The mightiest of weapons in a soft attractive package

Very nice tune Jim.......😊🎸🎼🎶

This is really cool Jim. I like the frugality with the instruments. ;)

your usual fine lyrics & just right accompaniment,,always good to find a new one from you Jim. Fab song.

Yes the pen is mightier than the sword….said Shakespeare or Lennon or somebody famous.  Fine writing Jim.  Had the song been longer, no telling what that pen might have said….

Lyrics and composition, piano and vocals by Joliz

October 2024

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If I was a butterfly
I'd map the countries from on high.
If I was a butterfly
On every flower I'd stop by.

If I was a butterfly
I'd cross the ocean in the sky.
If I was a butterfly
I'd rest on sails to paint their white.

If I was a butterfly
A graceful dance would be my flight.
If I was a butterfly
The weight would fall and I’d feel light.

If I was a butterfly
A graceful dance would be my flight.
If I was a butterfly
The weight would fall and I’d feel light.

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Inspired and supported by Robert S. Dean.

Passing Butterfly

Purgatorius is a small mammal that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. The more ya know ... 

Thanks to Ace Ha for the beats and vibe! Check out his killer music: https://soundcloud.com/ace-ha

Saurian Glare (Purgatorius Mix)

Let’s stay inside, the weather’s bad today
Come back to bed, we can dream this rainy day away
Do we really have to face the world again
These stormy days don’t seem to end
Just draw the curtains, stay in the dark and we’ll sleep in

Dream with me, and we won’t come to any harm
Only we can see us through the winter storm
A love like ours ain’t likely found
Just once in a lifetime it comes around
This kind of love it leaves you ten feet off the ground

Let’s hibernate through the winter time
‘til a warm spring day when the sun shines
And the sky is blue, the grass is green
And the world returns to fine
Winter’s here but spring ain’t far behind
Let’s stay in bed today, you precious love of mine

Let’s turn off the news, it’s getting worse and worse each day
There’s too much going on, and i’m afraid to look away
Do we really have to face the world again
These stormy days don’t seem to end
Just draw the curtains, stay in the dark and we’ll sleep in


A Song For Winter Weather

I am very honored to have recorded drums on The Recursives first original song! A fine rave up in true Rock fashion! I capitalized our names, so nobody will think that AL is @ AI!🤩🤩🤩

AL -vocals, bass guitar, songwriting 
TEZ-guitars, production, mix
KEN-Drums

Money Wouldn’t Stretch -The Recursives/K2 and the Three

this one pretty much wrote itself when i found myself staring at a blank sheet of paper for ages,
tapping my pen annoyingly and waiting for something to happen........a live take with a bit of piano........cheers for having a listen......



           PEN TO PAPER 
 
my pen can write a letter of love
describe to you the stars above
congratulate you on your gain
comfort you when your in pain

console you in your time of need
tell you that you're loved indeed
but if i told you how i feel today
my pen would be cruel

my pen can sign my life away
to own a house i'll never pay
then write it in a thank you note
for the monstrous debt that i now owe

my pen has got me in trouble deep
sometimes so much i cannot sleep
if i were to write about myself
my pen would be cruel

i don't pretend to understand
what's going on upstairs
i just try to keep it to myself
sometimes it's better, to hide it all away
i know to you that that don't make much sense

my pen can tell you how and why
my love for you could never die
write the words with even flow
so you would never have to know

my pen is guarded at the gate
it hides my secrets can't escape
and if they did then you would know
my pen can be so cruel

misanthropy, philanthropy, 
evilness and empathy    
my pen belongs in their mirrored halls
it's inky eye looks through them all

there's nothing it can't see right through
the things you thought that no one knew
now written there right in front of you
the pen can be so cruel

my pen can talk what i can't speak
and go where i don't want to be
from a prison cell to a sunburst sky
turn the truth against a lie

write a wrong into a right
turn a long day into night
the burden can be so heavy
when the pen can be so cruel

Pen To Paper

A piano song that I recorded on January 31, 2025. While I have goofed around with piano in my life, I have never ever recorded a track by myself. I just put my cell phone using GarageBand, on my upright piano, and pushed record! I hadn’t even touched the piano in about five years! I sent this over to my awesome online band, Eclectic Collective. They were more than enthusiastic to add some orchestration.! it definitely falls in the classical/rock category! Check out the full version at K2 and the Three! I promise you won’t be disappointed ! Awesome players and producers ! ￼Josh Clary, Stephen Watkins, Mark Boucher, and Tez Terrill! I haven’t been on this page in a while, mostly because I used up my free 300 minutes, ha ! I deleted a few songs that I moved back to my main paid account ! Hope you enjoy this !😎￼
Full version 

https://on.soundcloud.com/hkPivuyis8PUyBbg6

January Epiphany-Solo Piano version

Sweetness as an act of defiance in a time of cruelty

Sweetheart Mine

Des textes de chansons qui livrent un message de la vie quotidienne, parlant d'amour, aussi d'histoires humoristiques ou touchantes et abordant aussi d'autres aspects de la vie en générale.
Les gars du coin sont : 

Pat Pépin Larochelle : auteur compositeur,voix , guitares acoustiques et électriques
Steve Roy : Basse fretless 7 cordes
Mike Watkins : Batterie

Ont aussi contribué à l’album :

Jérôme Boisvert : guitares électriques et B3
Julie Lauzon : choriste

Réalisation et mixage :
Jérôme Boisvert enregistré au Studio Momentum, Drummondville Qc, Canada en 2025

Pour joindre ‘’Les gars du coin’’ : watcom@live.ca

                                                 Téléphone : 819 473 -2475

9. Donnez-moi pas un pouce - Les gars du coin

File Updated: Piano line in which I loosely had Heat Miser by Massive Attack in my head... I don't think I encroached originality... just wanted a similar vibe... also improved the vox... decided to go with Ronald Duck you dollar dumb as I hate saying its name and dont want to say fuck through the whole tune haha looses it's impact maybe doing that

Lyrics

Ronald Duck your dollar dumb
Ronald Duck your dollar dumb

The politics is switched off
It's not humane
Though humane is their job
I try for fantasy in sounds
And try and spell that slop
But that spelling can't be found

So in the dreams we ditch them
And somehow make a new plan
Here survival is focused to every cell
Everyone
Everything
Every atom
The whole system
Donald Duck your dollar dumb
Your Euro tone & your Yen
Donald Duck dollar dumb

The politics is switched off
It's not humane
Though humane is their job
I try for fantasy in sounds
And try and spell that slop
But that spelling can't be found

It's fucking your job...

So in the dreams we ditch them
And somehow make a new plan
Here survival is focused to every cell
Every atom
Everyone
Survival of system
Donald Duck your dollar dumb
Your Euro tone & your Yen
Donald Duck dollar dumb
It's survival Son
Donald Duck their dollar dumb
Money can't save anyone
No coin fixes Earth blisters

Dollar Dumb

Nobeat

Les moulins de mon coeur Cover Coline Rio

We are Netta&McGill and consist of Nettamoon and Jim McGill based in Norway and Australia - an independent songwriter duo. We celebrate music in it’s simplicity, and tell stories of friendship, love and longing. We are blessed to be two of the same mind, and want our music to be created with no fuss and no fences. 

Thank you for listening!

Pen To Paper

Netta&McGill

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