Funk Effort

This needs a little work still but it's one of my more recent compositions. It's transposed from guitar so not every note is exactly the same, with variations here and there that sound better on piano.

The 5 4

Hip Hop

Isolation Test Track

It wasn’t your choice, 
you never decided it would go this way,
but you held your hand firm and you made you best play.  
 It wasn’t your turn, 
we lost on the burn, 
 flowing down the river like spilt ash from the urn.  
Like the waters flowing away, 
 so will come another day. 
  You weren’t supposed to leave this way. 
 I didn’t know how to say what I should have at the right time of day, or night.  
I never knew I gave you a fright, 
I came to you to make it right, 
to let it feel better and say goodnight. 
 But I was blind when your love was my light.  
I couldn’t see and you asked me to hear. 
 I couldn’t listen and reached out to touch, 
 by that time,  feeling anymore was too much. 
  So you cut it away it now drapes through my days.  
Like that moment you gave your heart away, 
 now that was a day I will never forget,  
it’s etched so deep it’ bleeds with every drip of sweat, 
 those big brown eyes, 
that gorgeous smile I will never forget.  
It will be gone for a while, 
but it will come back and when it comes round it is going to shine,  
those tears will be dried on rosy cheeks they were never mine.  
They smile and laugh because love comes from above, 
it does not belong unless it is shared, 
and you can never love if you have never cared.
  God knows I tried to do right,  
I didn’t mean to give you such a fright,  
how could so much anger come from so much light?  
Why do my dreams always turn to dust?  
Couldn’t you see? A virgin trapped in a world of lust.  
Trapped in a world where I couldn’t be me,  
You give and you gave and you loved and you slaved,  
at the cost of your soul and the break of my day,  
for now it is night and nothing is right and the memories are here to stay.  
Now there is nothing I can say. 
I tried to love you forever and I got a day.
 The day is over and yet another dawns, 
 the cocks will crow and arise will the prawns, 
 to run the world and feed the hordes.  
One eye is king in the land of the blind, 
 with the eye in my hand I scream and I cry and I crush the once all seeing eye, to catch a breath from this nightmare of death,  
where I can’t live without you because you gave me breath,  
I am trapped again and the nightmare never ends, 
 it goes round and round through space without a sound.  
Without oxygen I look around, 
I cannot see.  How can it be?  
True love you said,  
was to set you free, 
 but without you,  
there can never be a me.

Jonathan Goodchild

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