Dave Bradley

Just as all rivers will flow to the sea, So forgiveness must come easily Though your hands are tied today, You'll be hand in hand tomorrow That's got to come easily, In simpler times it seems you're like the river, Well that must flow easily Won't it feel the way it feels to a stranger by the water You forgive her anything, You can give her everything The sea refuses no river, they all flow easily...

Found some great backing tracks online played by drummer Jim Dooley. A couple of dollars each month to download as many as you want and use them as you like to make your own music, so I grabbed a funky 6/8 90 bpm groove and built up various guitar licks and layers. Electric, acoustic and bass played by dB. I've been taking lots of photos of birds recently...so I'm the in-flight recorder...get it?...

Who is really fooling who, when the chips are down and you head for town? Don't recognise the games you play are just wasting time and they're pulling me down? So, who is really fooling you, when your dreams are broken and your pockets empty? Won't you ever realise that this time you waste is not a time of plenty? Are you saying nothing now, 'cause no words can right your sorry fable? Are you neve...

Another avian inspired instrumental, today brought to you by the jay. Jay for Jazz. Jazz 2.0. J. 2. Oh

When the Mood Takes You One day, when the mood takes you You'll run away to search for your dream In some ways, should the mood take you You'll chase down the stream heading out to sea And, some day if the mood makes you Blind sided, will you still see me? Just praying the mood not take you away from me, oh no How can you be so lost in the light? How can you be so lost in the light? Then comes tha...

A bit of summery jazz-funk and some guitar noodlings inspired by the flitty flight and song of Sylvia atricapilla, the blackcap

Trivial riff elevated to a chord progression and lots of noise, just 2'24" of it...crank it up to 11 though Dave, would ya?

A song dedicated to those with no place to turn. Please support Jimmy's Cambridge by making a donation while you listen. Jimmy's gives those people a place to turn... https://www.justgiving.com/jimmyscambridge Bridges (Crossed and Burned) She is down on her luck, with no place to turn Embedded with waifs and strays, her skin patched with bruises and burns The clothes on her back are tattered and t...

Broken City Hide it away, it's not looking too pretty Running away I want to head for the city And if there's something I can't find If it sends me out of my mind Then I'll know time after time You won't take any pity I know the dreamers are screaming And I know the screamers are dreaming But you show nothing you're hiding Cos I know you're always offsiding Hide it away, it's not looking too prett...

The Bible and The Bottle by Dave Bradley and John Delk Blink...and it's gone Another year, another song 'though any broken soul can stumble along Well, I turned seventeen the year she died Still can't believe that was '89 If I could go back I wouldn't offer that ride Now, I have to drink to clear my head I really don't care what The Good Book said Another Sunday morning will soon be gone If The Bi...

Are you hoping for a better year? When life takes a turn for the worse, the worst it could ever be And you yearn for something to quench that thirst There's a chance that you'll fail to see Are you still hoping for a silent night? Are you still open to love's shining light? There are no signs, but there's a warning This is our time, no time for mourning One thing it seems is very clear Right now,...

As featured on Cambridge105 Radio. Recorded a new guitar solo and remastered the track, October 2017 http://cambridge105.co.uk/new-music-generator-25-01-2017/ Watch the moon slowly crown the horizon Imagine gravity's pull Feel the silken waters rising The tide turns and I'm wondering Why? If I ride with the tide, I'm under If I go with the flow, I'm under If I say I should leave then I know I will...

Complicated Complicate my memories Make them seem unreal Hide the things I'm feeling Better to conceal I need a shoulder to cry on The bruises prove I lose it You're cruising in confusion in your pain It was a picture to die for Blown fuses helped you choose it It never felt so complicated in the rain I'm too close for comfort And, even now I'll choose it Double up the fever in my brain Complicate...

Another old song of mine remixed for autumn 2016 Take my hand There are no saints only sinners, No prophets, No judges full of hate No happy ever afters spent in wonder No world beyond the distant shores of fate You might dream that there's a ghost in the machine But your dreams are only mists upon the waves So take my hand, take my hand I can't lead you to a promised land But take my hand, and be...

A remix for 2016 of an old song of mine. You can't hide a smile Wait for something, Something comes along Do you realize you could still belong? Could you handle it, or just move on? If the love's still there then maybe it's me that's wrong Tell me to believe, I will walk a mile Say that I deceive, I will hide a smile Show me what you mean I cannot be free Not until the time, that time that I can...

Lost to the weather on a dark and stormy night I'm searching for you But you've already taken flight I'm lost in translation Nothing feels quite right Your secrets are safe in the shadows Hidden well out of sight But, I feel, I feel unprotected Like you feel, when you're rejected The time is now for plans of acceptance Can't hold your hand, I feel so helpless Now I know why. I understand their off...

In Deep Water Seems to me that the fakers Are the ones who want to make it And they don't care, 'cause they are hanging on The chances are they'll take it Leaving nothing for your favours But they don't care, 'cause they are moving on They haven't got the questions But find out there's no answer They take a chance and break through all that's strong They turn around and watch you When you're hidin...

The Tide That Never Turns For some of us, it's a story too far Of distant lands, of pearls and bars For others there's still a life untold In dusty towns they never found gold There are those who take it all too hard They stake their claims but bear the dull scars For others there's still a grief unsound In dusty towns unholy ground But either way, the sea's unchanged The lies it hears the lives i...

The Tide That Never Turns For some of us, it's a story too far Of distant lands, of pearls and bars For others there's still a life untold In dusty towns they never found gold There are those who take it all too hard They stake their claims but bear the dull scars For others there's still a grief unsound In dusty towns, unholy ground But either way, the sea's unchanged The lies it hears the lives...

The Tide That Never Turns For some of us, it's a story too far Of distant lands, of pearls and bars For others there's still a life untold In dusty towns they never found gold There are those who take it all too hard They stake their claims but bear the dull scars For others there's still a grief unsound In dusty towns unholy ground But either way, the sea's unchanged The lies it hears the lives i...

This is a weird musical nugget I found fragments of in my archives from five or so years ago. Sounds like I was aiming for some kind of mock collaboration between Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel. As usual, me on vocals, guitar and bass with a Line6 looper drum beat Hidden Track Make it breathe around you like a fire in your hearth Make it breed around you like a fire in your heart I have got no mem...

The Oldest Trick in The Book (Fairweather Devil) Back in the day, there was a boy you could never save Never found any time to play, so a devil came to steal his soul away Masquerading as an open book, she drew him in with bitter-sweet deception He didn't see what was coming, wrote a cheque for love and affection The oldest trick in the book He fell for it, hook, line and sinker, He never got a se...

Prevailing Wind Reading between the lines Sketching the fever of a swollen tide The endless meaning of a mindful time Picking up the stones of the smoothest kind And then it begins Beyond the veil of original sin Reaching out to sea Carried on a prevailing wind And so you have your say That the proof's the truth in its own sweet way The bluest blue carries you away Back to where you grow And so it...

Latin Class You lost a piece of the action, no one's ever relaxing Should you be documenting all your life? I can't behold you baby, if you're not beholding to me I'm broken and bruised, waiting for the answers Tongue-tied and cruising, it hurts to take the chances I'm losing. I'm losing you Every blind alley you turned Every lesson you never learned The final bridge you burned From the tiny spark...

http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/classic-chords-11-mad-punk.html It occurred to me that a neat mashup would work between “Get Lucky” and Tears for Fears “Mad World” (made relatively recently famous again by Gary Jules). The verse for that song is in Am, so the sequence is Am, C, G, D…but if we transpose up a tone we get… Bm, D, A, E. Now, I know what you’re thinking that’s not the same as G...