CREATE and MOTIVATE!
Practicing my ukulele electrified for a 3 song open mic I will be attending held in my local town. I will record a video and post here afterwards.
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
Save Me - Jelly Roll
Soulshine - The Allman Brothers
https://recorder.google.com/3ab58d6a-ee03-478c-89c6-43d689438b79
If I can do it…
You Can Moo It!
Video playlist of my 5 last ukulele and vocal covers are now posted on YouTube. Thank you for all of your love and support. Hope a Happy New Year happens for us all. :)
…
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxfs196tYt8EFxw_Ir6zJHjMMMClusmi6&si=13IW50ZZMXhHlfVd
Recording vocal and ukulele covers of songs I gratefully appreciate in the comfort and vibe of my home and of my headspace.
Please join me in a seven song session with video accompanied in the background.
Raw audio recordings on the sofa of my living quarters in my most vulnerable headspace.
The seven song selection in now is session.
… Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
https://recorder.google.com/e0109ea1-8959-411c-9cc5-217d129671a7
… On This Hill - T-Pain
https://recorder.google.com/f3210af8-b1cc-47b2-b71d-da142bf34a89
… Alone - Heart
https://recorder.google.com/afeb65b8-ce73-4c98-80c6-052b14884410
… Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
https://recorder.google.com/519b3815-3aef-4181-aa82-9fe09dc55fd5
… Cant Help Falling In Love With You - Elvis
https://recorder.google.com/98ec4fcc-ec5f-4b4e-93f0-c71e93046f87
… Too Sweet - Hozier
https://recorder.google.com/941e58f0-5faf-41f2-a166-91740a9ec44e
… Too Close - Alex Clare
https://recorder.google.com/6417c5ed-8a3b-4c18-916e-d2b60db16778
… Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/sGH8_-XBbSA?si=94n4Z1lGGLIfkbxk
…
Shady under the poet tree
Sitting silent feeling free
I am here thinking of you
Just one thinking of two
The future is on my mind
Forgetting life in the past
Got you in my mind's eye
Wonder if this might last
Because I've been used
And I have been abused
Tying me down wringing
Holding it in from singing
Comic issues we don't trust
Won't feel like we're enough
Don't want me just for lust
Want it forever for justice
…
I have made my mistakes
Looking to find to replace
Read real books to the face
Finally found my own place
Cover it up make up my insanity
Smearing tearing up all the vanity
Busted up by a beat and a melody
Honesty and integrity ahead of me
…
Delt the way you want to deal…
Felt the fate that makes it real…
I almost lost it all in the darkness…
I almost lost myself to be honest…
…
Delt the way you want to deal…
Felt the fate that makes it real…
I almost lost it all in the darkness…
I almost lost myself… lost… my…
…
Deeper sea divers drown.
Filling souls holding tight
Shine bright put up a fight
Out this hell shed the light.
Weepers see wider frowns
We have all been born again
God is us a true blue human
We are all holy in spirit man
…
Wishing away all our depression
Compressions self oppressions
Standing tall for fall preventions
Spread love not self obsessions
I see I am a monster not a demon
Pinch me reality I am not dreaming
Is this real life or an NPC streaming
No matter no answer I keep leaning
…
Chilling out of bed rot
Carved out of bed rock
A foundation is built on
A found nation guilt on
I bend to tie my shoes
They all kept walking
So that's why I shut up
And I kept from talking
…
https://youtu.be/e1JXQkObJ5Q?si=PlUMwntp_PhGXPPD
…
Here we are now it's the end
Both of us Can't understand
Feel our tears fall as we stand
All these years old is this man
Like the heroes fly I will defend
With cement legs in seas I stand
Planted firmly strained or strand
Growing more the pain demands
...
You & I yes ambersand
Honey eyes like amber lamps
Storms come in to damper plans
Race inside to warm our hands
...
Let the heard burn from their brand
Pull snap back on the elastic bands
Got on ours don't wear their brands
I’m just here to play with the bands
Instant marry high off a gram
Open up to the roaring of fans
Heart rips apart loss of grams
Hot sleep apart got a new fan
...
You & I yes oh yes ambersand
Honey eyes like amber lamps
Storms'll come to damper plans
Race inside to warm our hands
...
There are many positive things about you but I refused to focus on those.
Now you're gone i have to make myself feel better about you letting me go.
You're right. My happiness is my job.
I adore you in oh so many ways.
but I'm not going to hold you responsible for the way I feel today.
I do a lot more than cry
I do a lot more than lie
I do a lot more than try
I do a lot more than die
My thoughts spin keep spinning
Breaking down we're letting go
She whispers it's ok keep breathing
Breakthrough on our own we know
…
You not we no oh no ambersands
Honey my eyes on an ambulance
Storms crashed ruined our plans
Pacing outside with frozen hands
Ooooo…
https://youtu.be/RS42RiXaP8Y?si=LgX8MMjj9e8Jn0yt
https://youtu.be/6EJZPEuVVp4?si=zZ03r7q-qdFiB0oV
https://youtu.be/lGKzj75cnYA?si=QTVMcQDV4e3LNPa0
https://youtu.be/rzD73I0jLa0?si=5jbiX5su4MipNg_0
https://youtu.be/dE32xi0CznY?si=yodoV9oW74ueBp3S
https://youtu.be/fhS-VfaiFww?si=TJ7pvWivexAqP5bK
...
He's my little sleepy friend.
I take him everywhere.
When we play and when we dance.
They all just stop and stare.
He's my little sleepy friend.
He makes me warm inside.
When I bring him to show and tell
They yell and run and hide.
...
He's my little sleepy friend...
He's my little sleepy friend...
...
He's my little sleepy friend.
He's cuddly and warm.
No one will take him from me.
They all have been warned.
He's my little sleepy friend.
His brains on the outside.
It's ok cause i love him.
I think he's still alive.
…
He's my little sleepy friend...
He's my little sleepy friend...
...
He's my little sleepy friend.
Won't open up his eyes.
It's ok he's just asleep.
Forevers a long time.
He's my little sleepy friend.
We play hide and seek.
He's so quiet hard to find.
I don't hear a peep.
...
He's my little sleepy friend...
He's my little sleepy friend...
...
(Individual strums)
He's my little sleepy friend.
He's half a skeleton.
He's such a good listener.
I'd give him a ten.
He's my little sleepy friend.
He's now one with the earth.
Never leave my heart again.
Cause friendship comes in first.
...
He's my little sleepy friend...
He's my little sleepy friend...
…
Sleepy Friend!
https://youtu.be/fI70H84xPW0?si=HDkDkvkxdDMniCzu
…
Heads locked up in vices
Held under a rest...
Pulling on these heart strings
Right out of my chest...
Do you gotta problem
with how I feel...
Love live and let die
Let it be real...
Iiii know that I've wasted
all these years...
And IIII've tried and tied down
all of my fears...
Now iiiI'm holding back from
all of the tears...
Iiii escaped that dark place
And im still here...
Don't go away now
I gotta play now
...
If Life is a game then I am playing...
All aboard bored of noone praying...
The clays applied making this man...
Knife in the game duck in the sand!
Hold end note.
...
Bell tolls inner demons
I am wrestling...
Top rope Elbow droping
To stop obsessing...
There is too much clutter
It's so upsetting...
Be thankful I'm counting
All my blessings...
Alll this has gone on
On for days...
Frooozen and stuck in
In my old ways...
Iiii need a break to
Break on through
And iii need to speak my truth
To all of you...
It's a new day now
I gotta say now
...
If Life is a game then Im not playing...
All aboard Im bored of the praying...
The clay has dried making this man...
Knife has no name stuck in the hand...
..
Marching halls through corridors
It's not all for one for sure
Gotta open up some more doors
Walking simply through Mordor
All those unknown faces judging
All those cowls and frowns not budging
All turned sour not sweet loving
You get the hint poke poke nudging
...
Other opinions are worth nothing
Gotta save time I'm adjusting
Don't care enough a light dusting
Common sense confidence busting
Level up ended feel reborn
Revolve up rooted we're retorn
Go Step by step and be forewarned
Time has passed now we poor mourn
We gotta stay now
Not gonna play now
Lifes not a game I'm not playing...
All aboard I ambored of praying...
Clay is cracking making this man...
I got no name, struck in the head…
Glued up side down hour glass...
Empty-handed over cast...
Traffic half wick candle wax...
Glued up side down our glass...
Glued up side down hour glass...
Empty bellies ordered fast...
Complete concrete overpass...
Glued upside down our glass...
Life is a game then now I'm playing...
All aboard never bored of praying...
Clay has cured made is this man...
I know the game, stuck in the sand...
…
Brought this all to my attention
Hurts regardless of intention
Used up -- my entire soul
My own problems intervention
Back again to no retention
Loss of -- everything's control
Not feeling better anymore
Struck me down deep to the core
Paintings -- keeping it together
Hearts not warm arts got torn
Burnt inside out rusted worn
Pain stings -- will it last forever
...
G C Em D island strum
In an instant life can change
And all your dreams can slip away
Wondering what happened to your pride
Because the one that you have become
Is suddenly just like everyone
Your Jekyll’s looking deep into your Hyde
The people that you used and laugh at
Taken advantage verbally spat at
The ones who just sat alone and cried
In an instant now they’re all gone here
You alienated now you all alone here
The world you knew has shriveled up and died
Welcome to the other side
G C Em D
Instrumental chunky fruit
chorus chords one time through
...
V Em D C G jumper vibes
Placing blame exonerating
Spitting fire hot debating
What I see -- and hear here isn't clear
Watch the puppeteers operating
Long time they've been contemplating
Take ahold of what you have to fear
Fighting over dinner tables
We don't go by any labels
Stories of this institution
Doesn't feel mentally stable
Heads full of fantastic fables
Worries this is all an illusion
...
Chorus G C Em D
In an instant life can change
And all your dreams can slip away
Wondering what happened to your pride
Because the 1 that you have become
Is suddenly just like everyone
Your Jekyll’s looking deep into your Hyde
And the people that you used to laughed at
Taken advantage verbally spat at
The ones who just sat alone and cried
In an instant now they’re all gone
You alienated now your alone
The world you knew has shriveled up and died
Welcome to the other side.
...
G C Em D
Instrumental chunky fruit
chorus chords one time through
...
V.3. Em D C G sung higher
You do bad things you learn a lesson
Cops or crooks leaders oppressing
Under arrest innocents innocence die
Stripping rights caught undressing
Man unkind to self expressing
Souls possession time to seek or hide
Melanin in living colors
We're all human sisters brothers
Under covers shaking like a boot
There is only us no others
Over the moon star crossed lovers
Undercover from the hip they shoot
...
C x2 second time higher last verse
In an instant life can change
And all your dreams can slip away
Wondering what happened to your pride
Because the 1 that you have become
Is suddenly just like everyone
Your Jekyll’s looking deep into your Hyde
And the people that you used to laughed at
Taken advantage verbally spat at
The ones who just sat alone and cried
In an instant now they’re all gone
You alienated now your alone
The world you knew has shriveled up and died
Welcome to the other side
G C Em D
Instrumental chunky fruit
chorus chords one time through
...
Fade out jam
All sets of chords together
Welcomeeeee
welcomeeee - band
tooooo theeeee - band
Ooooooother siiiiide - vocal
Welcomeeeee
welcomeeee - band
tooooo theeeee - band
Ooooooother side! - vocal
Welcome to the OTHER SIDE!
https://youtu.be/seChewh9yuo?si=O6NHQR33PITL0RHY
…
Billys squirting bugs with a hose
Why he does it hey nobody knows
But his mind wanders as the water flows
Squishing of mud in between his toes
He’s just an unknown kid with
long blonde hair
No expression got a cold blank glare
In his mind he hasn’t even got a prayer
Someday soon he’ll get his Croix de guerre (kwa-duh-gare)
…
On and on battles rage-in-his-mind
He's not even sure he's gon-na-sur-vive
But he..he's committed to the voi-ces in-side
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried-a-live
.
He's not even sure he's gon-na-sur-vive
.
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried-a-live
…
His mind travels to an unknown zone
No one around but he’s never alone
He won’t stop till their all overthrown
Taking orders from his tympanic bone
Boom stick required no strugglin
Now he's inspired tumbling stumbling
Ringing that bell and start rumblin
Blindfolded none sees it coming
...
On and on battles rage-in-his-mind
He's not even sure he's gon-na-sur-vive
But he..he's committed to the voi-ces in-side
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried-a-live
.
He's not even sure he's gon-na-sur-vive
.
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried-a-live
...
…
Wasting away All his potential
Lazy and hazy no fundamental
Stress depressed anxietys not helpful
Jumping high off his mental pediatal
In my head's not how it sounded
They say they all got me surrounded
Never meant for it to end this way
Guess I'm getting buried alive today!!!
...
On and on battles rage-in-his-mind
He's not even sure he's gon-na-sur-vive
But he..he's committed to the voi-ces in-side
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried-a-live
.
He's not even sure he's gon-na-sur-vive
.
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried-a-live
...
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried alive
Tryin to dig out cause he buried a lie
Tryin to dig out cause he’s buried a lie
Trying to dig out cause he's buried!
X
...
https://youtu.be/5wUrBBitgUs?si=ciEp7yj_gO8R0zqn
…
It's all just ink . on paper
Don't let it be your . motivator
Money Corrupts . consumes
Leaves humanity to lick their wounds
Spit on us from . gilded towers
Take it all for one .. it's ours
Black sheep two sleep . underdogs
Can't breathe but Glass still fogs
The peace machine . turning cogs
Excess of waste . water clogs
Dreams are our new . reality.
That's how this alls designed to be
Pompous petty . puppet masters
Progress won't go . Any faster
So much anger. So much rage
Go let it all go. burn the sage
...
Empty rooms
empty spaces
Empty chairs
empty faces
Your soul is old
All wrapped in gold
But you don't know
They all no showed
...
It's just .. ink and paper
won't make us all .. any safer
The Words I write .. am i all right
To Have the rite to sign lifes waiver?
With Form equals .. fuction
With Malice through .. Gumption
If i don't respect .. all of myself
I'll have to represent something
My future is with .. this song
My family bond is .. so strong
No matter how .. you take it
In a Blunt bowl or in a bong
All of this won't .. take too long.
Just one for the .. moment
All powerful .. omnipotent
We stand here in the clear and own it.
... Cause we don't want those
Empty room
empty faces
Empty chairs
empty spaces
Your soul is old
Wrapped in gold
Now you know
They all no showed
...
It's all just .. ink on paper
No one has to die
All for yourself .. run and hide.
Loc it in a cockpit fly through the sky
Guilt of crime won't .. leave your eye
You despise to .. compromise
no power you coward .. self scrutinize
If we could all just stop to realize
Money is nothing when you croak
Your luxury cars or your boat
It can't all go to your funeral
Life's final chapter no numeral
So good bye to the past times
The laugh lines and the last times
With this life we need no chaser
This and every moment we must savor
...
All that glitters is not gold x2
.
All that glitters is not gold x2
.
...
Empty rooms...
empty faces...
Empty chairs...
empty spaces...
Your soul is old...
Wrapped in gold...
You'll never know...
They all no showed...
...
It's all just ink paper.
Cha ching!
https://youtu.be/lMSbfyON3Fo?si=Luo2diRYp5G4jFR_
Hey hey hey hey yeah!
Cruising out on my longboard
Cause I love to see this town
Pretty girls barely dressed
A Walking all around
Cruise up to the venue
And I can't believe my eyes
CoC is on the stage
It's time to get highhhh
...
City Life is what I like
I'll like it til I'm through
Night light shining bright
There nothing I'd rather do
The band on the stage we're ready to rage we know just what to do
Girls on the corner look for an owner
And they want it to be you
...
All my life I've been going around
Smiles on my face
Surviving in a concrete jungle
At my own mellow pace
Steel and glass rise twords the clouds
While you work round the clock
While we're up here in the clear
Now it's time to rock!
...
City Life is what I like
I'll like it til I'm through
Night light shining bright
There nothing I'd rather do
Bands on the stage we're ready to rage (talked) we know just what to do
Girls on the corner look for an owner
And they want it to be you
... Bridge
Dusk has come dawn has gone
The moon it soon will rise
Creatures emerge they will be first
Looking for a surprise
Come on in my darlings
It's time to start the show
We are the best there ever was
There is no better place to go.
...
City Life is what I like
I'll like it til I'm through
Night light shining bright
There nothing I'd rather do!
The band on the stage we're ready to rage we know just what to do
Girls on the corner look for an owner
And they want it to be you
...
https://youtu.be/ZtC0L2r02Is?si=FEFLllp4tOwA84Lj
…
Im chomping at the bit
Drowning in the hairs on my upper lip
I'm feeling kinda strange
Thoughts in my mind begin to prearrange
Walking lonely in the streets with a million people looking straight ahead
Memories of our past erased I think we’ve become the living dead
My gut begins to growl
Voices in my head begin to howl
My worlds gotten blurred
My conscience has become disturbed
Politicians think they're doctors
Suddenly Ordering me around
Telling me I gotta take it
Slowly liberties getting drowned
...be doop bap
A D Am D-D7
I’m going dark
Lights getting hazy
Subliminal me is
Thinking crazy
forehead sweats
It’s getting hot
Wondering now
Just what’s in that shot
...
A D-Am A D-Am
F D-D7 F D-D7
My skin starts to burn
Stand in line in the beurocraric world
My eye begins to twitch
wake up face down inside a ditch
Flesh begins to peel off me
as my hair blows away into the wind
sunken cheeks and bulging ribs
look at how my body's thinned
My ear just fell off
Blood drips down the side of me as I cough
Send in some medical
Turning into something reprehensible
My minds now a hollow shell
My foot is pointing the other way
Started today wasting away
Something is wrong I'm not ok
...ba boom bap
A D Am D-D7
I’m going dark
Lights getting hazy
Subliminal me is
Thinking crazy
forehead sweats
It’s getting hot
Wondering now
Just what’s in that shot
...
Long ass solo
,,,,
,,,,
,,,,
,,,,!
A D Am D-D7
I’m going dark
Lights getting hazy
Subliminal me is
Thinking crazy
forehead sweats
It’s getting hot
Wondering now
Just what’s in that shot
...
East Indian beat.
Wonky guitar holds.
A Am A A7
Here I am now in the end
Toes fall off into the sand
Broken cars crashing planes
Eating flesh eating braiiiiiiiiiiins!
...A D Am D-D7
I’m going dark
Lights getting hazy
Subliminal me is
Thinking crazy
forehead sweats
It’s getting hot
Wondering now
Just what’s in that shot!
(Hard Stop)
https://youtu.be/noAYNKMt4Iw?si=NR3Kfcj7sMm-wyQx
…
Oooo Ahhhhh
Ooooo Ahhhhh
Trip on the past
At one point in time
Dark skys have passed
Over this light of mine.
Stare and lose focus
Feeling so low
Though its all hopeless
You go with the flow
…
Credits are rolling. Cut the ties.
Waves are controlling. Rips inside.
Moments unfolding Sequence of lines
Your broken hearts Have equal minds.
........
(We are the new hooope)
........
(We are the new hope)
…
We will not fail
our Strength it burns within us
Tell our tale
The problems they don't concern us
Minds in jail
Lacking even common sense
Piercing the veil
With the chain of consequene
...
Credits are rolling. Cut the ties.
Waves are controlling. Rips inside.
Moments unfolding Sequence of lines
My broken heart Will open your eyes.
(We are the new hooope)
(We are the new hoooooope)
...
Day after day spent chasing
While my whole life's been wasting.
Resurrection to my vocal
A hopeful redemption facing
The new hope where we walk the skies
The new dope the darkest of sides
Savior's sabres in our favor
Of course the force replies
...
Ooooo
Ahhhhh
OOOOOO
AHHHHH
...
Credits are rolling. Cut the ties.
Waves are controlling. Rips inside.
Moments unfolding Sequence of lines
You broken hearts Have equal minds.
(We are the new hooope)
(We are the new hoooooope)
…
https://youtu.be/T7lZ57lKjeg?si=7P1VnBnkL3CA7sj9
https://youtu.be/RS42RiXaP8Y?si=LgX8MMjj9e8Jn0yt