Name: Sing a Gypsy Song by Takken Wish
Duration: 1 min 42 s
Description: My heart loses shape -- every time you're gone

Summer was just two months ago
but it feels like a lifetime
Now as I look out the window
snow falls to the ground

San Diego and her many canyons
or so the story goes
The origin of its inhabitants 
nobody knows

It was a hot summer day in mid July!
it was the same year the dogs died

And then there is you! 
and your valleys!
and your peaks!
and your pale skin!
and its promise of snow

Summer was just two months ago
but it feels like a lifetime

SUMMER (LIVE)

Ever since I saw an incredible Canadian band (Recipe From a Small Planet) do a live Reggae jam and seamlessly slide into a cover of 'Watching The Detectives', I wanted to try something similar. In this case, I did the opposite, starting with the cover, and adding a kinda reggae/dub section at the end, which starts at 3:15. 

For the dub portion, I enlisted the help of one of the best talents I know - @Llanpsych (Tez) - to add his magic and 'dubbify' the whole instrumental section at the end. I'm singing and playing all the instruments here using my keyboard, and some echo effects, and Tez did the rest to produce that authentic dub atmosphere into the mix. I recommend listening to that part at least with headphones, and hope you enjoy the result! Thanks so much Tez, I couldn't have done this without your mad skillz!

Sharp ears may notice the following 2 details: 

  -  In the last few seconds, I threw in the theme from 'The Godfather', played on melodica (see credit below). 

  -  at 0:39, you can faintly hear my dog barking in the background. I decided to keep it in, since she barked at the line, "red dogs under illegal legs", which I thought was funny timing!  :)

INSTRUMENTS:
bass, drums, rhythm & lead guitar, organ, piano, electric piano, melodica, steel pan drums, ukulele, synth horns, voice

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-song art designed using Chat GPT and Photoshop
-original song written by Elvis Costello
-theme from The Godfather, 'Speak Softy, Love' - written by Nino Rota

Watching the Dubtectives (cover + dub mix with Llanpsych)

Check out more from The Fall of Saigon here! https://on.soundcloud.com/mFw4Ci768ej2pDgM7

HOW
Oh, tell me, how did they die? Oh, how did they die?
Did you even try? Did you even try?
Me, oh my.  What a lie!
How do you define? What did you say?
How did they play?
How'd they die that day?
Who came their way?
Who Came their way
What did they say? How do you know?
Did they call you Will?
It sends chills
Take all you will 
How do you say?
Come up alive!  Come up a maid
Life has is’nt Gray
How long will you stay?
How'd the kids play?
Where is the grave?
Where is the grave 
Eyes open wide.
Oh, how they lie.
Oh, how they die.
Oh, how they die.
Did did you even try?
  Did you even try?
All the lies 
All the lies 
Yeah that’s right 
Without a sight?
Did anyone cry
Did they cry
How did they die?
Oh, how did they die?
How did they die!
Oh how did they die!

How? The Fall of Saigon x Beah

Pocket

Verse 1:
What is love, can I feel it?
What is truth, can I hear it?
What is light, can I see it?
What am I, can I be it?

Pre-chorus:
What if I lose my way?

Chorus:
Please save me tonight
Cause my heart is broken pieces in the wind
Please save me tonight
Cause broken chains can mend my heart again

Verse 2:
What is fear, can I face it?
What is loss, can I trace it?
What is grace, can I taste it?
What is life, can I place it?

Pre-chorus:
What if I can't escape?

Chorus:
Please save me tonight
Cause my heart is broken pieces in the wind
Please save me tonight
Cause broken chains can mend my heart again

Bridge:
What if I fall down, break my paper crown?
What if I lose all control?

Chorus:
Please save me tonight
Cause my heart is broken pieces in the wind
Please save me tonight
Cause broken chains can mend my heart again

Please Save Me Tonight

I hope you know

I've posted this song twice before, so I should be done with it; I'm just not though. I keep developing the guitar (though it's all slight) and changing some lyrics. All about a lost friend; guess I'm not over it.

Seasons Make Sense -- Third Version

Verse 1:
Laughing in the middle of a funeral
Conversations at the urinal
Awkward knows my name

Talking way too personal to strangers
I’m oblivious to danger
To me it’s all a game

Chorus:
Oh where does the time go
Why does it always run away
Oh where does the time go
Why won’t it ever stay and play

Verse 2:
Tripping on the crack in every sidewalk
Stare for hours at the Tik Tok
I don’t have a clue

Snoring in the middle of the big game
Getting lost inside an airplane
It’s just what I do

Chorus:
Oh where does the time go
Why does it always run away
Oh where does the time go
Why won’t it ever stay and play

Bridge:
Can we take the long way home
Cause I don’t want to be alone
Just in case you didn’t know
I really hope that you will never go

Chorus:
Oh where does the time go
Why does it always run away
Oh where does the time go
Why won’t it ever stay and play

Where Does The Time Go?

Fragile

Verse 1:
In a rut and nobody cares
So tired of climbing up all these stairs
But I know I gotta get up

But when I jump up I fall down
And my head is spinning around
But I know still gotta get up

Chorus:
Run faster than they can
Everybody wants every piece of me in great demand
Push through the sinking sand
There is nothing I have left to give but take my hand

Verse 2:
Everywhere that I can turn
I can feel that the sun still burns
Everyday I gotta get up

There’s no limit to the sky
Why should there be with you and I
If we rise we’re gonna get up

Chorus:
Run faster than they can
Everybody wants every piece of me in great demand
Push through the sinking sand
There is nothing I have left to give but take my hand

Run Faster Than They Can

My heart loses shape -- every time you're gone 

Sing a Gypsy Song

I sing and play in my little kitchen late at night after my five babies -- wait, make that six babies -- have gone to bed.

Sing a Gypsy Song

Takken Wish

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