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Ballads Of The Broken

Son Of A Sinner

I'm A Little Crazy

I Ain't Comin' Back

held//numb

I’m The Problem

Revelation

An original song about my Uncle and friend Ciaran O'Briain, one of the last Lighthouse Keepers in Ireland. 

Mizen Head is regarded as the most southerly point of mainland Ireland, but Brow Head is the actual the most southerly point. It is situated at the end of Mizen Peninsula and is in the district of Carbery in County Cork.

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I Am the Keeper

Yo, peak seekers and soul listeners! 🏔️✨ We're ascending higher into our 'Over the Mountains, under the Seas' journey with the third track: 'Echoes from the Peaks'!
Get ready for some serious elevation for your soul. This track is pure Smooth Jazz and Soul Jazz gold – featuring soft, contemplative female vocals like a whispered truth, an ethereal flute that shimmers like thin air, a resonant upright bass, and sparse, gentle brush drums with subtle cymbal swells. It's a vast, ancient, and deeply serene experience that evokes the solitude and spiritual wisdom of high altitudes. And that long, expressive flute solo? It's gonna transport you.
'Echoes from the Peaks' is your invitation to hear wisdom whisper, where ancient truths forever grow. Perfect for finding solace, connecting with the timeless, and letting profound peace settle deep within.

Guten Morgen, Gipfelstürmer und Seelenlauscher! 🏔️✨ Wir steigen noch höher auf unserer 'Over the Mountains, under the Seas'-Reise mit dem dritten Track: 'Echoes from the Peaks'!
Macht euch bereit für einen ernsthaften Aufstieg für eure Seele. Dieser Track ist pures Smooth Jazz und Soul Jazz Gold – mit sanften, nachdenklichen weiblichen Vocals wie ein geflüstertes Geheimnis, einer ätherischen Flöte, die wie dünne Luft schimmert, einem resonanten Kontrabass und spärlichen, sanften Besenbatterien mit subtilen Beckenschwellungen. Es ist ein weites, uraltes und zutiefst heiteres Erlebnis, das die Einsamkeit und spirituelle Weisheit hoher Lagen heraufbeschwört. Und dieses lange, ausdrucksstarke Flöten-Solo? Es wird euch wegtragen.
'Echoes from the Peaks' ist eure Einladung, der Weisheit zu lauschen, wo uralte Wahrheiten ewig wachsen. Perfekt, um Trost zu finden, sich mit dem Zeitlosen zu verbinden und tiefen Frieden in sich einkehren zu lassen.

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Echoes from the Peaks

Put Light On - Epic Dark electronica

NEVER KNEW

When I’m alone I worry every day
Cause there’s a verse that scares me when I pray

I wish I knew what it meant
Cause I believe it’s heaven sent

So on that day when I ask you if you know
I hope you see that I’ve listened as I go

I’ve tried to hear you when you tell me what to do
I hope you say you always knew me as I grew

It’s easy to say, look what I’ve done
All in your name, all for your son
But on that day, we’ll know it’s true
Our lives are more than what we do

There is a day we’ll answer to our Lord
When we ask him to let us through the door 

And some will say it’s what we do
That’s when they’ll learn they never knew

So on that day when I ask you if you know
I hope you see that I’ve listened as I go

I’ve tried to hear you when you tell me what to do
I hope you say you always knew me as I grew

NEVER KNEW

Paper Wings

**Description after the lyrics**

Verse 1
You paused before you turned—
Long enough for me to yearn
I felt the words behind my teeth,
I waited long for you to speak.
But both of us, afraid to fall,
Let nothing rise, we said it all.

Chorus
We almost said it, both of us—
A word, a touch, a wait for trust.
But fear stood taller than the need,
And silence got the final lead.
We almost spoke. We almost stayed.
What stays is what we never said.

Verse 2
We never fought, we never lied—
Just watched the light begin to slide.
You waited for me, and I did too,
Hoping the other would break through.
Maybe we were two of a kind—
Good at silence, just a little blind.

Chorus
We almost said it, both of us—
A word, a touch, a wait for trust.
But fear stood taller than the need,
And silence got the final lead.
We almost spoke. We almost stayed.
What stays is what we never said.

Bridge
I don’t blame you. I don’t blame me.
We just played it safe too easily.
I hoped you'd reach, you thought I might—
It turns out we were both not right.

Final Chorus
We almost said it, both of us—
A word, a truth, a wait for trust.
But timing failed, and fear rang true,
And silence got the best of two.
We almost spoke. We almost stayed.
Is that what we were meant to say?

Still…
If you’re hearing this someday—
I wish I had somehow found a way.

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We Almost Said is a quiet ache turned into song. It isn’t about what happened, but about what didn’t—the words that stayed locked behind teeth, the closeness that never bridged the small gap. It moves on hesitation, on pauses that became endings, on the way two people can hold the same yearning and still let it slip away.

It’s tender, not bitter. More sigh than shout. The refrain of “almost” is its heartbeat: love nearly spoken, closeness nearly claimed, a truth nearly shared. And in that space between, the song finds its power—not in explanation, but in what lingers unsaid.

We Almost Said

“The Vessel” by KAT is not a song about withdrawal — it’s about return.

A return to the inner stillness that doesn’t need to justify, perform, or prove.
It is the sound of standing quietly in one’s own light — of being the vessel, not the explanation.

Soft ambient textures and warm vocals hold space for silence itself —
each tone a heartbeat, each pause a breath of presence.

This is where expression becomes essence.
Where the voice stops explaining — and starts being.

* updated HD remaster — clearer, deeper sound

This Vessel

The Quiet Between

compliqué , difficile a avoir les mots , et pas facile , trop triste , la vrai vie , tout le monde ne peut pas écouter .

Elle revait de france

A song about falling in love and new beginnings. Written by Andrew Schisas aka SKEEZAS 

Just Begun

Cover Me Up - Morgan Wallen

Dublin born artist Cathal O'Briain enjoys writing original contemporary Irish Ballads and recreating old but familiar loved melodies. He sings and plays fingerstyle acoustic guitar, drawing upon aspects of human nature and history in his original songs and modernised covers of older ballads.

His upcoming album 'The 40 Foot' is a body of work from his collaboration with the legendary Producer Peter Eades who has worked with some of Ireland’s top acts such as Clannad, The Chieftains, Thin Lizzy, The Dubliners, Moving Hearts and De Danann.

I Am the Keeper

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