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She Never Buys Me Nice Flowers

Voice: Sireen Elias-Hadad
Qanun: Adeeb Hadad 
Percussion: Bobby Sabella
Song and production by Chris Pellnat

See the music video:  https://youtu.be/uS_nlGNhcWY

Lyrics:

Kiss me thrice

Kiss me once if you love me
Kiss me twice to be sure
Kiss me thrice we'll be together
Together forevermore

I wouldn't say it until I knew
I would never want to lie to you
You're the purest heart I ever knew

Am I torturing your pure heart?
Or am I just torturing my own?
Tell me because I really don't know

Kiss me once if you love me
Kiss me twice to be sure
Kiss me thrice we'll be together
Together forevermore


We don't even know how this will end
Is this false hope or hopelessness?
Are we destined to be lovers or just friends?

Kiss me once if you love me
Kiss me twice to be sure
Kiss me thrice we'll be together
Together forevermore

Hear the Arabic version of this song by Catalus:
https://soundcloud.com/pretentiousmusic/together

Kiss Me Thrice

I wrote this one about a best friends struggling relationship,  He put up with a lot before he passed. 2025 October 
Features my Vox organ .
 I live in the " Real World  " lyrics by Glenny G
What's the matter with the car your driving it seems to be running fine 
"Fine Fine Fine Fine "
Why complain about the place your living it's just for doing time
" Time Time Time Time "
I can't worry about your mental state , I'm sick and tired of trying
" Bye Bye Bye Bye "
In just in case you can't relate ,  inside I feel like dying " I feel like crying "
But I'm working on me even though your walking out
I live in the real world not the one all filled with doubts 
So don't lay it on me girl cause I know what I need
 I live in the real not alone in fantasy
What's the matter with this watch I'm wearing it must be running slow
" Time time time time "
I thought I had so much more to do but I need some place to go
" Fun Fun Fun Fun "
Cruising down the lost highway it seemed to be where I'm bound
" Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce "
I'm satisfy me a real soul someone who wont let me down
 " Wont Let me down "
Cause I'm working on me even though I'm running free
I live in the real world not a lone in fantasy
So don't lay it on me girl cause I know what I need
I live in the real world not alone in fantasy
I'm gonna take a long vacation and write myself a  sad sad song
Shake loose all this aggravation , heal my heart up oh so strong
I live in the real world . I live in the real world , I live in the real world
I LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD >>>>>>>>>>>>>

I live in the " Real World " !

Hey Victoria

This is the last renovation of several songs I wrote some years back and recorded with Roger Stankovic (https://soundcloud.com/roger-stankovic), who did the lead vocals. Started as a basic piano and vocals track, but I took it down and added some new elements. Very happy with Roger's amazing work on this! Harmonies, moi, and Jen DB.

Falling Sands

'Best song ever writ'  I was told,   though Mr Hardin wrote quite a few fabulous ones. Smugglin Man was always a favourite though,  both simple and true.  Never recorded it, possibly the newsprint below changed that.

'The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike Thursday on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer, a defense official and another person familiar with the matter said Friday.'

Smugglin Man (Tim Hardin)

[It’s definitely not a Christmas song, but the mood should feel acceptably Christmassy].

A few years ago I tried setting this text to music; it’s very well known here among students because it is considered one of the earliest attestations of the Italian language. Discovered on an inner leaf of a liturgical codex preserved in Verona, it was written between the 8th and 9th centuries by an anonymous hand. It is regarded as a “riddle” (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronese_Riddle), generating an enormous amount of scholarship. 
To me, its musicality is evident. 

Compared to the version I recorded in 2018 (I had posted it on YouTube, where it still is), based on the Washburn and the sounds of my old Yamaha, I added some VSTs and re-equalized the vocals. Back then, multiplying the vocal tracks was the most fun part, in order to obtain a choral effect. What came out is what I would call a “false traditional folk song".

The cover illustration is found on one of the opening pages of an 11th-century manuscript preserved at the British Library (Cotton MS Tiberius B. V — see here: https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/12286/).

Text (original / english translation)

Se pareba boves
alba pratalia araba
et albo versorio teneba
et negro semen seminaba

He led oxen in front of him
ploughed white fields
And held a white plough
And sowed black seed

Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, December 16.

The Riddle*

 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping...

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOU STEVEN
BUT I KNOW YOU KNOW THE RAVEN
PA AND POE TO AND FRO
LIKE A SWEET SOFT PENDULUM PACING

MAIS AUJOURD’HUI C’EST LE PRÉSENT 
ET CETTE CHANSON EST MON PRÉSENT 
COMING FROM ME TO YOU
THROUGH SOMEONE WHO
DEARLY LOVES YOU

WARM REGARDS TO DEARIE NONNA 
YOUR OLD AND WISE LADY MADONNA 
ART AND FINANCE
WORDS AND SILENCE
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAY TO CROSS THE DISTANCE 
AND BLEND THE AGES

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE FUTURE 
AND I SURE DO HATE TO LECTURE
STILL STEVEN CARPE DIEM
DAY BY DAY LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW

ET AUJOURD’HUI C’EST LE PRÉSENT
ET AUJOURD’HUI EST TON PRÉSENT
ONLY YOU AND YOU ALONE
PLUS YOUR WHOLE LOVING BUNCH ALL AROUND

ALL IN ONE AND ALL TOGETHER
SCOTT YOUR HARDLY YOUNGER BROTHER 
JAMIE SHAWN JILLIAN
DIMBO GODZILLA JASON & SAM
DID I FORGET ANYONE?

DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT YOU SUSAN 
ALL I KNOW IS LUCKY STEVEN
PA & POE LIFE & CO
UPSTREAM DOWNSTREAM
AS LONG AS IT IS FLOWING


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