This is an original song about the loudness of Time, and our joy in ignoring it.
        It's done here using Band in a Box, Reaper and Cakewalk.  Bill Davis played pedal steel guitar and accordion, Dave Bell of Blue Attitude supplied the solo, and I added bass and vocal.

Time Will Tell (But Who Will Listen)

Once in awhile when I see a child smile everything seems fine.
I can go on just singing this song as if no time flew by.
Everything seems to be going my way.  Everyone says that won't always stay.  
Some things go wrong to ruin my song.  Is today gonna be that day?

CH:  Time will tell, but who will listen?  I'll be busy loving you.
In your spell there is no resistin', nor desire to, it' s true.
Time will tell, but only whisper, and life will block out the sound.
Time will tell, but who will listen? 

Starting the day in my usual way leaving my worries behind.
Trouble be gone.  I'm still singing this song despite the gloomy sky.
All of my dreams tell me life is okay.  I guess it can't always stay that way.
Some things go wrong and ruin my song.  Is today gonna be the day?  CH

BR:  Listen to the birds as they sing to the wind.  Listen to the wind sing back.
Oh, take it all in and you'll widen your grin.  It takes no special knack.

Time Will Tell (But Who Will Listen)

Studio version of my song with pro band and singers

Man I'm Gonna Miss Montana  - Studio Version

Blessings.cwp 1

MORE WITH LESS
By Rachel Cintula and David Snyder


V1

[male]

Fighting that man in the mirror
Don't know who’s going to be the winner
The hallow eyed reflection I see
Or the man I know you need me to be
Honestly

Don't know how you stayed this long
God only knows why you stood this strong

Yeah, stronger than the reflection I see
Even stronger than
The man I know that I should be
 
CH

[male]

Right now
This future of ours looks dim
But because you believe in him
You haven’t given up on us
And that kind of love is hard to express
With sins like mine that need confessed
But I believe I can be a better man
Because God has done more with less
Yeah, he’s done more with less
More with less
 
V2

[female]

Loving that man in the mirror
Because he’s fighting to get his life together
I’m looking past the reflection I see
Praying I’ll find the man you used to be
Honestly
I ask myself why I stayed this long
And thank God I’ve been able to stand this strong
Yeah, stronger than the broken man I see
A little love and Jesus just might set him fee
 
CH

[alternating male and female]

Right now
Our future might look dim
[male]

But because I believe in him
I haven’t given up on us
[female]

And this kind of love is hard to express
[male]

But changes in time will show me you’ve confessed
And I know you can be a better man
[female]

Because God has done more with less

[male]

Yeah, he’s done more with less

[female]

More with less [male and female]
 
CH/Outro

[mixed]

Because God has done more with less
Yeah, he’s done more with less
More with less [male and female]

All music and lyrics copyright 2023 by Rachel Cintula and David Snyder.

Vocals: David Snyder and Rachel Cintula.

Instrumentation, mixing, mastering: David Snyder

[Rachel Cintula, David Snyder Composers]

More With Less

A number of years ago I recorded three CDs for a group called Pumping Station Road (PSR).  I became the 4th member by adding my computer and guitar skills to the group.  Since then one member, Danny, has passed.  Steve has drifted away from music.  BobH was the only one whom keeps coming over to play and record with me. 

Bob and I were listening to some of our older original stuff and decided that I should post three of them.  Trouble Again is the first one.  As always our songs start in BiaB but because this is was done in 2014 I don't have any data on what style we used.  Listening I can tell that I did modify the drum track.
Steve is on vocals.  Bob is on the acoustic guitar.  I am on the bass, electric guitar and via my keyboard controller the B3.

As always feel free to leave comments, good or bad,

PS - we are hoping that Steve will rejoin us.

Trouble Again

Gene played lead guitar
Bandhi Nahbox on drums, organ & bvox
ray cochrane the other bits
Copyright ray cochrane
mastered by
Fran Ashcroft
Happy Beat Studio

Spider (No Coloured Galsses) Pygmy Beat Extended feat. Gene Pensari.

Morning Sun

I am way out of my comfort zone on this one. 

I am playing the guitar and the spoken word.  Band-in-a-Box is supplying the balance of the tracks with the exception of the very last sound: I played that on my MIDI keyboard controller.

Let me know what you think.

The Clock Is Ticking

In the alleyways of midnight, shadows climb the walls
Playing trash guitar, while the night tumbles and falls
Cigarette smoke lingers, on the city streets so bare
Spinning songs of disillusion, with a heart in full repair

Hey now Lou, where has it gone?
Time lost in translation, in a big world gone wrong
So many highs and lows, a velvet symphony
Nico in the shadows, at the Silver Factory

The city is a circus, with clowns on every block
The neon lights they sputter, as the music rolls and rocks
Singing songs of outcasts, the misfits and the lost
Finding space in the music, doesn’t matter the cost

Hey now Lou, where has it gone?
Time lost in translation, in a big world gone wrong
So many highs and lows, a velvet symphony
Nico in the shadows, at the Silver Factory
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba

Walking down Grove Street, got my leather jacket on
Thinking about my masterpiece, in the half light of dawn
Channeling the spirits, and the songs of the day
In a dream that keeps repeating, every step along the way

Hey now Lou, where has it gone?
Time lost in translation, in a big world gone wrong
So many highs and lows, a velvet symphony
Nico in the shadows, at the Silver Factory
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba

Hey Lou

Tribute to the Kingfisher or Le Martin Pêcheur

If you want, go to my video on my Facebook page, close the connection request window to view the video and activate the sound volume to listen to the music on the video

https://www.facebook.com/100061441835724/videos/825577532485463

The Kingfisher

Related reading:

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/catastrophic-73-decline-in-the-average-size-of-global-wildlife-populations-in-just-50-years-reveals-a-system-in-peril

[Verse]
A caterpillar swarm
has eaten all the green
the plague of the Earth
desolation as far as can be seen
there's no universal court to intervene.

[Chorus]
There's no limit for this beast
epidemics only slow down its feast
from the bottom of the seas
to the top of the trees
its might is coming to squeeze.

Not every seventh year
but daily on this sphere
it feels like the end is near.

[Verse]
By the crawler jaws
all forests have been chewed
voracious to farm
when its billions of offsprings cry for food
no natural menace preying on its brood.

[Chorus]
There's no limit for this beast
epidemics only slow down its feast
from the bottom of the seas
to the top of the trees
its might is coming to squeeze.

A mineral-eating pest
shoves out all the rest
a cuckoo in a pristine nest.

[Bridge]
Settlements, road construction
cultivation, intoxicant production
logging, drilling and mining
a waste cloud without a silver lining.
Holocene extinction, in the twinkling of an eye
the work of million years is going to die
from moas to coral reefs and bees
for lithium, cobalt and manganese.

[Chorus]
There's no limit for this beast
epidemics only slow down its feast
from the bottom of the seas
to the top of the trees
its might is coming to squeeze.

The paradise with lagoons
is now desert dunes
next target is to mine the moon.

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Music & Lyrics & Arrangement: Janne S
Vocals: Synthesizer V NOA Hex (lead+backing), Solaria & Sheena (backing)

No Limit

Just another nobody who's not here to be somebody.  I write songs because I can't help it, and it helps me.  If I add them here, I'm less likely to keep mixing them.  Creativity is a stream with many tributaries, and sometimes one runs through us.  The stream is more creative when tributaries meet, and I'm grateful for the collaborative efforts of others.

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