3 original songs - My Performance on the Last Night of Austin's Ale House Songwriters Contest! - video Dailymotion

Frederick Chipkins Musical Diary

10 weeks, 3 original songs for each performance. Each night was judged independently & then the scores were added up at the end. The best part about it was the other performers who were there. I've really grown fond of them & was a bit taken aback & amazed by my friends & family who kept showing up to support me. We moved to Kew Gardens like 30 years ago because I was trying to find a small town/village vibe in Queens NY & in this group of people I really feel as though I finally found my little village. This is me performing 'She's Never on Time,' written for my wife Rimma; 'How She Danced (Danza Danza),' which is part folk song and part Italian cantata, inspired by a ballet dancer contemplating the end of her career; and 'Ribbons of Steel and Fire,' which is about manipulative leaders and the masses who blindly follow them. © Frederick Chipkin   https://youtu.be/iK8Sl7KP6Mw

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00:00This is cool, she's never on time, it's a song I wrote for Rima, because she's never on time.

00:10It's a litany of complaints.

00:12I've got her for hours, which means I really love her.

00:30She's never on time, time keeps slowing and going, but the train wheels keep turning and they will be slowing down for her.

00:48My anticipation keeps growing and growing, but such a project you comes to view within.

00:55You are what a beautiful view, and I know that it's all that I want to see.

01:03Just thinking of you, and I'm knowing how my life should always be.

01:09She tells me, she tells of empires and poets and innocence lost, and I know that it's all that I want to hear.

01:19What a beautiful mind that she leaves me in places that I hope to be.

01:25How she opens her door and she shows me the things that I hope to see.

01:31The evening's old hush keeps on whispering softly as she bends the night air and time knows that it's slowing down.

01:49But her, her hand is so short as she's laying down, painting pictures of time as if time was frozen far away.

01:59As she journeys the dead soul and he lays down her head like it's calling.

02:05As the wife surrounds her, the match of her thoughts quickly falls away.

02:11She's never on time, time keeps slowing and going, but the train wheels keep turning and they will be slowing down.

02:28For her, my anticipation keeps growing and growing.

02:34Your foot steps approaching you come to view when there, you are.

02:40The dream.

02:45The dream, the big rise, the big rise, the big rise.

02:53The big rise, the big rise.

02:54The thing they're inside, that you try how you try.

02:59Dancing all night, leaving stories apart.

03:03Enchanting her dreams, while lifting her arms

03:08She sits in her cafe, all along, all alone

03:13She lives in time with pain, but the show must go on

03:19Remembering the days, not so awful

03:24She danced in on air, above the halls

03:29She danced in his surroundings

03:37She danced in on air, above the hall

03:42She danced in on air, above the hall

03:49She expressed in the air

03:52There are a swole till young

03:54Slum don't tell mom, tell tell mom

04:01Sensei abado rumore

04:03Delabas care of souls

04:04A cake pal amore

04:06Amalabwe do swole

04:08Amalabwe do swole

04:22O'er his nights she was dancing on stage

04:26Leaving humair, now she bust her pitch

04:31Remembering the days, not so long ago

04:36You danced hip on air, above the fall of snow

04:41How you dance

04:44Dumbzama dance of panchula

04:50Amil non-ca

04:52Dumbzama dance of thong

04:54Nageensi lel

04:56Amil in tar

04:58Gehrila gehras

05:02Natekile amos

05:03Waldeyang

05:05of curiosity.

05:08Oh, so.

05:12All of our last words, so I've

05:14got to ask John if I want more

05:16in relation with my son.

05:21Oh, so.

05:21I love .

06:27I don't know, I don't know where this is going, but your broken path has simply led you

06:37straight.

06:38It seems like you are giving, when you're giving broken dreams away.

07:29I'll see the rhythms, steel, fire.

07:35I don't know what your conjuring brain was thinking, but your smoking mirrors had led up

07:47to your side.

07:50Let's see your eyes, and bleed.

07:53past the darkness you can't hide

07:59ribbons of steel and fire

08:05circles of your dark desire

08:13I'm seeing through the haze

08:17of my gone bad days

08:21ribbons of steel and fire

08:27the road to hell is littered with desire

08:33things are clearing now

08:37I don't know what my eyes are seeing

08:41ribbons of steel and fire

08:49I don't know

08:51I don't know what you're saying

08:53I don't know

08:57I don't know where you've been

08:59but the games of human life

09:07have led to a life of sin

09:11so

09:21so

3 original songs - My Performance on the Last Night of Austin's Ale House Songwriters Contest!

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