Lyrics lost for several decades, rediscovered, music added. Circle complete. Light and peace, Me 2024 'While My Heart Still Yearns' - words and music by Paul Murphy © 1987, 2024 - - - - - - - - ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tP4dEzclY

Second session, second take, of six electric versions of 'Keep On Goin''. Still reworking the arrangement slightly, with some of the subsequent takes trying out different openings and endings. The order of the day, believe it or not, was to record the just-written 'How I Love You', and I don't think you can get two songs further apart in context or content. Session 1, recorded upon the writing, consists of 4 acoustic versions, should you wish to check them out, plus my Rumble channel has some alternate video footage of the same takes. Light and peace, Me 'Keep On Goin'' - words and music © Paul Murphy / 2024 - - - - 30.05.2024 - - - - 30.05.2024 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdesExDztxc

This is part 4 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. 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) Don't Look Sideways Jottings 1001 Ways To Cook An Aardvark Extremely Unlikely History of the World - Part One 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 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkgxvovU7A

This came from out of nowhere this morning. After a week of writing and recording short, sharp, hard-edged rockers, this reflective song went to the other end of the spectrum. Light and peace, Me 'Nobody Cares' - words and music © Paul Murphy / 2024 - - - - - - - - 06 June 2024 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2tW1wIBTQo