Love it Johnny. Refreshingly positive musical message all round

Lovely sweet song - lovely melody! Your children and grand children must be happy!

beautiful song Johnny, i love it, great vocal and music.

Just listened to your ( latest ) tracks. Has been a while that I checked out your songs! Keep up the good work. Love it. Profound & soothing. www.fredvdwerf.nl

Right on Johnny....a wonderful gift to leave.

Original Composition / Production : Chris Dargay
Leads : Matt Michener
All Rights Reserved : E.O.S. ~ 2022

Mega - Omni *leads

Dedicated to those who chase the creative muse
Lyrics:
You'll know it when you feel it
I'd walk into burning buildings just to see it
Yeah, you know it when you feel it
My muse, she never stays around for long
The paint splatter
The ego destruction
The angle of the light
To try to capture the image
In your mind
Yeah, that's right
That's Robert Johnson there at the table
He knows a guy...
Who knows a guy...
Who gets things done
Because every showman knows
You gotta leave a little bit more
For the back row
You will know it when you feel it
The angels, they've got it all wrong
A beautiful sequence of mistakes
It's a beautiful sequence of mistakes

You'll know it when you feel it
I'll walk into abandoned buildings
Just to see it
She never likes to stay around long
She never likes to hear my love songs

And that's why I don't write love songs anymore...

You'll Know It When You Feel It

My slightly ironic tribute to " the common man"! 
The title is a reference to efforts in the past.

The last track in this album of songs with a beat! LOL!
Turn Turn Turn

Everyman, Justice – Justice for every man!

1
I turn to the North, I burn in ice.
I turn to the South, I’m burned alive.
So I light a fire and open a door –
life is short, don’t wanna suffer no more.

2
I turn to the East, it’s far too bright.
I turn to the West, not enough light.
So I pull the blinds and open a door –
life is short, don’t wanna suffer no more.

Chorus
One of a kind, you can count on me –
I’ll give you my vote, give prosperity.
I more I thrive, the more I strive.
I am the salt of the earth, just look in my eye.
I am the gospel of all that prevails –
Justice for Everyman’s weighed in my scales
and nothing is gonna change!

3
No religion on the factory floor,
no religion at my front door.
The turnstiles take one at a time –
no other reason gonna change my mind.

Chorus

11  Turn Turn Turn

victim P

(Not Quite A) Serenade

Interesting how things evolve sometimes.  This little piece was born a few months ago when Debbie listened to a radio programme about the passing of the Mexican singer Vincente Fernandez and was quite taken by his music.  Later that evening, at her piano, subliminal influence did its thing and the basis of (Not Quite A) Serenade emerged.  But what to do with it, where to take it?  As an aside to a separate discussion recently Debbie kindly shared the piece with me and I asked if I might have a think about some words to accompany it – having no immediate preconception of what they might be, or be about.

I could certainly hear “post war Paris” or so I thought, (wrong cultural influence…!) but more careful listening revealed a composition with many facets; now a wry nostalgic smile, now a sinister twist, its emotional sense I placed as somewhere slightly beyond "melancholy" – nearer "wistful sadness" perhaps, a little hint of unease a little trepidation and a sprinkling of regret. The clown with two faces.  This isn’t misery or depression by a long chalk, but the music seemed to suggest that things are not how they ought to have been, ideally, and in its world we’re not looking forward with much optimism.

My lyrical meanderings led me to “The Hollow Wood”, a short poem by Edward Thomas, an English “war poet” from WW1, but not of the visceral, harrowing nature of Sassoon or Owen.  Edward was a troubled man, a tragic figure, his portfolio of work (all of it written in just two years) is often laced with wistful reflections of the natural world of an England that was, or used to be, and the impending uncertain change brought by a world at war. The Hollow Wood, I think, attracts many of the adjectives that Debbie’s (Not Quite A) Serenade might; the poem is emotionally like-minded, it has sparkly uplifting passages, but then some odd, unearthly ones, contrasting moods, conflicting emotions, rumbling unease, two worlds, two faces, light, bright life meets the dark, dank dead.

The Hollow Wood is is one of Edward Thomas’ earlier poems written as they all were after the start of the war, (he was killed in action shortly after being posted to France a couple of years later) and carries deep within it the foreboding sense of gathering clouds portending the hell of extended war in Europe, and beyond .... a sense, an undercurrent, an atmosphere not unlike the present......

I’m honoured and delighted that Debbie granted me the privilege of trying to develop her wonderful music into another space.  You can find her SC channel here: https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
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The Hollow Wood by Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

Out in the sun the goldfinch flits
Along the thistle-tops, flits and twits
Above the hollow wood
Where birds swim like fish -
Fish that laugh and shriek -
To and fro, far below
In the pale hollow wood.

Lichen, ivy, and moss
Keep evergreen the trees
That stand half-flayed and dying,
And the dead trees on their knees
In dog's-mercury and moss:
And the bright twit of the goldfinch drops
Down there as he flits on thistle-tops.

(Not Quite A) Serenade by Debra Buesking with a poem by Edward Thomas

My Righteous God

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Inhuman (Come For Me)

This song is for my Children and my Grandchildren, Thank you for all the happiness you have brought into my life. I love you all so much. 

Written and performed by: Johnny Mc Farlane

Thank you to Debra Buesking and Finn Eces for all their help along the way with this song .

All of me, All of you

Relax and chill
Greg Hurley: Composition / Arrangement, Slide guitar, Acoustic guitar, keys,  Bass  and Drum programming, mix and mastering.
Video on YouTube https://youtu.be/q8m1AG8bwfU

Sweet Bali in June / Video link in Description

Psalm of David

Hi, My name is Johnny Mc Farlane, I am an Indie songwriter from Ireland. I write, play, produce and distribute my own music. I try to write songs that will mean something to whoever may be listening. I try to express feeling and emotions through my music, I try to hit the heart and soul of whoever may be listening and to pass on my feelings through my lyrics and my music. A lot of the songs I write come from Personal experiences, some are pure imagination, but all try to carry a message of Hope, Fait, understanding and a spiritual message of love. I am just one voice in the wilderness but together we are stronger. Thank you so much for listening to my music. It’s a real honour.

All of me, All of you

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