Potemkin Soul

An alternative rock song that kind of touches on the experimental/progressive fringes.

Enjoy!

Dangerous Land

A rock song with an anthem-like chorus and guitar riffs.

This song is quite close to my chest for two reasons:

Musically, I wanted to capture that teetering sense of danger as if you've just noticed a drop of blood or heard a very strange noise that is out of place.
Lyrically, I'm conveying truths that most of us can agree on, but it just may be hard to express.

It is a dialogue between Misfortune (tragedy personified) and ourselves. Misfortune welcomes us in and sings the verses and we, the people, sing the triumphant chorus.

DANGEROUS LAND

Welcome to a land where perfection is banned

but it's the hope of every soul.

While it's sexy to be bad, the truth is ironclad

that we all want good to take control.

Pre Ch: Misfortune hunts this dangerous land.

Chorus:  You are the compromise in my eyes

               No surprise

               You love to watch me die and glorify

               Now I know why

               I don't belong here, but I'm needed

               So I'll stay here until I've succeeded

               And when that time comes, listen for the drums

               The old evacuates, the new will celebrate

Lock into the beat where success needs you to cheat

You'll be mocked to try the honest way.

To sit upon a throne, you need time in a jail-zone

What if God heard you pray?

Pre Ch

Chorus

Bridge: In a land where wrong is right, the flame of truth shall cast it's light

             like a burning laser-beam, some will turn to run and scream

             The rest of us will break our bonds, fly free and see our chains are gone

             Our rescue plea has found us aid

             No more will we ever have to be afraid.

Chorus

Blue Wood

Many, many years ago when I was still in high school, I was into writing songs for girls I liked at the time. There was one girl that got sixteen songs out of me!

This is one of them, sans vocals.



Enjoy!

Sabbath

Here's another track from my Ten Commandments album, which I've spoken about before.

This one is highlighting how important it is to take one day of rest out of the seven-day week. Whether you do it on personal principle, or because it's medically sound, or just because God says so, there is a very real ramification and lifestyle relfex when we apply it (or don't apply it).

I've removed the vocal tracks on this one because I wanted to expose the music, which is personally one of my favourite choruses that I've written.

Once again - being very literal with my music - I have set the time signature to 7/8 (seven days a week) which ends out being in 6/8 (because a day of rest has been taken)



Enjoy!

One Companion

Every once in a while I'll get the chance to write a song for either someone to sing for their portfolio or the end of a film or perhaps even an advert.

Now having been a rocker and roller for quite a while, I've written my fair share of songs, gigged with several bands and been quite deep into the rock scene. So when a client approaches me to write a song for their daughter, because she's pursuing a singing career, I say "No problem!"

And sometimes the song will surprisingly be better than what I first imagined it to be: It's got a catchy tune, foot-tapping rhythm and clever lyrics.

For some reason or other the song never got published or used by the client, which kind of left it sitting in my court to do with as I wish. Today I share it with you - with my original demo vocal track.



Enjoy!