This composition will be my last post for the year, and would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Blessed and Happy Christmas, and may all your wishes come true for the New Year.....

Art picture is by IIbrahim Gueatar on Unsplash...

Bagatelle opus 15

Hey Old Man, you wrecked it all
They say pride comes before a fall
But what if pride is all there is
And your castles fall around your ears?

Old Man, you wrecked it all.

Charlotte sent me 12 songs to work on a few weeks ago , I thought " good grief " , we are going to be very busy ! This is a great upbeat Pop/Rock song , we hope you like it , here's our 1st album link
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nWWNcrIRv08J_eEbL7MJ_1UTdMo0MjJLM&si=G83ypyLh0nQwYRis
I'm keeping the UNICEF donation link open 
https://www.unicef.de/spendenaktion/idee?cfd=jdo7r
Any money raised will go towards helping children in the Ukraine , a very worthy cause !
Me and Tony Harris will finish the year off , how time flies .
In the New Year there's more with Gaz Brownie , Dave Cooper , Charlotte , Kim , and by myself .
I would imagine me and Axel will get together too !
Many thanks for all the support you give me , you've made an old muso very happy .

Boom Boom Boom

🌿 Sanctuary entrance
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3w9MX1qnmCopmXkpwkyI4A?si=Jwahcr1RRv-OU_8mkuoqkA

Just Asking - dark folk / Americana, intimate, confessional.
A quiet confrontation whispered rather than declared. Built on banjo and breath, the song lives in questions that refuse to accuse and doubts that don’t demand answers. It carries the voice of someone still innocent enough to ask, standing between endurance and love, trying to understand whether staying means connection or disappearance. There is no resolution here, only proximity - a fragile request for clarity before silence decides. At its heart, it’s about love not as certainty, but as the courage to speak before fading out.

━━━ ✦ LYRICS ✦ ━━━

Do you hear me when I’m silent?
Can you feel me when I’m gone?
Do you hold me in the absence
or just need me when I’m on?

Do you see me in the daylight
when the magic’s stripped away?
Or am I only something human
when I’m starting to decay?

Is this love or just a habit
Which is painful to undo?
Are you standing in the fire
or just warming next to truth?

If I stop becoming easy,
if I ask for something real,
do you meet me in the question
or step back from what you feel?

Do you miss me when I’m present,
Would you call me if I leave?
Do you trust the things I’m saying
or just tolerate belief?

When I lay my doubts before you,
do they scare you, do they stay?
Am I something you’re protecting
or a weight you want to shake?

I don’t need a perfect answer,
I don’t need a sacred sign,
I just need to know if staying
Means erasing parts of mine.

Is this love or just endurance
wearing patience like a crown?
If I stop holding together,
Would the silence let us down?

If I fade into the distance
like a voice you couldn’t save,
Would you finally try to call me,
or be scared to say my name?

Just asking

Hey folks. My good friend Marcin is doing a fundraiser for Benny who is in need of funds for cancer treatment

This is the direct link to the fundraising page and your generosity would be most welcome by Benny and his family. This track here is not monetised this is just a little bit of musical love to help the cause

https://www.justgiving.com/page/marcin-man?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

All major credit cards are excepted. When I donated myself the bit I could afford I used a throw away virtual card and all was in order and that might be a way of making it more worry free for you.

The family need to raise £393,000 ($525,000) for the treatment and they so far have 37% of that total so they could do with every bit they can to meet the substantial sum.

Thanks for your help, Carl

You Tube Jam here
https://youtube.com/shorts/-P7sAwsDKvU?si=kYS9SZoALRzbjzu8


Benny the Brave

Good medicine miracles
With your help
Brave Benny's great life
Love for life Earth dealt
Give us a hand so more future felt
Train treatment to tame
This hurdle he will melt

Benny can jump it
Yeah Benny got power
Good Benny,
The purest good boy of this hour
Most of us have enough
Maybe a little too much
Please part with the extra
Get Benny's smile locked

Be generous dream
Be family of fine
Compassion for simpler life we define
Be all the love that you can
Give Benny more say
Whatever you can

Big thanks from boy brave
Big thanks for the heart
Together, found future
A little help finds new start
Be generous dream
Be family of fine
Compassion for simpler life we define

Benny can jump it
Yeah Benny got power
Good Benny,
The purest good boy of this hour
Most of us have enough
Maybe a little too much
Please part with the extra
Get Benny's smile locked

Be generous dream
Be family of fine
Compassion for simpler life we define
Be all the love that you can
Give Benny more say
Whatever you can 🔆

Benny the Brave

Merry Christmas Maxy!

When Tony Harris writes lyrics they are stories from the heart , to leave any out would not be right , so when he sent me these wonderful words I used them all , squeezed them in somehow . We do hope you like it , and it's the last song of the year , where has 2025 gone ?
The Greatest Gifts charity for the children of the Ukraine through UNICEF is still running , and will do as long as Putin is aggressive towards the good folk of the Ukraine , the link is 
https://www.unicef.de/spendenaktion/idee?cfd=jdo7r
Me and Dave Cooper now have an album out , some great tracks on there
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJ55GriuHTHSUxNwNw0svVVZNO3Pu95eY

https://open.spotify.com/album/6CK6Qx1RXViLaBtZ6gEeIj

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/from-the-wear-to-the-tees/1852653044
2026 starts on the 1st with Gaz Brownie , and loads to come after that . Charlie and the Fox are back in the studio again with many songs lined up , here's our 1st album link
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nWWNcrIRv08J_eEbL7MJ_1UTdMo0MjJLM&si=G83ypyLh0nQwYRis
I would like to thank everyone from this year , people I've worked with and fellow musos just tuning in for a listen , really appreciated . Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all of you !
HE GREW UP BACK IN THE DAY
WITH TWO GUITARS IN THE HOUSE
ONE WAS SPECIAL TO HIS MOM
NOBODY KNEW HOW TO PLAY
IT BELONGED TO HIS UNCLE
THEY CALLED THE GUITAR MAN
THAT WAS KILLED IN THE BIG WAR
NEVER GOT TO PLAY IN A BAND
(CHORUS)
HE WROTE THIS SONG
ABOUT THE GUITAR MAN
HE NEVER GOT TO MEET HIM
OR WRITE A SONG WITH HIM
PRAYS HE'S UP IN HEAVEN
PLAYING IN A BAND
HE CARRIED HIS GUITAR
EVERYWHERE HE WENT
ALWAYS HAPPY TO PLAY
HIS PLAYING WAS HEAVEN SENT

THEY ALWAYS SAID HIS UNCLE A. J.
WOULD BE A STAR SOMEDAY
BUT LIKE SO MANY OTHERS
HE HAD A BIGER PRICE TO PAY
HIS MAMA GAVE THE GUITAR AWAY
CAUSE NOBODY KNEW HOW TO PLAY
IT WAS JUST COLLECTING DUST
WISHES HE HAD THAT FLAT TOP TODAY
(REPEAT CHORUS)

2025 © Lyrics by Tony Harris

Playing in a Band

All Because Of You


I've been thinking about our life
and how we got to where we are.
All the memories, joys and strife.
Together we have come so far.

Life has been a wondrous dream.
All because of you.
We are only gaining steam
as all our wishes come true.

I have it all because of you.
Because of you, I finally see.
We touched the stars. So high we flew.
Without you I could never be.

The day we met my path was clear.
I saw it all in front of me.
Because of you I have no fear.
I gladly face eternity.

It's funny how we came to be.
It seems so long ago.
Just a couple crazy teens.
So young. What could we know?

But even then I saw your light.
A glow I'd never seen before.
Your spirit lit those starry skies.
A helpless rush began to soar.

I owe you more than I could pay.
My life with you I hold so dear.
I cherish each and every day
and every month and every year.

You've been my rock. My saving grace.
From you all of my blessings flow.
Two sons forever we'll embrace.
A love this strong will only grow.

Because of you I wrote this song.
Because of what you've meant to me.
And it's been you babe all along.
We've reached such heights,
God's face I see.

All because,
because of you.
All I am,
because of you.

Corpus

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