Music
I’ve Tried! [song lyric]
I’ve tried to be a normal guy
and wander through the maze;
pretending that I’m just like those
whose hearts are not ablaze.
That only lasted for a day;
I couldn’t wear the cloak.
I cannot play at being someone else
who’s just a joke.
I’ve tried to hide myself away
and never show my face —
go off the grid and disappear
without a single trace.
But why should I be forced to flee
while others foment war?
Until my dying breath, I’ll do
what I’ve been put here for.
“For Someone’s Child” [video]
HERE’S A VIDEO of “For Someone’s Child”, a song from my latest album, “The Key”. It was just made by staff of The Liberty Beacon as they resonated with its message about child victims of war. It is a requiem for every child who has been killed or maimed in conflicts around the world. I wrote the original version in Barcelona in April 2003 after the “Shock & Awe” US bombing campaign on Baghdad, which initiated the gratuitous genocide and deliberate destabilisation of Iraq. I have since updated the lyrics and added a vocal bridge. Note that it is in the key of E major to give a glimmer of hope. Click below to listen.
(Click on the link below the video to read the lyrics)
“Time to Choose” [video]
HERE’S A VIDEO of “Time to Choose”, a song from my album, “The Key”. It was made by staff of The Liberty Beacon as they felt it summed up their mission statement “Eradicating Programmed Ignorance”. Click below and crank up your volume!
(Click on the link below the video to read the lyrics)
“The Key” (official video)
“THE KEY” – THE VIDEO by Alan Morrison. The official animated video, displaying lyrics. This inspirational song for the downhearted, from my heart to yours, builds to a climax of orchestral & choral power to accompany the message. This is the title track from my new album, “The Key”. It has an 8-piece band plus the Stockholm Concert Orchestra, including tubular bells, timpani drums & choir. The credits are at the end of the video. Here is the essence: “For I have found that when I love, then strength will fill me from above.” Please share as widely as possible on social media. Thank you!
(Click on the link below the video to read the lyrics)
Read the lyrics for “The Key”…
“You’re So Naïve”, part 1
EXACTLY 7 YEARS AGO TODAY, I wrote a song, entitled “You’re So Naive!” It was written in the bawdy ensemble style of one of those songs which football teams record to commemorate a World Cup championship. 🙂 This was in the immediate aftermath of the first election of Barack Obama as president of the USA in November 2008. The world was riding on a wave of euphoria. The internet was awash with people thinking that the Messiah had come and that world peace was at last attainable. The naivete was astonishing! All the trendy new age people were saying that they had been told by their “channelling” sources that Obama had been sent as a light-bringer and that overnight the vibration of the planet had been raised to a new high. The Ascension was finally here! Really, you couldn’t make it up! 🙂 When I put the song with a commentary about it on social media (which was MySpace in those days as Fakebook was barely two years old), I received many angry messages from people accusing me of standing in the way of the “energetic flow” which this event had caused. One woman wrote that even if it was true that Obama was just another “patsie president”, it didn’t matter because the wave of positivity which had swept across the planet at his election “had changed the earth’s vibration forever”. In other words, hope which is based entirely on falsehood and deception is to be welcomed. Eight years later, I see no improvement either in the state of the earth or in the extent of that dippy way of thinking, which is now even more widespread in its hold on people’s minds. Honestly, I wonder if “stupidity” would be a better word than naivete, using it in its base meaning of being in a stupor. Or maybe “wilful ignorance” would be even better. For the truth is plain for all to see but the majority refuse to acknowledge it and either accuse truthtellers of being “conspiracy theorists” or lose themselves in pseudo-spiritual fantasies about imaginary channellings, energy fields and “Ascensions”. I could write a whole book about this! Anyway, here are the lyrics of “You’re So Naive”:
Moving Staircase [song lyric]
HERE’S A SONG I JUST COMPLETED. It’s been lying incomplete “in a drawer” for a while. The title is “Moving Staircase”. It’s a metaphor about the importance of communication and its failure in relationships (especially in relation to letting the fallout from old hurts from the past — what I call “strange yesterdays” — interfere in the present). Six verses, two refrains and a vocal bridge. A Living-Room Video of this song is coming tomorrow! Here are the lyrics:
Here I stand with my feet on the ground,
working out when to go
up the stairway which seems heaven-bound.
Doubting, how will we know?
Ride my Heart
I INVITE YOU TO RIDE MY HEART TODAY on a wave of contemporary folk. Click on this link to listen to the entire title track of my 2010 album. https://soundcloud.com/alan-morrison/ride-my-heart . It’s about a couple who have made a pact that wherever they are in space, time and history, if one of them dies the other will join them. Alan Morrison on acoustic guitar & vocal, Emeli Jeremias on cello and Johan Ahlin on French horn. Produced by Lasse Englund in Sweden.
The packaging for my 14-track CD album
The packaging for my 14-track CD album, “The End of the Song”, is being designed to my specifications right now in Switzerland. Very soon, the first 1000 will be printed/duplicated by a company in Madrid and sent to me, in time for the February release concert/party here in Tarifa. The image you see here is a mosaic of Euterpe (of the nine muses, this is the one specialising in music), to whom the title track refers. To whet your appetite, here are the lyrics of that song:
I’ve used up all my words —
emptied out my heart;
there’s nothing left to feel now or to say.
And even if this tune’s been done
a thousand times before,
these thoughts still burn a hole upon the page.
I Can Make it on my Own [song lyrics]
Wind blows me
I don’t see
this debris
But I can make it on my own
Things fly past
this boat’s mast
unhand grasped
Think I can make it on my own
Refrain:
Rode full-speed ahead into the night
In everything there I will delight
Waves swirl round
I’m half-drowned
Not ice-bound
And I can make it on my own
Head held high
Smelled word why
Scored bull’s-eye
‘Cause I can make it on my own
Vocal bridge:
…..(Although I know that my arrow flies true
…..Doubt comes like haze in a dene
…..I’ll do much more than some smiles in my room
…..Won’t break me.
…..Can’t fake me.
…..It’s more than a dream…)
Not lonely
Just roamly
I bring me
Somewhere to make it on my own
Envision
Collision
Revision
Won’t have to make it on my own
Final refrain:
Rode hard on the wind into the light
With more wings than two (heightens the flight)
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© Alan Morrison, 2013
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I can make it on my Own [song lyric]
Wind blows me
I don’t see
this debris
But I can make it on my own
Things fly past
this boat’s mast
unhand grasped
Think I can make it on my own
Refrain:
Rode full-speed ahead into the night
In everything there I will delight
The Naked Troubadour 