Tick tock tick tock etc....a song I wrote pondering the shortness of our little lives Thought this might be useful for the Time collaboration thingy...until I realised I was ironically probably out of time - Still, let me know what you think please. Recording and harmonising is a little messy but I hope you will forgive that!

A love song by me - bass and elec guitar by my cyber-collaborator David Ding AKA noiseball

Over and over and over... Forgive the messiness - I did my best!

An old old song likening my mental state to that of melting ice caps. Of course!

Lyrics:

Oh Antarctica
You're melting just like me
If we don't cut this out we'll sink into the sea
Spy glass
Burning a tattoo into the bark
So I can't forget myself
Escaping in the park

My mind is metal
I can't find the breake pedal, brake pedal
No way to slow down or make it better
I'll just have to crash

The ice cracks reveals the tracks of my soft footed doubt
This soon to be aquarium won't let the fishes out
This life will end
I can depend on metal turned to rust
before my final curtain call
Will I know who to trust?

My mind is metal
I can't find the brake pedal, brake pedal
No way to slow down or make it better
I'll just have to crash

A song I wrote for Lawrie's film; Empire - apologies for the dodgy French and dodgier pronunciation - eek it was my first time writing in French see - forgive me? Anyway! I would be soooo happy if someone could put some music behind my vocals - pretty please!!

Je vois ton petit visage
Dans les nuages, dans le vent
Dans mes larmes
Quand ils tombent constamment

C’est dommage, petit fils
Que tu est mort dans la vie
Sans espoir et plein de maladie

Tu as vu petit soldat
Tante tristesse et douleur
La misère dans les yeux
Brises mon coeur

C’est ma faut t’es perdu
Dans un monde d’inconnu
Tu as crie mais personne n’intendu

Rétournez a moi
J t’attendrais toujour
Rétournez a moi
N’ayez pas jamais peur

The ever lovely Island Prophet suggested I write a melody for my poem. For some reason it rarely occurs to me to do that - but I gave it a go! Bit rough so sorry about that! <3

Had this tune in my head for ages and Joe's words fit perfectly. Et voila! Kept it simple so do add whistles and bells and voices as well!

And happy pre-birthday Joe! <3

Me at my poppiest. Do feel free to join me with singing or clapping or whatever pleases you!

You never show your black spots

You blind us with sunspots

You’re a glitter ball that keeps spinning

When you’re not winning

You wake up

In full stage make up

You’re a ticking bomb with a smile on

How’d you hold it so long?

Gotta let it all out someday, dear

And I’ll be waiting patiently right here

You’re making me feel nervous

With your perfect surface

Did you know that I’d still stick around

If your smile was upside down?

What’s the use of friends for just fair weather?

I’ll be here with ears to hear whatever

Gotta let it all out someday, dear

And I’ll be waiting patiently right here

So Cchellez challenged me to write a cheery song about a dreary subject - and, well, I cheated a bit and recorded a song that I've had floating about for a long while. Hope this still qualifies as a challenge met! :)

I'd love to hear this remixed so if anybody wants separate tracks lemme know!

Ps. The guitar is tuned to drop d and the chords are umm..D and A and some ones I made up that are like the top three strings on the 5th, 7th and 2nd fret :P

Exhumed a body from my bedroom yesterday
He shook the dust off then here’s what he had to say
Don’t waste a second - live loud everyday

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He's my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

He writes me haikus, telling me to go outside
Let go the recluse, even though I’d rather hide
Step out the front door, life’s on your side

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He’s my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

My friendly skeleton
He shows me how it’s done
I know one day I’ll be one
Til then I’m gonna have some fun

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He’s my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

I pack his bones up neatly in the old suitcase
I’ve gotten sick of his hollow judgmental face
I’m happy fleeting floating in space

The skeleton that’s under my bed
Is talkative although he’s dead
He’s my bony motivator
To do it now instead of later

My friendly skeleton
He shows me how it’s done
I know one day I’ll be one
Til then I’m gonna have some fun

When I’m caught out in the rainstorm
When I’m weary and alone
Wrap me tightly, keep my bones warm
Give me shelter, take me home

When I’m drowning in the dark days
When I’m flooded with regret
And the sorrow sends me sideways
Give me shelter from the wet

When I’m sinking into puddles
Soaking nearly to the skin
Wallowing in all my muddles
Whisper to me, take me in

Neath the trees and under awnings
In the archways and the caves
Clouds reveal a new sun dawning
And a light that softly saves

Every puddle is a mirror
Every raindrop is a test
Each downpour can draw you nearer
Or still further from your best

When I’m caught out in a rainstorm
When I’m weary and alone
Wrap me tightly, keep my bones warm
Give me shelter, take me home

For the ever lovely Marke and Kim as an early new baby gift!

And for all this year's babymaking hitrecorders :)

So this is something Pasiv and I have been working on - I sent him a vocal track that needed some magic, he provided said magic times a million and here is the result!

(Will upload separate vocals too)

I've got a letter in my head for you I'm sick and tired of playing dead for you I've gotta come back, I've gotta come back to life Turn the clocks back, turn the clocks back, I'm alright My lips are frozen and my hands are numb The cracks are showing but I'm playing dumb I've got jump off, I've gotta let go this lie Let the truth out, let the truth out or let it die

Loved Robo_J's guitar track so wrote some lyrics and a melody for it. It's a song about the ol' standard hero's journey.

When evil forces unfurled

One man, at first was warned

And called out of his old world

A hero then was born

He battled through the thicket

And through the haunted wood

A lonely, only misfit

Stood on the side of good

He crossed the mighty river

Down in the fearsome fjord

Then found the token giver

Who kept the magic sword

He gathered friends and helpers

Along his hero’s path

Just as the fortune teller

Foretold would come to pass

He scaled the witch’s tower

He lanced the serpent’s head

And channelled all its power

To his own veins instead

The balance then was right again

He had achieved his goal

Forever changed the land of men

Forever changed his soul

I've long been a big admirer of jonthewallflower's music - had his July Lullaby on my itunes for months and always hummed this tune along to it - so finally recorded it. I strongly suggest you listen to his full track too though - it's an epic! (And all of his music for that matter).

Don't forget me
Don't forget me
I'll find a place to hide
Inside your memory

Don't misplace me
Don't mistake me
For paperwork to file away
And smile away without me

Don't undo me
Don't look through me
I'm not a pane of glass, you see
Though I can shatter easily

Don't forget me
Don't forget me
That I can hide
Inside your memory

Added words and singings to mikeregannoise's wonderful track - Telephone. Hope ya like, Mike! :)

Just me and my guitar again. It's quite bare so please do add music/singing if you're so inclined!!

In this world you’re creating

There’s no point in waiting

For a sign to come

Cos there isn’t one

Onward always we’re marching

There’s no overarching narrative

Just live

Then be done with it

And that vacuous feeling that

There’s no way of healing

Is a consequence

Of our discontent

Try to fill it with trinkets

Do you honestly think it’s gonna work

I doubt it

The plug is out

You’re an ant on a rock

That shouldn’t come as a shock

If your rational mind

Thinks it knows it all you’re blind

In this infinite something

There is plenty that’s comforting

To cling to if you desire to

We’ve all got our crutches

I know but as much as

I like drinking

Thinking is preferable

The peddlars will own you

the preachers will loan you their old lies

so you can avert your eyes

the certainty pushers

will act as your ushers

as you fill the pen

are you sheep or men?

A song about someone getting older and looking back.

Lyrics

Up in the attic is a faded photograph
of your wedding day
that's the way time goes these days

Out of your window is an unfamiliar scene
You remember when it was all empty and green

You remember when people said
exactly what they meant
You remember when a spade was called a spade

You remember when the universe felt young
and so did you
You remember when your love was fresh and new

Down in the basement is a box of broken dreams
Promises  pulled apart, torn at the seams

Phantoms and ransoms you picked up along the way
In a life lived right, that's the price you've got to pay

You remember when people said exactly what they meant
You remember when a spade was called a spade

You remember when the universe felt young and so did you
You remember when your love was fresh and new

You remember when people said exactly what they meant
You remember when a spade was called a spade

You remember when the things you held onto were owned, not lent
You remember when the people you loved stayed

This needs something or lots of things but I'm not sure what! Please go crazy! :) I'll upload stems presently!

I was sailing in the bathtub
I didn’t have an oar
I was shouting for the captain
But he was overboard
On the bathroom floor

I was flying in a bubble
Floating on the breeze
But I knew I was in trouble
When it drifted into the trees
To the taunts of the passing bees

Where have I come from?
Where am I going?
There's no way of knowing, no.
Should I shuffle this way?
Should I run that way?
Captain come and steer this boat

I was swimming in a soup bowl
'til I got out of my depth
Then I clung on to the bread roll
So I could catch my breath
But I haven't caught it yet

All the king's men couldn't fix me
I'm a faulty Rubik's cube
I'm a second-hand shop jigsaw
With a missing piece or two
Impossible to conclude

Where have I come from?
Where am i going?
There's no way of knowing, no.
Should I shuffle this way?
Should I run that way?
Captain come and steer this boat

Couldn't resist recording a couple of melodies for amferraro's collab. I even used a metronome! Hope they're useful :)

An apocalyptic love song. Rapture rock :)

And check out Megan's MegaMix here: http://www.hitrecord.org/records/397650

Ancient Rome and teen fiction combine to create this song - bah capitalism etc etc :)

Because dissent can be infectious
They will endeavour to protect us
From the power of the ranks united
From their battle cries

As long as we have dollars in our pockets
We dont see the boat so we dont rock it
Shock us, lock us in our bubble
Trouble us with lies

And the dilemma just below the surface is
That we're distracted by your bread and circuses

Oh their semantics can be so romantic
Noble causes with obsuring clauses
Of course its easy to accuse from
My cosy little life

In the middle of this pyramid scheme
We're not as comfortable as we at first seem
Cracks appearing, no one steering
Will we sink or swim?

And the dilemma just below the surface is
That we're distracted by your bread and circuses

Mind the gap, it's growing ever wider
Between the losers and the winning siders
The balance is forever broken
Outspoken voice hushed

And the dilemma just below the surface is
That we're distracted by your bread and circuses

Made this little ditty a while back - might be useful for soundtracking magical-y things. Can upload stems too if anyone fancies playing around with it! The lonely daughter hides her secret in the grass Locks the trapdoor throws the key into the past Imagined magic keeps her from the pain of truth The wooded fort that keeps the fairytale of youth

Inspired again by Via's video <3

The fireflies only come out night

They don’t like competing with daylight

On dark days your love too seems twice as bright

You’re my firefly love if that’s alright

When Winter splinters into sweetest Spring

I am season’s queen and you are its king

No matter what surprises seasons bring

Firefly love, your kiss is a sure thing

There’s fire in their bellies

There’s fire in our hearts

That banishes icicles from the cold parts

Firefly, you are a work of art to me

Take my hand, let’s dance into the dark

We will light the night up with our spark

Although we won’t have wandered very far

I’m up in the sky, firefly, you’re my shooting star

There’s fire in their bellies

There’s fire in our hearts

That banishes icicles from the cold parts

Firefly, you are a work of art to me

Have at it! :)

Lyrics

Shake off your old suit

It never suited you

And come to my room

I will fashion you a new one

Make me a skin dress

I wear you the best

No I don’t like the cold

So come on and hold me

You be the tailor

I’ll be the seamstress

Wont’ you let down my hem again?

Bake me a fine cake

And describe how it tastes

So soft in my ear

So that only I can hear

I will satisfy you

With my own special stew

And the tenderest meat

That you have ever eaten

You be the baker

I’ll be the chef now

Feed me your sweetest offerings

Forge me a strong bow

So that my arrows might flow

Neatly into the flesh

Of our old discretion

And I will cast you a spell

To keep your tough hands well

So they might hold their place

In the space I like them best

You be the blacksmith

I’ll be the white witch

Let the townspeople curse our dark dealings

A simple little song I made from fractaldust's lovely lyrics.

For Vickie's tiny song collab - here's my tiny musical interpretation of Attilee's 'Together'

Last song today ha! Bit of a change of tone for this one - I'm jumping on the hitRECord blues train with thanks to smweed's awesome lyrics. Additions/suggestions welcome!

I've been loving all the additions to this rhyme about mortali-tea (arf arf) and took a break from colouring in to write a melody for it :) Apologies that I had to cut down the verses - I'm not good at writing long songs. I can provide stems/chords if anyone wants to add more or extend or add whatever!

Oh and let me know if I forgot any resources!

For the day that's in it.

Thought this would fit the body image collab. Some of you might have heard this one already but I'd love to get your comments on this and remixes of course!!

Stereo lies hit you from both sides

Til you start to believe in the taunts of thieves

Celluloid spies can control your eyes

Take a confident glance and kill it with romance

Overthrow your power, turn it sour

And bitter bake you in your skin

To turn your beauty and your truth

Into a parody of youth

You are not a commodity,

you’re a beautiful oddity

Skeletons smile out from the pages

While you make yourself sick to join the jailbait clique

And while you turn grey they never age a day

We’ve got it all wrong, we’ve got it all wrong

Overthrow your power, turn it sour

And bitter bake you in your skin

To turn your beauty and your truth

Into a parody of youth

You are not a commodity, you’re a beautiful oddity

A repetitive harmony-y song I made today. Might be useful for soundtracking - or it would be awesome if someone could add/lengthen/chopup/generally remix too! Suggestions for a better title also welcome!

Lyrics

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh aaah oooh ooh ooooooh :)

I found an old beat by BenWiley4000 and sang over it. I'd love if someone/several folk took this very bare track and made it fuller/cooler/everything-er!

My weapon is hidden on me

My bullets will pierce your blackened words

You’ll be sorry you spoke, sir

Revenge is not what I’m after

I want to illuminate is all

I am happy to let you fall

Don’t mistake me

For another fool

You can’t make me

Believe you

My melodies sing your sorrows

Just wait till tomorrow finds you limp

Oh your chances are slim, slim

And on your death bed, will you wonder?

Which of your offences stings the most

Are you scared of your own ghost?

Don’t mistake me

For another fool

You can’t make me

Believe you

A song about a one-sided chipmunk relationship. Trying something...err...different!

(Ps. I can upload the non-chipmunk version too if anyone wants!)

Today he wore purple, my favourite shade

And that was my favourite song that he played

I know that he winked at me when he walked by

Although you say it was just dirt in his eye

His friend's sister's boyfriend said my hair was lovely

And that's how I know that he loves me

We're like Romeo and Juliet

And just cos he doesn't know my name yet

Doesn't mean that we're not meant to be

It's so easy to see that he loves me

He wrote me a letter, anonymously

Put it on the internet for all to see

He's so understanding, he knows that I'm shy

You ask why he left out my name – well that's why

He likes to be cryptic, so he writes me stories

And that's how I know he adores me

You gotta look between the lines

He'ssending me love letters all of the time

If you just read the seventh word in every tweet

You'll see that he's swept off his feet

He could call if he wanted, but phones are passe

And, anyway, he talks to me every day

In our own secret code only we understand

Us modern day lovers don't need to hold hands

See he threw a big party and I was invited

So I know that my love's requited

Wrote this one a little while back. Have at it! (Ps. Lawrie's making a video for it too but it might be a bit ropey public domain wise - so I'll upload it to my Facebook tomorrow. Yes, that's right I'm on Facebook :P) 

Epicness by Pasiv, singing/wording by me <3

Sorta Halloween-y?

Well this isn't what I intended to make at all! Set out to write some story ideas for Channing's 'Half a Clown' and accidentally wrote this odd song. Not sure about it or the wind ha but hey - have at it! Could do with instruments for sure.

Maybe it could work with some of the footage? Again - not sure! Ha.

Lyrics

I’m just clowning around

Lost in the sound

Of yesterday’s echoes

Echoes abound

With a smile on my face

Emblazoned with paint

I investigate the old place

Where I grew up oh

Such a long time ago

I don’t know if I can bear it

My painted smile cant wear it

Remembering details

That memory failed to

Collate in my brain

And this pain, this pain is strange

I’m a ghost of myself

The world is a well

I’m trapped at the bottom

Don’t know how I fell

The invisible tears

Of a clowns worst fears

Are suddenly surfacing here

Just a little ditty inspired by mirtle's drawing! It's just voice and it should actually be in time - so have at it! (Maybe 52bpm I think?)

This winter I want to go live in a tree

I'll be in its belly til January

I hope that you will remember me

And visit me in my November tree

A dreamy lil story song

Lyrics  

Down by the river

I slept like a fisherman’s son

On a slow day for salmon

Down by the river

I dreamed I was swimming

Along with the fishes

Downstream to the shimmering ocean

The water turned salty

My gills had come faulty

I swam to the surface and spluttered

Down by the river

Then saw of all things

That I had grown wings

Upwards, then, I fluttered

Soaring above it all

I heard the seagulls call

“Look, there, she’s an imposter”

Down by the river

I tumbled to the ground

They put the message out

“Oh no, we have lost her”

And when I came to

My clothes were wet through

Was it a dream after all?

Down by the river

A vocals-only Christmas song that needs some help! It's 72bpm. Music it up? Pleeease? (Ps. Not sure bout this one)

Well it’s frightful outside

In the snow so we’ll hide

In our little lovenest by the fire

In a blanket for two

Nothing I’d rather do

Than cosy up for christmas with you

Bells are ringing and they’re singing

Let them carol away in the cold

For the whole winter through

Sleigh ridin snow sliding

That’s not for me

I’ll sit by the fire with a warm cup of tea

Well the winter winds wail

Round the treetops turned pale

From the icy cold breath of the moon

Snuggled up safe and warm

I could want nothing more cos I’m

Cosied up for Christmas with you

Wirrow's foxy illustration reminded me of a song I wrote so I thought I'd share. xx  

Little foxes lead the way

Trust their instincts

They know the way the land lays

Little insects, underfoot, are maimed

That’s the law of all things

Things change

There’s a code that we don’t know at play

In the spaces between things and in things

In every night every day

Do you feel it, hear it ring?

Little foxes know everything

Do you believe it? Breathe it in

Little foxes know everything

Do you believe it

Even in your skin

You’re a part of it all

A part of it all

Thought this could be quite remixable. 66 BPM.  

My sceptre is a sharpened tongue

My battle plan is 'play dumb'

My allegiance is to the god of one

No nation claims me

no flag or gun

In the trenches defenseless you’re grasping at mud

Shake it off

Take it off

Clawing down castles of sand, you’re no good

Shake it off

Take it off

My human kindness is a serpent’s kiss

My lesson is this

No man is a monster, no man a god

Smile and nod

Smile and nod

Glockenspiel and harmonies. Always thought this could do with building on - synthy sounds and drums and such. Please go crazy with it - that would make me very happy :)

Run little animals

From these woods

Although you never thought you could               you could

Fly little insect

Out of harm’s way

Keep safe you only live a day a day

Swim little fishes

To the sea

Instinctively you move downstream downstream

Live little human

Don’t sleep yet

There’ll be time to sleep when you’re dead you’re dead

The tragic tale of the boy who cried wolf and the cynics who doubted him. For mirtle's Same Story Different Ending collab

Once upon a time there lived a shepherd boy

Who sat upon a hill and watched his flock

And one December eve the locals heard him cry

‘Oh no, here comes a wolf’ he cried in shock

But when they came to check, the wolf had hidden

They thought the shepherd boy was telling lies

So later when the little boy cried wolf again

The skeptical townsfolk ignored his cries

But horrified were they when they discovered

That everything the boy had claimed was true

They learned that their distrust of one another

Had cost the boy his flock and his life too

A traditional song in the public domain. Sing along! Clap! Play harmonica/fiddle/washboard/spoons! Please :)

I'll upload vox and guitar separately so one of the verses can be taken out for an instrumental section if needs be!

Lyrics

I'm going down this road feeling bad I'm going down this road feeling bad I'm going down this road feeling bad, lord, lord And I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way

I'm down in the jailhouse on my knees Down in the jailhouse on my knees Down in the jailhouse on my knees, lord, lord And I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way

They feed me on corn bread and beans They feed me on corn bread and beans They feed me on corn bread and beans, lord, lord And I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way

Got two dollar shoes on my feet Got two dollar shoes on my feet Two dollar shoes they hurt my feet, lord, lord And I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way

It takes a ten dollar shoe to fit my foot It takes a ten dollar shoe to fit my foot It takes a ten dollar shoe to fit my foot, Great God And I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way

I'm going where the weather fits my clothes I'm going where the weather fits my clothes I'm going where the weather fits my clothes, lord lord And I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way