2024

They did it again, THS have vastly improved my song.
What I found is that it sounds exactly as I want, even though I didn't know exactly what I wanted. 

Original phone recording: #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/tivaG

Art by Joy
Spontaneity by all of us

So thanks The Happy Somethings. Look out for new music from them:  https://thehappysomethings.bandcamp.com/

Previous collaboration with The Happy Somethings, 'Bitter' (Jan 2023)
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/wvSkj

Cobbled Moth & The Happy Somethings - What I've Found

Old New Babylon

phone with echo

Valley of Tears as in

https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/robinson/the_vale_of_tears.htm


Across the big wide world I roam
I know I'll never find my home
Here, in the valley of tears
Went back to school they gave me a scroll 
I turned it into a singing bowl
Full of beer 
In the valley of tears
Everything not what it seems
I was controlled by a false dream
And fear
In the valley of tears 
In weakness God is strong 
In meekness I belong 
Across the big wide world I roam
I know I'll never find my home
Here
In the valley of tears
Hope lies beyond this land
All the faithful understand 
And we're cheered 
In the valley of tears 



In the Valley of Tears

You don't have to believe me
I'm not pleased I was right
I'm not proud of my life
I just see certain things 
There're lessons I've learned 
Wickedness in high places
I've discerned 
Are you hip to the subliminal
Why believe the words of criminals 
Put faith in this world 
You'll be let down 
It's far worse than you feared 
Yet it's far better too
There's nothing they can do
To stop love
We're in for dark days 
There's nothing they can do
To stop love
We're in for dark days 
There's nothing they can do
With their digital cage
I just see certain things 
Many times I've been burned
The powers of darkness 
Everywhere discerned
Are you hip to the subliminal?
Why believe the words of criminals 
Put faith in this world 
You'll be let down 




Faith in this World

Written 2/3/24 
Bathroom, phone, Spanish guitar with very old strings 

As I try to feel good 
Relive my childhood 
And worry about future loss and gain
Real bombs are flying
Real children dying
To condone it is to be insane 
If I do who will complain?
Denial, got to give the world a smile
Denial, it never goes out of style 
Real children dying
All the adults lying
Blind eye, deaf ear, hard heart, big row
I remember childhood
I used to be good
Got to be something to do somehow
And it needs to be done now
Denial, got to give the world a smile
Denial, it never goes out of style 


Denial

Spontaneous couple of hours well spent, don't know why I sang that way

It's my turn at the crossroad
Will I choose well or go awry 
It's my turn at the crossroad 
I do not know yet must decide 
To fight for my soul
Or evade the toll
It's lonely at the crossroad 
There's no telling what I will do 
No sunrise at the crossroad
No certainty of what is true
Let's love again
Love without end
Time makes fun of you and me
These things that stuck are what we tried to flee
Time a friend to the wise 
Open your eyes 
It's your turn at the crossroad
To be deceived, cajoled and bribed
It's lonely at the crossroad
Noone but you can decide 
To fight for your soul 
To pay the toll
Let's live again 
World without end
Time makes fun of you and me
Our ethos taken by a raparee 
Time will make the worldy wise 
Open your eyes






At the Crossroad

Replaced the file- no distortion. 
I wrote a song like this wasn't happy then changed it to this

We love you so
That is why it hurts 
It is not a curse
To be here
I disappeared 
Now I'm back again
Love is not in vain 
This is the world I know 
I don't need an excuse 
To live a life of no use
I will struggle for you
Because for now true love is pain
I can't explain
I just feel at peace
Even through the sorrow 
This is the world I know
This is the world I know 
I don't need an excuse 
To live a life of no use
I will struggle for you
Just for now true love is pain
I can't explain
I just feel at peace
Even through the sorrow 
This is the world I know
This is the world I know

World I Know

I don't know why.

It's laundry day
Time to wash filth away
It's laundry time
How do you clean a mind 
Hey there what will I wear 
My soul doesn't suit my clothes
It's laundry day
I pray and pray and pray
It's laundry day 
Please wash my sins away
Hey there what will I wear
My soul doesn't suit my clothes
I'll save water and burn these clothes 
I'm going where the warm wind blows 
And then who knows 
It's laundry day
Time to wash filth away
It's laundry time
Please wash my sins away
Hey there what will I wear 
My soul doesn't suit my clothes
My soul doesn't suit my clothes





Laundry Day

10 minutes well spent.

Right wing left wing 
Don't give a shit
There's one coin 
They're two sides of it
One day we will grow up and say
People were so strange 
I don't pay much mind 
To what they say
I look at what they do
And by who they're paid
One day we will grow up and say
This is a Golden Age 

Golden Age

Written and recorded before breakfast. I  later re-did backing though and used subscription to re-upload 

Please let me let you down
I'm just a clown
My mind isn't sound 
It's known around town
Could you let me let you down?
Do let me lay about 
I've never been stout 
In my struggle with doubt 
Until I get gout
Please let me lay about 
Why don't we embrace love?
Why don't we embrace love?
Why don't we embrace love?
Embrace love
Would you let me let you lie?
Let your heart calcify 
I couldn't let myself comply 
Quite brave for a wise guy 
Would you let me let you lie?
Never could let you let me down
With words and deeds that confound
So let's wear a long gown 
And watch the sun going down 
Never never never let me let you down
Never let me let you down

Never Let Me Let You Down


Phone recording
10/09/24  
10-11:45am 
☦️

You talk a lot of rubbish
And I love you anyway 
I notice how you live and I look past the things you say
Happy is the boy who can forgive in his heart
I know it is a gift
From which I'll never part 
I know it is a gift
To this upstart
I forgive the politicians and the ones who pull their strings
I forgive the dark magicians wizards witches Queens and Kings 
I forgive your acquiescence 
And the hatred that's so vile
And everyone whos wronged me
I'm the worst I am puerile
Happy is the boy who can forgive in his heart 
I know it is a gift 
To this upstart 


Upstart

On the last few phone recording uploads there are little blips in beginning seconds which puts it out of time, not there on recording. Why is this?
Biro doodle of Mickey by me

Pretty flower 
You're doomed to die
Pretty flower 
You're doomed to die
I love you so
But I can't stand to say goodbye 
Island owners 
And CEOs 
Island owners 
And CEOs 
They might just find the tree of life who knows 


Tree of Life Blues

phone 16/09/24  

Yes it's good to know who your friends are
Yes it's good to know who they are
When they come for you
Aint one of us whos immune 
We'll make our getaway by Jaguar 
Yes it's good to know who your enemies are
Yes it's good to know who they are
When they come for you 
Making a hullabaloo 
We'll make our getaway by Jaguar 



Jaguar

Phone 22/09/24

My words are not like AI's
But I can understand why
It's training data lied
Never lose your soul 
Some can rock but miss the roll
Always run forget to stroll
Eye for detail miss the whole
Never lose your soul 
The toll of thoughts like chains I hold
With every thought let truth be told
Turn the old lead into gold
Let the story unfold
You don't know things like AI
But if you have become wise
You will know the greatest prize
Never lose your soul
Never lose your soul
Turn the old lead into gold 
Let the story unfold 
The toll of thoughts like chains I hold
With every thought let truth be told
Turn the old lead into gold
Let the story unfold
The toll of thoughts like chains I hold
With every thought let truth be told
Turn the old lead into gold
Let the story unfold
Let truth be told
Truth be told



Truth Be Told

On phone voice recorder

Where the mysterious meets the familiar 
Where the hilarious meets the profound
A silly serenade 
Seriously well-formed 
A needed healing sound 

A goodwill melody that cleans the air
Ironic words betraying pain, love and care
I am rebuked with insight
Stilled by shame
Until I join the flow

Reviving art is only made by human struggle 
In living laughter and melancholy crowned 
A simple happy song something of a riddle
And the needed healing sound

Needed Healing Sound

Phone recording take 1 million
2/10/24


My eyes are stinging and my temples throb
Haven't done what I could
I'd take myself to bed right now 
But that would be too good 
Deserters, cowards and two-bit crooks
Live more successfully 
Even P.T. Barnam and Edward Bernays
Would not have gone near me
I'm a lost cause in this community 
I'm a lost cause and that's alright you see
I'm not a loner but I'm ostracised 
Or maybe I withdrew 
The Monasterys are for warriors 
And out here I'm taboo
Double-minded and triple blind
I've seen the depths of despair 
I admit I feel touched by grace
Just been a tourist there
I'm a lost cause on this thoroughfare 
I'm a lost cause and I don't really care
I'll leave it all give away my guitar 
If I could stay on the road
But that's untrue in all honesty 
I'm stalling for a cheat code
I'm a lost cause in this strange abode 
I'm a lost cause in this episode 
I'm a lost cause 
I'm a lost cause -  of you and yours






Lost Cause

Perhaps this was always like this

Consequences 
Lives destroyed 
Foreshadowed at the start
No Hobgoblins to blame
Enough to squash your heart
Threshold Juniper 
Nature's mean
Purify me please 
Worldwise Holloween 
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No Hobgoblins to blame
Enough to squash your heart
Threshold Juniper 
Nature's mean
Purify me please 
Whole world Holloween 
Threshold Juniper 
Nature's mean
Purify me please 
Worldwise Holloween

Holloween

the wordplay makes sense in UK

PS
The Cobbled Moth does not feel represented by any political party and does not align with any ideology. 

Mamma was an aggressor 
With step daddies mean
They drove him into a nicer place
Now he wants to be clean 
He's got nothing left
Nothing left 
Labour isn't here anymore 
Got nothing left nothing left
Someone better show that that boy he's not alone
Dehumanised without credit 
In the social matriarchy 
He's far too aggressive 
He's going down and I know just what the judge means
He's got nothing left
Nothing left 
Labour isn't here anymore 
He's got nothing left nothing left
Someone better show that that boy he's not alone
There's always a way out though
A new purpose to find
Other perspectives different meaning
His fathers embraced the grind
He's got nothing left
Nothing left 
Labour isn't here anymore 
He's got nothing left nothing left
Someone better show that that boy he's not alone

Nothing Left (rough)

Phone recording 


Clockwork man
Fraternity 
Compass square 
PR machine 
Castle darkness 
Charity, ground control
Ultimate goal 
Clockwork man
He's not wise enough
But he's one of us
Clockwork man 
One fine morning
He'll wake and take his place
As the face of the dark tower 
For about an hour 
Clockwork man
Clockwork clan 
Scholastic plot 
Wind them up and watch them rot
Pawns for order, sacrifice 
For new machines 
Love quarantine
Clockwork man
He's not wise enough
But he's one of us
Clockwork man









Clockwork Man (New)

This is an old song that was orginally called 'Flowers in Your Head'  begun in the late 70s by my dad and his friend. He completed it in the 90s and recorded it with a local band (we can't fully remember it). Having not come up with much myself lately,  I was inspired again when remembering how much I liked this, so I re-wrote it again with some different words,  and probably ruined it. 
Melody by Rob Benson (Verse, Chorus) and The Cobbled Moth (Middle 8, or whatever its called). Lyrics by The Cobbled Moth, and Hoppo (who wrote the first verse and part of second).

Cooler is slang for jail. The Song of Songs is worth a study. Beno of LCR FM is in there and the Azerbaijan link. 

Phone recording 24.12.24. 

When I'm feeling lonely and my life is dead and I feel so useless that my face is red 
And I know I can't get away 
The cooler's in my head 
The coolers in my head, the cooler's in my head no no no no oh
Well I turn the radio way down low DJ D says not to go
Back to Stockholm yeah I'm alone just like they said 
The coolers in my head, cooler in my head no no no no oh
You're locked up in a teacup
Diagnoses all wrong 
Bad domain, rage in vain
For lost Song of Songs
Even though you fled
The coolers in your head cooler in your head wo oh oh oh
Where we met was Persia but the north turned red, later left turned right
The same families led 
And I know I can't get away the coolers in my head 
The coolers in my head, cooler in my head No no no no oh 
Cooler in my head, Cooler in my head oh oh oh 




The Cooler's in my Head (collaboration)

The AI-generated answer is evolving:

"Cobbled Moth Regenerated is a musical project associated with the artist known as The Cobbled Moth, who creates lo-fi demos using a Tascam pocket studio, acoustic guitar, and other instruments.
 The project features songs such as "In the Valley of Tears" and "Not the Way," which are available for free streaming and download on SoundCloud.
 "In the Valley of Tears" includes lyrics reflecting themes of searching for home and finding strength in weakness, drawing a metaphorical connection to the biblical concept of the Vale of Tears.
 "Not the Way" was written and recorded during a heatwave while the artist was watching Wimbledon, and features a personal moment captured in the background with the artist's son saying, "but it's too sunny mamma".
 The artist describes themselves as an outsider songwriter, and their work has been praised for its emotive chord changes and lyrical depth".



Rayna On The Radio:  Unsigned Radio Hour https://soundcloud.com/raynaontheradio/sets/october-21

"Single" REVIEW: https://joyzine.org/2024/01/10/single-review-cobbled-moth-the-happy-somethings-what-ive-found/

*First page: The Cobbled Moth (Started  2014) - www.soundcloud.com/thecobbledmoth 

COLLABORATIONS so far:

With The Happy Somethings (both had radio play):

'What I've Found' 
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/fcje6

'Bitter' 
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/fSVcs

With Aine Parkes: 

'Even Knights Need Their Rest' (Lullaby written for my son) https://on.soundcloud.com/aQrSk

With Lin: 'Fantasy' #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/eRK2m

With Sal (Sarah) Lettes:

'By the Way' #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/U8eFC

All songs for free download 
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The Cobbled Moth