(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocal
Gary Reeves: Drums / Drum arrangement
Hans Albers: All instruments, backing vox, arrangement & production

Cover art by Jooinn.

This is a totally stolen idea gleaned from another one of those phone conversations with my brother Gary. We talk to each other every few days and normally end up sounding like two old men sitting on a park bench putting the World to rights.

I’m sure a lot of what we say has been said many times before (what hasn’t?) but one day, out of the blue, Gal says to me “ Sometimes I find things too difficult to deal with. I would love the opportunity to step off the world for just one second and clear my head a bit...” At the time I just accepted it as the type of thing we say to each other but two days after the phone call the idea of stepping off the world to escape the pressures of daily life returned when I was playing my guitar. The words “I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off” fitted with what I was playing and the start of a new opus was born.

Once a song seems complete, I generally record a quick demo and send it off to Gal to see if it has any potential. If he thinks it has, between us we try to put a better demo together to send to Hans.  If he thinks it’s any good, he’ll work on an arrangement and more often than not sends back something back that sounds way better than what we’d imagined.  

We might chip in a few ideas here and there (as Gal did with a totally new drum arrangement on this) but Hans is definitely the one that gives it most of it’s final shape and sound.  I love every step of the songwriting process.  It provides a kind of therapy and the creative process gives every day purpose and interest.  You could say it’s my way of stepping off the world for a short moment.
(Terry Reeves)

I’m stepping off the world
To give myself a chance
For a moment of reflection
Avoid the need to dance 
One thousand miles per hour
Never firmly on the ground 
Gravity with no connection 
Spinning fast head going round 

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world 

No New Year's Revolution 
Rotating much too fast 
Survival of the fittest
Fittest days are in the past
Step off every Monday
Not back until Tuesday week
One moment makes a difference
Like a lifetime so to speak

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world

Don’t want to give a reason
Good feelings are oppressed 
Try different constellation 
Laying down has more interest
Stepping off a single second 
With no single past regret
Not a care for single thinking 
Avoid joining one single thread

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off the world
Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world...

STEPPING OFF THE WORLD - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

Dedicated to some folks in my life who've picked me up along the way, especially through music...

This is one I'm pretty proud of.  Oddly, it's the first time I’ve written a full original song with me singing my own lyrics. I'm joined by the uber talented @TexMex-Shaman, who is wielding the lead electric guitar starting at the first verse through to the end. (this is the second time now where my vocal melody is partly inspired by his magical playing!) He also lends his mastering skillz to great effect here. Thanks TMS for truly bringing this to life with your playing! 
All other instruments are played by me on the keyboard - acoustic guitar, bass, organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, 2nd electric guitar (the higher one in verse 2), horns, drums & percussion, words and voice. The chorus is supposed to sound like a 60's soul song, like Marvin Gaye meets Van Morrison. 
If you play this more than once I'm sorry but I'm afraid you'll be stuck with it in your head all day.  :)

This one's a personal one for me, so thanks for listening, and for picking us up with your music!

LYRICS: 

Verse 1
alone in the corner, that old six string whispers to me
ah but when daddy played, he could set your spirit free 
like the drops in the rain, or a forest tall and green
there's music alive all around
and mamma she told me, you must listen for more than the sound
and hear with your heart

Chorus     
(And then she’d) 
pick me up higher, pick me up higher, pick me up higher
pick me up, lift me up, build me up,  
pick me up higher, pick me up higher, pick me up higher
pick me up, lift me up, build me up, 
pick me up higher 

Verse 2
Now I’m writing my own song… makin’ music with old friends and new
But the joy of my days, are my beautiful daughter and you
And when you play that song, she would close her eyes and sway
all the while as she sings
And man when I hear her, whispered memories they lift me up still
like a bird on the wind

Chorus  

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Other credits: 
-second verse sample of 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' (by John Denver), performed by my 9 yr old daughter
-image design by me using Chat GPT
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here's a link to just the final chorus vocals and horns isolated: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/pick_me_up_vox_isolated

and here's a link that features mainly the sax solo & horn section:
https://on.soundcloud.com/y1PR8xv69y77n5CY5w
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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

-mark

Pick Me Up (with TexMex Shaman)

Original acapella Sergi Yaro :
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/22445/im-with-you-now-118bpm-pop-acapella

Im With You Now Ft Sergi Yaro

mnOTR is Marie-Noëlle Reyntjens + Shane Watt

Music & lyrics by Marie-Noëlle Reyntjens
+ piano, lead and back-up vocals

Production and arrangements by Shane Watt
+ bass, guitar, drums, percussion, glockenspiel, keyboard, accordéon, back-up vocals

Back-up vocals on 5 by MoMeTi

Mastering by Fran Ashcroft

Artwork by Elléonne 

2 est égal à 3

Sincèrement vôtre

©Hans-Michael Albers
out of turn, some recent lyrics inspired by and dedicated to the non-fiction-book 'Männer, die die Welt verbrennen' by Christian Stöcker (published by Ullstein).

Google-translation:

(verses)

Men who burn the world
And call the fires lies 
Their glow wants to blind everything
Your greed never wants to end

They have always been warriors
Never a loser, always a winner
Always need new enemies
They all have the same friends

(chorus)

1000 worlds could die
Everything would be in shambles long ago
They would find themselves in ruins
But just take care of themselves
Destroying everything 
Only in order not to look like a loser

(verses)

For them, yesterday represents values
Because hardly anyone complained
No limits, no rules
Is it possible to sail to the sun?

Losers are afraid of the future
Change is a non-starter
Truth can easily be twisted
Everything can be seen differently

(chorus)

1000 worlds could die
Everything would be in shambles long ago
They would find themselves in ruins
But just take care of themselves
Destroying everything 
Only in order not to look like a loser

What they want will be torn
Anyone who resists will be bitten to death
Show strength, trick, beat
Only those who shout have something to say

Dominate over everything
Be superior and lead
Always be at the top
Win or perish

(chorus)

1000 worlds could die
Everything would be in shambles long ago
They would find themselves in ruins
But just take care of themselves 
Destroying everything 
Only in order not to look like a loser

Stand above everyone else
Win or perish
Win or perish

Männer, die die Welt verbrennen

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=rQGR3Z4EgBw&feature=shared



https://open.spotify.com/track/0Cnp6OMkhbIWV3PuL1rnBd?si=sOcATX_GStuYZnmYKr5WLg&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A0Cnp6OMkhbIWV3PuL1rnBd


https://music.apple.com/it/album/fly-in-the-sky/1817986455?i=1817986456&ls


https://music.amazon.it/albums/B0FBL57DZ9?marketplaceId=APJ6JRA9NG5V4&musicTerritory=IT&ref=dm_sh_8fL37LOhs5Ub9BavA7sch1KKz&trackAsin=B0FBL5ZBKG


Lyric and Music by LinOnyx
 
FLY IN THE SKY
 
Verse]
Tomorrow I'll fly in the sky
Tomorrow l'll see the stars
Hope my family and all my dears
Are waiting
 
[Chorus]
I’ll leave the house and all the work
I’ll take the train
My heart will ache
But I know when I get there
They will take away my pain
 
Verse]
All my friends are there waiting
My brothers and my family
We will be forever
Happy as can be
 
[Chorus]
Il leave the house and all the work
I’ll take the train
My heart will ache
But I know when I  get there
They will take away my pain
 
(Bridge]
Fly in the sky
Fly in the sky
Tomorrow I'Il fly in the sky
Fly in the sky
Fly in the sky
Tomorrow I'll fly in the sky
 
[Verse]
Tomorrow I’ll fly in the sky
Tomorrow I’ll see the stars
Hope my family and all my dears
Are waiting


Fly in the Sky.mp3

28-6-2025

I was sitting around by myself just got to thinking about when I was a kid and the things me and my best friend used to get up to and it occurred to me that through all the years of crazy shit we used to get into from experimenting with drugs to fighting in bars and wrecking cars, we were never dishonest and never took advantage or lied to anyone to get what we wanted.  My best friend would get onto me or anyone else who said "G-dammit" or spoke against God in any way at all. That's just something we didn't do but it was something that was left unspoken but was expected not to be said around us, a token of respect that was not broken. It seemed kind of bass ackwards when comparing it to the things we were doing at the time, but the things we were doing never involved hurting another person, without justification, which was easy enough to get at most of the places we would hang out. Damn I  miss being young and wild and I'm sure my buddy does too, don't you Randy?

We never lied Lyrics & Vocals by Jess Johnson Music by denny darko_beats

Diffusus - REFEM / PAPLOVIANTE 2016
REFEM (Henrique Geisel) 
https://soundcloud.com/henrique-geisel
he is a fantastic artist and a great inspiration for me!
Remix „YELLER by REFEM“ https://soundcloud.com/henrique-geisel/yeller
Bass, Effects and Remix Paploviante
Guitars Darin Favorite
Cover Art Andrea Schuhmacher
http://www.andreaschuhmacher.de/htm/print/wissenschaft_02.html

DIFFUSUS - REFEM / Paploviante

INVITATION TO COLLAB, DJ,BEATMAKERS,SINGERS, RAPPERS >>>Who want Can USE & REMIX PARTS OF THE ACAPPELLAS , place it, modulate it as You like, MAKE A SPECIAL TRACK, with SOUNDS 
FIT IT AS A FEAT in a SONG... LYRICS are Here Below to Help You Choice Words & Phrases.
DOWNLOAD are FREE &it's in Wave, if You Want MP3, ask me. 
If You Do Use My Vocals, Mention My Name in the Track& Let Me Know, I will Repost,Share, Include it in Playlists & Mix... Original Version >  https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia/lets-go-ahead
LYRICS
No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

Many things got to change
Life needs a better balance
to avoid decadence 
World needs a second chance

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future


No want no more sorrows
want a better tomorrow
No want no more pain
want a better to day

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

Forward for Brighter Future
Lets' go ahead

Many things got to change
Life needs a better balance
to avoid decadence 
World needs a second chance
needs a second chance

No want no more sorrows
want a better tomorrow
No want no more pain
want a better to day

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

No turning back 
Lets' go ahead
Moving Forward for Brighter Future

LET S GO AHEAD Vocals for Collabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w9_EH0AvXU


J'ai dormi au fond d'un lac
Sur le sol froid et humide d'une caverne
Mangé dans un arbre pour ne pas être dévoré moi-même
Bu dans des flaques d'eau mon salut et ma virginité

J'ai inventé le feu, le silex et la chasse
Bivouaqué sous la lune glacée des pôles
Construit des pyramides qui tutoyaient le ciel
Etendu mon empire pour ne plus avoir peur

J'ai guerroyé au nom des Dieux et des Rois
A l'assaut des murailles hautes comme l'impossible
Me suis saoulé du sang dans le crâne de mes ennemis
Ecrit des livres rouges aux noires enluminures

J'ai cherché à comprendre plutôt qu'à espérer
Fait la révolution, souhaité ce qui me semblait juste
Traversant les Lumières, romantique passionné
Trouvant bien meilleur goût à la science qu'aux prières

Avancer de deux cases plutôt qu' un loup en cage
Avancer de deux cases plutôt que loup s'enrage

J'ai voué à l'argent un culte déraisonnable
Colonisé le globe, tout est allé si vite
J'ai porté l'uniforme, braillé sous les drapeaux
Vécu dans les tranchées, exterminé des peuples

Avancer de deux cases plutôt que loup en cage
Avancer de deux cases plutôt que loup s'enrage

J'ai étudié les neurosciences, la génétique
Connecté la planète et convoité l'espace
Accéléré la faim, accéléré la fin
Penses tu pouvoir faire mieux ? Penses tu être plus malin ?

VIDEO YOUTUBE

COMPOSER - PRODUCER
I PLAY BASS GUITAR AND DRUMS
IN THE BAND „4NO1“
(ALL STYLES, SINCE 1992)

DIFFUSUS - REFEM / Paploviante

Paploviante2