Name: The Path Not Taken by Howling Fret Fumbler
Duration: 4 min 32 s
Description: Song inspired by "The road not taken" by Robert Frost and "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig.

Nice job!  I like the sparse, rhythmic accompaniment

Lyrics sung by Ms Molly
Guitar solo by Jim Hebert
Music and lyrics by Richard John Marek




Don't fade
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I've imagined of a time
a place true and free
theres only you and i
feelin lucky and secure
no longer out of place
we're home

You will be right there
to wrap into my arms
you will be the smile
I'll carry all the awhile
you will beat my heart
you will fill my soul
with joy and song

I've imagined of a day
i wake to see you next to me
i reach and u dont fade
whisper softly in your ear
how much it means to me

you're here

you will be my light
when everything seems dark
you wil be my guide
we know that i'll get lost
you will be my fight
only thing worth dying for
You are...

imagine no more wasted time
not one empty hand
yours are wrapped in mine
our hearts will grow, baby
your the reason i believe
in love

you will be each breath
the ones youve took away
you will be each thought
that brightens up my day
you will be my life
every reason i'm alive

I've imagined of a day
you're right next to me
i reach for you

i reach and you

don't fade

Don't Fade

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The only thing from the original recording is the vocal, me in 2002.  I've kept the original vocal because I like how I stylised it, though I'm not entirely sure what I was aiming for there, most likely trying to sound like someone - though I can't remember who! 

It's got the benefits of being a voice about 19/20 years younger than the present one!  I'm by no means fallen to pieces, but have a notably different voice at 42 to the one I had at 22! I did try to re record a little piece of the vocal, just a couple of words, won't say which bit, only because it was a lyric I didn't love, but that sadly made the voice difference over 20 years glaringly obvious, because of which I've left the vocal as it was. 

Lyrics

You always tell me that I'm looking fine
I know you know I've got things on my mind
I know I've been lost and, in the freeze,
Been beaten down, the bruises only I can see!

I feel the cold wind cut close to the bone
At times when I feel like I’m on my own
But no, I ‘m still me 
I’m still me!

Just need a little recovery
Try and be the way I used to be
And see the things I used to see
A smile on my face
But smiles can be misplaced
In time, can be erased
But mine will be replaced
Will be replaced!

You exorcize the things that haunt my soul
Can leap through fire when I’m not alone
But no I'm not brave
My life's another slay
Inner punches by my fist alone
Struggles twine themselves around my throat
But no I'm still me
I’m still me!

Just need a little recovery
Try and be the way I used to be
And see the things I used to see
A smile on my face
But smiles can be misplaced
In time, can be erased
But mine will be replaced
Will be replaced!

Sometimes I feel like there’s just no way out
Feel like my body’s knocked into the ground
I know I seem to have lost all control
My frail image might have lost it’s soul

But I know, still, I won’t go! 

Just need a little recovery
Try and be the way I used to be
And see the things I used to see
A smile on my face
But smiles can be misplaced
In time, can be erased
But mine will be replaced
Will be replaced!

Re-uploaded 20/9/23 (that's just for my reference).

Recovery (2002)

Song inspired by "The road not taken" by Robert Frost and "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig.

The Path Not Taken

This is the version of this song most similar to how you'll hear me play it live

Dancing In The Rain (Acoustic Version)

This is the full band arrangement of this song (although all the instruments apart from the Mike Leander inpsired drum loop are me).

I have also uploaded a more typical acoustic version similar to how I play it live.

Dancing In The Rain (Full Band Version)

Through the eyes of the soul

Song with the "Purdie Shuffle" groove I have always wanted to use.

Back To Bed

Goodby Dusty Revised

Wish I Could Write Like Syd

This is very old song based on a science fiction story I intended to write about a dystopian future where all music is generated by machines until one day our hero does some historical research and creates an acoustic musical instrument.   I wrote the song but didn't get around to the story.

Song In The Machine

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
I got the room at the top - window in an office block
I'm gazing out on the river at night bathed in neon light I stare
I got everything I need I got the brains to succeed
So why do I feel the walls closing in got me living in my nightmare

Chorus:
But if I could be half the man I wanted to be to try
To gaze out to see looking for the key to the door of my 
Glass cage

Verse 2:
I gotta house in the sticks - invest in mortar and bricks
I gotta work to keep paying my way the same every day and then
I got my toys in my room - a technological boom
But there's no reason to try anymore more I still remember when

Alt Chorus:
I saved up to buy my guitar and played every bar to see 
It's sad to reflect as reflections shine from the bars of my glass cage

Middle 8:
Its the way of the world - you can write every word - you can be that 
all the songs that you heard - Sad and slightly absurd - I can see that and to me that

Verse 3:
A drink with friends in the bar - pick up the keys to my car
I'm pulling out of the back street at night halogen so bright I see

Chorus:
But if I could be half the man I wanted to be to try
To gaze out to see looking for the key to the door of my 
Glass cage

The Path Not Taken

Howling Fret Fumbler

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