This is one of the catchiest songs I've ever heard. Love that melody

Clean and cool production, Ryan! (glad you found me so I now find you :)

[Heard here http://www.mixcloud.com/nick-thomas2/sounds-from-the-cloudno-to-the-g-word-special1-aug-2013redruth-radio/  AND here on Feb 13, 2014: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/54428 ]

As a novice of songwriting, I'm finding every composition involves some unique inception story, and this one's no exception. [Probably true, too, for veteran and masterful songwriters, but I only know it of my greenhorn experience.] I'd been thinking for a while I wanted to cover Neil Young's "After the Goldrush," a beautifully simple song I dearly love to harmonize with whenever I hear it. But I wanted some unique angle to covering it and determined it might work very nicely to a reggae rhythm.

A text file where I kept Young's lyrics was where I'd also stowed a four-line start to a poem idea of mine. While I was scanning through "Goldrush" and fitting it to my reggae beat, I noticed my own stanza fit with the rhythm just as smoothly. So I got to work writing four additional verses with a couple of repeated chorus lines and a minor-key melody and, voila!, a wholly original, multi-track piece emerged that employs most all of my instrument arsenal plus some percussion loops.

It's always said you need to "write what you know." Well, the story I share below takes a page directly from personal experience several years ago.

              LOVE REIGNED

I had settled in the City of Angels,
But a lucifer whisked me away
To a Second City, so windy, no pity.
Soon he left me one fall day.
        That was a time past passed through.
        Such a dark and a hard time on my way to you.

All alone and on edge in Evanston,
Edge of winter and of the Lake;
As the nights grew longer, my hurt grew stronger.
My heartbeat kept me awake.
        That was a time past passed through.
        Such a dark and a hard time on my way to you.

Came a day in May at the waterside:
The tears spilling down my face
Turned from pain to joy on that rocky shore
Within a flow of a glorious grace.
        That was a time past passed through.
        Such a right and a light time, I'm on my way to you.
   
I felt love washing all around me
Deep connection to every thing.
To each grain of sand, to the family of man
And every atom in between.
        That was a time past passed through.
        Such a right and a light time, I'm coming to you.

I floated home to my carriage house
With a great grin for all I greet
That's returned in kind, and now forgiven behind
Me is that devil in his defeat.
        That was a time past passed through.
        Such a right and a light time on my way to you.
[On my way to you/ On my way to you / On my way to you
I'm on my way to you / I'm coming to you / Coming to you]

Love Reigned

Deceived Friend

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kjk1C38EmM

I was down in Vegas
Under a Thousand degrees Fahrenheit
I´m melting with my dreams
I wish I were in a deep blue sea
I haven´t seen the rain
Falling into my brain (s)
I need to take that train which is going to nowhere

Ohh, I´m going to nowhere
Ohh, I need this ticket so bad
Ohh, I´m going to nowhere
Ohh, I need this ticket so bad

So bad…

I thought: my time has come!
My life of joy and happiness!
How could I be so foolish?
The whole world just don´t care.
Doesn´t care about you
Doesn´t care about me
Doesn´t care about anything which is going to nowhere

Ohh, I´m going to nowhere
Ohh, I need this ticket so bad
Ohh, I´m going to nowhere
Ohh, I need this ticket so bad

So bad…

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Vegas

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Jenny

Jenny is a good girl
She never liked to rock the boat at all
She always played it safe
But safe won’t always help you break a fall
So she packed her bags one night
And she stepped into the light
And she smiled
For this life it sure ain’t easy
But living’s all we got, so let’s try

To be free, all the time
To be free, yeah tonight

Jenny is a thinker
She always liked to think she had it straight
But nothing’s ever simple
Sometimes it's never clear, ‘til it’s too late
As she drove away that night
Yes she knows she’ll be alright
She just smiled
For loving sure ain’t easy
But loving’s half the battle, so let’s try

To be free, all the time
To be free, yeah tonight

For each time we think we know
All the people in this show
They’re just clowns
And for each love that tastes so sweet
And every bitter, cruel deceit 
We hold our ground 

Jenny is a good girl
But good won’t always help you win the war
Yet victory is empty
When no one’s left around to keep the score
As she melts into the night
Yes she knows she’ll be alright
And she smiles
For this life can sure be funny
But if the joke's on us, let’s just smile


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Jenny

My new single! I hope you like it.
Written and recorded by The Countdown. 

Pink Reality

Laura Ask Production 2015
All rights reserved.
This track is not the final version. 

The Escape Way

Artist: Ryan Thomas
Track: Shoot To Kill (4 of 5)
Album Night On Fire
Produced and Engineered by Alejandro Barajas
Mixed and Mastered by Mike Ault


Verse1
She’s a rattlesnake
If she warns you once
Then it’s probably late
In the open night
She’s a risk I’ll take
With a deadly bite
Sirens in the back ground
Screaming through the fog
It’s telling me to back down
I can hear the noise drown
I’m the only one that
She can never hunt down

Chorus
White smoke She’s so
Gorgeous so she shoot’s to kill
Bang Bang Blue flame
Glowing as she shoot’s to kill

Verse 2
In the firelight
I can see her trap
But she looks so fine
Looking in her eyes
As her venom sings
Me a lullaby
Even if her hearts warm
In this desert heat
She’s wild as a sandstorm
Swaying in the cross breeze
Lifted off my feet
And carried as I’m swept up

Bridge
Bullets fly on this sunny day
She kisses me then shoots
She’s leaving me wounded
If I don’t die you’ll see me again
Cause your the best
Thief that I ever loved

Shoot To Kill

Mixed and Mastered by: Mike Ault

ARROWS:

V1: 
I TOLD THEM THAT'S ENOUGH
LATE NIGHT TOAST SIPPIN' ON THEIR CHAMPAGNE
I TOLD THEM I GIVE UP
CIGARETTE SMOKE BUILDS YELLOW WALL STAINS

PRE1:
BETTER CHECK WHAT SIDE YOU'RE ON
YOU'LL HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE GHOSTS YOU HAUNT
ARE YOU SURE THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT
OK, THEN FIRE AWAY

HOOK1:
KEEP THE OLD
BURN AWAY THE NEW
SMOKING ARROWS
ARE INTERESTED IN YOU

CURSIVE LIES   
THROW AWAY THE RULES
BURNING ARROWS
ARE COMING AFTER YOU

V2:
THEY TOLD ME THATS ENOUGH
BEGGING ME WON'T KEEP YOUR PRETTY THINGS SAFE
THEY TOLD ME THEY GIVE UP
I HATE TO SAY BUT YOUR SORRY IS A DAY LATE

PRE2:
I SAID TO CHECK WHAT SIDE YOU'RE ON
YOU'D HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE GHOSTS YOU HAUNT
YOU HAD SAID THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT
AND YOU, FIRED AWAY

HOOK2:
KEEP THE OLD
BURN AWAY THE NEW
SMOKING ARROWS
ARE INTERESTED IN YOU

CURSIVE LIES   
THROW AWAY THE RULES
BURNING ARROWS
ARE COMING AFTER YOU

BRIDGE:
TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE
YOU MADE IT LOOK LIKE YOU HAD FUN
BUT YOU RAN
NOW YOU'RE A TARGET ON THE RUN
I WISH I GAVE A FUCK

HOOK2:
KEEP THE OLD
BURN AWAY THE NEW
SMOKING ARROWS
ARE INTERESTED IN YOU

CURSIVE LIES   
THROW AWAY THE RULES
BURNING ARROWS
ARE COMING AFTER YOU

Arrows

Song Mixed and Mastered: Mike Ault

HOOK INTRO:
SEE
WE GON' BE
YOU GON' SEE
WHAT I MEAN 

TAKE A SEAT
RULE WITH ME
YOU GON' BE
MY HEART, MY QUEEN

V1:
SHE WORE AN OLD GOWN
TRACED AROUND WHAT I DREW
SO KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN
AND DON'T YOU MAKE A SOUND

OFF WITH HIS HEAD NOW
SHE'LL SLAY THE LION IN YOU
A POISONOUS CLOUD 
THAT I CAN BREATHE IN AND OUT

PRE1:
WAIT
FOR THE FOOL
AND THE RULE
AND THE CRUEL
THAT HAD TAKEN AWAY EVERY JEWEL
FROM HER HEART
THEY WILL SEE VERY SOON

HOOK 1:
YOU GON' SEE
WE GON' BE
YOU GON' SEE
WHAT I MEAN 

TAKE A SEAT
RULE WITH ME
YOU GON' BE
MY HEART, MY QUEEN

V2:
UNDER A DISCED WING
A CROWN IS BROKEN IN TWO
THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO PROVE
YOU DON'T BELIEVE, YOU LOSE

THE VULTURE SINGS
THE SNAKE WILL COME AFTER YOU
AND IF YOU NEED PROOF
MY QUEEN IS WHO I CHOOSE

PRE2:
CHANGE
EVERY FOOL
EVERY RULE
EVERY CRUEL
THAT HAD TAKEN AWAY EVERY JEWEL
FROM MY HEART
THEY WILL SEE VERY SOON

HOOK 2:
YOU GON' SEE
WE GON' BE
YOU GON' SEE
WHAT I MEAN 

TAKE A SEAT
RULE WITH ME
YOU GON' BE
MY HEART, MY QUEEN


BRIDGE:
SEE
YA, WE'RE GONNA BE
YOU'RE GONNA SEE
JUST WHAT I MEAN
SO TAKE A SEAT
AND RULE WITH ME
YOU'RE GONNA BE
MY HEART, MY QUEEN

HOOK 3:
YOU GON' SEE
WE GON' BE
YOU GON' SEE
WHAT I MEAN 

TAKE A SEAT
RULE WITH ME
YOU GON' BE
MY HEART, MY QUEEN

The Good, The Bad and The Lovely

My Heart, My Queen

Twisted, evocative Trip Hop with female vocals about life mirroring fantasy.

POPM 16 Taboo "Life is Just A Fairytale".

I'm a Singer/Songwriter/ Composer from the Rock & Roll capital of the world. In 2011 I released my first EP, "Porcelain Heart". In 2016 I released my second EP, "Night On Fire". Currently I am a freelance Composer, producer, and mixer. I have songs in TV and Film including the show Cougar Town.

Shoot To Kill

Ryan Thomas

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