Love the chord progression, and that organ slays! 😎

Love the fine playing that begins this song.  Excellent, descriptive lyrics; "fear grips the chest and holds it tight". This is a great collaboration in structure and production. Kudos to you both.

Great lush acoustic guitar. I can really hear your passion, which is brilliant! LIKED!

The signature song from our album of the same name Desiree. A barn burning rocker that gets you going from start to finish. The stage is set when a beautiful mystery woman beguiles this small town with her looks and style creating speculation and wonder.

Desiree

This song is about being honest and vulnerable with others! :)

I'm Not A Fake!

Music and backup vocals by Hobocop
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Vocals and lyrics by Cosmic Keanu
https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu

Produced by metrocityrecords
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Lonely sits the city
Now desolate,
Barren and empty!

We watch the fall
In silent apathy
Nothing’s real
Augmented reality

Walking sleep
Our lips are sutured
Our eyes stitched shut
To past and future

Self-serving
Apathy
Buried along
with our fantasies

[chorus]
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Turn back before
it’s too late!

Silicon smiles
Hide mechanical gears
Oiled with blood
Spilled in fear

Enemies
Seek our demise
Choking us
With honeyed lies

Parasites
Have wormed their way in
They cause our fall
And mock our ruin

In the midst
of our distraction
ravening wolves
Have overtaken

[chorus]
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Lamentations!
Turn back before
it’s too late!

Lamentations (HoboCop & Cosmic Keanu)

A new take on the Devil! 

Lyrics and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, March 2024 

Music and Cover Art by APi_ZZ 
© APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner March 2024)
You can find him here: https://soundcloud.com/api_zz

Lyrics:

Please allow me to introduce myself 
I’m a woman of wealth and fame, 
And I’ve been around for a long enough time 
To see through the lies of this game. 
So I have to ask, have you ever thought, 
Why they say the Devil has all the best tunes? 
I have the answer; it’s all quite simple, 
though you may find my words uncool,

The Devil is the greatest Muse, 
And not the epitome of evil at all.
So listen now and let me show you
How the writing's on the wall.

It's true that his names are legion. 
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 
Pan, Gwyn ap Nudd, 
Cernunnos, Kokopelli, 
Krishna and Vishnu, 
The creator of this simulation
Coded from his fluting song.

So that's why I say the Devil
is the greatest Muse, 
And not Mephistophelean at all.
And if you're still with me, 
I'll tell you more about the writing on the wall.

The Chief Muse must have the best tunes, 
It stands to reason, wouldn’t you say? 
And taking his great name in vain... 
That’s all fine, he really doesn't mind, 
His kind mercy knows no sway ... 
Even when his music is hijacked
By the corpulent Tin Pan Alley cats
That much he expects.... with no hit to his self respect
As the Horned One is hugely magnaminous
On the weaknesses of the human condition.

There's only one that he must find a bit harsh,
It's when he hears his music misused 
Wafting up from the carved wooden pews, 
Onward Christian soldiers ... against him!
Then his patience must be stretched so thin.
The irony is off the charts,
When the cathedral choir asks, 
In perfect, harmonic accord
To be saved from their true patron,
The source of all that is good. 

For, like I told you ...
The Horned One is the greatest Muse, 
And not the last word in wickedness at all. 
The devil in the detail of my rhythm 'n blues
Has nothing to do with angels that fall

That's why my sympathies lay with the Devil
And I hope that the day never dawns, 
When all his enchanting fluting and piping
Comes to an end ...but if it does, 
Don't say you were never warned.

Sympathy For The Devil

This is the first track off the new album "There to here (Part 2)" An instrumental with Doors influence. Also available at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7bld1sXMZIFPQb8S8XaNyl?si=f23eb4eb707a45b3
2	and YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKfktZLon0

There to Here  Pt. 2

Doors Open

Doors Open (Instrumental)

This song is about finding one’s soul mate and having that immediate chemistry and connection with someone the very first time you meet them. One my argue that true love often first begins as an obsession and desire. There is electricity in the air, and you can feel an invisible magnetic field that is drawing both of you together both physically and spiritually. She becomes your single obsession and desire. You can’t get her off your mind. You can’t sleep. You can’t eat. Even drinking a bottle of whiskey hasn’t helped. You just need to be with her. Tell her that you can’t live without her and love her.  
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhJ4OL9_hgc&list=PLRAGtVocmtxSPtV_Et_DhX6vzzcMb_YSg&index=10

TIMELESS

Obsession and Desire

Obsession And Desire Master 4

X & Y

This song was inspired by the 13th century poem about the abduction to Elfland by the Fairy Queen of Thomas the Rhymer. Thomas was a real person, also known as Thomas Lermount, a Scottish laird whose supernatural powers were said to rival those of Merlin. He was called True Thomas because he was said to have received the fairy boon of the Tongue That Can Never Lie. 

Whether or not Thomas actually was abducted by the Queen of Elfland,  I’ll leave up to you and your imagination! 

I’m very grateful to APi_ZZ for providing such a beautifully evocative soundscape for our fairy ride from Dreamland to Elfland! You can find here: https://soundcloud.com/api_zz

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, April 2024

Music by APi_ZZ 
© APi_ZZ (Andreas Pirner , April 2024)

Words: 

True Thomas was lying on a grassy bank, when a marvel with his eye spied he...
There he saw a lady bright come riding by the hawthorn tree.
Her skirt was of the grass-green silk, her mantle of the velvet fine, 
And at each lock of her horse’s mane hung fifty silver bells and nine. 

True Thomas, he pulled off his cap and bowed down to his knee: 
“All hail, thou Queen of Heaven! For thy peer on Earth I never did see.”
 “O no, O no, Thomas,” she chuckled, “That name does not belong to me; 
"I am but the Queen of fair Elfland that am hither come to visit thee.
“Sing and play, Thomas,” she said, “Sing and play along with me, 
And if you dare to kiss my lips, then certain of your body I will be.” 
“Betide me weal, betide me woe," replied he, "That fate shall never frighten me.”
And then he kissed her rosy lips, all under the hawthorn tree.

“Now you must come with me,” she said, “True Thomas, you must come with me, 
And you must serve me seven years, through weal and woe, as chance may be.”
 Then she mounted on her milk-white steed,  and she took True Thomas up behind.
And every time her bridle rang, the steed flew faster than the wind.

On they rode, on, and farther on, the white horse swifter than lightening,
Until they reached a desert wide, and living land was well behind them.
 “Lie down, lie down now, True Thomas," she said.
And rest your head upon my knee; 
Abide and rest a little space, And I will show you wonders three.” 

“So do you see that narrow road, so thick beset with thorns and briars? 
That is the path of righteousness, though after it but few enquire.” 
“And see ye not that broad, wide way that lies across the lily leven? 
That is the path of wickedness, although some call it the road to heaven.” 
“And see ye not that lovely lane that winds about the fern’d hillside? 
That is the road to fair Elfland, where you and I this night must ride.
“But Thomas, you must hold your tongue, whatever you may hear or see, 
For if you speak in fair Elfland, you’ll never get back to your own country.”

So on they rode.... and on.... and farther on, 
And they waded through rivers above the knee, 
And they saw neither sun nor moon, 
But they heard the roaring of the seas.
 It was dark dark night, and there was no sun light, 
And they waded through red blood to the knee; 
For all the blood that’s shed on Earth runs through the springs of that country.

Soon they came to a garden green, and she pulled an apple from a branch on high,
“Take this for thy wages, True Thomas, it will give you the tongue that can never lie.”
"My tongue is my own,” True Thomas said, 
“A goodly boon that you gifted me! 
I’d neither buy nor sell it, at fair nor tryst where'ere I may be.
“I dare neither speak to prince nor lord, nor ask favor from fair lady. “ 
“Now hold thy peace,” the Lady said, “For as I say, so must it be!”

So now True Thomas has a coat of elven cloth, 
And a pair of shoes of elven green, 
And till seven years are gone and past 
True Thomas on Earth will never be seen.

True Thomas and the Queen of Elfland

This is the title track off the album "There to here". It continues the story of a young man travelling across the atlantic ocean from Ireland in the 1800's and trying to find a place to settle in the new world of America. 
Music and lyrics: Phil Bowen
Mixing and production: Phil Bowen
Vocals/ backing vocals: Phil Bowen
Guitars: Phil Bowen
Keyboards: Phil Bowen
Lyrics: 
Verse 1
I look across Long Island in the setting sun
Shadows seem to dance around everyone
I look back at the ocean there’s nothing but sea
And wonder if this is reality

Verse 2
I walk to the station catch the Stonington line
Lay back my head. It’s like a mountain I climbed
One more day and I’ll soon be there
Providence calls to my evening prayer

Chorus
That’s the way I got from there to here
It seems to roll into another year
A little laughter, a few more tears
That’s the way I got from there to here. 

Verse 3
So the train moves on and time moves on
I’m sitting here thinking that I belong
To this new world of hope, opportunity
No more locks on doors, no master key

Verse 4
The moon shines down across a canopy of trees
On a warm summer night well I feel so at ease
One more day and I’ll soon be there
Providence calls to my evening prayer.

There to Here

There To Here

It seems to me that many people these days make more effort to separate themselves from others than to compare themselves with others. Both are triggers for unhappiness, in my opinion, but it's something more than that.

This song has very few bass parts. Most parts use an 8-string guitar. This is the result of avoiding the competition between the bass and the area of existence. I did slaps, thumbs, tapping, and all sorts of other things. It took me a long time to finish the song because there were so many parts I had to practice and I had tendonitis....hahahaha

lyrics

Only those who are allowed to exist are allowed to exist in this town.
Those that are not will be eliminated from existence.
I am forgotten by time.
I distanced myself from you.

Who would need me?
Who will look at me?
There is no one alive in this world.
Only cold nights and attacks will come.

A whale as cold as blue steel is looking at me.
He says if he's tired of me then he can be done with it.
But I am not mine.
What about my family? What about my elderly parents?
I can't finish it on my own.

My consciousness fades away.
Many diseases are eating away at my organs.
But I won't be allowed to die for another ten years.
I have to be there for my family.

Who would need me?
Who will look at me?
There is no one alive in this world.
Only cold nights and attacks will come.

Every morning we are transported on a crammed train.
Someone steps on my foot. I also push someone away.
Someone please carry me to that distant castle.
someone please help me
Soldiers who cannot fight are carried away.
Where are they going?

Those No Longer Needed

This is a collaboration with Roberto Ricco. I wrote the song, did the vocals and acoustic 6 and 12 string rhythm guitars. Roberto Ricco supplied some changes to the chord structure, provided the the drums, bass, and keyboards. Roberto also did the production, mixing, and mastering. Richard O’Brien © 2014

Photography by Richard O'Brien

Before the Dawn, After the Rain (Collaboration with Roberto Ricco)

I am a singer-songwriter-guitarist. I have a home studio and have produced most of my songs and instrumentals there. I have had several collaborations with other artists that I've met on Souncloud and hope to continue doing so. 

I'm extremely grateful to have had over 25,000 plays and a 1,500 followers and friends among the Soundcloud community. I believe that it is important to support Soundcloud artists and I appreciate their support.

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Before the Dawn, After the Rain (Collaboration with Roberto Ricco)

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