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I don t care - Apocalyptica

Ночь

Honorable Mentions:
Chris Lane Sr - Bass Guitar
Lauren Nolan - Title Suggestion

"What went wrong"

(Chorus)
Hey, Hey
What went wrong with the world tonight
I made not home alive - I'm so tired
Don't wanna fight

(Verse 1)
You win - I lose
We act like fools
Nothing changes 
From day to day
You Said you're right
I say goodnight
I get the feeling
We're seeing things differently

(Chorus)

(Verse 2)
Check In - Checked out
I'm inside out
All is quiet
On an endless stream of misery
Be one without
There is no doubt
My will is broken
But I ain't getting angry

(Bridge/Guitar Solo)

(Chorus)

What Went Wrong?

Water Heart

Last Child X For Revenge  Duka X Serana  Mashup  Lirik Video

Richard Gonfrier:  Synthesizers, Drums, Add. Guitars, Mix & Master
Dirk Taubenheim:   Guitars, Bass, Vocals

A million thanks to Richard for this fantastic collaboration, I really enjoyed it! Please check out his work here:  https://soundcloud.com/richardgonfrier

Written by Richard Gonfrier & Dirk Taubenheim 

When you think you' re all alone      you may be sure      someone cares.
Love cannot be seen      but we all know      when it' s there

Sometimes we have to wait for years      and that may cause us many tears
but no one leaves this world unloved.
It may be more than you can bear      that makes you cry and often swear
but someone will fix your broken heart.

Who' s been telling you those lies      that life sucks      and is a bad compromise?
Don' t believe in things like that,      all they will do      is make you sad.

Oh, ohoho, ohoho, oho
Oh, ohoho, ohoho, oho

INTRO

All actions have a consequence      so there is no coincidence
that means our lives really make sense.
Take care of others, spread God' s love,      try to be part of heaven' s staff,
praise the Lord and that' s enough!

Don' t you be afraid no more      to lose or fail - God loves you as you are.
He created space and time      and you are one      of a billion stars

BRIDGE

Demo Songs

One of a billion stars ft. RICHARD GONFRIER

Firstly a big thanks to Shane of Harmful If Swallowed for agreeing to do do this male duet. It’s a first for me and probably for him, so a very interesting concept. It’s been a song that’s been hanging around a while just waiting for the right type of vocalist to agree. I am a great admirer of Shane’s work because of his fine lyrics and interpretations of real life. 
The song Elephant In The Room was wrote over five years ago with my son Owen  who would of been around 18 at the time. He had got into playing guitar and dabbling in song writing so my role was helping him with melody and lyrics. 
It’s a song I always thought had great potential and as I wasn’t that active in music myself at the time only a raw acoustic version existed.
This version is what we used as a sketch and Noobly transformed it into a full blown production. Seriously Noobly is a real talent and absolute pleasure to work with so respect to him.
There as been slight lyric changes but the melody is the same.
The song is about to close friends sitting in one of their living rooms in silence. There is an elephant in the room for both of them because a serious matter is not being discussed and neither of them are opening the conversation. The one  as done something really bad to the other so use your imagination.
The conversation is only happening inside their heads so hence a male duet of thoughts.
Hope you enjoy the song as much as we did creating it.

Elephant In The Room  -  Conscience of Kings feat Harmful If Swallowed

After meeting in 1992 as members of St Etienne's touring band, Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul Kelly (East Village) turned their shared love of the soft rock and sunshine pop of the 1960s and 1970s into the now-legendary Birdie. In the summer of 1998 Birdie recorded their debut album "Some Dusty" with the estimable Brian O'Shaughnessy (Denim, Moose, The Clientele). It's a deep and beautiful album, with melodic & sophisticated (yet understated) arrangements providing the perfect setting for Debsey's sweet and soulful soft-pop vocals. Add in gorgeous string arrangements from The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and you have all the makings of a pop classic. Subsequent singles and a second album cemented their reputation as top-notch purveyors of pop, but family life and other artistic pursuits called and Birdie has only been sporadically active since 2001. Their brief but perfectly-formed discography has become the stuff of legend, though, charming savvy pop fans around the world with its timeless songcraft and flawless production. Summer 2024 will see the long overdue vinyl reissue of "Some Dusty" on US indie label Slumberland Records, returning this classic album to much-needed availability in deluxe remastered form with a deluxe 60s-style laminated heavy card jacket and a fine insert with rare photos and liner notes by Chickfactor’s Gail O’Hara.

Some Dusty

Pre-order

Birdie - Let Her Go

Come get it cause tonight is
The night to feel alive and get drunk like you
Drunk like you
Hey now, when we were love drunk
Oh, we were fire, fire up to hell
Fire up to hell yeah yeah yeah yeah
While you were love drunk you said, so did I
We were dancing, getting naked and
Lying on the beach
On the sand
So with two packs of cigarettes in my hand
And one last great sip from my sings
From my sings yeah yeah yeah yeah
Let me sit back, enjoy the view
Ooooohhhhh
Parties late night, take us to the coast
But, ya drunk
On the sand
On the sand
When we were love drunk
When we were love drunk

All instruments & vocals by Christophe

Love Drunk

Here’s The Circle video:
https://youtu.be/upxfvLhJtQs

This song is about being stuck in an endless loop of working life, the realisation of never ending monotony, to finally working out how to handle it and the hope of escaping it.

Video on YouTube - https://youtu.be/upxfvLhJtQs

A big thank you to Pat Morey for the use of his house to record and for mixing this song. Also Gavin Smith for the use of his drums and equipment.

The Circle

Heroes de un nuevo día

Se está gastando el día,
de este invierno para atrás.
Una mano en el bolsillo,
el sonido al caminar.

Y caes de madrugada,
a la tibia soledad.

Se que te gusta volar,
hacia esa antigua melodía  
Que te anula la razón,
y te hace imaginar.

Se padece y se termina,
ese amor que fue fugaz    .
Héroes de un nuevo día,
te vienen a rescatar.

cuando ves que ya no hay nada,
y el corazón no da más.

Y si una puerta cerrás,
deja otra abierta.
Para que cuando regrese el amor,
lo puedas atrapar.


Letra y musica: Pichy Sotomayor

Heroes de un nuevo día

Heroes De Un Nuevo Dia

New Jersey's Lightheaded are clearly students of pop in all of its variety, drawing as much from 60s Brill Building song writers as they do from later 60s folk/pop developments and 80s DIY pop. The striking thing is how seamlessly they're able to meld these influences, and the distinctive voice that they've crafted this early in their career. Their new album "Combustible Gems" follows-up their well-regarded "Good Good Great!" EP in fine fashion, striking all the right Phil Spector/Goffin & King chords while rooting the album firmly in the NOW. Singles like "Moments Notice" and "Bright Happy Girls" possess a timeless pop charm, brimming with jangle, drama and infectious energy.

Combustible Gems

Lightheaded - Dawn Hush Lullaby

The signature song from our album of the same name Desiree. A barn burning rocker that gets you going from start to finish. The stage is set when a beautiful mystery woman beguiles this small town with her looks and style creating speculation and wonder.

Desiree

"Take aim at his heart now!" he yelled. "And shoot for the head!" shouted back his armed colleague. But with tears in the formers' eyes, he knew he had already lost the fight. The longer he wore on in the battle with his foe, the greater his uncertainty. 
This song is about a mercenary remembering an encounter with a fellow mercenary. They were both after the same target and the first, unarmed mercenary was forced to kill his armed colleague with a car.
Listening to the story of the song, one may get the sense that betrayal and regret are central themes; however, they are only one of the many threads unfurled in the song. Violence and mercy are more central, especially within the mind's eye of the protagonist re-living what had occurred on one fateful day.
A violent mind may not breed mercy, but mercy will never hold a place (or a candle, if you will) in the minds of those whose idea of violence is not honourable and just -- in a moral sense, of course. Moral compasses change direction from person to person, from time to time, and from situation to situation. They can even, sometimes, point to one's own fate -- mercifully or not.

LYRICS:
Somebody once told me
In a ripped-up rage
Had eyes like a monster, and it came
Like the wind against my head.
So Drive Like You Stole It
With nothing to say
Eyes runnin' like water, to this day
I could not relate.

Hearing slowed-down sounds
Of an engine roaring,
Wheels rollin' to a cliff's end
And shot out in escape.
So it seemed
Was a blow to my youth.

Somebody once told me
In a ripped-up rage
Had eyes like a monster, and it came
Like the wind against my head.
So Drive Like You Stole It
With nothing to say
Eyes runnin' like water, to this day
I could not relate.

Seeing moving parts
As it comes upon him,
Devoted locomotion
To bring about elimination.
What I've seen
I have created.

Somebody once told me
In a ripped-up rage
Had eyes like a monster, and it came
Like the wind against my head.
So Drive Like You Stole It
With nothing to say
Eyes runnin' like water, to this day
I could not relate.

Take aim at his heart now
And shoot for the head
A backstabber grieving his existence,
So tortured.
Hold up a candle
In a darkened cave
Canot fix what cannot be seen:
I refuse to replay.

Like You Stole It

Change is overdue!
Full lyrics

I'm tired of being down all the time i wish that you would lift me up
I'm tired of being tired all the time to face the truth would be way too much
I think of all the things you did to me and all the pain i felt in your touch
I think of all things you said, woman they add up - you said way too much
Change is coming you could smell it in the air
Don't know who you think you are but pretty girl you better think again
A storm is coming down the road - you better say what you got to say 
because your words are growing old the absolute is on its way 
I'm tired of being wrong all the time when half the time i know i'm right
I struggle with my insecurities and let you win each and every time
I used to be a stronger man i seemed to lose my confidence somwhere along the line
i need to find my balls again before the absolute gets swept behind
Change is coming you could smell it in the air
Don't know who you think you are but pretty girl you better think again
A storm is coming down the road - you better say what you got to say 
because your words are growing old the absolute is on its way

One more time!

Eric Festa's Album

"The Absolute"

François TAMBY: guitars, drums, bass, arrangements and production
Aline TAMBY : all voices

   A song that rocked my late teens; I've always loved the lyrics, the "Kenloachian" video, Jimmy Somerville's voice and the melody, but much less the synthetic arrangements and 80s production. It's a world far removed from our own, so we've freely reinterpreted the song in our own way...

 Une chanson qui a bercé ma fin d'adolescence ; j'ai toujours aimé les paroles, le clip "Kenloachien", la voix de Jimmy Somerville et la mélodie, mais beaucoup moins les arrangements synthétiques et la production des années 80. C'est un monde très éloigné du nôtre,  nous avons donc librement réinterprété la chanson à notre façon...

CIACCO-Cover-Smalltown Boy-Bronski Beat

Lyrics

Verse
in the garden there’s a man 
who sits on his hands
watching the world go by
he’s innocent of all things
except maybe guilt 
that he hasn’t done enough or even tried

he’s closed his eyes so he didn’t see a thing 
but if you ask him he’ll probably just lie

talk is cheap and you buy heaps with your two cents
no real opinion you just sit on the fence
commenting breathlessly you’re just making noise
your words have no meaning your voice is annoying

a woman on this train is lost in a game
trying to get the squares to line up
she’s washed her hands 
so her conscience is clean 
and anyway she’s reached her stop
   
she’s blocked her ears so she didn’t hear a thing, 
and if you ask her she won’t bother replying.

Garden

The world is a casino...you'll probably never win! 

Lead guitar, bass, drum arrangement: Fog City Fogey
Mix: Jack Holston
Mastering by Logic pro

Outside In

Пожалуйста, только не домой

Naif - buta hati

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