Oh again, just beautiful. Everything. I especially like your vocal tone. I would also like to hear it drier ...  if you ever try it let me know. :)

The poem stands alone and the the musical production takes it up another notch.

This came on randomly after I had finished listening to something else...and I thought, 'thats simply divine'....

Sunshine songs

Pengelum

A true story from my heavier drinking days
From my new Album "Friends, they're gonna get your story wrong"
Check it out on Soundcloud under album tab

Lyrics: 
Well, this is was a very delicate and drunken operation
You see, when you have a wasp nest on the side of your house
You have a couple options
One thing I do know is that man must always control nature
At least that's what my girlfriend said
One: You can get up on a ladder
Tape a bag around it 
That's kind of a dangerous  proposition
Or you can just call someone to take care of it
But, I'm an all American man!
Yes!

Option #2: You get up on a ladder
With a broom, maybe with an extended handle
Poke at it
Then run like hell
You know, a wasp nest is nothing but a pest
I'm a drunken mess!
Yes, yes, yes

Option #3: My friend Chuckie, he said he'd come over
You get up on the ladder, I'll hold your beer in the cozy
You smoke a big bong load of weed
Blow it right into the wasp nest
Multiple times
They'll all go to sleep
Extract the Queen
They'll will all die of heartbreak
Yes, yes, yes!

She said: before you begin
Let me call my friend
Were going to get some wine
And watch you from a distance
And see how a real man gets things done
Yes, yes!

Drinking Chronicles #24:Wasps

A solstice song - possibly - not exactly cheery and I'm probably unwise to post but it's the shortest day today (in the northern hemisphere) so it's now or never.

Many thanks to Jonathan Beckenstein and grumpy Ian (unknown on SC) for their extremely helpful feedback on an earlier version of this track.
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The light grows weak and the dark grows strong
But life must end for life to go on
Rich and strange
This world is rich and strange my child

When the snow comes down it's so beautiful
But the birds will starve and the cold will kill
Rich and strange...

We cherish the lamb keep him safe from harm
Then we slit his throat cut the meat from the bone
Rich and strange...

And if you don’t fight they’ll drive out our kind
But to win a war you've got to lose your mind
Rich and strange...
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Produced arranged composed performed recorded & mixed (inexpertly) by Wheelwright in bedroom.
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Original image (detail, processed) by Jr Korpa https://unsplash.com/@jrkorpa
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17th November 2023: Replaced with a hopefully somewhat better mix.

Rich And Strange

Hey Everyone!
Another song for another year. Tried to create some hope in these dark times.
All the best to you all!
Thorsten

Hope

Had a dream last night
the sun above us was shining bright
all the black clouds gone
on what we've waited for so long

Please don't say that I'm naive
and there is no hope at all
without hope there's no relief
even though it's very small

November, drizzling rain
feeling sad, still feel the pain
but there's some blue between the grey
and you'll see the sun will find its way

Please don't say that I'm naive
and there is no hope at all
without hope there's no relief
even though it's very small

Written and performed by Thorsten Schnüttgen
Pic by Thorsten
All rights reserved

Hope

Wrote this in 2006, but the original chorus was really odd, and in listening back to it I couldn't work out what on earth I was thinking, so this is an updated version.  The verses are pretty much as they were in 2006, though have adjusted the melody a little bit, and the chorus is entirely new, middle 8 added too, those parts written in 2022.

Too Much Fear (2006)

After a weird period of writer's block / distractions / major and minor inconveniences of everyday life / lethargy / half written stubbornly unfinished songs - it looks like the gears on the musical machine might be ever so slowly grinding their way into motion for us again (we hope!!) as a few new things seem to be tentatively rolling off the production line....
This is the first new thing we've written in a while and I joked to Gina that it sounds like it belongs on a horror movie soundtrack - ironic in that the original demo was a cute little piano thing that morphed into this......

Lyrics:

I’ve got a special knife
Laser precise
I’ve got a special knife
And practically painless
Just needs a little trust
To cut out the dark parts
I’ll use it on you if you let me close enough

I won’t hurt you 
I won’t hurt you 
I won’t hurt you though you may feel some pain
I won’t hurt you 
I won’t hurt you 
I won’t hurt you though you may feel some pain

Cut out the dark parts and let you out
Cut out the dark parts and let you out

I’ve got a special knife
Laser precise
I’ve got a special knife
And practically painless
Just needs a little trust
To cut out the dark parts
I’ll use it on you if you let me close.

Knife / The Temperature

Keep me forever

Knife

P E A C E and WAR 
Soundtrack - is refreshed and back to Soundcloud because of the sad actuality. . , as we are in War.. ! 

Much Love and Peace ❤ 🙏

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2022 All rights reserved.

P E A C E and WAR 🎥 ❤ 🙏

A song I posted a three weeks ago …that Johnny AKA ~  ( No Killie Fish) ~ https://soundcloud.com/johnnymc2 took me up on my request...
for someone to put a backing track down for me. I have been so often amazed at Johnny’s talent, I of course took him up on this!!

Never Sailed Goodbye song written by ~ Doug Roossien  Apr 19, 2022
https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/never-sailed-goodbye-a-challenge-to-musicians 
Johnny took my raw acoustic song  and put a some wonderful instrumentation down for me to put a another vocal take on it, then he mixed it and mastered it … Was really very happy with the results. ( Thank you Johnny)

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/video/17109227 new video of the song!!

This was a first effort of a long ago song ... (originated from a little poem I wrote well over 40 years ago)"
"Dockman's got a cold hand,...first ship off at dawn,
Liberty Sails ..to the horizon ...now she's gone"

Quiet little café...Near the edge of town
Late at night …when lonely comes around
Eyes danced …we make love…till the morning light
Anchors raised …one long kiss goodnight

Still see her blue eyes…staring’ through my soul
As this ocean rolls… me… miles and miles from shore
Still feel her loving hands…here on my face
Feel them slip away…again I start to cry…cause I’m
Miles… from shore…and but I never… never sailed goodbye

I’ve only been there once…just a little port in Maine
A sleepy little harbor town…that I’d love to see again
Dockman’s got a cold hand…first ship off at dawn
Liberty sails…to the horizon…now she’s gone

Still see her blue eyes…staring’ through my soul
As this ocean rolls… me… miles and miles from shore
Still feel her loving hands…here on my face
Feel them slip away…again I start to cry…cause I’m
Miles… from shore…and but I never… never sailed goodbye

Quiet little café...Near the edge of town
Late at night …when lonely comes around
Eyes danced …we make love…till the morning light
Anchors raised …one long kiss goodbye
I’m miles from shore, but I never, never sailed goodbye
I’m miles from shore, but I never …sailed goodbye

NEVER SAILED GOODBYE - (MUSIC & MASTERED NO KILLIE FISH)_

Signs

signs

guitars by andrew salvner (aka lil' spaceman)

carried away by owls

Music by River Dolphins & Cosmic Keanu
Vocals, Lyrics & Art by Cosmic Keanu
https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu

Pole Shift

The earth shakes below
lightning flashes above
hearts and minds are broken
Poison all around

Nowhere else to go
Everywhere the same
There’s no time at all
where we find ourselves

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Swallowing the hook
we consume the bait
Can’t agree at all
Save the need for change

Divided in our minds
Can’t tell love from hate
Then before we know
It may be too late

Blind with mental plays
walk into the blaze
Cannot see what’s here
in front of our face

Earth shakes below
lightning flashes above
hearts and minds broken
Poison all around

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Earth shakes below
lightening flash above
Hearts and minds broken
Poison all around

If we could only see
That we lack nothing
fear would fade away
Only truth would stay

Seeing in real time
Following the way
Having seen what’s real
Only truth will stay

Lightly holding on
As the poles turn round
peaceful through it all
as the world falls down

Pole Shift (River Dolphins & Cosmic Keanu)

Track & Lead Vocals By Ty Stevens
Back up Vocals & Mix By MrDjBigHouse

I Dont Get To Choose By Ty Stevens +( MrDjBigHouse Mix)

Echoes(NotNow)☠️🎶

Oh no!!
I think Im falling down again
What vice to take away the pain again?
Forget everyone that I love
They don't feel the same anyway

Don't believe!!
Everything that you've done!!
Everything you've said!!
Wasn't in vain!!
Never burn out!!
Don't fade away!!

We're Echoes!!
What we do matters!!
Not now....Forever!!....eh

Oh no!!
I think Im falling down again
What vice to take away the pain again?
Forget everyone that I love
They don't feel the same anyway

Don't believe!!
Everything that you've done!!
Everything you've said!!
Wasn't in vain!!
Never burn out!!
Don't fade away!!

We're Echoes!!
What we do matters!!
Not now....Forever!!....eh😂🖤

Echoes(NotNow)🎶

Grace Revealed

That's a song inspired by the beautiful lyrics of Imre Lodbrog "Vieux frère"https://soundcloud.com/imre-lodbrog/vieux-frere-lyrics

All credits for Imre Lodbrog for the lyrics.Just translate and adapt for this song.

No need to know your name,
We’re cut from the same.
We’ve crossed paths somewhere before,
Was it down in Brest,
Or a faraway shore?
It felt like we’d met long before.

We don’t share a mother,
We don’t share a father,
But we’ve lived the same highs and the same struggles,
Old brother.

The sky’s still blue,
The sea’s still green,
Leave the window cracked, let the world in.
The day is for the gulls,
The night for the owls,
A whiskey, some salted souls.

We don’t share a mother,
We don’t share a father,
But we’ve lived the same highs and the same struggles,
Old brother.

Sometimes the tide retreats,
Sometimes it swells and beats,
If time slips by, it’s no one’s fault.
Follow the coast, take the ferry afloat,
And steer to port, let it jolt!

We love the waves,
We crave the breeze,
And the guitars that play with ease.
One day, no need for words,
Whether Brest or distant shores,
We’ll meet and know for sure.

We don’t share a mother,
We don’t share a father,
But we’ve lived the same highs and the same struggles,
Old brother.

We’ll be there, no doubt,
At the harbor where dreams play out.

Old Brother(Lyrics)

McCafferty
McCaffertty
Sum of all fears
Skeleton bones

Cavetown
Twenty one pilots
Panic!atthedisco

Alt rock
Bottles and cans
Ajj 
Study music
Cavetown
Cave town
Warrior cats
Acoustic

And I know that you're an asshole
And I know that you do not need help
And I know that you're in counseling
And that counseling, won't help
And I know that you will break me
And I know that you won't make it fast
So I will writhe away my skin and bones
And you can kill me in the grass
She's saying, "I just drove so far to see you
But I'm not sure that I want your kids."
He's saying, "Oh my god, I should've known that
That was then, and this is this."

She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

And he is shaking at the knees
Because he never has the words
He says that "I can't do this anymore
The way you act in public sickens me
And I hate you and your fucking friends
And the way they try to use me."

She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

Whoa

I never told you, how much I need you
Back in November, when we were broken
Now it's October, I am alone
But I am awake, and trapped in this place
And I never told you, how much I need you
Back in November, when we were broken
Now it's October, I am alone
But I am awake, and trapped in this place

She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
She says, "Oh my body, I hate this body
I'm a skeleton, and I am dead and gone
And when I die, he peels off all my skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

They say, "Oh our bodies, we hate our bodies
We are skeletons, and we are dead and gone
And when we die, he peels off all our skin
And he staples it back up to his."
These bones

Twenty one pilots
Panic at the disco
Radical face

Skeleton Bones - McCafferty

I’m so happy coz you’re so happy 😘… 💜🤘🏻💜

Music's got a hold of me.
I am also half of Fictive Sisters https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com

I have a soundcloud manifesto too (I know almost no one cares):
(1) I do not want to win at soundcloud
(2) I respect people who listen by trying to do work that is as good as I can make it but I may attempt (and possibly fail badly at) different kinds of music so you will probably find some of my tracks suck quite badly even if you like others
(3) If I follow you please feel no obligation to follow me back or to listen to my tracks because I know different people like different things
(4) If you follow me please don’t expect me automatically to follow you back because as I said different people like different things. I try to listen to most new uploads of the people I do follow, so there are only so many people I can meaningfully follow (and only so many reposts I can cope with) at any one time before it all gets a bit overwhelming
(5) If I add a track of yours to my likes that means I particularly like it and if I comment on a track that means I really did want to communicate something. I do not do these things expecting or wanting anything in return or fishing for listeners/followers etc.
(6) Soundcloud (still) can be wonderful and has wonderful people in its universe but some aspects of it do my head in and so I am putting this out here so everyone knows where I am coming from. This is not intended as criticism of anyone else, it is just what works for me

Rich And Strange

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