Enjoyed the lyrics and fine guitar playing.

wow this is beyond beautiful Richard. Excellent acoustics that blend so well together

Beautiful guitar part and a super arrangement. A great listen!

Love your guitar sounds and vocals as always! Very beautiful!

This one is another beauty Richard. Flawless fingerpicking as always. I particular love the arrangement with the addition of a tasty flute part. Vocals and melody excellent and the vocal harmonies are perfectly placed. Very nice work Richard!

Few people writes songs like you!! Songwriting masterclass! Thank you.

Grateful if you could visit my video:
https://youtu.be/E8hQlSgudDc?si=xsLGAJbQO_ibci6Q

My latest is a tune based around a couple of acoustic guitar parts. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening :)

Lyrics:
Another year, another bad debt
Snow is on the ground
Follow a trail of broken promise
Lost and never found
Its hard to know
When things go wrong 
And  word is on the street
The last to know 
And the only one 
To leave 

Even though we’ve been full circle
The ice is something new 
And tonight it’s unfamiliar
A place I thought I knew
I feel the dark 
And taste the cold
There’s nothing  here to see
The last to know 
The only one 
To leave 

Waking up too early
A bright light in my eyes
The clues were all around us
Thrown away with all the lies


In the morning I come looking
Somewhere in the snow
I know the footprints will be buried 
No where else to go
The wind gets up
The ghost has gone 
No hope of a reprieve
The last to know 
And The only one 
To leave

The Last To Know

A collab with https://soundcloud.com/bigpapashonan on violin and keys/sounddesign and https://soundcloud.com/holgerengel on bass guitar, Big Thank You to my wonderful collaborators. Please take a listen to the remix of KBS:  https://soundcloud.com/bigpapashonan/brochen?si=a3d0ddc3cdb9475f9601e6fdea3e64bc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
 
At 1142 metres above sea level, the ‘Brocken’ (also known as the ‘Blocksberg’) is the highest mountain in the ‘Harz’, a mid-range mountain group in Central Germany. Put simply, it is a large block of granite, a plutonic rock. It is shrouded in legends and mystery. My father grew up in this area as a child and of course knew the old stories and myths, including some about the so-called "Brocken Ghost"...

The cropped, filtered and edited photography shows the „Brocken Spectre“ (original by Walter Richter)
					
„When the observer's shadow falls on a layer of fog or clouds, the shadow is not represented by a solid surface, but by each drop of water in the haze individually. As a result, the brain cannot see the shadow stereoscopically and significantly overestimates the size. Air movements cause the shadow to move, even when the observer is standing still. This seemingly separate entity can also float and hover without having any visible contact with the ground. The other physical conditions on the mountain, cool and damp air, silence, as well as the lack of orientation due to a lack of foresight and neighbouring mountains, reinforce the subjective impression of the apparent existence of a ghost."

					Johan Esaias Silberschlag, 1780


Brocken Ghost

1
The shadow falls (4)
On layers of fog 
The shadow falls
Unto each single drop
The shadow falls
On layers of fog
The shadow falls (2)
  
A different story
On each single drop  
A different story
From the bottom to the top
A different story…

2
The shadow floats
On layers of fog
The shadow  is hovering
Over the ground
The shadow is growing
Waving without sound
The shadow floats
With a glory

A different story
On each single drop  
A different story
From the bottom to the top
A different story
On each single drop
On each single drop

Brocken Ghost (wt KBS and Holger Engel, raw edit)

with some local friends :)
andrew salvner (lil' spaceman) bass guitar
casey denno guitar
adam weiler drums
adam lupo guitar
artwork by daughter riley/iboyte

the sea of the lords

Dedicated most especially to L.K.A. ( Debbie`s new little grandson ), and to all children:)
Piano composition, piano: Debra Buesking @debra_buesking
Melody composition, poem and voice: Oddrun Eikli
cover design: Debra Buesking

Thank you from my heart dear Debbie my friend, for this collaboration of hope. 
Thank you Arne Hiorth for your studiowork.

What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child?
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a legally-binding international agreement setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of every child, regardless of their race, religion or abilities.
The hope, vision and commitment of world leaders in 1989 led to the Convention. It is up to today’s generation to demand that world leaders from government, business and communities end child rights violations now, once and for all. They must commit to action to make sure every child, has every right.


Gently.

Wrapped in red, orange and blue
The little baby in mothers arms
Tiny white jasmin growing in her garden
Mother Nature dressed in spring
From magic skies of mint
Every color spins new
In future clear as aquablue

Let Nature Embrace you
Gently
So gently

Life`s colors flow from gold to umber
In crocuses, Petunias
In Asters and in Pansies
A thousand shades of reds
In yellows and in brown
From Magic skies of mint
Every color spins new
In future clear as aquablue

May Nature Embrace you
Gently
So gently

Gently. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli

Where Is My Key

🩸✝🤍⁂©All Rights Reserved 04-2025
©Lyricist, Mixer, Mastering, Songwriter, Pro License & Creator: Lady ElectroTrek
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TITLE: CROWN OF THORNS
__________________________________________________
LYRICS:
(Verse 1)
The sky grew dark the earth did quake
A wooden cross His soul did take
Each step He bore with aching strain
A world of sin in every pain

(Chorus)
Oh crown of thorns upon His brow
The weight of love He carried now
With every lash with every cry
He bore the suffering so we'd not die

(Verse 2)
The crowd stood still the jeers did ring
A king of love with nails did cling
His hands outstretched His heart laid bare
A sacrifice beyond compare

(Bridge)
The heavens wept the temple tore
Mercy spilled forevermore
A silent lamb He bore the blame
The world forever changed His name

(Chorus)
Oh crown of thorns upon His brow
The weight of love He carried now
With every lash with every cry
He bore the suffering so we'd not die

(Verse 3)
The stone rolled back the tomb did wake
A risen life for all our sake
From death to life His glory shines
Eternal hope through endless times

King Of Eternal Love

Crown Of Thorns

Crown of Thorns

Vocals and lyrics by Special Cecilia
https://soundcloud.com/specialceciliacappellas

Music, production and art by Cosmic Keanu (not AI)

“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

Sweet Escape or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI (Feat. Special Cecilia)

Angry  feat. Britta

Pieces - Interlude - Fire Ark Radio Production

Pieces - Interlude

Whistles In The Wind

How many women
Have learned to whistle in the wind
Or learned to listen like the wind

How many women
Are able to fly with their wings
Before they're called human beings

How many angels
Are able to walk on their feet
Before we meet them in the street

How many angels
They have to become a white dove
Before they can give us their love

And how many men
Can for a while be an angel
Able in the wind to whistle

Oh do not, do not ask this kind
Of questions, before you're kind
Oh don't, oh don't question that way
Or answers will fly away

La la la la la
Have learned to whistle in the wind
La la la la la with their wings

La la la la la
They had to become a white dove
La la la la give us their love


How many women
How many angels
And how many men

How many women
How many angels
And how many men

Whistles In The Wind

Strings that Recombine

Email: gilesr1@outlook.com

First album, CLOUDLINES now on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2gZj30ywvxB6fHKiRWR2Kw

Richard John is a guitarist/ songwriter from the south west of England. 
His guitar based tunes shift in style from solo acoustic guitar, ambient, dream pop, folk and lounge music to warm latin sounds.
Always searching for that elusive ‘perfect melody’.

The Last To Know

Richard John

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