It's the Livin' That Counts

Woman leaves man so he hits the dating scene with all the usual trappings. His goal is to find a new love, but he's stuck in an emotional rut and finds out that what he's really looking for is a copy of his lost love. Old story....

Runaround

Man leaves woman after avowing forever love. He's a cad. She's sad. Her friends warned her. Listen to your friends. 

Full Moon Shining

Man falls for woman who turns out to be not so nice, so now he's down and playing the blues on his steel guitar. Old story....still worth listening to if you like tasty guitar licks.

Blue Steel

Woman regrets losing a love many years earlier; she recalls that the "love was good but we forgot to try." Sound familiar? Just a sweet old fashioned country ballad some may find pleasing. 

Down Life's Road

Man catches woman kissing another man; he's not impressed. But now he's depressed so he writes a song to tell the world. You should listen to his sad story. :) 

Blues are Made for Bad News: Blues goes dream pop

A lament about how hard many people work and still can't get ahead. One must suppose it's always been so, but one would also hope that life would be easier in the 21st Century. I Had a Dream!

Blue Collar Blue

Man is head over heels in love, i.e. "Just One Love" and he's singing her praises. He's not really at the Eiffel Tower, but it's in the lyrics. You'll have to listen to learn more.

Just One Love

Life and its inevitable twists and turns is, quite literally, a mystery for most of us. We try our best to manage the mystery to our advantage and with varying degrees of success. This song explores some of the challenges and ends with sage advice: Live Your Mystery Well. Worth thinking about...just sayin'

Live Your Mystery Well

Man gets depressed with work-a-day world so flies off to Mexico where he consumes too much tequila but then meets a beautiful Mexican girl and falls deeply in love. But then he has to return to his real life; years later, he still laments the love he left -- his Tequila Cecelia. Below are complete lyrics, thanks for listening:

TEQUILA CECELIA

[Chorus]
Cecelia is her name, our love a livin’ flame
Cecelia is her name, I’ll never be the same…never be the same…

[Verse 1]
Nine to five wearin’ weary, feelin’ so down
Found myself in Mexico, my sorrows to be drowned
The sun and tequila the only way to go
Forgetting past heartache the only way I know

Feelin’ so hung, woke by the sun
a vision in white kissed by the light 
Raven hair, soft brown eyes
her warm embrace, her lovin’ sighs
Our passion burned, days flew by
ocean breeze where we lie

[Chorus]
Cecelia is her name...Tequila Cecelia...I’ll never be the same
Cecelia is her name...Tequila Cecelia...my memories remain…memories remain…

[Verse 2]
Life called me back, I had to go, a fevered kiss, a promise spoke  
Time escaped, life’s rut took hold, a young lost love so long ago
To this day I wonder why, in my dreams I still see her cry.

[Verse 3]
Again I’m so lonely, for a lost one and only…
Her raven hair, soft brown eyes, her warm embrace, her lovin’ sighs

[Chorus]
Cecelia was her name...Tequila Cecelia...I’ll never know her love again 
Cecelia was her name...Tequila Cecelia...I’ll never be the same, I’ll never be the same…my tequila Cecelia

Tequila Cecelia

Classic story of romantic break up and heart break. Woman laments loss of her love so she does what many people do: sits in her apartment drinkin' and smokin' and feelin' alone. Nice lyrics and instrumentation in my view. What do you think? 

Smokin' Drinkin' Feelin' Alone

Smoking Drinking Feeling Alone

Man has loved woman from teen years, but never told her...dumb guy. She met someone else in the interim and the dude is a cad so now she's sad. Now the guy who loves her is back and wants to take her away to bright new days with rainbows, four leaf clovers, and sunny skies. Will it work out? You tell me...

Right Kind of Woman

Think about it: the past is a dream; we can't live it, we can only think it, so that puts it in the dream realm. And we rarely remember the past as it really was, so we tweak it to make it fit, but does the "fit" represent truth or reality? You get it: the past is a dream that we change and rearrange. The song tells the whole story in modern dream pop style.

The Past's a Dream

Modern evolution of the century-old original song so well known to so many, great vocals.

House of the Rising Sun

Just what it says: new dream pop tracks for easy listening

Blues are Made for Bad News

Love song that doesn't involve heartbreak; lovely sentiments here to play for someone you love.

Sunny Blue

Easy listening dream pop for those moments when you want it so...

Do You Have a Heart

Thousands of listeners really like this tune, classic easy listening dream pop

The Sound of Night

Man believes he's really lucky to have found a partner whose "kisses are fire" and who makes him feel like he's sinning. Doesn't sound too bad...

Glad I Met You

The song uses the metaphor and a couple turns of phrase from Robert Frost's Winter Wind & Window Flower to create a contemporary tune. His lyrics have been dramatically changed, but he gets, and deserves, credit for a wonderful  love lost metaphor. Thanks Bob...hope you don't turn in your grave.

The Winter Wind & Window Flower

Winter Wind & Window Flower

Wide variety of tunes and moods on this album, either songs mostly easy listening dream pop.

Forget Regrets

When I Die

Travelling musician has spent years on the road playing bars to "sodden ears that could not hear." He now misses his sweetie, so he's driving home to get "back in baby's arms..." He decided to take a pretty violinist home with him in the backseat. Not sure what "baby" will think about that...  

Back In Baby's Arms

Man is crazy in love with woman so metaphorically says they can share a love asylum for two. Sounds nuts right...you'll have to listen to the song.

Asylum For Two

This tune was inspired by a Robert Frost poem, adapted liberally of course, and set to a dream pop melody. If you're looking for a new Christmas music sound, give this a listen. It's one of 12 new Christmas songs on SoundCloud Christmas playlists. Thanks.

Journey in the Snow

A song produced in a blend of dream pop and blues intended for listeners who have lost a love at this otherwise generally happy time of year.  It's one of 12 new Christmas songs on SoundCloud Christmas playlists 2025.

Christmas Blues

Lonely girl waits under a weeping willow tree for her lover who never arrives. Heart broken she asks the willow tree to cry for her. By morning the willow tree still stands but the young woman is gone, the willow knows about the power of the flowing waters nearby...have a listen.

Weeping Willow Weep for Me

One of 12 new Christmas songs on SoundCloud Christmas playlists 2025.  This is a song about wine and how it emerges from grapes to our tables and social gatherings. Wine has an incredibly long history. This song plays homage to that history and hopefully entertains you and your friends/family at social events this year. Following are the lyrics for those interested:

WINE DANCE

[verse]

Berries glisten at morning light, sheen of dew born of night
In warmth of sun growth's begun
Color shows green to red, even gold 
At first frost grapes part the vine, merging next as nectar wine..ooh...nectar wine

[chorus]

Raise a toast to lessons past, taste ambrosia from your glass
Naught but wine has held a place where people seek both mirth and grace
Lusty red to golden white the living liquid brings delight
To we hale people all well met,  better still when lips are wet. 

[verse]

Wine brings joy when friends unite, leaving long remembered nights
With ruby red, depths are plumbed and inhibitions oft succumb  
Wine spurs thoughts we’ve never thought, some worthwhile, some are not.

[chorus]

Raise a toast to lessons past, now sip ambrosia from your glass
Naught but wine has held a place as people seek both mirth and grace.
Lusty red to golden white the living liquid brings delight
Taste this gift that for a night sends woes and cares to misty flight…woes and cares take misty flight…cares take misty flight...

Wine Dance Happy Holidays

Man suffers break up with loved one and it's so bad that he decides to leave town...what better/faster way to leave than on an airplane...one with silver wings. Dreamy slow dream pop ballad, easy on the ears...I believe and a very strong vocal. Have a listen. Added bonus, the entire song lyrics follow below:

 [Verse]

Silver wings fly me away, can’t stay another day
Tell myself forget the past, flash of freedom never lasts
Tell my head it’s life anew, but in my heart there’s only you

[chorus]

Silver wings on you I fly, on your wings I say goodbye
To love I’ve lost forever more, to pale blue eyes I still adore
Your wings lift me to the sky, places only eagles fly
Where winds flow with grace caring not for time and space...(time and space...) 

[verse]

Silver wings take me away to a place with sunny days
Where memories disappear like jet trails in thin air
Where thoughts aren’t just of you, a place where life begins anew...(begins anew...)

[CHORUS]
Silver wings on you I fly, on your wings I say goodbye
To love I’ve lost forever more, to pale blue eyes I still adore
Your wings lift me to the sky, to places only eagles fly
Where winds flow with grace caring not for time and space (time and space...)

[verse]

Silver wings fly me away where sunrise brings another day
When all my thoughts aren’t just of you, a day when life begins anew, 
when life begins brand new…silver wings I fly with you...

Silver Wings

One of 12 new Christmas songs on SoundCloud Christmas playlists 2025.  New modern lyrics and pop rock arrangement for the traditional New Year's tune. This version makes a lot more sense and also lets people dance!! And, here are the entire lyrics:

FOR AULD LANG SYNE ... the words

[verse 1]
It’s the festive time of year for traditions held so dear
To remember friends we’ve long not seen when kinder still we could have been
So sing a song with me my friends for old acquaintance we’ve forgot and never brought to mind?
For old acquaintance we’ve forgot in days of auld lang syne.
[Chorus]
For auld lang syne my friends, for auld lang syne
We'll drink a cup of kindness for the sake of auld lang syne
Of time behind and friends not seen but never lost to mind 
So raise your cup to us old friend for auld lang syne.
[Verse 2]
We've paddled lakes from dawn 'til night
The waves before us rise and swell we felt the chill of fright 
Good times we shared, and sure some downs, but never did we doubt
The bond of friendship held to heart is what it’s all about 
[Chorus]
For auld lang syne my friends, for auld lang syne
We'll drink a cup of kindness for the sake of auld lang syne
Of time behind and friends not seen but never lost to mind 
So raise your cup to us old friend for auld lang syne.
[Verse 3]
My cup my friend is bottom dry, a tear this brings to my eye
So fill our cups with ale old friend, the night is young, so don’t pretend
The morning brings what mornings bring, no worries now as loud we sing, of…
[Chorus]
…auld lang syne my friends, of auld lang syne
We'll drink a cup of kindness friends for auld lang syne
Of time behind and friends not seen but never lost to mind 
So raise your cup to us old friend for the sake of auld lang syne.

For Auld Lang Syne

For Auld Lang Syne (with lyrics)

A blue tune with dream pop tones that tells the story of wine from virgin berry to our tables and living rooms. No drink has longer been in our social settings than wine (sorry beer drinkers). For those who like to know precise lyrics, they follow below:

VIN ROUGE BLUES

[verse]

Berries glisten at morning light, sheen of dew born of night
In warmth of sun growth's begun
Color shows green to red, even gold 
At first frost grapes part the vine, merging next as nectar wine..ooh...nectar wine

[chorus]

Raise a toast to lessons past, taste ambrosia from your glass
Naught but wine has held a place where people seek both mirth and grace
Lusty red to golden white the living liquid brings delight
To we hale people all well met,  better still when lips are wet ..oo... 

[verse]

Wine brings joy when friends unite, leaving long remembered nights
With ruby red, depths are plumbed and inhibitions oft succumb  
Wine spurs thoughts we’ve never thought, some worthwhile, some are not..ooh...

[chorus]

Raise a toast to lessons past, now sip ambrosia from your glass
Naught but wine has held a place as people seek both mirth and grace.
Lusty red to golden white the living liquid brings delight
Taste this gift that for a night sends woes and cares to misty flight…woes and cares take misty flight…cares take misty flight...

Vin Rouge Blues

This is unusual, a dream pop song not about people or love, but about the feared tiger of southeast Asia, a wonderful animal in serious jeopardy of extinction. This song is for all the tigers that still live. Have a listen, great percussion, upbeat tempo and smooth female vocal. Bonus for those who like to see precise lyrics; they follow below:

TIGER

[Verse]
Behold the tiger's claws and might, she haunts the jungle in the night
Creatures in their hidden lairs, quake in fear she'll find them there

[chorus]
In deep of night while others sleep, she slowly moves in ambush creep
Her patient beauty strength belies, the apex killer's yellow eyes, ...yellow eyes... 

[verse]
Stripes and muscle pad in mud, knowing soon there will be blood
For you no fear exists in mind, fear's unknown among your kind
Breath is silent, soft and low, her prey unknowing mere feet below
She loves the sounds of the night, that cloak how near her victim’s plight

[verse]
Stars cast light down like spears, for what you do there are no tears
In this place she stands alone, gnawing on her hard won bones. 

[chorus]
In deep of night while others sleep, she slowly moves in ambush creep
Her patient beauty strength belies, the apex killer's yellow eyes, our dreams are haunted by killer eyes…your yellow eyes...oo...your killer eyes...

Tiger

Man loved woman but she left him for another guy who turns out to be not as nice or caring as he used to be. So she's sad the guy she left now sees a new opportunity to win her back...but, of course, he spent years crying, denying, and dying inside waiting for this day to come.  

Crying Denying Dying

Denying Crying Dying

Rain can be sexy if you're in the right mood and the right place with the right person...it can also just be darn wet and uncomfortable. But our couple is fortunate to be hot and wetty. Have a listen to this easy listening dream pop retro pop ballad.

Lovers in the Rain

One of the most popular and well known classic songs of all time, Danny Boy, arranged in a blues dream pop styling. Have a listen.

Danny Boy Blues

This is a song about young love and how totally enveloping it can be; you can't think of anything else and hormones run amok...kind of life "FIRE" ... nothing like it. Have a listen.

Fire

Man alone with thoughts of a lost love while the west wind blows. But it can't blow his worries away... Below are the lyrics

Hot sultry day, alone I lay
Wish thoughts of you would go away
Breeze blows through, feels so cool
Can't sweep away that I’m a fool...a fool for you...

West wind, carry me
To a place where I am free
Take these thoughts and let them stray
Let them drift so far away...so far away..

The sun sinks low, sky burns gold
Air lies thick as night unfolds
I call your name, it fades and bends
Lost in echoes the wind pretends...the wind pretends... 

West wind, carry me
To a place where I am free
Take these thoughts and let them stray
Let them drift so far away...far away...

Alone I lay with thoughts of you
A lonely breeze still blowing through
Feels so cool, sweep away this lonely fool...a fool for you.

West wind, carry me
Far from where these shadows be
Whisper soft, erase my pain
West wind, please come again, come again...come again, my only friend..

West Wind

MUSIC MADE IN CANADA: Music has been a large part of my life since my teen years when I started playing guitar. Used to play popular pop and country songs in bars, songs written by other artists but for past couple decades have focused entirely on writing and producing my own songs across a number of genres: pop, country, blues, and more recently dream pop and what I'm calling whiskey blues dream pop, a style that merges the two and that seems complimentary to my ear. I believe each style can sound good and give people pleasure: that's my goal in writing. Now I produce sounds featuring both male and female vocals as the lyrics dictate; variety is the spice of...well, you know. Thanks for listening.

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