I'm glad you did write and record this song. It's all we can do. This stands up very well over the years. There is an honesty and an energy that can't be denied as it feels so direct

Such a pleasure to hear this exploratory piece.

Indeed a treat for me and a sweet revelation when the writing process is laid bare. Thank you very much for this Mike!

In contrast to other songs featured on my SoundCloud page, "Absolutely Stunningly Beautiful" takes a softer approach to music, describing the experience of falling for someone for the very first time. 

Lyrics: Elliana Stocks

Thank you Zak Cohen (producer), Lance Lapointe (backing vocalist), and Alasdair Money (cellist) for helping transform words scribbled in the back of a high school notebook into "Absolutely Stunningly Beautiful", a soft love ballad. Recorded at The Woodshop Recording Studio, Duncan, BC.

Absolutely Stunningly Beautiful

Every once and a while I press 'record' and just start playing and singing. This is such a recording. Songwriting in the heat of the moment. I hope you enjoy.

Recorded 2014
Original by Mike Spring
V21M02

Hope it's alright

Hope It's Alright  (song improvisation 2014)

I think I’m gonna let them go
I don’t need them anymore 
Won’t you believe me 
When I tell you so
I think I’m gonna let them go

I think I’m gonna leave this place
I can’t stay here any more
I’ve waited a long time 
Just to I tell you so
I think I’m gonna let them go

There ain’t no place to hide
So many years I’ve tried
But now I’m leaving them behind me
Those days we had are through
I’m gonna start anew
And now it’s up to you to find me

I think I’m gonna go my own way
I can’t take this anymore
I know you can hear me 
When I tell you so
I think I’m gonna let them go

There ain’t no place to hide
So many years I’ve tried
But now I’m leaving them behind me
Those days we had are through
I’m gonna start anew
And now it’s up to you to find me

I think I’m gonna let them go
I don’t need them any more 
Won’t you believe me
When I tell you so
I think I’m gonna let them go
I think I’m gonna let them go

Copyright © A Few Stones. All Rights Reserved.

Let them go

An acoustic version of this song from our album 'An Unread Note'

LYRICS:

A prism divides the beam
A schism, we’re in-between
It isn’t the final scene

The present is all we know
Unpleasant, but there you go
The crescent, a soothing glow

A Prism - acoustic version

One from my back catalogue , released 25 may 2019 .
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WHITE MASK

Love is blind...and maybe a little deaf! A simple, folksy song about listening to someone pickin' a guitar. Sung by Sierra Wolfe, Chris and Shael on guitars and produced, as always, by Shael Wrinch at the Stone Hill studio, Bowen Island...
Lyrics:
My baby loves to play guitar
I know he's never very far
'cause when I hear that Gibson tone
I realize I'm not alone
My baby loves to play guitar
My baby loves to sing a song
and he may sing it right or wrong
He's not the best I've ever heard
but I hang on every word
My baby loves to sing a song
He's just a little out of tune
He's been know to clear the room
but when I see those dreamy eyes
his voice is still my sweet surprise
I'd buy his records by the pound
My feet would never touch the ground
and I may be his only fan
but I'd cheer to fill the stands
My baby loves to play guitar

The Tequila Monday Project

Play Guitar

Edie is the title track from the forthcoming LP, out 3rd June 2022
Video here, all ochre and gold https://youtu.be/sBuMe7vnbDE 
Thanks for listening x

Edie

She got a pocket full of mighty fine, fine intentions
She got a way, she got a way that somehow makes you feel good
She got a story full of love and hate and other complications
Got you hooked on her smile, hooked and hung on a hook. (x2)

She got a promise full of smoky red wine redemption
She makes you pay, she makes you pay as if she's drawing your blood
She got a black heart full of war and peace and other aggravation
Got you hooked on her smile, hooked and hung on a hook. (x2)

She got you hung on a hook
Hung on a hook, she got you hung on a hook
She got you hung on a hook

Little cat all alone like that, in ballet flats in the snow
Little cat all alone like that, hey Edie, where you gonna go?
Little cat all alone like that, in ballet flats in the snow
Little cat all alone like that, hey Edie, where you gonna go?
I say Edie, where you gonna go? 
Oooooooh Ooooooooh

Edie oh Edie oh black-hearted Edie
Littered, lost love-lorn and ghost
Edie oh Edie oh black-hearted Edie
The one that I still love the  most
Edie oh Edie oh black-hearted Edie
The one that I still love the most

Edie(c)2022steph sweet All Rights Reserved
Fender jag, 500 bass and vocals

Edie

edie video

Lyrics by Tony
Vocal, Guitars and Mix by Bob Warner
https://youtu.be/04iGDD06NQM
AS THE OLD COWBOY		
RODE INTO TOWN		
HE WAS LOOKIN'		
ALL AROUND		
		
HE'D BEEN RIDIN'		
LONG AND HARD		
FROM HIS SADDLE		
SWEAT WAS DRIPPIN'		
		
HE TIED HIS HORSE		
TO THE HITCHIN' POST		
WALKED INSIDE		
THE OLD SALOON		
		
HE WAS LOOKIN'		
FOR BILLY DEAN		
A TWO LEGGED SNAKE		
MAN, WAS HE MEAN 		
		
CHORUS		
THE RATTLESNAKE SALOON		
WHERE THE WHISKEY FLOWS		
THE RATTLESNAKE SALOON		
WHERE THE BAD MEN GO		
THE RATTLESNAKE SALOON		
WHERE MANY HAVE DIED		
THE RATTLESNAKE SALOON		
WHERE FROM YOUR SIN 		
YOU CANNOT HIDE		
FROM YOUR SIN		
YOU CANNOT HIDE		
		
THE TIRED COWBOY		
SPOTTED THE ONE		
HE'D BEEN HUNTIN'		
NO MORE SEARCHIN'		
		
AS THEIR EYES MET		
GUNS WERE DRAWN		
THE OLD COWBOY		
BEAT HIM TO THE DRAW

AS DEAN FELL TO THE FLOOR
HE SAID, SORRY OLD MAN
DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL HER
GUESS YOU EVENED THE SCORE

(REPEAT CHORUS)


© 2017 Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

Rattlesnake Saloon - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Featuring Bob Warner - Original

The music was originally written for our crowdfunding campain video, and then we decided to add vocals to it.

The Feelings We Had As Kids (demo)

I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind

The way you walk
The way you talk
Know you hooked me
Then you shook me

The way I fell
Under your spell
You overlooked me
Then misunderstood me

I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind

An empty stare
You're not there
Know they booked me
They gonna cook me

The way you walk
The way you talk
Know you hooked me
And then you shook me

Where the wild horses roam
I walk alone
The Santa Fe moans

Old empty seat
My shackled feet
Oh they took me
That's where they put me

Now I wonder
From deep down under
What we could be
Now they've set me free

I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind

The way you walk
The way you talk
Know you hooked me
And then you shook me

The way I fell
Under your spell
You overlooked me
Then misunderstood me

I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind
I can't get you out of my mind

I Can't Get You Out of My Mind

Ogre's Laugh

With a canon’s crash and the Ogre’s laugh
The wounded shuffled in, drank their fiery gin, and so did I

In the highland grass, at the winders pass, the dreary fought the wind
As their demons did them in and so did I

So did I light the fire, burning towards my head
So did I light the fire and begin

When the marbles rolled on the burglar's soul
The badges muscled in, burned their frozen chins and so did I

Blessing drunken slurs with a five-grain cure
The dragons found the grail, they tipped the holy scales and so did I

So did I light the fire, burning towards my head
So did I light the fire and begin

You hear the chorus of the trees, they sing of things you cannot see
That the wind and the seasons are alive, and the hardest battles are the ones inside,
for life, for life

So I sing my tale of a love derailed and the cargo that was lost,
nailed onto a cross with you and I

And though we sit, in the devil’s pit, our chorus won’t be long,
'cause freedom is a song of you and "I"

So did I light the fire, burning towards my head
So did I light the fire and begin

Ogre's Laugh

Welcome to Mike Spring’s corner of in-your-face songwriting

This page is inspired by the charm of pure songwriting. It is about the creating of a song, improvised music and raw demo’s. Naked not afraid ;)

‘Sketches from Holland’ is created by MIKE SPRING. This page holds raw recordings of original songs played live solely or invented in the heat of the moment. Tracks may be mono and not mixed. 
Once my inspiration is lit into a song idea a musical train starts rolling off hill. Often I finish a piece. Sometimes it stays a sketch and is forgotten about many years.

Thank you for listening!
Mike
The Netherlands (Holland)
2015/02/07

(all rights reserved)


Hope It's Alright (song improvisation 2014)

Sketches from Holland

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