hope has no meaning
And the river is bleeding
At Thunder Falls
At Thunder Falls

Thunder Falls

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

Waiting

And you realize the truth
They’ve always lied
There’s no reason for faith
No reason to try
And there is no belief
No certainty, no fact
No means to defy
No escape, no act

And love never fades
Just ghosts out of view
Grieving reminders
Of what never came true
And it makes no difference
What you try to do
Happiness is a shadow
That only fools pursue

Waiting for a win
A dream to pull you through
Waiting for the end
When there’s nothing else to do

And life is suffering
A truth they conceal
A vision of lies
To keep us from the real
And they’re all corrupt
Just playing the game
Trying to survive
With no rules and no shame

And the pain you feel
When they tax your dreams
Is just deception
In time’s cruelest scheme
And you could make the most of it
While you're passing through
But what’s the point of lying
When it’s all untrue

Waiting for a win
A dream to pull you through
Waiting for the end
When there’s nothing else to do

Waiting

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

Maybe

Maybe you were right, maybe I was wrong
Maybe I always knew, and felt it all along
Could it be conceivably, I’m afraid of my own mind
Could it be a part of me, is scared of what you’d find

It’s possible I confess, your more than enough 
It’s possible I guess, I don’t know how to love
Perhaps it’s a bad idea, I’ll mistake it for lust 
Perhaps it’s just the fear, being afraid to trust

You can’t blame me
I didn’t see it coming
Maybe we’re more than friends
Or maybe it’s nothing 

Maybe you were right, maybe I was wrong
Maybe I always knew, and denied it for too long
Could it be conceivably, you see who I really am
Could it be that part of me, is scared that you can

You can’t blame me
I didn’t see it coming
Maybe we’re more than friends
Or maybe it’s nothing 

You can’t blame me
I didn’t see it coming
Maybe just the time is wrong
Or maybe it’s nothing

Maybe

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

Bring It

Laughing casting trusting combine
Joking ‘n hoping that fortunes align
Spin it win it waiting for a sign
Bring it ‘n sing it a meeting of minds

Chilling ‘n thrilling making the time
Listening adrenaline sharing wine
String it ‘n ring it chanting rhymes
Bring it ‘n sing it secure inside

Romancing chancing a stranger blind dates
Looking for love someone who makes
You feel special to live and to dare
All life’s moments to hold and to share

Eating in binging a movie unwind
Travelling imagining wonders to find
Swing it wing it loving being kind
Bring it ‘n sing it I’ll make you mine

Romancing chancing a stranger blind dates
Looking for love someone who makes
You feel special to live and to dare
All life’s moments to hold and to share

All life’s moments to hold and to share

Bring It

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

The River   			

And the moment is there at the back of your mind
A glimpse of the future you're destined to find
That pull when you feel it is calling to be
A hidden stream of consciousness setting you free

It’s always within you to guide and to show
Steering your course as you go with the flow
Revealing its secrets a wandering thought
A bridge once unseen now the peace that you sought

On life's raft pass unfamiliar shores
Drifting meandering as your spirit explores
At one with the water its wisdom instilled
Carried on the currents by the river’s will
Carried on the currents by the river’s will

You cannot fight it or paddle upstream
It only goes one way toward all your dreams
A journey of wonder at the speed of time
So trust in its course just relax and unwind

On life's raft pass unfamiliar shores
Drifting meandering as your spirit explores
At one with the water its wisdom instilled
Carried on the currents by the river’s will
Carried on the currents by the river’s will

The River

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 - Listen
Written / Vocals : Fletch
Aboriginal Proverb Narration : Queen Elizabeth II
Music : Fletch (GB), Steve P (USA) & Julie B (CAN)
(C) The SWR Project 2025

Listen

We are all visitors to this time, this place.
We are just passing through.
Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…
and then we return home

When you’re searching when you feel unease
Listen to nature breath
Listen Listen
When you’re lost when you need a guide
Listen to her voice inside
Listen Listen

Take time be patient question your truths
Listen to others views
Listen Listen
Take less than you give do what’s right
Listen to your inner sight
Listen Listen

Be kind be hopeful
Be curious and grateful
Be warm be present
Unhurried and transparent
Listen

When you know more the less you need
Listen learn and believe
Listen Listen
When you lose direction preserve don’t destroy
Listen simplicity in joy
Listen Listen

Be kind be hopeful
Be curious and grateful
Be warm be present
Unhurried and transparent
Listen

Listen

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

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 eyes

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 :)