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What is "Restless World" Music?
It is:
music that makes you dance and makes you think...
sound that mixes different musical styles and elements together...
and lyrics that try to say something about the world around us and about people's emotions.
Hopefully, each song is an experience and a journey.
If you are looking for songs with interesting lyrics and good melodies, take a listen to the excerpts on the "Music" page.
If you like a song, let me know.
Why "Restless World" as a name?
Because this is the nature of the world around us.
We're like ships in the middle of the ocean, navigating the waves that each day brings.
On the good days, we glide through it all, and feel alive.
I think of songwriting in the same way.
Good songs take us on a journey.
Sometimes that journey is through joy, and sometimes it is through sorrow. Or through hope. Or regret. Or everlasting love, lost love, lust, despair, longing, and a thousand other emotions.
Hopefully, we listen, hear something that touches us, and feel alive.
Influences
Some of the many artists and producers whose music I've enjoyed include Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Sting, The Police, Everything But The Girl, Stevie Wonder, George Michael, Carole King, James Taylor, Michael McDonald, Sade, Seal, Peter Gabriel, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, John Mayer, Jodeci, Dr. Dre, the Neptunes, Michael Jackson, Howard Hewett, Kool and the Gang, Teddy Riley, Nat King Cole, Sarah McLachlan and Sara Bareilles.
Some Lyrics I Love
Here are a few of my favorite lines from artists whose words have stayed with me long after the songs ended:
“It’s been three years since I’m knocking on your door
And I still can knock some more” – Bob Marley
“Never to be wrong
Never to make promises that break
It's like singing in the wind
Or writing on the surface of a lake" – Sting
“Seems I’m not alone in being alone
A hundred billion castaways, looking for a home” – Sting
“Be yourself – no matter what they say” – Sting
“Wild Goose Chase
Laws of nature they just can’t face
Ambition to mash up the place
Who shall save the human race” – Steel Pulse
"Reggae music
Set me in a fever
My blood pressure high
Yet I don't want no doctor" – Steel Pulse
"The days roll by like thunder
Like a storm that's never breaking
All my time and space compressed in the low pressure of proceedings"
– Everything but the Girl
"And your eyes, like midnight fireflies
Light up the trenches where my heart lies" – Sarah McLachlan
“Here’s a simplification of everything we’re going through:
You plus me is bad news” – Sara Bareilles
“And it’s hard for me to take a stand
When I would take her any way I can” – John Mayer
“She doesn’t use her love to make him weak
She uses love to keep him strong
And inside me there’s no room for doubt
That it won’t be too long…before I tell her that I love her
That I want her
That my mind, soul and body needs her
Tell her that that I love to
That I want to
That I need to do all that I have to be in her love” – Stevie Wonder