My Soundcloud selection from September 2020

All the love
I can feel.
I don’t need
my own war.

What is life?
Why we hurt?
Why we lie
to ourselves?

Why do you want to fake it?
Why can’t you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to take it!

I believe.
I can be.
What I am.
I am me.

I am that.
I can see.
What I give
I feel free.

Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to fake it!
There is no need to take it!

What is death?
What is fate?
Why we dare,
Who we are?

All the fakes
Smile around.
Their disguise
Fades away.

Are you real?
Ego ideal?
Is this love?
Guiding me?



Why can't you simply face it? / Love!
There is no need to take it! / Love!
There is no need to break it! / Love!
There is no need to fake it!



Why do you want to fake it?
Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it.
There is no need to take it.

Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to fake it!
There is no need to take it!

Why do you want to fake it?
Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to break it!
There is no need to take it!

Why can't you simply say it?
There is no need to take it! / to break it!
There is no need to break it! / to take it!
There is no need to fake it!

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Lyrics, Vocals & Drums by @melakki
Bass Guitar, Synthesizers & Artwork by @boolapp-goro
Mix & Master by Björn (BLRStudios)
Recorded & published by 2:45

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I Am

Like a lot of musicians and songwriters, I've been using the coronavirus shutdown as a time to work intensively on a new album that's slowly been taking shape over the past few months. "Shelter for Your Soul" is the first of the new songs I'll be uploading in the weeks ahead. It features the fabulous Wendy Lynn Staats on violin. (Wendy is the multitalented drummer/ violinist/ singer for the Madison band Sunspot.)
Main guitars are my Gretsch 2420 hollowbody and my '66 Guild Starfire XII.
LYRICS:
Shelter for Your Soul
***Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

We don’t say words that we don’t know.
I can’t believe that you must go.
I understand you’re hurting now but you have got to realize
we never signed up for this show.

Chorus:
I’m hoping you can find your way to someplace whole—
find a little shelter for your soul.

We were so young when we first met.
Your eyes could light the world on fire.
You were so wild even then I knew that someday you’d be gone,
and that just stoked up our desire.

Chorus

Bridge:
I can’t take you there I know.
I was hoping baby that you wouldn’t go.
Now I lie awake through the night
remembering all our days together—I see you in the pale blue light.

Now I’m sitting by the fire,
feeling low as a flat tire.
I wonder if you’re working now or if you’re shacked up with some guy
a lonely rose among the briars.

Words & Music by Timothy Walsh
Vocals, guitars, bass: Timothy Walsh
violin solo and violin arrangement by Wendy Lynn Staats
Recorded and mixed by Timothy Walsh at Yew Tree Studios

Shelter for Your Soul

Download

Shelter For Your Soul (early demo mix)

December 1926: high jinks at the Harrogate Hydro.  A mysterious guest has upstaged the palm court players.  How can they make her leave?

Hiding in Plain Sight 

My name’s Tappin the Banjo and – along with Fiddler Fred
We’re the finest palm court entertainers - Finzi might have said
And while we talk of Mr Baldwin ending martial law
But as we walk, we’re thinking of events the night before

With a sip of courage from my flask
I’m not afraid to ask
Is that the lady from the lake?
Is that the girl who’s gotten more than she can take?
Dropped-waist Chanel chemise
Alpina coat above the knees
Is that the lady from the lake?
 
Sporting rolled-down Berkshire stockings and cross-strapped Perugia heels
We’ve been completely upstaged by the Cape Town Flapper Mrs Neale
The way she like to dance the Texas Tommy through the night
As if her psychogenic trance is hiding in plain sight

We must do what Sir Arthur’s spirits could not believe
What boy scouts and bloodhounds could not achieve
And find a way for our slender guest – to leave!

Eton crop under cloche hat
Coty cupids from The Kit Cat

Her scent is Apres Londee
She speaks in mangled Franglais

There she stands cue in hand
Sings Red Robin with the band

Hiding In Plain Sight

MIDNIGHT HOUR
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 1988/2015/2020 AB Music

MIDNIGHT HOUR, YOU SAY THERE'S NO LAW
IN THIS HOUR, YOU GO ALONE

CHANGING YOUR NAME, IT'S NOT REALY YOU
AND IN THIS HOUR, YOU'LL MAKE, YOU'LL PAY
(chorus)
WATCH ME THERE NOW
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
AND NOW YOU ARE TORN

THE KIDS ARE ALL SHOUTING, PLAYGROUNDS A SONG
CATCHING THE COLDNESS, I'M ALL ALONE

MIDNIGHT HOUR, YOU'RE UNDER THE LAW
IT'S IN THIS HOUR, YOU ARE ALONE
(chorus)
WATCH ME THERE NOW
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
AND NOW YOU ARE TORN
(break)
(chorus)
WATCH ME THERE NOW
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE
SO........... REMEMBER SO
SO........... REMEMBER SO CLOSE

Another  World

MIDNIGHT HOUR

Hello love
Hello love
do you walk
do you walk upon this earth of old?

For the seams 
that we share
I would hold them anywhere
Do we fall apart to just let go?

All your dreams
sing em loud
I will follow them somehow
Don't you know that we weren't meant to be afraid?

All your words
that still hurt
they will never be enough
but a love is still a love to find someday

Do you wander alone?
Do you wander alone?

Wear all your lights
So I might find
(for a love is a love to find someday)
Wear old fault lines
for stars will sigh
Wear all your lights
in time
(for a love is a love to find someday)
They will guide us home..

Hello love
hello love
do you walk
do you walk upon
this earth of old?

Faultlines

paulmck