@tytlblues: Thank you, Tom! I've translated the lyrics if you want to have a (vague) idea of what I'm singing.

@thingsfromthepast: Thank you kindly. You're too nice.

Nice acoustic ballad, Yann ! Very good work, my friend!

@derek-f: Thank you Derek, I'm glad you do. It's just a few chords I almost picked at random but they seemed to stick in my heads so I added this text I had in store. It's cool you like the music of it.

I arrived here to make a comparison but I am utterly bewitched instead. Thanks for the link Yann. All my best, Mark

Très très agréable à écouter...Merci!

This relatively cheerful melody came under my fingers today and when I came home I remembered I still had this text I had first written for someone else. I made a few adjustments and here you are: yet another song about growing old but this is one of the most positive I've composed.

Don't hesitate to let me know if you like it (or to criticise). You'll find the French lyrics and their English translation below.

The beautiful picture was found on this blog: http://flyseestay.com/see/turkey-istanbul-a-photo-essay/

Balade de fond


Tu prends le temps de mieux chercher
Tu te balades au fond des années
Tes mains se nouent mais tu souris
Tu aimes sortir même s'il fait gris

Tu joues des peurs : l'avenir est tracé
Et tu explores par les chemins passés
Les taches de son, les lumières crues
Tu revois tout ce qui n'est plus

Tu sens le temps... Tu fais ce qu'il te prend de faire
Plus si longtemps ici mais plus si solitaire

Tu vois les gens et puis leurs feintes
Et tu oublies de leur en vouloir
Tu ris... dérisoire
Tu as encore de ces étreintes

Que tu pensais enfouies
En terre et tu erres, toujours envie
Tu vas de verre en vers :
Ici et là, toujours en vie !

Tu n'oublies pas, tu ne fermes pas les yeux
Et le monde comme il va te brûle toujours un peu

Mais les sourires dessus les larmes...
Tu sais t'ouvrir sans rendre les armes
Tu prends le vent... Le vent qui vient,
Le vent d'automne, tu prends en main

La vie et tu redonnes, tu sais
Trouver les heures perdues
Comme des objets, jouets rendus
Pour rien, pour tout oublier

Tu vois que tu t'en vas mais tes veines sont gonflées
D'envie de suivre, de ne rien laisser tomber

Tu prends le temps : celui qui manquait
Tu files mais tu n'te sens plus fatigué

C'est toi qui t'es joué des années
En devenant ce vieux fou fêlé...
Tu prends le vent... Le vent qui vient,
Le vent d'automne, tu prends en main

La vie, Tu vois les gens et leurs feintes
Et tu oublies d'leur en vouloir
Et tu ris... dérisoire
Tu as encore de ces étreintes

Que tu pensais enfouies
En terre et tu erres, toujours envie
Tu vas de verre en vers :
Ici et là, toujours en vie !

Toujours en vie ! Toujours en vie...

* * *

Long-distance walker


You take the time to look better,
Taking a stroll at the end of the years
Your hands a'knotting but you are smiling
You like to go out even when the sky is grey

You play with fears: the future's mapped out
And you go exploring along the paths of yore
Brown spots and blinding lights
You can see again all that has gone

You feel the time... You do what you feel like
Not so long here any more but not so lonely either

You see people and their false pretences
And you forget to resent it all
You laugh... For it's laughable
You still have these embraces

That you had thought buried
Deep and you wander, and you still want
You go from a glass to a line
Here and there and still alive!

You don't forget or close your eyes
And the world on its way keeps hurting you a little

But the smiles covering up the tears...
You know how to open up without surrendering
You take the wind... The wind a'winding,
The wind of fall, take in your hands

The life and you return, you can
Find the lost hours
Like objects, toys given back
For nothing, to forget it all

You see yourself going but your veins are pumped full
Of the will to go on, to let go of nothing

You take the time: that time you used to be short of,
You keep on spinning but you aren't tired any more

You played a trick on time
When you turned into this loony old fool
You take the wind... The wind a'winding,
The wind of fall, take in your hands

The life and you see people and their false pretences
And you forget to resent it all
You laugh... For it's laughable
You still have these embraces

That you had thought buried
Deep and you wander, and you still want
You go from a glass to a line:
Here and there and still alive!

Still feeling and wanting! Still alive...


Balade De Fond

I really hope you get something good out of this...nothing negative :))

They Only Know My Name

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHG9UgjM1n8Sd89WZ-DWzw

Massive thanks to Rory Donaghy for producing this track at Blast Furnace Studio in Derry.

Written by Johanna Fegan.

Silhouette

Boa Chitta (Silhouette)

Donation based Acoustic-Prog.
Inspired by Ken Morbid's nomadic life through North & Central America, and the grind of open-mic scenes, The Lucid Youth carves new sonic territories while being completely funded by donations.
"Moonlight" is the first album released by The Lucid Youth.

-Want to donate and/or download?
Click here: www.thelucidyouth.com/donate/
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Email TheLucidYouth.info@gmail.com
with your name & address and I'll ship one to you personally!
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All songs written and performed by Ken Morbid
Recorded at Sonic Lounge Studios - Columbus, Ohio
Recorded and mixed by Nick Magoteaux
Mastered by Douglas Edwards
© & ℗ 2019 The Lucid Youth

Moonlight

The Tales Of Ken Morbid

Demos

Buried Alive

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music and lyrics: Melina
production/mix&mastering: Turaab Khan

I came all this way to find myself 
I didn't know I'd find you instead 
Life keeps interfering with my plans
So I move with the flow my wings are spread 

You like to map your trails, you sketch your days ahead 
But I told you, you can't control the waves
So why not get lost in the moments that we share 
You can hold my hand we'll see what we crash into today

Cuz we both didn't know we'd end up on this bed
With the words I withhold, raging feelings unsaid
Hearts beating louder than the thoughts running in my head
We're like a ticking bomb about to go off waiting hand in hand,
We're under covers 

Baby I think we're about to start a fire
You can run I can fight but we're getting tired 
At the end of nights when it's us and I'm a liar
Cuz I look into your eyes and I wanna start a fire

You'll go all that way to see what's out there
Travel the world, breathe in her air
But did you know I'd come all this way for every day
I couldn't have you, how unfair 

Baby I think I just started a fire
You should run I will hide before the sirens
At the end of nights I'll get you out of my mind
But without you nothing will feel as right
Can we go back inside
Under covers
Can we go back 
Under covers
x2

Under Covers - Single

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under covers

inspired by my 3 month open-mic couchsurfing car-living fiasco that was one part freedom and one part sacrifice. Sacrifice is a major theme in this tune. It deals with what people do in order to reach their dreams/goals AND the question, is it worth it?

In-studio music video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SaUYPuSeXo

Engineered, mixed, mastered and video recorded by Nick Magoteaux
© & ℗ 2019 The Lucid Youth

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Shadows speaking

Shadows Speaking

Dreams od Ireland

Dreams of Ireland | #OutsideCompetition

Five Illusions - for Orchestra (2014)
1. Maze
2. Lake
3. Towers
4. Nocturne
5. Puzzle

This study version uses Spitfire BBCSO Pro, Note Performer and Chau Gongs.

Programme Note:
The birth of this score has taken about thirty years. The first four pieces in this set are a reworking of a set of pieces for piano duo that I completed in the early 1980s. However, I always wanted to create orchestral versions of these pieces, feeling their range of colours were ideally suited to such large forces. The reworking became a new compositional journey too as the music went through much serious and substantial change, and a final movement was created, making an arch shape design which felt right. I knew that this work should begin high and relentlessly tumble to the depths, yet remain optimistic and firmly driven. The creation of this piece happened so easily and became a total pleasure. The titles of the five movements are suggestions only, aimed at focusing thoughts, just as Debussy’s titles for his piano preludes do. However, the overall title ‘Illusions’ was easy to reach. These are illusions in every sense – surreal and dreamlike images that I enjoy inhabiting. The work is dedicated to my wife, Giuliana, who inspired me to create these orchestral pieces. It then became the inspiration to a larger scale work, a one act opera based on the story 'La Belle et la Bête'. 
© Paul Max Edlin 2014

Five Illusions - for full orchestra (2014)

A new version (rework) of my track "Winter Wind" by Mean Flow.
Original track (single) on bandcamp: https://astrofaros.bandcamp.com/track/winter-wind-single
Mean Flow (Theofil Tsiolakakis) soundcloud music page: @theofil-tsiolakakis

Astrofaros - Winter Wind (Mean Flow remake)

Ángel Ontalva - guitar, loops
Ark Fedotov - bass, synths, sampler, drum machine
Ivan Fedotov - drums

Music by Á. Ontalva, arranged by Seaorm
Mixed and mastered by Á. Ontalva 2020

Track included in the album "Olkhon" octoberXart Records rus05

Seaorm - Lusud Khan

Hi,

My collaborations are still at the following pages: 
https://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens-and-ko 
https://soundcloud.com/ns-hugo
https://soundcloud.com/spidersapiens

But most of them end up being reposted here anyway...

Apart from these, I sometimes repost stuff from others that I've particularly liked but I only do so for 24 hours so as not to clog my own stream too much (nostalgic sigh for old SC...).

And who am I exactly, then? Well, my name's Yann Vienne and I'm a French teacher of English living in Alsace, near Germany. My hobby is to write and perform simple little songs in French and English and since discovering Soundcloud to post them for everyone to hear and my ego to inflate. My wife and some friends appear on certain tracks. 

Please don't hesitate to leave a comment, be it positive or negative. And for regular updates you can visit my Facebook page (and "like" it if you please) at : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Non-Sapiens/231217246890785?sk=wall

Bonjour,

Je m'appelle Yann Vienne, je suis prof d'anglais et je vis en Alsace. Mon hobby ? Composer de petites chansons sans prétention, les enregistrer avec les moyens du bord et poster ces petits brouillons sur Soundcloud. Et depuis quelques mois j'ai un VRAI groupe que vous pouvez écouter ici : https://soundcloud.com/nonsapienslive

Balade De Fond

Non Sapiens

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