KingEz music and the Songwriter Podcast

Today we answer a listeners question about making a comeback in your mid life and continue the conversation in songwriters tips on why a songwriter writes and the battle of finding the right listenership for your songs. This weeks song of the week #9 is “Houston: we have a problem.” I bought a protools 002 last summer and am just now having a chance to play with all the delicious goodness. the lyrics for “Houston” and a mp3 are here.

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Here is me and Bjorn’s first cut back from the studio: manhattan. We’ve been hard at work on a Jazz album.. and hope to have it out this year sometime.. until then .. enjoy, and let us know what you think of the progress.

Manhattan (hell of a girl) Lyrics:
She don’t do rain
she don’t shine
She don’t do anything on her own dime
She’s not beside me
She doesn’t like me
Oh I went to hide
it took three days to find me

But she’s a girl
ready to go
i took her swingin and she found a new joe
you say I’m crazy just a swine and a pearl
let me tell something
she’s a hell of a girl

she says that money
binds of tight
she thinks a bargen is when we start to fight
she sold our wedding to her brother
then she took our honeymoon with someboy other

but she’s a girl
ready to run
I took her hunting cause she wanted a gun
Oh it hurt like crazy
but I’ll give her my world
Cause let me tell you something
she’s a hell of a girl

she’s a girl
ready to run
I drop my pants and she already done.
And she so lazy that her hair wouldn’t crurl
But let me tell you something
she’s a hell of a girl

she don’t do rain she don’t do shine
she don’t do anything about all the time
she smells like whiskey
when she kiss me
oh but that the only time she gets humble and frisky

she’s a girl
ready to run
you think i suffer
but oddly it’s fun
i wouldn’t trade her for the love of the world
so let me tell you something
she’s a hell of a girl

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Light her eyes () Lyrics:
by kingez

take down her picture frame alone
put up some painting of a poet
pack all the lies and ties away
the story ends the same
a different name

my momma said not to let you go
my father said that you never know
love is a stranger to us
but feelings are a story often told and sold

so take off that ring so no one knws
that promise cheaper than the gold
that lovers take so they can brake
the loneyness so cold

don’t light her eyes again
don’t let her find the place you hide
telling her lies again
don’t let her love she’ll come inside
and im tired of us always leaving
and hopeing the lies are worth beliving

put up that storys that you wrote
take off the faith that makes poet
pack up the memory and chains
the story ends the same
their all the same

my momma said not to let you go
my father said that love is slow
but it’s dangerous in the
feelings that are waves that come and go and togh

don’t light her eyes again
don’t let her find the place you hide
telling her lies again
don’t let her love she’ll come inside
and im tired of us always leaving
and hopeing the lies are worth beliving

so take off that ring its made of gold
like promise it’s bought and sold
pack up the glory and the shame
the picture and the frame and sign her name

don’t light her eyes again
don’t make her feel so alive
telling her lies again
don’t let her love she’ll come inside
and im tired of her always leaving
me with the lies that I’m still beliving

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This week we answer some listners questions and talk more about echoing and mirroring and the song of the week: light her eyes. Special thanks to Simon Lau with the colab “end of the year” we use the Pascal mix, check out the great collaborators that made this tune happen bellow.

Show notes:
End of the year (Pascal’s mix) simon lau/KingEz – Collaborators -
Januarius G – Keyboard
Kingez – Vocal & Lyrics
Robert Havard – Guitar
Pascal Loubien – Strings, Pads, Flute & Vibraphone
Simon Lau – Bass & Loops

Also check out the really cool mix by Raymond DeMeriden

Help the king out with his next CD by pre ordering or buying shares:

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First Announcement.. the contest deadline will be June 1st.

Secondly – we are in the beginning stages of the contest and I have had a few requests for the Effected (mastered) separate tracks from Milo on the final mix… the tracks up now are mostly RAW tracks. So I will be getting those from MILO and posting them probably end of week or early next. In most systems you can do a Replace source, so if you want these tracks, hopefully it’s easy enough to replace.

This is an organic contest where we want to help you in any way we can because.. of course, we all want the best you can do!

Once again the files are here on Kompoz.com and Contest details here.

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Big week! First I play the song of the week from podcast #6.. because i was sick. It’s called Cosette (lyrics) and written by me and Stéphane Amaté also my co-writter on holiday (valentune) We also use this song as an example so you can follow along here. Here are the two “songs” of the week and their lyrics. The Day written with J.P. Adams and my God, the silent mind written with Jason h. .. (need to find his last name ).

If you want that Mix & Master deal for $200 with milo studios read the details here.
Or go straight to the source www.miloevents.com ..JUST!! remember to say “KingEz” sent you to get the special.

Show Links:
Web Clip: Tunecore
It’s a Mystery ( Beautiful thing version) written by SammyJaye and KingEz.

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Well.. I wrote two songs this week, and they are kind of a part one and part two so posted them both on songwriters podcast #7. The links to listen to these are above the lyrics.

My, God the silent mind
written by Jason .H & KingEz

how can i run to you
when i cant see your face
or know what you do

and how can i follow
food i can’t swallow
or taste that your the truth

or feel your warmth like the sun
is my God deaf and dumb

how can I praise you
how can I love you
when pain is all i find
Why won’t you answer
ghost and the dancer
my God the silent mind

why don’t you call me
why won’t you write me
if you want to talk i’m near
where would i go?
so write on my soul
GOD WAS HERE

your weight is on my mind
my God the silent kind

The Day
Written by J.P. Adams and KingEz

I won’t wait
to see your throne
your too late
i died alone
in a thousand days
in a quiet soul
so I won’t wait
i’m coming home

this is a fathers love you say
to suffer me the day
until we’re sewn
into the grave
we die alone
suffer me the pain
that i too have known
sinners and slaves
i’ve made my own
and call them home

elijah’s grave
in the babtist’s bones
he could not save
but pointed on
to the washer of eyes
and the blindess of the soul
“life”, he came
to die alone

this is a father’s love: a grave
so suffer me the day
until your sewn
you pass away
and love is grown
suffer me the pain
i too have known
sinners and slaves
i make my own
to take you home

this is a father’s love: to pay
suffer me the day

suffer me the day
your not alone
i pass away
and love is grown
so suffer me the pain
I too have known
your not a slave
your not alone
suffer me the day

i’ll take you home

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Here is the song of the week #6 but played on Podcast #7 music written by my good friend Stéphane Amaté for my little girl Cosette… and so, of course I had to write to it.
cosette ROUGH MIX.

Cosette Lyrics

first you learn to crawl
and then you learn to fall
the rest is just a balance
of the hummpty’s on the wall
hope can light even the dark
ambition is a shark
the wise are wrong
weak are strong
passing through
the demons of the heart

and when you feel alone
don’t sit on saddness like a throne
this fallen world was
never meant for little girls
cause beauties song
is not for long
it’s shadow is asleep
outside the door

and though your never sure
don’t think that magic is the cure
it’s just a star
pointing dimmly in the dark
to the God above
he’s made of love
and quiet as the breaking of your heart

first you learn to talk
and then you learn to cry
the rest is just a recipie
a dash of truth and lies
love truley mistifying
always born and always dying
never win?
try again
love is worth the pain you feel inside

and when you feel alone
don’t let the broken be your home
this fallen world was never meant for little girls
so stand up strong
cause i’ll be gone
but never farther than
you can endure

and though it taste so pure
don’t think that romance is the cure
he’s just a star
pointing dimmly in the dark
to god of love he’s far above
but closer than the breaking of your heart

first you learn to love
then you learn to hate
then you learn to love again
and hope it’s not too late
bliss few and far between
but greater than you ever dreamed
in lovers arms
you feel no harm
has ever been or ever still to be

but still you’ll feel alone
don’t wear it like a precious stone
this fallen world was never meant for little girls
while nights are long
the painful song
is adding to a perfect string of pealrs

and though your never sure
don’t think that pleasure is the cure
it’s just a star pointing dimmly in the dark
to the the God above
he’s made of love
and shouting like the breaking of you heart

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