I must say brilliantly written man... steps like a mountain climb... blood like a river from that same mountain...at least that's how I see it. Wonderful performance too!

I always love your use of harmonies and this one needed another listen...so here I am! Beautiful song Steve. Durge

a beautiful journey in a storytelling song. Really like this song.

Ticks all the boxes for me Steve, pulled in from the first bar.

Easy - The Commodores | Cover - New Music by TexMex Shaman | Vocals by REKHA Iyern [Fe]

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Easy - Commodores

Know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain
Girl/Boy, I'm leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl/boy you know I've done all I can
You see I begged, stole and I borrowed, yeah

Ooh, that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning

Why in the world would anybody put chains on me? Yeah
I've paid my dues to make it
Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be
I'm not happy when I try to fake it, no

Ooh, that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, yeah
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning

I wanna be high, so high
I wanna be free to know the things I do are right
I wanna be free just me, oh baby

That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, yeah
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, ooh

'Cause that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, yeah

'Cause that's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning

'Cause I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning

'Cause I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning

Songwriters: Lionel Richie

Music/Vocals, Recorded & Performed, Mixed & Mastered by REKHA IYERN FE RECORDS in CANADA

Final Mastering by TexMex Shaman in the USA

Cover Art Design: Photo & Graphics by REKHA IYERN FE
Photo by TEXMEX Shaman, Graphics by REKHA IYERN FE

Easy - With - Rekha - 170721a  (cover)July 17th, 2021 Official Master 1 by TMS

Easy

Easy - The Commodores | Cover - New Music by TexMex Shaman | Vocals by REKHA Iyern [Fe]

Blues For Mama By Sucole & 6qsax

You Don’t Talk Easy

Yeah, I’m all over you
Coming by your room
Faking accidental  - as if you didn't know
These small steps up a mountain climb 
And nothing’s going to turn back time, hey you

I’m crawling cross this chasm that I find
I’m trying to talk my way into your eyes
In real life you’re quick to speak your mind
But you don’t talk easy here tonight
You don’t talk easy here tonight

So fate has brought you here
You could have moved anywhere
But now we got these workdays to share
With my turn of phrase suggestible
Your face it stays imperceptible, hey you

Chorus

A woman like you is surely spoken for
And who am I to dare to come between
Warm blood is going to make me stay the course
Like the river flows from mountain to the sea

YOU DON'T TALK EASY

I found myself scribbling furiously in my little spotty book.  

Messed about with a couple of simple chords and picking patterns and thought I'd grab a quick one-track take to see if it all hung together.

I was quite chuffed - it seemed to fit - got all the way through on one live take too, albeit with plenty of clangers, twangs, tangled fingers, buzzing strings and missed chord changes.  That's pretty darned good going for me.

Every subsequent attempt to improve was, of course, rubbish. 

So here you have before you my flash/bang song writing and recording effort in the raw - no edits no eq.  If it was beer or bread, then over here it would be labelled "artisan" and would command a price premium.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Enjoy.  :)

The End of Time

Not far now, for us to go.
Down our evolutionary road.
Lights flickering out, truth be told.
Not far now, for us to go.
Crawling slowly to the certain end.
Following the neon signs ahead.
Grip my hand for comfort, ancient friend.
Crawling slowly to the certain end.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.
	
Gauge our progress on the ground.
Bible parables everywhere are found.
Pestilence, poverty, injustice all abound.
Gauge our progress on the ground.
No archangels lead our cause.
The thieves that rape the game steal ever more.
With their plague of fixers, liars, cheats and whores,
No archangels lead our cause.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.

Lay our morals down and quit the fight.
Can’t defer the descent into night.
Close our eyes, imagining the light.
Lay our morals down and quit the fight.
Nowhere now, for us to go.
They’re digging up our evolutionary road.
Lights have flickered out, it’s turning cold.
Nowhere now, for us to go.

But when stars coalesce to one celestial diamond,
When infinity’s ticking clock calls midnight’s chime,
When my spirit meets its own event horizon,
I’ll be smiling there, to greet the end of time.

When our universe collapses back to elementary birth
When truth, faith, hope and charity intertwine
To fuse a light too bright for any darkness on this earth
I’ll be smiling there to greet the end of time.

Photo by Usukhbayar Gankhuyag on Unsplash

The End of Time

After many drafts, hopefully I have a final version of this song! It’s about narcissists, who can seem shiny and attractive at first. But the dissonance eventually reveals itself.

Lyrics:

I love you, yes I do!
And you love me, I can see!
I’m the one, yes the one.
Shining bright, I’m the sun.

Little darlin’ fall for me,
The false charms ring true.
Magnetic ways I save for you,
A little scene, I make the score.

You love me, I’m a catch!
No one else in the race!
But can’t they understand
I’m the best in the land.

Little darlin’ fall for me,
The false charms ring true.
Magnetic ways I save for you,
A little scene, I make the score.

Ooh, why do they fall
For the lies
That make us despise
The size of his ego
Ooh, what can be done, for
The lives that have been
Taken
Why do they fall for the lies
Time to make the move.
Arise.

Narcissus

Last of the Summer Flies

At last you have left - my insecticide is spent 
Though your screw driver voice is reverberating   
Your tongue it got bent - drilling holes in my head  
Now I’m smoothing hurts by restorative ironing 
And though they must have a role in ecosystems          
I’m so glad to see the last of the summer flies           
I’m so glad to see the last of the summer flies          

I guess you’ll find a niche – with some human who can reach
To find that tiny star behind the grating
Your sun first shone so bright – enough to launch a kite
But that superficial wind was soon deflating
And though . . . .

It’s in the news each day
Insects will fade away
Unless we realise
Every living thing has a vital place

I wish you the very best – maybe both of us are blessed
We were counting down our days so surely numbered
Hey you’re not to blame – I’m dreamy and often vague 
And for the earth I’ll pray for flies now just departed

LAST OF THE SUMMER FLIES

Hazy Ocean

I see you at the break of day
A flash of gold across a bay
I watch you you’re a dolphin riding rail
And then it comes the perfect wave
And balancing you show the way
Your love of life it’s written in your trail 

Hazy Ocean - you wash all over me
And I’m diving after you 
Like the tide follows the moon
Hazy Ocean - your spirit’s phosphorent
And your colour’s vivid blue 
While my love is all for you

You’re always wanting cosmic rhymes
To come and take us for a ride
And when they do it’s reason to believe 
There’s trust in nature’s open door
It lets you know why you were born
Your real life’s the script of other’s dreams

And when you paddle to the shore
You’re reaching out to one and all
You know the truth that happiness is laughter 
And across the night your flame is warm
Your star is up and all adore
They’re crowding round 
They’re hanging from the rafters

HAZY OCEAN

In so Deep 

I'm carryin' weight – beast of burden streets of Ankara
My feet they hurt – my saddle gonna wrench apart
My hunger never stops – the wave it never crests
I’m drowning in consequence

I’m in so deep – and I won’t let you down a bit
It’s history – I made you all these promises
Our worlds depart – the continents divide
I’m in so deep – I can look you in the eye

Haven’t felt a falter – never told you a lie
Is it in the realm – that the others will survive
When I see you in the door – I’m clutching a sea wall
In the Bosphorous

Long ago – she had my full devotion
I changed her name – like Constantinople
I felt the streets go dead
All the hawkers they had fled - Into armament

Behind a curtain – breathing incense and a huffin’ pipe
Mural on the wall – the mountains of Anatolia
If I have to pick and choose
I can’t crawl away from you - You’re in my heart

I’m in so deep – and I won’t let you down a bit
It’s history – I made you all these promises
Our world’s depart – the continents divide
I’m in so deep – I can look you in the eye

IN SO DEEP

There's a garden where all of us live
Where all of us take and all of us give
And we try to decide, demand and supply
When to hold it steady, when to change our minds

There's a house on the hill where the great minds strive
To divide up the worth of every man's life
And they watch from the towers, and they shout what to do
And they're all just people like you
Yeah, they're all just people like you

There's a fire that burns in the night
And it's black and it's white and it's grey
And we're trying to find the dividing line
So we'll all be fine on judgement day

Oftentimes the order comes through
And the masses are called to the will of the few
With a helping of fear and a need to consume
We'll blame all but ourselves for the fate we assume

Well come on man, we have to do better than that
Don't you know it's a long way back?
I've not seen the Devil and I don't know the truth
But I've sure seen people like you
Yeah, they're all just people like you

There's a garden where all of us live
Where all of us take and all of us give
And we try to decide, how to live out or lives
In the fear and the conflict of the human mind

Well come on love, we're gonna get through
You hold onto me and I'll hold onto you!
And don't let them tell us what we can't do
Cause they're all just people like you
Yeah they're all just people like you

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People Like You

#197 Whereabouts Unknown Part !

It's a cops n robbers story.  This is a longer story so this ong includes the first half. We plan to come back to it some time for, as Paul Harvey used to say, "The Rest Of The Story"  Hope you like it! 

Lyrics;
  Put the foot On the floor
Picks it up goes Out the door
Gets away In the car
Drives all day travels far

He hides the face
Finds the place
Stays alone
Looses the phone
He's doing his own time
For his perfect crime
Whereabouts unknown

Temptation is a mighty sin
And someone's out to turn him in
A little bee inside in the hive
But honey's good for nothing 
if you don't come out alive

Put the foot On the floor
He gets the call Out the door
Got the badge Got the gun
He'll fnd the guy that's on the run

Hit the street
Be discrete 
Using tact
He gets the facts 
Bad guy gotta do the time
For committing the crime
His whereabouts unknown

Temptation is a mighty sin
Hands over fists of greedy men
With Intimidation and sound advice
And the Information sells 
at a discount price
The fox had thrown em off the trail
But there's a hound dog on his tail

Will he escape or go to jail
Somebody's gonna fail
Have you seen this man?
Do you recognize this man?
We're searching for this man...

Whereabouts unknown

Here is a link to Part 2:
https://soundcloud.com/user-106484228/whereabouts-unknown-part-2

You can find an alternate version by tHE bLUE rOOM here:
https://soundcloud.com/the-blue-room/whereabouts-unknown-feat-the-blue-room

Whereabouts Unknown Part !

Have you ever loved someone, only for them to break your heart?
Here's my answer to that in song, featuring Venus on tha hook

Killing Me

Killing Me Featuring Venus

Playing live and writing & recording in Nelson New Zealand - began recording in 2004 once technology was available to make CDs using industry standard equipment at home. Radio airplay on Fresh FM and the TLC network from 2005. The track IS THIS WHO I THINK IT IS was a finalist in the 2009 NZ MLT songwriting contest.  In Dec 2012  DUNEDIN SOUND reached  no. 26 on NZ on Air "The Audience" chart. In December 2015, RIP OFF THE SCAB and DREAM DESTINATION were selected by a US A&R agent for promotion to artists, In July 2017 - HIGHEST ROOM also picked up by a US agent for promotion. July 2018 DON'T YOU TURN AWAY selected by NY agent to promote to a London soul singer. August 2018 LOVE MY LIFE assigned to BuyNZ audiovisual advertising. December 2018 WHERE CIGARETTES FALL forwarded by Taxi.com to US TV music director. Latest 3 albums seek to marry singer songwriter Imagery with multi-harmony musical movement. 2024 FLOATING INTO WONDER and ECCENTRICITY SO BEAUTIFUL got airplay on a New Foundland radio station. Dec 24 FAKING IRONY and CAUGHT UP IN A WAR have have gotten a foothold in Spotify.

YOU DON'T TALK EASY

Steve Low

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