You know when you're trying to decide what to do with your life and you're freaking out and everyone's giving you advice...But in reality only you know where you have to go man. Reminds me of the question: "If you were ever given the opportunity to achieve your dream, would you do it?" - Seems like an obvious answer but try it. :/
Here's an acoustic guitar/vocal recording of an original, for the sake of just having a recording of it. :)
Written in June, recorded yesterday and today (December) - Wow.
Onwards and upwards from here, hopefully less of a rush next time wahoooo!

I Know

Initial rough solo recording of Our Generation, a song about friendship and vision for the future. Yay.

Our Generation (solo vers.)

Written by Carmel Mould
Produced by Jude Greaves (S.C.O.O.P)
Backing vocals by Mia Gardiner
Initially inspired by STF Europe 2015-16, continually inspired by truly amazing friends.
Cover art by Kensei Thomas

Music video here: http://bit.ly/2tU6Lud

Lyrics:
We could go so low, we'll make it I swear 
We are the bridge, get used to breathing in that air
I have high hopes and I don't think it's a joke.

Please hold my hand, just a little more of the way
If we pray a bit harder, maybe we'll be OK
We'll come together down the line please believe

CHORUS 
Mmm, I hope there's something about our generation.
I hope they're counting on our generation.
A spark in my soul,
Who will save us now? Save us now.

We've now come to the point where we don't need to run from this madness no more
Let's rise above the noise, what do we live for? 
I keep questioning but we are the best thing.

Our Generation

A quick, rough recording of me covering Woyaya by Osibisa. Kinda wish I wrote it haha.
Look up Osibisa if you have no idea who they are.
Pretty meaningful lyrics, and maybe one day I'll record a better cover of it, but this one will do for now.
First time experimenting with a few harmonies, it's fun yay.

Osibisa - Woyaya (acoustic cover)

Beyond the golden bars are stars so bright
Are ours alright?

Pressing prayers, on the tide
Wash away the doubts I hide

Can’t see no colours, during the night
At times like these, I need a hand to hold tight

I hear the fire, crackle within
Tackle what’s been, I’ve got this thing

Pre-chorus
Go give your best, keep music on
This is only your first song
You haven’t been going for so long
But I know you can change the world 

Chorus
Beyond the golden bars are stars so bright
Are ours alright?
Though our dreams are far, above these heights
They’re still, in sight

I hear the calling, cover my ears
Need confidence, to overcome my fears

Who other is there? To take this task
Someone who cares, that’s all you ask

Oh young and feeble, late to know
No longer dwell here, you’ve got to go

Pre-Chorus x2

Chorus

Bridge
Do you trust me?
Who do I have to be?
I can’t believe, it’s hard to believe.
I don’t wanna believe, but I must believe.
I can believe, should I believe?
Oh I can believe I’ll

Change the world x6

Chorus

Outro

Golden Bars

Close all the curtains, lock out betrayal and hurt
They’re coming for you, you know they dug up the dirt

Running so close, running so far
Crash into the tree and jump out of the car
Slipping on ice, slipping on mud
Careful of the shots, ripping through your heart

Running away, today is the day
Running away, not easy to say
Running away, no time to delay
Running away, before it’s too late

But you’re sat there, sat there in thought
Is that fair? What will happen if you’re caught?
The nightmare’s telling you to go, go, go, go, go, go, get out of here

If you’re leaving today, what about your wife sons and daughters?
Will you ever return? Will you even make it past the water?

Running away, today is the day
Running away, not easy to say
Running away, no time to delay
Running away, before it’s too late

Behind the barbed wire, no-one will ever know
Divided by a harsh line, the clash of ideology’s symbol
Separate you if we must, we’ll look on from the free world
You’ll never meet your grandma, on the other side of this man-made line

Running so close, running so far
Crash into the tree and jump out of the car
Slipping on ice, slipping on mud
Careful of the shots, ripping through your heart

Running away, today is the day
Running away, not easy to say
Running away, no time to delay
Running away, before it’s too late

Running away...

Running Away

We don’t know history
We don’t know what could be
We just gaze at the clouds
Without seeing what’s on the ground

Who made the beggar homeless? Who made the starving cry?
Civilians bombed and hopeless, a tangled web of lies
We naturally shed a tear, and shortly close our eyes
One can’t live so sane, unless one’s desensitized

So too the harsh regimes divide us
An extension of the conflict inside us
If we don’t heal this resentment soaked in fear
How will we get out of here?

I’ll give all I can to a better world
Though no one tells me what good I’ll earn
Cos so few know what it could be
Shrouded in anxiety
What have you heard? You never learn
Just looking back, without knowing worse

We don’t know history
We don’t know what could be
We just gaze at the clouds
Without seeing what’s on the ground

Build your foundation up up up up
Your family is rising up
Build your foundation up
Your nation is rising up

Quick to blame, slow to act
Got the thoughts, but not the action plans
Wretched divided souls plague us
It’s just the way we’re made, Lord save us

If Martin Luther King thought the same thing
If Gandhi gave up before campaigning
Mandela saw freedom as out of range
Then nothing would ever change

I can’t believe our dampened spirits
What are we to tell our children
Even flowers know they have to grow
There is more to life than what’s on show

I’ll give all I can to a better world
Though no one tells me what good I’ll earn
Cos no one knows what it could be
Shrouded in anxiety
What have you heard? You never learn
Just looking back, without knowing worse

When the world stops turning round
Cause our hearts stop beating, but nature cries so loud
What will we say when we are mute?
When it’s just too late to compute
And we rely on worldly things
Though there’s no object that we will bring
The fires are raging, the water breaks
And here it all comes down to the human race

But we don’t know history
We don’t know what could be
We just gaze at the clouds
Without seeing what’s on the ground

Build your foundation up up up up
Your people are rising up
Build your foundation up
Your world it is rising up

The Human Race

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (acoustic cover)

Goodbye and thank you ICMP.

Lyrics:

Everyday when you're walking down the street,
Everybody that you meet
Has an original point of view

And I say HEY! what a wonderful kind of day.
Where you can learn to work and play
And get along with each other

You got to listen to your heart
Listen to the beat
Listen to the rhythm, the rhythm of the street
Open up your eyes, open up your ears
Get together and make things better by working together x2

Deadlines, headlines talking about death 
What 'bout lifelines, pipelines got me holding my breath 
Cause I've changed my mind not even far from the start 
But still all that time I was playing guitar 
But there's more to me than there's written on the jar 
Yeah I jumped out the car and the man was like rah
Thinking I would pay for the uber but I had got my journey all wrong 
You know my wannabe popstar days are over 
Don't think that's gonna stop me writing a song 

It's a simple message and it comes from the heart
Believe in yourself
Well that's the place to start 

And I say HEY! what a wonderful kind of day
Where you learn to work and play
And get along with each other x4

CARMS

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