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Greg Atkinson music
by Greg Atkinson
Play-listed on BBC6 Music (“Carjacked Onesie” & “Brave Jamel”) & BBC Tees (>15 songs).Most of my tracks are free to download. Please leave me any comment or criticism you want - these mean a lot to me as its the only way for me to improve.Thanks for taking the time to listen and I wish you all the very best in your own music creation and listening. Please get in touch if you would like any track as a wav or mp3 backing track (without vocals etc).
Episodes
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Homesick (by Keira Atkinson and friends)
This is a song by my daughter, Keira Atkinson. She made this during her attendance at a music club with the assistance of Grassroots Music with a special thanks to Georgia (the singer on the track), Si Smith and Kaitlyn Kempen.
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The Tinsel Terrier (Free Download)
The Tinsel Terrier (Free Download) by Greg Atkinson
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The Party
The Party I really liked the ideas in this poem by Becky Hemsley which this song is based upon: https://www.reddit.com/r/dementia/comments/13tfncp/afterparty_a_poem_about_grief_and_love_by_becky/ When grief crashed my party He had all his old friends in tow Frustration and anger followed And sat...
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Asma
Please check out this wonderful poem by Clive James, who inspired the writing of this song: https://archive.clivejames.com/poetry/asma.htm Also, the brilliant suitcase diorama shown in the song image is by Mohamad Hafez in collaboration with Ahmed Badr. https://www.unpackedrefugee.com/ For the...
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Look at what You could have Won
Look at what You could have Won by Greg Atkinson
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The Long Shadow
My Mother died in March 2024, a few weeks short of her 94th birthday. She was a wonderful caring and sometimes very funny person. In April, her ashes were scattered in the gardens of the local crematorium and I was struck by the way they resembled a shadow on the grass, albeit white - in a...
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Break the Chairs
A song I've revisited recently and changed the title to better reflect what I'm going on about :)
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Making Waves
One of my songs I seem to like more than others.
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Doireann
Guitar tuning is: C F C g c d. Caught in a storm The lucid beginnings are long gone No escape from the storm The lucid beginnings Destroyed by a torrent That’s pushing her under the sea She clings to the sides With her nails digging in As the storm rages on She just turns within herself Here…
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BAD MATH
Guitar Tuning: D A D F# B C# with Capo on 1st fret Oh No Another miscalculation White knuckles all the way I should have stayed in lane And recognised my weaknesses Are here to stay This town A parallel note of caution That was sorely needed To change the narrative But now there’s far too many...
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The Gifted House
The Gifted House by Greg Atkinson
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Our Shore
Our love was born upon the shore Beneath the dome of sequins Our hands compressed into the sand We slow-danced through the shallows And the stones that skimmed Were the ones we threw together We claim this shore for us alone A landscape crafted for our love As the sun sets on us As the sun sets…
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Wind-up Toy
It’s no good pretending Denying He almost crushed your soul With the weight of his wise wise words Just go on believing You’re happy He didn’t cling to you Like the smoke on his old clothes Like a wind-up toy Dead in bed and sick with the grief All joy stolen by a ruthless thief Just half a…
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Heavy Metal Ambitions
My Midas touch is turning your bones to golden rust Poured my heart and soul Till it overflowed And drowned you out We walk immersed in an ocean of chemicals we curse At the wretched moon Pulling on our legs Till we get home We never wanted to let you down We never wanted to rule your world We…
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The Grip
In the eye of the storm You retreat black and blue As the spark dissipated He’s still burning you But “I’m happy” you say Fill your world with excuses And pull down your sleeves To hide scars from view Then button your blouse To cover a bruise He is the poison that runs through your varicose…
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Sakura Bleeds
In shadows cast by his conscience He hides The dual embrace of regrets And lies A symphony of contrition Repeats His senses grind to a halt As he leaps Is he 4 Real? Yes he can view the world with wide open eyes Is he 4 Real? Yes he can be the child whose too raw to lie All the beauty of devoted...
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Library Man
Here is a new version of a track I wrote last year. Tuning is C G C G C D with Capo high up on 6th Fret. Song is in the key of F# alternating between major (verse & bridge) and minor (chorus). Lyrics: There’s a man I know Who likes to hide behind To tear the pages of the books he finds He is a…
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Huw's Easy Listen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65308769 Master of disguise I reach out in this easy listening style Cos I don’t surmise You’ll embrace Nails by Benefits Want to talk about the double standards So I need to know Oh do we really have a common foe? Hindering our growth Or is it just the usual...
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5v4
My daughter plays a bit of Cello on this one. She’s a member of the Teesside Open Orchestra for children with SEND. We worry when the roots will grow back in the aisles Then terrorise the soul who’s trained to answer back with blatant lies My war - rages in between the hours of 5 and 4 Your war -...
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Rag and Bone
A song about the difficulties of originality in song-writing. I like the story of Paul McCartney dreaming the melody to ‘Yesterday’ and him not believing it was original :) Innocent channeling Or guilty of Plagiarism Through my prism of waves All I’ll ever know Is your discarded rag and bone That…
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Cheesy Chicken Kristallnacht
OMG KFC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63499057 Quietly contented in my lair where I can hide to pounce on TV screens TV screens The world is somewhere out there but I take a certain solace that you’re Here with me Here with me Then they come Into our world They overwhelm Tell us how to...
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One Star Removed
You know nostalgia isn’t what it used to be But then neither am I Neither am I I used to think about it in my hidden room I was out of your sight Out of my mind That ship has sailed away On the sea of regret and the ocean of hate Was there a better way Perhaps we could have preyed For all the...
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67 Gone Under
The suits might have changed but the nightmare remains as I wake up Reflection betrays the few hopes I retained Am I still alive? I’m weighing up the costs between Filling My belly and warming my bones What do you think? Who do you see? Someone who you think you never will be Grey skin wrinkled…
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Don't Call Desiree
Born the day before the World Cup Final 66 You thought you were destined for great things You thought The rare “I like you” Seeping out while in the bedroom Illustrates my real conundrum Why I’m still around you I’m half alive then Half unsure that I’m dying Cos there’s nothing I rely on When I’m...
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C'est Bon
Sick of Putin and various other arseholes in the world, so decided to try and channel some feel-good songs I like. “Stuart”, “Guy” and “Simon” being the respective singers in Big Country (In a big Country), Elbow (One day like this) and Boo Radleys (Wake up Boo). Lyrics: Stuart reminds us that...
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The Incline
In these dark days, I'm privileged enough to be able to escape to places like Ingleby Incline, which many people from Teesside know well. It an interesting place which was once an industrial focus for Iron ore mining, but all that is now gone, leaving rural ghosts from the past. A brief history…
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Grounded
Once was standing Now he’s done Staring at the far horizon Once was gleaming Now he’s rust Time has scarred him to a thin crust Soon to dust You’re not important You are just like everybody You’re petrified just like the rest of us You are a man With rusted eyes that keep on searching As waves…
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Guacamole (They Don’t Know What’s In It)
Don’t go swimming in the lake this Summer They don’t know how pure the water is that wets your lips Don’t be first to skate on ice this Winter They don’t know how fragile is the skin you’re cutting in The greatest danger Is never to risk anything at all Share your dreams with others and you’ll…
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All Behind Me
Sometimes the bad things you lose outweigh the good things you lose, and vice versa. We all wrestle with this over time. We were born to move the world To challenge the old We did conspire to crush all of the liars We’d never be told Oh no But it’s all behind us now I've made peace with my past...
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St. Patrick's
I enjoyed the series "Midnight Mass" on Netflix and was really impressed by the long monologues the actors performed, especially the Priest's sermons, which were scary and uplifting at the same time! The greatest story ever told Is rolling off the tongue of beelzibub The man who stands before you...
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Go Getter Man (Fake Phone Call)
See her taking all the busy routes Or try to find a way that’s new Ready to pretend she takes a phone call Hear a whistle from a passing wolf Will the braking lights be coming on? Scanning her surroundings for a camera If she’s smiles at the things That you’re shouting out It doesn’t mean That...
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Who You Love
Just a rough and ready cover of a song I've always liked. I'm also singing what should be the female-sang section of he song, but I guess that fits the narrative. I could have done with a nice semi-acoustic rather than my old Yamaha Pacifica for the guitar parts. Maybe this song will encourage…
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Re:Train
Flexibility Dancing to the Tune Of someone like you Creativity Take up something new Says someone like you You mess around with me And you mess around with all of us You mess around with me And you mess around with us Message is adapt or die Just become a bingo caller Algorithm just says go away...
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Funny Shaped Hula Hoop
Two wrongs never made a right So said my father He said we would row a lot I told my own lies So I collect the reasons I fantasise the feelings Calling the man who will take up the slack In the rope that is tied to my hands round my back Take a piece of me tonight Pacing the halls with his head…
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Hymn for the Adopters
I thought I’d write a song to represent the fantasy that all adopters have regarding a beautifully smooth parenthood and how thankful the adopted child could be. But it tends to be more difficult than that in reality. Tuning is D A D F# A C# with capo on first fret From the first cry out To the...
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Carjacked Onesie
When I wrote this song Autospell was on But I didn’t know So I carjacked onesie I was going to write About celebrities In their mansion homes With their big tea leaves All the words they could use Will never change what we do All we ask is just be kind to us All we ask is just be kind to us And...
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Genotype
All guitar stuff here is done on my nylon-stringed classical guitar - there might just be a smidgen of distortion on it 😬 Tuning is C, F, C, C, G, D. Yes, two strings are tuned to same note. Less to go wrong in theory - just in theory. Lyrics: Caught between your brother and his wine You wanted…
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Until The Thaw
Until The Thaw Dogs that bark at shadows, Just As the morning sun rays, Start Melting snow to ribbons laid out Decorating garden lawns Out they come the children, They’re Damning up the water, They’re Straying further from their homesteads Creaking on their rusted chrome bikes A Winter Walk Until...
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I Cant Make You Love Me
An unusual song for me to like, but there you go - that's music. The bit at the end is my doing I'm afraid. Apologies to the previous more competent singers who have done this song proper justice.
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Nosferatu
Good for nothing man Wanted open conversation Line drawn in the sand Throwing things around his room Reject philosophy So never know what makes us tick Down we go again In the hit parade Certified mind That’s as broken as All your dress code madness I’ll wear a dress up there Sometimes I stop…
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Snowflakes
Let’s have some fun while riding on the bus Have a little kiss just for us Snowflakes Snowflakes The bloody messed up faces in their seats An image of this blessed century Snowflakes Snowflakes No two snowflakes are the same you know Unique features purely superficial Lost and confused like the...
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Happenstance
Sometimes there’s days when the words on the page can match those in my head Sometimes there’s days when the words in my head can match those in my heart A time when I’m so sure that my world falls into place A time when I land on my feet thrown in the lions den Just happenstance We like to...
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Rosedale Daydream (Back in the Room)
Why did they walk away Left their house in disarray Like a tethered dog Left to wonder when It’s owners will return Perhaps the Bank possessed So the house it had to hear them All the arguments Over unpaid rents And nothing left to sell They left her They left her on her own To fade slowly Fade...
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Flares
This soil abandoned Fertile once Feeding families From before the law Now evil monsters lurk beneath Grab your ankles Slowly drag you down My breathing’s ragged After forest fire turned and followed after me I’m wading through The crumbling ashes - scattered remnants of a thousand trees...
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Acronym Collector
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_disorder Just think about it for a while They never meant to spin a lie But they found a way To steal your world Forever She crawled around our living room Searching for her mother’s womb Then she pulled away From your warm embrace Then hit you…
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Kite v.3.0
Three Kites One day I bought a kite Threw it and ran for my life Sadly - it fell to ground Pulled it through the sand Much like dragging a stone Broken - it was done My kite number one Kite number two was so different Caught by the wind it was desperate to get away from me Lifting my feet almost...
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Greg’s Annual Cheque
A Christmas song about a Christmas song So far away from his home, Oakdale He’s playing his epic song in the heat of the desert I realised with my own minds eye There’s really more to life than this silent night Silent Night You’ll believe the same if you let go Give some warmth and some love and...
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Brave Jamel
This song was played on Stuart Maconie’s show on BBC6 (16th December, 2018) Brave Jamel https://news.sky.com/story/boy-9-killed-himself-after-homophobic-bullying-at-colorado-school-mother-says-11484130 Nine years old in a Pokemon fronted t-shirt All he wanted was a seat with the kids on the…
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Name This Love
Obviously, there is reference to Oscar Wilde’s “Love that dare not speak its name” quote here, but I also have in mind the many people today in football, etc. who still find it tremendously difficult to be open about their sexuality, not that it’s any business of mine or anyone else of course....
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Sober Taxi
Conventional tuning but tuned right down to C Got to know you on a wholly different level When I drove you stone cold sober, I heard All your secrets tumbling with your inhibitions When I carried you home stone cold sober Feel emotions drifting To the middle of the night I will watch you…
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Play-listed on BBC6 Music (“Carjacked Onesie” & “Brave Jamel”) & BBC Tees (>15 songs).Most of my tracks are free to download. Please leave me any comment or criticism you want - these mean a lot to me as its the only way for me to improve.Thanks for taking the time to listen and I wish you all the very best in your own music creation and listening. Please get in touch if you would like any track as a wav or mp3 backing track (without vocals etc).
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