totally rockin' tune great lyrics, great guitars, great fun!!!

What a great collab AB !!  Thank you to both of you for such a fabulous track !!

Good rocker, some unusual phrasing which adds to the fun! Nicely done!

top... in the style of the great rock legends of the 80s... very cool

Perfect lyrics for this great rock sound! Very cool collaboration guys!🔝👍👏

Another great collab Andrea. You're an extremely versatile writer and it's always great to catch up with what your working on. Well done to you and Mike 👍

This song was written in Nov 2021 during a composition challenge, in a limited time (4 hours). At this time, it was obviously a very small part of it, blurred in reverb, not mixed and sung in only one shot. 
After some digging and mixing, I'm pleased to show you here the entire song. As usual, my voice is not supposed to be definitive here. I just want to show the intention. Any collaboration proposal with a singer is welcome.

* Richard Gonfrier* copyright ©. 2023

Never Say Goodbye

back when I was recording the John Denver song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" with the fine gentlemen in The Eclectic Collective, my 8 yr old daughter loved the song so much she began singing it ALL THE TIME. This is a quick little recording of her singing the chorus. Pretty amazingly expressive singing for a youngster if I do say so myself! 

Here's the full recording with the Eclectic Collective:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/take-me-home-country-roads-eclectic-collective?si=124fd64d50bb42bca0caa9b197a975c2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Country Roads (daughter sings chorus)

This is my third collaboration with Mike Fox, and I couldn't be happier with how it came out. Mike totally rocks! I hope you like it as much as we both do. 

Music, vocals and production: Mike Fox
Lyrics: Andrea Brennan

The desert has no secrets
It's one big open road
This land of sand's my runway
And I'm ready to explode

Under blue sky and sunshine
My troubles burn away
I kick into high gear
Blow out the dust of yesterday

Chorus
Full throttle ahead
I'm never looking back
Full throttle ahead
With endless miles to set me free
Full throttle ahead
The wind can't even catch me

Vibrations of the engine
Propel my inner high 
I set a course for nowhere
And I kiss the world goodbye

I don't know where I'm going
But that's alright by me
Every new direction
Feels like synchronicity

Chorus 
Full throttle ahead
I'm never looking back
Full throttle ahead
With endless miles to set me free
Full throttle ahead
The wind can't even catch me

Rattlesnakes and scorpions
My only company
Here solitude is solace
Which suits me perfectly

The aching in my muscles
And knocking in my head
Settle in the landscape
As blue skies turn to red

Chorus
Full throttle ahead
I'm never looking back
Full throttle ahead
With endless miles to set me free
Full throttle ahead
The wind can't even catch me

Full Throttle Ahead - Collaboration with Mike Fox

DESILLUSION     (translation after the French text)
Chant : Karine 
Paroles et musique : Alain Illos 

ON SE LAISSAIT GUIDER PAR LE VENT
AU MONDE PERDU DES REVES D'ENFANT
ON REVAIT
QUE L'ARRIVÉE D'UN PERSONNAGE
QUI PARTAGERAIT SES PRINTEMPS
POURRAIT BRISER TOUS LES SERMENTS
ET QU'ON NE VERRAIT PLUS SOUVENT
LES NUAGES

ON SE LAISSAIT PORTER PAR DES ERREURS
DES MESSAGES FLOUS DE NOS RANCOEURS
ON SENTAIT
QUE LA ROUTE SERAIT COURTE MAIS BELLE
A CONDITION D'Y ACCEDER
NE FAIRE QUE DES CHOIX PERSONNEL
MONTER LES MARCHES POUR ACCEDER  
AUX NUAGES

DES FLOTS DE SENTIMENTS
DES DESILLUSIONS DES PEINES
PARFOIS UNE LUEUR SOUDAINE
NOUS PROMENE
D'UN BOUT À L'AUTRE D'UNE VIE.

Desillusion

WE LET OURSELVES BE GUIDED BY THE WIND
TO THE LOST WORLD OF CHILDHOOD DREAMS
WE REVEALED
THAT THE ARRIVAL OF A CHARACTER
WHO WOULD SHARE HER SPRINGS
COULD BREAK ALL OATHS
AND WE'D NEVER SEE
THE CLOUDS


WE'D LET OURSELVES BE CARRIED ALONG BY MISTAKES
BLURRED MESSAGES OF OUR RESENTMENTS
WE FELT
THAT THE ROAD WOULD BE SHORT BUT BEAUTIFUL
AS LONG AS WE GOT THERE
MAKING ONLY PERSONAL CHOICES
CLIMB THE STEPS TO REACH  
TO THE CLOUDS

FLOODS OF FEELINGS
DESILLUSIONS SORROWS
SOMETIMES A SUDDEN GLOW
PROMISES US
FROM ONE END OF A LIFE TO THE OTHER.

Désillusion  avec Karine

TASCAM DR-05

san diego seranade - tom waits (cover)

Chris Lyrics & Vox
Mike Instruments and some background vox

How Long I'll Love You ( Hold On ) Wild Christopher & Unguided Express

Pirim-8

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Futuristic Night Fever

A New Change Of Pace

“Get Wise, Child”

Dazzled by the shine of each dashing smile
Child, you better wise to the guise of guile
Give your heart to dance to their passing fancies
You're like to end up lonely, bitter, and angry

The world is false
And full of greed
They’ll praise your faults
And deceive your needs

Find yourself a love that esteems and improves you
One whom pairing to will make a marriage of gratitude

Through cold, dark nights
They’ll by your side attend
You’ll hold them dear
And thank God for so good a friend

Fallin’ into cults for that special direction
Double-check your step ‘cause bad thoughts ’re infectious
The world is like to debase with a myriad voices
Listen past their noise cause the most are joyless

The world is false
And full of greed
They’ll praise your faults
And deceive your needs

Find yourself the truth that uplifts and refines you
The one the world can’t shake because it builds true fortitude

Through bleak, long days
It’ll keep from distress
You’ll hold it dear
And thank God for your good sense

The world may sway
In violent madness
But don’t you fear
‘Cause you’ve prepared a strong defense

Get wise, child
The world will joy-ride you
Get wise, child
Don’t let the world decide you

Get wise, child
You need a true friend beside you
Get wise, child
You need the truth to guide you

---
Music by Corey Ball
Lyrics by August Lysy

Get Wise, Child

File Updated: Friday 31st Jan 2025 @ 14:44 GMT

Tempo 77 bpm
Timing 4/4
Tuning 444 Hz A (& drop a further semitone)

Lyrics
Let's let reason role in
Critical thought now, only!
Multiple sources
Knowledge clean
Societies scientific dream
Reason, please.
Our scientific dream...

You're lost in politics
Why with such a strange bunch of bollix's
Boxed thought
Lies, with minds in survival mode
Poking "their" other side
Not in my life!
Not on my Earth!
Not in this Sol system
Found out with children's worth


This song pines the need for humanity to fully embrace science and real reason especially in the face of modern political influence and it's relative lies and source as an insular disease for individuals.

Politics like anything is a science and with a humanity that embraces science first for everything which in my view it should, then we as individuals need to start reasoning the world properly from all sources... We can only then formulate opinions properly on important subjects and then we as individuals can see through the leaders that lie their way to political power. Only when we ourselves see our real truth (found with proper research and CRITICAL thought) do we see through the lies of others...
The disease is settling for one opinion that confirms your own bias that you want to be true because you believe it to be. That's not scientific. That's a cult

Scientific Dream

My Weather Songs Do Not Make Sense

Fog That Knows Your Name

Hello and thanks for visiting my page. I am a lyricist who enjoys collaborating in multiple genres.

I've been fortunate to work with several talented musicians and vocalists. I hope you enjoy the songs we have created.

Hit me up if you would like to collaborate. I typically write lyrics first but can write to music as well. My preferred genres are rock, metal, pop, Americana and country, but I am open to other genres as well.

Full Throttle Ahead - Collaboration with Mike Fox

Andrea Brennan

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