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Fight For Life

There must be something hidden in our souls
We always have the need to take control
Everything is silent, but nothing is alright
Something is entering your soul tonight


Every day becomes a nightmare
Barely able to belong
I want to escape from this nightmare
Why is this day taking so long?
Every day becomes a nightmare
Never again may this nightmare return
I'll try my very best to learn


I listen to your nightmare
Hold onto your trembling hands
We all live in constant fear
As we sleep together here
Why is this night taking so long?


Every day becomes a nightmare
Barely able to belong
I want to escape from this nightmare
Why is this day taking so long?
Every day becomes a nightmare
Never again may this nightmare return
I'll try my very best to learn

(SOLO)

Wake up! Wake up!
From this nightmare, living dead
Wake up! Wake up!
Before this nightmare becomes reality

Wake up! Wake up!
From this nightmare, living dead
Wake up! Wake up!
Before this nightmare becomes reality

Every day becomes a nightmare
Barely able to belong
I want to escape from this nightmare
Why is this day taking so long?
Every day becomes a nightmare
Never again may this nightmare return
I'll try my very best to learn

Wake up! Wake up!

Wake Up! Wake Up!

I feel the fear in your eyes
Your words took me by suprise
I haunt the night, a shadow in human shape
They fear my presence and start their escape


The cold is coming, the fear is growing
Brighter than the stars tonight


The fear is on the way
No one can avoid it today
Your soul they came to steal
Rise without an ounce of fear


Do you dream about what could be?
When you took my name and agreed
You always knew the right thing to say
Making me what I am today


The cold is coming, the fear is growing
Brighter than the stars tonight


The fear is on the way
No one can avoid it today
Your soul they came to steal
Rise without an ounce of fear


(SOLO) 


The fear is on the way
No one can avoid it today
Your soul they came to steal
Rise without an ounce of fear


The fear is on the way
No one can avoid it today
Your soul they came to steal
Rise without an ounce of fear

The Web Of Fear

Fighting my fight is just an illusion
To force me to an early grave
The shadows I wear, they consume me
For I am too smart to die
They try to pull me under 
I fight back but their grip is too tight
Eyes are red, my heart's pounding
Fight the urge to just throw it all away


Fight for life, not for death
Fight for life, from day one
Fight for life, not for death
Fight for your right to be free


I will fight against you in vain
Bringing signs of searing pain
I'll always want to fight
Fighting for our rights
I'll bring the fight too you
Ends up like a fucking zoo
It's the death of the truth
Killing all of our youth


Fight for life, not for death
Fight for life, from day one
Fight for life, not for death
Fight for your right to be free

(SOLO)

Fight for life, not for death
Fight for life, from day one
Fight for life, not for death
Fight for your right to be free


Fight for life, not for death
Fight for life, from day one
Fight for life, not for death
Fight for your right to be free

All my life I wore a mask
Too afraid to do the task 
Afraid to cry when things go wrong
The chains around your soul too strong
This life's a game you never win
I don't know where to begin

All alone we've got nothing
Loneliness is a deep black hole
I walk alone while you're still running
Loneliness is a deep black hole


My years of silence are in vain
It's slowly making me insane
My screams will never be alone
Among all the suffering in town
All alone with no place to run
Missing out on all of the fun  


All alone we've got nothing
Loneliness is a deep black hole
I walk alone while you're still running
Loneliness is a deep black hole


(SOLO) 


All alone we've got nothing
Loneliness is a deep black hole
I walk alone while you're still running
Loneliness is a deep black hole


All alone we've got nothing
Loneliness is a deep black hole
I walk alone while you're still running
Loneliness is a deep black hole


All alone we've got nothing
Loneliness is a deep black hole
I walk alone while you're still running
Got to be strong, but not alone!

Alone We've Got Nothing

Observe What They Pick Out For Enjoyment

A distant trumpet is heard
Singing of the coming storm
The waves on the sea are calling
As the dark clouds are falling
I see the light in the eye of the storm 


If we can live, if we can fly, if we can stand in the eye of a storm
Once again I find myself in this hurricane
If we can live, if we can fly, if we are standing in the eye of the storm
Trying to make my way through
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm


I am in a race with the storm
I wanna feel this atmosphere
Left all alone in the cold dark night
As this storm streams through
I see the light in the eye of the storm 


If we can live, if we can fly, if we can stand in the eye of a storm
Once again I find myself in this hurricane
If we can live, if we can fly, if we are standing in the eye of the storm
Trying to make my way through
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm


(SOLO)


If we can live, if we can fly, if we can stand in the eye of a storm
Once again I find myself in this hurricane
If we can live, if we can fly, if we are standing in the eye of the storm
Trying to make my way through
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm

In the eye of the storm

In The Eye Of  The Storm

Here's an old Scottish tune that used to be a sailors' song or barcarolle. It's now played as a lullaby or as a Slow March for the pipers. Due to some of the lyrics that are attached to it, the song can illustrate the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the last of the Stewart's pretender, toward the isle of Skye, after the battle of Culloden (1746). As you may know, it is also the main theme of the TV Series “Outlander”.
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Voici une ancienne mélodie écossaise qui était autrefois une chanson de marins ou une barcarolle. Elle est maintenant jouée comme une berceuse ou comme une Slow March pour les joueurs de cornemuse. En raison de certaines des paroles qui y sont attachées, la chanson peut illustrer la fuite de Bonnie Prince Charlie, le dernier des prétendants Stuart, vers l'île de Skye, après la bataille de Culloden (1746). Comme vous le savez peut-être, c'est aussi le thème principal de la série télévisée "Outlander".

The Skye Boat Song

I can’t see over the Southhampton hedges, it’s good to be taken seriously, but no more serious then you are, there’s the sound of a festival in the street, see all the skinny people eating ice cream- it sure is heaven when you’re not in hell.

Avenue Bee

So What #145

Break The Chains

Free

I got these questions for a while now 
Words are melting on a twisted rope
In black and white, think there's no hope 
To find a sense in the wildest shapes
Of dreams and fantasies that only bring us down

Cut all the flowers in the garden and watch them dying in your hair, 
Feels like summer never ends
Take me with you everywhere.

The perfume of the skin, strange addiction 
Hard to leave behind, 
This wild ambition revealed through starry, naked eyes
A remedy to find on the melancholy hill
Fading in silence when the sun rises 
Daydream in blue on Sad Avenue.

Cut all the flowers in the garden and watch them dying in your hair, 
Feels like summer never ends
Take me with you everywhere.

Daydream In Blue On Sad Avenue (with Lucid Milk Collective)

Recorded in Modesto, Ca   Featuring Alto saxophone solo. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Stand-up Acoustic Bass. Roland 880 Synthesizer Bass. Godin Acoustic Guitar Rhythm. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Hammond B3 Organ Background/Rhythm. Acoustic drums full kit. Percussion Tambourine,  Zildjan 22" ride & Crash Cymbals.

Newport Beach

RC Blues

Music, Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Drums: Manuel https://soundcloud.com/ruizzoidman21centurions
Music, Lyrics, Vocal, Synths, Organ, Drums, Mixing, Mastering: Jan Schonander

When Manuel sent me a guitar track over a year ago I fairly quickly decided to write an epilogue for Major Tom. Little did I know that I would end up taking a longish break from writing music. With infinite patience Manuel waited for me until now and to my even greater surprise this retro lyric has become almost current with the two NASA astronauts in space waiting for their return trip to Earth.



SEND ME A ROCKET
(MAJOR TOM THE EPILOGUE)

I can’t hear you 
Still I can see you
A cloudy ball in space
Nothing to keep it in place
This is my beautiful view
Nothing can make things right
I’m stuck here 
A deep longing
Hard to accept this 
This can’t be
This can’t be
My final fate

It’s been so long
It feels like you forgot me
Nobody cares about the shirts I wear 
Did you move onto something new
Cause I’m still looking at you
I’m still waiting for you

Send me some hope
Send me a rocket
Show me that you care
Send me some hope
Show me that you love me

You forgot so soon
It hurts all the time
You forgot I was a shining star
You wouldn't write enough about me
Oh, oh, I’m so sad

Send me some hope
Send me a rocket
Show me that you care
Send me some hope
Lighten your pocket
Show me that you love me
Send me some hope
Some hope

I can’t let go
I dream all the time
I wanna feel the sun and wind
I wanna go home

Stuck in my tin can
With no way out, out
Shiny and bright
Can you hear me shout, shout
I’m stuck here 
A deep longing
Hard to accept this 
Oh no, oh no
I want to go
Want to go
Want to go 
Want to go home
Go home
This can’t be
This can’t be

Send Me A Rocket

Send Me A Rocket | Major Tom The Epilogue

Just another day

The third single "The King Is Dead" from my other solo project "LORRIDI! is out now!! 🤘🤘 
Link below.

A hard rock/power metal solo project from Norway by Jan Magne Garte. 

Born in Norway, 1971. At the age of 16, Jan Magne Garte played bass in different bands starting in the mid '80s. Growing in popularity and opening for some of the most popular Norwegian bands at the time. By the early 2000s, Garte started expanding his repertoire by singing songs himself and switching from bass to guitar.

Around the same time his parental duties would start to take the focus from the music, and his career as a musician   took a hiatus for almost two decades. Now after all this time, his love for making music has truly rekindled and the old musician has returned. 

All of his music is heavly influenced by the songs of his youth, from genres such as '80s hard rock, heavy metal, thrash, but also taking notes from the next generation of musicians.

Garte also has another solo project under the name LORRIDI.
All tracks were composed, arranged, recorded and mastered by Garte himself.

Don't hesitate to follow me on Spotify, bandcamp, youtube and facebook

In The Eye Of The Storm

Jan Magne Garte

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