Adam Turk: Justice But Acoustic Album

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People laugh in the streets

People laugh at home, while watching T.V.

People laugh when there doing their work

People laugh when there alone

Laugh, laugh, laugh

It's good for you

Laugh, laugh, laugh

It's better than crying

Just laugh at society

And life itself

Don't worry just laugh

Cos' it's not worth crying

Laugh out loud

So you can be heard

It's better than crying

Which you would be unheard of

Be loud and wonderful

Be wild with you laughing

Be the best in the West

Cos' you'll hear so much laughing

Hear the laughter through your ears

See the laughter through your eyes

Feel the laughter round your mouth

Laugh, laugh, laugh

It's good for you

Laugh, laugh, laugh

It's better than crying

Especially in the streets

When people laugh at there best

Laugh at home

Laugh at work

Please laugh at work

It's fun and enjoying

With all smiles and laughter going on

Laugh, laugh, laugh

It's good for you

Laugh, laugh, laugh

It's better than cry, cry, crying

I laugh in the street

I laugh at home

I laugh the most at work

I laugh when I'm alone

That's when it's best for me

With all of this laughing going on

That's when it's best for me (repeat)

When will the day be

When I want to do

What I wanna be

When will that day come

When I get on stage

And sing my songs

To all of you

Around the world

When will that day come

When the man on street

Says what he wants to do

And becomes it

With no difficulty

When will the kids at school

Become what they set out to be

Instead of being frustrated

Hanging round the streets

Ending up in crime

Getting locked up

Then these kids

Can't do waht they wanna do

When will that day come

When all of us

Will be happy at what we've done

When we've become what we want to become

Then people on this planet

Will be happy

Achieving what people

Want to achieve

Becoming successful

With no need to become

Jealous of others

Because we will be in our own league

All the things we wanna be

All the things we wanna do

All the things we wanna have

The boat is rocking

In this storm

We need to find land

To be safe

In this storm

Well, it's very windy

And freezing cold

My eyes just, just want to close

My lips are shaking in the freezing breeze

My heart is beating slowly

Well, it's getting worst

We're lost in this storm

Just me and my love

We've got to find land

To be safe

From this hell

Please God I don't want to die

Tears of fear are falling from my eyes

I see my life flashing, flashing by me

Like the lightening in the sky

Please God for my sake and yours

Don't let me die

For a worthless cause

I'm drifting off in more stormy waters

The boat is rocking, rocking even more

My love and passion

Is slowly dying

I can't go on anymore

My life is being drained out

Like a wet sponge

It's been a love war

That's never gonna be won

You are the storm

I'm the boat

Rocking to my fall

Like a sinking boat

Please God I don't want to drown

It's painful and terrible

Maybe oh maybe

I do want to die

It must be better

Thank to live with this lie

Please God if you can

I want to go to heaven

Up in the sky

Beyond the universe

This sounds excitingly great

I can't wait

To die with the light on

Please my love

Don't take this way

Me the storm

I'll fade away

Then the boat

Won't rock away

I never met it

I'm very, very sorry

Please my love

Don't break away

The sun is coming up

The storm has finished

Come let's get together

Not get to war

Now, me and my love

We shall come together

Until we both die

We have found good land

The calm sea

Has stopped the boat rocking

Nice and safe

This calm place

Let's build together

A good future

Be one nice happy loving lot

It makes me sad

That some people

Have to struggle to live>

But there is a new way

You just have to get

On your feet

Look to your goal

And achieve it

No matter what gets in your way

Or barriers that may appear

You've just got to get through

Make the best of it

Eventually you will climb

To the top

As high as the sky

Be better off

Then when you started

It gives you great joy

To have achieved it

To have got through

However bad

It may have been

You made it

With a lot of hard work

With your bones grinding

That you made it

Got through

Despite the odds

Being against you

You made it

Walking, talking, looking at you

Does it really matter if I'm with you?

Walking, talking, looking at you

Why I am wasting my life on you

Walking, talking, looking at the sun

Seeing yellow in the corner of my eyes

Watering the flowers

With the tears falling from my eyes

Walking, talking, looking at myself

I haven't had a shave

Or a shower

Let alone anything else

Walking, talking, looking at you

You're torturing me

With disregarding abilities

Walking, talking, looking at you

Rocking in the chair

While you're knocking me through

Walking, talking, looking at you

All I really want is to be with you

To be with you

Walking, talking, looking at you

Cheating, stealing, is that all you know how to do

Walking, talking, looking at you

Friendship, relationships, end in fends

What happens to a man?

When he walks down the road

Well, his twinkle toes

Go in front of him

What happens to a man?

When he sees a bunch of kids

Playing football in the park

He realises the opportunities he's missed

Like the kid who becomes a great goal scorer

He smiles at becoming the great womaniser

What happens to a man?

When he carries on with his life

He becomes frustrated

At the things he never got around to do

He ages with a wisdom view

He can stutter

He can preach

If you ask him a question

He'll hit you with a toilet brush

At the way

He's flushed his life away

What happens to this man?

When he's married

His wife

Got two point four kids

An average job

An average wage

A car painted racing green

A mortgage

And a bank balance

But there's something

He has forgotten

What happens to a man?

When he regrets his life

Apart from his kids

Forgets his wife

Walks down the road

With memories in

His whole family

Lived the life of the same

But still regretted

And the hidden shame

That he never done

What he could have become

Well life has a tendency

To whisper in the winds

That it's never too late

To make your dreams

You are my friends

You are the joy

That motivates me

Makes me see the shadows

At the start of the tunnel

I will begin to walk through

When I reach the end

I see all of my friends

Friends

From the start

'Til the end

Friends you want

Friends you will have

Friends of your own choice

Friends you yell for

Have some fun with

To fall for

Or just to talk to

To fool around with sometimes

Friends

From the start

'Til the end

You see me on the mountain top

I will roll down for all of my friends

If you were on a mountain top

I would come and rescue my friends

Friends you will be with

That we can love

Rely on

In need of help

Friends you need not judge them

Friends that are trustworthy

Friends that won't commit treason

Behind your back

Friends that you respect

Don't leave anything to regret

Get lost sometime

In your own world

Friends that have that special sparkling glow

You look at me

With those puppy eyes

We don't need any mirrors

You came from me

I called for you

Sweet Child

Don't stare at me

Don't blame me for your life

I don't expect you

To forgive or forget

One day you'll get married

With a wife

Then you'll understand

What life will be like

Oh, Sweet Child, Sweet Child

Oh Sweet, Sweet Child

Your eyes can't be that interested in me

Forsake the love

That I once had for your mother

Don't quote me, “My responsibility”

Oh, Sweet, Sweet Child

Oh Sweet, Sweet Child

I was young

I was wild

I wanted marriage

But kept changing my mind

Justified

But not justice for you

Regrets

I've only got to look

Into those puppy eyes

Sweet Child

Your long hair

Towers down your shoulders

Your flowery long dress

Touches elegantly to the floor

Blowing as you walk

Thorough the long green grass

As you make daisy chains

Rose necklaces

You look straight at me

With those eyes saying, “Make love to me”

My sexy hippy girl

So lively as if you're dreaming

With that hazy glaze

On your face

Your wearing small

Circular painted glasses

Looking at the wavey

Pastel colours

As you look at me

Longer and longer

I see your flower power

Pollen powder

All over your beautiful face

Love is in the clean country air

With daisy chains

Rose necklaces

Long hair

Flowery dresses

That is the girl

I picture and gonna lover her

My sexy hippy girl

The only girl

My kinda girl

Sun shining

So hazy, dazey, glazy on you

We are two

Of a many

That the festival gathering

Enjoying the music

With love power atmosphere

While flowers are turning

Into pollen powder

Nineteen sixty-seven

The hippie's summer of love

Lots of faces

Painted in pollen paints

Flower power

Pollen powder

My sexy hippy girl

When I look at you

I'm so in love with you

When I'm walking down

The road

I think of you

That I'm so in love with you

That's how I feel towards you

Because I know it's true

Love that I'm feeling

Love that I'm thinking

Love that I'm so in love with you

Going out with you

Holding hands together

Which connects us together

With the love from each other

That we are one happy couple

For love and in pleasure

Of seeing us grow

Like the leaves on the tree

Love that I'm feeling

Love that I'm thinking

Love that I'm so in love with you

We have the same reality

We communicate well with each other

Our affinity goes up

Like the sun

And doesn't go down

When the moon shows us his face

After the release of my debut single Hippy Girl (which hasn't been released yet on digital format) I wanted to release an album.

I felt like I was splintering into different paths and so I decided to get back to basics and re-record a more pop sounding version of Laughter and What I Wanna Do.

For the rest of the eight songs I decided to just play acoustic guitar and vocals, which I did and it took me two days to sing, play and record in one take per song.

Though it is worth noting that I had done twenty-hours of rehearsals before I went into the studio, this is why I only did one take per song.

After I had finished the album and got the artwork designed, registered it through MCPS to get a copyright control to protect it against privacy and theft, it was then ready for manufacturing onto Compact Disc (CD).

The finished CD was placed in a few music shops in Soho, Central London and I placed posters in the doorways of fish and chip shops, restaurants and other establishments for publicity.

I played for two years in acoustic, folk and rock pubs and clubs getting the word out and supporting my first album release.

Behind each song

Laughter was my first proper song I had written in 1991, and is about my character of not being too serious about things and always laughing. I wrote it focussing on the different situations and places where people would laugh, which is highlighted in the lyrics.

What I Wanna Do is about a singer-songwriter wanting to make it within the music industry and singing about the frustration of the uncertain journey. Also, the view of young people bored with life and getting into trouble and scuppering their chances of making their dreams come true, whatever that may be.

Storm Of Love is about a turbelent time in a persons relationship with the man being the boat and the woman being the storm.

Your Goal is another positive song to encourage people to achieve the things they want to do by setting goals and working towards them.

Walking and Talking concerns an abusive relationship from the point of view of a man, who is having to deal with a woman or partner that is not healthy for them.

Never Too Late is about men (but can refer to women as well) who are getting into middle to the later stages of their lives and reminising on their younger days and opportunities they feel they have missed. But the song then says it is never too late to do or achieve the things you wanted to get done.

Friends is about the friendships you have and what they mean or should mean to you. Doesn't matter what happens in life true and healthy friends should always be there and have your back regardless of what has happened or happens in a persons life.

Sweet Child is about a father telling their child about the mistakes he's made and the physiological and mental behaviours and reaction to the stresses and strains between them. But the bond between fathers is hard to break, even if the relationship did not start of well in the start of life.

Hippy Girl is the stripped down version from the single release, which has a full band sound. This song is looking at the 1967 flower-power time in history when there was a counterculture movement and people were questioning governments and the systems, which governs us all. Change was very much the overriding theme during the last-sixties, which led to groups and organisations that adovcated and promoted peace, environmental causes, nuclear disarmament and many other campaigns and causes we see in todays world.

So In Love is a love song about a persons love for their partner and what it means to them and the expression of the highest emotion a person can have and give to their lover.

I used an electro Ovation Guitar with it deep bowel back gave the sound of the guitar full bodied sound.

When recording Laughter I plugged the guitar into my Zoom multi-effects box and recorded it over four tracks

With What I Wanna Do I recorded the guitar dry and later on chorus and a slight delay was added through the mixing desk

The album was recorded on an early Apple Mac computer running a full version of Cubase 2.0, using an analogue full 24 track mixing desk.

Standard studio grade mircophones to record vocals and guitar from songs 2 through to ten, were recorded simultaneously.