Beautiful Songwriting and Arrangement. The vocals are awesome too

@ethanasia In what way could it be more original? 

cool tune reminds me of John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic

You have a nice folky voice! You should check out some of my stuff too if you have the time!

Love the track! What a wonderful voice you have. Sounds like Kris Kristopherson! Great job! Wonderful guitar piece btw!

Great picking in this, really like the style

Beatchtown Hotel

Millstone

When The Darkness Comes

She comes home late at night 
pulls up into the driveway 
there’s a stillness in the air
as the night it surrounds her 

Theres an aching in her heart that she cant shake
there’s a prison in her mind that she can’t break 
there’s a struggle that only she can face 
when the darkness comes 

She turns the key into the lock 
and gently pushes open the door
the coldness wraps around her body 
as she leaves the night behind her

Chorus
Theres an aching in her heart that she cant shake
there’s a prison in her mind that she can’t break 
there’s a struggle that only she can face 
when the darkness comes 
when the darkness comes 

She illuminates the room with a fire
that she hopes will warm her  heart worn scars
she takes comfort  in a picture of her life
taken before the war 

reflections of a peaceful time 
when laughter and joy filled the days
and all that she’s left with is a memory of the day the letter came to tell her 
the guns and bombs took her husband and sons away

Theres an aching in her heart that she cant shake
there’s a prison in her mind that she can’t break 
there’s a struggle that only she can face 
when the darkness comes 

Theres an aching in her heart that she cant shake
there’s a prison in her mind that she can’t break 
there’s a struggle that only she can face 
when the darkness comes 
when the darkness comes

When The Darkness Comes (Saturday Night Demo)

This song is about the counterpart to love: hatred and the associated need for revenge and retaliation. 
Another collaboration with my son Freddy (played parts of the guitar and percussion). And my attempt to play the piano as the main instrument and to accompany my singing with it.

Lyrics in English:

Shards

Body scent, swan song, everything's destroyed
War, poisoning, the smell of garbage, it's all worth nothing

Only shards that cut into me
to feed on my anguish

Suffocate any hope 
hands are chopped off

I longed so much for peace 
for honest harmony
now I realize how naive I am
I can't make amends with you

See now the shards that desire revenge
will have a lifetime of power struggles

That can only live on in hatred
seeing love as an enemy

Lawyers, lawsuit, that is your world
You pay the most money for the sharpest advocate pencil 

For you, tenderness is a red scarf 
You're under a curse
That hates to love and loves to hate
that flurishes in warmongering

You're a lost soul, which is increasingly straying
who has so irretrievably confused you at the root?

Who can reassemble the shards without hurting anyone?
...stop your hate speeches, is there a turning point? 


Deutscher Originaltext:

Scherben

Leichenduft, Abgesang, alles ist zerstört
Krieg, Vergiftung, Müllgestank, alles nichts mehr wert

Um mich nur Scherben, die in mich einschneiden
sich an meinen Qualen weiden

Jede Hoffnung gleich ersticken 
Hände sind abgehackt

Sehnte mich so sehr nach Frieden
nach ehrlicher Harmonie
nun ist mir klar, wie naiv ich bin
mit Dir ist Versöhnung nicht drin

Seh` jetzt die Scherben, die nach Rache gieren
ein Leben lang Machtkämpfe führen
die nur im Haß aufleben können
Liebe als Feind ansehen

Rechtsanwälte, Klageschrift, dass ist Deine Welt
für den schärfsten  Advokatenstift zahlst Du das meiste Geld

Für Dich ist Zärtlichkeit ein rotes Tuch
Du bist belegt mit einem Fluch

Der Lieben haßt und hassen liebt
in Kriegstreibereien aufblüht

Bist ne` verlorene Seele 
die sich zusehends verirrt
wer hat Dich nur an der Wurzel so unwiederbringlich verwirrt

Wer kann die Scherben neu zusammensetzen
ohne jemand zu verletzen
Deine Hasstiraden stoppen
gibt es nen` Wendepunkt?

Scherben (Shards)

Scherben (Shards) (with Freddy) (Lyrics In English In The Intro)

Original song - vocals, harmonies, guitar, violin are performed by Riley Whittaker. Music and lyrics by Riley Whittaker

Why (Long for you)

Why (Long For You)

REMIX of track "Coming Home" by ADF.  

Remix by Robert Corleone III

https://soundcloud.com/user-421254556

Take My Hand REMIX of "Coming Home" by ADF

On one of my many tramp tours a French lady named Elain once took me with her. During the trip from Paris to Strasbourg she told me her life story and that she had decided, after more and more agonizing depressions, to put an end to her life. She implored me to accompany her, which I strongly rejected at the time. Rather, I desperately tried to convince her to continue her life. When we said goodbye in Strasbourg, she promised me not to hurt herself. 

A good thirty years later, I do not know what happened to her. In this song, I give free rein to my vision of what it could have been like if I had granted her wish for assisted dying. - A highly controversial theme- . I only give here my passionate pladoyer for accompanied and dignified dying. 

Lyrics in English:

One last farewell kiss

Give you one last farewell kiss
Before I have to kill you now

You want to leave forever
There will be no reunion

You have once again put on your ball gown
Your hair - well groomed
The silver necklace around the neck
Like on a last courtship display 

Your eyes sad-beautiful
Your lips soft-red soft-quiet supplication

You draw me close to you
You take my hand
You lead me almost floating
In your chapel to die 
Chrysanthemum covered

A carafe houses the drink 
The poison dipped in champagne
You lie down on your bedchamber
Longing for the dark after

I'll trickle you in the afterlife juice
Your breath stops being here
Your heartbeat's gonna stop

Before your soul blows away
You give me one last farewell kiss

Don't suffer, my love, I'm well.
Don't lament, my love, I'm liberated.
Live on for you and for me
In deep gratitude
Your Elain

Deutsch-Französicher Originaltext:

Noch einen letzten Abschiedskuß

Geb` Dir noch einen letzten Abschiedskuß
Bevor ich Dich jetzt töten muß

Du willst für immer gehen
Es gibt kein wiedersehen

Hast Dir noch einmal Dein Ballkleid angelegt
Dein Haar – glanzvoll gepflegt
Die Silberkette um den Hals
Wie auf einer letzten Balz 

Deine Augen traurig-schön
Deine Lippen zartrotes sanft-leises Flehen

Ziehst mich zu Dir nah heran
Nimmst meine Hand
Führst mich fast schwebend
In Deine Kapelle zum Sterben 
Mit Chrysanthemen belegt

Eine Karaffe beherbergt den Trunk 
Das Gift in Champagner getunkt
Du legst Dich auf Dein Schlafgemach
Sehnst Dich nach dem dunklen Danach

Ich träufel` Dir den Jenseits-Saft ein
Dein Atem hört auf, hier zu sein
Dein Herzschlag bleibt irgendwann stehn`

Bevor Deine Seele verweht
Schenkst Du mir noch einen letzten Abschiedskuß

Ne souffre pas, mon amour, je vais bien
Ne te plains pas, mon amour, je suis libéré
Vivez pour toi et pour moi
En profonde gratitude
Ton Elain

Noch einen letzten Abschiedskuß (One Last Farewll Kiss)

Noch Einen Letzten Abschiedskuss (One Last Farewell Kiss) (Engl. Lyrics in the Intro)

Again and again I have to painfully observe that women who want to live their own potentials, their autonomy, their creativity or other strengths, are discriminated against in a concealed or sometimes blatant way. In spite of the important feminist-emancipatory movements, especially in the last 50 years, in many areas of life the classical division of roles - men make the rational, women the emotional labor - still exists. Women who want to free themselves from these rigid role attributions are no longer burned at the stake, as they were in the Middle Age (and some women into the late 19th century!). However, they are often “removed” verbally or physically in other, more perfidious ways. 
This song is a blazing plea for a really profound change in social conditions, which not only offer a few exceptions, but basically women the possibility to find their own autonomous strength.     
And it is also a song for my wife, who is a very strong woman and who is repeatedly attacked for her courage, clarity, inventiveness and assertiveness. 
And it is my deep musical bow to Hypatia of Alexandria, Hildegard von Bingen, Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone Weil, Harriet Taylor Mill, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Donna Haraway, Judith Butler and other great thinkers for achieving the goal of "equality and dignity for all people".


Lyrics in English:

Strong Women

So often burned
Banished to islands
Gladly misjudged as poisonous snakes
Still not recognized today

Are very wise and self-confident
Full of self-will and joie de vivre
Are the weak man's constant frustration

If they ever want to go upstairs
The repression gets under way
Embarrass, ostracize, paralyze them, till they leave

Hey, strong women come out
Put out the men's straw fires
Yes, I love you all

The Middle Age is still there
Seems so distant, but is so close
Subtle strong women are still in danger of death

I may be a man, but I'm also a woman
Strong women know that very well
The lie of "man" and "woman" is something they've long seen through

Often have the big ideas
But the men become luminaries
The "Adams" leave them in kitchen handcuffs

Hey, strong women come out
Put out the men's straw fires
Yes, I love you all.

Outro:

Hey, I love you all...
Please come out...

Deutscher Originaltext:

Starke Frauen

So oft verbrannt
Auf Inseln verbannt
Gerne als Giftschlangen verkannt
Bis heute noch nicht anerkannt

Sind sehr klug und selbstbewußt
Voller Eigenwillen und Lebenslust
Sind des schwachen Mannes Dauerfrust

Wenn Sie mal nach oben wollen
Kommt die Repression ins Rollen
Beschämen, verfemen, lähmen, bis sie gehen

Hey, starke Frauen kommt heraus
Macht die Männer-Strohfeuer aus
Ja, ich lieb` Euch alle

Das Mittelalter ist noch da
Scheint so fern, doch ist ganz nah
Subtil sind starke Frauen noch immer in Lebensgefahr

Bin zwar ein Mann, doch zugleich ne` Frau
Starke Frauen wissen das ganz genau
Die Lüge von “Mann” und “Frau” ham`se` längst durchschaut

Haben oft die großen Ideen
Doch die Männer werden zu Koryphäen
Die “Adams” lassen sie in Küchen-Handschellen stehen

Hey, starke Frauen kommt heraus
Macht die Männer-Strohfeuer aus
Ja, ich lieb` Euch alle

Outro:

Ich lieb` Euch alle…
Bitte kommt heraus

Starke Frauen (Strong Women)

Starke Frauen (Strong Women) (Engl. Lyrics In The Intro)

This is something I came up with on July 26th 2019 but only now was I able to finish recording it (because of university etc)
I hope you like it and if you could leave a comment telling me what you like and what you don't I'd really appreciate it :)
xoxo

Lyrics:
Hold my hand
Embrace the pain
Remember the awful things they say
And show them why they're all wrong 

Breathe it in
Let it out
That's what life's all about
At least for those who don't pray 

Fuck yeah I know it hurts
But now you have to trust (2x)

Don't walk away
Hold your head high
Face them with rage
Don't keep it inside (2x)

You'll never let them know
In time you'll get to show
How good is it to cry
When no one's there to pry (x2)

Hold my hand
Forget the pain
It's all bullshit anyway
Show them why they're all wrong

Breathe it in
Let it out
That's what life's all about
At least for those who don't pray

Fuck yeah I know it hurts
But now you have to trust (2x)

hold my hand

ADF  is a singer-songwriter based in the northwest of Ireland blending varying hues of folk and country and presented in a melodic and folk style. Something old, something new.

The songs on the first release from ADF 'Reaching From The Dark' are representative of a journey that has been the goal of a lifetime, to release a group of songs from the heart. 

Following on from the release of 'Reaching From The Dark' in November 2018, the single 'The Rock' was released in may 2019. Backed with a cover of the Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne penned classic 'Learning To Fly' this marked the first time for an ADF styled cover. I hope in some way I did the song justice and it's my tribute to Tom, one of the master writers of our time. Equally 'The Rock' whilst not a tribute in full is a half tribute to Rory Gallagher and also to the festival in Ballyshannon held each at the beginning June. It's my tribute to the people that come here year after year from all over the world to celebrate music.

Looking towards the future an album is in the works with a tentative release date of 2020. Preceding this will be a track from the album 'Don't Give Up' which will release as a single this coming November. If all plans fall into place, which let's face it they most likely won't, two more singles will lead up to the release of the album.

Thanks for taking the time to read this if you got this far and thanks for listening. See you on up the road. 

ADF 

Click here for the EP 'Reaching From The Dark' and 'The Rock'
https://linktr.ee/adf__music

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