Name: The Girl With No Name by Jon Meadows
Duration: 5 min 28 s
Description: Anti-Tory song about how the most vulnerable are being destroyed by the government

Cliff Edge

Riches to Rags was Judges Award winner for Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge Nov 2014.  
The challenge is to select a piece of artwork on display at View Two Gallery Liverpool and write a song to accompany/express the artwork.  

This song will be on free download for 3 months.  Enjoy. 
 
RICHES TO RAGS (Lyrics)
 Do you know I used to be a Queen?
I followed you here
Enticed and entranced by your need
But I know I’m never going to be your Queen
Though dress in golden seams
I’m left alone with my dreams

And I gave my colours for you
Gave my colours for you…

Honey, how I ache to be your queen
Oh invisible me
Now we’re strangers its clear that I 
Served a purpose it seems
Left to dote in the breeze
Carry all that I’ve seen

And It’s alright
I know how you feel
I can’t keep you here
You’re not meant for me

And we used to dance and you’d hold me so firmly
 I’d fly like a bird
And you’d touch me so softly I’d slip through your arms 
Like the breath that you drew
When you kissed me
Unhooked me from all that I knew

Now all I know is you
Now all I know is you…

Darling I could never never be your queen
The world worn weary
This Goddess has dignity
And darling I rage like the sea
You took all that I had
From riches to rags

Not sure I exist
Chameleons and twists
Laments of lives gone by
I float between two skies
I’ve been chasing ghosts 
Since you caressed my throat
Spinning mirrors and smoke 
I tenderly choke

And we used to dance and you’d spin me so firmly I’d fly like a bird
And you’d touch me so softly I’d slip through your arms 
Like the breath that you drew
When you kissed me
Unhooked me from all that I knew

Such a beauty, you told me I shone like a charm
These red lips you could kiss 
That remind you of sunsets so bold
So unspoiled, I unfold,  you took me from all that I knew

You unhooked me from all that I knew
Yeah you took me from all that I knew
Yeah you took me from all that I knew
And all that I wanted was you
Now all that I’m haunting is you

© 2014.  Jo Bywater.

JO BYWATER - Riches to Rags

Astral Soup

Last night I felt like recording something. I had to do a quiet song because my grilfiend was sleeping. The song is based on an a short story and series of pictures namned "Split Kid" I did a few years ago. I am lot into Tim Burton drawings and short storys. If you never did, try to take look at "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy" by Burton. Fun fact: I met Tim Burton once. He's a strange but really nice and laid-back dude. 

I was told that this is a very harmonic tune reminding listeners to early Beatles songs. To be honest I don't know, of course I know some Beatles songs but never engaged with them much.

Please also note: My songs are often first-person narratives because it supports the storytelling and the intended impression. Therefore they are not meant to be "autobiographical" or somthing like that. It's simply just music/art.

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Verse One: 

There once was a boy
A boy kind and glad

peers ran away
when he opend his head

mum and dad cared
were rich of dark thoughts

begged them to explain
why I am I so?

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Chrous One:
Like the new symtoms 
I show

Like the injection
I know

Inviting coldness
I go

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Verse Two: 

One gloomy girl
was living next door

tried to like him
despite of his gore

though behold his brain
she still had to puke

love turnd to vomit
flower hit the ground

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Chrous Two:

Like the new symtoms 
I show

Like the injection
I know

Inviting coldness
I go

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Verse Three:

One misty day
a car crash occurred 

on backseat they found
a disfigured boy

with wide open skull
doc saw him in agony

smiling he welcomed 
the releasing syringe

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Chrous Three:

Like the new symtoms 
I show

Like the injection
I know

Inviting coldness
I go

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© Copyright Fraenk Darko. All rights reserved.
This song is of my own making regarding songwriting, lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass, recording etc.. Writing as well as recording process are well documented. Artwork is also done by Frank Darko.

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