Asa - Jailer (cover)

I dunno I felt like doing harmonies also I just reached my next hundred follower, yaaaaay thanks for that!

I’ve loved this song for ages, the original is by Asa and really very cool and you should go check it out. I don’t really have the voice for this but fuck it.

and you should wait for the background vocals because they’re basically my favourite part of the song.

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Always 1895 (cover)

Another Shrock cover, this time a song by A Singing Detective ( the original can be found here) who was kind enough to let me do this.

Lyrics:

Fire flickers bright and casts a glow 
Of warmth around a book-stacked flat 
A Persian slipper beside a violin bow 
An armchair thin beside an armchair fat 
Here dwell two men who pool their heart and mind 
To cast their own light out upon the fog 
And share in thrill of truth what they might find 
As they peruse the London alleyways and smog

CHORUS 
here they live suspended on the thread of time in 
Paper books of mystery bound up with scarlet twine 
Between the pages stands a flat on Baker Street 
Here, though the world explode, these two survive 
And it is always 1895

After every fall is the return 
And after every turn the pages turn again 
Forever is the friendship of those who never learned 
The pain of distance ‘tween the hearts of men 
The twilight years will never wear them thin 
Holmes will have his bees and Watson has his wife 
As darkness falls the light shineswarm within 
And words on paper give them true eternal life

Chorus again

Hey tumblr, I wrote you a song! It might not be pretty but it comes from the heart…

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Lyrics:

Liking Things

So you don’t like that ship or that show or whatever,
that’s alright man I guess it’s a matter of opinion.
But don’t you fucking dare act as if you’re superior to me,
your taste being different from mine is not an invitation to insult me.

And I don’t even know where this problem comes from,
and I’ve written so many posts about it that I
don’t know how else to say this but to
put it in a song.

So here’s what I’ve been really trying to say all this time:

CHORUS:
Don’t be a dick about
other people liking things because
all it does is
make you look like an idiot,
yes it does.

Of course this works the other way around as well,
when someone doesn’t like the things you like
you should just accept it because
in this there isn’t right or wrong.

Unless of course you’re racist, sexist
or homophobic in which case tumblr
will unleash a shit storm right above your head
and quite right so.

But my original message stands:

CHORUS:
Don’t be a dick about
other people liking things because
all it does is
make you look like an idiot,
yes it does.

Yes it does.

Still (cover)

Like it says on the tin, this is a cover of A Bromance in Bohemia’s Still which can be found here (and seriously you should all go and listen to it because it’s great ad Kayla is great and I miss her and her Shrock…)

Apologies for my voice being what it is, I’m still sick and also I have no idea how Kayla managed to squeeze all those syllables into the bars. Anyway, happy Valentine’s day!

LYRICS:
The day doesn’t mean that much to me,
It’s just the fourteenth of Feburary
We were never that kind and
You’re not here anymore

See I would send a card to you just to
See what you might do because
You were my best friend in the world still are

Still are x8

I probably could have gotten a date today
Because you no longer get in the way
With your maddening puzzles and brilliant parts

So just one more miracle please
The skull refuses to talk back to me and it doesn’t do much for company
It doesn’t replace the man who was my best friend… because you

Still are x8

I don’t care what they say
You were a better man than them by far
They made us pay
For flying free and letting us be who—

We are x9
Who we were

The day doesn’t mean that much to me,
It’s just the fourteenth of Feburary
We were never that kind and
You’re not here

Misty Mountains (cover)

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I saw a post with somebody saying the hardest part of being a female  Hobbit/LotR fans is not being able to sing Misty Mountains. So I did.

Worst Flatmate Ever

It’s called that because I thought ‘Sherlock Holmes, you’re a dick’ would be a rubbish title. I blame some people on tumblr for the overall existence of this.

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Please don’t start a discussion about John’s sexuality over this. Just don’t. Please.

Lyrics:

It really wouldn’t kill you
to do the shopping once in a while.
At least wash up your mug
after I’ve made you tea.

And no, it’s absolutely
not okay
if you wear my pants
when you can’t find yours.

CHORUS
Sherlock Holmes, you’re a dick,
why do I even put up with you?
Sometimes you really make me sick,
but I also wanna… kiss you?

huh

Maybe you could stop
ruining my dates all the time.
You can just text me when you need
something from the supermarket.

There’s no need to show up
in person every time.
It doesn’t even matter where I go,
you always find me.

CHORUS
Sherlock Holmes, you’re a dick,
why do I even put up with you?
Sometimes you really make me sick,
but also… kinda horny?

Bridge:
But that’s only because
I never get anywhere with my dates
and because
I spend all my time
with you

But let’s be honest
I like spending time with you.
I like you in general,
at least when I don’t wanna punch you.

And yesterday I caught Molly
staring at your arse,
and even worse,
I caught myself doing the same.

CHORUS
Sherlock Holmes, you’re a dick but I
wouldn’t have you any other way.
Wait a second, what exactly
is going on here?

Sherlock Holmes, you’ve got a dick
and suddenly I’m interested in that.
Oh God, I think
you made me bi.

in case any of you wonder why I don’t write that many songs, here’s why:

I wanted to write a song about Molly and I started out singing about fate and love and inner strength and somehow ended up with ‘Sherlock Holmes, you’re a dick’

and the moral of this is that I start about 10 songs a month and 9 3/4 of that gets thrown away

so yeah

that’s my creative process

Legally Blonde (cover)

Male part here

That’s what happens when I’m bored, I get back into musicals I haven’t listened to in years.

Cover of Evanescence’s Lithium. It’s a few years old and I kinda forgot I had it.

Acoustic, with piano and cello.

The Shappey Way

Because Arthur Shappey is BRILLIANT and the world would be a much happier place if there were more Arthurs around.

Merry Christmas, Cabin Crew!

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Lyrics:

I know I’m not smart but 
I don’t see 
how the world is as complicated 
as everybody makes it out to be 

I’ve got everything I could 
ever wish for: 
a job that I love and a family 
that takes care of me 

CHORUS 
And you, you ask me how I’m 
always happy 
but I don’t know how 
not to be. 
Because my life is brilliant 
and so are you. 
And if you ever fail to see it 
I will gladly point it out to you, to you. 

How can you only see the bad things 
that happen 
when there are birthdays and Christmas 
and Northern Lights? 

The world has so much to 
offer you, 
so many places to visit and people to meet 
and things to learn 

CHORUS 

Because my life is brilliant 
and so are you. 
And if you ever fail to see it 
I will gladly point it out to you, to you.