I think I'd Better Ride in My Chevy - Brandon Enzlin, Mark Holman, Ben Vandagriff - Holworks Collaborations - ASCAP 2008
Here's a song the three of us did at Ben's House making it up as we went along while having musical fun. They are very good musicians. I am good with words and sing - well - like a Harbor Horn at times. This is one of them. Enjoy - these folks deserve to have this song be heard.
Someday Isle - Trace - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Someday Isle is a swim in the deep end without fear of being swept away, . . or without concern for what people do, . . .so the future of procrastination is unrealized dreams. Trying to place a happy mood can be done in minors but it is more difficult. Time to shift gears a bit and bring in some rhythm to get toes moving. Yep, the lyrics are hyperbolic more derivative than first line function. Guess I am quirky that way but I think you'll get the reasoning behind all the sub-stories as each one is a side to the Someday Isle. With every line I see the distance shrink or explode. Welcome to my Someday Isle, . . .trace for sure.
Slipper - Holworks Collaborations - Mark Holman and Rick Ryals - ASCAP2008
Slipper, here is a song made to show you can make a song without using profanity or words that should be forgotten as they do not mean anything. Keeping it clean yet with meaning that your imagination supplies. I am putting this song here to show some of my new friends that you can make quality without wallowing in street jargon. Keep it real with real words.
God Knows - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Yes, here is the secret. I am sharing it with whomever will listen. No fancy scripts or embellished words just a belief handed down through the centuries and many different reasons for the truth.
When You Cry Out - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music
I have more soulspeak coming out of my ears in this song some of which is not too intelligible from the way I sang it, or recorded it. Oh well, just a demonstration of a possibility that could be when I am magically "discovered", oh my. Just sharing a gift handed down through the generations. That it should manifest so late in life is a little baffling but welcome as it affords me the opportunity to do something I have never done. Oh yeah, back to the song, a lady I met filed for divorce two weeks before her husband was shipped to Afghanistan where he subsequently lost his life. She thinks it is her fault, that he was distracted, not prepared. The grief of her abandonment is her albatross. I can comfort but never replace what was then. I have not the skill to remove the past so she can live in the present and welcome the future. Somebody has to know. . . .when you cry out.
Beekeeper Blues - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Bees, I love bees. They pollinate flowers. Plants would have to develop some other form of pollination if there weren't any bees. Would a flower have to rely on the wind - well this is a look at a personal relationship with the Queen Bee who simply loves honey - all over, a honey bather if you will.
Meet Me on Facebook - Splash - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Meet me on Facebook is a look at how necessary social networking has become. Though I sing it simply, my decision to get involved is no longer a question of did I make the right choice as it is very apparent I did. How can Facebook allow you to see into a friend's likes and dislikes. The demographics are the mundane. The psychographics are the pudding just as she like to dance with me on Facebook. Impossible, yet very real as our interaction is visual and in stereo. That is when the Meet me on Facebook metaphor gets connected into the hippocampus of my friend and as long as the wiring is correct, it will remain there - viola - awareness, interest, and desire for Holworks Music. Reverse demand is the ultimate goal as when the people want it so be it. Now, where is that lost friend, . . .?
Sweet Thoughts of You - Trace - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
1st Flight of Zhaharazard - Holworks Collaborations - Ben Vandagriff and Mark Holman - ASCAP 2008
BenVandagriff - Mixing and musical composition
Mark Holman - Lyrics and vocals
Enjoy the 1st Flight of Zhaharazard
Felinicity - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009 - all rights reserved.
Felinicity, the world has gone to the cats - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Panthers, Cougars limited in form and function to the dance of the cat aloof on noiseless paws, they stalk, . . .hear their calls as they make their way through the jungle streets all with intent and purpose illuminating through their eyes. Felines, what role do they play in Natural Law as a predator? Culling the sick and injured so that only the strongest of the species survives, genetically mapped out through centuries of evolution. . . .and on it goes this felinicity.
For Our Soldiers - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Hellish heat distorts the ground, . . . and so it goes a duty, honor, Country call that servicemen uphold as their forefathers had in order to secure freedom. God Bless the men and women who serve our Country. Resources and possessions scattered all across the globe as we thirst in the shimmering heat. Draw us the compass point on an azimuth we can track - global positioning accuracy - a petroleum prayer.
Natural Law - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
I am a paramecium or at least that is what this music thing makes me feel like - single cell with a thin membrane loaded with cilia to help me swim. So I swim upstream to what? a dream? Yep - guess that makes me certifiable especially when I have no support. no resources, and a huge idea. Here's one for you - no cars at least once humans are able to create unnatural law like we have been. I have lots to say here.
Shellcracker - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Shellcracker lives on the bottom of the sand at least the fish do that are staple fun in North Carolina. These fish are among the largest of the freshwater bream species sure to give any enthusiast a tug or two. Their name comes from their habit of eating freshwater mollusks, all of which carry univalve or bivalve ornamental walls for a dwelling. It's all part of Natural Law. What do I say about a metaphor except to demonstrate the clues that lead to meaning. What lands are there left to conquer Shellcracker? Can you sweep through the algae with your fins as a fan? You smile like an ocean pearl and you smile. Would deep water suit your taste better than the spring shallows? Shellcracker, yep field artilleryman, the last of a kind never seen, just beyond the reef where there is magic, . . .so it is with Natural Law as the extended dream of making songs carries me further downstream - Shellcracker.
These Eyes For You - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman and Tom Mohler - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2008
Here's one of the old Swift Water songs resurrected in November 2007 - cool.
Just When I Thought - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009 - Digital Wabe Recordings.
Here is one of two songs that started this music thing for me in October 2007. Just when I thought my life had turned topsy turvy and I had nothing left to give, . . .you noticed me.
Blue Opal - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
One of four songs I made in Andy's Studio Digital Waves here in Fayetteville. Blue Opal, Miss Noble, why do you steal my heart? As the story is the story goes, . .she's that chip of fire blue caught at an angle when just about all the light is gone. Is this a Country song?
Swift Water - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
One of four song I made in Andy's Studio Digital Waves here in Fayetteville. WHite knuckled, my life is a leaf tossed in the current to drift, . . .rage on Swift Water, Your spray is on my face.
Raise Your Arms - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman and Andy Pow - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Thanks Andy for recording this song for me and for helping with the scratch guitar parts. Just an idea of a song about having to face the reality of going to war a commpnplace event in my Community. Raise Your Arms, . .