Your song has the power to evoke memories and emotions long forgotten. It's a beautiful gift.

Great sounding track. I love your Beatles covers.

well done. I sincerely applaud you for this.

great cover...a risky one to do but I really like the way you have done this. Thumbs-up from me.

Nice vocals, as usual, but I love the melty instrumental. Great track!

Captures the feeling, completely amazing 🙌

New songs, that were released in the second half of 2023. Taken from the albums, Sponges and More Sponges. I Am The Walrus [E.P], The Mist [E.P], and also the album Sparks.




2023: Ridden by the Witches of the Night

Perpetual Euphoria

A power ballad..

LYRICS:

The step is not hard to take
But over and over again
we bend and we break
The same simple mistake
at the start with my terrible heart in your hand
and you tighten the grip
on the part with the delicate need for command
It's all built in the sand

We stay awake for days
while kneeling and feeling our way
through vacuums of space
It's a desolate place
Fuel the fire with the furious ire of your soul
Feed the flames in the night
Build the pyre, an eternal reprieve from the cold
And so we'll never grow old

You've been ignoring the ballad of fire on the radio
but if you listen it's calling
You've been ignoring the ballad of fire on the radio
but if you listen it's calling to you

You see yourself as a hero for hire but we all know
there's no commissioner calling
Your alter ego's just you in a bar with no windows
and you're rapidly falling
If you cared you could still give yourself a crescendo
but you'd have to go all in
You've been ignoring the ballad of fire on the radio
but if you listen it's calling to you

You've been ignoring the ballad of fire on the radio
but if you listen it's calling
You've been ignoring the ballad of fire on the radio
but if you listen it's calling to you

Ballad of Fire

Swing For This

La mélodie délicate du piano se mêle aux accords chauds des violons, créant une harmonie qui semble à la fois familière et novatrice. "Lou" est comme un parfum précieux qui persiste, ses notes se révélant lentement, nous plongeant dans une réflexion profonde.

A chaque nouvelle écoute, on découvre de nouvelles subtilités, comme si on revivait un souvenir précieux sous un nouvel angle. C'est cette beauté perpétuelle qui rend "Lou" si spéciale, comme une photographie bien-aimée que l'on peut regarder encore et encore, découvrant toujours quelque chose de nouveau.

"Lou" est une boucle infinie de beauté et de nostalgie, une composition qui ne cesse d'évoquer et de capturer l'essence des souvenirs et des émotions les plus profondes.

Deus Sive Natura

Lou - Mythmaker and Antonio Giardina

Abbey Road Medley [The Beatles Cover]

A Miller has no dreams.
He can not hope to see every horse in every stream.
There's no need to spur.
A horse that's travelling, already up to speed.

Look to the stars.
Stare up all you like, but you'll never get that far.
Look to the sky.
You'll never understand. you're never gonna fly.

The kids dont think in dreams.
Taken, locked away, a never-ending scream.
A future made obscene.
Squandered on a stupid capitalist scheme.

The kids don't think at all.
Waiting for the day they're lined against a wall.
A conflict of the mind.
The world of black and white, pointed, erudite.

Look to the stars.
Shine on alkaline, you're just fine as you are.
Look to the sky.
You're never gonna know why the world is passing by.

While the miller told his tale.
The sword of damocles, descending, deft, unfurled.
The trampling of the damned.
Can you hear them fall? a back against a wall.

Look to the stars.
Climb up any height, the distance is too far.
Look to the sky.
Forget it ammonite. It's where they placed the bar.

Chase Thee Not! The Moon

Don't wanna give your days away?
What has tomorrow got to do with yesterday?
So why go on wasting your time?
Waiting for some new event to crop up down the line .

Beyond the shining place and living by the sea.
Your destination, feels no further on to me.

Just like a dead cat by the road.
Who should of stayed home and just done as he was told.
The same old spin on your mistakes.
Nobody is watching you, until you drop the plate.
Why can't we just leave well alone.
Up to here with forking out, not sharing up the load.
Wait... What? Were we supposed to grow?
Missed out on the walking part went running in the snow.

Somewhere between welcoming and living in disgrace.
Between an elephant and a bird in a cage. 

You need warm weather to go swimming in the sea.
You need an umbrella to have something to leave. 
You need a hitch to take the opportunities.
Drag them up again.
Out of luck again.
Pig in muck again.
Guess what? Look again.

It's just your standard forked road.
The devil making this deal he is keeping his eyes closed.
A promise made you never keep.
A mistep taken which could even make a father weep.

When you are older you avoid a bended knee.
But, then again, it's easier for simplicity.

You need warm weather to go swimming in the sea.
You need an umbrella to have something to leave. 
You need a hitch to take the opportunities.
Drag them up again.
Pass the buck again.
Pig in muck again.
Guess what? Look again.

Drag Them Up (Part One)

A cool bit of jazziness. You know how it is...the perfect pair of shoes end up breaking your heart! Sung by Sierra, Chris and Shael, and produced, as always, by Shael Wrinch at the Stone Hill studio on Beautiful Bowen Island...
Lyrics
Its gonna rain...down on my brand new shoes
Just like the words you said, it takes the shine away
Its gonna rain...they may just fall apart
'cause when the stitches fail, theres nothin more to say
I thought Id found the perfect pair
I didnt see the tear
It may have come from lookin the other way
 hmmmm
Its gonna rain...I see the damage done
'cause with the shape theyre in, it hurts to walk away...

Tequila Monday

Brand New Shoes

Just for a bit of fun. Played it in C like the Beatles did originally, didn't try be too exact.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed.
Misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me.
Let me take you down, cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

No one I think is in my tree.
I mean, it must be high or low.
That is, you can't, you know, tune in, but it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad.
Let me take you down, cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Always know, sometimes think it's me 
But you know, I know when it's a dream.
I think I know, I mean, ah, Yes. 
But it's all wrong.
That is, I think I disagree.

Let me take you down, cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Strawberry Fields Forever [The Beatles Cover]

"End Of The Journey" is another standalone piano piece which is loosely based on a song I wrote in the early 1990's. It was originally an Afrikaans song and created using A minor, E minor, D minor and G major chords. I stripped it all back and kept the words in poetry format. I mainly focused on the A and E minor chords and hints of the main melody idea.  

In Afrikaans the piece was called "Oor Verhoe, Berge, Vlaktes" (over stages, mountains, plains) and it was meant as a love song for the only person who mattered to me, my best friend. I got myself lost in my music during my teenage years and clearly, I never left. I love making new work, reworking old ideas and more... 

This piece has a hint of sorrow, with hints of light, nostalgia and memories. I always love playing the original music on my guitar. The music also has a hint of Erik Satie influence. 

Enjoy the piece and in the meantime, while I am away and off the grid enjoy all the other music on offer @ H.S. Botha Music. Remember, "there is always more music coming".

End Of The Journey

Insurgence

When I was young, 
Could not read the signs.
Could not see behind eyes.
Need to hear things.
What was left for me?

Out on the road.
People let go.
It's not that they know,
Anything you don't.
Wisdom in jest, you see.

Oh! "When I was a child."
"Where I came from."
Yeah? You're responsible, too.

Just a word before I go.
All you people are dead to me.

Mind: Follow me.
We'll stare at these stars.
That's a planet, it's Mars.
Not that you care.
Can't avoid destiny.

Home is a place.
Where you collect things.
To place inside tins.
Until you lose them.
For all eternity.

Oh, "when I was a child."
I put that away.
Girl, you should do too.

There's just you and your own.
All you people are dead to me.

Oh, "when I was a child."
Forget that one. Boy.
Not important to you.

Just a word in your ear.
All you people are dead to me.

A look from out.
The side of an eye.
A moment to spy.
Whats behind them.
However, fleeting.

A silent dig.
Inside of the mind.
Beside enemy's lines.
Nothing to bind them.
Yes, I'll be leaving.

Oh, "when I was a child."
I thought as such.
I was naught but a fool.

I discovered, too late.
Mostly.
People, they are dead to me.

Oh, "When I was a child."
"Where I came from."
Yeah? You're responsible, too.

Just a word before I go.
All you people are dead to me.













All You People Are Dead To Me

We shouldn't have to fight.
The piles of skulls must show it.
Who cares who's really right?
Nobody really knows it.
The road out of this place.
Littered with bones like you and me.
The dreams that floated high.
Same as dreams that sink to ground.

This is a road to nowhere.
It's all a route to now.

A spaceman in the clouds,
knows that he matters nought.
A twinkling in the eye.
Your time has come around.
The bell tolls out for thee.
The bells keep ringing out.
The cowboys and the cows.
Are dust to blow around...,

This is a road to nowhere.
It's all a route to now.
We're all on a road to nowhere.
There isn't even hell.

I don't think on the world,
When I'm no longer in it.
and if I try to think on death.
I just can't see much in it.
I do not think of frying pans,
somebody making love to you,
I do not sit and think and about.
All the people waiting to die.

This is a road to nowhere.
It's all a route to now.
We're all on a road to nowhere.
There isn't even hell.

A Road To Nowhere

Nor blanket of kindness, nor blanket of snow.
Covers me whole. Makes no inroads from...
The giant black smoke stack that bellows and blows.
Oh, how it blows. 
Blows out and blows.

Oh, please, oh, please.
Save me, from me.
Eloise, in your garden of love.
Oh, please, won't you please.
Save me, from being me.
Eloise, in your garden of love.

The choices I make must sit right in my head.
Eloise. Come with me.
If I make the wrong choice, I'll wish I were dead.
Eloise, we could be...
So happy you joined us, though you're rather late.
Honey, please, Set me free.
Now eat everything that we put on your plate.
On my knees, work with me.

Oh, please, won't you please.
Save me from just me.
Eloise, in your garden of love.
Oh, please, please, please.
Save me, save me, save me.
Eloise, in your garden of love.

Now I'm walking and talking.
And barely forestalling this breakdown.
Won't come free.
Eloise, in the garden of love.
I walk and I talk.
And say all the words I'm supposed to say now.
Alter me. 
Eloise, in your garden of love.

Some sort of third verse that explains the first two.
Eloise. Follow me?
The storm in your mind can't contain what you do.
Eloise. Follow me?

Oh, please, won't you please.
Save me, only me.
Eloise, with your garden of love.
Oh, please, please, please.
Save me, me, me.
Eloise, with your garden of love.

I'm walking, I'm baulking.
I'm right on the edge of a breakdown.
From the fee.
Eloise. Eloise  Eloise.
I can't walk, and I can't talk.
I can't alter the words that you say now.
Fancy free. 
Eloise. 
In your garden of love.

The choices I make must sit right in my head.
If I make the wrong choice, I'll wish I were dead.
Eloise in your garden of love.











Eloise

Leave it with me, and we'll see.
What we find without.
What the talks about.
What they've left around.
What goes round and round.

Leave it with me, and we'll see.
What we're dealing out.
What we worked around.
What it's all about.
Why we're talking loud.

The spark that glows can be restored.
The spark is fed, the fire roars.

Just let it be, and we'll see.
What the chats about.
What they're hawking out.
Where the feelings gone.
Where we're going wrong.

Just let it be, and we'll see.
What they're paying on.
What's the chance they're gone.
What's the right and wrong.
Whether it's begun.

The spark lights up the window pane.
Only the blackened charred remains.
The spark that glows can be restored.
The spark is fed, the fire roars.

What the life's about.
spinning lies around.
What this loves about.
What lies round about. 

What is going on.
Where it all went wrong.
Why the fuss began.
When the rabbit rabbit ran.

The spark lights up the feilds again.
Showing only charred remains.
The spark that glows can be restored.
The spark is fed, the fire roars.

Leave it with me, and we'll see.
When it's coming back.
A surprise attack.
What or not, the craic.
That we sorely lack.

Leave it to me, and we'll see.
What the chats about.
What they're hawking out.
Where the feelings gone.
Where we're going wrong.


Spark

i wanna be with you, i wanna win ur heart back.
me and u would look better, i wanna make love letters.
i want me and u to cuddle together while we make ourselves warm forever, but sometimes i feel torn without you.
ur like the love of my life, lets just never fight!
lets be together forever, ur js too clever.
ur so beautiful,ur so beautiful, ur so beautiful, ur so beautiful.
2nd verse
i wanna be with you, i wanna win ur heart back.
me and u would look better, i wanna make love letters.
i want me and u to cuddle together while we make ourselves warm forever, but sometimes i feel torn without you.
ur like the love of my life, lets just never fight lets-lets never fight.
lets be together forever.
ur so beautiful, ur so beautiful, ur so beautiful ur so beautiful.

loveletters

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams.





Strawberry Fields Forever [The Beatles Cover]

SpukSchreibMaschine

Recent comments

Zachary Luke

djamesk13

Forget Me Not Records Artists

thommo 🎧

Related tracks

Strawberry Fields Forever [The Beatles Cover]

SpukSchreibMaschine

Recent comments

Zachary Luke

djamesk13

Forget Me Not Records Artists

*thommo* 🎧

Related tracks

thommo 🎧