you and the guitar both sound great; this one makes me feel

Nice swing to the guitar playing and great dusky vocal

A lofi acoustic song about being in love and going on first dates...

A nostalgic song about the period of time when my future wife and I were first going out together in London. We were still living in our own places at that point and would meet up twice a week to go to the cinema or have a picnic on Primrose Hill ("lying on the grass with a bottle of wine as the sun goes down").

*** Watch the video! https://youtu.be/E9yFCxIGcwU ***

I deliberately recorded this one in a spontaneous and less-polished way than the album (Short Stories) which I put out recently. Although I played everything on the track, in my head it is a "band" song! I really enjoyed working this way and the plan is to continue recording like this for now.

The song is released on Spotify/Apple etc. on 29.04, so you can hear it (and lots of other music) there if you like. Links are below.

Thanks for listening and for all of your comments. I really enjoy reading them.
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LYRICS:
Sweetness, sweetness I can hardly wait
To see you smile again.
Sweetness, sweetness my heart starts to race
Whenever I see your face

Meet me at six on the Circle Line.
Couple of stops I'll be feeling fine.
Can't wait to make you mine for a couple of days.
Got an idea for a place to go:
To a movie or a picture show.
You're my belle and I'm your beau when we go out tonight.

Sweetness...

The sun is out, I'm feeling fine.
Got a brand new Valentine.
Lying on the grass with a bottle of wine when the sun goes down tonight.
You go home, there's an empty space.
Maybe soon we can find a place,
Disappear without a trace together you and me.

Sweetness...
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LINKS:
- website: https://www.robertgraymusic.com
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7PPlIPRaK0VCvpT-7x6zpw
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1zf4ux62YMZ2Lry8qdEtTh?si=Vu4DGbkFQ6ek4tzcGoj17g
- Bandcamp: www.robertgraymusic.bandcamp.com
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/robert-gray-music
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Sweetness

If you so happen to like this, please please give me a like.  

The only thing from the original recording is the vocal, me in 2002.  I've kept the original vocal because I like how I stylised it, though I'm not entirely sure what I was aiming for there, most likely trying to sound like someone - though I can't remember who! 

It's got the benefits of being a voice about 19/20 years younger than the present one!  I'm by no means fallen to pieces, but have a notably different voice at 42 to the one I had at 22! I did try to re record a little piece of the vocal, just a couple of words, won't say which bit, only because it was a lyric I didn't love, but that sadly made the voice difference over 20 years glaringly obvious, because of which I've left the vocal as it was. 

Lyrics

You always tell me that I'm looking fine
I know you know I've got things on my mind
I know I've been lost and, in the freeze,
Been beaten down, the bruises only I can see!

I feel the cold wind cut close to the bone
At times when I feel like I’m on my own
But no, I ‘m still me 
I’m still me!

Just need a little recovery
Try and be the way I used to be
And see the things I used to see
A smile on my face
But smiles can be misplaced
In time, can be erased
But mine will be replaced
Will be replaced!

You exorcize the things that haunt my soul
Can leap through fire when I’m not alone
But no I'm not brave
My life's another slay
Inner punches by my fist alone
Struggles twine themselves around my throat
But no I'm still me
I’m still me!

Just need a little recovery
Try and be the way I used to be
And see the things I used to see
A smile on my face
But smiles can be misplaced
In time, can be erased
But mine will be replaced
Will be replaced!

Sometimes I feel like there’s just no way out
Feel like my body’s knocked into the ground
I know I seem to have lost all control
My frail image might have lost it’s soul

But I know, still, I won’t go! 

Just need a little recovery
Try and be the way I used to be
And see the things I used to see
A smile on my face
But smiles can be misplaced
In time, can be erased
But mine will be replaced
Will be replaced!

Re-uploaded 20/9/23 (that's just for my reference).

Recovery (2002)

R        O        X        X

Hi all, hope you are all well. I’ve got a rocker for you I call Lady.
Crank it up and give it a listen and tell me what you think.
Peace,
Tom 

Lady
Words and Music by 
Tom RoXX © ℗  

Verse:
When you look my way
Don’t look halfway
No power play
Don’t break away
 
I know you won’t let me down
I know you won’t keep me bound
Lookin’ for a turn around
Can you feel my heart pound

I was always lookin’ for a girl
My heart could wrap around

Chorus:
Lady, Let me hold you and envelope you
Lady, You know we had to début
Lady, Let me take you to breakfast

Verse 2:
You know my minds made up
I think we’re gonna blow up
So far so good
You know you’re understood

I know you won’t let me down
I know you won’t keep me bound
Lookin’ for a turn around
Can you feel my heart pound

I was always lookin’ for a girl
My heart could wrap around

Bridge:
(spoken)
This is the part of the story
Where your mind starts playing tricks
To make you sabotage a good thing

Lead:

Chorus:

Recorded at RoXX Studios
Copyright 2022 All rights reserved

Lady

Are you Ready for a true love musical manifesto? Now you can finally listen to the album that tells OUR LOVE STORY from the beginning:

 In the summer of 2020, we met and it was certainly NOT A CHANCE ENCOUNTER, but an ocean and pandemic separated us from our DISTANT LOVE. We couldn’t even FLY to meet one another in person for almost a year. We were only together in our dreams and told each other; I DREAMT of you LAST NIGHT… And oh, TE EXTRAÑO we proclaimed to one another. Finally, for the first time, we were able to meet under the palm trees and our first SWEET EXPLOSIONS together burst forth like fireworks against the backdrop of the night sky. 
We got engaged under the stars and promised LET’S FIND OUR WAY so that we never have to part. We applied for a visa, and received some WHITE HOUSE MAIL, to help liven our spirits and stay positive while we waited over a year for the Visa to be approved. So many times we said, hang in there, because BABY I’M COMING FOR YOU!  So let the SUNBEAMS brighten up your day. And now, being fortunate enough to create so many wonderful memories together, we know the true DEFINITION OF SUBLIME. We are so happy to be living A STORY THAT NEVER ENDS and now, after all this time, we have had the highest highs, the lowest lows, the biggest smiles and painful tears, our COSMIC CONVERGENCE is finally almost complete !

Not a Chance Encounter

Frenzy Of An Ordinary Day

Music & Words : Bruno Chassaigne (many years before becoming Loony De Bussy)   Art work : Nataly NGM

Bruno did drums program, bass , guitar and vocal 

Recorded on 4-tracks tape recorder 
Mastered by Loony on Audacity 

Play it loud!

Story :
Here is a bit of what happens when you loose someone you cherish above all.. the one who gave you inconditional love, the one who gave you life! 
I was still a young music student at this time, but it seemed youth - and all its carelessness - would never ever be.
Nothing I was able to do except... crying, and, just after one week -  when walking along the sea apart from family , trying to find interior peace and accepting - composing this!
I wrote music as I could when back in my car (always had some music paper and a pen in it) and words came instantly.
Days after I could check it on a guitar, and only one year later record it. 
Never been able to play it with bands so that you’re almost the first listeners here … more than three decades later
Hope you will appreciate

Bruno C

I'M CRYING  -  Bruno C

Silver Moon

A phone call with someone in a bad mood, whom you try in vain to cheer up, someone who is very important to you. That's what the song is about.
Gloomy Day
She: "You are so silent. You are so silent."
He: "I feel so strange today".
			                She: "What can I do?"
He: "Nothing can take that away."
			                She: "I’d like to help you."
He: "Today I feel sad."
		                        She: "You wanna stay in bed!?"
He: "Nothing can help me."
		                         She: "Why not? Let’s see."
He: "Everyone makes me mad."
		                          She: "Shall I bring you a cat?"

He: "I wanna be alone."
		              She: "Please stay on the phone!"
He: " I wanna be alone."
		              She: "Please stay on the phone!

		              What to do to help you, what to do to help you?"

He: "Everything is doll."
		                         She: "Why not go for a stroll?"
He: "I wanna stay at home."
		                          She: "You should not be alone!"
He: "I need time on my own."
		                           She: "I let you alone."
He: "I have to sort a few things."
		                           She: "Don’t have to many drinks!"
He: "I will stay sober."
		                           She: "Is it the dark October?"
 
He: I’ll phone you tomorrow."
		               She: "I hope without sorrow!"
He: "Now we should hang up."
		               She: "I love you a lot!"
He: "Now we should hang up."
		               She: "I love you a lot!
		               I love you a lot!"

Gloomy Day

All In My Dreams

80% of the US economy is driven by the consumer generally buying useless things.Capitalism is probably the best societal scenario but only if you couple it with empathy and a reasonable safety net for those who need it. How a society treats its lowest economic class is the measure of the strength and success of that society in my opinion..not how much top heavy wealth is created.
True empathy is more than a passing thought or a superficial wave of the hand.There are plenty of people who have that empathy but there are plenty who don't

lyrics

got another day off so there's time on my hands
got a credit card I know I can't afford
but the tv says I want some things I don't need
besides they say I deserve it   so don't you see
got to kill some time

So I go downtown with all the rest
walk around all day buying things I can't afford
bring them home and stuff them in the attic
in a box with all the things I've bought on my other days off
on each I'll put a label with the date on a line
this is something else I can do to kill some time

today on my way I stopped at a light
I watched some barefoot kids kick a can
saw an old man hold out his hand
kids on the corner making a plan
have to do something bad to have fun
stores with empty windows, broken glass in the homes
everyone wearing tattered old clothes
I wonder if they have a day off too??

maybe there is something else I should do?
the light changed  and I was back on my way
I'll search the shelves to find where they sell empathy
then I'll buy me some and take it home with me
I'll put it in the attic with a date and a lable
I hope I don't get home late
there's good stuff on the cable

the  consumer ( or, thanks for shopping..did you find what you were looking for?)

Merci à Monsieur Gontrand, l'interprète de cette chanson.

Quand la vague se meurt, l’écume prolifère
La fin d’un amour laisse un goût amer
La vie est sujette aux caprices du vent
Retourner en mer n’est pas évident

J’attends la prochaine vague pour me lancer
J’attends la prochaine idylle pour créer
Un Monde enchanté auquel je veux croire
Pour ne pas sombrer dans le désespoir

La vague est passée mais je rêve toujours
De bonheur sur Terre, d’un nouvel amour
Même si je suis fou et que je divague
Je brav’rai la mer pour surfer ces vagues

Jusqu'à la dernière vague (avec Monsieur Gontrand)

A diary of a journey 
a journey through a diary
Some smooth mood, they say

All In My Dreams

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