Topic: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Hi everyone, this month of FEBRUARY, we are looking for SONGS using any of the WORDS listed below.  You can perform a COVER of a SONG or perform an ORIGINAL SONG. 

suitcase
possible
network
meaning   
candy
children
cigarette
city     
faded
motorcycle
golden
humble
 

Looking forward to seeing what you all come up with.

READY, SET, GO!!!

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Ok Jan I think I used about 10 of the words - a  few I just could not find a way to insert them. sad

It's a little long,  tragic story.  I could not help but think if some young man lost their new bride in the recent fires, plane crashes or some other circumstance. It's pretty much written as i thought a man might feel like if it happened.

I'm going to post it songwriting as well =- hope that's ok


lonesome heart and empty sky By Jim Kenyon


Verse 1:


[Am] He was standing by the road, a [F] cigarette in his hand


[C] Suitcase by his feet, he’d be[G]come a traveling man


[Am] No wife, no children, just a [F] drifter in the breeze


[C] A life without meaning, [G] fading like autumn leaves


Verse 2:


[Am] She was a humble girl, with [F] silky golden hair


[C] A smile that could take a[G]way all his cares


[Am] But when she left this world, [F] all time stood still


[C] As he held her hand, the [G] coldness broke his will


________________________________________


Chorus (Stronger Strumming)


[F] So he pours the whiskey, [C] and lets it flow,


[G] Always tryin’ to drown the [Am] past he can't let go.


[F] He walks the roads where [C] no one hears his cry


[G] There’s just a lonesome heart [G] and empty sky


________________________________________


Bridge


[Am] Just a broken man still [F] chasing a love he lacks


[C] In a faded coat and a [G] life that only looks back


[Am] He whispers her name [F] trying to ease the ache


[C] But he knows no highway [G] leads to where she waits





Verse 3:


[Am] Buried her in April, but he [F] couldn’t say goodbye


[C] He offered up his soul to have [G] God answer why


[Am] With a whiskey burn in a [F] heart that was so cold


[C] He turned his back, and [G] turned to the open road


Verse 4:


[Am] No home, no peace, no [F] place to settle down


[C]Just lonely roads through the [G] city and every town


[Am] Livin’ in midnight bars and [F] motel rooms all alone


[C] He knows it’s not [G] possible to fix his heart of stone


Chorus (Stronger Strumming)


[F] So he pours the whiskey, [C] and lets it flow,


[G] Always tryin’ to drown the [Am] past he can't let go.


[F] He walks the roads where [C] no one hears his cry


[G] There’s just a lonesome heart [G] and empty sky


Outgo


[F] He walks the roads where [C] no one hears his cry


[G] There’s just a lonesome heart [G] and empty sky




Slow


[G] There’s just a lonesome heart [G] and empty sky



     

The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

This is one I wrote a few year ago, has the line " ... she lights up a cigarette, and pulls back some death ..."

http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/mp3/SpiralStaircase.mp3

Cheers

Richard     

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Nice   recording   Richard  ,I  could  see  the  story  in my  mind .     

Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Grah1 wrote:

Nice   recording   Richard  ,I  could  see  the  story  in my  mind .

Thank you!

Cheers

Richard     

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

TIGLJK, that is a great song!  So awesome you could fit so many of the words in.  I like the whole story line to this, and I could visualize it very clearly from the way you wrote it.  Love it smile     

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

neophytte, that was great!  Loved the piano/ piano organ for a change, it really suited this song and your voice.   I would love to see the lyrics to this song.  Some great lyrics in there, well done smile     

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Jandle wrote:

neophytte, that was great!  Loved the piano/ piano organ for a change, it really suited this song and your voice.   I would love to see the lyrics to this song.  Some great lyrics in there, well done smile

I only have a scan of the original working notes ...

http://neophytte.mine.nu/forum/simpleforum_files/attachments/Richard_Mortimer-The_Spiral_Staircase.jpg

I usually scribble stuff as I'm recording, which is where the song takes shape ...

Cheers

Richard

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Golden Brown cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrHRsqGBd1A     

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Richard,   Nicely performed.  I had never heard  of that song, read it was almost not released.  ( I also read it's about either Heroin or a girl- both can be pleasurable and deadly smile ) Thanks for sharing.  JIm     

The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Brian, Nicely done. I felt like I was sitting in a tiki bar in Hawaii listening to your song - had a uke sound to it. Jim     

The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

neo, never heard of this song, so like TIG, I looked up the meaning of the song and yes is right with his comments on what the song is about.  Interesting little song, it punched along with the strumming as you played it.  The Reverb or echo mostly good, maybe a little over done in a few places?.   I enjoyed listening to it.     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

easybeat, nice song, bounced along well, foot tapping.  I liked the message in it.  Good to see you back performing and writing.  On a side note........I didn't hear any of the words suggested this month in the song.     

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Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

Whoops sorry Jan,i`ll take it down.     

The King Of Audio Torture

Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

easybeat, NO, don't take it down, its great you entered something this month.  As you said, "anything Random", so you entered something.  Thats great and what we want.     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: FEBRUARY 2025 FSOTM – RANDOM WORDS

TIGLJK wrote:

Richard,   Nicely performed.  I had never heard  of that song, read it was almost not released.  ( I also read it's about either Heroin or a girl- both can be pleasurable and deadly smile ) Thanks for sharing.  JIm

No worries - the band was a bit obtuse in the 80's but became quite well known in the 90's, as other underground music went mainstream ...

Jandle wrote:

neo, never heard of this song, so like TIG, I looked up the meaning of the song and yes is right with his comments on what the song is about.  Interesting little song, it punched along with the strumming as you played it.  The Reverb or echo mostly good, maybe a little over done in a few places?.   I enjoyed listening to it.

Thank you!

Cheers

Richard     

-[ Musician, writer, guitarist, singer ]-
Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Discogs          https://www.discogs.com/release/29065579
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