“Streets of Laredo” is a cowboy ballad derived from an English folk song, “The Unfortunate Lad.” As a folk standard, “Streets of Laredo” has been performed by the likes of Johnny Cash, Joan Baez and Marty Robbins, although authorship of the revised version was claimed by Frank H. Maynard in 1924.

The street’s of Laredo

new song from Scraptrain 2021 about Lady Trucker

Shabby Scrap

Lady Trucker

We Know You Are Looking....

We know you are looking for something
We see there's someone you miss
You have come to the right place
This is our special abyss
Don't look, and the angels will find you
They already know who you are
But remember, their song is as useless
As the light from a dying star

Look over there in the mirror
That's where it all began
You followed the path you'd chosen
And now you're back here again
When you reach the meadow in summer
And your soul is cold as ice
Your blue rose will wither tomorrow
And only come back in disguise

We know that you're looking for true love
We have watched your disconcerted dance
Nothing is more entertaining, than another futile romance
There's a river, it's sound is consoling
For souls like yours and mine
There's a song somewhere within it
If you dare to cross the line

Once on a shore was a footprint
Someone was waiting for you
When the migrating birds are crying
You will be waiting too
Above the night is falling
Dissapointment will be a bliss
You just missed the moment
Now you you'll never know her kiss

We Know You Are Looking.... [An original song] (new version)

Solo with a Dash of Duel

And, finally, we are glad to present here the closing  track, No. 13, "Mad Bad World", of our collaborative SoundCloud album "Midnight Coffee", on which Roberto B (@user-55822457) and I started working on 24 June 2021, exactly 3 months ago. Vocal samples from MAGIX have been used (by Roberto B). We hope you'll enjoy this track as well as the album in its entirety (as it should be listened to so as to sense and appreciate the changing moods and overall atmosphere it creates in its completeness). The album will be released in minutes too, exclusively here on SoundCloud. 

Created in collaboration on 6 August (initial mix and recording in GarageBand and Logic Pro by Alex M) and 7 August 2021 (subsequent additions, mix and recording plus final mix and recording in MAGIX by Roberto B), and posted on SC on 24 September 2021 (by Alex M), as we had agreed that this should be our closing track in the album even if it was created earlier (the other tracks are ordered chronologically, as they were finished).

The artwork cover is designed and implemented by Alex M on 29 June 2021 (in Tayasui Sketch in Mac OS), and cropped and annotated by Alex M (in Mac OS Preview) on 30 June 2021.

Thank you so much, Roberto - for the beautiful musical ideas and our inspiring collaborations, and in particular in this "Midnight Coffee" album of ours (reflecting our moods and emotions during the turbulent summer of 2021)!

Duration: 8:42 minutes

Mad Bad World - Roberto B & Alex M

Distance ( prod. BLOODDROUGH)

Je m’en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ;
Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ;
J’allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j’étais ton féal ;
Oh ! là ! là ! que d’amours splendides j’ai rêvées !

Mon unique culotte avait un large trou.
– Petit-Poucet rêveur, j’égrenais dans ma course
Des rimes. Mon auberge était à la Grande-Ourse.
– Mes étoiles au ciel avaient un doux frou-frou

Et je les écoutais, assis au bord des routes,
Ces bons soirs de septembre où je sentais des gouttes
De rosée à mon front, comme un vin de vigueur ;

Où, rimant au milieu des ombres fantastiques,
Comme des lyres, je tirais les élastiques
De mes souliers blessés, un pied près de mon coeur !

Arthur Rimbaud, Cahier de Douai (1870)

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I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets;
My overcoat too was becoming ideal;
I travelled beneath the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal;
Oh dear me! what marvellous loves I dreamed of!

My only pair of breeches had a big whole in them.
– Stargazing Tom Thumb, I sowed rhymes along my way.
My tavern was at the Sign of the Great Bear.
– My stars in the sky rustled softly.

And I listened to them, sitting on the road-sides
On those pleasant September evenings while I felt drops
Of dew on my forehead like vigorous wine;

And while, rhyming among the fantastical shadows,
I plucked like the strings of a lyre the elastics
Of my tattered boots, one foot close to my heart!

Ma Bohème (by Denis Lavant)

It was a seedy bar
I took it far too far
I met you through a mate
We did the deed till late
My naked body poured
But you still wanted more
I've got a dodgy back
You nymphomaniac

Your previous lover died
Honey I really tried
But you know its getting late
And I've got a headache
You say you want it rough
And I reply real gruff
Sugar I've had enough
No way, no way, I've no more energy today

We tried it upside down
In bed then on the ground
I'm a mere mortal man
I've given what I can
I think you must be touched
The way that you erupt
I do not want to die
But more and its bye bye

I can no longer stand
Lie back and think of England
Then give a feeble shout
Before I pass out
You beckon me real near
Then whisper in my ear
My heart is filled with fear
No way, no way, I've no more energy today!

Headache

Dreaming in White is all about the charm of the simple things at Christmas time, and the longing for a White Christmas.

Dreaming In White

First single from STONE album, out 23rd April 2021
Photo by Lucas Pezeta, adapted by Erika Bach

I Can't Live Like This

"Oh my god, I never ordered this Scab Madras"

Dirty, filthy punk from Dorset.

Headache

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