Happy Birthday Paul!!:) You still look like a young sprightly lad, worry not!! Love how you release songs on a family birthday, aww that's amazing! Really apt song, life's just beginning!:) Lovely song, perfect blend of piano and vocals!:)

Ah so moving and heartfelt, gorgeous track!

Happy birthday, lovely. Gorgeous song to mark the occasion. X

Awesome song, and heartfelt singing. Very high level of authenticity. Lots of truthful emotion! And by the way, even though I'm a bit late, happy birthday to you!

again: thank you for presenting the lyrics!

Love how this song opens out--with sparse accompaniment in the first section--realy blossoms! (Hey 40 is young!! You've still got a half-century of songwriting in front of you, which at your rate will be approximately 2,500 songs!!)

Great track... Oh, and a happy belated birthday to you!

SC Celestial Tunes

One More Day

Just Because

Recorded this one at Pete Cummings Studio "Davisland Sound".  Featuring the great Pete Cummings on electric guitar with Fred Drews playing keys and Neece Cummings on bass guitar.

Light Years Away

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

One of Nine Poems by Bill Manhire from "Song Cycle"
Music Composition, Guitar, Voices & Photography: Adair Bruce
Recording Engineer: Nigel Jenkins https://soundcloud.com/xensonic
With the kind assistance of CreativeNZ & the Dunedin City Council.

The Seasons /If  I will sing there     for Marion

I 

Green tree hung over
a gorge
       pebbles, sound

                   of rocks 
                   & water

filling with mist

      breathing /unfolding

II

Horizoned: as the mouth
moving over the
body, the bodies moving

through rain
                   faced
together in,
resemblance

                     lips whispered
of

III

yawning by me, caught
in yourself, your
own deep

secret, falling

asleep in 
Autumn         Autumn

when the moon draws through

IV

falling to its knees

and

gathering promises all
winter
          ice, the length of

a body, presence, bound
in light

Link to the Poet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Manhire

My guitar is an acoustic/electric "Retro" sunburst Ovation and a special tuning (not open) to create the "water pattern" in the fingers. I experiment! My technique is through a classical guitar style of performance. Environmental sounds I recorded on Sony mini disc specific to my area & absorbed into the vocal recording. Thanks to Nigel :-D
 

The Seasons

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

Guitar, vocals, arrangement - Lizzie Taypen
Photo - Dunavon Woods - Lizzie Pentland
Recorded early this morning on my phone, a simple take when it was quiet.
I am finding it quite difficult to play my guitar now because of my arthritis, so  good to play a little. 
Happy Solstice to all of you!!

She moved through the fair ( Trad Cover)

Published on Jul 9, 2016
The second single from the album Any Human Heart
Coming out summer 2016
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Writen and composed by Hava Cohen and Talia Peri
Music Produced & arranged by Noam Rotem
Recorded by Raz Burg at Bardo and Tamuz studio
Mix by Roy Avital
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If you have a fear of heights 
climb the highest mountain you can find 
Don't bother, to look down 
Don't lose your mind 

You will find out 
You are alright 

If you pass the speed of light 
time will fly by you will not grow old 
don't hurry, don't worry 

You are alright 
You are alright

01 Fear Of Heights

Won't Tell

I turn old man 40 today so a contemplative piece to see me on my way.

Still a little bit of your soul left inside
Beating on an old memory in my mind
Here we lie in lashing rain
Rushing by
like passing planes

So don't tell me I'm wrong
That all hope is gone
No, don't tell me I'm wrong

Still a little bit of you lost inside
Looking like the dreamer with old worry lines

So don't tell me what's wrong
Your words I hang on
Tell me what's wrong

We're like passing planes that never start
We are
We're like passing planes that never start
we are
(so maybe we hold on)
(maybe just hold on)
(maybe just hold on)
We're like passing planes
light up the dark

Still a little piece of your soul inside...

Passing planes

Finally! My original no. 4!
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Passing planes

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