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LoveIsTheAnswer

As we start upon the journey
We travel with the sun
…until the night does come
Amidst the Saints and sinners
Between the light and dark
…Beware it will turn your heart 

To realise the direction
And stay a steady course
The journey is the quest at the end we’ll find the source 
Nothings ever certain, calm your fear and anger
All I know
Love is the answer

All through the ages
Said in different ways
The questions come in many forms
The answer stays the same
Indecision, confusion turn this world into a game
Flowers turn to the Sun, let nature show the way

To realise the direction
And stay a steady course
The journey is the quest at the end we’ll find the source 
Nothings ever certain, calm your fear and anger
All I know
Love is the answer
Love is the answer 

solo

How can this be possible
Why is this even  happening
Where are we going now…

With every breath we take
And every step we make 
Its a sacred trust
To be, to see, to live 

ah ahh ah…

Awaken to the wonder 
The labyrinth awaits
Journey to the centre
It’s never to late 

To realise the direction
And stay a steady course
The journey is the quest at the end we’ll find the source 
Nothings ever certain, calm your fear and anger 
All I know
Love is the answer
All I know
Love is the answer
Love is the answer

LoveIsTheAnswer

71_ Lautsprecher - released on 15 December 2024 only on Soundcloud

On Friday night I was testing speakers, old-fashioned german word “Lautsprecher”, with a friend for her future vocal gigs and told her that I wanted to use only synths for my next track! Here it is! ;-) #minimal #nodrums #trance #acid #liverecording

(produced with BlocsWave & LaunchPad)

Lautsprecher

Quartet #2 in A Major

Trance Evolution

Sounds generated entirely by a Yamaha CK88, recorded onto six different tracks.

Settling the Mind

I feel the days falling away
I know that you feel the same
All the years now on display
In between some light and shade

Midnight starlight
Music on the square
We used to be there
Running in the shadows
Rapping with the poets beats
We used to walk these streets

The echo of those days remain
In the corners where we used to play
Time slips through like rain
But we still find our way

Midnight starlight
Music on the square
We used to be there
Running in the shadows
Rapping with the poets beats
We used to walk these streets

Whispers of a brighter dawn
In the places where we once belonged

Midnight starlight
Music on the square
We used to be there
Running in the shadows
Rapping with the poets beats
We used to walk these streets

Streets

This is my new single. It’s about accepting life’s challenges, working through them and then using that learning to adapt and survive.  I’ve posted an earlier version here before but it’s remixed and mastered (RCD Audio). 
I hope you enjoy it. Take care. 
James
Lyrics:
My Uncertain Steps 

As a boy, I was scared of the sea
With my family, on a beach in Normandy, 
a French boy told me the ghosts of drowned sailors grab your legs and dragged you down
I wouldn’t go in! 
Too naive and trusting! 

As a teen, I was all over the place! 
Always confused, just didn’t know which way to face
Too many temptations, suggestions and thrills, distracting and wild
Couldn’t think straight 
Couldn’t concentrate! 

It was always their demands and directions 
Had to meet their dreams and expectations 

My uncertain steps
No confidence 
(Trying to find my own way)
My uncertain steps 
At my own pace
(My way) 

My wreckage of a life, with this chaotic love
Constant demands, you can never do enough 
Mix in the bullies, the twisters and those egos too
It pulls you apart
Breaks your heart 

I’m seasoned, I now know this path
One crisis avoided, another starts 

My uncertain steps
More experienced 
(Trying to find my own way)
My uncertain steps
At my own pace 
(My way) 

And now I expect to see the worst
In everyone and everything I know
Just know how it is, but feel I can somehow 
see it through

(outro) 
I’ve got friends (for my uncertain steps)
I’ve lived and learnt (for my uncertain steps)
I’ve got you (for my uncertain steps) 
I’ll get through this (my uncertain steps) 


James Whiteman copyright  18 January 2024

My Uncertain Steps (Single version)

Mayflower

A song about a bongo-loving cook in the town's best greasy spoon who'd rather jam to the beat than make the patrons happy.  I played bass, bongos and pot 'n' pans.

The vid:  https://youtu.be/KLb27yRE6dc

Leon, Rustle Up Some Grub

The Beautiful Dark , Carl on amazing vocals , mesmerizing lyrics and great write up
https://soundcloud.com/thebeautifuldark/tracks

Note: 'Psychedelic Dance Well Shadow' - is spelled downwards on the left hand side. Strangely, this form of writing does limit your scope, however it makes a decision for you on every line so in a way it can help your flow as you are forced into a foundation for every sentence and not left with thinking of everything each time for each line. You have direction. This can remove writing blockages sometimes. Having technical reasons that inspire can sometimes be as important as your intuition when deciding on an idea. The technicality you bring in can always activate your intuition so I'd recommend considering it as a kick starter if ideas aren't coming your way. Add to that, the technique  encourages poetic licence so gets the imagination running in different directions so it's excellent brain food

Lyrics
Psilocybin trance through neurons
Sync the web quantum entanglement
Young again mind has more crayons
Chase these cha cha whacky brain spawns
Hula do that dance of colour
Evolve our path with fungi fuller
Dendrites tuned tame speed of light
Energy cheered feeling bliss thats right
Liberty capped by reasoned subconscious
Cathartic relief

Dream express strong emotion
Alkaloid mine trip the mind
New neurological defined
Control where once we were told just opposite
Ecstatic grain drain brain must fit

Well of wonder escape tonight
Elated dance psychedelic delight
Live a little to love a lot
Like a lot stoic mind plot

Seek the shadows for the lessons
Håkan, high son soothes depression
Addiction go
Dent anxious gloom
Oratory muse
Well wonder womb

The Beautiful Dark and Well  -  Psychedelic Dance

Towards Dawn

I’m a singer/songwriter from Guildford, Surrey, England. I started writing songs when I was 12 on a piano but really got into it when I started playing the guitar at 13/14. As with so many of us, career and family became the priority and I stopped writing over a 30 year period. Now I’ve retired, I’ve finally got time to write and record again and I love it! 
I play everything on the songs and record on my MacBook on GarageBand. Still learning! 
I hope you enjoy the songs and thank you in advance for any comments and feedback. 
James