Created for the iPad Musician Magellan vs Magellan Challenge
Written, Performed, Produced by Kar Stanton

I got my face smashed up when I was seventeen
It was a bit of fun that went wrong
Doctors said I was lucky
I could see, I could breathe
But they couldn't do much for my face
and it healed in the wrong way
and a boy hasn't smiled at me in fifteen years (except to mock me)
And my mother hasn't smiled at me in fifteen years (only in pity)
I got my face smashed up when I was seventeen
It was a bit of fun that went wrong

Lucky

Written and recorded in haste for the iPad Musician's Holidays challenge.   

Made in GarageBand, using some of the smart instruments, but mostly Thumbjam.  I was going to record my own cornet playing, but my mic kept crashing the ipad, and I didn't want to annoy the neighbours too much with my playing, so I used thumbjam trumpet, trombone and flute instead, and then later the round sine and djembe.  The Vox are recorded with the snowball mic thru CCK to ipad 2, no effects. I used Brian eno's Oblique Strategies prompts when I got stuck with where to go with the arrangement or lyrics.


Buying things has lost its appeal
It says 'do you fancy a little something for yourself?'
Well, what I need is some space
For you to take some things away
Eating loads, the turkey roast
That's just about as close as I get to feeling content
Cos I can eat and eat til I'm sick.

So this is Christmas
Some respite
From the sore fight

Now I'm alone
I got my things I got my home
I even got my family
But they're not so sure of me
Sometimes when i lose it
And I lash out at anything
I can't reel it in
It could be anyone

So this is Christmas
No respite
From the sore fight

The riches of this life
The riches of this first world life
But I keep thinking bout the next life
And if I could be with God
And the world would be transformed into a good world
And I would be transformed into a good woman

So this is Christmas
Forgiveness
For my sore life
From the sore fight
From the sore fight

The Sore Fight

I now make music under my real name Kar Stanton.  You can find my album Protagonist at the following page: https://soundcloud.com/karstanton

Scruffchild