I wont forget that we have many and varied poets on chordie, and it's quite obvious that many songwriters are good poets also, so it's a good place to start your work and get help and encouragement for progressing in their chosen field.

word play is my fav...correction, second favorite kind of play...i loved lennon's books, i can't quote anything as i havent read them for many years, my ex-wife kept them when i left...witch!

so keep on keeping on

phill

Blue Suede Shoes?

rock on cowboy

phill

Face goes red

Phill

roger,

i appologise profusely my old mate, it's obvious that i'm the one that's feeling morose, i had a couple of wee tinnies last night and...well the desired effect was not reached. morning shift and redundancy have depressed me.

talk soon.

just read the other comments above and listened to the recording, you do get a great sound and your voice and harmonies are top drawer, i really should read the intro before jumping in like that, but i was trying to save a bit of time to get through everything.

my sincere condolences to your good self and the families of your friends.

cysgwch yn ddawel

phill

hi kap,

she just asked "where do the words come from?"...i dont know, i just write what i feel i guess.

hi russ,

i did it ....my way-y-y-y, actually my eyes are green

hi daddy, el mucho smoocho

hi selso,

mother-in-laws, who have them? mine just happens to make the worlds second best roast potatoes [my favorite food] my Ann makes the best!!!

hi ark,

we've been together about 30 years too, you've got to have bad times to know when your having good one's...yeah?
as for recording, i use several methods, this one was done by basic multi-tracking on a computer program, piano, bass, strings and drums, then transferring that lot to my korg d8 and adding guitars and vocals, there are shed-fulls of mistakes which i hope to get around to fixing, like changing the key, dumping the strings and re-recording them and the backing vocals were done the same time as the guitars, so they are all to hell, so they must be re-done. any thing else you'd like to know...i'm an open book?

hi rog,

cant see her getting up at 5.am to cook my cornflakes somehow!

thanks all

phill

nicely observed, the most important job a writer has is putting down what he [or she] sees, and doing it in and entertaining way.  you've succeeded, well done

phill

the last two lines sum-up the song,

there's no escape

no-body wins.

it makes you wonder why we play these games, your song rings very true, well written and observed.

phill

It seems I'm back to my childhood again, I used to gaze out of my bedroom window across the Loughor estuary [about 2 miles away] at the Gower Peninsula, atop of which a road ran [and still does] and at night time, you'd see the lights of lonesome cars coming over the top...ah days of innocence...long gone, never forgotten. The brook is the same one in "Fairy Glade". Foxes and rabbits are quite common, even now. Venus I've gazed at many times, with wonder and delight.

Having just typed this out, I feel quite relaxed...hope it has the same effect on you.

Phill

Hi Ark,

I'm just astounded at how beautiful and professional your music sounds, I wish I could get the same feel and depth. Dawn ticks all the boxes, and when you say it's like poetry in music you are right on the money.
Just as a coincidence, I wrote a new poem this week called "Song of Nature" which I'll be uploading shortly, which also deals with moon rise going to sun rise.

Excellent work my friend

Phill

i used to like kylie minogue till i heard her massacre "dance tonight" as a duet with paul mccartney on hootnanny two years ago...that was painful

also that tuneless cretin who used to sing with the smiths

stevie nicks i might agree with [though she does sing in tune] now christine macvie...what a voice!!! booootiful

demographically misanthropic and tersely glandular... i dont know what any of that means either, but it has merit and deserves an ovation as it is the most lateral poem so far entered here.

well done

phill