Oh, the bumming me out line. Such great twist!

this reminds me something that would become sampled into some hard acid house, the echo reminds of the one slayer song where it's actually 2 takes out of sync; really cool work

Anal Jam

Feel the love

"Top Of The List" (#428, 210104)

Quiet all along the highway
Sun peeking over the trees
Wind picked up but I wore my coat
And it feels alright to me

Come out here every morning
Sit quiet and listen clear
Blue crayon and a piece of paper
And I watch these lines appear

Some people seek salvation in heaven
Other folks build it here on earth
Me I'm just lucky to count my blessings
Anytime I can find the words
Younger self well I never woulda' guessed
What's always on the top of the list

Get an early start tomorrow
Pack a little bag to bring
Blanket and a pair of mittens
Winter's gonna' turn to spring

Week 01 - Top Of The List (210104)

You'd Be Green Too

A Place Called Eldorado (#431, 210121)

 * by Dan Rivers + James Tristan Redding * 

Place called Eldorado a couple hours from OKC
One square mile somewhere in the middle between you and me
Sick of these palm trees and I miss the way you laugh
What if I go east and you head west and we cut the drive in half

Bet there's fields of gold and green that glisten in the rain
Never made a footprint there and no one knows your name
Do you still have that Subaru with a peace sign on the back
I got me an old Chevrolet and I just filled up the tank

Hope you're leavin' Greenville L.A. just disappeared
I'm flyin' like an eagle there ain't no rear view mirror
Mile markers flashing by lead to where I'll spend all my tomorrows
A place called Eldorado

A couple books and a baseball cap the shirt you bought for me
Heart racin' as I tossed 'em all on the empty shotgun seat
Bet you're on a two lane road in the Appalachian snow
Somewhere in the desert I turned on that radio

Guess you got through Knoxville I just passed Santa Fe
And I ain't gonna' stop 'til I see your pretty face
Mile markers flashing by lead to where I'll spend all my tomorrows
A place called Eldorado

Sometime after midnight I tried to call you up
Telephone kept ringin' got this feelin' in my gut
Shook it off like I always do and rolled the windows down
Lit another cigarette too late to turn back now

Mile markers flashing by lead to where I'll spend all my tomorrows
A place called Eldorado

Week 04 - A Place Called Eldorado (210121)

You've Got To Help Yourself (demo)

Days and days of grey and overcast
Waiting for this goddamn storm to pass
Trying, not to, fall into the mud
Bleak midwinter cold the trees are bare
Feeling like the sky is looking there
Heart is sinking into the flood
But I swore to myself that when the sun came out I'd sing and play

And there's blue in the sky today
---
Black clouds got the best of yesterday
Spring could be a hundred days away
Trudge that path to happy destiny
I can be a grumpy son-of-a-bitch
Grateful for the way you handle it
Trying to seek out the best in me
And I promised myself that when your love arrived I'd sing hooray

And there's blue in the sky today
---
And EVery time I think I went too far you walk me back
And every TIME that I get LOST you help to GET me back on track
And anyTHING I tried to MAKE it fell part ‘til I FOUND you
Then right on cue… the sun came shining through

And there's blue in the sky x4 today

Blue In The Sky

Help yourself – to belief
(Mark Anderson 2021)
When the answers to your questions are hard to find
Like pieces of a puzzle in your mind
When the weight is getting heavy
And the world is getting dark
You watch that setting sun  just fade away
 
Like a captain out upon a raging storm
You’ve got to stay the course to make it home
There’s an angry wave in front of you
And an angry wind behind
Through the darkness comes another day

(Chorus) 
I hope you help yourself 
I hope you help yourself to all the love you need
I hope you Help yourself
I hope you help yourself set your spirit free
More than anything else
I hope you help yourself – to  belief…

Everyone gets hurt from time to time
You don’t know what’s waiting down the line
Memories are teachers 
They’ll guide the road you’re take
Nothing’s really wasted on mistakes

(Chorus) 
I hope you help yourself 
I hope you help yourself to all the love you need
I hope you Help yourself
I hope you help yourself set your spirit free
More than anything else
I hope you help yourself – to  belief…

(Bridge)
You can’t make this world conform to wishes
No one has the right to place that bet
But you can find those things in life that’s missing
Don’t doubt it cause it hasn’t happened yet

(Chorus)

Help yourself to belief

This is a song that Danielle and I wrote in record time last night.  Very first draft and will need some work, so feedback is appreciated.    Not sure it's a Lynard style song, but it seems to go nicely for the moment.  

Phrasing and melody needs work!

We have done a little update but will record and update in next few days.  31.1.21

Help Yourself 

There's a table 
by the doorway 
It’s got coffee, it’s got tea
A doyley on a plate o’ cakes
We’re trading memories 
Fitting farewell for a friend
Like the end of a song
Secret thought inside our mind is
Will our time be long?

There’s a record
On the player 
It’s a tune, we used to know
We’d play it loud and sing too hard
Until we had to grow up
Finding our future on our own
We went our separate ways
Some loved, some lost, some lasted 
But we miss those golden days

Help yourself to lemon cake
The taste is bittersweet 
Seeing you is so pleasing
So sad to see her leaving
Oh I wish it was a better reason
It’s such a mournful day 
In every tragic way 
But it’s so great to hear your news
And we need to get together soon 
So help yourself to lemon cake

There’s a photo
On the sideboard
Of our final days at school 
Before we’d settled down
Knew life could be so cruel

One of our crowd is missing now 
It hurts to think she’s gone 
We hold those moments in our hearts 
And her memory will stay strong

Week 4 - SAW - Help Yourself  - First Draft- Banks and Gale

"Planting The Seeds" (#435, 210205)

(I looked at the wrong prompt and finished the song before I realized I was a week behind. So now I have a song about planting seeds.)

Five foot nothin' leather for skin
County line furthest he's ever been
Diesel engine big cloud of dust
Live and die by the land

Ain't no backtalk do all your chores
One turned seven other one's four
Proud of teachin' and raisin' 'em up
Fine as anyone can

Soil is rich pockets are empty
House is fallin' apart
Work the field yield'll be plenty
In the home and the heart

Nothin' comes easy there's no guarantees
Still he's planting the seeds

One hard morning he will not rise
Tears will fill up his children's eyes
Angels came down from heaven above
Guess it's time to go home

Ain't no bible for bailin' the hay
Ain't no preacher who knows what to say
That don't stop 'em from spreadin' his love
Where the seeds are all sewn

Week 06b - Planting The Seeds (210205)

Wind and Water (feat mandolin by Erin Wolf) 
        
You’ll feel it in the wind and water
The changing of the signs
When this old world is tired of spinning spinning all the time
The seasons stop believing
The trees no longer shout
You cant remember what this thing called life is all about


Your kids might call you crazy
But you’ve seen far more than they
You love to rock and smoke a pipe 
Say ‘well back in my day’
They just roll their eyes but still they ask a song to sing 
coz deep down in their souls they love to hear your mandolin

Its not about religion
Its not about the rules
Its not about how hard you play but tell the truth
Its far from what where were headed here
In chasing fools old gold
Its in the depths of longing
For the Dreams of long ago

Weve gotta get back to the time
of true community
break down the walls and fences that hold back the you and me
the earth is groaning in its bones for long lost souls like we
to open up corroded hearts and run towards the sea

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