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A live recording from around 1983,when Alien were a very popular local band It's from an old cassette tape, so the sound is pretty bad but does improve as it goes along.
 Alien were: Vocals.  Derek Storey ... Guitar. Ronnie Anderson ... Bass. Terry (Tex) Flynn ... Drums. Kenny Mckie (me). Sadly, I am the only surviving member of the band.
There is a studio recording of one of the tracks on YouTube and spotify ... Alien. Could Have Done Better ... NEAT RECORDS

Alien  Live, from the early 1980s

Nothing Ventured

New song written by David Cooper and Ralph Donkin.

Performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics by Ralph Donkin

Your face is familiar
That's what she said
But your name just escapes me
Gone right out of my head
I'm thinking back
To when we were young
Just give me a minute 
It's on the tip of my tongue

It was clear in my mind
Why she got so upset
So clear that's the problem
My one big regret
I knew that she loved me
With feelings intense
But I couldn't stay with her
The fall out immense

SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
THEY WON'T LET ME REST
MEMORIES THAT HAUNT ME
MEMORIES, MEMORIES UNBLESSED

Bridge

Solo

I wouldn't admit it
Even though I was wrong
I've lived with that feeling 
Of guilt for so long
Whatever the reason
It was not meant to be
But I've never forgotten 
What she meant to me

Chorus x 2

End

Skeletons in the closet (Cooper/Donkin Collaboration)

Never To Return (G. Di Nunno)

Alone with my thoughts, some quite nostalgic
Remembered as real, imagined, static
A deep desire to return
Relive the past, repair the worst
Find out where wrong turns were made
All for naught they quickly fade.

Never to return
I've had my fun
What's done is done
All who and what I am
Never return
The unknown waits
Approach its gates
All who and what I'll be

The music from my deepest past
Reaches for my heart at last
The loves I've lost; the loves I've found
Flying high, then hit the ground
Wherever went the long lost friends
Through the doors without an end
A looking back the best was done
Years remain and fast they'll run. 

As senses return, places familiar
Arise and erase what feels peculiar
And get myself on solid ground
Farewell the past once lived now gone
Light a candle, wait for me
Dropped the burdens now I breathe

Repeat the chorus "Never to return..."

All lyrics, composition, and performance by Gino Di Nunno
Copyright 2025.

#5. Never To Return

Cool Retro Backing Track provided by Studio Jam Tracks ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSG2zITNN4

Also: this lyric was inspired by the following link.  To learn more about the stoic woman go to==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDEcNSfhRdM&t=1221s
SHE
She doesn’t crave approval
She has no need of walls
Her gates are only open to
Those of likeness she calls
No longer wearing a mask
To indulge society
That’s the kind of woman
One day I long to be

CHORUS
She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity

Her soul is non-negotiable 
She settles for no man
She doesn’t need permission
To take a moral stand
She walks through the fire
Of stoic pedigree
That’s the kind of woman
No man controls readily

CHORUS
She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity, perpetuity

[Music w/ clapping]

She doesn’t want the pedestal  
She wants the partnership
Not looking to forge a man
Wants a man who’s got a grip
No longer bleeding inside
In her solitude she is free
Yeah, that’s the kind of woman
One day I vow to be

She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity

BRIDGE
So, when you see her walking alone
You need not feel pity
She’s no longer waiting to be chosen
She owns the city –
She is dangerous
She no longer plays the game
She is dangerous
She’ll never be the same

She is unshakable
She is unbreakable
A menace to what this world calls femininity
She’s a self-contained light
A woman in her own right
Aligned with the universe in perpetuity, perpetuity, yeah

©️ 2025 Renee La Chapelle - All Rights Reserved

The Way You Look Tonight" is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936.

With a little help from my friends

Stewart Roberts - guitar
Karen "Kiki" Jackson - vocal

We hope you'll enjoy ☀️

The Way You Look Tonight (Swing Time - Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields - Kiki, Stu and Rob Jam)

home sweet home

You see that guy in the gucci suit
The one with the Rolex
The one walking into the high-rise like he owns the whole damn block

He got a secret
He still checks his bank balance a dozen times a day
Still gets that little knot in his stomach everytime the phone rings
Still remembers the taste of instant noodles and the feel of a secondhand coat in a bitter wind

He ain’t no different to me

I see that girl on the corner, all torn jeans and defiant eyeliner
She’s got a story, too
A story of late nights and empty bottles and a phone that never rings with the right name
She got a tattoo of a bird on her wrist, a tiny thing
It’s not about freedom
It’s about being grounded
It’s about a cage she can’t fly out of

She ain’t different to me

We all got our ghosts
Our regrets
Our silent prayers whispered into the pillow at 3am
We’re all holding our breath, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The CEO, the janitor
The influencer with a million likes, the kid with no friends
We’re all just trying to get by, trying to make sense of the noise

We put on these masks
The tough guy
The pretty one
The smart one
The one who has it all figured out
But peel back the layers and what do you find
The same raw, vulnerable heart
The same fear of not being enough

So next time you look at someone and think
“I could never be them” 
or
“They could never understand me”
take a moment
Look closer
Past the clothes
Past the car
Past the curated feed

You’lll see it
The flicker of doubt in their eyes
The tremor in their hand when they think no one’s looking
The way they stare at the ceiling, wondering where it all went wrong, or where it’s all going to go

And you’ll know.  They’re just like you. and me.

They ain’t no different.  Not one bit

Are We All The Same

Written by Fred Carter
Arranged and Performed by Josh McAlexander

I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent

01 - OT - TMI - Low Strings Sustains random Vib Tm - Low Strings Very Slow Tremolo TM
02 - NI - Session Guitarist - Picked Acoustic - Power ballad
03 - Heavyocity - Ascend modern Grand - Ascendant Wings 
04 - Heavyocity - Ascend modern Grand - Soft Improviser 
05 - SA - HCT - Swells Grid

Wing Ballad

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