Beautiful guitars and vocals, lyrics... as always!

Really expressive track conveying bitter sweetness and a melancholic longing for the past.

@user-138663860: Ah thanks Sandy. Appreciate you listening as ever - all good with me (song is more observational than about me - just what comes out!).  Have a great weekend too!

Fabulous, heartfelt song & wonderful lyrics!! Really love this one!!!

Cloud 9

One More Day

Just Because

One day
under the old grey
Oh still calling black and blue

Standing
quiet little earthquake
Oh 
wearing out the shoes

ICU

Were you dancing 
like nobody's watching
just for a second
the world see through

ICU

I was wondering 
if it was too late
sleeping still awake
How do you

See the world 
in seaside blue?

Come out in the wave
heard it's the new grey
throwing your own shade
face the world brand new
and
ICU

A song for Amy

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northern hemisphere
coffee warming
you are with me dear
misty morning
the news is dreadful
again
i’ve got a headful
but then
you and your crimson nightgown
from way back when


southern hemisphere
1990
you were with me dear
we were briny
the tanks were empty
again
we went to fill them
and then
a drive to Saba cliffside
with our new friends


we have memories           (we go way back)
but we’re not done yet
come ride beside me        (while we still can)
again
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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Wheelwright, and Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley for early listening.

Love Song #1000

Hangers
on
They're all
gone

Is it too late?
I'm indifferent til
I break
The screaming doubt

So hold
Your tongue
Don't save
the world

Like you said you would
Like you said you would

Do you think
You're the king without the crown?
It wears me down

If we stop
staring at the new gold
maybe we just let go
Only if we could

Someone's saving face
in this awful race
and we never got past the starting line

Someone's gone to waste
in this endless race
are we part of the problem just passing by

Someone's saving face
in this awful race
And we never got past the starting line

Someone's empty space
in this awful race
Am I part of the problem
just passing by

Don't hold your tongue
Don't save the world

Paul McKeever's Album

Part of the Problem

Terrestrial Life

PCH/Box Breathing

Back around 2015, I started taking guitar lessons from an instructor who was really into Bluegrass Music. I soon discovered that didn't have an aptitude for the guitar and didn't have a great desire to practice enough to make up for any natural ability. 
I did mention to my instructor that I had written a couple of songs and maybe our time would be better spent learning how to record these songs.
One day I tried to write a 'bluegrass" tune and titled it, "I've Done It Again." We recorded it. Years later, I wanted to revisit some of my earlier recordings and see what they might sound like with professional musicians. Nicky V. Hines, currently the lead guitarist with Shenandoah acted as musical director, guitarist, arranger, engineer, and producer for me on this finally finished new version. (Several versions have been posted on my SC page throughout the years. This will be the Spotify, Apple, Amazon etc version of which I shall make .002 of a penny every time it is played.) On bass is Martin Motnik currently a member of the popular European Heavy Metal Band "Accept." (Trust me, I have no idea how a country bumpkin like me ended up working with Heavy Metal - but I dig it.) On keyboards is the wonderful Tim McDonald , out of Nashville. On drums is another Nashvillian, Travis L.. Super people and very, very talented and experienced.
I like this version very much - musically. I think the mix is excellent (Nicky V. Hines) and I like how he took down the reverb on the vocal, it sounds a bit edgier, a little more vulnerable, and real. 
What's the song about? It's about not being able to take off the "masks" and take down the walls . Although "good lover" is sexual certainly sounding - we can mess up good love in other ways too - family, friends, etc. And, although we can deeply feel the pain of our actions, sometimes we just can't seem to get out of our own way. 
It is a song about being human. Thank you Nicky!

I've Done It Again

Inspired by Brennan Manning's The Ragamuffin Gospel and for all my fellow ragamuffin brothers and sisters.

Mercy Me

Love in fear
still hopeful eyes
still hopeful eyes

Ready for the big surprise
All ghosts will rise
will rise

Milk every teardrop
til we die
through gaslit eyes
We hold on for dear life

Now we dream in daily news
it all comes true
it all comes true

So we're stuck like treacle glue
it's all for you
it's all for you

Milk every teardrop
til we die
gaslit eyes
hold on for dear life

Scream to me the daily news
it must be true
it must be true..

Dear Life

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Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/oliver-grind/1502558445

RIDE IN THA CHEVY THANG

I don't wanna live,
for if I just can't live.
I don't see a stable road
I can drive or walk alone.
A life I dream, where I am free
from all this shit that got nothing to do with me.

I don't wanna live,
for if I just can't live.
I don't see a stable road
I can drive or walk alone.
A life I dream, where I am free
from all this shit that got nothing to do with me.

Fakeout!

Where Is My Freedom?

PleaseClick

VERSE 1
i dont try, i dont cry
spend my days locked inside
waste away as time flies by
i wait the day when i will die

i hate my life but i say im fine
but im nothing new im just like
these other dudes living in strife
im nothing new, same old design

BRIDGE
put my fist through the wall
im nothing new, nothing at all
i never write i never call
im nothing new, nothing at all
i cant talk to girls, i get ignored
i'm nothing new, nothing at all

CHORUS
i'm nothing at all

VERSE 2
i make songs, shitty songs
shitty guitar with fake drums
shitty bass (played with a pick)
shitty lyrics made by scum

im not one to interact
cuz i cant talk i just panic attack
and i thought that i was complex
but im just like everyone else

BRIDGE
put my fist through the wall
im nothing new, nothing at all
i never write i never call
im nothing new, nothing at all
i cant talk to girls, i get ignored
i'm nothing new, nothing at all

CHORUS
i'm nothing at all

Femur Breaker

"Out of the Blue"  electronic music with guitar and vocals

Out of The Blue

Out of the Blue

not quite right

Fellow stranger
it's been a while
since you met me
eyes crossing aisles

Through the crowds
of limbs alone
flying elbows
bring better souls

Oh 
going nowhere fast
this time

Midnight mornings
stop for air
still cold calling
someone somewhere

Don't ask questions
Don't read minds
All our dreams
just killing time

Oh maybe there's a light 
going spare
Holding on too tight
I'm already there...

(hey now little hurricane harbouring high hopes
hey now little hurricane won't you come on home
hey now little hurricane harbouring high hopes).

Fellow stranger
it's been a while
since you left me
'cross the aisle

Fellow Stranger

Original compositions. 

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

Preferably use headphones for listening.

Fellow Stranger

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