This is a teaser montage for "The Green Album", due for release in November - you can find updates on facebook, twitter, google+, reverbnation, and youtube. Full tracks will be available in November and in the meantime you can enjoy some of the already uploaded rehearsal tracks here on soundcloud.

Green Album Teaser

The single from Rachel's debut "The Green Album" - email rjtvox@gmail.com for information on how to purchase this song.

01 Long Ride, Slow Train

Creative challenge: write a song as quickly as possible inspired by the Robert Henri quote "To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things."

Dans ces rue
Je viens la vie
Je ne connais personne

Mais vous savez
Tu me connais
Tu seras mon printemps 

Pour vous, je suis parti tout pour vous
Pour vous, et vous seul

Pour vous, je donnerais tout le monde
Et je pourrais être contentai

L’agitation
Et les conflits
Sont maintenant rien pour moi

Qu’est ce que la vie
La vie sans amour	
Voilá pas de vie du tout 

Comme, mon cher, je donne librement
Ce se ra toujours la vôtre
(ces mots sont les mots d’amour)

Dans ces rue
Je viens la vie
Comme je vous avoir

Comme je vous avoir

Track 12 from The Green Album

EVERY STORY

Every story has an ending
Sometimes you see it from the start
A funny turn of phrase
Two lovers thrown together
Then a wicked twist of fate tears them apart

Never been much of one for romance
I thought adventure more my style
But I know about love
It’s different forms and phases
And I see it when I look into your eyes

Now I don’t know what I was hoping for
I don’t know what I had planned
But I woke one day
Heard your funny turn of phrase
And I was yours
Now and evermore


Every moment has it’s promise
Sometimes we leave them unfulfilled
The words we should have said
The time we should have taken
And the fallacy that next time around we will

If I knew I couldn’t fail you
If I believed that this was right
Wanna tell you to be brave
And do it anyway
But I’m just too scared I can’t keep up the fight

I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for
I don’t know what keeps me tied
But I woke one day
And in that wicked twist of fate
You couldn’t be mine
Now and for all time


I wish that you’d just hold me
Feel our hearts begin to beat in time
But I fear that it’s too late
And though you’ll never be mine
I’ll be yours
Now and evermore

‘Cause every story has an ending

12 Every Story

Track #5 from "The Green Album" by Rachel J Taylor

Billy asks if he can crash for a while
I say “Sure thing, Billy” like I’ve done every other time
He says it’s different now, he’s got a plan to escape
A limited window before it’s all over
I say “Billy, whatcha talkin’ ‘bout? It’s never really over...”
And we kick back and drink to old times

When we’d be together when the walls fall down
And we might see how the other half live for a while
They don’t know what they’re missing
We’re gonna show them
‘Cause it’s you and me against the world


Billy says it might be tough for a while
I say “Sure, Billy, it’s been tough every other time!”
He says it’s different now that theres a kid on the way
A brighter future is looming ahead
I say “Billy, whatcha talkin’ ‘bout? You never even see her!”
Then we kick back and drink to old times

When we’d be together when the walls fall down
And we might see how the other half live for a while
They don’t know what they’re missing
We’re gonna show them
‘Cause it’s you and me against the world


Billy says on Fridays we can do as we please
So we head on out to the Chapel Room and grab a bite to eat
He says he won’t let her down again ‘cause the kid deserves better
He’s gonna step up, be a man, and tell her

Baby we’ll be together when our backs are against the wall
And we’ll see why the other half think they’ve got it all
If they can’t let us sit in we’ll have to let ourselves out
‘Cause it’s you and me against the world

Baby we’ll be together when the walls fall down
And we might see how the other half live for a while
They don’t know what they’re missing
We’re gonna show them
‘Cause it’s you and me against the world
But it always ends up Billy and me against the world...


05 Reason Why #2 (You And Me Against The World)

Once upon a time she was the centre of their world
The place they all began
A warming start to winter’s morn and stumbled through at night
Finding water in the dark

Why the Chapel Room lies empty now I’ll never understand
While she echoes in my memory and warms my frozen hands

Oh, I will remember you
Lift my voice in song to days long gone and never let you fade
They will see you as you were
And lift their glasses to the memory of your days


Every now and then I have to smile as I recall
Awaking on that day
The bells were ringing out, it was Saint Patrick’s Day matins
And I could hardly stand

But the Chapel Room lies empty now and my heart sinks again
They’ve forgotten all about us and that midnight found champaign

Oh, I will remember you
Lift my voice in song to days long gone and never let you fade
They will see you as you were
And lift their glasses to the memory of your days


Don’t step outside, no, not for a minute
‘Cause I know you might never return
Don’t break the spell, no, not while I’m in it
And I promise you, I promise you

Oh, I will remember you
Lift my voice in song to days long gone and never let you fade
They will see you as you were
And lift their glasses to the memory of your days

I will remember you
I will remember you

02 Reason Why #3 (Memory Of Your Days)

Some other time and place
It might’ve been worth the while
But this nothing we can get into
Another kind of face
Is waiting ‘round for him tonight
But the waiting game is always one you lose

What've I got to lose?
Nothin but a whole lotta nothin
What've I got to gain?
Nothin but you

“Well come on, come out” he says
We’ve got a lot to talk about
And that old smile just get me every time
“Go ahead, sit down” he says
“You can just let it all out”
And he looks at me with eyes the colour of sky

Whadya got to lose?
Nothin but a whole lotta nothin
Whatdya got to gain?
Nothin but you

Tell me your stories 
Don’t tell me your lies
Cause I think I might like your point of view
Don’t play games
No secrets, no disguise
And maybe I might let you see me too

Whadya got to lose?
Nothin but a whole lotta nothin
Whatdya got to gain?
Nothin but you

03 Whole Lotta Nothin'

I wrote this song for my friend Heidi's wedding, it's had a bit of tweaking since then (and will eventually get properly recorded!)

02 Heidi's Song

Not happy with the drums (but fake drummers are kinda like that :/) and the string parts need work... Not my favourite, but maybe I could get it to work?

Come October

This one is further from finished but I'm feeling good vibes already!

Until

Singer, songwriter, storyteller, traveller

rjtvox

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