Here is a new song developed from a powerful lyric Robert wrote in 2017 which is very much relevant today.

Dread - Video

Dread - Soundcloud

Robert Cordrey, lyrics, vocals, video production
Scott Collingwood, lead guitar, some rhythm guitar tracks and fills as well as a midi track included Jacob Collier Audience Choir played via Kontact 7
Soundtrack production Band in a Box,
Video Leonardo.ai, Kyber.ai
Mixed and Mastered in Studio One 6

Key=Eb , Tempo 80, Length (m:s)=5:09
No intro. 100 bar chorus, from bar 1 to bar 100. Repeat x1 chorus
No Melody
No Soloist track.
Song is saved with Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus, Bank0,
Song is saved with bar changes for Time signature,
Style is =DOVE_FF.STY (Southern Gospel, Fingerpicked Gu)
Style MIDI Instruments are : Fretless Electric Bass (36), Nylon String Guitar (25),
RealTracks in style: ~365:Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Ev 085
RealTracks in song: 3267:Cello, Background CelticAirFlowingNatalie Ev 085
RealDrums in style:RockEven16: a: Snare, HiHat b: Snare, Ride

Dread

stone eyes hide their fires
I turn from what I saw
livestream in technicolour
from the furnace of war
melt my core

I fence out darkness
camped behind bright lights in their eyes
diplomats sip their wine
another desert flower dies
in dreams I try

to take a boat by the compass moon
carry that refugee from this doom

there she sits in the rubble
by the poisoned river bank
Micheal Angelo`s Madonna
holding her broken man
the glass spills its sand

stone eyes hide their fires
I refuse to look
stars turn to shrapnel
saints tire of their water walk
its all just talk

teach me to live that I may dread
the grave no more than my bed
teach me to die that I may wake
my sister my brother no more forsake



© Robert Cordrey 2017

Scott Collingwood
https://soundcloud.com/scottt709
https://soundcloud.com/spiritlevel-ca
https://www.youtube.com/@SpiritLevel-ge3hm/