Category: Songs

The Song & The Singer

At the end of 2025 I finally finished a song (lyrics, barebones melody) that I had begun over a year earlier, a song whose rhythmic rudiments immediately made me think of the harmonies a specific male-female duo whom I tried to keep very firmly in mind as I wrote, and to whom I sent the ‘finished’ (on paper) ‘song’: a very busy musician-friend/writer-colleague and his partner, whom I won’t name here unless and until the song‘s ever well & truly completed…

I place the skeleton of it here just because since it was so long in coming to me, I wanted to document it and give it a kind of shadow home along with a few of my other in vitro songs, the more serious ones anyhow, like these over here and that one over there, as well as for those who like to read such things sans melody, as pseudo- or quasi-pomes, apart from or along with all their ‘aspiring- (quavering-, havering-) to-music’-ness….

Cheers!


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Reward (to the Tune of “Reward”)

“Literary experts find [Australian novelist] John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing”

—The Guardian


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FinTechBro Karaoke (to the Tune of “Edelweiss”)


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Monty Python’s (Bruces’) Philosophers Song…Continued


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A Song From The Sea

I co-wrote a song with Morroccan Singer/Composer Oualid Ekami, who performs it here. It was originally inspired by an idea/feeling that The Waterboys’ song “This Is This Sea” has haunted me with for many years, and though I was initially trying for a Leonard Cohen/Nick Cave vibe lyrically, here Oualid performs this song with a lush, romantic arrangement and vocal that seems quite appropriate in retrospect.

 

And click on the following link to get a pdf of the lyrics:

Song From The Sea -WD Clarke Oualid Ekami 2016

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3 Songs For Fred J. Eaglesmith

Fred J. Eaglesmith. If you don’t already know him, you should.
He is one of Canada’s very finest songwriters, with the best of his lyrics subtly evoking a muted nostalgia for a hardscrabble past–for everything that’s been lost to us, or that we’ve chosen to ignore–and a gruff fathoming of what is often locked up tight in any human heart. Here is a recent video, “Johnny Cash”:

I have written him three songs–maybe one day I’ll even send them.
Click on the thumbnails below for larger versions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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