My Soundcloud selection from September 2020

So proud to have sang with Paul on so many  of his beautiful songs! Thanks again Paul!
I highly recommend you check out Paul's page: @paulmck

My collabs with Paul

Thanks again to Amanda for adding her talents to this song. Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

When
when did we get old?
From the bittersweet ache
Feathers fly the fold

Tell me how it hurts
To never make a sound
From the prettiest of perch
It's a long way down

Oh the weary that we wear so well
And the secrets we dare not tell
All our hopes and dreams alive

Tell me we did we love
on black blossom bloom
Silent every word
Drift slowly to the moon

On the words you sing
Heart leaps and bounds
All the pretty things
forever wear the crown

I'm ready
I'm ready
heart leaps and bounds
I'm ready
I'm ready
to find your safe ground...

When
when did we get old
From the bittersweet ache
it's a long way home

Leaps and Bounds (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks again to Amanda for singing on this track. Please give your ears a treat and listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

Oh my life
where did it go?
Always
dreaming of old

And you sing
like it's your only line
always
the habit of a lifetime

do-do-do

And we run
like loneliest tides
and we run
on nothing inside

And we sing
sing endless lulabies
always 
the habit of a lifetime

All our gaslit dreams
turn to dust
Falling silently
I feel them running in my blood

And sing
sing to the brightest skies
always
the habit of a lifetime..

The Habit of a Lifetime (by Amanda and Paul)

Thanks as ever to Amanda for singing on this track (and for not punching me). Please listen to her other great songs at @phoebeelena.

Hollow stones
and stacks, 
the air I breathe
Laid by bones
the picture of a scene

Rainy days
and nights to never soar
I'm afraid of shadows not my own

But I keep coming on home
to the picture of my dreams
High rise
we're on our own
or so it seems

Sorrow sighs
and light I cannot see
Haunts of old
my picture of a scene

We got days and nights
to hold onto 
I'm afraid we might
not make it through

I keeping on home 
to the picture of my dreams
High rise 
weighed by the world
I see

Hollow stones 
and stacks,
the air I breathe
Laid by bones
the picture of a scene

I keep coming on home
to the picture of my dreams
High rise
we're on our own
or so it seems
(or so it seems)*4

High Rise (by Amanda & Paul)

Thanks again to Amanda for her patience and lovely singing on this song.  Please listen to her other great songs at @phoebeelena.

Heave the outstretched lungs
Shiver, slowly I awake
Will I ever be young
again?

Put the record on love
Slow dance
singing in the rain
Still the words will be wrong
and fade

Will I see you once again?
Will I see you once again?
Will I see you once again?
Or fade?

So long swallow serenade
Still I stand, cold eyes agape
Lay me by the swan parade
And fly away

Will I see you once again?
Will I see you once again?
Will we sing in the rain?
I hope one day

May all your winters be right as rain
And all you fears take flight

Pour the winter sun
Shimmer softly til it fades
Dream when I was young
And start again..

Swan Parade (by Amanda & Paul)

An early slice of Halloween rock for your listening pleasure.

Huge thanks again to Amanda for her canny singing and lifting this older song up a few levels. Please listen to her other great songs at @phoebeelena.

Lyrics:

Get up
On your feet
Off the floor
You've been asleep
For far too long
Get up off your knees

Come on 
Where you been?
Are you afraid to make a scene
Don't prove me wrong now
Get up to your feet

You know you can run
But you can't hide

You try to resist
What's in your head
Just won't be missed
It's keeping you 
up all night

Don't try to dismiss
When there's darknes in your midst
It's eating you up inside

That's why it won't be long
til it starts to bite

So come home
I'll be waiting by your side
So come home 
I'll be waiting by your side

That's when it starts to bite...

The Beastie (by Amanda and Paul)

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

Thanks again to Amanda for lending her eagle ear and voice to this song. Please listen to her other great tracks on @phoebeelena.

How do you run
when you've nowhere to fall?
Racing atoms
In the longest of crawls

Run the rivers
they collect the teardrops
Still life shimmers
Can we ever just stop?

Won't you stop
stay
stumbling around
with the skies see through

Won't you stop
say something out loud
when the world won't move
How about you?

Going nowhere 
so don't get in my way
Past the people
praying for rain

Won't you stop
stay stumbling around
with the sky see through

Wont you stop
say something out loud
When the world won't move
how about you?
Anyone?
Anyone?

Do you still tides still turn?
Lift your lights
Anyone?
Anyone?

Looking out 
at imperious views
telling stories
that speak only to you

Won't you stop
stay stumbling around
with the skies clear blue

Won't you stop
say something out loud
when the world
won't move
How about you?

Anyone??

How about you ? (by Amanda and Paul)

paulmck