@brio-68: Many thanks from us all Florian for those great words, and very well appreciated my friend.

I'm commenting here cos there's no more room! Haha, nice one guys amazing collab. These tombola challenges bring out the best in everyone I think! Wonderful to hear, congrats on this one :)

Listened to that one on the Soundcloud tombola radio !! It's just great !!! Congrats to you both !!! great work !! 

Lee these lyrics have a beautiful dread and that piano is both brilliant and eerie. Wonderful vocal delivery my friend - an ideal download for tomorrow!

What a great tune...fantastic vocal and piano, Lee. Love the lyrics, as well.

Picked this one out of the playlist you've just put up, great writing and almost seasonal, think i'll go look for one of those thin lizzie covers you used to do. Good work guys

A Stranger Living in a Ghost Town is the result of a collaboration of taking part in this year's SC Tombola. I was well pleased when I seen I had been drawn with my good friend Peter Bennborn especially as I had heard Peter's fine work both as a great musician and producer before, to which he does pretty much a top job of, and is involved in many projects on the cloud.

It did not take Peter long to throw some ideas at me and he presented me with a couple of ideas, and the backdrop of music he sent to me on this one caught my attention enough to inspire me to work out a title and some lyrics for it.

You can hear more of Peters great music on his fine cloud here: http://soundcloud.com/peter-bennborn-project

Soundcloud Tombola Collaboration (Draw #20) 

A Stranger Living in a Ghost Town (Music Peter Bennborn/Words L. C . Lucas)

Peter Bennborn - Synths/drum programming/Production.
Lee Lucas - Vocals/Piano Solo/Artwork.

The lyrics are as follows:

Darkness fills the nights cold air 
as I walk these streets totally unaware 
of the time I have spent here in this place 
a meer mortal man without face
who has gone unnoticed from day to day 
nobody here as got nothing to say 
not even a whisper just to say hi 
not even a murmur from a passer by

I'm Just a stranger 
a lonely stranger 
A stranger

But as I take the road ahead 
all seems so illusive 
could these people all be dead 
then all would be conclusive

(Break)

I'm just a stranger 
a lonely stranger 
I'm just another stranger 
another lonely stranger 
living here in this ghost town 
another lonely stranger 
I'm just a stranger 
living here in this ghost town 
this lonely ghost town

Please find time to leave comments to which are always very well appreciated and thanks for listening.

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Lee Lucas & Peter Bennborn - A Stranger Living in a Ghost Town (SC Tombola Collab)

I very much started out playing instruments very late in life, and spent much of my earlier days listening to it, rather than playing it. I am very much a self taught musician and regard my instruments very much like implements, tools or devices to write with, rather than being anything remotely near a good playing musician of any great technique. 

I guess I really got into instruments more back in 1994 when I got into my first band (though I did learn to play the Harmonica when I was 8 years old) it was around this time I wrote a song on the Guitar entitled Oldtime Street. The song is very much even today one that contains some of the finest lyrics I have ever written, and very much perhaps inspired me to carry on.

Though the band back in 1994 was a very short affair, it was not long after I got into a R&B band performing Rock & Blues in various pubs around my own town Birmingham. I was very much the lead singer in this outfit which lasted some 6 years. Though during these years the band had gone through several line up and name changes and came to a stop in 2001. I suppose it was a bit of relief in a sense, because it's quite easy to put a band together, but murder to keep everyone happy, and keep it going.

Even though I only really did Vocals and played my Harmonica in the band, I still found time now and then, for my guitar, and my keyboards at home, and I also contributed in a big way to our own compositions in the band.

My tools are as follows:

Studiologic VMK-188 Plus 88 Key Midi Controller Keyboard.

Yamaha PSR E303 61 Key Keyboard (Used Via Midi)

Yamaha F310 Acoustic Guitar.

Yamaha ERG121 Electric Guitar.

Encore E4 Bass Guitar.

Various Harmonicas in many Keys.

Alesis Performance Pad Pro Drum Machine & Pads. 

Audio Technica AT2020 USB Microphone.

Vic Firth Drum Sticks.

Various VST Software for Keyboards, Guitars & Mixing.

Cubase 5.

Ableton Live 8.

Steinberg Wavelab.

Influences are from mainly 70's Prog/Rock/Blues/Traditional Folk/Electronic Music.                    

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