Bonus Mashup: The Intergalactic Wizard

Photo: Steve Burns

For my 46th song project I got distracted from the mashup idea that was distracting me from the song I was writing while I should have been writing another song.

I ended up working on a mashup of The Wizard by Black Sabbath and Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys. I've always thought the second track on The Sabs debut album was unfeasibly funky for a hard rock band. See what you think. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you

The Intergalactic Wizard - mp3

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From The Archives: I Got Lost

I Got Lost

Fell from grace, right through the cracks

Emotionally raw rock song played on a two string guitar
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I lost my way
I lost my path
Lost my bearings
Mislaid the map
Looked for a star
But the night was black
Fell from grace
Right through the cracks


I didn't gain the world
But I lost my soul
Not asking for your pity
Just your hand to hold


I got lost, I got lost
See that face in the mirror?
That isn't me
I got lost, I got lost
Somewhere out there is the person
That I forgot how to be


I gave my all
I bought the shirt
I played the role
Until it hurts
I walked the walk
I towed the line
I stood for truth
And learned to lie


Thought I could save the world
And play a starring role
That dream became so brittle
And much too sharp to hold


I got lost, I got lost...


Pull up the roots
And start again
Tear down these walls
They've been condemned
So many dreams
To feed the fire
Don't waste one tear
For what's left behind


I got lost, I got lost, I got lost

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New Song: Don't Bring Your Bongos To Church

Don't Bring Your Bongos To Church [2011] Humorous Rock n Roll Retro
Bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo...
Rockabilly Pentecostalism gone wild.
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Jesus loves you man
Jesus loves you man
Loves you just the way you am
But don't bring your bongos to church
Don't bring your bongos to church


Jesus loves to hear you sing
You can bring your offering
Just don't hit those things
Don't bring your bongos to church
Don't bring your bongos to church


Bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo...


Take a snake out of your bag
Drinkin' strychnin' ain't so bad
You can even bring a flag
But don't bring your bongos to church
Don't bring your bongos to church


The good Lord understands
When I tell you that I can
Prise 'em from your cold dead hands
So don't bring your bongos to church
Don't bring your bongos to church
Don't bring your bongos to church
Don't bring your bongos to church


Don't, don't, don't bring your bongos
Don't, don't, don't bring your bongos
Don't, don't, don't bring your bongos
Don't, don't, don't bring your bongos
Bongo, bongo, bongo, bongo...

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If You're Here This Morning (The Notices Song)

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Kid's Song: Eleven Sweets

Eleven Sweets [2011] Children's Humorous
But the fizzy cherry, was stuck to a fizzy cherry
A true tall tale from sunday school, sung by my daughter
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In the pink group in Arrows, in Church, in the Earth

If you're listening when they tell you all about God

And you wiggle or wriggle or talk to someone

You're probably going to get your balloon popped

Then you might only get three sweets

Or you might only get no sweets

But I didn't wriggle or wiggle or talk

So I got a white bag like they have in the shops

And a pink or green token to put in the silver pig

Cos the pig is the place where you go and put your tokens in

And then you can have ten sweets,

And then you can have ten sweets.

I got some cola bottles and put them in my white bag

And one lollipop, cos one is all that you can have

And more cola bottles, some fizzy cherries made nine

And I put my hand into the plastic box for one more time

Soon I would have ten sweets,

Soon I would have ten sweets.

But the fizzy cherry, was stuck to the fizzy cherry

Which was stuck to the fizzy cherry that I picked up

So I asked the leader, “what shall I do?”

She said, “you'll just have to have eleven sweets today”

And that's how I had eleven sweets

Eleven sweets instead of ten

And that's how I had eleven sweets

Eleven sweets instead of ten

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New Song: Maybe Your God's On The Toilet

Maybe Your God's On The Toilet [2011] Humour 
Some might say that sarcasm ain't the language of Zion
Interfaith conference on Mount Carmel
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We use different paths to climb the same mountain
So let's build a safe place to explore the terrain

We're all part of ancient faith communities

There may be common ground that we can embrace

No one person has all the answers

So let's try to find the things that unite

I hope that you'll be part of the conversation

I'll share my feelings first if you like

Maybe your god's on the toilet

Maybe he can't get to the phone

maybe the man with the plan, the whole world in his hands

Sits on a porcelain throne

Maybe he's making a pit stop

Loosing a couple of pounds

Either way he's not home so leave your prayer at the tone

Perhaps he'll answer you when he comes out

I hope I haven't somehow offended you

I hope I haven't said something wrong

Because you practice human sacrifice

And you outnumber me four hundred to one

You fundamentalists don't think humour

Has a place within religious debate

But I'm just trying to facilitate a paradigm shift

So lighten up you prophets of Baal

Maybe your god's on the toilet

Doing a poop or a pee

Is he still in control when he's sat on the bowl

And he's bombing the porcelain sea?

Maybe he's mixing some concrete

Maybe he's moving some earth

He's dropping some logs, seeing a man 'bout a dog

So perhaps we should just call off the search

Some might say that sarcasm ain't the language of Zion

And I should wash my potty mouth out when I'm through

But ask brother James, maybe he can explain

I'm a man, just a man, just like you

Maybe your god's on the toilet

Trying to do number two

Grow a tail, hang a rat, park a coil, send a fax

Drop the kids off at the pool

Maybe he's blasting a dookie

Punching a growler somewhere

He's taking a slam, he's pinching a yam

But it doesn't mean that he doesn't care

Maybe he's laying some wolf bait

Maybe he's laying a brick

He's going boom boom in the little boys room

He'll come out when he's launched the big ship

Maybe your god's on the toilet

But I'm starting to entertain doubts

So I guess I'll just go 'cos your god's a no-show

And if he's in there then he's not coming out.

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New Song: Brother

Brother [2011] Spiritual Rock
I am the train whose brakes have failed
The Prodigal son blues
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Raise the curtain, set the scene

Our Father, my brother and I make three

One I loved, couldn't stomach the other

Couldn't look at my Dad without seeing my brother

My brother, he didn't do a damn thing wrong 

My brother, he never did a damn thing wrong 

Took the fast train to the wrong side of the tracks

Broke my father's heart and I broke the bank

My head was hot but my heart was cold 

My brother you cast a long shadow over my soul 

My brother, he didn't do a damn thing wrong 

My brother, he never did a damn thing wrong 

My brother, he didn't do a damn thing wrong 

My brother, he never did a damn thing wrong 

It's all my fault

Hit rock bottom, rock bottom fell through

Wound up in a pig sty trying to eat pig food

Money dried up and my friends all gone

Retrace my steps to where it all went wrong

It's all my fault, it's all my fault

My brother, he didn't do a damn thing wrong 

My brother, he never did a damn thing wrong 

My brother, he didn't do a damn thing wrong 

Never did a day's wrong in his whole life

But right, right, right, right

Right is more than the absence of wrong

And love is more than the absence of hate

And that my brother, my brother didn't do a damn thing wrong

Is the best that I can say, the best that I can say

I am the train whose brakes have failed

The roller-coaster that jumped the rails

Patron saint of every prodigal son

Parental heartbreaker number one 

Busted shoes on a dusty road

Who should I meet but a well shod ghost?

I'm going back to where he's coming from

Lord have mercy, I look so young...

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New Song: Never In A Million Years

Never In A Million Years [2011] Humorous Rock
Let's do some science in a song
Unapologetic apologetics. The Foo Fighters send back the soup.
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Let's do some science in a song. Let's pick a prehistoric pond.
It's small and warm and has all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts.
Zapped with electricity, a protein forms there chemically
And once that protein's fully formed, it's ready to evolve some more.
That's the theory now let's try again with carbon dioxide
Water and some nitrogen and life will happen sometime … when?

Never, never in a million years
Never, never in ten million years
Never, never in a hundred million
Four hundred million years
Never in a million years


Let's give Oparin his due, he proposed we should make soup
And Haldane said that it just might cook with ultraviolet light
Urey said we should put in methane and some hydrogen
So Miller cooked it but since when did we have those ingredients back then?

Chorus

Don't cry Charlie Darwin, what does Louis Pasteur know?
Just tell Frankie we can pin the whole damn thing on undetectable spacemen
Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
(That ship has sailed and it ain't never coming back, there's always
Much too much speculation running after too little facts)

But let's just say you make that soup, most amino acids you can't use
Right handed ones you throw away but keep a hundred lefties (give or take)
Stick 'em together with peptide glue. You've made a protein - clever you!
You know I hate to be a bore - for a cell, we only need 200 more.
Now we just got instructions left to write, 30 volumes worth that we gotta fit inside
There are only four letters in DNA, so how much longer do you think it's gonna take?

A million years?
Or ten million years?
Maybe in a hundred million?
Four hundred million years?
Never in a million years.




Free download: Never Be Silent
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New Song: There Goes The Moon

There Goes The Moon [2010] Love Song
There are plenty of other moons in the sky
A mellow Metallica ballad of a lovelorn lunatic.
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They promised me the moon
And like the moon she was cold
She was desolate and distant
And blessed with a light not her own


They promised me the moon
And around me she spun
But her love waxed and waned and
One casual eclipse she was gone


But oh, how she drew me to her light
And oh, how she tugged at my heart like a rising tide


There's plenty of other moons in the sky
One is waiting for me, silent as light
But morning arrives too soon
There goes the moon


They promised me the moon
To love and lose was my part
But can you say you've lost somebody
If you still know where they are?


They promised me the moon
And like the moon she was cold
She was desolate and distant
And blessed with a light not her own


I know I was irrational and insane
But oh, how she toyed with the tide inside my brain


There's plenty of other moons in the sky...


There goes the moon
They call it 'the moon'
But it's only the moon of the earth
Only a moon
Not the brightest or best
But she filled up my sky 'till I just couldn't see that...


There's plenty of other moons in the sky...


Mars has two Pluto has three
There must be a moon out there just for me
But morning arrives too soon
There goes the moon


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New Song: Let's Build An Airport

Let's Build An Airport was written during FAWM 2011. In keeping with the rough and ready vibe of that songwriting challenge I wrote it from scratch and demoed in a single night. I've had quite a few positive comments about it from other songwriters so I decided to go back and do a better recording. As well as the very talented Rachel McClean on Cello you can also hear a number of planes and real life WW2 bomber crew.

The original inspiration was simply a list of bizarre children's books that I'd seen in a school library on a break from teaching. I had intended to do a surreal list song, but I never got beyond the first title “Let's Build An Airport” by Kath Mellentin and Gillian Clements. I just spilled out my frustration over a descending chromatic chord progression that has been done many times before (in 'If' by David Gates/Bread for one). But switching off my inner critic seemed to be a good thing and I'm really proud of some of the phrases and imagery – 'As deep as the clouds', 'rootless and artless and freer than birds' and catching 'that burning ball in the fist of one hand'.

Though the song is using a commercial airport as a metaphor, in my mind's eye I see Lancaster bombers taking off when I hear the song, so I was thrilled to get some sound library recordings and Rachel's cello is almost the musical representation of a Lancaster bomber – heavy, yet elegant and quintessentially English.

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Let's build an airport and let's fly away
If we put our minds to it we could finish today
These people round here are as deep as the clouds
And they don't understand anything that isn't glued to the ground

But we're rootless and artless and freer than birds
Let's not march to the abattoir just like the rest of the herd.
Forget Stansted, forget JFK.
There's a whole world of difference Between a runway
And running away.
We're not running away...

Doesn't the sunset attract you? Don't the horizon look grand?
Couldn't you just catch that burning ball in the fist of one hand?
I'll clear you for take off and you can clear me 
Then we'll cross every ocean and be back for our tea
Let's build an airport and let's fly away
If we put our minds to it we could finish today
These people round here are as deep as the clouds
And they don't understand anything that isn't glued to the ground

 © Matt Blick 2011

Samples credits

Lancaster Bomber Crew Raid over Stettin, Germany (April 20, 1943)
Lancaster Bomber Crew Raid over Berlin - Sep 3 1943
by stelzriede.com. Both of these can be found on the Marshall Stelzriede War Story website
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Bomber pass by 1 and 2 by The Recordist Free Sound FX
Lancaster Bomber by confusion_music from Freesound.org
Spitfire Mk 19 (Griffon engine) by Genghis Attenborough from Freesound.org


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Day 252: New Song - Still Standing (Trees)

Walking in the woods I spoke aloud

my deepest hopes and dreams

The marks I'd make on history

The great things I'd achieve 

When from above 

I heard the leaves

Their laughter borne 

Upon the breeze

The mocking trees fell quiet, the wise old oak

He spoke up for them all

“We have stood our ground 

Since Bonaparte coveted our soil

And we'll be here 

When wind and rain

Erase the name 

Upon your grave”

I'm really trying to work on melody this year and singing in my 'own' voice (not that wretched generic american one that I and everyone outside of the Arctic Monkeys and The Proclaimers adopt). So on that score I'm quite happy with Still Standing (Trees). There's a little Marx Bros influence in the lyrics of the second verse (listen to the track before you read the lyrics and see if you can guess where the song is going) and a bit of Beatles in the chord progressions (especially the minor 4).

It's just a crazy story that came into my head one day. I live in a beautiful area surrounded by trees but lately a lot of them are losing all their bark for some reason. Despite what the song might lead you to believe this make me quite sad.

I approached the writing a little differently just to break me out of my habits. I wrote the lyrics to existing tunes Fly Me To The Moon for the verse and Autumn Leaves for the chorus, then wrote new music. The odd line lengths and different rhyme schemes made my go beyond my usual patterns. I like the way the song kind of goes 4/4 then 2/4 at the end of the chorus.

I'm up to 40 songs written now this year. It's easy to get a bit down and feel I'm doing this for nothing, but I think I am getting better as a writer. Time will tell.

Leave me a comment if you like it.


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New Song: Never Be Silent

You didn't save me 
 You didn't save me so that I could keep my mouth shut

12 voices, piano, cello and cymbala with just a smidgeon of programmed percussion. Influenced by Bulgarian choir music, Never Be Silent is probably my most experimental and searingly honest spiritual song yet. Let me know your thoughts.

A big thanks to Rachel McClean for playing Cello.

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You didn't save me,

You didn't save me so that I could keep my mouth shut.

You didn't rescue me,

You didn't rescue me so I could play dumb.

While every brick in this building longs to shout out

Oh Jesus loosen my ungrateful tongue

So that my heart may sing

So that my heart may sing to you

So that my heart may sing to you

And never be silent

Never be silent

Never be silent

You didn't heal me,

You didn't heal me so that I could take more poison.

You didn't ransom me,

You didn't ransom me to leave me a slave.

While all around me the songs of those you brought home

They break the silence like you broke their chains

God can a dead heart sing?

God can a dead heart sing to you?

Father you cut me,

Father you cut into the branch to make it fruitful

Father you punish me,

Father you punish me to make me grow true

Help me believe that the knife

Precedes the harvest

God make my dead heart sing...

God can a dead heart sing?...

© Matt Blick 2011

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New Song: Faithful And True

Help us remember, you never forget
The promises made to your children

Here's a new song folks, fresh out the box! Faithful And True is celebration of God's faithfulness with a big chorus and a bluesy feel. It might work gospel style too. (Or polka, thrash metal or alt country. Download the chord sheet and give it a try!)

The chorus has been hanging around since 1997 and has survived a key change and several time signature changes, but the verses are a result of recent digging through the Bible (mostly Isaiah & Psalms) to see what it says about God's trustworthiness and care, and some helpful feedback from you the readers (give yourselves a pat on the back).

If you like the song, share it on Facebook or Twitter using the buttons or just generally pass the mp3 around. And please please PLEASE leave me a comment. You encouragement is so valuable to me!

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When we were children you taught us to stand
You carried us when we grew tired
And even in old age, you carry us still
Like a lamb in the arms of her shepherd


In each day of trouble, you keep us safe
Sheltering us with your presence
Why should we fear that the earth will give way?
You've promised to always be with us


Your love endures,
Your love endures,
Forever and ever and ever


Lord you are faithful and true
Your name is Faithful and True
Faithful in all that you do
You never leave, you never forsake us
Righteous in all of your ways
Loving to all you have made
Forever you will remain
Faithful, faithful and true


Lord keep us blameless and strong 'till the end
We are weak and the devil is ruthless
Our confidence rests in your resolute will
To complete what you started within us


Your love endures...


Help us remember, you never forget
The promises made to your children
Our names are engraved on the palms of your hands
Jesus, You will not leave us as orphans


Your love endures...

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New (Easter) Song: TU4TX

TU4TX (Thank You For The Cross) was recorded during an Easter Service at Grace Church in 2008 but never released because it needed some serious remixing. But now here it is. Seriously remixed (well refixed is more like it).

The song was written in 1996. I rewrote the chorus melody and the verse lyrics in 2005 and rewrote the verse again in 2008. I really painted myself into a corner with the rhyme scheme and structure but a few people said it really moved them and that encouraged me to finish it.

The initial motivation was wanting to try to balance out the many sanitised portrayals of the crucifixion in movies and paintings. The cross was a bloody, sickening, humiliating spectacle... Mel Gibson had the same burden a few years later.

The song also predates the substitutionary atonement 'debate' that kicked off around the same time, so the emphasis on Christ dying FOR me wasn't prompted by a need to state which theological team I was rooting for, but I'm glad to let that be known all the same.

The unusual title came out of the fact that my church already sang one song with 'Thank You For The Cross' as the title (Brenton Brown's excellent song from Vineyard UK's Holy album) and another with it as the first line (Darlene Zschech's Worthy Is The Lamb, with it's unusual “darlene darling of heaven” line). Though I felt my song covered some fresh ground the title didn't. It was a happy accident that in writing songs I usually refer to them as acronyms. 'Thank You For The Cross, Lord Jesus' became TYFTCLJ became TYFTC became TU4TX.

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New Song: The Facial Hair/Creativity Ratio Theorem

My latest song is a very silly and tongue in cheek (tongue in beard? No that sounds gross) exploration of the link between creativity and varying amounts of facial hair.

I'm still learning on the iMovie and still without proper recording gear but if you want some free downloads - you got 'em!

Chord sheet The Facial Hair/Creativity Ratio Theorem CHORD sheet 
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New Song: Fat Flish

Here's my first real post FAWM song and my first attempt at iMovieing.

I often misread books at storytime for comic effect. "Reading it funny" is a big hit my two youngest kids Harpo & Zeppo. Fat Flish was an improvised song based on some book or other composed while sitting on the sofa with my two youngest fans . I later wrote up a couple more verses and here it is.

As I'm 'between recording gear' again there's no demo yet but you can have the chord sheet if you want.

Fat Flish CHORD sheet pdf

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The Notices Song "If You're Here This Morning"

Are you a fan of the notices (announcements) in your church? Every Church develops it's own catchphrases, buzz words & jargon and my Church is no different. So for my first FAWM song I gathered some of the Grace Church gems and fashioned them into a good old fashioned country-gospel-blues number.

And if you like it - please let the basket just pass you by...

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If You're Here This Morning

If you're here this morning
Please let the basket just pass you by
If you're here this morning
Please let the basket just pass you by
It's just for the folks committed to
The work of the Church, so unless that's you
And you're here this morning
Please let the basket just pass you by.


If you're here this morning
And you don't have a Bible to hand
If you're here this morning
And you don't have a Bible to hand
Don't you worry, don't you fear
The words should appear on the screen right here
So if you're here this morning
Don’t cha worry where your Bible's at


Perhaps you're here this morning
And you're wondering who Jesus is
If you're here this morning
And you're wondering who Jesus is
If the road seems dark it will soon come clear
I got an invite to an Alpha Course for you right here
If you're here this morning
And you're wondering who Jesus is


Maybe you're here this morning
And you've been coming for a couple a weeks
If you just come Sunday morning
There's a limit to how involved you can be
So come along to one of our midweek groups
They meet all across the city so there's one near you
If you're here this morning
And you've been coming for a couple a weeks


If you're here this morning
And you'd like to find out some more
If you're here this morning
And you'd like to find out some more
Head on over to the information point
Or visit Grace Church Nottingham dot org
If you're here this morning
And you'd like to find out some more
I hope you got a welcome pack at the door
If you are here this mor - - - ning.

© 2011 Matt Blick (www.mattblick.com)

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New Song: (Everything Is) Broken

If God were only strong not kind
Or God were only kind but weak

(Everything Is) Broken is a head-on collision with the problem of suffering in the form of an odd-time signature heavy metal folk song. Imagine if C.S. Lewis grew up listening to Iron Maiden. Imagine if Billy Bragg was being discipled by Derek Webb.

I start to understand as he breaks the bread
Red wine burning deep into my chest
You said, “This is my body”...

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'Behind the song' post coming soon.

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New Song: The Soundcheck Song

How many singers does it take to change a lightbulb?

One.
Two.
One two.
One two check.
Mic check one two…

That's right pretty much the whole of my new song is based on that joke (with a little reinforcing of musical stereotypes to fill it out).

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The bridge cycles through the circle of fifths and indeed does go to the tonic (A) from the fifth (E). I know that’s the kind of self-referential painting the 4th wall you post modern ironic hipsters dig but it’s not that clever - Leonard Cohen did it first in Hallelujah.

I couldn’t fit the lyrics into the 2nd verse so I just added an extra beat. Yes I am crazy-dangerous.

This recording has something in common with every Star Wars, Indiana Jones & Lord Of The Rings film. Do you know what it is?

It’s one of the few love songs I’ve written. I don’t really do love songs. If you’ve listened to the song I’m sure you’ve figured that out already.

My childhood friend and band mate Mark Nelson used to count in “one two nine cheese sandwich” and even more off putting things.

Thanks to fellow teacher Colin Rosenwould for playing the role of ‘disgruntled keyboard player’ at short notice.

Yes that is Eruption that I’m playing (badly) at the end. What else are soundchecks for?

Here’s the lyrics

The Soundcheck Song

Every drummer needs a soundcheck
Every singer needs one too (1, 2, mic check, 1, 2)
Every drummer needs a soundcheck
Every singer needs one too (1 2 mic check 1 2)
Every drummer, every singer needs a soundcheck
But they don’t need one as bad as I need you.

Every bassist needs a soundcheck
Keyboard players need one too
Every bassist needs a soundcheck
Keyboard players need one too
Every bassist and keyboard player needs a soundcheck
But they don’t need one as bad as I need you.

I need you, bad as this 12 bar blues needs a bridge
I need you as bad as I need to get back to the tonic from the fifth.

Every guitarist needs a soundcheck…(if only to massage their own egos…)
Every guitarist, every bassist, every keyboard player,
Every drummer, every singer needs a soundcheck…
But they don’t need one as bad as I need you.

© Matt Blick 2010

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New Song: You Spoke The Stars (Mercy)

As promised here's my new 'Sovereign Grace flavoured' worship song. I was aiming for a Psalm 8/Psalm 19 type of song, but one that doesn't stop at how cool creation is, but gets to redemption through the cross.

You spoke the stars,
You spoke the seas,
You spoke the earth
And every creature that would be
You held the dust
Within your hands
And breathed your life into
The lifeless form of man

read the rest of the lyrics here

Click on the links to download the acoustic demo mp3, chord sheet or lyric sheet. A behind the song post will be coming soon, and hang on to your hats, 'cos it's a story that crosses continents and denominational divides!!!

(BTW With the lyric sheet I'm experimenting with a new format. Figuring that no one in this day and age is photocopying them onto acetates anymore I've laid the words out in clearly labelled sections ready to cut and paste into software programs like SongPro).

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Get downloads
acoustic demo mp3
chord sheet
lyric sheet

And don't forget there's lots more where that came from... more free songs by Matt Blick!

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New Song: The Morning After The Day You Saved The World

It's finally here! The mp3 of my latest song in all it's multitracked shineyosity.

Still to come a free chord sheet and a behind the song post, and possibly even a music theory lesson! - but for now here's the short answer...

The song is about Oskar Schindler, Bob Geldof, Frodo Baggins and anyone else who realise they have probably done the most heroic, amazing act they will ever do, and wonders how they can go back to an ordinary life.

It contains references to the Pixar film The Incredibles & Bob Geldof's autobiography.

There are more key changes than I can count (including several in the very short guitar solo) and almost every single line in the song is a question.

Hope you like it...

Download the FREE mp3 or chord sheet here.
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Other free songs by Matt Blick