© Project Freeman Music 13522 UCC* (2021 Gregorian)
Inspired by the Hibernians who came to my gig at Maika'i 58, Ericeira. Songwriting to order! xD
See https://freemanmusic.org/shesingsaonemanband.htm for lyrics and full details

*UCC = Universal Celestial Calendar (https://ucc.zone)

She Sings A One Man Band

(c) John David Lawson, February 2023
Written for a songwriting challenge. Topic given:  "Moving on" - a common theme; however, my rendition moved in a more apocalyptic direction. Guitar happened to be in an Open C tuning and the chorus came rather quickly, followed by the volcano imagery.

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Adiós, it's time to go

Some day may come a reckoning
Walk away from all you know
Up ahead, the highway's beckoning
Adiós, it's time to go
Time to go, time to go
Adiós, it's time to go

Kick the lids off of your coffins
Outrun the volcano
Before the pavement softens
Adiós, it's time to go
Time to go, time to go
Don't wait for the mountain to blow

Been seeing dreams and visions
I hear the Desert voice
To stay is one decision
'Come with' is a better choice

Some realize in an instance
What others spend lives to show
Burning bridges in the distance
Telling us it's time to go
Too late to take it slow
Don't wait to inhale the smoke

Time to go, time to go
Adiós, it's time, time to go


Credits
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John David Lawson - C-tuned Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocals

Adiós, it's time to go

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Dreamer - Song #1 // song a day, in a week

This week I'm doing a challenge of writing a song a day. This challenge is simply for the fun of creating, not perfection. So to stay in step with that I'll be posting raw recordings that I take using my voice memos. This second song comes from the topic: favorite childhood memory.

Christmas Traditions - Song #2 // a song a day, in a week

This week I'm doing a challenge of writing a song a day. This challenge is simply for the fun of creating, not perfection. So to stay in step with that I'll be posting raw recordings that I take using my voice memos. This third song is from the topic of: a worn notebook that you found tossed aside on the street.

Treasure & Life - Song #3 // song a day, in a week

This week's prompt was Swaying Palms. I made an ambient track that starts off as a peaceful day and turns to a dangerous, windy nightscape.

Tenacious Tunesday

Swaying Palms

The March 2025 track for /r/synthwaveproducers. Prompt was "City Beach". I've probably missed the mark a bit, cause I've ended up with this fake ass 90's anime theme song lmao.

Ep27: The Beach Episode

I love to make new songs with smooth organic sounds and vocal harmonies that remind me of favourite bands from the 1970's. If you like Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, America, Neil Young, and Nilsson, you might enjoy this music too.

These songs are fictional vignettes and stories. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

I facilitated worship in congregations for many years, and some songs here were written for that purpose. If you find a one you'd like to use, I would be happy to provide a chart.

Experimental Visual/Sound Artist
I am not a musician, lyricist, nor instrumentalist. I am blissfully ignorant to musical theory. This started as an experiment but has become a necessity. So onward I go. Aware of my decent into oblivion as everyone swims safely to shore. 


Pre July 2016
I am not a musician, I am just a poet. I can't write music, stay on beat or even carry a note on or off instrument. I try to portray human emotion through sound. Do not think of these as songs, experience them as pieces of a moment. Moments of life. Imperfect as life is; my pieces reflect that with my lack of musical talent and use of instruments. I only use what is laying around on my desk at the moment, the few guitars in my home which I don't quite know how to play and the recordings I take when I'm outside; interacting and experiencing what this world is offering. From this I create what I deem: Astral Ambience. 

To me, this is my expression. My love for music has pushed me to not properly learning it. I love hearing raw and passionate artists that do what they love, not what they've learned. Experimenting is the only true form of growth. Poetry is free flowing, yet structured in it's own right. Each poem holds it's own flow; it's own nature; it's own life; it's own sound. This is what I am attempting to portray with these pieces. I wish to tell a story. I want to move you and provoke you to think for your own. I want you to break from the conformity they've instilled in you. Do not become a ghost of industry.

I am highly inspired by the works of Akira Yamaoka. Other inspirations are Felix Laband, Sibot, Grizzly Bear, The Album Leaf, Radiohead, Bjork, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse and all of your wonderful workings on SoundCloud. If you've followed me, I've gone and listened to just about everything you've put up. Perhaps you've inspired my latest ambient piece.

Worship Artist | California | Here are some of my originals as well as some covers.

This SoundCloud is my Project Freeman Music 'Works In Progress' Platform.
Here are all the Demos I've captured of my Compositions to date, including my 'Songs of Freedom', which are categorised as Relating, Realisation, Remedy & Rebellion (and Revelry!) on the 'Road to Redemption', from Serf to Self, from Slave to Sovereign. 
The demos are of various quality, from the early 90's Gregorian to the present day... 
PLUS here I share audio of 'Project Freeman' presentations and interviews (these are more like podcasts, but some also include songs) 

The songs start off as rough demos in various playlists here, and are then added to the 'Project Freeman Music Official Releases' playlist once they are finished, recorded and released to the major music platforms. (You can get your own copies of these via my Bandcamp link below, with all proceeds going to support my work and causes).
Therefore the quality of the demos here varies enormously, from old 1990s amateur recordings on cassette tape, to amateur home studio demos, to raw acoustic demos on the road in the camper van, to overdubbed tracks on the move, to more polished finished works etc etc

I have over 200 songs at various stages of production. My aim is to gradually publish my complete catalogue online, so the main thing here is to 'hear how the song goes' not to be fussy about the quality of recordings or performances.
Also, 'Tracks' have not been shared here in any particular order, so more recent Tracks could actually be much older, poorer quality demos and it's not possible to change the order of the Tracks once they have been uploaded, so please bare all this in mind when listening to 'Tracks'. It's probably best to choose a 'Playlist' and go from there :)

If you're looking for the best quality versions of the songs please go straight to the 'Project Freeman Music Official Releases' playlist

Lastly, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
Us amateur, unsigned artists don't have big budgets behind us to promote our works so I'm very grateful to you for stopping by my little corner of the internet and checking out what I'm up to ;)
The best gift you can give a song writer is to listen to their creations, so please know that I very much appreciate any plays and or re-posts & shares that you give my 'babies' ;)

Peace, love and freedom
Litmus A Freeman
Project Freeman Music

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