The Brotherhood Of Hopeless Sinners Losers And Fools

The title says it all really. Just sat down to take up the annual challenge of writing a Christmas song and this tumbled out. Though I would try a kind of cheesy boy band approach.  Let me know what you think.

Christmas Without You

Wrote this one about a long day I had at a funeral. Had way too much to drink when I really didn't want. to or need to. In reality, i just wanted to go home.

Lay Me Down Boys

This track is from the album Fly and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/davecheetham

Love You from A to Z

Woulda Shoulda Coulda

This track is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/davecheetham3

Happy Christmas Mother

This track is from the album Look At Me Ma and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/davecheetham2

Coin Flip

Home Sweet Home

A song about the storytellers I've known through the years.

One More Drink

I wrote this song after I'd come home at the end of a truly bad day at work. The duchess to one look at me and said "We don't need to put ourselves through this, let's just go. It doesn't matter where, we'll just go.."
The fact that she was willing to drop it all right there and then and leave with me (and the kids) was all it took to lighten my load.
Because you always have a choice.

Take Me Away

A simple foot tapper I wrote. Proving that simple is often best, this is my favourite track on 'Bird's Eye View'.

Never Too Late To Learn How To Dance

In the years that followed World War II rock and roll music was banned in Russia. Although it was risky, music lovers developed cunning ways of recording bootleg music onto discarded x-rays. 
You can read more about the subject here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/29/bone-music-soviet-bootleg-records-pressed-on-xrays

I was captivated by the story so I wrote this song to try and capture the feeling. There's a bit of a love story wrapped up in it too..

Rock & Roll In Our Bones

A song I wrote about a family friend who sadly passed away earlier than he should have. I wrote it will a gospel choir style in mind. Maybe one day I'll be able to get one to record it for me.

Singing The Blues In Heaven

An overhaul for an old classic. A new twist on the old Bob Marley favourite 'Redemption Song'.

Bird's Eye View

Re - Redemption Song

LYRICS

Cadillac Dreams

Do you remember back in high school
When we were kids just fumbling through our teens
Those lazy summer days out by that old pool
Skimming stones and swimming out across that stream
We’d sit talking bout our plans for the future
All cars we’d drive and all the sights we’d see

VERSE 2
Now you’re sitting here beside me on that barstool
Filling in the gaps from more than twenty years
You tell me how he hit you he was so cruel
How he left you here with nothing but your tears
So I lean a little closer like I used to
And I say the words I know you long to hear

CHORUS
Cadillac dreams, cadillac dreams
Those endless days of blue skies and blue jeans
Cadillac dreams, cadillac dreams
Promise me you’ll never stop believing in our cadillac dreams 

VERSE 3
I tell you bout my dad and how I  lost him 
I never wed, just never met my queen
I quit job and sold my house in Boston
I spent all I had on some beat up old machine
Though it’s really not a car that’s made for looking 
But that tired old cadillac goes just like a dream

CHORUS

BRIDGE (Am Bm x 3 | Am C D )
When I take your hand it feels just like it used to
As I gently fold my fingers in-between
And we talk about the places we can go to
Now it time for us to live our cadillac dreams

CHORUS x 2

OUTRO
I promise you I never stopped believing our cadillac dreams

Cadillac Dreams

A song about that feeling you get when you are you and care free and going out for a big night out on the town.

Walk With The Devil

A mother's struggle deal with the daily grind in a loveless home. :-(

Screaming In Silence

One Star Away (digitally mastered)

Someone New

A song I wrote about astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a year alone in space. In that time he changed his view on life, love and humanity.

One Star Away

I think this song explains itself really.

Long Gone

My annual crack at a Christmas song. This year a slight change from the sloppy festive old guff.
This Christmas, Santa turned bad.

Switch Blade Santa Claus

A song I wrote Vivian Maier story. A fascinating true story I came across in the newspaper.
A prolific street photographer, Vivian Maier spent her life taking photos she never even had processed.
Her massive body of work only came to light after her death when her photographs were discovered at an auction house in Chicago. From there, over 3000 undeveloped rolls of film were discovered and her images were eventually admired around the world and go on to change the life of John Maloof, the man who discovered her work and had the vision to bring it to the public eye.
http://www.vivianmaier.com/

Saving Precious Time

A song I wrote a while ago about a father's feelings when his son leaves home to start a life on his own.

Sail On The Tide

Just an average middle aged dad from North Wales who plays acoustic guitar a bit and enjoys #songwriting. I write songs that would probably be better if someone else sang them. My fourth studio album is out now on itunes and spotify and the fifth album is in production.

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