real good man. you've got so much going for you  

Powerful track with a powerful message. This is fantastic

Great work....love the buildup to the singing part.

This is so good 🔥🔥needs a whole lot more listening 👌👌❤️❤️❤️

Love the way you put this together 🙏well done Phil❤️

Hey, this is Essential Thinking! thank to you. and then IT Turns Out to be a really good Song! great track!

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Warning Explicit Video: https://youtu.be/4FpF-DU0Iew

We are all responsible...

THE TREES ARE FULL OF PLASTIC

The trees are full of plastic
The air is full of poisoned clouds
The music is so bad
It should be in the water 
Too drastic?
The leaders are mad
And we go for a walk in the burnt country
Amongst the quiet, dead animals
We have no credits for good behaviour
Nothing to spend, to give, or contribute
What were we thinking of?
What were we wishing for?
How did they get it so wrong?
How did they vote for this?

It wasn’t me

Suffocated by media
Deafened by notifications
Everyone agrees with me
They all agree with you
Doesn’t anybody talk
They walk 
In circles and mumble quietly
Scared of their sagging skin
In the mirror 
If someone sees them looking old they’ll be recycled
Too depressing
Too expensive
What were we thinking of?
What were we wishing for?
How did they get it so wrong?
How did we vote for this?

It wasn’t me

Paint me a colour
Make me fit
Eat me young
Soon we’ll cast a net and catch ourselves
Look me in the eye
Tell me you don’t know this already
All ready for tomorrow?
Tell me you don’t know this already
All ready for tomorrow?
Hiding in the safe spaces
Taking pictures of myself
To show the world I don’t say anything
I smile
I am happy
Oh yes, so happy!
Paint a picture
A thousand empty words
A thousand black and white words
No-one’s going home
Or even knows where it is
We’re homeless orphans of empty asylums
The devil’s been met 
The fishing nets bet
What were we thinking of?
What were we wishing for?
How did they get it so wrong?
How did we vote for this?

It wasn’t me...

The trees are full of plastic
"And you'll wonder where the yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"

What were we thinking of?
What were we wishing for?
How did they get it so wrong?
How did we vote for this?

"It wasn't me!"

The trees are full of plastic
"And you'll wonder where the yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"

It wasn't me...



© May 2021 Phil McWalter
Image: 'VIER PLUS EINS' Anselm Kiefer

The Trees Are Full Of Plastic

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Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.

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