Lyrics by Alex Gowland
Lead Guitar by "DJ Palsy" Scott Thomas
Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocal by Raven Jak
Produced by Raven Jak

Copyright control 2021
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precious is this time and life given to us

Precious

Written Composed & Performed by Raven Jak Randell
Produced by "Edphones" Eduardo Mustavich 

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World Of The Windows

Produced by Raven Jak Randell
Written and composed by Raven Jak Randell

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we all see things differ in the world from small to large
rain drops looking like a paisley shower in the dark
we all know how clever we are when we see through the reign
imaginary ordinary un-believe the flaws within the game

well enough of this shite if you think it's better
la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la

pick your favorite colour it's irrelevant as soon as you are there
the tree for us must've been a walkway into a better care
open sea of sky saw us fly into the parliaments of green
i hope i'm right did they just fight over a colour that's always on the scene

well enough of this shite if you think it's better
la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la

Gail

Written and recorded by Jack Randell
Performed by Raven Jak
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turn the lights on
forever
keep the heating on
forever
run the water fast
forever
let the tv last, let the xbox last, let the wifi last forever

are you listening to your friend or just staring at the screen?
are you drooling over trends? you might as well do for me

chuck your food away
forever
drive the car all day
forever
smoke it all the way, pipe it all the way
forever
drink it every day, slam it every day, snort it every way
forever

are you listening to your friend, or just staring at the screen?
are you drooling over trends? you might as well do for me

Forever

written by Michelle Cuadra and Jack Randell
music composed by Jack Randell

Produced and performed by Raven Jak

all rights reserved 2021

he waits as the obsidian plumed crows
serenade the gulls
waiting for honorable discharge
indeed he falls

lost in the valley of the dolls
the caterpillar crawls
across the unarmed thumb of reassurance
indeed he falls

fly into ever warming misty potion
and throw away the key
sky is not a twisted notion
when you're sitting in a tree

in search of the breast that warms him
suckle on her milk and honey
that dribbles slow and warm down his chin
looking for some serious money

fly into ever warming misty potion
and throw away the key
sky is not a twisted notion
when you're sitting in a tree

The Bird And The Caterpiller

Written by Jack Randell
Performed by Raven Jak

Guitars and Vocal by Raven Jak

copyright control 2021

Gaelic woman smile for me
there's nothin more fun that climbing trees
haven't you heard that these are reasons why i like you
tartan cardigans and tonnes of fun 
why you're a magical one
semi see that these are reasons why i like you

Annie Macrae it's hard to say
your heart has seen better days
hopefully dilate the sea 
second to none is what she be
filly the rot and finger god
and hope that she didn't see
cross my heart and play the part
and count the cowardly bolshy lot

prim the rose 
and hope the pogues'll 
catch your eye before i die
horror show and a bolshy blow is why i'll find you
bratchny cals and cancer fills the chelovek askin' for the pills
fuck in the gutter crast your cutter
if i taste you

Annie Macrae it's hard to say
your heart has seen better days
hopefully dilate the sea 
second to none is what she be
filly the rot and finger god
and hope that she didn't see
cross my heart and play the part
and count the cowardly bolshy lot

Elspeth

Written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed by Raven Jak
Produced by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

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it ain't because we're pretty
that goes without saying
it ain't because we're witty
no-one had a doubt
is it because we're one of a kind
i wonder if the same applies to mind
it ain't because we're gold or diamonds or silver
that's one hell of a find right?

do we look at ourselves with glee?
do we see the wood for the trees?
how long can we say that it's fine fine fine?
the thirteenth hour runs out of time

it ain't because we're healthy
an educated guess from these bullets say that we're not
it ain't because we're wealthy
if we had half the chance would we take the lott?
is it due do to abundance?
ask the starving silenced down there
will this get through to hundreds or thousands or millions?
will you won't you what does it matter paper billionaire?

do they look at themselves with glee?
do we see the wood for the trees?
how long can we say that it's fine fine fine?
the twenty third hour runs over time

boom boom they do
they don't mind if they run out of time
tye rum tarrai
the fear will fall so dear wake up to
boom boom they do
they don't mind if they run out of time
ye rum tarrai
the fear will fall so dear wake up today

dear wake up today

love wake up today

wake up today

Dear Wake Up Today

written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Produced by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed by Raven Jak

all rights reserved 2021

stand back and enjoy
a peaceful peasant sucking on a rusty coin
stand back and admire
the ones who want to be the paper to a bigger fire
sit back and just laugh
it's only after and aftermath that we do the maths
lean sideways and smile
it's always good to know the angles always in denial

everyone's together for one thing
everyone's together for one thing
everyone's together for one thing

Firepit

Written by Abigail Lynne Frankland
Composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Produced by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed by Raven Jak

All rights reserved 2021

I'm still young
yet I pose with old youngs
got these geezers strung
but i've come undone
i'm still young
it's just for fun

i'm still young
yet i pose with old lungs
parcel tongue
my mouths my gun

i'm still young
yet i pose with old lungs

i'd give you eight out of ten
i can solve your conundrum ooh rachel
i'd give you eight out of ten
i can solve your conundrum ooh rachel
ooh rachel 
ooh rachel

Old Man Young Woman

Written and performed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell (Raven Jak)
Recorded by James Rueben Stephens

all rights reserved 2008

there was a time i once knew
when i was a babe
it stretched and it grew
for hours and days
and the people i knew
were covered in haze and sparkles and colors like rainbows a daze

i think not
and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with your thoughts
and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with your thoughts

there was a time i once knew
when i was a child
it filtered away through my hands like sahara sands
like money didnt exist in command for a while

i think not
and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with your thoughts
and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with your thoughts
and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with your thoughts
and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with your thoughts

there was a time we all know
feels like the world is a show
on tvs and youtubes and public are all glued to some type of entertained clone
is it rude to throw out all the shit you've been hidden from
i mean by the screens that show nothing but means to keep us from our dreams

it's the shit but the truth don't you see?
i think not
i think not

and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with their thoughts
and you cannot be sure but you find it a lot quicker these days with their thoughts
and you find it a lot quicker these days
and you find it a lot quicker these days
with their thoughts

Thoughts

written and performed by Raven Jak Randell
Produced by Edphones Eduardo Mustavic

Bum Trax

Wrong With You

written and performed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell and Toby D.M. Parker
Produced by Jak Randell

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The Darkest Of Hours

Lyric written by W.B. Yeats
Music composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Produced by Michael Knowles
Performed by Raven Jak & Michael Fucking Knowles
Featured on Raven Jak EP 2021

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

Raven Jak EP 2021 mp3

Lake Isle of Innisfree

Written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed by Raven Jak

All rights reserved 2021

how many times have you told yourself you're going to give up giving up on yourself?
how many times have you gone through the motions of dealing with the commotion regarding your wealth?
i've been told it's easier said than done when it comes down to the sum of your intake please
give me a break i've heard it all before, jesus try not to rob our own for a war
look i'm not gonna stand here and tell you these words for no reason, isn't like it ain't too hard
i'd happily play the part of the only one that knocks down the mighty house of cards but no
all we have to do is take a breath and blow
from all sides sending out the invites
when was the last time they showed me
that i am free to do as they tell me
that i am free to do as they tell me
do i trust you?
it's a funny question, but i take not much upon face value
just as i am missing your glow your charm your ever flowing warm
i just wanna kiss you
from top to bottom got them for you
hope you like them, they've all been read

it's a funny question,
but i take not much upon face value
just as i am missing
your glow your charm your ever flowing warm
i just wanna kiss you
from top to bottom god damn for you
hope you like them 
they've all been read
they've all been read
they've all been read
they've all been read

how many times have you told yourself you're going to give up giving up on yourself?
how many times have you gone through the motions of dealing with the commotion regarding your wealth?

Book

Written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed by Raven Jak
Produced by Michael 'Fucking' Knowles
Mastered by Daniel B James

Copyright control 2021
All rights reserved 2021

have you ever woken up to a table
covered so it's no longer able to table
the ash-tray tin can blocking up your breath

are you able to lend yourself to the public common wealth
of a tragic roundabout that doesn't have an end in sight

did you ever rescue the crumbs of the counter
scratch your head to the lung stained duvet
did you ever rescue the crumbs of the counter
scratch your head to the lung stained duvet

chopped toms grow fur
at least they'll be warm for the winter
chicken bones hum and groan
a local scent of betrayal (cottoned on to hard foods yet?)

did you ever rescue the crumbs of the counter
scratch your head to the lung stained duvet
did you ever rescue the crumbs of the counter
scratch your head to the lung stained duvet

forget trash day nine times over two months
laundry day was a bag you let the urge die in

Lung Stained Duvet

Lyrics written by Jem Gem Wilkins
Music composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed by Raven Jak
Percussion by Giles Smith
Recorded on a  Roland BR-600

I'm trying my best and it's starting to drain me
putting my all in and nothing is changing
so i swallow it down, the bitterest pill
my pride is out of reach, i'm going in for the thrill

if you won't help yourself then how can i
how can things change when you won't even try
so you doubt yourself honey why should i
how can things change when you won't even try

shut-eye, shut-eye, shut-eye, shut-eye

hand outs and pay outs chance after chance
you pretend you don't notice and all these moments pass
used every excuse and they're all lies
honey our sympathy has all run dry

if you won't help yourself then how can i
how can things change when you won't even try
so you doubt yourself honey why should i
how can things change when you won't even try

so shut-eye, shut-eye, shut-eye, shut-eye

but we'll keep on, and they will know that we'll keep on
and they will show that we'll be strong
they will know that we are strong

i'm trying my best and it's starting to save me
putting my all in and everythings changing
so i swallow it down, the healthiest pill
so my pride is out of reach, i'm going in for the thrill
i'm going in for the thrill

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BR-600 sessions

Clover Eye

that dark thick duvet of moisture
relentless and mighty, refreshing and washing
blowing in different directions
when the rains came i thought of your love

this mist covered air and fine subtle spray
dense on arrival and thin on the way out
the down pour in unison impacting rhythms
i thought of your love when the rains came

droplets collected in globules on leaves
in the garden believing its hard hitting streams
becomes very clear a patch of sincerety
when the rains came i thought of your love

reflections in eroded out concrete to spell out
the scaled down lakes and rivers follow no format
it figures that scent fills the air after braving the storm
i thought of your love when the rains came

that peaceful aftermath and fresh subtle breeze
of a time to remember and express all the reasons
that fill us with life for the drying redeems us
when the rains came i thought of your love
i thought of you when the rains came
when the rains came i thought of your love
i thought of you when the rains came....

recorded by Ed Mustavic, performed by jack randell
written and composed by jack randell
all copyright control 2022

The Rains

Michael (Rendition of John Denver's Mathew)

song originally by Roger Allan Wade

rhythm acoustic guitar, lead vocal, backing vocal - Jack Randell
Bass, Synth Keys, backing vocal - Gruvsufi Kev
Harmonica - Andrew Findlay
Violin - Ben Lewis

Performed and recorded by RAVEN JAK 2022

If You're Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough - COVER

Written and originally performed by Damian Rice

rhythm guitar, lead vocal, backing vocal - Jack Randell
bass, drums, synth keys, backing vocal - Gruvsufi Kev
harmonica, backing vocal - Andrew Findlay
violin, backing vocal - Ben Lewis

Recorded by RAVEN JAK 2022

Coconut Skins - COVER

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed and Recorded by RAVEN JAK 2022

acoustic rhythm guitar, lead vocal, backing vocal - Jack Randell
Bass, Drums, Percussion, Synth Keys, Backing Vocal - Gruvsufi Kev


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lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

rhythm acoustic guitar, lead guitar, lead vocal, backing vocal - Jack Randell
bass, drums, backing vocal

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK

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One Flew Over

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

acoustic rhythm guitar, lead vocal, - Jack Randell
bass, drums, backing vocal - Gruvsufi Kev
violins - Ben Lewis
harmonica - Andrew Findlay

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK

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All Roads Lead To Home

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

rhythm guitar, lead guitars, lead vocal, backing vocal - Jack Randell
bass guitar, drums, backing vocal - Jack Randell

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK

copyright control 2022

ManWaves

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

acoustic guitar, lead vocal - Jack Randell
percussion, bass, backing vocal - Gruvsufi Kev

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK

copyright control 2022

Wishbone

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

Acoustic rhythm guitar, lead guitars, lead vocal - Jack Randell
Bass, Drums, backing vocal, organ, - Gruvsufi Kev

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK

copyright control 2022

Sacked And Saved

Lyrics and Music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

rhythm acoustic guitars, lead vocal, backing vocals - Jack Randell
bass, drums, backing vocals - Gruvsufi Kev
Harmonica, backing vocals - Andrew Findlay
violin - Ben Lewis

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK

copyright control 2022

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

acoustic guitar, lead vocal, backing vocal - Jack Randell
bass guitar, drums, backing vocals - Gruvsufi Kev

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK

2022

Controversial Matters

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

rhythm guitar, lead guitar, lead vocal, backing vocal - Jack Randell
bass, drums, percussion, organ - Gruvsufi Kev

Recorded and Performed by RAVEN JAK
2022

Tra La Di Da

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

all copyright control 2006

crossed my mind in the mirrors i find my fears of being in love
my eyes look away which keep thoughts at bay
i thought you were from above
i freeze in your breezy company, swallow my awkward pride
i'm lost at sea and i can't believe i've been pulled in by your tide

i cannot decide what i want in my mind
i cannot quite find when is the right time
to ask you for what you may as well know
the odd little hint is as far as i go

so we swing in the breeze and laugh at the trees
my dear the leaves were gone
my twisted wooden willow tree
send your friends along

i cannot decide what i want in my mind
i cannot quite find when is the right time
to ask you for what you may as well know
the odd little hint is as far as i go

and i haven't quite found what is the right sound
to make in your wake and define it aloud
this shy broken record is waiting to play
what he has not found the right way say
what he hasn't found the right way to say
what he hasn't found the right way to say

X

Shy Broken Record

Lyrics and Music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
all rights reserved 2023

Oh what a joy
to be cast a boi
try and engage on this stage
what's in front of me
hoping we're on the same page in this sanctuary

does it even matter any more what the rich and poor together have ignored we fight for whatever?
sew all the crows to the telephone poles
and sound off the news of another free roll

when the sky breaks down
all the clouds'll come round
if it's tainted all brown
then all the propanes been found
the wispy white beard
that creeps up the fields
the first rebel deer, that steals all your wheels
if it came from the ground
they'll send out the hounds
they'll hunt you like heathens and it'll keep them all proud
the things you must know
they don't fully show
in textbooks and stories - they come and they go

come and they go
come and they go
come and they go

(breathe.....)

oh what a joy
to be cast as a tory
try and engage on this stage whats in front of me
hoping we're on the same page in this sanctuary
does it even matter anymore what the rich and poor together have ignored, we fight for whatever?
sew all the crows to the telephone poles
and sound off the news of another free role

when the sky breaks down
all the clouds'll come round
if it's tainted all brown
then all the propanes been found
the wispy white beard
that creeps up the fields
the first rebel deer, that steals all your wheels
if it came from the ground
they'll send out the hounds
they'll hunt you like heathens and it'll keep them all proud
the things you must know
they don't fully show
in textbooks and stories that come and they go
n' the things that you hear
are never quite clear
so never fear
what you don't know

never fear what you don't know
never fear what you don't know
never fear what you don't know

Cast

lyrics and music written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
copyright controlled 2023, all rights reserved

listen very carefully now 
this is how i tell
a story based on blatant, honest truth
living in blocks and cells
outside of prison, well,
it begs to ask some questions - 
Blair
did he even care
that his people didn't care about peace or power anymore
the ice-caps have started to collapse
and the sea is rising fast
and all i see in us is GOD DAMN WAR

So open your eyes
to a disease

it makes me feel unclean
it taints the perfect scene
oh, it burns away the trees

THE SIGNS WERE THERE
you wrote them down yesterday
thinking it was 'fore-play'
but SHE wasn't keen
the world doesn't care about money or affairs
i feel if we cared then we wouldn't be mean
WELL HONESTLY STAND BACK - LOOK AT US GROW!
turning the endangered into T.V. shows
haven't you got the technology and sheer common sense
to prevent what everybody knows?

open your eyes
to a disease

it makes me feel unclean
it taints the perfect scene
oh, it burns away the trees

oh it makes me feel unclean
it taints the perfect scene
it turns n' burns the trees

help her please

(THIS IS TALKING ABOUT MOTHER EARTH)

Truth Song

written and composed (lyric, chords, composition) by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Produced by Robert Chegwidden
tin whistle - Mark Stevenson
percussion - Mark Stevenson
lead guitar - Robert Chegwidden

on call
to catch them if they all fall
it's the upside 
of a country that they all try to hide
and you know it's only when you ask them to

uncool
a rapture in the tool box
who's the 'coward' in the corner of the phonebox
does it need to be accounted for that you're only on the side that wins

and you're rolling over again
and you're rolling over again
and then you're all over
and then you're all over

and you're rolling over again
and you're rolling over again
and then you're all over
and then you're all over

stand tall
pray that all the cars stall
it's the uptight ogre in the bank hall
it doesn't matter how big they are
make them pick their beer can up

on call
to catch them if they all fall
it's the upside 
of a country that they all try to hide
and you know it's only when you ask them to

and you're rolling over again
and you're rolling over again
and then you're all over
and then you're all over

and you're rolling over again
and you're rolling over again
and then you're all over
and then you're all over

vocal - Jack Timothy Oake Randell, 

copyright control 2008

Jack Randell's Album

Un-Cool

chords composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
vocal melody by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed (guitar & voice) Jack (V'lad) Timothy Oake Randell

copyright control 2007

Paradise to Heaven

lyric and music composed and written by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
rhythm electric guitar - Jack Timothy Oake Randell
lead guitar - kevin colivet
bass guitar - christopher butts
drums editor - Tim Roche
vocals - Jack Timothy Oake Randell

Days that make us happy, make us wise
Days that make us happy make us wise (from when i was a boy)
started off green and i wasn't very keen
on the practical side of a working machine
isn't a childs mind so pristine
when it's floating down stream

the days that make us happy
the days that make us wise
the days that make us happy
happy don't tell no lies
the days that make us happy
the days that make us wise
happy don't tell no lies

yeah yeah yeah woh yeah
so i climbed on board - was scrubbing at the floor
when the captain questioned - what i had ignored
"haven't you learned your lesson since before?!"
i'm not quite sure
so i sailed the sea and it wasn't very clean
and the fact of the matter was i got taxied
to the home of the brave and the land of the free
and the world saw me

the days that make us wise
the days that make us happy
happy don't tell no lies
the days that make us happy
the days that make us wise
happy don't tell no lies x3

recorded at Churchill House, Hereford (Hereford College Of Arts)

copyright control 2006

Days That Make Us Happy

lyrics and chords composed and written by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Performed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Recorded by Adam Snellgrove (Brighton)
copyright control 2007

life is like an ocean, it gets deeper all the time
believing it's all kosher, when you're in the firing line
doctor are they ok? do they mean right?
are we in the wrong war with a peaceful fight?

time is like a ribbon, it gets twisted every day
you find out they're not driven in the empathetic way
darling does it help, if i'm not around?
i'll help myself get out of town

does it matter if the door isn't fully shut tight
when you're calling the floor, and you're always right
so you seem to ignore that you're holding the light
of your born

Domestic Doubt

Performed by Jak Raven (Jack Timothy Oake Randell)
Here & Now written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Dirty Old Town (Rendition)
Arrow To You written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Galway Girl (Cover)
Bristol Rum Run written by Jack Timothy Oake Randell and Wilf Byers, and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Butterflies written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell
Dear Wake Up Today written and composed by Jack Timothy Oake Randell

no memory so far of when this was recorded (2008-2011)

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