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'Strong' is a song I wrote after a policeman instructed me to leave a city’s shopping street while I was working as a street artist. I was so… can I say ‘pissed’? So I had to write a song about it. This was 1992. I played the streets a couple of years when I was a student.

The lyrics of the song (below) point to a broader and still current subject. Staying strong in dynamic times is important for every one of us I think. Today more than ever probably. Follow your personal believes in peace all :)

Mike


Lyrics, music, vocals, guitar and copyright Mike Spring
Guitar is a Crafter or a EKO steel string acoustic, I'm not sure
Recording: live, analogue (Tascam 4-track)

This is a recording of a song 'just written'. In this respect I should have uploaded it on my other page https://soundcloud.com/sketches-from-holland/tracks but I didn't :)

Mix: In Cubase I edited a small guitar part around 1:03 minutes because I played one chord a little too long which interrupted the meter of the song.
Master: The stereo WAV track I used had been mastered before so it was not clean when I mastered it again. 
Equipment: Steinberg UR824, Ozone 7 adv. (EQ, Imager and Vintage tape) plus Lexicon LXP Native Hall Reverb VST
Picture by Anthea Molenaar, 2011

Lyrics:

Hey what’s your name
I’m not a game to play
Hey we’re the same
You should feel ashamed to say
I don’t belong to this day

[chorus:]
If you think you’re strong
I’ve got something for you
Cause I feel strong
I think my way
Nothing’s gonna change that
I think my way
It makes me what I am
I feel strong
I feel strong

Day by day
Strongen my way   [note: I know this is not proper English 😉]
Leaded by the inner words I pray
Hey I’m not afraid
To feel the shade
Because I know who I am

[chorus]

Strong

Strong (live recording / 1992)

first song I've written in a while and spent the last 2 days playing around with it on audacity, nice to be back doing what I really enjoy 💜 video here https://youtu.be/py3OPp084FY


the broken ones

This is a song I wrote in 2016, about overcoming negative self doubts when I was starting to write songs again after a break of about 20 years.  It’s a song of positivity and self encouragement to get on and do the things you want to before it’s too late, regardless of what stage of life you’re at.  Recording, percussion and additional fabulous chucka chucka guitars by Carl Hetherington of Van der Neer.

Doing time

this is a recording from a couple of years ago, just me and guitar. 

So I'd watched the amazing Peter Jackson, WW1 documentary film, They Shall Not Grow Old. It really brought the subject to life, and was a vivid and sensitive documentation of the great war. 

The following night I watched a BBC documentary which was an insight into the origins of shell shock, in terms of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, what we would now call PTSD. Some really harrowing stories were told from WW1. 

One story in particular haunted me. A tale of a young teenager suffering from shell shock and sent home to recover before going back to the trenches. He was so traumatized by the effects of war, that he pleaded with his mother to hide him under the stairs when the army came looking for him. The mother did exactly that, but the boy was dragged back off to war, where the  boy could well suffer the ignominy of being killed by his own comrades if he refused to fight.

It's hugely hard to comprehend this sort of story, and it's not my place to condemn or condone behaviour in warfare as I have no experience whatsoever of it.  

But I can certainly feel empathy for the boy, and although these harrowing tales are hard to rationalize, this song was my meagre attempt to show empathy and genuine compassion towards a story that touched me greatly.

And so the song is told as, The Boy Beneath The Stairs. 

Lyrics

Mamma I heard the call, are we going to war
mamma please don't you let them take your boy

if they come, would you hide me beneath those staris

they dragged me kick and scream from beneath the stairs
called me coward, n gave me a gun 
and said please go ahead

now I shake from head to toe
I got nowhere to stand

mamma please do you remember when
we stayed up half the night 
and laughed our heads
mamma I'm seeing things
my brain don't comprehend

mamma I'm telling you now
I see your face
and this is gonna be the very last pain I feel
really wish I could of stayed beneath those stairs
really wish I could of stayed beneath those stairs

when I refused to jump, they shot me dead
no last post no holy ghost 
they just leave you there

thanks for listening and reading along, really appreciate it✌️








Boy Beneath The Stairs

I wrote this and as always rougly recorded it. Many thanks to Lin https://soundcloud.com/linnon -  for making it sound good by adding great singing, 15th century Spanish bells, Indian flute and other things in Saint Petersberg. 

The picture of Saint George slaying the dragon is a British  propaganda poster from WWI. 

King Arthur had a Great War
Propaganda won
Lady of Shallot they forgot you not
At last your curse will be undone

Deceiving and leading
Romance fear and fairy tales
History is screaming
And I cannot wait to see the next fantasy

Little demon you're such fun
Find your nymphs and play
Robin Hood pure good 
The son of man didn't have to pay

Deceiving and leading
Romance fear and fairy tales
The Club of Rome is bleeding
And I cannot wait to see the next fantasy

Wake up wake up wake up
To an inversion of life
Lucifer bringer of light
Inspiring art you must be alright
It's amazing just how subtle can be my pride
And I cannot wait to see the next fantasy

Superman, Age of Aquarian
Bring us together as one
Mother earth, Crowley's word 
Alien evolution

Deceiving and leading
Romance fear and fairy tales 
Reality is screaming
And I still cannot wait to see the next fantasy.

Fantasy - With Lin

Musik & Text: Gabriel
A song about the inmate of an insane asylum and what he does and thinks.
Ein Song über den Insassen einer Irrenanstalt und darüber, was er tut und denkt.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
OF THE LYRICS CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.gabriel.land/gabriel-ich-kann-dir-sagen.htm

Ich kann dir sagen

Soul Train

Evanescence

Close Fall

I did it just out of curiosity,just to see if people would like my type of music,I was afraid,nervous and scared of putting it out there,the reception I got was amazing,so I owe the Soundcloud comunity all my music after Dragon because it was all inspired by the nice motivational feedback I got.

Dragon

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AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie(Cover) Featuring Kevin Thomas On Vocals

(192 kbps compressed MP3)

Midi Instrument: Palumeu Flyover pad, Ableton Live.
There are other very interesting sounds also.

© 2019

Life to treasure

track 1 from the album "B Sides, Alternates and Other Songs" ......... a collection of 10 songs written or recorded during the making of my "For the Stars" album in 2019 but didn't make the album.......releasing one song monthly thru October 2020!

"People Would Say" was just a couple words, an idea, when I finished up last years album so consider it an "other song" for purposes of this release! A conversation with a friend about finding music so late in my life led to this song. I should have finished it sooner, it's a personal favorite!

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