7/28/23

New & hot: Folk & Singer-Songwriter

The better ones from the songs recorded to cassette on Yamaha MT50 four track over the past few days. 8/3/23

Good Four Tunes

Too much Frain Bloss?  I've trimmed all the excess into a playlist of the better bloss of the frain so far.  All these songs were written and recorded in the past week in August/Late July to cassette tape using a four track tape recorder.   I'm using this soundcloud as a sort of sonic journal so everything is temporary and I’ll delete stuff eventually.

Early Bloss

Copy of collection of songs on bandcamp.  Like a proto album.

Years of Moonlight

Garage roof

Ophelin2

every song that i post isn't mine !! so don't go at me please! >:

lyrics:

Take a swim in the water
Take a swim in the water
Dear Arkansas daughter

You with the dark curls, you with the watercolor eyes
You who bears all your teeth in every smile
He says, "I can always hear you sing, I wanna hear you speak to me"
While a stranger braids my hair back out on the street
And in your dreams, we are shooting at snakes
And while you were asleep, I was surely awake

I was talking at a cigarette
With nothing left to say
But he should have been there anyway
For I didn't sing a single song, all day

As my love for you dies
As my love for you dies
As my love for you is steadily dying
As sharp and serious as a pistol in the eye

My heart is full of swords
Full of, full of swords
Your love, it knows the Lord

Tie my hands and I knock my knees as
I kneel down, I kneel down in the sea
To the ocean floor, I will sink like
A steel chest full of weapons
And on the spine of the tide, you will rise like
A red ripe, red ripe apple
Take a swim in the dirty water
Dear Arkansas Daughter
Take a swim in the dirty water
Darling child, true love of mine

As my love for you dies
As my love for you dies
As my love for you is steadily dying
Darling, child, true love of mine
Darling child, true love of mine
True love of mine
True love of mine





Dear Arkansas Daughter - Lady Lamb sped up

Dewaywa (4trak3)

living in Brighton is an amazing experience, but shortly after moving to the city, Jesse and James started to miss the nature of the green hills that were left behind in their hometown, Malvern... and so born was green, a jazzy ballad of a journey in to a description of where we all grew up.

Green - Live Lounge Sessions

recorded on four Track to cassette

Here at the end of my 
souls straightening￼
It’s like my spine in a ball
And my heart on the brink

I took you to task 
right down the road 
you said￼
Take it for a spin
Find my drive in the way

It’s my one and only home 
But I never felt more alone

Is there something wrong 
with my heart on my tongue 
I just can’t leave my love 
at the door￼

tonight you swear￼
Nothing will be right 
again I’m stranded 
everything that’s wrong 
can’t be strong handed
Take it to the line
You want euphoria 

But everything you’ve 
been doing all along 
was all important￼

Wait down here for a ride
Be not unaware 
for I’ve been there 
100 million times￼

Green-Axe (4trak13)

The shade of your coat and industrial grey
In the background where we play
I know my heart belongs with you
I know you believe its true, too

Your beautiful eyes, your beautiful smile
We lay in the grass, lets stay for a while
We laugh and we joke in our world so full of hope

As the evening light dims and we lift our exhausted limbs
What a beautiful day as we head home
To our home so warm and snug
I need a hug


316. i need a hug (harding).mp3

Flummox

This song is about being happy. It’s about being true to yourself / always doing what you want to do, and taking some risks on the journey. The lyrics are about searching ‘beyond the universe’
…………..only to discover that happiness is with you all the time. 

This is a raw acoustic recording. I decided not to over produce the song as I thought it suits the vibe and the lyrics. (Written and recorded on an iPad)

Beyond The Universe Lyrics (Copyright Mia Wilks PRS) 

Space and time no longer matter
I have endless hours endless time 
Like the tides at sea
Time don’t bother me 
There is nothing beyond the universe
There is nothing left to see
No more searching everywhere 
My heart’s calm, you can see me 

Beyond the universe
Beyond the universe 
90 billion light years across
I no longer need to ask 
I no longer need to see
My heart is calm I can just be me 

My life in motion is now complete
‘Forever’ seems so good, all that’s mine 
Like kites dancing the sky
They cannot resist to fly
Until the clouds begin to cry all the time 
Like the sky at night
Forever reaching everywhere 
I have everything I need here 
My heart’s calm I can just be me

Beyond the universe
Beyond the universe 
90 billion light years across
I no longer need to ask 
I no longer need to see
My heart is calm I can just be me 

Beyond the universe
Beyond the universe 
90 billion light years across
I no longer need to ask 
I no longer need to see
My heart is calm I can just be me

Beyond The Universe (Acoustic Raw)

Let Up

Kit Bags(Sped Up)

Cassette four track.  All synths and drums are KORG. Guitar run through various fx to make it horny

Dry Suit

Original song by Phil Dutton & Les Corlett

Lyrics...
I took a tumble down the stairs,
And everybody stared.
As if anybody cares,
I'm just trying to live my life.

You see I lost both faith and hope,
It kept raining I was soaked.
Drenched through with rage and fear,
I stayed hidden here for years.

The shadows soon corrupt the soul,
I found a way to lose control.
Who am I supposed to be,
There's no resemblance I can see.

But in the darkness, there is light,
A friend to guide me through the night.
With caring words and a helping hand,
They showed me how to make a stand.
 
I'm trying to mend my shattered heart,
I should have done it from the start.
With courage, strength, I'll forge ahead,
No longer chained, a past I dread.
 
Through these trials, I’ve found my way,
To the place I want to stay,.
I faced my demons, one by one,
Conquered fears, now they are gone.
 
I will rebuild my shattered heart,
I will embrace a fresh new start.
With courage, strength, I'll forge ahead,
No longer chained a past I dread.
 
Life's a journey with ups and downs,
But I'll face them all, without a frown.
For I've discovered the strength within,
To mend my soul, begin again.
 
So to anyone lost in the dark,
Know that you can make your mark.
Reach out for help, don't be afraid,
Together, we will serenade.
 
With each sunrise, I am reborn,
In symphony of life, adorned.
I took that tumble, not defined,
By the fall I rise and shine.

Rattlesnake

Wouldn't You

WOULDN'T YOU

Yellow Leaf Rustle

Recorded to cassette with four track. 

Complain all you want I’m onto your shit 
there’s nothing you could say I haven’t seen or heard yet￼
Before it was faces of things you only see in bad dreams
I’ve been drowning my life down in the seams

Where did you go￼￼
Out on the fairgrounds
Out on your own
Into the background

Give me too much
Give me I’m sorry 
I’ll let you know
Got you open

Every now and then I’ll go 
and get it you must do it 
once for the blood 
or you’ll need a medic

Now and then 
I have a vision 
where I don’t submit￼

A clean upheaval
A heart of evil 
And all that 
we know
Is 
Feeling feeble
I bear it below
My gland adrenal 
It roars

And I’m not gonna stop￼
It’s not that I want to

Taken too long to admit
Compiling dirt to catch a wave
You gots to believe 
There’s some luck for me yet

Lamp Shows Where

Just for a word I’ve been waiting so long
Everything you heard about me is not wrong
I just need a moment please
to explain
Can’t outrun it let me forget

Photo is from Mt. Shasta in California.  Song recorded to cassette in North Carolina

Tell me something real so I have a sort of baseline￼
I can replay the reels when I think that you are lying￼

Desirelessness

Cassette.  Def running out of tapes will have to get more somewhere and tape over old ones.

Cold are the foibles of friendship
Never can do what you want￼
Mixed up between your emotions￼
And everything you’ve promised￼

But there will be time for both
Love me back and I will show it

Filling in where I belong￼
Gotta take me with all along￼
I hope you don’t take it the wrong way￼
I sure would

Not doing any good 
Not doing any good
Take it wrong way
Just in case
Just in case it could be true

Grey Robe Ragged (Wrong Way)

River Drag On

Sea Glows

Just Stay Down /Freak

There’s this temptation I get￼
But I can’t give in￼
Gotta stand
tall as your demands 
crush my soul￼

See I’m playing the long game
I’m looking far ahead￼￼
Im playing the long game
I’m stretched out the runway

Nobody could come close to closing 
nobody could see through the reason￼
Nobody could ever feel that feeling 
you better get started alone￼

The feeling’s unclothed￼
clean through your guts

And the tremble of your forehead
Gently outpouring 
I’m still playing the long game

Long Game

Lying awake for the next night in a row￼
Fading to nowhere
Counting dominoes

Walking out at late night I got to compose
Some sort of reason
Some sort of code 

Don’t give up too much of your love
You gotta save some￼
For yourself

Nobody can know it better
Than u



Is it all that you wanted￼￼
Is it all that you needed￼

Save Some

Recorded to cassette

Maybe I don’t talk
Have that recollection in your mind
Who do you think you are
Make it look so easy all the time

If I take a step in the wrong direction where will I be￼

Threads from the Tower

And then she died￼
It was a terrible time and a terrible thing￼
I don’t think I cried￼
When anybody was looking￼

I think it’s so hard to get up anymore
and walk out the door￼ to do the same

When you're dead and 
dying all on the inside
Nobody I could look in the eye 
and tell them I would rather die￼

Jealous of the squirrel￼
I’m jealous of the tree
They never had to love me

Jealous of the squirrel￼
I’m jealous of the tree￼s
They never had to love me

Jealous of the Squirrel

Hey hey
Things are going the same way￼
There’s no need for an update￼
Nothing is changing 

I still wake up every day￼
Unsure of my place on the planet￼
In this building 

As my heart beats
Like a balloon
And my radar
Going full unguided

But you already knew about it
I’m just beating a dead thing
So it won’t walk away

I’m on my last stop￼
I’m on my last breath
Can’t hold on much longer
It’s coming to the end
And I got nothing left

I got nothing left
I got nothing left

Nothing Left

I look around
Everyone doing what they’re supposed to
I’ve got permission from my head that say
I’m not allowed to

You got to go and get it
If you want it
You’ve got to go and get it
She said if you want it
You got to go and go and get it

Suppose

Garage Roof (Suburban)

I record mostly everything to four track to cassette.  Everything is pretty unfinished, mostly stream of consciousness kind of thing.  This is like a journal.  I’m looking to collab and create.  In Asheville, North Carolina at the moment.

Ig: frainbloss