17 TIME (EP)
Lyrics – 17 TIME
Look at all those tiny people
Pinheads on the ground
They just haven’t got a clue
They’re rushing all around
With papers underneath one arm
But do they read the news
Stripey suits in office blocks
And polished shiny shoes
Not going to live my life like this
A waste of precious time
I want all I can get in life
I want to take what’s mine
Time
Is measured by the tears, unspoken through the years
The stream of Time will run on
Time
In dark and silent graves, when we’ve gone all our ways
The stream of time will run on
Time
The Goddess of its force, rolls on its careless course
The stream of time will run on
There’s madness in my sanity, enough to help me live
My words and songs I write them down
They’re all I have to give
To help so many others, others just like me
To prove we all are equal to be what we want to be
But Time is of the essence, and it wont slow down its pace
The hands of time keep turning, around its own clock face
Time
Is measured by the tears, unspoken through the years
The stream of Time will run on
Time
In dark and silent graves, when we’ve gone all our ways
The stream of time will run on
Time
The Goddess of its force, rolls on its careless course
The stream of time will run on
Time, redemption of our soul
Reflections when we’re old
For each of us to find
We’ve wasted so much time
One day I know I’ll make it, rise up to the top
With heaven knocking at the door, ’till then I’ll never stop
Where has all our time gone, have we got time to go on
The stream of time will run, run on
Not going to live my life like this, a waste of precious time
I want all I can get in life, I want to take what’s mine
Time
Is measured by the tears, unspoken through the years
The stream of Time will run on
Time
In dark and silent graves, when we’ve gone all our ways
The stream of time will run on
Time
The Goddess of its force, rolls on its careless course
The stream of time will run on
Time
Is measured by the tears, unspoken through the years
The stream of Time will run on
Time
In dark and silent graves, when we’ve gone all our ways
The stream of time will run on
Time
The Goddess of its force, rolls on its careless course
The stream of time will run on and on, and on, and on
Time
The stream of time will run on and on
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
The stream of time will run on and on
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
The stream of time will run on and on
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Album Backstory:
I am what you call a Conceptual Musician and I don’t play instruments as such, a little like Malcolm McLaren. And this is a concept album made for the purpose of accompanying my autobiography, though I do intend to put a band together to reproduced it.
I am often asked how I produced my music, and no, it is not AI generated, in fact I hate the whole AI revolution. As a creative, it drives me mad when someone produces something of value and the general assumption is that it must be AI, well it’s not I’m glad to say.
In 2015 I finished writing my autobiography and five years later in 2025 it was published. Another five years later in 2025 I completed the album “Unconventional”. A self imposed personal project which cost thousands to produce, but was worth every penny.
The Lyrics: All of the lyrics for the album are 100% written by myself and I copyrighted them back in 1992. They all originated from my poetry which I used a coping mechanism and an escapism from my abusive childhood, and later tweaked then to be used as song lyrics.
The Music: As a conceptual musician I know in my head exactly the kinds of sounds I want to hear for each track and I have a good understanding of music. I paid session musicians for many aspects of many of the tracks to use as a base layer. Then with the use of DAW software I introduced some of my own created sounds, mixed, blended and remixed until I achieved the sounds that I wanted. Some of the final tweaks were produced in various other music editing tools.
The Videos: As a video editor I extensively researched stock websites and purchased professional video clips and images to suit the criteria of each story that I wanted to convey, sometimes spending days hunting for the right elements for each project.
The AI: Despite my dislike of AI I have to admit that reluctantly I did use AI for the Newsreader on the videos at the start and end of the album. And I also used AI to change my singing voice as I was not happy with production results of my own voice.
The Results: Ultimately, no matter how I created this album, it is a worthy music album in its own right. I appreciate some of the imperfections but at least I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is original and unique with an intense, relatable human story and a production of significance. Conceived, produced and mixed by myself, a time consuming project which consisted of over 2,500 files and more than 300Gb.
I thank you for your time and interest in reading my story and trust that you enjoy the album…
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