Have a splendid 2025, Gareth!!! Beautiful originality! Soothing voice! The lyrics are so relevant to this modern era. The people force you to be to yourself with their dirty egos., then they have the audacity to want you to serve them while they drain you. That's so messed up. At least in the Hippie days it was about loving, caring, & sharing. Pleasant track atmosphere with a gentle reminding voice of the realism of human nature. Have a great day!  You take me back to the carefree 70's vibes! BRAVO>> 🤍🙌🏻🤍

wooowww magnific Flows and Vibes ... some like Beatles... I love it

Nice one, I like the feeling of this song.

Great song, so relaxing and mood lifting! 🙏🏻

I'm sorry but I have to say, this song is nice 😉✌️

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Artist: Gareth Wood
Title: Don't Be Nice
Album: Exposure Therapy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoIDoqlJkD8&list=PL-6SKWA0F8S_rMeOXyq4DuIOVUww0_1hp

Don't Be Nice

Some new acoustic guitar stuff is under construction, but meanwhile here’s a very different beast, called 'Relentless'. About the relentless assembly line of life.

Relentless

"A Love Like No Other"

Recollections of flowing memories from when you entered my life
Your long black flowing hair & those beckoning eyes that still call me
It was obvious that we were never through which is why I returned
And in this world, who could ever say they knew of romance like this?
A Love Like No Other

Am deeply sorry for the pain I caused from an addiction that destroyed me
You were always the one & I struggled to cope with all I could not say
As time slowly passes by, I know in my heart you will be back in my arms one day
A Love Like No Other, a girl that gave me a reason to smile
A Love Like No Other, the connection of two souls that become one

Shane Beck (The Last American Poet)

1 - A Love Like No Other - Shane Beck

This is not about anyone in particular just a story..thanks for listening

Don’t be afraid, it’s only shadows
The distant sounds, are merely echoes
It’s all a dream nothing can hurt you here
You’ll feel your heart begin to heal

There is no rhyme or any reason to be found
We will in time get our feet back on the ground
So promise me

Go easy on yourself Take some time to breathe
It’s natural to feel the way you’re feeling
Just remember who you are,
You are light that’s made from stars
And in the dark you’ll go on gleaming
Shine on for you, shine on for me
And know that you are loved

It seems unfair how different lives unfold
Those with no cares do as they please
While we are here with such a heavy load
More than we could bear brought down to our knees

But what we’ve had is so much more than they will know
So dry your eyes, there is someone here to hold you!

Go easy on yourself Take some time to breathe
It’s natural to grieve the way you're grieving
Just remember who you are,
You are light that’s made from stars
And in the night you’ll go on gleaming
Shine on for me, shine on for you
And know that you are loved

Go Easy On Yourself

GREATEST HITS

I’m blowin’ notes streetside in a horn section   
Blown garbage and coppered boots all gone tangling. 
You’re Bixby’s Bridge above Kerouac’s canyon.  
Way above the ruts in your trending fashion      

You’ve been playin’ me your greatest hits.    
But I need from you something ordinary (Like)           
Falling vacant down a slip               
What capture’s me is the fragmentary - humanity

You’re all coiff n pressed jeans uber-reaching
Gripping on to a scene and about it beseeching
You’re jetting over Miller’s Big Sur resident shack
History is nothing but a scratch on your back

You’ve been playin’ me your greatest hits. . .  
But I need from you something ordinary (Like)           
A eureka moment guilt trip               
What capture’s me is the fragmentary – humanity

What was I just a birthright the right side of the tracks
But egalitarian ideas caught you in a trap
Trying to show a social conscience don’t come naturally
Such a handbrake on life’s beckoning verdant tapestry

You’ve been playin’ me your greatest hits. . .  
You’ve been playin’ me your greatest hits. . .

Greatest Hits

this track is really just revisiting an older tune from around 2022 that started off with just the opening electric piano part, and experimented with different synth pads and an arpeggiator. The updated version adds a few newer synth sounds to the mix. It's really still fairly experimental, and I may try another alternate version at some point. 
The image was designed by me and created with Chat GPT 4o
The title is kinda lame so if you have any suggestions drop 'em in the comments  :)

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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

Dark Arpeggiator / Electric Twilight

Music from game „Clockwork Island“ by Nozomu Games: https://nozomu57.itch.io/clockwork-island

Clockwork Island (Main theme)

You Can Make it feat. Andy Delos Santos

I DON'T REMEMBER SAYING GOODBYE, [Live]  Copyright Tamasi Record Co.

Floating with the Clouds (storm)

Is That Me?

advice you might want to give your kids - some serious, some less so - over a progressive rocked up fingerstyle blues soundscape. Or something.

Flush

A remix of a previous version is also on my page here.
Lyrics and beat written, produced, performed, mixed, and mastered by Codex Scrolls. 
Scribes of Avalon 2025

IMPROVE ON I. (Remix)

I Just Want Someone Who Cares

Dans Ma Rue

Threatened Future

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

"If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worthwhile." - Tom Lehrer

Gareth Wood is an independent and self-produced multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer from Manchester, England. His debut album 'Juvenilia' was released on August 21, 2017. Gareth's second album 'Low Key' was released on July 20, 2018. His third album 'Rites of Passage' was released April 17, 2020. Gareth released a fourth album of instrumentals entitled 'Sweet Nothings' exclusively on YouTube on December 27th, 2022. On April 2nd 2024, a fifth album was released by Gareth called 'Exposure Therapy'. All albums can be found in full on both Bandcamp and YouTube. 

All songs written, performed and produced by Gareth Wood.

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