Great darker atmosphere, love how the vocals support the overall flow. Excellent.

Very creative and those drums just drive the powerful message. Durge

Nice philosophical bent with intense & dramatic musical support. Corresponding energy and atmosphere make this an amazing work. Great job by all!

Great song, great collaboration 💐 😍 🙏 🍀 🎶 🎧 

A tremendous collaboration, chaps. Excellent work all of you.

I really like how you've harmonized the vocals on this one Mark and this is a very strong, dramatic instrumental track to work with https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexible

Stefan K - Rock Flexible (Official) shared an inspiring instrumental, asking if anyone would like to contribute some vocals. I found the piece to have an ominous atmosphere that builds into something more triumphant. This is my take on it which is a rather dark ecological wake up call (as if we should still need that!) with the invaluable help of Dick Vestdijk (Oorlab) with whom I’ve worked on ten other collaborations. A very special thank you to both Stefan and Dick. Thanks for listening.

Original music – Composition/arrangement/instrumentation/production - https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexible 

Lead vocals, backing vocals and some additional lyrics - https://soundcloud.com/oorlab 

Lead vocals, backing vocals and lyrics – me

Photograph by Douglas Corrance

Is it just me,
Or is it you?
How can we,
See this through?

Is it because,
We're at a loss?
We can find our way,
Out of this.

Time is short,
And can't be bought.
Who will make time,
While we're in decline?

Too late to be denied,
We can’t hold back the tide.
Nowhere left to hide,
Time's not on our side.

Who’ll count the cost 
Of the Earth’s loss?

Is it just me?
Or is it you?

Too late to be denied,
We can’t hold back the tide.

Nowhere left to hide,
Time's not on our side.

(Meet me in the afterglow)

Time's Not On Our Side - A Rock Flexible Open Collaboration with Oorlab & MarkJBennett

Dear listener, Feel free to leave comments and I'll try to reply.

I've been making music for around 16 years now but because of the wonderfully generous community that is SC, I have learned so much in a short time. I look forward to learning even more by collaborating. 
I suppose my strengths are in lyric-writing and singing. I feel fortunate to have been able to work with some stunning compositions by some very talented SCers.

My very best to you, Mark

Some links to recent Continental Collision streaming sites, etc are available below:

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