and another lovely song. some dark-ish intensity. wonderful writing

Veery cool...kinda take this one personally hahahahaha :)))) 

GREAT voice singing this beautiful song..!!

love the chorus, wonderful tune! keep up the great work!

@lalisamagdaleno: Wow - thanks for such a wonderful comment Lisa! You make it all worth while. Honestly it's all about reaching and moving people - and hoping that we're not all freaks :)

Cool track Stephen - good instrumentation and I always like your vocal arrangements and guitars!!! Peace:)) (new trx up 4 me 2 see ya!! :)))xo

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This fifth musical poem, 1936, was again written from the photograph that accompanies it. This photograph captured a moment in 1936. During the depression, many farms failed and sharecroppers like these were rendered homeless and forced out onto the open highways, much like their “dustbowl” brethren, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath comes to mind. They congregated at roadside camps, sharing meals and commiserating with each other.

It just so happens that my mother’s father died the same year, her family being thrown into the maelstrom of losing its patriarch and chief bread-winner. My mother was about four months old. So I thought about the parallels and came up with this little story about the boy in the photograph and the day my grandfather died.

This is a series of several musical poems chronicling the sharecropper era.  Fernando approached me with the idea of a series of little stories that tell a larger one, all put to music. I loved the idea. I had these little poems about the sharecropper era and he thought he could make them work. I think you will agree he did a brilliant job.

I spent all my summers in a little country town in very rural Mississippi called Fort Adams. When I say small, I am talking two streets – Front Street and Back Street.  Wembley Stadium is larger. There were no more than 50 people in town, others lived out in the country – farmers and fisherman. A little one-room school house still exists where the sharecropper children went to school, when they were not working in the field.

My Uncle Cy ran a dry goods store and fishhouse there. He had everything from canned goods, to Nehi soft drinks, feed and seed, to work clothes and boots, and to sewing implements. The fish house processed the fish and chickens that were traded to him. He was a furrier, bought baby turtles to sell to pet shops, anything to turn a buck.

So, as child growing up in the 60s (born in 1956) I got to witness the last vestiges of this sharecropper era. While there are still farmers who work on a share, I am not sure any suffer as these people did. They lived in little one-room shantys that lacked electricity and water. The only heat came from a woodstove that filled the shanty with a woodsmoke odor.The children seldom owned shoes and a second set of clothes was rare.

We would enter town down what was called The Mile Hill Road…a winding road with deep ravines on either side. At one point it travels straight down for a mile in a steep grade. At the bottom of the hill was a row ofshantys pressed hard into the hillside. None had glass in the windows, or doors. The people who lived there sharecropped and lived hard-scrabble lives.

Hopefully these songs tell their story.

John Eagle (@marshmaster-1johneagle)

1936
Lyrics - John Eagle
Music - Fernando Gonzalo

1936 was the year my mother was born
As she lay in her bassinette, swaddled
A little black boy, with his little red wagon,
Along a rutted dirt road
Tilted his head to look back
With his tilted newsboy hat
Something was back there
He looked back at what was home

By the time this happened
My mother’s father was dead
Something about work
It was cold storage, I think
He just had a cold
But the job was scarce
And the family waited
In granny’s boarding house

The man next to the little boy looked back
And so did all the others…at what?
And for all the cotton picked that year
The little red wagon was empty
Empty as the road beyond
Perhaps a tent colony lay ahead
With a fire and an iron pot
For biscuits and Hoppin’ John

They waited for the milk and bread
That came from Papa of an evening
Gathered ‘round the table
Were Gramps and his Vaudeville jokes
Uncle Durphy with is Irish nose
And Ma with her doily hair
Then came the man in the suit
It was a real fine suit, for 1936

© 2013 John Eagle, Fernando Gonzalo

5. 1936 (lyrics Jon Eagle)

Currently working on a batch of ideas just now so i'll just keep throwing these up here. Thanks for all listens.

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TRAIN TO ECSTASY
Words and Music Stephen Randall

Love is not a place I know
I think I knew her long ago
But now I want that taste on me
On the train to ecstasy   
 
Let the journey redefine
Leave behind the ties that bind
Savor all that we can find
On the train to ecstasy   

CHORUS
Why don't you sway
And ride with me
Take this train to ecstasy 
Why don't you sway 
And ride with me
Take this train to ecstasy 

Not everything is destiny
Some of it is fantasy yeah
Better that than reality
On the train to ecstasy    

To a damaged heart I plead
You and I deserve relief
You are everything I need
Board the train to ecstasy 

CHORUS
Why don't you sway
And ride with me
Take this train to ecstasy 
Why don't you sway 
And ride with me
Take this train to ecstasy 

Sway and ride with me
You and I deserve relief

© & Ⓟ 2013 Stephen Randall

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ON A COLD WINTER'S NIGHT
ALL MY SECRETS ARE SAFE
BENEATH MY FIRE PLACE
I'M DIGGING MY GRAVE
NO REASON TO BREATH 
ANYMORE


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I remembered the Undertale Anniversary this time wowie (ง •̀ω•́)ง✧ I  wanted to pick the most influential song/parody of the decade for this fandom and I'm pretty sure it's this one, but there are definitely others that are up there as well that I haven't forgotten about~ ( ﾉ^ω^)ﾉ

I remember this UT parody in general being very controversial with the SU fandom, so much so I never ended up releasing my original version of it in 2015 that I sang (it's still there in my files), but I figure it's been 10 years and not really a big deal now, hence I remixed it again, this time with my Sans & Papy vocs. I'm saving my voice for...something else, I hope to reveal to you soon™ |･ω･)

It's been a busy year for me, lots of art/music work as usual behind the scenes. It's been weird writing music as often as I have been again and I'm still not ready to commit fully to a bi-monthly schedule, there's just too many unfinished things I'm working on rn and feels like a neverending questlog. But I'll get there eventually, consistent bi-monthly uploads would be the goal. I hope my sporadic uploading suffices for now, it's certainly better than uploading once every 6 months heh- (◐ω◑) 

(Original UT parody lyrics by gymleadercheren & thepinkestpug)

~[Lyrics]~

[0:13]
Turn around kid, it'd be a crime,
If I had to go back on the promise that I made for you,
So don't step over that line,
Or else, friend, you're gonna have a bad time,
But kids like you don't play by the rules,
And guys like me, aren't played for a fool,
So let's go, let the room get chiller,
Let's go, dirty brother killer-

[0:38]
Go ahead and try and hit me if you're able,
Guess you've figured now that mercy's off the table,
I can tell you're getting really sick of trying,
But I think you're just mad you keep dying-

You're not gonna win, we'll be here together,
Fighting in this judgment hall forever,
I know you reset each time I beat you,
But I'll be right back here to meet you-

[1:04]
I know you're made o-o-o-o-of
LO-O-O-O-OVE, LO-O-O-O-OVE
LO-O-O-O-O-OVE. 

O-o-o-o-of
LO-O-O-O-OVE, LO-O-O-O-OVE
LO-O-O-O- (glitchy trail off)

[2:20]
This is where it stops, this is where it ends,
If you want to get past me, well, you better try again,
No matter how I stall you, you don't give up your attack,
Do you like to feel the weight of your sins, crawling on your back?

[2:46]
Go ahead and try to hit me if you're able,
You should know by now that mercy's off the table,
Think that you can try to spare me like I'm some pawn?
Well, you didn't spare my brother, so get dunked on-
I know you made my friends disappear,
Everything they cared about's why I'm here,
I am their mercy, I am their vengeance,
I am determination-

[3:11]
I know you're made o-o-o-o-of
LO-O-O-O-OVE, LO-O-O-O-OVE
LO-O-O-O-O-OVE. 

O-o-o-o-of
LO-O-O-O-OVE, LO-O-O-O-OVE
LO-O-O-O- (glitchy trail off)

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I've released nine albums including Naive (2014), Above The Rain (2015), Heartlands (2016), The Freaks and the Brave (2017), Nashville When I Rise (2018), Retropolitan (2020), Oxygen (2021), Rock Paper Scissors (2023) and Hendon (2025).

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I used to write songs for other artists and thought that getting covers was what it was all about. Whenever I heard the end results of what other artists, producers or A&R people would do with my songs, I mostly found it soul destroying, so I allowed myself to I get distracted developing technology - inventing the Stepp digital guitar and founding several startups in mobile and healthcare.  Then about twelve years ago I started writing again and this time I wrote for myself and rediscovered my passion. So here I am, a songwriter again. 

I record on a MacBook Pro using Logic Pro X, and play a Fender Jazzmaster (my current go-to), American Fender Tele, Taylor acoustic, Epiphone Sheraton II Pro, Fender Jazz Bass, Line 6 Variax JTV, Stepp DG1 (of course!), Nord Piano 5/MIDI keyboard, Gretsch Lap Steel and am learning pedal steel on a Sho-Bud Pro pedal steel guitar. 

The Soundcloud community has fostered my motivation for songwriting and music discovery. Thanks for listening - every comment, constructive or otherwise inspires me.

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