Excellent songwriting, brilliantly performed, Viv.

A most lovely and knowing autumnal song. Well writted, arranged, and performed. And your voice is so well suited to these words. Good one.

Another beautiful and very touching song from you Viv..."And the memories like smoke in the wind"....thank you for sharing...

The ghosts of the saints are hanging from the branches of the trees
Whilst lovers walk below in innocence of the things they cannot see
red and gold question marks remind me of a line from Socrates
In matters of the heart we are no wiser as to the root of our disease

As autumn breezes blow our thoughts to settle in the heaps of missing times 
our slowly faded longing in these 
reveries and dreams 

You say that you don't care, but you know you care too much
A hardened shell protects you now, from all of that stuff
But you're not kidding anyone, we can see straight through your bluff
the hardest lessons are served to those who think they're tough

and we are not cold and we are not kind and 
sometimes we care to much for the things we left behind in these
reveries and dreams

Interlude

Pick your path, we make our way with the blind leading the blind
monstrous truths are buried in our deep sub conscious mind in our
reveries and dreams

now the dusk is falling earlier as the air smells sweet and chill
and thoughts turn to the holidays and the season of goodwill
We could have done it differently in this tale from storyville
But it's time to call the waiter over, it's time to get the bill

And the memories like smoke in the wind, becoming thinner by the year
remind you of the things you love and the things that you hold dear in these
reveries and dreams

Reveries And Dreams

Pulled from the archives, Julie Evans brings the Blues to her exquisite violin playing in this cover of the famous Arthur Hamilton song.  I had the privilege of backing her up with acoustic guitar and bass.  Remastered from a cassette tape recorded in 1997.  Thanks to Harvey Twyman for bringing our cover to mind with his own recent and very fine cover @harvey-twyman.

Cry Me A River (Arthur Hamilton) Julie Evans; violin, David; Guitar, Bass

Somnambulism

From the time i was little child all i ever wanted to do was to play music. Morning , noon and night. When i get a song in my head i cant stop until i get it down somewhere and i know a lot of people just like me so i wrote this song for all of us Bards. Musical magicians, guardians of musical songs and old traditions. I hope you enjoy this one , it has taken me a long time to get it out and record it. 

We are musicians. 
We are The guardians of songs and old tradition 
We are the Bards , the musical magicians 
We are Musician. 
We are musicians. 

We are Musicians. 
We are not lawyers or Soldiers or politicians 
We are the sorcerers the musical magicians. 
We are Musicians.  

Chorus 
Music is all we want to play 
Form the dawning of the morning sun until the closing of the day 
Music is everything we are it’s our life our love our everything. 
We just want to dance and sing 
Music …. we just want to play Music. 
Music ……We just want to play music. 

We are musicians. 
We’re not Soldiers we’re not lawyers we’re not politicians. 
 We are the Bards we are the Musical Magicians 
We not Physicians, we’re just musicians. 

Music is all we want to play. 
Form the rising of the morning sun until the evening of the day. 
Music is everything we are it’s our life our love our everything. 
We just want to dance and sing. 
Music is everything we are. 
Its our life our soul our everything 
We just want to dance and sing. 


Written & Performed by : Johnny Mc Farlane

We Are Musicians

This is messy and rough, more like a demo -- it was all done in my scratch pad context (FL Studio), but then again the subject is messy and rough.

Take You Down

I can take you down
I can bring you right down put your face down to it
I can wait around ready for you

you are free to change your mind
you are free to leave this life behind
there's an open door but you don't go through it

I try to get away clean but you got me in a hold
you put your fingers in my head and I loose control
how will I ever be satisfied

I can help with the pain for a little while
cause you know it really just ain't my style
to let you feel what I'm doing when I'm doin it

got what I need and I need it
where does it end now
now that I've paid with my freedom

I just want to be free from all the craving of the night
hey yeah will there ever be a time when I feel it

Take You Down

Original Composition: Jean-Pierre DUBOIS
Arrangement and piano performance: Debra Buesking

Thank you to Jean-Pierre Dubois for allowing me to play his pieces in my own fashion.  It's a great pleasure for me.

Also thank you to David Dunham for mastering my piano tracks.
 Listen to David's beautiful music here: @david-dunhamuser589535203

Chansonnette Matinale (Arrangement on original music by Jean-Pierre DUBOIS)

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Open your heart to me AI - 24_04_2024, 17.15

A tune I wrote from a tuning given to me by Tom Hanson, CFCFCF just today.

Parallel Blues

You found me down here in my Hell
Know me better than I know myself
   & still you think I’m good
Not put off by this life of sin
Not fooled by this animal skin
   I’ve been hiding in the wood
& the cool, cool mountain springs
From your ah! bright wings.

I should have known, I’ve got eyes to see
Long suspected you’ve been following me
   For a long, long while
& I am led by my fancies round
Of course you know this & so you sent her down
   In your gentleness and your guile
These are sweet, sweet sufferings
And yours are ah! bright wings.

Emissary of your grace
Evidence of a better place
   High above me
Her face without a grin:
A resort town in the off-season
   Heartbreaking & lovely
& of course, of course she sings
Of your ah! bright wings.

Ah! Bright Wings

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All music, songs and lyrics are original, unless noted.
Collaborations welcome, if you think you can add something to any of my songs, want to sing them, etc, please drop me a note
I advise playing on a good Hi-Fi or at least good headphones, otherwise you will miss all the good stuff going on in the lower frequencies. You don't want to only hear half of the music : )

Reveries And Dreams

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