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Up Yours Systematic

02 Sunday Apr 2017

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Lesson 1:  Always back it up.  Write it out, take a snap shot.  I know they’re only lyrics, but I feel like I’ve lost a tiny part of me….losing bits of your ‘work’.  It’s kind of painful

VERSE 1

The track was gonna be gold

Yeah it was gonna be a hit

Felt it in my blood

Yeah it was gonna make us rich

And with cash all that rainin down

We could’ve bought Manhattan

And done something good for the world

But I heard it through a purple-twisted grapevine

There’d been some kinda glitch

Someone pulled the plug

Yeah gravity gave it a tug

Now that track it’s lost to cyberspace

A big n empty starless place

Words lost n floatin about

Spinnin around like bits of a broken tardis

CHORUS

All of them kings horses & men gonna need a magic pen

To put this back together again

Cause somehow, like you

I think it’s gone forever

Anyhow, it went a little somethin like…

Up Yours Systematic drop the track to diplomatic

Up Yours Systematic flip the flop to charismatic

Up Yours Systematic trip the hop to doggy matic

Up Yours Systematic rip it up to cherry-matic

VERSE 2

 

 

 

Mother Be Star Light

25 Saturday Mar 2017

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These lyrics I will be tweaking with love and music, before gifting to Linda.  May your mother rest in peace 🙏🌸

Simple high vocals – I came up with a sweet melody this morning

Very slow/’meditative’ style

I hear light but full piano chords, very simple in the background

Ambient garden sounds- birds, waterfall

(FIRST DRAFT)

Verse 1

Her chest will rise and fall one last time

As she gives her final breath to the breeze

As she leaves lightly

Onto almighty

As you take her last breath into you now

Now and forever….

(Oh can you feel her there with you now)

Chorus

Mother Be Star Light

Now and forever

Shine on through

Oh garden in the sky

Mother Be Star Light

(Now, oh now, oh now)

Now and forever

Rest up high

Rest until we meet again

Verse 2

She will cross over his bridge and into a garden

A garden of flowers

Of trees that bloom with nothing but love

To heaven inside as she glides with the golden sea

And waves to you smiling

Deepest sea blue

(Oh can you feel her there with you now)

Chorus

Mother Be Star Light

Now and forever

Shine on through

Oh garden in the sky

Mother Be Star Light

(Now, oh now, oh now)

Now and forever

Rest up high

Rest until we meet again

Birthday Blues

20 Monday Mar 2017

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This is the first song in my next album.  Not sure what to call the album yet…

VERSE 1

Remnants of yesterday still linger today

Of a brilliant sky that took her away

Of autumn shine and family time

Of letters left unwritten

And though it was a lovely day

The thing that still remains

Again and again

His love it never came

VERSE 2

Pendant sway  fray  grey pay ray mocking jay

chilliment

CHORUS

Sometimes we don’t get to choose

Sometimes it feels we’re just here to lose

Another year older getting wiser

Love by the horns ?? surprise  ??

Birthday Blues

Wrapped with paper faded by the years

 

Birthday Blues

Birthday Blues

 

Love

19 Sunday Mar 2017

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I gave it my all but it wasn’t enough.  And so it’s time to finally walk away.  I’ll never forget him.  And he will always live there, deep inside my bruised heart…

Another week gone and I’ve ran back to him again.  No reply. Why oh why can’t I let him go…

Breakin Up

16 Thursday Mar 2017

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First draft – Verse 1 and Chorus

30/03  –>> I really really need to learn to ‘rap’ – lots of my lyrics are very much rap and I hear it in my head, but just have to give it a go 🙂

Feel like i’m going to go mad sometimes – trapped here with the phones.

Verse 1

Guess who escaped while boxed in with seether

Zapped by a negative low-battery griever

Fetty-wrapped positive, red light cleaver

P-plater on the throne stale-mated in the corner

Queen bee striped bright snow white to midnight

Trapped down a hole, a hole-in-one believer

Hen in a pen chawking at that blackboard

Clawing down another brick-in-the-wall

Step-it-up three times with limousine n lithium

Boom towned away by the B-52s

Eight days a week still ain’t enough

Suck-it-up girlfriend now it’s four-to-the-floor

Verse 2

???

X-rated to the bone jail-weighted in his armour

King gee stereotyped overnight to first light

Strapped by a rock, a rock n roll conceiver

Men in a den gawping at their scorecards

Watchin the girls throwin them curve-balls

Flumes drown

Dumped by the waves

Rip-it-up surfer boy now it’s jaw-to-the-floor

 

Give it up boyfriend

 

Kissin castles in the sky,

Buckle up ? now roar

X-rater bone mail

Killin bills pelican

half past home o’clock

make it to the other side

Chorus

Incoming what’s up

Girl you’re Breakin Up

Never clear, barely hear

Always Breakin Up

Yeah trust is like that

When you’re always Breakin Up

It’s like man down line down

Always Breakin Up

It’s like hands up give it up

Girl you’re Breakin Up

 

(3) Twenty Four Seven

03 Friday Mar 2017

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TO FINISH 

Chorus

Twenty Four Seven I got you on my mind

Twenty Four Seven I ? see your smile

Twenty Four Seven I wanna make you mine

Twenty Four Seven ? drivin me insane

Verse

I got butterflies here n there

I got them everywhere

Lemon ones migrating

From crazy town to la Roux

Dusky Knight n devil blue

Cause i’m sitting here at work

And all I can think of is you

My heart is jumping up

My heart is thumping down

Cause i’m sitting here at work

And all I can think of is you

Chorus

Twenty Four Seven I got you on my mind

Twenty Four Seven I ? see your smile

Twenty Four Seven I wanna make you mine

Twenty Four Seven drivin me insane

 

 

 

LoveStruck Album- Song List

15 Wednesday Feb 2017

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Song listing for the LoveStruck album. I may change the name of album…not sure yet. Three disks of 10 or 11 songs each are in this album.  They are roughly in chronological order – will need rearranging once I get them correct.  Also need to add ones i may have missed.

It’s time now to work on each one individually and step things up a notch.  Starting right at the beginning, with Blue Rose Star

DISK 1

Blue Rose Star – (lyrics complete – working on chords -> melody in place)

Balcony Burning – (lyrics complete – no chords yet -> kind of have a melody)

Rewind, Replay – (Lyrics complete – chords complete -> melody in place – needs lotsa work)

Rainbow Summit – (Mountain Love Song) – (Lyrics only – no music yet – rappish)

Blue Rose Rain – (Melodic idea (in my head) – still need to work on this idea)

Up in the Astral – (idea in my head)

Love Struck – (Chords & melodic idea in place – lyrics incomplete)

Letting You Go – (Chords/melody in place – no capo)

I Wanna – (Chord/melodic idea in place – no capo – needs work)

Popcorn Heart – (No music yet – not really a song yet)

Never Ever – (chords/melody in place – need to practice picking pattern flow)

DISK 2

Juggernaut – (melody idea in my head – needs chords)

If I’m Gonna Win Your Heart – (melody idea in my head – needs chords/more lyrics)

Om Boom – (music/song/picking pattern complete – capo 4th is best – except I don’t get the mini vibrato at end of second verse when capo on 4th) 

Confetti in the Sky – (melody/chord idea in place – needs work)

Lost in Ecstasy – (no music yet)

Jealous – (melody idea in my head – no chords yet)

I aint Gonna Fold – (melody idea in my head – no chords yet – struggling with lyrics incomplete!)

32. – (no music yet -> kind of have an idea for music)

Eternity – (chords/melodic idea pretty much there – chorus/lyrics for chorus need work)

If I was a Rock Star – (lyrics complete – Pat Benetar-style rock with rappish lyrics – melody in place – needs a cool chord progression)

 

DISK 3

Essel – (melodic idea coming slowly)

Chemistry – (melody idea there for verses – need lyrics for another verse; melody for chorus in progress)

Could You, Would You?  (Lyrics good so far)

Trash Can

I Can Dive Into You

Oh Baby Come Back

I Should Have Known

Fake Love

 

ALBUM COVER IDEAS:

Yellow/white bright but very faded-type cover with  handwritten lyrics all over it – all blended and faint.

Sunflower Soul

11 Saturday Feb 2017

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I’ve had the chorus for this song for a while now…and the verses are coming to me now….it’s going to be the hardest song I’ve ever written, more so than any on the Love Struck album – the one that has/is giving me somewhere for healing and to channel my emotion, but not all of it comes from ‘being in love’ with Nick.    And so this song is very emotional for me.  It’s for my son – and it’s called ‘Sunflower Soul’…and I’m not sure which album I’ll place it into yet – probably ‘Little Blue Dot’, though it belongs on the ‘Bulldozers & Roses’ one.

V1

It’s time to take a trip down memory lane

And write about the things that nearly drove me insane

About the times I left you all alone and waiting

While I was out escaping

Pain escalating

Yeah I was round the corner getting wasted

While I left you all alone and breaking

Taking time out mistrust

Couldn’t let you look me in the eyes

Eyes mixed with lies

Colder than ice

Reflection of a high

Angry at the God that gave you diabetes

Hating me for being the one

Not the one

Bang the drums n

I was a broken down mother

And only wanted to be home

But instead was out n about

Hanging out

Trying to make sense of it all

Yeah I left you alone all alone & breaking

While I was out escaping

 

WORK IN PROGRESS…..

Chorus

You’re the only one who sees me tripping up

Who sees me falling down

Who loves me anyway

And you’re the only one who breathes in the fears

Who breathes out silent tears

Who loves me anyway

Yeah you’re the only one

Sunflower Soul

You’re the only one

Who loves me anyway

Stay

10 Friday Feb 2017

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I wrote a couple of songs many years ago, when I was about 24 years young.  And then life took over…this one was called ‘stay’.  I didn’t write it about anyone in particular. The words just kind of came to me without much effort, and then the melody.  And so I joined up with a couple of chicks I knew and we recorded my songs.  I named our ‘band’ LimeEyesLemonLips.

And after a couple of months it ended…I think I scared myself, also deep down believed I was never good enough and it kind of felt a joke.  This all happened during the break-up with my my son’s father, not long after my parents’ marriage fell apart – and so was born an even more emotional connection to music 😦 Hence stopping right there with the creative side of music, and sticking to orchestras and playing other people’s stuff.

This is what I remember so far. I know the chords and melody  🙂

V1

You’ve got me looking up & down

And you’ve got me spinning round & round

Blinded – blinded by the light

Take me – take me to the night

You’ve got me

In this shaky – shaky sea of love we’ve found

?? Blinded – blinded by light

Take me to the night

????

CHORUS

Can’t you see what you mean to me

Won’t you stay close by stop leaving me

Can’t you see what you mean to me

Won’t you stay with me and be with me a while