Love the lyrics, fine vocals and music, Gary!

Beautiful song Gary...and you nailed the vocals...

This is so powerful Gary. No doubt all of us have watched someone we love live through this. Stunning performance and production.

Wow so touching--- must have missed this earlier--such a hard subject(dealing with this now with someone) Gary what a great vocal arrangement with so much feeling !!!

I held up through the parent...broke down with the spouse. So well done Gary.  And that chorus - Orbison's got nothin' on McMahon.

A heartfelt and moving song Gary. A sad truth about life so lovingly portrayed.

Joyful is overrated! I like this straight forward and emotive song you’ve written, and your singing is perfectly fine. It fits so warmly. I like the cascading music as it finishes. Very touching song, really.

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered using Logic. 
Guitars played: Taylor 714CE in DADGAD Tuning
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.

Acoustic guitar instrumental.

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Le Gach Bogadh ar Aghaidh,Éirímid (With Each Step Forward ,We Rise )

These vocals nearly killed me, more of a songwriter than a singer. Next song I write might only have a 3 step range!...Dementia, Alzheimer's is a terrible reality for so many. I wrote the first verse from the perspective of the afflicted one and the second verse from the caregiver’s . The cover art is being created before I release on the streamers in early 2025, but here it is for meySoundClouders. I promise, the next song will be a more joyful tune...I hope!

Falling

Give in

Are you awake?
It doesn’t matter anyway
I pull the brake
It’s neither Monday nor the lord’s day

Pretty little thoughts
Surrounded by knots
Bombshells and fears 
Crowded people that cheers
Is it time to give in?
Watch the others spin?

I think you’re awake
Does it all make sense?
I think we release the brake
It’s for our own defence
I have no faith in the politics
Nevermind, it was a joke
But I’m afraid of the reaper
And I think we’re broke

Give in

'good to know'

Babe, my brain keeps storming ways
that you could be lying to me once again.
Why do I feel like such a fool?
Am I merely your tool for use? 
And, if so, how could you be so cruel?
And, what exactly is it that's your fuel
that you possessed to motivate you
to do all the fucked up shit that you do?
Well, it's true. 

Babe, I can't help 
but to be spiraling down
into all of the things that go on around.
I can't just simply ignore the sound.
I feel I can not go pound for pound
with all your bullshit that's laying around.
So, why bother making a sound?
Because, amidst this, maybe I will be found,
and come around. 

Nothing you've done shows that you loved me
after the lies that I have come now to know.
You claimed that no one else was above me
but when I was with my kids or off working, you'd go off and cheat on me, yo. Good to know.

good to know

A classic guitar track. Theme and performance - LeoMReznik.                                           
      This time I decided to record something in the traditional classical style. This winter is still causing exactly such feelings... Some of you, my friends, may like this simple composition. I'll be glad to.

Winter Adagio

Live Reflexion#022

Crime Of Passion,== Gene Jumper, ( cover ) Ricky Van Shelton

Featured in The 10:40 set playlist
All rights held by the songwriter Edwin H. Balder
Link to more of our Singer/songwriter style hits you can cover into fame because of your take!

https://soundcloud.com/edwin-balder/sets/best-new-folk-americana?si=04e0155163644977b37cf8c0a04f3c53&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Happy… To Be Alone

Going around the final turn in life and enjoying myself immensely. Do you with whatever you do.

Falling

Gary A. McMahon

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