great foundational composition and arrangement, wonderful lyrics and vocals, very moving and uplifting production!

really nice collaboration guys. Top production of course.

Zu einem Wohlfühlteppich arrangierte Instrumente, auf dem sich der Sänger räkelt. Guter Song.

Nice chords fade out - god song with that beseeching vocal

ooo I like that lyric about moving dreams from the back row to the front

powerful message and very well delivered.

Awesome mix, production, and song Nadine!!🤘🖤 Kudos all around😎

What a fantastic message. The vocals make me believe it! Excellent track all-around.

Alive

Not everything turns out right at first time. Carry on, and believe in your dreams. "Hold On To Your Dreams" should empower you to try something new and find yourself. 

Nadine de Macedo: composition, arrangement, synthesizers, piano, electric guitar, programming, production
We Happy Few: vocals, lyrics, acoustic guitar

Where to find us:
https://nadinedemacedo.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@wehappyfewmusic

Cover design: Christian Bannister

==== LYRICS ====

Hold on to your dreams
Let us see what they'll become
Hold on to your dreams
Like tomorrow will never come

Don’t sit back and settle for
All the stuff you see that's wrong
And don’t you listen to
All their broken dreams

But if you trust in yours
Then they will grow 

Tonight let's show them
We can be just what we want 
Tonight we're moving our dreams 
From the back row to the front

We'll find a way through it
Oh Lord I hope I'm right
We'll swerve the final hurdles
Move from the dark into the light 

You gotta work at it
So head up high you'll be alright  

You've reached the ceiling
So break it into dust
Do what makes you come alive
Forget the other stuff

So hold onto your dreams
Let us see what they'll become
Hold on to your dreams
Like tomorrow will never come

You’ve got to take a chance 
before you time is gone, so

Tonight let's show them
We can be just what we want 
Tonight we're moving our dreams
From the back row to the front

Tonight we’ll show them
We will be just what we want 
Tonight we come alive

Hold On To Your Dreams

Xanax {with The Skeleton Twins & Zzzzerbot}

In this final version (here the draft: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/sunday-derby) I have the honour of adding the contribution of Manuel Pietra (take a listen to his tracks: https://soundcloud.com/mozartwolfy81), my friend and my daughter's piano teacher, in the first and in the last part of the piece.
For those (like me) born in the late 1950s and raised in Milan in the 1960s, Sunday of derby (AC Milan vs. FC Internazionale) was the most beautiful and most feared day of the year. The three sections of the piece correspond to three easily understood moments: before the match (Saturday night and Sunday morning); during the match (Sunday afternoon); after the match (Sunday evening and Sunday night). All imperfections (as usual) are mine.
As it's clear in the end of the second part of the piece, my team won the match that time (so many years ago ...). I'm sorry to say that Manuel is a fan of the other Milan team, the one that lost the game in the circumstance mentioned ...

Michele Ansani: piano, keyboards, guitars (and arrangement).
Manuel Pietra: piano.
Stadium effects from Pixabay

Cover picture: L. S. Lowry, 'Going to the match' (1953).

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Composed by Michele Ansani (part 2) and Manuel Pietra (part 1 and 3 not depending from part 2)
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, September 2.

Sunday Derby (extended version) [Michele Ansani & Manuel Pietra] **

Some fun with my Peavey bass.
When I pick up my guitar I often ramble freely to improvise and work out what I have done later. Because bass is usually a support instrument, I rarely play in the same way. Before I begin to improvise, I usually have established the key, mode, tempo, rhythm, dynamic shape, etc. So this is a free bass impro working the other way round, with the harmonic structure found after playing the notes that sound good : )

The Other Way Around (bass instrumental)

Last Days Of Summer

This song I wrote in 2022 for a female vocalist to sing, I offered it up several times to several singers but alas I guess I'm an awful songwriter and nobody wants to sing my songs but hey, that's okay, I'll sing them myself! No A.I. for me!! It's a very supportive and positive song with a nice retro '70's or '80's feel! A good dance tune or workout song! Just imagine your dad singing it to y'all not me! I wrote it for my daughter mainly but it's for all broken-hearted women everywhere! Anyway, it's a very powerful pro-woman song and I'm proud to have written it! The video was awesome to produce and put together, my wife loves it! I think I captured the essence of the song visually in the video, please watch it! I know "Unbreak" is not a word, I just made it up. When heartbreak hits you, and believe me it will hit you sooner or later, just pick yourself, unplug, and unbreak your heart!! I hope everyone enjoys it and thanks for supporting me and my channel! After all, girls just want to have fun too! Love y'all!👍💖 ✌🏼

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/jnR5SaW3bjA

“UNBREAK YOUR HEART”

SO YOUR HEART’S BEEN BROKEN,     
YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE,    
NO ONE’S IMMUNE TO HEARTACHE,       
AT TIMES WE’RE ALL UNDER THE GUN,                  

YOU HAVE TO GRIN AND BEAR IT,     
SHAKE IT OFF AND MOVE ALONG,      
LOVE WILL FILL YOUR HEART AGAIN,      
SCARS WILL HEAL BEFORE TOO LONG,

UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
FORGET THE PAIN, TIME TO GET SMART,           
WARM UP YOUR LOCOMOTION,             
STRAP BACK IN, IT’S TIME TO JUMP THE SHARK,          
UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
REWIND YOUR MIND, RELIGHT THE SPARK,           
SOMETIMES WHAT YOU NEED IS A BRAND NEW START,           
PICK YOURSELF UP, UNPLUG, AND UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
BABY UNBREAK YOUR HEART, 
UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
BABY UNBREAK YOUR HEART,

I KNOW IT HURTS LIKE CRAZY,     
BETRAYAL IS NEVER FUN,      
HARD TO TRUST ANYONE AGAIN,     
BUT GET IN THE GAME, YOU’LL FIND THE ONE,   
  
BETTER TO FORGET IT,     
GET BACK ON YOUR BIKE AND GO,            
BEING DUMPED IS NOT THE END,     
IT’S THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SHOW,        

UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
FORGET THE PAIN, TIME TO GET SMART,           
WARM UP YOUR LOCOMOTION,             
STRAP BACK IN, IT’S TIME TO JUMP THE SHARK,          
UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
REWIND YOUR MIND, RELIGHT THE SPARK,           
SOMETIMES WHAT YOU NEED IS A BRAND NEW START,           
PICK YOURSELF UP, UNPLUG, AND UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
BABY UNBREAK YOUR HEART, 
UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
BABY UNBREAK YOUR HEART,
               
THE LIES THEY HURT, THEY REALLY STING,               
BURY THAT PAIN THAT HURT SO MUCH,
AND LET YOUR NEW HEART SING,              

UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
FORGET THE PAIN, TIME TO GET SMART,           
WARM UP YOUR LOCOMOTION,             
STRAP BACK IN, IT’S TIME TO JUMP THE SHARK,          
UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
REWIND YOUR MIND, RELIGHT THE SPARK,           
SOMETIMES WHAT YOU NEED IS A BRAND NEW START,           
PICK YOURSELF UP, UNPLUG, AND UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
BABY UNBREAK YOUR HEART, 
UNBREAK YOUR HEART,           
BABY UNBREAK YOUR HEART.

BY JIM VALDES (C) 2022

ODDS & ENDS

"UNBREAK YOUR HEART" [Video - https://youtu.be/jnR5SaW3bjA]

Friday

A song about hope that there are better days and they may well be tomorrow...I think
Youtube link to lyric video - https://youtu.be/XCdgRyhayv0

Lyrics
People say that your dreams are crazy
but mine are just like every day of my life
I find myself not running away from
those kind of problems that you know that I can’t fight
cos you know that I don’t fight
yeah you know that I won’t
More people shouting that I’m losing the plot now
how can you shed what you never really owned
fair trial myself for selfless treason
the only evidence against me is all I’ve been told
it’s all I’ve ever known
but is it all I’ll ever be
So don’t care what they all say
because tomorrow’s another
go free yourself from your pent up jail
because tomorrow’s another
try see in yourself for achieve and not fail
and know tomorrow’s another
then forget today and just walk away
cos tomorrow’s another day
tomorrow’s another day
yeah tomorrow’s another day
our tomorrow is another day
Same different people scream that I’m out of control
when I’ve never been more tied up in my life
I Caught myself in a mirror laughing
those lines remind me that I’ll make the perfect wife
so just go Live their perfect life
cos I’ve heard imperfect is worth less

So don’t care what they all say
because tomorrow’s another
go free yourself from your pent up jail
because tomorrow’s another
try see in yourself for achieve and not fail
and know tomorrow’s another
then forget today and just walk away
cos tomorrow’s another day
tomorrow’s another day
yeah tomorrow’s another day
our tomorrow is another day
Now I’m telling you that I’m all better inside
telling you I got no reason left to hide
I’m telling you I’m the one in charge of my fate
I’m telling you I’m so much more than love and hate
more than love and hate
cos it’s better to be than wait
we’re so much more than love and hate
much more than love and hate

We don’t care what they all say
because tomorrow’s another
we freed ourselves from our pent up jails
because tomorrow’s another
we saw our self for achieve and not fail
and know tomorrow’s another
we forget today and just walked away
cos tomorrow’s another day
tomorrow’s another day
yeah tomorrow’s another day
our tomorrow is another day

Tomorrow is another day

A short instrumental section for a pretentious long song I've just started on - hopefully it will work in context  🤪... it's fair to say I struggled with the fingerpicking - needs work 😬

Oh Thou Forsaken (demo)

Colloidal Foam

Multi-genre composer and producer. I write full band rock, metal, pop and blues arrangements to collaborate with vocalists and instrumentalists. I don't use AI in my songs and never will. Follow me on YouTube for the full discography. 

I'm taking a break from songwriting to finish some projects.

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