Sunshine songs

Pengelum

A solstice song - possibly - not exactly cheery and I'm probably unwise to post but it's the shortest day today (in the northern hemisphere) so it's now or never.

Many thanks to Jonathan Beckenstein and grumpy Ian (unknown on SC) for their extremely helpful feedback on an earlier version of this track.
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The light grows weak and the dark grows strong
But life must end for life to go on
Rich and strange
This world is rich and strange my child

When the snow comes down it's so beautiful
But the birds will starve and the cold will kill
Rich and strange...

We cherish the lamb keep him safe from harm
Then we slit his throat cut the meat from the bone
Rich and strange...

And if you don’t fight they’ll drive out our kind
But to win a war you've got to lose your mind
Rich and strange...
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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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Original image (detail, processed) by Jr Korpa https://unsplash.com/@jrkorpa
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17th November 2023: Replaced with a hopefully somewhat better mix.

Rich And Strange

guitars by andrew salvner (aka lil' spaceman)

carried away by owls

shizoku

A song about what might happen if we take creativity away from us and get AI to do it instead.

We Took No Joy In Flowers

ASTIL

SKINNY JEANS
Music by Overdrive & Marc Freak

Check out the IG promo video:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAeOLnIu6bx/

Another incredibly fun partnership with the always brilliant Marc Freak.

A prolific musician, author, photographer and (as he defines himself) oddity, Marc's influences range from the lo-fi pop of Guided by Voices to the gothic melodrama of Nick Cave, via the glam of Bowie and the rawness of Iggy Pop. Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe, an experiment in DIY and lo-fi. A visit to Marc Freak's Soundcloud page is an absolute must:
@marcfreak

Some of my previous collabs with Marc:
https://soundcloud.com/overdrive_music/if-the-kids-wanna-dance
https://soundcloud.com/overdrive_music/dont-care
https://soundcloud.com/overdrive_music/blast

Hope you like the song. 😉

LYRICS
SKINNY JEANS
Squeezing into my skinny jeans
Dreaming of days gone by
When my ribs could be clearly seen
Squeezing into my skinny jeans
Years fly by
As hard as I try
Exposing from my unzipped fly

Fighting against a coming age
But with a positive thought
I escape out of my cage
Fighting against a coming age
I'm tense I'm fraught
From battles fought
I'll run so fast I can't be caught

Look at the age lines and beware
Take in a closer look
And you'll see the greying hair
Look at the age lines and beware
By hook or crook
Not by the book
I'm charging for a second look

Squeezing into my skinny jeans
Dreaming of days gone by
When my ribs could be clearly seen
Squeezing into my skinny jeans
Years fly by
As hard as I try
Exposing from my unzipped fly

I've got a question
Through coughs I try
I may as well just
Give up and die
The ticking clock it cannot lie
I've got a question
But I forgot it some time long agao

Look in the mirror I seem small
I can just barely blink
And I'm not there much at all
Look in the mirror I seem small
I can barely think
I've armour chink
My rotting corpse gives off a stink

Squeezing into my skinny jeans
Dreaming of days gone by
When my ribs could be clearly seen
Squeezing into my skinny jeans
Years fly by
As hard as I try
Exposing from my unzipped fly

Skinny Jeans

Tomorrow

Close To You

'green nails'
https://www.instagram.com/one.man.verity.show/reel/C9JVNvzuc-u/

lyrics: Scotty & Gems

Baby, paint your nails green today,
naked on the couch as I play with my lady.
As the sun shines through the curtains delicately. 
And the birdsongs that surround us match my melody. 

Greeeeen naaails.
And soooo free.
Come back one day and make me feel this way.
One day.





green nails

Deeper Still

Track & Lead Vocals By Ty Stevens
Back up Vocals & Mix By MrDjBigHouse

I Dont Get To Choose By Ty Stevens +( MrDjBigHouse Mix)

Cast of characters: 

Quanah Stewart --vocals, lyrics
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen–electric guitar, synths, arrangement, composition, mix, and production 
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums, electric drums, percussion 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 – four-string fretless bass
 
This song began with Stephen and his friend and bandmate, Quanah Stewart who also sings this version, and who wrote the lyrics. They were in a band together for about 7 years in the early 2000s. When the band broke up, they went many years without playing together. Until, in 2018 Stephen started his TexMex shaman project and this was one of the first songs he wrote.  Quanah had moved to Austin in the meantime but on a visit back to Dallas, Stephen asked him to come over and add the vocal track you hear on the song.  
 
Fast toward to 2024 and Stephen wanted to remix this along with a few other older tunes. He asked his good friends and teammates Ken and Josh if they’d like to help, and of course, they were super enthusiastic.  This is what he had to say about the finished product. "Their parts blew me away.  Beyond what I expected and it made it a whole new song.  Very grateful to them both for their time and talent." As are Ken and Josh very grateful to Stephen for sharing his awesome rocker with us.  

The title comes from trying to think of the stupidest song title Stephen could come up with, on a bet. And it’s close. 
  Of course, Stephen did the honors of mixing and producing it. Ken and Josh had a lot of fun brining this song back to life with him, whose creativity and skill are unparalleled. We all hope you (and Quanah) enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating

Lyrics:

1212 
still like to dance 
still like to sing 
deep cover elevator parking lot bring yeah 
THEY don't know about IT 
THEY aint seen 
we squeakin tweakin but were bufferin th stream yeah favorite stories 
favorite songs 
hey check th timeline might be gettin mighty long now my mind expanded
my mind IS blown 
my head exploded 
but I dont know what it shown yeah (unknowable silence) 
NOW ITS some bullshit 
we went through 
who knew
The Chasms came & got you 2 
still sayin fuck you 
still stayin high 
still makin me believe 
that Bon Scott never died rye
whens the punchline 
when is it near
nobody laughin said that no one shed o tear NOW 
so whats th story 
what th eff 
we gonna have to make IT with what little we got left yeah yeah

TallywhackerOMG!-Eclectic Collective

Echoes(NotNow)☠️🎶

Oh no!!
I think Im falling down again
What vice to take away the pain again?
Forget everyone that I love
They don't feel the same anyway

Don't believe!!
Everything that you've done!!
Everything you've said!!
Wasn't in vain!!
Never burn out!!
Don't fade away!!

We're Echoes!!
What we do matters!!
Not now....Forever!!....eh

Oh no!!
I think Im falling down again
What vice to take away the pain again?
Forget everyone that I love
They don't feel the same anyway

Don't believe!!
Everything that you've done!!
Everything you've said!!
Wasn't in vain!!
Never burn out!!
Don't fade away!!

We're Echoes!!
What we do matters!!
Not now....Forever!!....eh😂🖤

Echoes(NotNow)🎶

A Century Of Loneliness

Somewhere - After

I hope you can feel this....

All Music and production done by this guy....Enjoy

Through You (Instrumental)

Second single from 'The Loneliest Girl' out September 7th.
http://lilchiefrecords.storenvy.com/products/24159015-the-loneliest-girl-vinyl

Wasting Time

Just a short minute and twenty second instrumental on a gorgeous Saturday morning in remembing the day my wife and I renewed our vows in Victoria BC.

JORGE FERNANDEZ

Victoria  ~  instrumental

McCafferty
McCaffertty
Sum of all fears
Skeleton bones

Cavetown
Twenty one pilots
Panic!atthedisco

Alt rock
Bottles and cans
Ajj 
Study music
Cavetown
Cave town
Warrior cats
Acoustic

And I know that you're an asshole
And I know that you do not need help
And I know that you're in counseling
And that counseling, won't help
And I know that you will break me
And I know that you won't make it fast
So I will writhe away my skin and bones
And you can kill me in the grass
She's saying, "I just drove so far to see you
But I'm not sure that I want your kids."
He's saying, "Oh my god, I should've known that
That was then, and this is this."

She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

And he is shaking at the knees
Because he never has the words
He says that "I can't do this anymore
The way you act in public sickens me
And I hate you and your fucking friends
And the way they try to use me."

She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

Whoa

I never told you, how much I need you
Back in November, when we were broken
Now it's October, I am alone
But I am awake, and trapped in this place
And I never told you, how much I need you
Back in November, when we were broken
Now it's October, I am alone
But I am awake, and trapped in this place

She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

They say, "Oh our bodies, we hate our bodies
We are skeletons, and we are dead and gone
And when we die, he peels off all our skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

Twenty one pilots
Panic at the disco
Radical face

Skeleton Bones - McCafferty

I’m so happy coz you’re so happy 😘… 💜🤘🏻💜

Sunshine songs

💜purple😈claire💜