words and music ©2009 Pleudoniem

Everyone does Everyone

I remembered a song
When she gave me that look
Clicking her mouse
As she smiled  when she took
A sip from her mug
As if she'd understood
I was bad news

She claimed I'd left a note
On a blog about their shop
That was slightly out of tune
They didn't like the lines
If people'd stayed away
Damage had been done
So she'd double me the price
For a loaf of bread.

We've Googled you my friend
Everyone does everyone
And here's where we've found you
We've Googled you my friend
Everyone does everyone
And here's where we've found you

I said she'd found a lie
But she said that she cared shit
What was there was there
And she showed the 13th hit
What she could find
The world could find
And she'd forward the result
To the supermarkets' crookbook

I claimed it had been long ago
And couldn't quite remember
But I couldn't quite disprove
What was written in September
Almost 5 years back

We've googled you my friend (5x)

Everyone does Everyone (2024 remaster)

Original "Enya style" song about the imperativeness of honesty in all we say and do. 

Vocals by Layna Claunch
Composition and Instrumentals by Layna Claunch

True Friend

Is it kind to tell a lie when a friend needs the truth?
What is kind from fellow minds true friends all have to choose
Saying words without meaning will not help a friend
Speak the truth, mean the truth and it will set you free

Choices made can make us slaves gravity starts to pull
Causing minds and hearts to ache changing wise into fools
Tell the truth, speak the truth, honesty will supply 
 Second chance, stable hands, and it all starts with you

Never lie to a friend
Just to spare them torment
If you choose to be silent
You'll fall in the end

Speak your mind leave doubt behind
Courage will free the lost
Do what right to warn a friend
Never mind what the cost

Speak the truth
Live the truth
And it will set you free
Truest love never shirks
Truth is all that can be

Never lie to a friend
Just to spare them torment
If you choose to be silent
You'll fall in the end

Speak the truth
Live the truth
And it will set you free

Never lie to a friend
Just to spare them torment
If you choose to be silent
You'll fall in the end

Great book about honesty:
https://a.co/d/gvi5yCN

True Friend

Having some fun again with the wonderful Andy McLean on saxes - such sweet lines, harmonies and sound 

Check out more of Andy's great playing here:  https://soundcloud.com/mcleanaf

Thanks for your generous time listening, for your comments and your shares

Wah Tz Up?   -   Andy McLean & Jamie Rhind

Greg Hurley: Composition / Arrangement, Lyrics, Vocals, Slide guitar, Guitar, B3, Rhodes, Bass and Drum programming, mix and mastering.
If you have the time.... Please repost!

 Title: Silver Linings

In the pocket, in the groove
Chasing shadows, trying to prove
life's a struggle, but we'll find
The silver linings left behind

In the city, in the heat
Searching for a taste so sweet
Threads of sorrow, threads of hope
Tangled in the twisted rope

Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows

In the mirror, what do you see
Is there anyone you'd rather be
Keep the faith, don't lose sight
Silver linings shining bright

And the struggle, it's in the past
All the shadows, they won't last
Silver linings in the end
Worth it all, my  dear friend

Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows

SOLO

And the struggle, it's in the past
All the shadows, they won't last
Silver linings in the end
Worth it all, my  dear friend

Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows
Hold on tight, don't let go
There's a light where the river flows

Silver Lining

The first draft here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/riverberi
Final recording on 2 August 2024 in Milan, with Lorenzo Di Biasi (www.sartoria57studio.it/)

Picture is from Pietro Corrao

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2023).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, August 3.

Riverberi (final draft) *

Brandywine Creek ~ cover

Opening track for my second album ‘Everything is Upside Down’
I made this song a couple years ago, but then forgot all about it. When I was cleaning up my GarageBand I found this song again and was blown away by it. I let my farther listen to it and he suggested to add a bass pattern. And voila, a brand new opening track was born!

Everything is Upside Down

It started with Dan's question if I could help out on the bass, and it has now turned into a fully fledged collab. Asking Oorlab was the obvious next thing to do, and he immediately made it clear that he wanted to express his great concern about climate change in the lyric, and his disbelief in the choice for power over the desperate need for change we are in. So, here it is:

- guitar, organ, initial idea: Daniel Lockhart
- bass guitar, Ziggy tap guitar, synths: Pleudoniem
- drums, lyrics & vocals: Oorlab

Going Gently, Good Night*

Earliest ever autumn
record of yellow
browed warbler
makes me wonder
when we
will be
going under

The new president
is an accident
he's a winner
not a loser
bad bad sinner
not a chooser

Release the people at the base
from their fear
of not knowing
Insulting the veteran
"you must be kidding me"
Climate change is a lie
you don't need
to know
the how or the why
yeah

"Do not go gentle
into that good night"

The new pesident
just landed
on the front lawn
of the center
of power
while the generals
- never tired
of saluting -
are considering
shooting



Title Inspired by Dylan Thomas' Do not go gently into that good night (rage, rage, against the dying of the light)

Other songs in the project are:

https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem/the-president-paints-collab-with-oorlab
https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem/toxic-tuxedo-collab-with-oorlab

Going Gently, Good Night - Collab ProgrockDan1, Oorlab, Pleudoniem

CIACCO/ Be Another - Only a lie : you are...

Compressed success

I am a multi-instrumentalist who plays the bass guitar, standup-bass, drums, the guitar, a tap guitar, keys, and I sing. I know that we're increasingly entering a world in which nothing may be real, but I believe in authentic play. So, I play all the instruments myself, and in the case of collabs I prefer people who also do this. Don't be a fake.

I usually take great care of the lyrics, because I feel a song is more than just a set of sounds, it also conveys an idea. As a linguist, I have been inspired by a great number of poets that I've come across, and I sometimes wink at them in my own work. Thank you, all you great carriers of moods and ideas, I take a deep respectful bow to you. It's great that the English language has got quite a number of you.

I have been influenced by many artists, but when I ask listeners who they think frequently return, they mostly mention Steely Dan, Talking Heads, King Crimson, Weather Report, Incubus, Duran Duran, Jimi Hendrix, Roxy Music, Japan & David Sylvian, Tower of Power, James Brown, Wishbone Ash, Iron and Wine, Ian Dury - how is that for a salad? That is not to say that I try to mimic them, their influences just ambush me when I am not paying attention.  

I am quite open for collaborations. Quite a number of them have been done with @Oorlab already, @Kellie-Rowley.