A song about the important things in life. Vocal and 12 String Guitar - Rich O'Brien. Electric Lead Guitar - David Hynes. Mixing and Mastering - Roy Blake.

Photograph - Rich O'Brien

Love, Peace, and Happiness

Une chanson inspirés par la naissance de ma filleule et fille de mon amie avec qui je joue de la musique.

A song inspired by the birth of my goddaughter and daughter of my friend with whom I play music.

5 VOIX

Demain, je t'emmenerai (letrre à ma fille)

Demain, je t'emmenerai (lettre à ma fille)

This is a fairly gentle ballad about memory.  Particular those very special what-if memories from a long time ago. The ones that are so very special that it's hard to believe they really happened or that they slipped through your fingers.

 It's mostly guitar, ukulele, piano and drums.

Verse 1:
Do you recall
So long ago
Who we were 
It’s hard to know
I think about
All we shared
I remember
How much I cared

Chorus:
They were just 
A couple of days
We spent walking on the beach and talking in cafes 
And after that couple of days
We just smiled and said goodbye
We went our separate ways

Verse 2:
For so long
I couldn’t find
The reasons I
Had been so blind
What is true
I can’t be sure
But I believe
That this memory is pure

Bridge:
Didn’t know if I’d 
Ever see you again
It’s been so many years
I hardly remember when
I didn’t know 
The kind of reality
We were creating when you
Walked on the beach with me

Chorus:
They were just 
A couple of days
We spent walking on the beach and talking in cafes 
And after that couple of days
We just smiled and said goodbye
We went our separate ways

Verse 3:
Where in the world
Did we meet?
What was your name?
What made our time so sweet?
What kind of dream
Gets revealed to me 
When I find I’m in need
Of a favourite memory?

Chorus:
But they were just 
A couple of days
We spent walking on the beach and talking in cafes 
And after that couple of days
We just smiled and said goodbye
We went our separate ways

Couple of Days

I'm not a performer, a singer, a musician, an arranger, a producer.  I'm just not.  I do what I can but I dream about what it might be like to work with someone who could do all the things I can't do, which is most of it.  Wouldn't it be great to have a collaborator?

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Collaborator was re-mixed and re-mastered May 2023.

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Verse 1:
Last night I had a dream
I dreamt about a beautiful song
The words were deeply moving
And the melody was strong
I got up right away
I picked up my guitar
I tried to compose my dream
But I didn't get very far

Verse 2:
The notes I played were nothing like
The melody in my dream
And the words came out as doggerel
If you know what I mean
This sort of thing happens all the time
When I get a song in my head
I tried to write that song for a while
Then I got back into bed

Chorus:
I need a collaborator
To help me do what I want to do
Someone to help fill in the puzzle
Make one and one equal more than two
I need a collaborator if I'm ever going to be great
And once I find a collaborator we can collaborate

Verse 3:
I'm not too proud to tell you I'm
Not the world's most talented guy
I guess that's just the way it is
No point in asking why
But maybe with the right kind of help
I could do more with the talent I've got
The right sort of partnership
Could take me straight to the top

Chorus:
I need a collaborator
To help me do what I want to do
Someone to help fill in the puzzle
Make one and one equal more than two
I need a collaborator if I'm ever going to be great
And once I find a collaborator we can collaborate

Bridge:
I can do a lot of things
But I can't do it all
If I found me a number
I just might make a call
Maybe there's somebody out there
Who could fill in the missing bit
and if they're looking for someone
We just might be a perfect fit

Verse 4:
My whole life my tendency has been
to do everything on my own
That's meant there's a whole lot of things
that somehow never get done
No one really makes it alone
They get a little help on the way
Maybe if I find a collaborator
Everything will work out Ok

Chorus:
I need a collaborator
To help me do what I want to do
Someone to help fill in the puzzle
Make one and one equal more than two
I need a collaborator if I'm ever going to be great
And once I find a collaborator we can collaborate

Collaborator

Mírame a los ojos

This mini album is about feelings. Some things I been through. Let it out to move on. Start a new chapter. Emotional tracks. About fears and things that know one else knows. About listen. To have someone to rely on. Someone who listens and understands.

Scared Of The Water

Out of the lights behind closed doors, he’s not the man he used to be.
He doesn’t see it anymore, he’s sure not going to dare agree.
He tells himself it’s only temporarily.

She’s not connecting with her   friends. “They all refuse to change with the times.”
Who knows where her story ends? If you ask her, she’ll be just fine.
She sees it all from a different point of  view.
Sure, I’ve   grown up, that’s what I’m supposed to do.

Maybe changing who we are is not part of the plan. 
Shape a little, bend a little, but never leave a crease.
You only get one chance to shape this world.
Maybe you can start and end with peace.

He makes believe he never was.He’d be embarrassed if they knew.
No sense in telling them because,That was then, this is now, he grew.
It’s just not right, you know, to do just what you please.
I’ve had to settle down, I’ve responsibilities.
But have you changed inside, or just what they all see?

Maybe changing who we are is not part of the plan. 
Shape a little, bend a little, but never leave a crease.
You only get one chance to shape this world.
Maybe you can start and end with peace.

Only One Chance

Wet My Whistle

When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older, see it face to face
And now I'm older, gotta get up, clean the place

And I was green, greener than the hill
Where flowers grow and the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I'd see when day was done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you

Place To Be (Nick Drake Cover)

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome, I could cry

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome, I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome, I could cry

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams Cover)

I stepped into an avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I am not this hunchback that you see
I sleep beneath the golden hill
You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn, learn to serve me well

You strike my side by accident
As you go down for your gold
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
Is neither starved nor cold
He does not ask for your company
Not at the center, the center of the world

When I am on a pedestal
You did not raise me there
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare
I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare

You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what makes me kind
The crumbs of love that you offer me
They're the crumbs I've left behind
Your pain is no credential here
It's just the shadow, shadow of my wound

I have begun to long for you
I who have no greed
I have begun to ask for you
I who have no need
You say you've gone away from me
But I can feel you when you breathe

Do not dress in those rags for me
I know you are not poor
And don't love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure
It is your turn, beloved
It is your flesh that I wear

Avalanche (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Retired the beginning of 2023. Been writing music seriously for about six years. Thanks for listening - and sharing!

Only One Chance

Scott Orr

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