Don’t impede the greed stampede.

From earlier this year.

The Greed $$$tampede

The men in grey have taken over our most precious treasure, our time. Only Momo can help us get it back. Run, Momo, run, follow the turtle! The men in grey want to get you!

The Men In Grey

Once again, I realised the monthly @themusicollective playlist was almost upon me, so tried to quickly cobble together a song. The bulk of this (including verse 3, 4 and the chorus) originates from a songwriting challenge (of writing a verse or chorus a day for a month) I did during the lockdown, and I just added verse 1 and 2 this morning. Somehow turned into a song somehow dealing with anxiety and somewhat influenced by the current heatwave. Oh, and musically I stole the riff I figured out for Jolene!

Lyrics:

Verse 1
Monday morning pries your eyelids open with a cheeky grin
And without warning anxiety tries to start its quest of creeping in
You feel the scorching sun summon the heat 
The battle of torture and fun begins to tickle your feet

Verse 2
You try your best to fight the urge to give in to that smouldering weight
That lies upon your chest just waiting to be stirred before it
Grabs your head and heart and suddenly you’re afraid cos the
Biggest part of you can tell it’s too late

Chorus
You wanna
Get out of the day and face the bed
Pull the plug on the madness that’s rampaging through your head
Just forget about the nice things noone’s ever said 
To you and feel reality’s hold on you fall away

Verse 2
You throw a pinch of truth into a soup full of lies,
To hide the bittersweet flavour of your crooked alibis,
You hope that one more scoop will satisfy your hunger
But in the end it keeps your cravings alive for longer

Chorus
I wanna
Get out of the day and face the bed
Pull the plug on the madness that’s rampaging through my head
Just forget about the nice things noone’s ever said 
To me and feel reality’s hold on me fall away

Verse 3
You need a brandnew frame of mind without the cracks and the rust 
You’re kind of scared what you might find by wiping away the grime and the dust.
Try to assemble the pieces you have lost in a dream
And create something new you’ve never seen.

Chorus
You gotta
Get out of the day and face the bed
Pull the plug on the madness rampaging through your head
Just forget about the nice things noone’s ever said 
To you and feel reality’s hold on you fall away

Fall Away (demo)

Written, Arranged, Performed and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Fox Steps... Walk down on me

Simple Fascination
Walk down on me
Palace life
Program the man for me
Who is ever wandering the street
Alleyways and loss of pigment
The bars are all we walk along
Barred in as all in need

Whose legs walking over me?
Down in damp
Presence of family and piece of mind
Working over new age person
Homely and ever degrading
Left out with the mold crown

Seeking out the telegrams of World War Two grandfather
Getting less and less like his son
Ever wandering the cobblestones
Gas lamp lit
Always Chinese lanterns in the clouds
And simple fascination

Walk down on me
I stole from whom I don't even know
Damp shining with past
Good and bad memories

I walk across cattails and stones
Marshes growing into forest
For whom I know not
Waves of wind and soil wash down on me and feet
Whose legs walking over me?

Fox runs lithely with broken leg
I dream to them to tell tales
Running this side mountain path
War passed through here
Soldiers and tunnels and faces
I do not know

Walking on me
Tiny steps
Like paper pads and concepts
What you've done to me
They also know
That for me
The marsh will grow
Like simple fascination
Take a photo
Step
And take
What you owe
        May 23, 2024

Fox Steps

Our version of The Telescopes' Songs Of Love And Revolution, music and lyrics by Stephen Lawrie.

Songs Of Love And Revolution (a metal version)

This story of Romeo and Juliet with these previously unknown plots and twists, or, which have not been told up to now, finally exposes the true love of these young lovers.  Warning its messy.

Take

Romeo And Juliet The Real Messy Story

The second instrumental.

Song : CrOwn Of cOaL
Album:  Sharpen Quills and Empty Wells
All right reserved
Copyright ©️ Malcolm Gladwin 
Lyrics: Malcolm Gladwin 
© 2025

Recorded at Longhurst 
14-01-2025
M Gladwin / M Turner 
C Zulko /B Barons 


CrOwn Of cOaL - Malcolm Gladwin

Dedicado a mi hija Mina.

Mastering: Niu - Tactil Mx

Halan Cc feat Rorro - Swear (Original Mix)

Synth infused soundscape, confronting the listener with the Emergence...

Emergence

CCCXLV milia passuum

Listen or just listen either way you will be listening to the message.

Romeo And Juliet The Real Messy Story

DJTJ West End Chops