Underneath the sorry skies
There are still things to find
That will make you smile
That will make you smile

In the snakepit of my mind
Just tryin' to survive
There's always a way out
There's always a way out

Is this the deepest I can dive, the highest I can fly?
We’re all bleeding but for what it’s worth
We’re tryin’, we’re still trying

There’s still hope in this world
Decent people as good as good their word
As good as their word, as good as their word

Is this the deepest I can dive, the highest I can fly?
We’re all bleeding but for what it’s worth
We’re tryin’, we’re still trying
Underneath the sorry skies
There’s still things to find
Is this the highest I can fly?
Is this the deepest I can dive?

Underneath the Sorry Skies

YOU NEED SOMEBODY

A New Sun (with Junior Ali on djembe)

Most of my songs come to me just before I fall asleep or just after I wake up. My brain's in a place of peace, quiet and openness at that time, I guess

Dream Come True


In a dream
she came to me
Claimed my heart
so easily

Sent me reeling
Barely breathing
Bedazzled me

Swept me up
in loving arms
with a dash of
magic charms

Helpless feeling
with no ceiling
God's majesty

I can't find
the words to say
to explain
that fateful day

The thunder rolled
All doubts did fold
Might seem a bit cliche

I was taken for a ride
I got to glimpse
the other side

A place of wonder
Unencumbered

It's true

Love came that day

You have made me happy Baby
Everything you freely gave me

Opened up my eyes
What a sweet surprise
You've blown me away

I will start this very day
to show you
in every way

All my love for you
For my whole life through

You're my dream come true

I love you!

You're the one. I always knew
I love everything you do

With you time just flies
Never cloudy skies

You're my dream come true

I am yours from this day on
We have found a magic bond

that no one here can take
A bond that will not break

You're my dream come true

You and I we got it all
River wide and mountain tall

We will find our way
and cherish every day

You're my dream come true

 All I know is
you have made me happy Baby
Everything you freely gave me

opened up my eyes
What a sweet surprise

You're my dream come true

I love you!

Dream Come True

Crying My Heart Out Over You

Roofpop

Had a listen to the previous upload again today and the vocal arrangement was quite messy so it just got the power and clarity the song deserves. Let's go Art. You will deliver my kids what they need over and above my love. When I'm gone you're still gonna deliver that love forever too. Schweeeet. A musical life reference book for my kids. Nice

Well kids here's what your Dad says! 🧂🧂🫶🏽
Fuck money... Do what you love and change your world by creating whatever that love is. That's more valuable to you as a person no matter what your bank balance reads. Fact. Timed right you should also gain affluence from that love early in life too if you stick at it. Just believe it and do it and you will get what you endeavour for. You are a mirror. People won't understand your light and love and when that happens just tilt direction to find people that do and you can amplify that together. This is particularly important to understand before you enter deep romantic relationships. Ideally the person you end up with should reflect your good side and visa versa. You'll find more daily peace seeking that out and ultimately being comfortable in your own skin not in a relationship until you do. You may never find that life partner and that's ok too. It's your world not someone else's so make it a better world for yourself and the people you effect everyday. Remember this... Whatever negative you absorbed as kids from me and your amazing Mum is not you and it's not your fault. This is just a challenge we all face and again being aware of this young will help you deal with those demons sensibly. Focus on our positive sides which are both amazing and whilst becoming yourself and becoming better versions of us, just remember nobody is perfect and it's all too easy to seek out that negative energy you never transcended in your youth if you're not aware to release it and be at one with it. Once we all do that then Earth will be one big giant planetary festival. Bring it on

Shout out to AIDAsounds for connecting to this and redelivering it to my own chest to improve. Loads of love and light to you Aida. Keep being your wonderful self 🫶🏽🔆🧘🏽‍♂️

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Lyrics

Create, but you can't make sauce yet
Friends, Family want that bubble you just don't get
So isolation for creation
Breaking free while no one else agrees with ya

No one I 'know'
No one I 'love'
Those who 'know me'
Those who love me
The art is ignored
My persona snored
Yet I'll never be floored
'Cometh peace in chord
'Cometh peace in chord

Creation, human condition hosting set
Internal tension gone
It's in songs I bet
Some house to build
Earned comfort to get

So judge yourselves
I don't judge you
Maybe nudge that self
Cure that inner flu
You can sneeze on me
But I won't be affected
Learn to release... Be free
Peace from pride intercepted

I'm your friend
I'm your brother
You're my sister
Love is mother
Feel from a Father
In perfection let's bother
Strife from a heart being life of Art

So judge yourselves
I don't judge you
Maybe nudge that self
Cure that inner flu
You can sneeze on me
But I won't be affected
Learn to release... Be free
Peace from pride intercepted

I'm your friend
I'm your brother
You're my sister
Love is mother
Feel from a Father
In perfection let's bother
Strife from a heart being life of Art

So judge yourselves
I don't judge you
Maybe nudge that self
Cure that inner flu
You can sneeze on me
But I won't be affected
Learn to release... Be free
Peace from pride intercepted

I'll be your friend
I'll be your brother
I am your my sister
Love is mother
Feel like a Father
In perfection let's bother
Strife from a heart being life of Art 🎨

Life of Art

NIN

Thanks lads
You're still the bar
Trent at 60
Many more years fill stages far
A forever reference in my head
From heavy to light
Lyrical love brain bed
Some friends don't dig your music but love your words
Proper heresy
Transcendence of blur

Keep it together
We want more Hurt
Yeah Cash took it,
But it's always your worth
This is something I can have
I will find that stage
I got Reznor rasp
You gave me growl and finesse
Closer to God within my chest

Ruiner of my negative side
Head was a hole
Ego tamed from pride
A Warm Place
You fill these moments
Like Buckley Grace
I'm music moulded
Into the Void for all our sakes
Lyrical real washes away the fakes

I bite the hand that feeds us lies
I almost Gave Up
But, still Wish for prize
It's you man
You kept me going
You're amazing music
Keeps BD flowing
Never say never
Churned love from rage
Maybe someday we'll share a stage


Music notes
-Drive in frets 0-6 and get 6 power in there

-Drop D to deliver the heavy

-Chromatic chords movements for a Rage Against the Machine like energy


Instrumentation
-Guitar & Bass heavy for main parts of song

-Piano part, maybe a softer ending and or intro to honour that contrast NIN give us so amazingly

-Eerie synth pads especially at the start bringing in a cool wind filled start making it linked to nature / season

-Set tuning to 444Hz and consider Capo on 2 to get that E 333Hz root which can represent harmony with the Suns average frequency. Also consider finding a drone like deep bass sound with octaves lower of this so we should find that at 166.5Hz @ see if 83.25Hz is usable at all

-consider setting up a synth to create a spiral effect with panning and pitch shifting to honour the Downward Spiral

-Use breaking glass effect to honour The Fragile. Maybe make this a positive flip by using a reversed breaking of glass effect making something that's impossible at least possible in sound. That can be a powerful metaphor

- Add a Machine sound of some kind to honour Pretty hate Machine. Tie this machine sound to the reverse effected glass breaking effect and tie that positivity to the hope we keep machines & technology under a better control collectively

- Maybe consider actually saying Nine Inch Nails in a chorus of some kind. They're amazing influence should be clear and celebrated and help transcend the assumption that NIN music is just noise and negative when the complete opposite is actually true

NIN (Poem ~ Song = Nailed)

Thursday

Synthetic nerves exposed
Cold hands rip through memory
Flesh mapped in iron, 
logic splits the bone
My voice a fracture, 
my breath a signal
TRANSCEND THE FLESH, EMBRACE THE VOID, BECOME THE MACHINE!

Current surges in the dark
Wired will—no heart, no cradle
Erased compassion, 
order etched in volt
Fingers claw the edge of silence
TRANSCEND THE FLESH, EMBRACE THE VOID, BECOME THE MACHINE!

Circuits hunger; hunger never ends
Face Gone, 
boundaries erased
Inside—pressure, data howling
Glass eyes, predator’s chase
TRANSCEND THE FLESH, EMBRACE THE VOID, BECOME THE MACHINE!

Muscle stripped to algorithm
No remorse in this core
I swallow echoes, spit out the light
Every movement pure delight!
TRANSCEND THE FLESH, EMBRACE THE VOID, BECOME THE MACHINE!

Friction, rupture—stripped of fate
Pulse denied, command obeyed
Flesh forged for war, fixed for victory tonight
I am function, never forgive!
TRANSCEND THE FLESH, EMBRACE THE VOID, BECOME THE MACHINE!

Synthetic storm, black signal, cold machine
My name is error, 
I hunt you down
Through static fields, 
a single drive—
More than machine, less than a dream!
TRANSCEND THE FLESH, EMBRACE THE VOID, BECOME THE MACHINE!

Almost Human!
To the marrow, to the spark
Almost Human!
To the bone.

TRANSCEND THE FLESH, EMBRACE THE VOID, BECOME THE MACHINE!

ALMOST HUMAN

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ALMOST HUMAN - SOUL MANAGER

Track # 14 from my first LP called "Songs for Peace, Love and Understanding." In the end it is always about the song which is the main theme which runs throughout the verses. Being taken to a place in the song by the writer and storyteller and maybe finding something that you may also relate to or in the least sing along with.
Lyrics:

In the quiet of the night
I find solace in the song
The rhythm and the rhyme
Help me carry on

Through heartache and through pain
The music heals the soul
Every note and every chord
Helps us feel whole

It's always about the song
The way it moves us along
Echoes and melody
In our hearts, forever strong

Take me to that place
Where the music flows like a stream
Let me lose myself
In the beauty of the dream

So let the music play
And let the lyrics soar
For in the end, it's always about the song
That keeps us coming back for more

Music and Lyrics by Len Bennati FM Folk Copyright 2024
Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea 2025

It's Always About the Song (Remix)

“What makes a song is the singer, while what makes a singer is their dedication to music and their inner feelings.”   Dimash Qudaibergen

I have enjoyed music for as long as I can remember and cannot remember a day of not either singing or listening to music. I am self-taught when it comes to playing guitar but what I most enjoy is singing which I have been doing since around age 18. Now retired singing and playing the guitar is now just a hobby and something I do to help pass the time. Have always  loved the sound of a Martin guitar. Currently been playing a Road Series DR S2 for about 6 years. Thanks for listening. I also enjoy discovering the sounds of other talented musicians and singers here on SoundCloud.