I felt the need to revisit this one today. Lot of bad stuff going on in England this week. Charities don't care, churches don't care, agencies don't care. T'was ever thus. Maybe you care? Bless you if you do. Light and peace, Me 23 Jan 2024 'Candle' - words and music (c) Paul Murphy / 1982, 2024 . If you would like to buy my children a birthday card, many thanks - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/DylEmTrust . . More of me on www.youtube.com/@paulmurphy4267 . Big thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@wheezybaconrobloxmusic7505 . 4fr ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6n5LN057A8

This is part 5 of 'In Search Of Hell's Grand Reward', if you are following them. This song is probably - probably - my longest song, on the basis that it IS a song. Recorded in 9 parts, it is a one-song double-CD (I am recording from the album, onto camera). The full song lasts 2 and a half hours. This completes CD1, and was, I thought, the end of the song. But the words just kept on coming... I had to record it in parts because, in those days of yore, on a Tascam 8-track analogue home studio, a 45-minute metal C90 ran at double speed, and thus, cut out after 23 minutes. Just after this song, digital came in and I was away (my 31-minute rewrite of Bob Dylan's 'Tangled Up In Blue' was the first I did on digital). Anyway revisited - I thought I would put the entire song up. It's not all the same music, with different lyrics in each 'chapter' - it is the same chords, but the parts I have overdubbed different instruments on - so, Part 1 has organ running throughout, and electic arp's, for instance. Part 5 is on piano, with overdubbed acoustic through it. I would love to transcribe the lyrics and put them out as a book, just so it is in it's original story format, but the other night it took me an hour to transcribe the lyrics to the 4-minute 'Getting To Babylon', to include them in the "Bitter Realities" songbook, so - don't hold your breath. Oh, the reason I say 'ISoHGR' is 'probably' my longest song is, last year's 'Maybe Tomorrow' has, I think, 10,000 words, but it only exists as the lyric book - I have music for it, in my head, but that work needs to be recorded all in one go, and due to my disablity, I can't do that. And 'Prairie Winds' - which is also a song - is probably getting close to this, time-length-wise; I have been recording it in chunks, and there are 17 now (none of them particularly good technically - since I have no means of holding the lyrics up, it is write, turn camera on, hit E-minor and hope to remember what one has just written). The lyrics that make up the second half of the "Prairie Winds" lyric anthology book clock in at 6,5000 words, but I have written 3 more 'stages' to it since then. US election coming up - try to keep a social commentary songwriter still with that on the horizon! On a trivia note, the CD sleeve notes state that I recorded 'ISoHGR' between 29.12.98-02.01.99 (CD 1, parts 1-5); and between 09-11.01.1999 (CD2, parts 6-9). THAT must have been a wonderfully happy Xmas I was having that year.... ! Light and peace, Paul M 06.11.2022 'In Search Of Hell's Grand Reward' © Paul Murphy / 1998, renewed 2022 Whilst here, if I may be so bold... Many of my song lyrics and poems and prose-pieces, should you care to investigate them further, are presented in 12 books of such (details below), available from Amazon. There is a 10-page free contents preview of each title available. If you do go to Amazon and purchase any of my lyric/poetry, or indeed my comedy or my children's titles, thank you with my extreme gratitude for that, because all royalties go into trust for my beautiful young children, Dylan and Emily Jade. Books by Paul Murphy: Comedy: The Private Diary of Emily Jade Murphy (Aged 0) The Continuing Private Diary of Emily Jade Murphy (Aged 6 Months, & Counting) Don't Look Sideways - The Life & Times of Bob Wordsworth Jottings 1001 Ways To Cook An Aardvark Extremely Unlikely History of the World - Part One Extremely Unlikely History of the World - Part Two Extremely Unlikely History of the United Kingdom Eric Wobble Finds A Time Machine The Fabbles: The So-Low Years A Christmas Carol (No, Not That One, A Different One) Lyrics/Poetry: Songs Without Music Journeys... Poems, Lyrics & Reflections Stories That Rhyme Poems For My Children Maybe Tomorrow Poems From An Empty Wishing Well Tombstones One More Rainbow, Before The Lights Go Out Maybe Tomorrow... Maybe Next Year (A Love Story) Love, Prairie Winds Bitter Realities Songs For Charlotte Children's Titles: Emily's Magic Unicorn Emily and Bill... And The Stormy Day Emily and Bill... Meet Dylan Emily and Bill... Meet Pirate Pete Emily and Bill... Meet Betty the Yeti Emily and Bill... Meet Santa (and Rudolph!) Emily's Magic Dragon The Emily and Bill Anthology What Did You See At The Zoo Today? The Amazing Smeller-Man (by Dylan Murphy and Paul Murphy) - - - Please note: As with the rest of these CD-to-camera-via-speakers videos, it is, sadly, a compressed recording - the only way to make these videos, due to my illness progressing rapidly these last few weeks, is to play the CD, and point the mono 2K camera in roughly the middle of the room. What one hears on this, recorded indirect from the speakers, is a 30-40%% quality loss. - : : - Apologies, as always, for the 'video' element; I do try to get some "tube" in these, but hey, I am disabled you know, if not this then it's either the wall or the window! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvugEAGIQY