Big like for your harmony-anguish and anger is a potent mix!

The best of everything - voices words penetration . . .

Amazing dynamics and emotion in your voice Karen. How does this only have 14 likes! Come on SC!!!!

The world is not only full of madmen and villains (a very well done lyric by the way!), but every now and then I discover a good singer, sometimes a good song, and sometimes even both at once! Like here.

Oh! My! Goodness!!! This is a magnificent song!!! Came here because Gabriel reposted this and I like his taste, so here I am marveling in your talent and feeling your soulful message in this song. Simply a fabulous song! ⁓Rebecca

Lost and Found

The Mystery

All fab guitar and bass tracks provided by @rosarius (guitar) and Bruce (bass). 

Verse 1:
Not deep and meaningful just real
A chance is lost to tell you how I feel
As I cover up the gaping hole you miss
My smile is just a curving of my lips

Pre-chorus:
The great pretence
My last defence
You see I'm hiding
And every day
Is a chance to say
Please come and find me

Chorus:
And I'll open up a crack
Let a little sadness out
Not enough to push you back
Just enough to show you what I'm all about
Look in my eyes
And you will see this time
You knew me only half as well as I knew you

Verse 2:
As I carry out my daily work by rote
The date passes yearly without note
A testament to being in control
You assume the loss it, took so little toll

Pre-chorus:
So bloody hard
Not to discard
What won't define me
And every day 
Is a chance to say
Please try and find me

Chorus:
And I'll open up a crack
Let a little sadness out
Not enough to push you back
Just enough to show you what I'm all about
Look in my eyes
And you will see this time
You knew me only half as well as I knew you

Open Up a Crack

I heard your news today
Felt your world peel away
And your heart was crumbling fast
I wish I could tell you it won't last

I was there 
Right between darkness and despair
And everywhere I looked, I saw what I'd lost
Taken for granted at so little cost

Chorus 
Hold those memories close
That they're all you have hurts the most
Specks of time, magnified, playing like a movie
Inside your mind
Playing like a movie, inside your mind

I can tell you this my friend
Slowly the pain becomes a little less
It never leaves, it deserves to stay
You won't give her rightful place away

Chorus 
Hold those memories close
That they're all you have hurts the most
Specks of time, magnified, playing like a movie
Inside your mind
Playing like a movie, inside your mind

Step by step by step by little step
Every day you grieve leaves one day less
Lean on me, and I'll lean on you
And maybe together, we'll both get through

Hold those memories close....

Hold Those Memories Close

(4 February)the beginning [first day] of spring (in the traditional Japanese calendar).

The first spring embrace you

Not fair, I shout inside my head
As I hear your news and sense your dread
The harder you try to fake the ease
With which you throw your words at me
The stronger my muscles tighten

The battle ground was laid before
You took your stance with ever more
Than the dignity that I can find
I'm mute of words, blank of mind
Cos I am really frightened 

We are here, we are here
We are everywhere you want us
Anytime you need we'll take your lead
We are here, we are here
We are everywhere you want us
Anytime you need we'll take your lead
We are here

Every path will be paved
With all our love that we can save
For every encounter, every day
We get to hold your hand and say
We'll walk this road beside you

But that won't help to ease the pain
That grows in force as it turns again
To ravage you and all you've built 
While those who thrive are wracked with guilt
Cos only luck divides us

We are here, we are here
We are everywhere you want us
Anytime you need we'll take your lead
We are here, we are here
We are everywhere you want us
Anytime you need we'll take your lead
We are here

Every Path

Small

I am numb
I’ve forgotten how to feel
I have become
An impenetrable shell of steel
I won’t succumb
To their appeals
They beat their drums
But I will not reveal

What goes on inside my head
I won’t be drawn, I can’t be read
And I have no more tears to shed 
My oath is etched upon your grave
I won’t let go, I won’t be saved

I am alone
It’s best that way
I ignore the phone
I have no words today
If they think that I’m not home
Maybe they’ll go away
Cos they just want to know
What I cannot say 'bout

What goes on inside my head
I won’t be drawn, I can’t be read
And I have no more tears to shed 
My oath is etched upon your grave
I won’t let go, I won’t be saved

My words are only mine to hear
I made a promise I will keep
I close my eyes and you’re with me
For now I've everything I need

What goes on inside my head
My vision’s dull, my passion’s dead
I have no heart, I’ve stone instead
My oath is etched upon your grave
I won’t let go, I won’t be saved

No More Tears

White Cloud Blues

A little folksy ramble about mortality, electricity and such things. 

When I wrote this I was thinking of when I was standing in my old hallway a few years ago. I was watching the lights from an overhead thunderstorm through the retro glass front door. It was the kind of storm where you could feel the strange sensations around your body from the electric charge in the atmosphere. It was such a charge that it somehow managed to ring the front door bell moments before a deluge. To me it was both poetic and a little bit freaky.

Persian sunlight
Wrapped in rugs that trapped it
In your memory so bright

Oxpecker scars
Feasted on your shoulders
As you fast

You have hovered like a kestrel
Watched the winter turn to petrichor
You have followed thunderstorms
Through minds-eye-skies and charge
The bell to your front door

You still resist
A quench for you temptation
And the dead will desist

So much to leave
Before you reach your senses
And can breathe

You have hovered like a kestrel
Watched the winter turn to petrichor
You have followed thunderstorms
Through minds-eye-skies and charge
The bell to your front door

Petrichor

There are no words that I can say
To take the pain away
I write a phrase and hit delete
I write again, and then repeat

What do you say to someone who's lost everything
What do you say when there's nothing left to fight
I want to scream but there's no one to scream at
There must be someone to blame, right?

You turn to me for comfort and strength 
And I fail to give you what you expect
Soothing words turn to dust on my lips
Consolation I cannot give

What do you say to someone who's lost everything
What do you say when there's nothing left to fight
I want to scream but there's no one to scream at
There must be someone to blame, right?

Those who say everything happens for a reason
Should stay the hell away from me
Cos in a world full of madmen and villains
Why take the gentle and let the monsters run free

What do you say to someone who's lost everything
What do you say when there's nothing left to fight
I want to scream but there's no one to scream at
There must be someone to blame, right?

What Do You Say?

Original Score inspired by the Bentley Little novel The Consultant

February 11th 1977 - Songs From the Wood

Album Scenes Etcetera from Christian Levitan
UPC 4061798106202
EmGee Publishing

Scenes Etcetera

Clair de Lune

Clair De Lune - (Neoclassic Version)

https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree/super-lizard-mezz-recipe
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1,2,3 way USA / UK collaboration by
Porter Duffy - Vocals, Lyrics, Keys https://soundcloud.com/doug-hartman-858116
Mezz Recipe - Keys, Percussion & Arrangement @exoticsoundsofmezzrecipe
Weighty Tree - Guitars, Bass, Comp. & Mix

More:
soundcloud.com/theweightytree/sets/the-mezz-recipe-sessions-1

Kill Devil Hills - Porter Duffy / Mezz Recipe / Weighty Tree

Music and voice : Deepman
Words and voice : Luciole Langevine

Paix sur la terre 
Paix sur les hommes 

Paix sur la terre 
Paix sur la terre
Paix sur la terre

Paix sur les hommes
Que ces mots vides et creux enfin sonnent et résonnent 
Relayés, déployés 
Et frissonnent plus fort que ne peut briller l'or

Ô messagers de l'air aux gorges mirifiques
Sur tous les continents
Sonnez l'alarme douce 

Sonnez l'alarme douce
Et ouvrez tous les yeux
Et ouvrez tous les cœurs
Et ouvrez tous les yeux
Et ouvrez tous les cœurs

Sonnez l'alarme douce et ouvrez tous les yeux
Et ouvrez tout le chœur

Donnez chair 
Donnez corps à cette aspiration
Que chaque être porte en lui
Et même s'il l'ignore
Du début de sa vie jusqu'à l'heure de sa mort

Sonnez sonnez sonnez sonnez l'alarme douce...

translation:
Peace on earth
Peace over men

Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth

Peace over men
May these empty and hollow words finally ring and ring
Relayed, deployed
And shudder louder than gold can shine

O messengers of the air with wonderful gorges
On all continents
Ring the soft alarm

Ring the soft alarm
And open all your eyes
And open all hearts
And open all your eyes
And open all hearts

Ring the sweet alarm and open all eyes
And open the whole choir

Give flesh
Give substance to this aspiration
That each being carries within him
And even if he ignores it
From the beginning of his life until the hour of his death

Ring ring ring ring the soft alarm ...

L'alarme Douce - Deepman & Luciole Langevine

Abandoned Cities V

All songs on channel are original and copyright of Karen O'Mahony (c). 

You'll find me also here in my collaboration project with Johan Alm https://soundcloud.com/ashesfordreams

What Do You Say?

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