Beautiful writing. This is such a powerful song.

Beautiful tribute to your friend. Really love the barely contained emotion in the vocal and that strident piano line. All very well said.

Dear John, I came to know about this song today. This is a beautiful and moving tribute to your friend. I am sure he would have liked hearing it. The story resonate with all of us as everyone has a few unfinished business. May your friend rest in peace.

Gorgeous song and sentiment. Thanks for sharing this one man. Lovely tribute.

Words and music K.Gennery
image not my own

Best not dare go near your mind
you won't be held responsible
for the darkness that we may find
guess that makes you unsavable

Sway and swagger don't really matter
cause I believed in you

Something's cooking in your kitchen
I can taste and feel the heat
noise erupting plates go crashing
flooded water under your slippery feet

Immerse yourself in pityfull play
I don't understand you at all
guess youve always been that way
set up the height then nudge us to fall

Prim and proper don't really matter
cause I believed in you

Something's cooking in your kitchen
I can taste and feel the heat
noise erupting plates go crashing
flooded water under your slippery feet

Everything I said and done made no difference at all
All the things I tried to do, could not get through to you
you shut out the voices you'd hear
except for the ones in your head I tried my best.

Something's cooking in your kitchen
I can taste and feel the heat
noise erupting plates go crashing
flooded water under your slippery feet

somethings cooking

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Published on SC 1 August 2023

Work in progress

Sky Burial

Music of celebration of the bottling in the underground cellar of a family home amongst family and friends. Collab with Marty Silec.

The Bottling

Thank you to everyone who listened to this track at the beginning of the new year.
People are surrounded by happiness.
Everything is made with a smile.
The energy of laughter, the vibration of a laughing voice, the world begins to fill with smiles.
Nice, I imagined your smile and played the guitar.

Smile is like that of an Angel's

with the congregation on acoustic bass
Recorded at fredrick street studios and bowling alley

Them’s the breaks 

Without a doubt I understand 
I figured out what life intends
Would hope seem sweeter 
Would fate feel fair
To rob Peter
With no Paul to care

Without a doubt I understand 
I figured out what life demands 
It ain’t money 
And class is lame
What it is
You get to name

Them’s the breaks
The horse you saddle
Like a snake without a rattle
Dropping down from the sky
Like an anvil
You’re up yer life
Without a paddle 

Take what we want 
Not what we need
Steal a glacier for just a drink
Sell them rope when they sink
Screw the others
We’re taught to think

them's the breaks w/ the congregation

get in line

Asked to sing at the funeral of an old friend who had passed away unexpectedly and far too young the first and last lines of the song came to me as  I was deciding what to sing. The rest of the song then wrote itself. Originally performed with acoustic piano in a small chapel in rural Sweden I have added some orchestration for this recording.

Unfinished Business (John Stone)

Its  a long long way
from today to yesterday
And you and I
Go a long long way
Though life unfolds
In different ways
We always hold
To the bonds we made

Nothing lasts forever
That we always knew
I guess we  thought we’d have more time
For the things we meant to do
Don’t know why I’m angry
As there’s only me to blame
I should have seen it coming
But I didn’t just the same

Now there’s too many words unspoken
Too many things still  to do
Too many questions unanswered
All of them waiting on you

Too many chances untaken
Too many hills unclimbed
Too many plans unfinished
Now we’ve run out of time

So now here we are
And I just don’t know
How we came this far
With no place to go

As we used to say
We must seize the day
But plans were left to the future
As the present slipped away

I know today we should celebrate
All your glory days
A world of love and laughter
And the family you raised

Life has  had its ups and downs
The bitter and the sweet
But you always came up smiling
As you got back on your feet
 
But there’s too many unwritten stories
Too many visits unmade
Too many missed conversations 
Not enough memories laid

I know that we always meant to
And its too late now to try
But there’s too much unfinished business
For us to say goodbye

Unfinished Business

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Youth !

One (u2)

Plight of the BubbleGum
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someone put lSD in my bubblegum
I wanna get it on but my head is twisted
where the world ends is when I existed
what is truth when it lies fixated 

in my bubblegum, I wanna get it on
but my mind is empty
my thoughts they fall in tandem  
I see strangers and panic at random

hey there not so fast priest
you wanna tell me what It is I’m missing?
I pray to mother mary but it’s
all illusion until I start drinking

well-water will rise in earth
the scorched land and comet hearth
and whoever put holy water next to me,
it’s no bother, it chills levity 

and if I’m a hypocrite, I’ll stick my bubblegum in it
if I stick it on your artwork well, I’ll chew it straight to hell
and when I get there lines are formed, some are sleeping queens
adorned in radiant whistles aimed at the sky,
light them up! let them fly!

light them up, let them fly!
I wanna get it on where tongues are twisted
the stuff that makes gum chewy? it is… it is…
whatever it is, I missed it

one more moment fast
where rockets fly in the night cosmic blast
where all soldiers pinned beneath the sky, 
don’t cry, I got bubblegum

it’s a mystery to me, worth lies beneath cosmic beauty
it scars me wide it’s coming straight to Ayhem (Son of a Lion) surprise
One more time I stick my bubblegum in your eyes
I’ll have you blind than lie to me one more time

Plight Of The BubbleGum

Singer, Songwriter, Keyboard Player and occasional guitarist

Unfinished Business

John Stone

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