Wow… such amazing poem by your Papa! And what a beautiful song! I love the contrast between the touching vocal performance and the quirky ‘Ahoo ha’ sounds!

That's Lucy, my cousin. Lucy and I setup both of our first band together. We were called Amecca Soul  The name was dirived as an anagram of the first two letters of each of our names 💕 Lucy is a fine musician and incredible vocalist

MISSION #1 - Pass Papa's poems to the future....

oh this is so amazing how you have presented this what a gift to your family and all who listen...what beautiful sounds and words..you really are the beautiful dark

Oh, what a wonderful musical poem. Your grandfather was truly a poet. 👏👏👏

Clearly, Bill's star still shines as brightly as ever and always will.  Ahead of his time?  Undoubtedly!  And that light clearly shines on throughout the Culliton family.  To them all, I say 'Ahoo ha'!  Shine on...shine on...

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Inspired by my Grandfather, Bill Stapleton. A true genius in many realms of thinking.... Including poetry. Thanks Papa


Lyrics

Ahoo ha! 

They say it started with a blast
Our universe in distant past
I search the sky I search the trees
But only laughing beauties tease
Oh! God who wrought this mighty task
What size are You? I fondly ask
A galaxy infinity
What proof of your ability!

So feeble is my understanding
Of Thee and the stars so long expanding
Oh! fury of this recondite
When will this mystery come to light
Why wonder at a galaxy
When we as yet don’t know the bee
How could it be that from one bang
Alone all natures music rang 

It’s Papa!
Ahoo ha
Pass into the future
It's Papa!
Ahoo ha
Passing to be future 

What mysteries do we tread upon
When daisy heads we trample on
Alas no greater is the deed
That you can make a star or seed
Oh! cruel short chain of lexicon
Can’t I express this God an’ sun
To look into the deep devide
And tell what secrecy it hides 

To see the way the skies obey
Or ponder over Saturn’s Rhea
To marvel at the sun on fire
Or look to Mars revolving mire
Or see the Moon’s majestic eye
As she protects the starry sky
If I could but explain a tree
Then I could solve this mystery
Waiting answer will not be long
God will tell me when I’m gone


It’s Papa!
Ahoo ha
Pass it to the future
“I’ve got Mum safe an' sound” 

It’s Papa!
Ahoo ha
Passed to the future 

There there sons
and our little girls
Greetings from heaven
You’ve all turned out so well
You give this planet the good warmth
Truth, heart and hope
It’s really that simple
Just love and be one” 

Hey Nana
Hey Papa
Ah hu ha
Passing to the future
Ah ha ha ha
Hey Nana
Hey Papa
Ah hu ha
Passed into the future
Ah ha ha ha

Notes
This song is built on a poem written in 1969 by my Grandad, Bill Stapleton. He used to say Ahoo Ha and his kids used to say it too after he passed away. He setup the very first recording studio in Ireland in the 1940's and travelled the country recording trad musicians. He went on to have great success setting up film studios meaning he pioneered two industries on the emerald isle. He was a true genius and way ahead of his time. He is still inspiring us 40 years after his death. When making the song I decided to bring in my Nana also to pay homage to her. she was a wonderful pianist and gave me my first few lessons. I've incorporated as many of their children and grandchildren into the song saying Ahoo Ha as I could so we end up with three generations of his blood relatives included in the piece ♾️
The mere mortal words I added are imagining what he would say to his kids from heaven!

God and the Universe

Six chords, a 6/8 time signature and the truth!

There have been a number of excellent ballad versions of this classic. I have tried to take it back to its rootsy roots. I feel like Leonard Cohen's original would have been at home in a seedy jazz blues bar. Hope you enjoy!

Hallelujah (by Leonard Cohen)

island of nowhere

Ian Greaves

Playthings 140 BPM

Written 2002

Why go beyond this face 
To no longer replace and only embrace this soul
It kinda likes it…
You’ll find it might fit...

You can’t grow while running from this
Down clenching your fist,
Your hot head is too mystical
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it

Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
There really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

I know to look to this place
Search every last little trace
Find why all’s interlaced with the cold
Look for the light switch
Turn on your life with it.


Light up the other side
Light up the other side
I wonder when your rem you really find your six feet ten
I wonder
Your walking thunder
So bright eyed
You ponder why
Every inch of you really touches the sky
There’s no need to wonder when your rem
there really are no limits man
I’m under your walking thunder

📜The Other Side

Written 2014

This song explorers the scourge of racism on Earth. Different amounts of melanin in our skin is really the only difference! So this 'lights a torch' for the 'other shades, the hues'. People of different colour skin! We're all the furking same. The Magic slur is when Magic Johnston had to deal with a biggited NBA team owner. the good Dani let's eat... Dani Alves picked up and ate a banana that was thrown from the stands. the racist gesture is meant to suggest some humans were monkeys on the pitch. Dani Alves stood up and was counted for that moment.

apparently the amount of melanin changes Iver time in our skin depending how long our decendants have stayed in those locales with different amounts of light getting there. That's it! apart from that we all shit piss and whine

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

Horns by Simon Culliton

📜Scribe

Rewind (2025)

Good Boy

The photo used in this tune is my actual wall in an old apartment I lived in. I had started fully using hard drives so ze CDs went on the wall in the shape of a head with a line of them also making a wave through it... Awww miss the old physical albums but sure we're spoiled now with detail



Written 2015

Colour me in
Fill in your own meaning
Welcome the world after the wonderful you
As you’re winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
You’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Covered in sin
I let the werewolf win.
This strenght straddles the world
No further fools.

As your winding your time
And fine tuning your chime
Who’ll be binding those binds 
And finding life’s fine.

Colour me in.
Colour your sin
Two minutes tamed time
Now the fear is thin

📜Fill

Written 2015

The shivers in this song refer to the rush of a feeling you get through your back and body when some idea or someone has inspired you. A flow of nerve energy I suppose. I associate relating these feelings to reading shaman texts in my late teens and early twenties and when I was first going.... What the fuck is that? Those words gave a solid answer back then for me 🌿🌎

When the world wakes up from fear I believe we will revisit all these old cultures ways of life and truly embrace the truths we may have missed. There was possibly a less insular approach to imaging their own existence back then. Found, inside each of us and discovered in maybe a simplicity muted by the noise of the modern world.

Lyrics

Some shiver should sharpen this world.
We’re putting shape to the shamans soul 
Aligning old paradiso
These inner movements in you

Each shiver comes raising your game
Fruit truths trapeez to being again
They  align what the sorcerer say
Shiver inner movements in me

Hold me close
That me is you
An inner party of proofs
Yearning for your truce

Let me know
Of your fears or your foe
Gotta talk to that soul
Shiver inner movements in all

The shaman shiver
Gifts your shine deliver
Emotive river
Feel the shaman shiver
The spirits spine
Good quiver
Ease wisdom hither

The Shaman Shiver

Frustrated510

This is my bro's favourite song of mine. He's my best friend


We're keeping it real...
Where could we go?
I know!
I can only be me
You can only be you
For each just one vision
Their life long live tv
Be gone superstition
Truth to keep this life real

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

If your highest values are still Romes imagined lies
Then your God is a lie
They have these mind diets and false beliefs
To control the eyes of the weak

But this is modern life
And we have real visionaries
Who gobble up ologies
The passed soul
Philosophise be a plato
The truth in time answers infinitly
This evolutionary rhyme where hope springs discovery
The perfect solutions
Intellect to all sentient beings
The final freedom of our inner liberty
Some day they’ll realise how the truth can free
Some soldered light born in string theory
The strings of you and all the beauty bowed all through

Ahh oh
Ohhh oh
Ahh oh
Ohhh ohhhhhh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah haha oh

We're keeping it real

Keep It Real

Cover art: Valisa [ https://www.instagram.com/valiberd | https://www.threads.net/@valiberd ]
Music: Kenny Dyer [ https://soundcloud.com/kenny_dyer ]
Lyrics & vocals: Martin K Anderson aka Marty Andersson [ https://andersson-arte.com ]

Bandcamp

Marty Andersson: Stardust (feat. Kenny Dyer)

theme composed in 2015.

Last remix of March 2020.

Music Studio 2

native synthesizers and kv331.

When we go to other worlds (L.V.)

Inspired by a track taped from Bruce Conover's morning relaxation in his deck... First I made a synth out of the sounds in "PreSonus Studio One 5"..., and the rest is history.
Here's the link to the original track: https://soundcloud.com/conover/my-back-yard-nature-sounds-at-5am/comment-1089809905
Stop by and check out Bruce's page here:
https://soundcloud.com/conover
This track is also open for download or collab!!!
Enjoy Fam!!!

For The Birds

😊 I do lock down musical jam sessions almost every night for relaxation ,these are crucial times  definitely not for the weak hearted  ,  😊 😒 ..This song by  Peter Tosh is a timeless  piece , I omitted 2 verses , did my own version and  "rough mixed" it  😊👍 ..Thank y'all..One love no hate here , hate kills 👌

Equal Rights And Justice Written by Peter Macintosh ..Jam York original Version !

Howdy,

Welcome to TBD.

All these creations are made by hard work and years upon years upon years of practice and trying to explain this world and the human condition to myself in the process through poems & songs.

Thanks for all of your wonderful support.

Peace and Love to Everyone,

Carl Culliton



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