beautiful acoustic music, love the off-kilter changes

Lots to like here, as on most of your stuff. May i also say as a photographer i appreciate the cool images you use on ypur stuff. I need to be more purposeful there myself, now that im opening my stuff up to more folks.

The more I dig the more treasures I discover... Wow! What a song!

"Shadows stretch upon the avenue in time And echo chambers pass the time away...in rhyme" WOW !!! Superb 🥇🖋

For my dear friend Francesco
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/4iFqu

Cenerentola / Золушка

Played the trumpet, composed and produced by Val Akey.
Thank you for listening!

Release date: 10 December 2021

Quiet Days

This is a song about finding that girl who you know is your life partner.  Such a cool feeling if/when it happens.  

LOVE NEVER-ENDING
(c) JunkHeap Mar 19 2022 / Remixed-Remastered May 2025

So what you think when your day is so plain.
Looking out the window has the blasé.
I'm walking home and I'm thinking of you.

Chin on hand looking outside.
Unenthusiatically working through the  day dreams.
Don't you want to get away from the everyday?

C'mon on baby, join me on the street and dance.

I want to meet you at a coffee shop,
and pretend I don't know you.
flirt with you girl, like we first met.

Seasons changing, and reasons waning.
Forget the meaning, the deeper reason.
We keep on aging, our love keeps changing. 
A flower into a bouquet. 

I grab your hand and we go flying high over the city,
over the steeples and chimneys. 
Someone sweeping; 
someone sippin' a coffee on a balcony.

You and I smile at each other, 
with the wind in our ears, 
and we're changing gears.
No ones going to stop us...  
Our love for each other.

Love Never-ending

Shine On The Surface Of The Water

Sleeps on Fire

I’m dwelling on rocket fire
Piano fragments and twisted strings
Lady rag doll dead at the door
Dementor soldier with lips so thin

Sleep Killer’s messing with my head
Gotta rise up get a change of thought
Find a codeine and a TV show
My feet are cold and my tongues like chalk

Back in bed and it’s Mr Psycho
Ugly boss gotta face him away
And lady friend of the underground
We’ll be busted yeah maybe today

Sleeps on fire yeah
Sleeps on fire yeah

All the news is existential
Who’s going to go have kids today?
I’m rolling round my sheets are tenting
The latest vaccine is a throat spray

Sleeps on fire yeah
Sleeps on fire yeah

SLEEPS ON FIRE

■概要(Overview)
あなた、とっても素敵に踊るのね。
そんなあなたを見て、私も踊りたくなってしまうわ。
皆あなたに夢中。過去の未練を忘れてしまうほどに・・
でも私は簡単にはなびかないわ。
それにしてもあなた・・気になるわ。未練になるほどに。

・・・
そんな感じの曲です。久しぶりにアップしました。
今回もボーカロイドです。騒がしい感じです。(毎回ですが　(^^;))
それでは皆さん、良い夏休み(冬休み？)を！

You dance so beautifully
Seeing you like that makes me want to dance too.
everybody's crazy about you To the point where I forget the unfinished business of the past...
But I don't give in easily.
Even so, you're so charming.

・・・
It's a song like that. I uploaded it after a long time.
This time it's Vocaloid. It feels noisy. (Every time (^^;))
Have a nice summer vacation (winter vacation?) everyone!

■歌詞
「あなたのダンス」
からだが躍りたがってる
自然と目で追っているわ

あなた突然　目の前　現れて
見たこともない　ダンスを見せたのよ

みんな　あなたに　恋してる
だからといって　わたしからは
話しかけたり　したくないわ

勇気をだして　私誘って　ほしい
空になった　グラスを見て　あなたを待っているわ


ハイ　ヨイ　ヨイ　ヨイトナ！
ハイ　ヨイ　ヨイ　ヨイトナ！


あなたと躍りたがってる
自分を抑えきれないわ

あなた突然　目の前　現れて
衝撃的なダンスを見せたのよ

過去の　未練が　薄れてく
だからといって　わたしだけは
他の子たちと　違うからね

あなたへの　想いが　わたしを
縛り始めて　ここから旅立てない

ハイ　ヨイ　ヨイ　ヨイトナ！
ハイ　ヨイ　ヨイ　ヨイトナ！

勇気をだして　私誘って　ほしい
空になった　グラスを見て　あなたを待っているわ

ずっとここで

■ lyrics
"Your Dance"

body wants to dance
I follow you naturally with my eyes

You suddenly appear in front of me
I showed you a dance I've never seen before

everyone is in love with you
Even so, I will never speak to you

I want you to gather courage and invite me
Look at my empty glass, I'm waiting for you


Hi Yoi Yoi Yoitona!
Hi Yoi Yoi Yoitona!


i want to dance with you
i can't control myself

You suddenly appeared in front of me,
You showed me a shocking dance

The regrets of the past are fading away
Even so, I'm the only one who's different from the other girls

my feelings for you make me
Beginning to tie me up, I can't leave from here

Hi Yoi Yoi Yoitona!
Hi Yoi Yoi Yoitona!

I want you to gather courage and invite me
Look at my empty glass, I'm waiting for you

here forever

YourDance

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitars played: Morris Nylon String in standard tuning
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
I thought it was time to start writing and recording some new songs, with a view to putting together a new solo album over the winter. For this song I have returned to my nylon string Morris guitar. Hope you like it!
LYRICS:
Sitting…. In my rocking chair
Rollin…….. with the beat
Pickin …..out a tune
Keeping time… tapping my feet

Maybe I’m getting old 
Maybe I’m getting slow 
Maybe things don’t seem like they used to do
Maybe, maybe not…. I don’t know 

Sitting….. in my rocking chair 
Close my eyes and see
All the places I have been
Just rollin … with the beat

Maybe I’m getting old 
Maybe I’m getting slow 
Maybe things don’t seem like they used to do
Maybe, maybe not…. I don’t know

My Rocking Chair

Opus 76

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitar played: Taylor 714CE in standard tuning (Capo 1st Fret)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
SONG NOTES and LYRICS:
I wrote this song about an imaginary character born and raised on the Mississippi, growing up to be a music man. It's not based on anybody real, but is a kind of tribute to all (blues) musicians down the ages, who have developed their own style of playing and have become admired by future generations. I was inspired to learn to play the guitar listening to great guitar players and fascinated by their ability to simultaneously play a bass line, percussive rhythm and melody, while singing at the same time. (For guitar players interested in how this song is played, it is capo'd at the first fret and played in Bflat, using the thumb on the left hand to play bass notes while stretching fingers 3 and 4 for hammer-ons.). Hope you like it!

They named him Mississippi
That’s where he was born and found
Raised by the crew of a steamboat
Never did like his feet on solid ground 
Could have grown up to be a gambler
But he’d seen where the money goes
So he just played the blues
And watched the river flow

So Mississippi he became a music man
His hat tilted to one side
He wore a watch chain in his waistcoat 
And a twinkle in his eye 
Those gamblers liked to buy him a whiskey
So he’d smile on the dice they’d throw
As he’d play them the blues
And watch the river flow

Now they say down in Mississippi
When you’re riding on the river at night
That if you raise up your glass of whisky
There’s a chance that you just might
Hear the sound across the water 
From the deck of that old paddle boat 
As he plays the blues 
And watches the river flow

Mississippi

Heres some finalized tracks from my last demo EP! (also a new tack!)

Mary lou

Tomorrow
December 27, 2020  All Rights Reserved

Shadows stretch upon the avenue in time
And echo chambers pass the time away...in rhyme 
With repetition by design...
Right before our eyes
One more time

When the mourning comes before the dawn
Underneath electric skies 
There’s a place where we can run and hide
A place for you and I...

Tomorrow holds the second hands...of time 
The past will leave itself behind...this time
The wheels of change will turn from yesterday 
Roll on down the line 
One more time...

The forest lies somewhere beyond the trees 
If we could get there that’d be fine...
Reason’s just another casualty
of a truth so undefined...

Shadows stretch upon the avenue in time
And echo chambers pass the time away...in rhyme 
With repetition by design...
Right before our eyes
One more time

Tomorrow

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

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