thank you so much for presenting the lyrics as well! even though there are a few words i don't get it helps me to get a clue whether there is a match of wording and sound/arrangement that supports the message. in case of your track it evokes the drive of the old man who approaches ... :)

Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gJE4tlbWzQ

A few tracks from Future Melancholy Pop Music
Order here
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/future-melancholy-pop-music/id1207835048
CD/Bandcamp https://folkwitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/future-melancholy-pop-music

Future Melancholy Pop Music

We Move (stereo)

Borstal

Order / Stream

Can't Rest

that one song at the end of Mo ep 7

The first single from Good Habits' "Quarter-Life" Album.
Featuring the amazing Kate Griffin from Mishra on Banjo and vocals.

As the cool bass cello riff took center stage in this track, its dynamic vibe seamlessly paired with Kate's vocals. This combination captures the essence and meaning of the song. 'Sunday' is all about embracing moments of respite without guilt—an anthem against burnout. The synergy between the lively bass and Kate's stylings on both regular banjo and cello banjo adds a new color to Bonnie’s performance that itself musically represents taking time and standing up for yourself.

Sunday - Good Habits Ft. Kate Griffin

I'm trying to manifest, I'm hoping by making a song about the sun shining, that it will actually shine, cause it's about bloody time!

The Sun Is Shining (with Nevusside)

David Harrow is a dub and  electronica legend who has worked with everyone from On U Sound and Andrew Weatherall, to Bjork. Rude Audio have been producing dub and leftfield dance tunes for a decade or more, garnering plays and support from the likes of Weatherall (RIP), Justin Robertson and Don Letts on BBC Radio 6. David Harrow has been revisiting genre excursions he undertook under the James Hardway pseudonym with this brand new tune, which will be available in various manifestations, including a couple of Rude Audio remixes

https://davidharrow.bandcamp.com/album/take-a-minute

David Harrow social link - https://www.facebook.com/DavidHarrowMusic/
David Harrow Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/davidharrow

Rude Audio soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/rudeaudio
Rude Audio Social - https://www.facebook.com/p/Rude-Audio-100087923577018/

PREMIERE: JAMES HARDWAY - Take A Minute (RUDE AUDIO REMIX)

Taken from the  album Future Melancholy Pop Music 
iTunes -
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/bad-man/1456633699?i=1456633702
Bandcamp/CD -
https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/track/bad-man
Web - http://johnnocasson.co.uk


Lyrics

Be it day or be it night, always chipper, always bright
As you wait, you wait for a man to come
You show ‘em in, show ‘em out
Meet the kids then chuck him out
As you wait, you wait for the right man to come
I’m free for a date, oh free for a life
Come elevate all these matters of stress and strife
It’s in front of you nose but you just can’t see
When every road you’re travelling leads you right to me

I’m a bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man 
But I do the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can

Made mistakes, paid my dues
the kindest souls can get the blues come on, give this bloke a chance
Patient man, callous hands but a heart that understands
Come on, I won’t be playing you
I can hail at the moon, I can scream at the light
Even tough men want someone to hold at night
I’ve got so much to give and I’m good for my years
Ain’t it just about time that someone dried your tears

I’m a bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man 
But I do the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can

Only hope these words of mine are getting to you
Only hope these words of mine are getting through
We’ll be fine, we’ll be cool, we’ll be right, we’ll be true
Girl it’s time we got together now
Girl it’s time we got together now

I’m a bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man 
But I do the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can
Bad man, I’m an old man, I’m a foolish man
Doing the work like nobody else can
(c) Johnno Casson 2017

Bad Man

Taken from the album Future Melancholy Pop Music which is out now on Folkwit Records. 
iTunes -
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/future-melancholy-pop-music/id1207835048
Bandcamp/CD -
https://folkwitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/future-melancholy-pop-music
Web - http://johnnocasson.co.uk
Folkwit Records - http://www.folkwit.biz/c

Lyrics
Oh what a crazy mixed up world 
We live in bubbles away from diamonds and from pearls
Those in high places love to flout 
Ain’t those the people we can live without

I ain’t got time for
The Government
I ain’t got time for
Donald Trump
I ain’t got time for
Jose Mourinho
I ain’t got time for no
But I’ve so much for you

I heard your voice on the radio
I heard on the radio loud and clear

I’ve had a bellyful of bleak 
Switched off the TV news and turned the other cheek
Bring back the good times in our lives
Shut down the haters and escape 
With music on the radio

I ain’t got time for
The Kardashians
I ain’t got time for
Simon Cowell
I ain’t got time for
Greedy footballers
I ain’t got time for no
But I’ve so much time

I ain’t got time for
Terrorists
I ain’t got time for
Bigostry
I ain’t got time for
Eamon blinking Holmes
I ain’t got time for no
But I’ve so much time

I ain’t got time for
Ridicule
I ain’t got time for
Cruelty
I ain’t got time for

Self serving idiots
I ain’t got time for no
But I’ve so much time for you

© Johnno Casson 2016

Ain't Got Time For

'With Leaving Birds'  will be available for pre order on itunes from the 20th of October from this link  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jeanes/id384485866
and available to buy on the 03/11/2017 from Itunes and usual streaming sites.

‘With Leaving Birds’ sees Dougie Harley sing a story of goodbye from the banks of a Scottish sea loch.
The song tells of a lover compelled to leave, regardless of how much they are begged to stay. Set in autumn as winter approaches and the birds are called to other shores.

The 17th century English minister & scientist Charles Morton wrote a about how birds migrate to the moon and back every year. Ancient sailors believed birds returned from space to land on their ships.
Medieval encyclopedia’s have texts about barnacle geese growing from trees over water. From Ophelia and Shakespeare to Homers iliad the literary world is awash with stories of migration and water & sea. These are the inspiration for ‘with leaving birds’.
 
Written by R J
Vocal & guitar arrangement: Dougie Harley
String Arrangements: R J & Tom Sidebottom
 
Release Date
3rd November 2017
 
lyrics
floating down the water
she fills my thoughts today
as I can still recall her in the water
d'you know how it feels
to wave someone goodbye
to watch them disappear
to cast your love aside
 
slow goodbye the words absurd
since when did good, cause so much hurt
and goodbye, give me the words
my loves away with leaving birds
with leav-ing birds, with leaving birds, with leaving birds, with leaving birds
 
longing falls around you, pushing down you
now I know I've lost you, what can I do?
d'you know how it feels
to wave someone goodbye
to watch them disappear
along the riverside
 
slow goodbye
the drifting words
why can't my love just carry hers?
willow leaves will stroke her hair
from thistle downs to ocean air
 
float goodbye, please give me words
my loves away with leaving birds
snow geese come, as my love goes,
in reeds she slows and river flows, and ri-ver flows, and river flows, and river flows, and river flows,
my love she goes.

With Leaving Birds

Dougie Harley - With Leaving Birds (written by Jeanes)

The Boats - It's Not Your Fault (It's How Air Works)

Pete Beat - Homesick Night

Snippet is London reared/Colchester based songwriter, recording artist, Johnno Casson. 
English Fables Vol.1 Out Now - https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/english-fables-vol-1
http://linktr.ee/snippetcuts

The back story

For the last 16 years Johnno has been releasing independent music under his own name, as Snippet, Old Tramp and Walken400, creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances, and having been named by Tom Robinson as the most played BBC Introducing artist ever on his BBC 6 Music show, Johnno has continued to release vibrant music with plenty of bounce to the ounce.

Former caretaker, London Underground railman and local council relationship manager Johnno Casson aka Snippet started out writing songs at 15 in his bedroom on a Hackney council estate with a tennis racket for a guitar and a soap-on-a-rope microphone.

Johnno played for Adrian Sherwood’s (On-USound) 5-a-side football team (silky smooth striker), gloriously beating The Sun newspaper’s team at a championship for charity at Arsenal’s stadium, and for the last 12 years he has been perfecting his coleslaw making skills, whilst getting M.E and becoming a well respected figurehead on the British D.I.Y./Wonky Pop scene.

Johnno also runs the award winning community group The Warm and Toasty Club, running special live events for the last 9 years www.facebook.com/thewarmandtoastyclub

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Johnno Casson aka Snippet

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