Category: Songs

Video: Anything

The latest song about anything and everything and how it all means nothing. Hope you enjoy the video. Show your support by sharing!

Lyrics:

Build a wall stone by stone
Build a home were we can be… Anything
Take a road high or low…
One day we can be… Anything

You and I mean everything to you and I
But we don’t mean anything…

Time will tell any story that you like
Any tale you want to hear… Anything…

You and I mean everything to you and I
But we don’t mean anything…

With one look, with one touch with one kiss I’m yours! (Anything)
With one look, with one touch with one kiss I’m yours! (Anything)
With one look, with one touch with one kiss I’m yours! (Anything)

You and I mean everything to you and I
But we don’t mean anything…

New (Old) Song – The Road

RonanThe purpose of a muse is to provide inspiration to artists. They come up with some great ideas and send them your way.

HOWEVER!

What a lot of artists have to deal with is muses with really poor timing. They’ll suddenly float by with an idea when you’re driving and unless you pull over to write/record the idea it will be lost. So I decided to combat it!

While doing some practice I decided to film it. During this time I captured every idea that floated into my head AND even managed too revise the very first song I had ever written. It’s called “The Road” and it’s about remembering someone who was close to you. I do hope you enjoy it. If you like it, please share it with the rest of the world!

Here are the lyrics:

Here I am on my own again down this long and lonesome road
Should have been going home again.
Where that is I don’t know.

Here I am I’m on show again
I’m a stealer on the street
Not sure where this road began
Or if I’ll ever rest my feet

Search me out and I’ll come to you
And we can start anew
Search me out and I’ll follow you
And we can find what’s true

On the road I still think of you and the places we have seen
All I’ve left is your photograph and the thoughts of what might have been

Stay far out and I’ll come to you
And we can start anew
Stay far out and I’ll follow you
And we can find what’s true

Here I am on my own again down this long lonesome road
Should have been going home again.
Where that is I don’t know.


September 2014 – What’s been happening

Well a lot has happened since last May. Lets start at the top:

I was at the Rory Gallagher festival in Ballyshannon, Donegal. There I met an Australian Harmonica player called Patrick Fairchild. We spent one of the evenings playing music in the hotel lobby. Here’s a video of one of the songs. An improvised number called, “Ramblin’ Man”. I may include this on the “Plugged Out” EP.

Further work on other songs continued including “I’m Gone”:

The purchasing of a new loop pedal lead me to return to one of my older songs called “Falls”.

The work I’m doing in the Youth Centre in Arklow has varied from arranging songs to music tuition and recently shooting a video titled “Arklow is Happy”. This is in the final stages of the editing process so I hope to have it online soon.

Well, that’s it for now. I’m going to make a conscious effort to keep you guys up to speed on a more regular basis! While you’re here, why not check out the links below for more tunes, videos and other lovely things!

New song: Fire

Every songwriter has a song that they just love to play. One that just fills them with energy as they play it. The song that fits this category for me is “Fire”.

Without going into too much detail it’s a song about finding your muse, your raison d’etre or that person who makes you want to fight for everything that makes you happy!

Anyway, have a listen. I would love to know what you think of it!

If you’d like to discuss something in this post, or anything else for that matter, please contact me:

Email: hi@ronan.ie
Twitter: @RonanMcCauley
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Merry Christmas!

Hello Everyone!

Merry Christmas to you and yours! I hope each and every one of you enjoy this amazing time of year. As 2013 comes to a close we have a whole new year full of possibilities and Merry Christmas!opportunities ahead of us. I hope that the next year brings you good fortune, good tunes and good times.

Merry Christmas! Below is a recording of one of my favourite Christmas songs that I put a little twist on. I hope you enjoy the song, enjoy your Christmas and your new year!

Ronan!

New Song – Happy Song Blues

SongWriter

SongWriter (Photo credit: jorik de beer)

Song-writing is an activity that seems to thrive on anger, pain and a general sense of melancholy. My friends and I came up with a theory that it’s the easiest set of emotions to bring up on command and even easier to relate to. As such, writing a happy song can really throw a song-writer off. So much so that their overall writing style has to change to accommodate this completely new concept.

This song was premièred in its rawest of states on the 15th of November in the Arkrock Café in Arklow, Co. Wicklow in Ireland. This song is a nice change of pace from my usual style of writing. It cannot be denied that there is a certain influence of Country in it.

 

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Please let me know what you think of it. Thank you for stopping by, be sure to check out my other songs and compositions while you’re here. There are also a few videos of live performances that you might enjoy too.

If you have any questions, comments or anything you would like to discuss, please contact me:

Email: hi@ronan.ie
Twitter: @RonanMcCauley
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Scream – Choral Edition!

Last week, I mentioned the second concert of the Feis Canadh were Conor O’Reilly did an amazing choral arrangement of my song “Scream”. I performed this with the Tallaght Choral Society and Conor even played piano for the performance as well. All in all it was an amazing night and I’m so glad to have gotten the opportunity to work with the Tallaght Choral Society, as well as, Conor O’Reilly.

So, without further ado, here is the video:

As always, if you have any questions, comments or anything you would like to discuss, please contact me:

Email: hi@ronan.ie
Twitter: @RonanMcCauley
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