Recorded at Sonic Landscapes studio with a Takamine acoustic guitar (Edward).

"Soul Fly"

When the weight of the world
Seems too much to bear
Things are spinning so fast
Can't breathe in the air
Just take my hand
Come along with me
Close your eyes
And you will see......

You can spread your wings
And let your soul fly free
You can spread your wings
And let your soul fly free
Just close your eyes 
And you will see
You can spread your wings 
And let your soul fly free

When the setting sun
Loses it's shine
And you begin to feel
We're out of time
Just take my hand
Come along with me
Close your eyes
And you will see.......

You can spread your wings
And let your soul fly free
You can spread your wings
And let your soul fly free
Just close your eyes 
And you will see
You can spread your wings 
And let your soul fly free

You can spread your wings
And let your soul fly free
You can spread your wings
And let your soul fly free
Just close your eyes 
And you will see
You can spread your wings 
And let your soul fly free

Just take my hand
And come along with me......


Soul Fly

Guitars, Music and Mix by: Clouders For: (soundcloud.com/clouders_for:)
Lyrics and Vocals by: Saving Change (soundcloud.com/saving-change)
Official music video: http://youtu.be/BidQWRWS7Mc

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Hans, for expertly crafting the most beautiful soundscape to accompany my words! Thank you my friend!
~SC~

"What Love"

It's time we took a stand
Against what's wrong in this land
Stand up for who we are
Come together from near and far
When did democracy
Become such hypocrisy
And why do we go to war
When we don't know what it's for

How do we show what love is
If we don't know what love is
How do we know what love is
If we can't show love
How do we know what love is
If we don't show what love is
How do we show what love is
If we don't know love

How do we stop all the blame
Headlines are all the same
Out of focus, Out of frame
Can't you see it's time for change
Why can't we try to be
What we want our kids to see
Work together as a human race
Make this world a better place

How do we show what love is
If we don't know what love is
How do we know what love is
If we can't show love
How do we know what love is
If we don't show what love is
How do we show what love is
If we don't know love

How do we show what love is
If we don't know what love is
How do we know what love is
If we don't show love



What Love ~ Feat. Clouders For:

Recorded with a Fender acoustic guitar (Lucy) and a laptop in my little home studio through a Fishman acoustic amp.........

This song is dedicated to everyone who has fallen in love.....had their heart broken........and fallen in love again..........

"Pull Me In"

What do you see 
When you look at me
Do you see the future
Or only history
Can you see where we're going
Or only where you've been
I want to hear your answer
But before then
I need to mend

Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
And I can't deal with this heartbreak baby
Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out

I see your stare 
From across the room
People everywhere
My eyes are on you
Do you want to dance
Not sure I can move
I want to get to know you
But before I do

Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
And I can't deal with this heartbreak baby
Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out

Is this a waste of time
Is it all for nothing
Cause aren't we all
Just searching for something
Tell me what your thinking
I can't read your mind
You might be the one
But this will take some time

Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
And I can't deal with this heartbreak baby
Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
And I can't deal
No.....No......

Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
And I can't deal with this heartbreak baby
Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out
I know what your about
I know what your about
Don't pull me in
Just to throw me out



Pull Me In

Guitars, music and mix by: Clouders For: (soundcloud.com/clouders_for:)
Lyrics and vocals by: Saving Change (soundcloud.com/saving-change)

A couple of months ago I listened to a stunning piece of music created by my dear friend Hans while surfing his cloud! This piece really spoke to me and I could almost hear the words swirling around in my head...........Why are we here, as the world seems to spin around us?...........I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Hans for the creation of this beautiful piece and for allowing me the opportunity to put words and voice to it!!! I suppose that is the magic of this platform where musicians on opposite sides of the globe can come together to create new music!!! All the best!!!
~SC~

“Is Here Where We Have To Be”

Is here where we have to be
Is here where we have to be

Here we are again
We’re standing in
Same old street
We’ve already been
All familiar
But not the same
Everything’s changed
Now everything’s changed
But are we still the same
Or have we changed

Is here where we have to be
Is here where we have to be
Take me away
Take me away

Look in the mirror
What do you see
I see a stranger
Staring back at me
And I don’t recognize 
My own face
And I can’t recognize 
This place
Not anymore
Not anymore

Is here where we have to be
Is here where we have to be
Take me away
Take me away

Is here where we have to be
Is here where we have to be
Take me away
Take me away

Take me away
Take me away


Is Here Where We Have To Be ~ Feat. Clouders For:

Recorded with a Takamine acoustic guitar (Edward) and a laptop in my little basement studio...............

A few months ago I came across an acoustic musician named Jon Gomm playing his song 'Passion Flower'. What this gentleman could do with a guitar was simply amazing!
Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw
His use of the instrument in unconventional ways to produce music inspired me to really start from scratch, practicing every way I could think of to produce sound from the guitar.
The most challenging part has been adding in percussive beats while playing and learning to play up and down the neck overhand while all the fingerings are backward.............This is my first stab at pulling together everything I have been playing with for the past month into a song. Hope you like it ;-)

"In The End"

Why do we wait to say
What we want to say
Would it really matter anyway
Why do we wait to see 
Who we want to see
Are we really that busy anyway

In the end
What we were fighting for
Won't matter anymore
In the end
What will become of us
Just a pile of dust
In the end
Back where we all begin
All alone again
In the end

Why do we wait to be 
What we want to be
Would it really matter anyway
Why do we wait to go
Where we want to go
Are we really that busy anyway

In the end
What we were fighting for
Won't matter anymore
In the end
What will become of us
Just a pile of dust
In the end
Back where we all begin
All alone again
In the end


In The End

Recorded with a Takamine Acoustic guitar (Edward) and a laptop in my little home studio...........

I wrote this song for a dear friend that has been going through a hard time and has been on my mind a great deal lately...........No words on this one.......just my feelings expressed through the guitar...........Smile :-)

You can watch the music video for this song here: https://youtu.be/ITnEzTUvsFE
~SC~

Smile

Recorded with a Takamine Acoustic Guitar and a laptop in my small home studio.........

I have found myself reflecting on life lately, and this instrumental piece is my interpretation...........Life seems to move so quickly that sometimes we don't stop running long enough to breath and enjoy it along the way..........
Best Wishes!
~SC~
Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/1cXODfZ-hQo

Interpretation:
0:00 ~ First Breath
0:07 ~ Learning
0:40 ~ Youth
1:08 ~ Growing
1:39 ~ Wonder
2:02 ~ Laughing
2:41 ~ Reflection
3:09 ~ Dancing
3:27 ~ Longing
3:50 ~ Peace
4:18 ~ Last Breath

Bloom

Recorded with a Fender acoustic guitar and a laptop in a hotel room in Philadelphia...............

I travel a lot and there is no better feeling than making your way back home to those you love. This song was written as I played the love of my life to sleep after returning from a trip..............
All the best!
~SC~
Watch the music video here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTRBDmiNCEI

"All For You"
Oh, when you fall asleep
Laying right here, right next to me
Oh, as you gently breathe
I often wonder what you dream

Did you think that life could be
Oh, so good with you.....with me
And all my dreams are coming true
When I wake up next to you

You don't know what I've been needing
And you can't see what I've been dreaming
Just know, it's all for you
You don't know what I've been thinking
And you can't see my heart beating
Just know it's all for you

Oh, when we're worlds apart
I'll still keep you in my heart
And there's nothing I wouldn't do
To make my way back home to you

You don't know what I've been needing
And you can't see what I've been dreaming
Just know, it's all for you
You don't know what I've been thinking
And you can't see my heart beating
Just know it's all for you

You don't know what I've been needing
You can't see what I've been dreaming
You don't know what I've been thinking
You can't see my heart beating

You don't know what I've been needing
And you can't see my heart beating
Just know, it's all for you
You can't tell what I've been thinking
And you can't see what I've been dreaming
Just know it's all for you
All for you
All for you..........

All For You

Acoustic guitar, music and concept by: Saving Change
(https://soundcloud.com/saving-change)
Lyrics and vocals by: FaDE
(https://soundcloud.com/fa-d-1)

I originally wrote "Bloom" as an instrumental about the different seasons of life. I cannot begin to express how much it means to me that Fa found beauty in the music and has added so much more through her wonderful words and voice!!! Thank you so much!!!

“Bloom”
One step at a time
First to learn to fall
One step at a time
Before you learn to walk

Look at me, on my new bicycle
Look at me, I am the king of the world
Kissed Knees from pebbles on the ground
I’m getting older if I don’t cry, and I smile
I’m growing up like a bloom into the light

Then to learn to dance in the sunlight
A few stolen kisses in the shade
I’m growing up with the love that I’ve met
I’m growing up in the laughter, in the pain
No matter if the tears are flooding the sand
Which feeds me

One step in time 
One step in time
One step in time
One step in time
I want to dance in the sunlight

Look at me now I’m old and faded
Look at me….in my eyes, the past so far away
I underwent so many thunderstorms
Now I’m older, no I don’t cry……..I’m reborn
I don’t want to wilt like a bloom into the dark




Bloom ~ Vox / Feat. FaDE

Recorded live in Stevens Point, Wisconsin on May 4, 2016.
Guitar: Martin 000X1AE Custom X Series (Katherine)

There's nothing we can do about the past or where we come from, but we can always choose a new way forward and what we grow into...........

New video recorded live in Atlanta June 6, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0nFCufpXk

"Seed"
I’m so confused
Without you, there would be no me
You’re the reason I live and breathe
And yet you’re everything that’s not me

Does it seem strange
Distant memories
Of how things used to be
Do you see yourself
When you look at me
Well I am not you
And you are not me

I’m just a seed
You’re not who I am
Not who I want to be
And I can’t believe
That you’re a part of me
It’s taken such a long time
For me to finally see
I’m not you
No I’m not you
And you’re not me

Tears, like rain drops on the glass
Form a window into the past
If blood runs thicker, as they say
Well I’d be strangled in my own dismay

So many lies
Make me realize
Only I can set me free
Do you see yourself
When you look at me
Well I’m not you
And you are not me

Seed

Written in a hotel room in Austin, Texas and recorded in my small home studio using a Fender Acoustic guitar (Lucy) through a Fishman Loudbox and Fender Acoustisonic amplifiers.

I was recently back on the road with a stop in Austin Texas........checked into room #1601 at the downtown Hilton and being completely exhausted, I crashed for the night. Around 2:00am I woke up to the blinding street lights below shining through the window. As I crawled out of bed to close the curtains I noticed to my left was the State Capitol building surrounded by all the downtown buildings and trappings of "Success" while to my right was the highway overpass, under which a single homeless gentleman was sleeping wrapped in a blanket on the concrete support of the bridge.
Such a stark contrast of situations and at the same time, here we were on opposite sides of the glass but both yearning for home.
I picked up my guitar and this song came out as I watched over this man through my window pane that night..........16 floors over his bridge, but both homeless...............

"16 Floors"
Can you see me here
Staring down from this window
From this window pane
I can see your pain
Does your family know where you are
Or do they even care
You sleep on concrete pillows
In your worn out clothes
Is it cold tonight
Will you be alright

16 floors over your bridge
I’m watching over you tonight
16 floors over your bridge
Blinded by the street lights
16 floors over your bridge
We’re both homeless tonight

Is it luck or a twist of fate
Do we even know 
Another time, another place
You could be my own shadow
Well it seems we’re both drifting
One nothing, other everything
But it doesn’t even matter
Both still searching for something
Does it seem cold tonight
Will we be alright

16 floors over your bridge
I’m watching over you tonight
16 floors over your bridge
Blinded by the street lights
16 floors over your bridge
We’re both homeless tonight

16 floors over your bridge
I’m watching over you tonight
16 floors over your bridge
Blinded by the street lights
16 floors over your bridge
We’re both homeless tonight


16 Floors

Recorded live at the Marriott Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA on September 12, 2016
Guitar: Martin 000X1AE Custom X Series (Katherine)

Lavender originated in a very personal way. This past Christmas, our middle daughter Kelley had asked for an easel with some canvases and paints. After breakfast on Christmas day I was working on a new piece of music with a new guitar as she set up to paint on the other side of the room. Over the next couple of hours her painting developed into a beautiful tree with purple leaves and as I watched her paint, the lyrics for the song I was working on begin to form. In the end we will never know how the developing music may have inspired her painting in the same way the developing painting inspired the lyrics, but this song and my daughter's painting are forever intertwined. This beautiful painting now hangs on my bedroom wall and is the first thing I see every morning when I wake up! "An empty canvas is all the color that you need, and you can be anything you want to be"..................................

"Lavender"
An empty canvas
Is all the color that you need
And you can be
Anything you want to be
So close your eyes 
And tell me what you see
If you could be
Anything
Hmmm……..As for me

I see lavender in your smile
And I hear laughter
I haven’t heard in a while
Of all the colors you could be
Feels like lavender to me
So paint your picture
Hang it on the wall
Tell your story
No Boundaries at all
Endless colors of what you could be
Feels like Lavender to me

We all start this life
Out in Black and White
And we can be
Anything we choose to be
So close your eyes
And tell me what you see
If we could be
Anything
Hmmm.......As for me

I see lavender in your smile
And I hear laughter
I haven’t heard in a while
Of all the colors you could be
Feels like lavender to me

I see lavender in your smile
And I hear laughter
I haven’t heard in a while
Of all the colors you could be
Feels like lavender to me
So paint your picture
Hang it on the wall
Tell your story
No Boundaries at all
Endless colors of what you could be
Feels like Lavender to me

Smells like lavender to me
Tastes like lavender to me
Sounds like lavender to me
Feels like lavender to me


Lavender

Recorded live at the Atheneum in Detroit, Michigan on May 9, 2017
Guitar: Martin 000X1AE Custom X Series (Katherine)

I lost my brother to suicide ten years ago and not a day goes by that I don't think of him. I still feel him in my soul and every day I wake up and choose to keep breathing............and I'm still breathing..........

"Still Breathing"
I see your breath
On the window pane
And I know this
Can never be the same
I see your footprints
In the snow
With nowhere
Left to go
Now I feel your soul
Blowing on the breeze
Swear I hear your voice
Whisper through the trees
Here I am
I’m on my knees
Here I am
Hear me please

Now we’re out here in the snow
And you know I’m still searching
How you left me in the cold
And now, now I’m frozen
Now I’m lost here in the cold
And you know I’m still crying
If you see my breath through the snow
Then you’ll know I’m still breathing

Your breath fades
From the window pane
As these memories
Slowly drift away
Just like your footprints
From the snow
As the wind
Begins to blow
Now I feel your soul
Floating on the breeze
I swear I hear your voice
Whisper through the trees
Here I am
I’m on my knees
Here I am
Begging, begging please

I’m still breathing
Inside I’m dying
I’m still breathing

Still Breathing

Recorded live at the Vincci Liberdade in Lisbon, Portugal
June 22, 2017
Guitar: Takamine (Edward)
Video recorded live in Lisbon: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8lHeJm7q5Y

Sometimes we put up walls to isolate ourselves from the world and in the process we let the distance separate us from those we love.
Sometimes those walls are words...
What would happen if we started tearing them down instead..........

"Walls"
I sit in this empty room
Staring at the walls
Never felt so alone
The darkness rolling in
Covers me again
Never felt so cold

So tell me how I feel
Tell me that I’m wrong
Tell me everything
If you know me so well
You could write this song
Shouldn’t take you long
And if these walls could talk
I wonder what they’d say
If anything at all
Would they be soft and plush
Or made of rock and stone
Would they stand or would they fall
And if these walls could talk
Maybe I,I,I.....
Wouldn’t feel so alone

I try to close my eyes
But I can’t fall asleep
Keep wandering these halls
And I’ve tried every door
Trying to get in
Won’t unlock at all

Maybe I,I,I.....
Wouldn’t feel so alone
Maybe this…..
Would feel more like home

Walls

Written and recorded with a Fender Sonoran acoustic guitar (Lucy); at the Park Royal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 19, 2017.
Music: Written and recorded by ~Saving Change
Photo Credit: Elayna & Riley ~ La Vagabonde
This instrumental piece was inspired by the sailing adventures of Riley & Elayna of the You Tube sailing channel: SV Sailing La Vagabonde.
While writing this piece of music I was imagining the sun breaking the horizon with nothing but waves crashing all around...............
Cheers!
~SC~
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww
http://sailing-lavagabonde.com

Waves

Recorded live with a Fender Sonoran acoustic guitar (Lucy); at the Park Royal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 21, 2017.
Music & Lyrics: Saving Change
Photo: Magdalena Bagnanow @9magdalena9

Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu term originating from Africa, meaning "Humanity". It refers to a philosophical sense meaning "The belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity". With all that is going on in the world today this song is a reflection of just how small we all are in the great vastness of the universe....................."I am because we are"............
~SC~

Ubuntu
Here we are, here we are...........here we are
A billion stars, a billion stars........yet here we are
Galaxies as far as we.......we can see
Specks of dust, just specks of dust.......you and me

Here we are, here we are...........here we are
A billion stars, a billion stars........yet here we are
Galaxies as far as we.......we can see
Specks of dust, just specks of dust.......you and me

Can't you see, can't you see
We're alike you and me
Different places, different names
Less different than the same
Different spaces, different games
We're different colors, but we bleed the same
Ubuntu all bleed the same
Ubuntu all bleed the same

So here we are, here we are...........here we are
A billion stars, a billion stars........yet here we are
Galaxies as far as we.......we can see
Specks of dust, just specks of dust.......you and me

Ubuntu

Welcome to my little corner of the Sound Cloud world!
I began teaching myself to play the guitar about ten years ago and quickly found that music became a way for me to release all the feelings that I couldn't find the words to express.
Just me and a guitar recorded wherever life takes me.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to my music, I hope you enjoy the songs!

~SC~

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