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Land of Smiles (From The East) by @indusrush

Thailand is known as The Land of Smiles. Why? Because the Thais use the smile to say or communicate many things, and to us, the foreigners, or "Farangs", as we are known in Thai, misunderstandings are commonplace, as we never really know what a Thai person is saying to you deep down. They may laugh something off, but inside they're seething. It took me years to try and fathom this behaviour, and I still don't think I've got it 100%, but I do it a lot better than many others. This song was written on the Piano, one of just a few of my songs written on that instrument. It is playable on a guitar, but doesn't sound quite so good...The song's lyrics refer to my 20 years of being an expat in Thailand, and coming back to the UK on a permanent basis again after 30 years away (I was 10 yrs in NL before Thailand!). The culture shock was immense, and also challenging and exciting, especially for my family who didn't even speak English at that time. So the lyrics are a tongue in cheek look at that departure from Bangkok Airport, and coming in to Scotland 12 hours later. I often ask folk if they can guess what airline it was, and the clue is in the lyrics. "The flight to Dubai would be 7 hours long...." It was definately a major landmark in our lives. There is a Ying and Yang aspect to this song too. I wanted to show the difference between the peaceful non - stressful life of the East, which is the musical mantra of this song, and the stressful full on pressure cooker life over here in the West, which is portrayed in the song "You keep Throwing my Heart Away', which is basically the same song, with a different musical chorus and lyrics, but the same music for the verses with a different mix.

LYRICS

Lyrics for "Land of Smiles (From The East)"

I caught my plane just in time
And we took off a into the night,
Down below in the Venice of the East,
The klongs sparkled in the lights,

We crossed the river Kwai and out to Myanmar,
And out to the Andaman,
The flight to Dubai would be 7 hours long,
So you settle down as best you can

The flight was long so I wrote a song,
for the girl in the seat next to me.
She was happy to flirt and flash her thighs
As she messed around with her TV

The food was great, and I ate my steak
With a bottle of Chardonnay,
There was a break in the clouds and when I looked down,
I could see the hills of Galloway

Here we are home again,
It's been about 20 years,
Seems like nothings changed at all
No, it seems like nothing's changed...

I left home to find a better place,
And maybe I did for a while,
The sun was warm and it never rained at all,
It was great in the Land of Smiles.

I`m broken by Lukowig

Lyrics, music, vocal and illustration: Lukowig
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lukowig
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lukowig
I'm very grateful to Amanda Sanderson for overseeing the English translation of the lyrics and my English pronunciation.

LYRICS

I'm broken

Down again...
A clock in my head
Tick tock
Knock and knock
Death is behind my door.
My head is broken...
I'm broken!

Low again...
Need some help
I try to speak, to shout
No sound comes out of my mouth.
My voice is broken...
I'm broken!

Out again!
My body is inert
I'm sinking into the ground
I bury myself alive ...
My legs are broken...
I'm broken!

Crawling crawling crawling to nowhere
Crawling crawling crawling again and again
Crawling crawling crawling with my pains
Crawling crawling crawling this road never ends...

Alone again...
No beat inside me...
I try to kiss, to love...
Emptiness is around me...
My heart is broken...
I'm broken!

My being is broken...
I'm broken!

My soul is broken...
I'm broken!

Words Fail by @rhondahuete

What to say when words fail?
For Breaking Bad fans, this song was inspired after watching Walter's monologue in The Fly episode. Who remembers this powerful dissertation on the inadequacy of words when it matters the most?
From the Debut EP, "Gravity Blinks"

BANDCAMP: https://gravityblinks.bandcamp.com/track/words-fail

LYRICS

Say the right words … Just the right words
Say the right words … Just the right words

If I just said the right words
Chose them well
The truth tapped from my heart
They'd nest in your soul
And you would see ...
feel ... know ... might even believe … feel... know... might even believe?

If only the words would come, flow free
The truth pure and clear
You would see how I ache
To find the words
that you could finally hear. Would you finally hear?

They would touch that cell
Locked far away
Dungeon beneath our grief.
I'd say those words
Throw open the gates,
And bring you back to me. Would you fly back to me?

Say the right words … Just the right words

From my heart would burst
Desperate shards; pierce yours;
Shake oceans with my tears
Unmasked, my eyes would shine ...
Love too pure ... Truth too raw
for words and mortal ears. Too raw for you to hear?

A page can't contain
Words fail to convey
What a soul most needs to hear

If I found the right words,
Combined with care,
Spoken the way they feel

Could the page that cuts
then fade to dust,
dismember the memory?

From my heart would burst
Desperate shards; pierce yours;
Shake oceans with my tears
Unmasked, my eyes would shine ...
Love too pure ... Truth too raw
for words and mortal ears. Too raw for you to hear?

They would touch that cell
Locked far away
Dungeon beneath our grief.
I'd say those words
Throw open the gates,
And bring you back to me. Would you fly back to me?

If only you could see … receive … even believe
Where words fail to reach

Under Moonlight by @stevieboyes

LYRICS

Down these streets
Starlit night
And we kissed under moonlight
Hand in hand
Made our way
Through the starlit alleyway

Suddenly love runs through our fingers
And into my life you came
And My heart it's singing hallelujah
I know you feel the same

Winters night
Stars so bright
Set the flame of love alight
Cold of night
Your warm kiss
Who'd have known it could feel like this

Suddenly love runs through our fingers
And into my life you came
And My heart it's singing hallelujah
I know you feel the same

It was under moonlight
That you took my heart
Moon was shining so bright
And i loved you from the start
And under starlight
Fell with all my heart
A feeling so right
I loved you from the start

Down these streets
Starlit night
And we kissed under moonlight
Hand in hand
Made our way
Through the starlit alleyway

Suddenly love runs through our fingers
And into my life you came
And My heart it's singing hallelujah
I know you feel the same

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