Photo: Physically choreographed charcoal art by Heather Hansen

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)
August 19, 2021 All Right Reserved

Round and around go the days
Reaching for something that slips away
Is this the price we must pay

Speaking of things that you don’t understand
It’s a crying shame
Lingerin’ too long like an overplayed song
it’s a fools game

Over and over we go
Hoping for reason to take control
Try not to let it all go

Tellin me this and you’re tellin me that
to ad nauseam
I’m goin my way and you’re going yours
To the bitter end

Round and around go the days
Reaching for something that slips away
Is this the price we must pay

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)

To Wivresse, these three Piano Fragments :
1 - Chartreuse verte (0 - 1:40)
2 - Tip-Toes (1.40 - 2:25)
3 - Prayer to the Aesculapian Snake(2:25 - 3:20)

Piano Fragments - Dark Waves Of Bliss

Strat Jam

One of my party-pieces is to recite Robert Burns' ode "To A Haggis" from memory.  In 2024, I have publicly recited it 4 times in the course of the week that contained Thursday 25th January.

"But mark the rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread!
Clap in his waly nieve a bled; he'll mak it whistle
And legs and arms and heads will sneid
Like taps o'thristle!"

My tune is a little celebration of the Burns Night season in the UK in the 21st century.

Taps o'Thristle

Just a demo cover to see if we 'get the love'....  TTFN

The Islander (cover)

Marc M : paroles et musique
Marc M : voix, guitares et programmation

VOYAGE AU BOUT DE L'ENNUI

Rembobine ta nuit électrique
Peuplée de rencontres excentriques
Au gré des hasards magnétiques, il est temps.
Oh, Dance music !

Quand sur le dance-floor hystérique
S'invitent des sons mécaniques
Et s'agitent les corps frénétiques, on t'attend...
Oh, Dance music !

Voyage au bout de la nuit,
Parfum noctambule et velours cramoisi,
Comme tous les oiseaux de nuit
La boule à facette éclaire mes envies.
Voyage au bout de l'ennui,
Tristesse funambule et couleur vert de gris
Tel un papillon de nuit
Mes ailes se brûlent au lustre du samedi.

Rendez vous au bar sulfurique
Bercé d'un esprit romantique
La caresse d'une nuque exotique me surprend
Oh, Dance music !

Face à face, envie cosmétique
Maquillage d'un date organique
Ouverture, fracture volcanique, juste à temps
Oh, Dance music !

Voyage au bout de la nuit,
Parfum noctambule et velours cramoisi
Comme tous les oiseaux de nuit
La boule à facette éclaire les envies
Voyage au bout de l'ennui,
Tristesse funambule et couleur vert de gris
Comme un papillon de nuit
Mes ailes se brûlent au lustre du samedi.

Voyage au bout de l'ennui

reversal

The word callous here is about  stubbornness and the refusal to Change or except. Not the ones on feet or hands.🤣🤣🤣✌️

A callous removal

Ozone (2021) Anthology CD1 Track 11

Tempo 155
Tuning 432Hz


This is the first proper rebuild of Scribe in 10 years. It's now Melanin. Since I was trying to sing about racism, I just realised it should be more straight forward to see that. So hence the new name. In fact, I've decided to completely remake it and I'll put it on this years album. The artist BeART {New.Album here... https://on.soundcloud.com/Mwa2J } Is releaing a remix of the original, Scribe,.tomorrow 🥲 The first time ever... Thanks brother Go BeART 🇧🇪🌍🇮🇪

Artwork is by ADW. Multiple artists were commissioned to cover some temporary walls near my gaff. The cover for this song got the best one. Thaaaaanks
The artist .... I think.... http://adwart.com/

This song explorers the scourge of racism on Earth. Different amounts of melanin in our skin is really the only difference which builds human skin colour tone! So this 'lights a torch' for the 'other shades, the hues'. People of different colour skin to me! We're all the furking same.

Martin Luther King empowers the piece obviously 💫🤘🏿🤘🏻💫

The Magic slur is when Magic Johnston had to deal with a bigoted NBA team owner.
The good Dani let's eat... Dani Alves the footballer, picked up and ate a banana that was thrown from the stands in Barcelona's Nou Camp Stadium... This is the mercury mould. The racist gesture from that fan who threw that banana is meant to suggest some humans were monkeys on the pitch. Dani Alves stood up and was counted for that moment. Hopefully the person who threw it took on board what he did and changed... 

Apparently the amount of melanin changes over long periods of time in our skin depending how long our descendants have stayed in those locales with different amounts of light getting there and onto their skin... In turn evolving with those environmental conditions. That's it! Apart from that we all eat, drink, shit, piss, eat and so on... If we're lucky

Now that I think about it. It surprises me that I haven't heard this done before. (I'd love to be wrong 🔗 ?) Singing about the only scientific difference that gifts us with different tones of skin. How much melanin in you? Drill it into the kids!

Lyrics

A magic slur,
This  biggot must go!
It seems he don’t like ‘em too dark,
All monkeys roam free.
The Sun, relatively!
In this mercury mould a banana thrown.
It seems these don’t like em too dark,
Good Dani, Let’s eat!
All colours seep just melanin skin deep.
All colours leak just melanin
Why oh why do you take just your side
Won’t you learn that you’re no different.
Living with how the past framed their thinking…
Why oh why? Won’t you learn?

Let it rain
Pave the way
With Luther light
We learn tonight
You want the truth.
If this sits loose with you.
Oh what to tell our youth…
Here’s a clue!
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for the force
For all of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…
How much melanin in you
How much melanin in you
Fight for ‘the force’
All of our human sects in tune
Light a torch for the other shades,
The hues…

	“Sweet land of liberty at thee I say…”

Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride
Let freedom reign
I'm on my father's side
Let freedom reign
This land is for the children's pride

Acoustic guitar and additional keys by Simon Culliton (My bro..)

Heavy lyrics at the end I stand together with my Dad, Cedric 👨‍👧My hero😘 He made me the good person I am so we stand together, Louder and Stronger against bullshit racist thinking

The messed up opening is my attempt at pretending Martin Luther King is popping into the song from another realm 🤯🤘🏿 Empowering the tune...He obviously articulated the problems associated this scourge the best so have a listen and read him.

I say FUCK RACISM and FUCK YOU if youre a racist. You'll burn out 🧘🏻

Melanin (Extended Demo)

Gently Weeps (2023) Anthology CD2 Track 17

I am amazed at the level of talented artists encountered on this site.  Sharing and providing feedback is such an effective way to nurture the creative process.  I am so inspired by many of you.  My songs consist of mostly live instruments and voice.  An organic approach to song writing with a few surprises in the mix.  Please feel free to comment and download if you like!  Todd

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)

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