Old track I discovered from over 20 years ago recorded on 4-track machine.

Written about my twin grandsons.

Written and performed by David Cooper.

Double Trouble

New song written by:

David Cooper - Music
Glen Granthem - Lyrics

David Cooper - Electric guitar, drums and vocals.

Glen Granthem - Guitars, bass, and keyboards.

Watch the video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-vsTy0-g0Q

Lyrics:

Wherever you go
Whatever you do
You Know we'll make the time to meet
Down the road 

Please beware
And take care
If you know what time it is
I'll meet you there

CHORUS

All that we've been through
Was all that we could do
Imagine me, Imagine me
With you ....

Bridge

Autumn leaves will change
Nothing stays the same
There's no one here to blame

We all have our dreams
Let’s hope they come true
And we will see each other very soon

SOLO

CHORUS x 2 – Outro:  Imagine me, Imagine me with you x 2

Imagine me, Imagine you (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration with video)

Performed by David Cooper

Written by:

Music - David Cooper

Words - Ralph Donkin

Don't need no religion to pray
Don't need no opinion to say
Say what I feel
Pray when I kneel
It makes no difference to me

Don't need no secrets to keep
Don't need no dreams to sleep
Sleep when I'm tired
Secrets undesired
It makes no difference to me

Chorus

No tears
No fears
It's just the way that it is
No cheers
No jeers
It's just the way that it is

Don't need no physician to heal
Don't need no politician to steal
Steal from the poor 
Pain I'll endure
It makes no difference to me

Don't need no education to learn
Don't need to go back to return
Return to where
There's no knowledge to share
It makes no difference to me

Chorus

Don't need no flowers to grow
Don't need no ill wind to blow
Blow me a kiss
And if you miss
It makes no difference to me

It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me

It Makes No Difference To  Me (Cooper/Donkin Collaboration)

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music - David Cooper

Lyrics - Glen Granthem

Lead vocal - David Cooper

Backing vocals - Glen Granthem

All Instruments - Glen Granthem.

Arranged and produced by Glen Granthem

Watch the video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJApBE754s

From the new album The stories that we tell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcJJ8Ae2…6GT2dVYW4p86DcLx8

Lyrics:

Can you feel the rain falling down
Can you see the moon spinning round
Can you feel the earth beneath your feet
Can you feel the sun’s penetrating heat

Chorus

That's when I hold you in my arms
Protect and keep you safe and warm
That's when I hold you in my arms
Protect and keep you safe from harm

Bridge

Everyone will tell you exactly how love feels
But no one can tell you if this love, love is real

Music break - Solo

Can you feel the breeze blowing through your hair
When I touch your skin are you  more aware
Can you free your mind without a care
Can you feel the love when we are near

Chorus x 2

Can you feel the rain
Can you fall in love

Can You Feel The Love (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration with Video)

Written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music - David Cooper and Glen Granthem

Lyrics - Glen Granthem

Produced and Performed by David Cooper.

Watch video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4MopsbhMIg

From the new album The stories that we tell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mdGD8gSUC4gYRKKk6GT2dVYW4p86DcLx8

Lyrics by Glen Granthem

I have to let her go, it's time to let her go
Cos she don’t want me  -  "She don't want me" 

It's hard to say, yet so easy to see 
That girl don’t want me  -  "Girl don’t want me"

Chorus 1

Overpowered by the price she paid when she was younger
She says she’s in control but controlled is what I see

Because it's in her eyes, that pain she hides  
It still lingers   "It still lingers”

She guards her heart, from the better parts 
So not to love me  "Girl don’t love me "

Chorus 2

I must admit at times I’ve failed to understand her
She needs her time and space, so desperately 

Solo  

Chorus 3

Like the freedom in the sun and wind, she can’t be smothered
But they'll never be a place inside, her heart for me

I think I’ve always known, So I must let her go
That girl don’t  love me  - "She don’t love me"

Although I love her so, she’s gotta go
That girl can’t love me  -  "she can’t love me "

Outro ending  

She don’t love me, she don’t want me,  she don’t need  me
   
That girl  don’t want me...................

I Must Let Her Go (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration with Video)

Song composed by:

David Cooper - Music

Ron Todd - Lyrics

Performed and Produced by David Cooper.

Lyrics by Ron Todd

Gonna ride my bike like Steve McQueen
Be just like him from that movie scene
A flash of dust like a bullet I’d be gone
Blue jeans, white shirt, leather boots pulled on

Travel this country from end to end
Every drive in bar gonna be my friend
Just a smell of rye and store bought gasoline
Get my face on the front of a famous magazine

Chorus
I just wanna be like Steve McQueen
He was rough and tough, he was lean and mean
He had it all a blue eyed sex machine
I just wanna be like Steve McQueen

Bridge 
So
I’ll Smoke those wheels
Kick those heels
Nobody know the way it feels
Oh Yeah

Guitar break

Gonna ride that bike foot to the floor
Miles around you'd hear the engine roar
Never touch the brakes I’d go full on
Cos you wont even see me I’ll be up and gone

Yeah white lightning ain't got nothing on me
Down the highway, sheer poetry
Go so fast, the city lights fly by
Won't catch me I’m like a comet in the sky

Chorus

I just wanna be like Steve McQueen,
From that movie scene
Like Steve McQueen

Just Wanna Be Like Steve McQueen (Cooper/Todd Collaboration)

Written by David Cooper and Ralph Donkin.

Performed by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

A DGR Production.

Lyrics by Ralph Donkin:

Pick it up - Put it down
There's nothing in my head
Pick it up - Put it down
Till I regain the thread

Wish I could - But I can't
Suppose I never will
Wish I could - But I can't
Make the time stand still

Chorus

TRYING TO REMEMBER
IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG
TRYING TO REMEMBER
IS THIS WHERE I BELONG

Time has flown - Winds have blown
Now look at where we are
Time has flown - Winds have blown
We've not come very far

Feeling tired - Growing old
Trying to kid myself
Feeling tired - Growing old
I could be someone else

CHORUS

BRIDGE

What have I forgotten
It seems so strange
What I have forgotten
It’ll never be the same

Solo

Thinking straight - Knew the score
Nothing in my way
Thinking straight - Knew the score
Seems just like yesterday

Another day - Another night
Another morning dawns
Another day - Another night
Wish I could right the wrongs

Way back when - Long ago
When everything was clear
Way back when - Long ago
Now I just shed a tear

Say hello - Say goodbye
Another one has gone
Say goodbye - Say hello
Another one's, Another one's been born 

CHORUS x 2 to the end

Pick It Up (Cooper/Donkin/Granthem Collaboration)

New song written by David Cooper and Ron Todd.

Performed and produced by David Cooper

If you get the chance, please have a listen to the album Tapestry of Life by David Cooper and Ron Todd - Much appreciated.

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLA…HfA4F9dAWS9jzbG78

open.spotify.com/album/4PCR1ATYOxjTa14UyJtAYu


https://music.apple.com/gb/album/tapestry-of-life/1762763145

Lyrics by Ron Todd:

"All We Got Is Rock And Roll"

My daddy's on the bottle
Cos he cannot pay the bills
There's something rather nasty
Growing on the window sill

The dogs back at the shelter
And my mammy's on the game
Has her daily kick of nicotine
Says daddy is to blame

Chorus

That's the way it is, in this here town
Half the population only going down
We ain't got no money, we're signing on the dole
Got no pot to piss in - all we got is rock and roll

Bridge

Well you can take it to the cleaners
Take it to the bank
Tried to change the outcome
But that ship’s already sank

Solo

This life ain't going nowhere
And I’m running out of pills
Try to get my head straight
But I think its overkill

There's a ring upon the doorbell
It's a bizzy and his mate
I got a lot of knock off
So I’ll just accept my fate 

Chorus x 2

All We Got Is Rock And Roll (Cooper/Todd Collaboration)

Written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem

Lyrics and vocals - David Cooper

Lyrics by David Cooper

Living on an island
Watch the waves roll by
Wake up in the morning
And see the deep blue sky

Far away from humanity
Far away from the life they lead
Life is so easy
And that’s all I need

Chorus

So let me stay, let me stay - for a long time
So let me stay, let me stay - for a long time

Bridge

So little lady, let me see
The love that you have for me
Love that runs so wild and free
Come on baby, give it to me

Dancing to the calypso beat
Just feel your body heat
Walk the white sandy beach
Life like this ain’t out of reach

Palm trees sway in the breeze
The pace of life is full of ease
Mañana is the word to hear
Life is full, life is so clear

Chorus

Living on an island
Watch the waves roll by
Wake up in the morning
And see the deep blue sky

Bridge

So little lady, let me see
The love that you have for me
Love that runs so wild and free
Come on baby, give it to me

Solo
Living on an island x 4

Living On An Island (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

New song written by David Cooper and Ron Todd.

Performed and produced by David Cooper.

If you get the chance, please have a listen to the album Tapestry of Life by David Cooper and Ron Todd - Much appreciated.

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLA…HfA4F9dAWS9jzbG78

open.spotify.com/album/4PCR1ATYOxjTa14UyJtAYu

Lyrics by Ron Todd:

"Summers Of Love"

Was a time back then there was me and you 
We needed no one there was just us two 
We'd drive along in my black Trans am 
We were young we didn't give a damn 

Your hair it blew in the summer winds  
We were lovers, soul mates, best of friends 
I'd tell you our love would never end
But there's always something around that bend 

Chorus

It was crazy days
It was crazy nights
It was what we had
And we did it right
I swore to you
I'd never let you go
In those balmy days 
We had our summers of love

Music break

Cos babe we used to have it all
So we kept on running like a waterfall
The mountains they always reached the sky
And all the time we never asked why

There was electricity filling the air 
We just drove around not a single care 
There was something out in the air that night 
We closed those doors and we just took flight

Chorus

Music break

End piece

But that was when we both were young 
And things can change in the years you grow 
Swore to you I would leave you never
But perfect doesn't always last forever 

Chorus

Teenage summers of love

Summers of Love (Cooper/Todd Collaboration)

New song from Glen and Dave.

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem.

Lyrics and all vocals - David Cooper

You’re looking out for me
I’m looking out for you
Do we know what we should do

Down the tunnel
We both fall – Can we hear each other’s call
Can we hear, can we hear, can we hear each other’s call?

Chorus

Here we sit among the thorns
Surrounded by those that mourns
No one knows how the stories go
The tales of old, tales of yore

What is that I thought you said?
I thought I heard you in my head
Maybe I can’t hear at all 
Can we hear each other’s call?
Can we hear, can we hear, can we hear each other’s call?

Chorus

Down the tunnel
We both fall
Down the tunnel
We both fall
Down the tunnel
We both fall

Can we hear each other’s call
Can we hear, can we hear, can we hear each other’s call?

Chorus

Down the Tunnel (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

A very old song I came across.

Hope you like it.

Written and performed by David Cooper

Lyrics:

There’s a light in the forest – Let it shine
There’s a fire in the distance – Let it burn

There’s a songbird on my shoulder that sings so gracefully
And it sings of a place that used to be
Let it shine, let it shine

There’s a light on the ocean – Let it shine
There’s a ship that comes a sailing - Sail on by

And it sails from a place that holds sweet memories
And it sails to a place that used to be
Let it shine, let it shine

Bridge

To all the memories that I hold
To all the stories left untold
Let them shine

Solo

There’s a light in the desert – Let it shine
And the sands they are a burning – Let them burn

And the full moon shines above us, and it shows for all to see
And it tells of the tales that used to be
Let it shine, let it shine

Let it shine to the end

Let it shine

New song written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

Meanwhile I try to write a new song
Bang my head against a brick wall
Nothing new will come
That’s just how it falls

I feel that I’m wasting time
Time passes so very slow
Can’t find that perfect rhyme
Nothing seems to want to flow

Chorus

Make it fine 
Make it good 
Live your life the way you should 

Take your time
Pass it around
Don’t let time let you down

Solo

Now this song is haunting me
Can’t think what I want to say
Dig deep in my memory
Maybe leave it for another day

Chorus x 2

Don’t let time let you down x 3

Don't let time let you down

New song written by David Cooper and Ralph Donkin.

Performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics by Ralph Donkin

Your face is familiar
That's what she said
But your name just escapes me
Gone right out of my head
I'm thinking back
To when we were young
Just give me a minute 
It's on the tip of my tongue

It was clear in my mind
Why she got so upset
So clear that's the problem
My one big regret
I knew that she loved me
With feelings intense
But I couldn't stay with her
The fall out immense

SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
THEY WON'T LET ME REST
MEMORIES THAT HAUNT ME
MEMORIES, MEMORIES UNBLESSED

Bridge

Solo

I wouldn't admit it
Even though I was wrong
I've lived with that feeling 
Of guilt for so long
Whatever the reason
It was not meant to be
But I've never forgotten 
What she meant to me

Chorus x 2

End

Skeletons in the closet (Cooper/Donkin Collaboration)

New song written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

I see you here
I see you there
I see you, oh everywhere
Oh my baby
Oh baby

I remember back in 75
Saw you dancing
You were so alive
Drove me crazy
Baby, so crazy

Chorus

Falling in love
Falling in love
Why do I keep, falling, falling in love?

Solo

Chorus

In and out 
And all around
A perfect angel that I’ve found
Sweet lady
Oh sexy lady

But that was
So long ago
That vision I can’t let go
Sweet lady
Oh Sweet lady

Oh Sweet Lady

New song written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

High in a mountain sky
Feel yourself fly
Oh spread your wings

Run across the forest floor
Running by a sparkling stream
Just follow your dream

Chorus

Be, will you be the one
Be, will you be the one
Be, ah set us free
Baby let’s run

See, see the eagle fly
Across the sky
Over the mountains high

Fly away
Above the trees
To a place you need to be, need to be

Chorus

Solo

Chorus x 2

Baby, Let's Run

New song written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

OK
I wanna hear it every day
It’s OK

Alright
Want to hear you say you might
It’s alright

It only seemed like yesterday
It’s funny how things turned out that way
Didn’t hear what they had to say
Yesterday

Hello
The words I wanna hear you say so
Only Hello

Goodnight
Don’t wanna hear you say goodnight
You know it’s right

It only seemed like yesterday
It’s funny how things turned out that way
Didn’t hear what they had to say
Yesterday


Ok – I wanna hear its

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem

Vocals - David Cooper

From the new album Best of Two.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDDcSLRQ2gqFc0_pVk5LR_xwHDr1PDWVQ

Lyrics - David Cooper

You can see it in her eyes
Cute looks that drive you wild
They can control your mind
With just one look, that’s hard to define

Chorus

Look into a mind of a child
Imagination running wild
Where everything comes alive
In the mind of a child

She’s a little devil in disguise
With the looks of an angel that’s no surprise
She can turn you upside down
Bring your world crashing down, down

Chorus

Solo

Chorus x 2

Mind of a child (Cooper/Granthem Collaboraton)

New song written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

She was my love
But I let her down
I couldn’t be around
I was never there.

Most of the time
I was off running wild
Going out of my mind
And I didn’t care

Chorus

I’m no good for you 
I’m not what you need
I’m too wrapped up in myself
Drowning in my own greed

I can see her now
Just sitting there
But I didn’t care
About the tears in her eyes

Now my head’s in my hands
Oh I feel ashamed
Got myself to blame
It was down to me

Chorus x 2

Drowning

Written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics by David Cooper:

Someone told me the other day
Couldn’t believe what they say
Said the monsters were on their way

Watching TV, the Twilight Zone
Said of things that were to come
Said the monsters were on their way

Bridge

Take me back to childhood days
Oh the stories we believed
Watch the shows on the silver screen
Know that things ain’t what they seem
It’s a dream

Music break

Bridge

Take me back to childhood days
Oh the stories we believed
Watch the shows on the silver screen
Know that things ain’t what they seem
It’s a dream

Stand in line outside the cinema
Saturday morning ready to go
To see the monsters in the picture show

Climb aboard a rocket ship
Oh get ready to take a trip
Head towards a distant world out there


To see the monsters in the picture show
To see the monsters in the picture show

Monsters

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem

Vocals - David Cooper

From the new album Best of Two.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDDcSLRQ2gqFc0_pVk5LR_xwHDr1PDWVQ

Lyrics - David Cooper

I heard a story many years ago
About a man who didn’t know
What his life was all about
So he just ran around and around

Chorus

Time stood still - He’ll keep on searching
Far and wide - He’ll keep on searching
Up and down - He’ll keep on searching
Round and round - He’ll keep on searching now

Kept on going through the night
Ran across the whole wide world
Didn’t keep his head on straight
Should have listened to what he was told

Chorus

Solo

Chorus

Then one day he realised
What’s been missing all of his life?
Now he listens to what people say
And now he’s found a brand new way

He’s stopped searching - Repeat

Searching (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem

Lyrics and all vocals - David Cooper

From the new album Best of Two.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDDcSLRQ2gqFc0_pVk5LR_xwHDr1PDWVQ

Lyrics:

Catch a whisper on the wind
Catch a bird up on the wing
Catch your breath, breathe it slow
Concentrate and don’t let go

Chorus

What do we stand for?
Give me a clue
What is it all about? 
What are we gonna do

Across the sea in a land so far
Sits a girl in a rundown bar
What she wants she doesn’t know
Time passes oh so slow

Chorus

Solo

Break

Far, far, far away – The flame keeps burning etc

Far, Far Away (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem

Vocals - David Cooper

From the new album Best of Two.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDDcSLRQ2gqFc0_pVk5LR_xwHDr1PDWVQ

Lyrics - David Cooper

Take me back where I came from
Take me back, back home
Oh take me back where I came from
I don’t wanna be alone

You are my one and only
My little country  girl
You are my one and only
Oh you’re my life, you’re my world

Chorus

You don’t realise girl
How much I love you so
You never realised deep down
I’ll never let you go

Solo

Chorus

Take me back where I came from
You lift me up when I’m down
Oh take me back where I came from
And always be around

Take me back where I came from
Take me back, back home

Love you so (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

Written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem

Music and all instruments - Glen Granthem

From the new album Best of Two.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDDcSLRQ2gqFc0_pVk5LR_xwHDr1PDWVQ

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Tuyy5jjpsXVleVdzTYbsr

Lyrics and Vocals - David Cooper

I fell to earth 
I looked around
I didn’t like what I found
I came a long way
From beyond the sun
I didn’t like what they’d done

Chorus

It’s not the world I left behind
It’s not the dream I tried to find
Altogether now
We need to act as one
And ride this storm

Oh everything has
Gone so wrong
I didn’t mean it to go this way
I left everyone
To get along
To work out their destiny

Chorus

Bridge

All around the world – We need to act as one
All around the world – We need to act as one
All around the world

Solo

Chorus

Outro

All around the world

All around the world (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration)

Old song I dug up - Written and performed by David Cooper

Hope you enjoy.

Feelings

New song written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

Hey there - It’s good to see you again
Good to hold you
And be your friend
It’s been a while since we last met
Have you been okay since then?

I wondered why - You went away
What was on your mind? 
That dark, dark day
When you packed your bags
Left here on your own

Chorus

But I realise what you’ve been through
Not knowing what to do
Just lying there wide awake
In the middle of the night

Solo

It’s been a long, long time
Since you up and went and left this town
I was so used to you being around
Oh I missed you, every now and then

Now it’s so good to have you back
To see you happy being home
But I know what’s inside your head
You know what it’s like to be alone
Chorus x 2 - Outro

Middle of the night

Written and performed by David Cooper.

Lyrics:

I’m buried deep
Just can’t sleep
Takes all my time
It’s always on my mind

Now you’re gone
What do I do?
Now you’re gone
How will I get through?

Chorus

Take this pain and set me free
Take these chains off me

I won’t say
I won’t do
I won’t find 
Anything that’s new

Say you will
Say you won’t
And say I do
And say I don’t

Chorus

Bridge

Here I go up and down
Rolling from side to side
Get me of this roller coaster ride

And so it will
And so it won’t
And so it do
And so it don’t

Chorus

Chains

All those years ago

Written by David Cooper and Ralph Donkin.

Performed by David Cooper.

Hear more tracks here:

https://soundcloud.com/user-607534102-576599759

I wish I knew then (What I know now)

I am an unsigned singer/songwriter from Sunderland in the north east UK.

I have been writing songs for a few years now and have CD's on various web sites such as CD Baby, Itunes , Spotify etc.  My goal is to write good songs and hopefully have come up with a few along the way.

I love wring and recording songs – it gives me great pleasure staring from nothing but a blank piece of paper and finally coming up with something that sounds good.

I have collaborated with other people while being on Soundcloud – my long-time partner Ralph Donkin writes exceedingly good lyrics and between us have come up with many a good song.

My other partner Glen Granthem from Sacramento in USA has also been inspirational in my recordings – he is a very talented musician and producer and has brought life to many of my songs that otherwise would have been second rate.  We also have collaborated on many songs.

I have written songs with other people and I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their endeavours.

Thank you for all of you that have listened and commented on my songs and those who will in the future.  I am very grateful that you stopped by and listened – hope you have enjoyed what you have heard.

Again many thanks and good luck for the future in your musical endeavours.

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