OMG. This is everything I hoped it could be, and more. The octave vocals are fantastic, your rhymes are fresh, excellent tones on all instruments, and incredibly fun lyrics.

What a hero Nik Newark is!! Love the upbeat feel to this!

Love the picture and great riff, proper 80's  Van Halen sound to it! Well put together! Loving the "Happy birthday superman" line!!

This has definitely be influenced by someone.... can't think of whom :).  Brilliant xxx

Oh man! I love this - so so clever! Would it be wrong to set it as my ringtone?

This is so much fun!  Love the upbeat energy, the claps, very catchy chorus.

Man, I also loved "the definition of success". That was my first Nik Newark song <3. Your song is pure good vibes and fun. I love the upbeat energy. Great use of the theme.

The sixth tale of Snow and Cherry

Perfect

I can't believe that
it took me all this time to realize
there's no going back
I'm fooling myself
expecting something different from the past
is it too late now?

if the next breath was my last
would I feel content with the way I am?

life isn't always perfect
true lasting love's not for the faint of heart
how do we know it's worth the price?

our existence
a tragedy the mirror can't deny
no one gets out alive
the reflection
is someone we can't always recognize
even if we try

if the next breath was my last
would I feel content with the way I am?

life isn't always perfect
true lasting love's not for the faint of heart
how do we know it's worth the price?

if the next breath was your last
would you feel content? would it all make sense?

Tales of Snow and Cherry

Perfect

I found a sweetheart
Down at the meat mart
Just seemed to me part
Of a normal Friday night
These days are strange though
And times are changing
Cause you’re amazing 
For a guy like me so I hope…

you stick with me
I'm stuck on you
No other lover would do 
for me cos like
Gum on your shoe
I'm stuck on you
I'm holding tightly ever on and
You
Like a beached canoe
When the sea withdrew
You may be sticking too
Just like a riddle -
too hard for me
without a clue
I think I'm staying stuck
I'm stuck on you

Let me tell you something
It's not for nothing
That you're the one thing
That has got me through all  this
It’s not been easy
With all my heebie jeebies
But where would we be without me and you
and so, please….

Stuck On You

Lyrics: Fresh Lilacs collaboration on vocals by Emily McDoniels

Flying through time
It’s the sound of the sign
Melting fork tines, please stop rewind
That’s the spice of the splice
What’s it take to be nice?
Little bit of love would suffice
Excise, entice, cultivate wild rice
Ice is the nice cries as he tries
Breakdown rewind, stop the noise unwind
Take a break from the grind
Mathematical sine in the mind 
My numbers outshine the myopic blinds
Of ignorance, it’s impotent, spoiled brats
Attack the heart of earth and contaminate the dirt
Idiocy they blurt, out like vomit, their thoughts captivate nothing like a comet
Idiocy they blurt, comes out like vomit, their mind a bit too fried, like a spoiled omelete 
Of ignorance, it’s impotent, deep studying illuminates filaments
Shining bright like the sun, no guns can fix this crisis
You’re no different than Isis, fundamentalists scheming
To implement idiocracy, they must need dry cleaning
For blood they’re fiending, their era is ending.

The mystical revolution comes in kodachrome
Marrow in the blood deep red, down to the chromosome
The echo of the underground, coded sounds, deeply profound
Codes unfold undertow in the current
The ocean of visionaries, hivemind coherent
The ancients deep wisdom can become well known
ancestors living deep in our blood down to the bone
 Rainbows shining through epigenetic trauma
re-educating more powerful than Shakespearean drama 
The ways of the future are the ways of the past
Before colonization our ways were steadfast
The things great grandmother taught you were forecast
Before she was outcast, typecast as a scapegoat
The fascists are cutthroat, never give us a life boat
Brutalized by police so our people would cease
To the blast of the shofar or the sound of the drums
Polyrhythms and vibrations will bring our time in the light
Unite, end the blight, aid each other through our plight
Now is the time to fight, tooth and nail or should we prevail
Without needing nuclear bombs, atrocity and mayhem?
The answer lies in the pen and the sword, let the answers be trans and femme
Two spirit beings once again dreaming aloud, allowed to be proud,
commanding the crowd with more eloquence and vision than the fascist system
Bring the end of fascist systems

Chorus

Everyday I try to believe
Everyday I give til I bleed
I know I won’t concede
The future is in you and me

Fresh Lilacs

I keep rehearsing all the things I might say
For all my plans, it never pans out that way
Change out of nowhere like a bolt from the blue
I'm here just shrugging, I don't know what to do

I wanna give it on up
I wanna give it on up to the lord

All my relationships keep turning out bad
And I don’t get it - I just don’t understand
I ask for miracles, and when they arrive
I claim the credit but it’s never been mine

Chorus

That mother nature with her teeth and the claws
A roller coaster with the rises and falls…
I know that later it will shift with the sands
I wish it wouldn’t but it's out of my hands

Chorus

Cause he can do what he wants with me
Or she can do what she wants with me
I'm not scared any more

I never knew I could be empty and full
I might have said it was impossible
Here in this moment now, believe it or not
I’m just so grateful for the blessings I’ve got

Chorus

Give It On Up

Week 18 #sonagweek2022. Prompt "lift a finger." A busy week so a short song of wishful thinking (what I want for Mother's Day?!). Photo is my dog Cody setting a good example (he never lifts a finger).

Just you rest a while, go on and take a load off
Stop and sit a spell, there’s nothing you must do

Easy now 
Take it slow

If you need a thing don’t even lift a finger
Speak a word to me and I’ll be there for you

Easy now 
Take it slow

Easy Now

I've recently been diagnosed with autism. This song (written shortly before I received my diagnosis) is about what it feels like to pretend to be normal.

The stillness of the lake
A mirror on the 'scape
A ripple out of place
As a wave attempts a break

Hiding what’s underneath
In the shallows and the deep

The appearance that I fake
Every move I make
Everything I say
An act I cannot break

The lengths I go to meet
Expectations placed on me
I hide what’s underneath
In the shallows and the deep

Mirror Lake

I've been prolific with my midi-based compositions while my back has been hurt but unable to wield my normal instruments due to the pain.  Hope you enjoy this Marimba Party!

Marimba Parties (Demo)

Song 1: 

Starting again
Finding a place to call the saints
Cold and displaced
Did you say it’s in my name?
 
I never asked you
I never wanted this to be
I never asked you
I never wanted to be freed
-like this?
 
Awakenings

I guess its time to renew my vows
With the world that lies outside my peripheral vision

Because I’m losing sight
And I don’t know where I’m heading
So, I need to reignite

Before I lose the light that guides us through the wrong end of right
But I don’t need your misplaced advice
I’ve been there before, didn’t we try?

I never asked you
I never wanted this to leave
I never asked you
I never wanted to be freed
- like this?

Awakenings

Words & Music by EMRLDS

Awakenings

Song a week 2020 challenge - Week 8
Theme - Nik Newark saved my life 

I don't know Nik outside of SAW2020  but I am now familiar with a lot of Nik's songs :)

Anyone reading this should check out Nik's music on his soundcloud and youtube channel.

Nik Newark Saved My Life - Songaweek 2020 -  Week 8

I have been playing other peoples songs for years. I am now trying to write a few of my own. This profile includes songs written between  2020 and the start of 2021

Nik Newark Saved My Life - Songaweek 2020 - Week 8

Songs by Mac - Part 1 2020-2021

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