Love the emotion in your vocals, beautiful song Nick

When my songwriting friend Colin Macduff (find his beautiful debut album 'The Past and the Sky" here: https://www.birnamcdshop.com/product/colin-macduff/) shared his poem 'The Rope', I asked if he'd mind if I tried to put a melody to it.

I did. This is the demo version which I'm hoping to record in a studio soon. There's an accompanying video created with footage from my phone: https://studio.youtube.com/video/yhxZxWGo0wY/edit


The Rope

Coiled, crossed, entangled in a corner
Old and wise and silent, silent as a snake
Left aside beside the new, unwanted
You dream of hands, the touch, their grip, their shape

Once you ran the span and moored our vessels
Safe between the capstan, the capstan and the quay
Once you were the rope that held us steady
Once you were the rope that cast us free

The push the pull, the swing, lasso and ladder
The tug of war when we were in our teens
The give, the take, that bound us all together
The start, the end, the knot, the way and means

Life line, last line, frayed and poorly
In my hand your strands so soft, soft and slack
In my dreams you’re running on beside me
With me all the long way – the long way out and back
With me all the long way – the long way out and back

© C Macduff & S Barr 2023

The Rope - Demo

dive.　　

蒼天夢見て　曇天俯く
水面映る　深海　広大　
忘れたい想いと　to dive.

到底　創造　幻想
現状　嗚呼　ハレーション
透明　現　真相  停滞　
忘れてた想いへ  to dive.

雨の中溶けた
色彩は何処へ

明日はきっと晴れるって
なんて　軽い言葉はいらないね
だってどうせ何時かは消えていく
きっと何時かはちゃんと笑える
明日はきっと晴れるって
心の何処か　願ってる
なんて言葉にしたら消えていく
きっと何時かはちゃんと笑える

好転足掻いて  望遠覗いて
水面　映る　深層  後悔　
忘れたい想いと  to dive.

心晴れるかな

透明描く　未来と旧懐
忘れてた想いへ  to dive.

雨の中　差し伸べてくれた
君の手は　今も僕だけの　光

明日はきっと晴れるって
なんて　軽い言葉はいらないね
だってどうせ何時かは消えていく
きっと何時かはちゃんと笑える
明日はきっと晴れるって
心の何処か　願ってる
なんて言葉にしたら消えていく
きっと何時かはちゃんと笑える

明日はきっと晴れるって
なんて　軽い言葉はいらないの
だってどうせ何時かは僕の中　
きっと何時かはちゃんと晴れていく
明日はきっと晴れるって
心の何処か　解ってる
なんて言葉にしたら簡単ね
だけど何時かはちゃんと笑えるから

dive[DEMO]

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Fuzzy Beats

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/She-Loved-My-Anxiety-888190895

Healthy Selfishness

Written/Produced by: R.J. Dobben (RoTen)
Released on: 3/1/2024


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Climb Down

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naviarhaiku533 – Flowing along
March 20, 2024

Flowing along
changing its colors
a soap bubble.

Takashi Matsumoto was a Japanese poet originally from Tokyo. Born into a family deeply interested in nō theater, he also devoted himself to it in his youth until 1921, when he came into contact with Hototogisu magazine and haiku poetry. Beginning the following year, Matsumoto became a student of Takahama Kyoshi. In 1946, he launched the magazine Fue 笛 ('The Flute').

Haiku by Takashi Matsumoto

Picture by Rodion Kutsaiev

Floating Colors - naviarhaiku533

There‘s a crack in everything, that‘s how the light gets in! (L. Cohen)

Daisy and her Bees ... caught in a droned pentatonic ... springtime mood ... there is still beauty in this world ...

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I believe the song, Healing Ground, was originally written by Wishbone Ash; my cover is based on Deborah Coleman's recording of it. If you love blues music listen to Deborah Coleman her work is brilliant.

Pictured is my healing ground.

one thing and the other

-Nick Murray-

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