Your voice is just so....comfortable. Great track Gavin.

Hey Gavin, so beautiful and touched my heart, I have provided the inspiration to finish this song, right? and i agree with Chris "Your voice is just so comfortable and yes! Great track..

Song reminds me of an oft-recorded piece titled "The Parting Glass".

I saw you walking 
Down by the river in the moonlight
With your head hung low and
The darkness in your eyes
And it made me cry

I know he hurt you
He broke your heart 
And left you empty inside
And it feels like there’s no end
And just no point to living life

I know the letting go ain’t easy—
We need a hand to get on by
Someone to take our side
And help us step into the light.

So if you need a lover
Or just need a friend
I’ll be here to the very end
I’ll stand by you
And help you learn to live again

You know I want to
Take your hand and walk beside you
Through all the pain
I want to see your blue eyes
Sparkle in the sun
I want to see you smile again

Time was I lost myself in sorrows
Fell so damn deep I lost my mind
Until somebody held my tight
And whispered everything’s alright

Sometimes we all need somebody
To pick us up when we feel small
When the darkness comes to call
To help us rise above it all

(c) 2021 Dj Lekich

Learn To Live Again

I can leave the morning paper on the table
Mix up all the staples in the pantry drawer
Keep the bed unmade
My face unshaved and howl
Leave dirty clothes and towels
On the bathroom floor

And, yeah, I know there’s no end
To all the things that I can do
But I’m just not ready for
A life without you

I could change up all the hours that I’ve been keeping
Stay up late and sleep in ‘till half past noon
And then hang out with my boys 
at “The Ivory Tower”
Hit every happy hour
And close the bar at two

And I’m sure there’d be some girl
Who could make me feel less blue
But I’m just not ready for
A life without you

I could cruise the town in style
With my slickly painted smile
And learn to laugh like
Broken people do
But the saddest thing of all
Is no matter how far I fall
I’m still thinking there’s a chance
For me and you

So I’ll water all your plants and feed the fishes
Clean all the dirty dishes and dust up too
And I’ll walk our trail
Without fail each Sunday
Hoping, girl, that one day
you’ll be walking too

And, yeah I know to let it go
Just move on to something new
But I’m just not ready for
A life without you

(C)2021  Dj Lekich

A Life Without You

Help me, lord, she’s a fire in my head
She’s got me burning up 
And my eyes are bloodshot red
I need an exit sign, but I’m stumbling blind instead

I knew it when the fever had first begun
I oughta buck and bail
Just tuck my tail and run
But she pulls me back like a comet ‘round the sun

Every time I try to break it off
I start to shiver, and I quake and I cough
It’s a never ending loss of wanting free.

She’s got a hold on me
Like the moon on the sea
Like a flower to a bee
Like Earth’s gravity
And I can’t shake free
From this help me kind of love

Well, help me lord, I’m still tumbling by degrees
I try to stand my ground but she brings me to my knees
It’s just that quiet way she smiles and whispers “Please”

Every time I want to walk away
She says something silly just to make me stay
So helpless in her way that I can’t leave

This keeps intensifying
My, baby doll, she’s electrifying
When she holds me in her arms it’s all I need
But this feels too wrong to be love
My honey lover, she’s all I can think of,
When she looks me in my eyes I just can’t breathe.

(c)2021  Dj Lekich

Help Me Kind Of Love

Guilty As Charged

Lateral Flow

Destiny

Empty street, rainy night
A boy beneath the corner light
He hangs his sign
And bides his time

Headlights flash the darkling sky
A roll of cash, a wanting eye
And he just smiles
He’ll be warm in a while

Paint your eyes
Angel’s falling down
Through devil skies
Angel’s falling down
Hear the sound
Of an angel falling

City push, city shove
Not much worse than where he was
Broken life, broken love

Another trick, a cheap motel
One more trip to Sodom’s hell
But it’s alright
He’ll be high tonight

See him curled up on the street
The sidewalk for his bed
People passing by his feet
And they don’t stop to wonder why
And he don’t stop to wonder why
All he wants to do is fly

(c)2022 Dj Lekich

Angel's Falling

copyright 2023 Vic Arnold
Not everyone is as sure of themselves as those who shouldn't be.

As Far As I Know

Something new to something old
Something once so warm
That now has turned so bitter cold
You just can’t disguise
The love you’ve lost therein your eyes
But I’m not letting go

So twist the knife
Watch me bleed
Just say goodbye before you leave
From tonight
Until the break of every dawn
I’ll keep holding on

So pull the shade and walk away
Shed your tears and tell them all you're so okay
Try who you want you be
Erase me from your memory
But I won’t let you fade

So twist the knife
Watch me bleed
Just say goodbye before you leave
From tonight
Until the break of every dawn
I’ll keep holding on

(c) Dj Lekich 2024

I'll Keep Holding On

A song about loss and remembering those empty glasses and empty chairs in our lives. In the case, of my brother, the glass was pretty much always full and probably wasn’t a glass at all, but a can of Tennent’s Lager.

This song would be best with each verse sung by a different person, probably none of them me, and everyone joining in on the chorus. But that's not going to happen, at least for now, so it's just me stumbling through it. Probably best sung and listened to, if at all, while fairly drunk. We were when we recorded it.

OVERFLOWING

Many the night that we have sat around this table
The tales we’d tell and the jokes that we would crack.
I’d put my arm around you now if only I were able
If only I could have you back.

We’ll save a place for you, my friend
Whom we’re so proud of knowing
And though the chair be empty now
Our hearts are overflowing.

Many the glass that we have raised to one another
Laughing eyes across the foam
This was a party that we thought would last forever
I cried when you went home

We’ll raise a glass to you, my friend 
It is our way of showing
That though the glass be empty now
Our hearts are overflowing.

This old room still may ring with our laughter
At the memories that you left behind
But in our hearts there’s a before and there’s an after
A clock we can’t rewind 

We’ll tell our tales of you, my friend
Until it’s time for going
For laughter’s never empty when
Hearts are overflowing


Copyright 2016 Gavin Sinclair

Overflowing

Don’t want no flowers on my grave;
my life down on paper—the words will only fade.
Why not say those things to me when I’m still alive?
We’ve shared so many things, pal, now don’t be shy.

Let’s raise a glass to us today . . .
two old friends who go back a long way.
With a bond sealed with memories, 
old friend, you mean a lot to me—
Who knows who will go and who will stay?
Let’s find a place to pass some time away,
and raise a glass to both of us today.

Poor preacher one day has to eulogize me
though I’ve been a stranger in his church most of my life;
see, when my time comes to go . . . 
just say my friend wasn't perfect—he told me so.

Let’s raise a glass to us today . . .
two old friends who go back a long way.
With a bond sealed with memories, 
old friend, you mean a lot to me—
Who knows who will go and who will stay?
Let’s find some place and drink the night away, 
and raise a glass to both of us today.

I don’t want you going all down hill.
Go find yourself a new best friend.
But I’ll tell you straight right now 
it will never be the same somehow.
Damn, my eyes are watering again.

Let’s raise a glass to us today . . .
two old friends who go back a long way.
With a bond sealed with memories, 
old friend, you mean a lot to me—
Who knows who will go and who will stay?
Let’s find a place and laugh the time away,
and raise a glass to both of us today.

Lyrics by John Vaughan
Music and Vocals by DJ Lekich

(c)2019 John Vaughan/DJ Lekich

Raise A Glass

THE MYSTERIOUS BEINGS
Guitar: Dee Sharpe
Drums: Kit Bashir
Bass: Juan Tusrifor
Saxophone: Aldo Sachs
Keyboards: Gene Poole-Skimmings
Fiddle: Beau Strokes
Special Guest Star on Valerie: Tony Williams
Special thanks to our fantastic roadies, Mike Cable and Ford Van Drijver and Sweden's finest husband and wife sound engineering team Max and Minnie Mumsetting.

It should be pretty obvious that I'm a songwriter, not a singer or performer or producer. If you think you can perform or produce one better than me, you are probably right. If you want to record one, just let me know. gavin@mysteriousbeings.com

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