Wow-wow. Stands up very well to the original. Your voice is perfectly suited to this classic track. Inspired interpretation 🔥🔥🔥

Spectre 66

I reached out to the very talented scott https://soundcloud.com/scott-spalding-1    i really liked his version of the TEARS FOR FEARS track "MAD WORLD"
 I wanted to try and give it a wink twist , it was a lot of fun trying and i think it worked out really well , go see Scotts other work.

Mad World (the wink mix)- Scott Spalding

i reworked this song, I never really finished it when i posted it, i just kind of wanted to move on. This is a better song now.. I still can't get the vocals to sound right.. 
NOTE: I remixed this song, was able to get the pops and crackles out of the vocals

The evening fog had come, floating softly from the sea
and turned the world into a dream, where there is only you and me
when long ago we walked this shore,
and we had it all, but nothing more
not a memory you would keep
but it was everything to me

now time has burned away the fog, and we’ve come back to this place 
the silver sea and midnight sky underneath the milky way
but something’s lost along the way
where the water meets the sky so far away
it’s an illusion of the sea
they never really come to be

all I ever wanted, everything I thought I needed
I hoped to find in your heart     
If all of this meant nothing
then we’ve wasted all our time
We tried to be something we’re not
The same mistakes we’re making
The same bad road we’re taking 

It washes over me 
this is real, and not my dream
Let this be, go and find the one you need,
Who loves you for the things they see
Not what I want you to be
Not what you want me to be…

What I Wanted You To Be

As the old Soviet joke goes, “In the Soviet Union, we know what the future holds. It’s the past that’s always changing.”      (lyrics below, after the song description)                                             
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In this small, quaint college town, the town-gown relationship, for most of the 150 plus years since the college’s founding, had been productive.  The town benefited economically,  & students appreciated the town's charm, history & heritage.   Often on sunny days, classes of students would visit the park at the downtown square, brought by their history professors to learn not only of the town's history, but also about eleven young local men lost in America's Civil War, memorialized by the modest statue of a lone soldier, who had stood like a sentry at the the park's entrance since 1905.

But times change, don't they...
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More Americans died in the American Civil War than in any other war in our country's history, including each of the World Wars.  In my song, the word "Daughters" references the Daughters Of The Confederacy, a women's civic group formed in the 1890's by daughters (and wives & nieces) of men lost in that war.  The attached picture is the inscription on the base of a statue of a uniformed soldier, standing in a park in Dallas, Georgia, a small town 30 miles northwest of Atlanta.
                                                            



Lyrics....
My name is McKenzie, and Jenkins and Embry,
And eight other names you still hear in these parts,
For over a century, I stood quiet at the entry,
On East Main into Lafayette Park,
A plaque was engraved, told why I was placed,
On those gardened grounds,
In this Small American Town.

Commissioned in 1905,
By the Daughters for fathers who died,
I was erected to honor eleven so bold,
Not a single one knowing he’d never grow old,
On these boys account I’d forever stand proud,
Stand sturdy & stout,
In this Small American Town.

The kids from the college on Heritage Hill,
Would hold class in the park’s warm sunshine,
They learned of this cruel war we waged with ourselves,
How 600,000 had died,
And of eleven from here just about their age,
Small farmers & blacksmiths & craftsmen by trade,
None fought for cotton, not one owned a slave,
And they learned why the Daughters placed me on that mound,
To keep those boys’ memories around,
In this Small American Town.

But enlightened new students don’t meet in that space,
Through new glasses old wars just don’t look the same,
Now scholars say men who went off to that war,
Fought not out of duty, but hate,
I feared I’d be forgotten by Heritage Hill,
Yesterday’s soldiers, obscure battlefields,
But alas, rearranged history determined my fate,
                          **************
Wise men have long warned of changing the past,
Of purges & vengeance & iconoclasts,
Then one fateful night there was smoke rolling down from the Hill,

Quickly surrounded by torches of fire,
Cursing & spitting & rage in the air,
Rope round my shoulders, a cheer by the crowd,
I came crashing down to the ground….
                         **************
An uneasy quiet in the town since that day,
Hushed conversations about how things have changed,
But up on the Hill it’s all smiles & goodwill,
For it’s the 2nd weekend in May,
Ceremonial speeches, awards all around,
Uncles & aunts & parents in town,
To watch the sweet children who torched & burned me to the ground,
Be awarded their caps & their gowns,
In this Small American Town.

Small American Town

secrets

Secrets

Inspired by the Artemis project by NASA to return to the moon

Return To The Moon

I'm starting a new project inspired by the night. Must be the time of year!
The guitar is a PRS SE Custom.

The photographer for the cover art is Sarah Justine. 

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Night Moves

collaboration with IPG1.
Lyrics by IPG1 (aka Ian Greaves)

IPG1 & Quick On The Drawing - Oh Yeah Lou

In The Beginning

This is another tune I worked on last week when I was kidnapped, er, when I collaborated with Josh and his band of maniacal musicians.    These guys GIT R DUN I tell you . This one evolved lots just in the few days we worked it up.  
This is June Bug

June Bug  - (Eclectic Collective)

Musique EmmaJack
Paroles : Vincent Rothenburger
https://youtu.be/LLzR5PntlXM
Les pluies acides 
-Les parricides  Sont à plaindre Car ils sont orphelins -L'extralucide ne peut craindre les plis de son destin -Par temps humide Les noyés Lèvent les yeux au ciel -Les pluies acides Font pousser Les fleurs artificielles  Les catastrophes  Atténuent  La surpopulation -On a l’étoffe Décousue Des héros en cal’çon -L’amour trucide Sans pitié  Les marguerites si belles -Les pluies acides  Font pousser  Les fleurs artificielles  -Les W-C sont Sans issue Dans les débits d’ boisson -En avril on A pendu Haut et court les poissons -On se suicide par gaieté Car l’amour donne des ailes -Les pluies acides  Font pousser Les fleurs artificielles  -L’air se voit quand Il fait jour Les cibles sont plus belles -L’air nonchalant Des vautours A dévoré le ciel -Masques du vide Tes baisers Font des trous dans mes ailes -Les pluies acides  Font pousser Les fleurs artificielles

Mad World (the wink mix)- Scott Spalding

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