“The Mountain Stands Alone and Lovers Are Possessed”
                                 (Gerry Segal)
I.
Would you climb a mountain if I said I love you?
She asked the man who rarely spoke
Tacking love is tough in this modern day ocean when the world is truly woke
They started out at the slippery river bed 
3 hours to climb to the crest
The mountain stands alone and lovers are possessed

II
The mountain comes with it's own love stories and legends from other days
There's the saga of the big elm tree lovers
French soldiers and local maids
There was a wedding at the top during ante bellum 
A brass band once played at the crest
the mountain stands alone and lovers are possessed

 Chorus
At the top you can see all the way to Boston
Open Space, what a sight, so far and so clear
With A question that she asked him so boldly
Opened time and the future appeared

III
She didn't take a knee, she didn't have a ring, She proposed with style and grace
He didn't know what to say
This was not the standard play
He got taken back a pace
He said of course I do you know I love you
And I guess we all know the rest
the mountain stands alone and lovers are possessed

Outgo
In a world evolving social norms styles  always change
But a mountain and young love still remains

The Mountain Stands Alone

A longer comparison of the vocal synthesis produced by Emvoice Lucy (paid version), and three voices by Synthesizer V : Eleanor Forte (free version), Eleanor Forte AI (free version) and Maki AI (free version).

All tracks are produced with the same mix, levels, fx etc. The first four parts are the four voices with the same backing track. The second four parts are the same voices raw (raw vocals with no backing or effects).

The playlist is:
1.	Emvoice Lucy (with backing)
2.	Synthesizer V Eleanor Forte (with backing)
3.	Synthesizer V Eleanor Forte AI (with backing)
4.	Synthesizer V Tsurumaki Maki AI English (with backing)
5.	Emvoice Lucy (RAW)
6.	Synthesizer V Eleanor Forte (RAW)
7.	Synthesizer V Eleanor Forte AI (RAW)
8.	Synthesizer V Tsurumaki Maki AI English (RAW)

Again, to be fair to Synthesizer V, I am new to Synthesizer V and so the output might be improved with tweaking. Also, this was produced using the free  Synthesizer V Studio Basic. The full Pro version might give better results.

What do you think? Personally, I prefer the vocals from Emvoice, but the range of editable parameters  available in Synthesizer V is really impressive and gives greater scope for creativity.

Emvoice Lucy Vs Synthesizer V Part 2

“Now and Then”
                                 (Lyrics, Music  Gerry Segal        ©2022 )

Now and Then
A new song will just knock me over
Ear candy for the heart and masses just amazes me

It's just like Zen
In the present and in a billion places
What's in a song that's so strong and can set us free

Lord. Set me straight 
I've listened to songs on a million playlists
From artists who put in their soul and output quality
Those songs must vibrate
with people's needs and private places
To endear the public ear
Is the sweet sweet place to be

Now And Then

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Jimmy's Home Now Words and Music Gerry Segal 1962



Jimmy's Home Now

Entwined
Words and Music by Gerry Segal  2016

verse 1
If I could hold one thought I would remember
It's the day we met in late September
On the Quad, on the lawn near the wall of Ivy Vine.
Our lives move like the river bends
The best antiques are good old friends
I know, I care that our lives will stay entwined

verse 2
Our place in time cannot be denied
Our lives unfold untold in ways that we will define
In this space and place in the school of Ivy vines
The campus glows in the morning sun
Where we create what we will become
And I know as we grow we will all stay entwined
chorus
Cast a giant shadow, for each one around us
Yes and cast a light for those to come
Harmonize, enterprise and combine them
It's so free and yet so bound
To our brothers and our sisters that we hold so dear
To the past generations who have brought us here
To our lives going forward we will always stay entwined


Entwined

Young Children Are Falling
Words and Music: Gerry Segal  © 2016

Young children are falling like leaves in the autumn sun
On your towns and turf, schools and churches
Next to Daddy’s loaded gun
Young Children Are Falling in the towns of the travelling gun
Look at their chubby cheeks and sweet eyed faces
Tell them nothing can be done

Chorus
News cycles move so fast, politicians move so slow
Parents with their lives torn apart left standing with a hole in their heart
No one to turn to, nowhere to go

Young Children Are Falling what the hell have we done?
Passed bad laws with greed and children bleed
And their bloods on everyone

Young Children Are Falling

Vienna

        Words and Music Gerry Segal © 2018

When I was nine I watched black and white movies

Repeated on tv every day

The lights and shadows, the music stayed with me

The stories seem to fade away

Now when you’re nine and watching black and while movies

Images burn deep to your core

There was a film with sweet zither music 

Vienna after the war.

 First Chorus

Vienna a city that’s more than

A stop on a train or a picture to show

I have a small pension I hope it grows larger

Let’s wait till we’re older then Molly let’s go


I had a wife and her name was Molly

Oh lord I loved that girl so

We used to walk the streets on upper Broadway 

going to revivals of the picture shows

She left me like the black and while movie

Stayed around till the very last frame

I saw her up in Cavalry Hospital

She walked by didn’t know my name

Second Chorus

Vienna a city that’s more than

A stop on a train or a picture to see

I miss those old theaters my pension is gone now

I stream those old movies and think of Molly and me


Vienna

Vienna

Pistas de miércoles por la mañana

lyrics:

Twenty, July 69, Houston is Calling
Woodstock was coming soon Armstrong walking on the moon
I was walking near and far
Looking for my lost guitar
On a hot Crete afternoon

At small Greek farms and local bars
I followed every lead I could
People glued to their tv
No one was expecting me
They opened up and let me in
This mangy, motely American
I was Looking for my Martin guitar

Friendly eyes, friendly vibes
I met along the way
For all the times that my country’s fallen short
I was proud that day

The first house a young family shared a bottle of Metaxa
That moon walk space mans dignity
Just seems to have rained down on me
A drink or so, I let them know
I took no credit for the glory
I was just looking for my Martin Guitar

At each house I was honored with
Another bottle of Metaxa
As I stumbled from door to door
I forgot what I came there for
In that hazy, happy towns embrace
I took full   credit for the trip in space 
I gave up on my Martin Guitar

Friendly eyes, friendly vibes
I met along the way
For all the times that my country’s fallen short
I was proud that day

Twenty July 69, Houston is Calling
I was looking for my Martin Guitar

Entwined

Gerry Segal Artisan Songs