Max McNown 
🤠 Country
📍Oregon
Country Singer - Influencer - Male

Max McNown

Help Me Hold On

A Lot More Free

Wandering

Rather Have A Nightmare

Can't Hide Light

I Can Still Make Cheyenne

We Grew Up Together

We Grew Up Together (feat. Cory Asbury)

the other day my wife carina (cover pic from early 80s of a party-filled stay with friends somewhere in denmark) asked me why I didn't publish something positive again, something just uplifting without dramatic depth. otherwise, people might think I'm a gloomy sceptic, a notorious nihilist and a pessimistic misanthrope, which personally wouldn't bother me that massively;-)

but of course, she's right, and always being a sourpuss gets boring. so, the album ‘retrospective future’ which was originally intended to be a trilogy is now getting a fourth track: a song originally titled “was ist das her?”, which I wrote around 20 years ago with duet voices in my head – at a time when I thought the previous 20 years were an incredibly long time. interestingly, from today's perspective, I feel no significant difference between 20 and 40 years. however, it's a look back not with a tear in my eye but with a smile in my heart. 

tech: the only way to translate the lyrics so that they still fit the composition, and, above all, the original vocal rhythm was to paraphrase some phrases. I hope all native english speakers will forgive me for any mistakes. 

drilling the rhythm of singing with its pauses and emphases into the AI was surprisingly elaborate, despite the uploaded template. for something called 'intelligence', the machine is still incredibly stupid.

but all the work was worth it because the result is very close to my vision. even if it remains a digitally simulated sketch.

all that remains is to wish you all a wonderful weekend, and to send our deepest love to our dearest friends gary and terry, who are going through a really difficult time. you are the best – and always in our hearts!

https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs/a-mountain-message

©music and lyrics by Hans-Michael Albers, instrumental cover & vocal performance by suno 5

After Party we still were dancing
While the night went off we never stopped
As the sunrise hit our faces
And we felt the world was ours on top

We were running, were rushing all night
Laughing loud like nothing could go wrong 
Every heartbeat felt like a star flight
And we wrote our dreams into the dawn 

So long ago, but we still know
The way those nights could heal us so
A distant light, a fading glow
Yet in our hearts it won’t let go

All our worries drifted away, hey 
We were floating high above the ground
Every moment a holiday, yay
And nothing held us, nothing tied us down

We had sworn that we'd never land, and
We'd keep dancing never asking why,
Dreams for living and life for dreaming
Too young to fall, just made to fly 

So long ago, but we still know
The way those nights could heal us so
A distant light, a fading glow
Yet in our hearts it won’t let go

So long ago, but we still hear
The quiet songs that led us near
A sweeter time, untouched by fear
Still echoing though none stay here 

So long, Ago

So long ago

 (And God said, )
Let there bee lights  (lights)
in the firmament of the heaven, 
to divide the day from the night: 
(and let them be ) for signes and for seasons, 
and for days and years.

And let them be 
for lights in the firmament of the heaven, 
to give light upon the earth: 
(and it was so.)x2

(And God made )
two great lights:  (two great lights)
the greater light to rule the day, 
and the lesser light 
to rule the night: 
then he made the stars too!

(And God set )
them in the firmament of the heaven,
 to give light upon the earth:

And to rule 
over the day, and over the night, 
and to divide 
the light from the darkness: 
(and God saw )
that it was good. x2

And the evening and the morning 
were the fourth day.

(And God said,) 
Let the waters bring forth abundantly 
the moving creature that hath life, 
and fouls that flies above the earth 
in the open firmament of heaven.

God made 
great whales, !
and every creature alive that moves, 
which the waters abundantly brought forth 
after their kind. 
and every winged foul 
after his kind: 
(God saw that it was good.)x2

God blessed them and said:
Be fruitful 
and multiply, !
fill the waters in the Seas, 
and let fouls multiply ...(in the earth).

And the evening 
and the morning were the fifth day.

(And God said,) 
Let the earth bring forth 
the living creature 
after his kind, 
cattle, and creeping thing, 
beast of the earth after his kind: 
and it was so. x2.

(And God made )the beast  and cattle 
of the earth after his kind,(after their kind)
and every thing that creeps on the ground, 
after his kind
(and God saw- that it was good)x2.

I Can Still Make Cheyenne

Max McNown

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