Lovely tune, Naresh, and clearly an emotional one! :'( love the flute as well!

Echoes

This is the second demo for my project recording songs I've written in my weekly songwriting group. The prompt for this one was "I like", and I had an hour to write it. Enjoy!

photo by Jenn Seguinot (Thru Jenn’s Frames Photography)

I Like 

I like your voice with mine
I like our life line 
I know that I will be just fine 
With you by my side 

I see the things we lost 
An old life tossed out 
But as the years passed so did the frost, and  
I still have you

Oh what a miracle you are
We have come so far
It feels insufficient but for the moment
We were kids and before you know it
Here we are

I love having cups of tea 
And talking endlessly 
About the weather or about grief
It doesn’t matter to me  

I never could believe in
Things ever lasting 
But with you I always feel like 
Forever is in reach 

Oh what a miracle you are
We have come so far
It feels insufficient but for the moment
We were kids and before you know it
Here we are

We were kids and before you know it
You’re still my star

I Like (demo)

From Afar
Words, music, performance and production ℗ Ell Freeman 2023

How did I find you in the sky
Among a galaxy of lonely stars?
I don’t dare to wonder why your light
Shines on me, but still I admire you from afar

Your star illuminates the night
Your colours sway to my guitar
But while I long to hold you close and tight
Your dancing light only warms me from afar

With your star I’ll navigate the ocean
And as you play upon on the waves, 
I will ride the peaks of my emotion
And through the night
Your star will be my guide

How did I find you in the sky
Among a galaxy of lonely stars? 
I don’t dare to wonder why your light
Shines only on me, but I love you from afar

Como eu te encontrei no céu, 
Antre um milhão de astras só?
Não ouso perguntar por que, sua luz
Brilha em mim, mas te admiro de longe.

Sua estrela ilumina a noite,
Cores balançam para minha guitarra
Enquanto eu desejo te abraçar,
Sua luz dançante me aquece de longe.

Com sua estrela eu vou navegar no oceano
E enquanto você dança entre as ondas
Eu montarei os picos da minha emoção
E durante a noite
Sua estrela será meu guia.

From Afar

Shallow Brown Demo (trad. Arr)

A song about the temptation of flogging a horse even you know full well it's dead, and wanting to stop craving some sort of closure you'll never get.

Lyrics:

Verse 1
Hello… old friend… it’s been a while
Since you last wiped that smile from my face, and I
Don’t… understand… how all that bitterness
Can taste so sweet the minute you reach out to me…

Pre-chorus
And I know I’m falling into the same trap again
With every step I take towards you,
And isn’t it appalling I can’t seem to regret it enough
To turn my back, it’s overdue.

Chorus
I wanna be like Teflon to you,
Just want you rolling off the surface
You don’t deserve to get back under my skin again, I
Wanna be deaf on that ear
Instead of scanning the atmosphere 
For a signal from you saying what I wanna hear.

Verse 2
The thing... with you… is I can never
Tell if I’m in hell or heaven, there’s saints with horns and singing devils
In… the same room…
I pull one thread, the rainbow tapestry unravels, and entangles me...

Pre-chorus
And I know I’m falling into the same trap again
With every step I take towards you,
And isn’t it appalling I can’t seem to regret it enough
To turn my back, it’s overdue.

Chorus
I wanna be like Teflon to you,
Just want you rolling off the surface
You don’t deserve to get back under my skin again, I
Wanna be deaf on that ear
Instead of scanning the atmosphere 
For a signal from you saying what I wanna hear.

Bridge
Out of sight is out of mind, until you find a way pry the window open again,
And I start running for the hills, cos it gives me chills how a part of me won't let go of the thrill of
Everything spinning, I know there’s nothing in it for me, and I’ll never win this and I just...

Double-Chorus
I wanna be like Teflon to you,
Just want you rolling off the surface
You don’t deserve to get back under my skin again, I
Wanna be deaf on that ear
Instead of scanning the atmosphere 
For a signal from you saying what I wanna hear...

I wanna be like Teflon to you,
Just wanna run away from this circus,
You don’t deserve to get back under my skin again, I
Wanna be deaf on that ear
Instead of scanning the atmosphere 
For a signal from you saying what I wanna hear.

Verse 3
The time… has come… for all the
The saints and devils in the room
To preach paradise and endless doom
And I’m… the one…
Who somehow keeps the wheel of fortune spinning,
Eternity is just beginning…

Teflon (demo)

Metamorphobia

Holding Out for Real

A song written shortly after my Dad passed in January ,forever in our hearts Harilal Bhana 16.01.1938 06.01.2023 RIP wherever you are ❤️

When You Go

Am                                   Em                                Am                                        G                         Am 
When last we met we joked and shared that bottle, through laughter  spoke of doing it again 
Am                               Em              Am                                                                  G                              Am
Somehow i knew that it would be our last one but still smiled and drank as though it was our first 


      C                         G                      Am                  C                               G                            Am
Now nobody knows where you’re  going  but we know that you’re  not coming back again
Am             C Em              Am                        C  Em             Am
When you go …when you go      When you go….. when you go 

Now who will call  me out when im straying  now no one left to steer me as i grow

And how I will miss your harsh criticisms that only a fathers love can show

Chorus

We wept as we carried you to chapel and we tried to say our final farewell

Your body burnt a life reduced ashes set loose upon waves you loved so well

Chorus

So now we must go on and live without you and try to find  reason  where there’s none 

You’ll live on in our hearts and our memories and in each bottle that we share from now on

Chorus  and repeat ending to fade

When you go

Keeping It Summer (demo)

Aphrodite At The Waterhole

Listen to the song and the lyrics to find out what this is all about. We've all been there. We've all come across these people. This song was inspired by one so called 'friend's' bitter betrayal, but it could apply to so many people I've met down the years. Do yourself a favour and root them out as soon as you find them. I'm just holding up a mirror, if you don't like what you see....then look away....as the song says 'I've washed my hands of you..' and YES it's SUPPOSED to be Dylansque, although I had a cold when recording it. Demo version of one of my new songs

What Kind of Friend

Born in 1967 in London to a French Mother and Indian Father, I started learning guitar in 2016, and soon found i had a few songs in my head that needed to be explored ! So I am now on a journey of trying to play well enough to record a few of them before i run out of time 😂

When you go

Naresh

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