Waitin for the Bus

Collaborative production with Artist Dave 

Bad News

KR - Critics

Lyrics:

Pace the painting
So frustrating 
Debase the thinking
And drown the babies - Down by the river
Persuading
Confidently conflating
We're debating
Though there's no control to anything we're saying


[Chorus]
The rivers of damned souls
Flow by me
The sins of long forgone
Enemies


Televising me
I've crippled my fantasies 
You are no master to me
I can bring myself to my own knees
The keys to guarantees 
No longer mine to seize
Degrees beg for expertise 
As dreams sail away with the passing breeze


[Chorus]
The rivers of damned souls
Flow by me
The sins of long forgone
Enemies

[Solo]

[Chorus]
The rivers of damned souls
Flow by me
The sins of long forgone
Enemies

[Solo]

///////////2024

Down By The River

By Edith Piaf and Marguerite Monnot
Copyright 1950 S D R M and France Music Corporation


Shall I catch a shooting star
Shall I bring it where you are
if you want me to, I will

You can say it anytime
I'll do anything you ask
If you only love me still____________

If the sun should tumble from the sky
If the sea should suddenly run dry
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen I won't care

If it seems that everything is lost
I shall smile and never count the costs
If you love me really love me
Let it happen darling I won't care

Shall I catch a shoooting star
Shall I bring it where you are
If you want me to I will 

You can say it anytime 
I'll do anything you ask  - if you ask me to
If you only love me still

When at last my y life on earth is through
I will share eternity with you
If you love me, really love me
Let it happen darling I won't care

Ad lib

If you love me really love me
Let it happen 
let it happen I won't care

Live:  If You Love Me (Hymne à l’amour) Edith Piaf

vocals by Enlia 🇲🇫 
https://on.soundcloud.com/Qz3SxGFtqrR7bF1t6

https://open.spotify.com/album/4R9jaZTFU3elwqxK3jhXB3
https://solmarineris.bandcamp.com/album/io-void-special-edition

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Red Dress

Watch the video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-58t7gvyg.

We worked a bit longer on this one, starts as a gentle love song but there's a little snake in the grass. A big thank you, Ian Collins @ian-211 for the string arrangement, drums, helping producing and the choir singing!

Lyrics
____________________________

I want you to be the first thing I see
When I wake up from dreaming about you
Sweet sleepy head your warmth in my bed
Your yawn when my arm glides around you

I make you some tea and egg toast with cheese
And arrange it solemnly on a sheet
"You smile at me lovingly, you care for me touchingly", you say when I kiss you in Mandrake Suite

Man I’ve been lonesome before I
finally dared to ring at the door
at Leicester Square 34
I discovered a natural beauty I couldn’t ignore, nevermore

Oh my god I fell back asleep till I heard the door-sweep
While you already showered and look fully dressed
You tell me it’s a crime but we ran out of time
And a client is waiting, I hope he’s the last

Man I’ve been lonesome before I
finally dared to ring at the door
at Leicester Square 34...

Aah, you’re the first thing
Aah, let me be the last thing

Cellar Aged Wines

First Thing

First Thing (with Ian Collins)

back into it more from some recent recordings

What i mean

Milan Kundera (2018)

Rido quando mi dici che
io son profondo come il mare
non capisco bene perchè
tu ti veda così superficiale
poi ti guardo e capisco che
in fondo sia del tutto normale

il tempo che tu passi a vivere
io lo spreco a pensare.

Tu del tutto naturalmente
ti lasci andare ad ogni sensazione
io che altrettanto spontaneamente
blocco sul nascere ogni nuova emozione
e l'analizzo per capire se
riesco a condurla alla mia comprensione

ma questo porta inevitabilmente
a non provare più niente.

Io che ho bisogno di ogni certezza
per tramutare il mio pensiero in azione
tu in assoluta spensieratezza
prendi costantemente ogni decisione
ti senti libero e senza catene
prima di accorgerti che è un'illusione

volti lo sguardo e misuri il vuoto che
separa te e la ragione.

Il vuoto è un peso che non puoi sopportar
tu vuoi qualcosa che lo possa colmare
come quel senso che io mi ostino a cercar
in ogni cosa e che mi fa disperare
ti prego insegnami la leggerezza
guardar la vita come ad una sciocchezza

giusto equilibrio fra ragione e libertà
non una vita a metà.

milan kundera

I want seme more

LIVE ON STAGE on 23th August, 2025: https://wannebachsummer.de
NEW Video Trailer "Living": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKm28euxFuE
NEW Video Trailer "First Thing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-58t7gvyg
NEW: Hurting
NEW: FIrst Thing - (with Ian Collins)

http://potbarley.com
LATEST RELEASE ON SPOTIFY: "Old Friend" with Ian Collins. https://ffm.to/old_friend.bio

New song "Nancy Says" and a reel: https://youtube.com/shorts/D6OYurY7vgE?feature=share

Crash 'n Burn was charting up to no. 3 in RepostExchange

Hole In The Sky was mentioned in an article with Spotify playlist: : https://staticdive.com/2024/08/14/pot-barley

Check out the reel made by Overdrive on my YouTube Channel of "Crash'n Burn": https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aCx2da8Vxl8 and another one "Release Me": ttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/uCavmdcdtdY!

YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PotBarley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/potbarleyofficial

Musician & songwriter driven just by passion for songwriting and singing. I am releasing "SoundCloud first" but some selected songs are also on https://potbarley.bandcamp.com or Spotify etc, sometimes in older versions though.
Since spring 2023 I have been writing and recording mainly as a "one man band", using acoustic & electric guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, an old piano, conga, etc. and a voice.
Former member of German bands: In Rags (with Sami Yli-Sirniö and Roman Keymer), Sharkpool and Dutch bands Garbitsjkeng, The Wit, Trio van Putten and and a few others. I baptized my Alter Ego and named him "Pot Barley".