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  • One Road Out Of Babylon
    Video available at:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRP806bHKU
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    Life may seem to lead along one road, however there are so many crossroads and points where the road deviates and takes us in a different direction. This song starts by identifiying that there is "One road out of Babylon". Later on the songs points out that there is "one more road" and possibly so many more.
    Produced and engineered: Phil Bowen
    Music and lyrics: Phil Bowen
    All instruments (including: Fender strat, slide and acoustic guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals): Phil Bowen
    Lyrics:
    “Well, there’s one road out of Babylon”,
    the preacher said to me.
    “Yeh there’s one road for the righteous
    who can pay through purgatory.”
    “There’s one road out of Babylon”,
    well, I heard the preacher say.
    “One road for the blameless,
    I can show you the way.”
    Some time we can cross the line
    and feel we come apart
    and sometime we can’t see the signs.
    Life seems like an abstract art.
    “One more road out of Babylon
    for the blind and cannot see
    and the road’s so dark to find your way,
    it goes on endlessly.”
    Outro
    “One road out of Babylon
    One road for you and me
    One road out of Babylon
    On road for you and me
    One road for you and me.”
    3 min
  • Standing With Giants
    Also available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHFVZLO0BM
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    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcmy6F8x9LlxstPGl34IYg
    This song engages with the ethereal aspects of seeing the world from the view point of "giant" standing stones that have been around for millennia. We don't know their meaning but we try to understand but they speak in tongues from another land. You just need to close your eyes and dream away, the giants can show you the way.
    Music and Lyrics: Phil Bowen
    Vocals: Phil Bowen
    Keyboards, lead guitar, 12 string acoustic and slide guitar: Phil Bowen
    Lyrics:
    Hidden in obscurity the giants stand in grace
    Looking through millennia their reason’s being misplaced
    Forgotten in time no longer divine
    Fallen from heaven they look on benign.
    Circle of sarsens, other blue stones
    Some have long fallen a few stand alone
    Standing with giants we try to understand
    Their whispers in tongues from another land.
    Feel so good
    As you close your eyes and dream away
    And mend a heart that’s broken apart
    The giants can show you the way.
    Circle of sarsens, other blue stones
    Some have long fallen a few stand alone
    Standing with giants we try to understand
    Their whispers in tongues from another land.
    We’re standing with giants from another land
    We’re standing with giants
    3 min
  • Company Man
    Music and Lyrics: Phil Bowen
    Slide guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar: Phil Bowen
    Lead and backing vocals: Phil Bowen
    Keyboards: Phil Bowen
    Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKaxod59kmA
    Many of us work 9 to 5 day after day after day with so little to show for it. We just live for today, have shorter life spans and become a company man. Sometimes it's good to get away. Some get away from it permanently disillusioned by daily news and the voting machine. They find a magical land under a stadium of glittering stars. This song is about a man from Montauk who finds peace where silver waters fall on shades of green. Enjoy the "Company man".
    Lyrics:
    Well, he came from the town of Montauk
    Far on the eastern board of the U.S.A.
    He worked his way across interstate lines
    Each day seems to roll into another day.
    He said enough of the acid reflux
    Continuous migraine and pressure of time
    Enough of the 9 to 5 routine
    Waiting in queues and endless lines.
    He feels those echoes of lost years
    Feels emotions and heart felt tears
    So dead in the water with a shorter life span
    Just live for today, be a company man.
    It seems too late to say goodbye
    At the time we’re moving on
    It seems to late to say goodbye
    when life has passed us by.
    The sky is the stadium of glittering stars
    Far from the city, fast jobs and cars
    Silver waters fall on shades of green
    Disillusioned by the voting machine.
    Rainbow colours light up his eyes
    Free with the spirits under open sky
    We all need a little of a magical land
    A short time away from the daily news stand.
    4 min
  • 1906
    This song is dedicated to those who lost their lives in the earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906. It is about one man's experience of who will see him to the other side of the river, the river between life and eternity.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yw_DxXzHHM
    Vocals, keyboards, 12 string acoustic guitar, slide guitar, Fender Strat: Phil Bowen.
    Music and lyrics: Phil Bowen
    Who will see me to the other side of the river?
    Who will see me to the other side of these flames?
    Built on the blood and gold of the forty niners.
    Who will see me to the other side of the river?
    The quake hit hard in April of that year.
    Many were lost to their God above,
    caught in the blazing winds that tore our hearts with fear.
    Who will see me to the other side of the river?
    We all hold onto our dreams
    deep down in our souls
    but life brings natures extremes
    and time just rolls and rolls and rolls.
    Who will see me to the other side of the river?
    I can see light fading fast before my eyes.
    Time may roll away but mine is done.
    Remember us, remember we are daughters and sons.
    The last thing that I heard was thunder in the sky.
    I crawled up into a ball and now that’s where I lie.
    1906 took family and friends. They’re waiting to take me my journeys end
    and who will see me to the other side of the river
    and who will see me to the other side of the river
    and who will see me to the other side of the river
    4 min
  • Red Sun
    This song is about the way many people are blinded by the red sun of capitalistic influence, regarding the dollar as a sign of wealth and happiness while ignoring the social disparity in society and between societies.
    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHq0Oqurrhs
    Music and Lyrics: Phil Bowen
    Mixed and produced: Phil Bowen
    Vocals, keyboards, 12 string guitar, Fender Strat, slide guitar: Phil Bowen
    5 min
  • The Last Big Cattle Drive
    "The last big cattle drive". Another song from Phil's next album "The legend of the Dutchman's mine.
    Phil Bowen on: 12 string acoustic guitar, Fender strat, steel guitar, vocals and keyboards.
    Mixed, engineered and produced by: Phil Bowen
    Lyrics:
    Well the mist settles down on the Texas trail
    On a late September night
    While the train takes the cattle on many a rail.
    Leaves me old, hair turning white.
    This is the last big cattle drive.
    I’ve seen the good days, but this is 1905.
    A new century brings a change in our lives.
    This is the last big cattle drive.
    I’ve walked a thousand roads and maybe more,
    slept in many places feeling saddle sore.
    40 years on the longhorn drive.
    It’s hard to keep going. It’s hard to survive.
    This is the last big cattle drive
    I started as a wrangler back in ’65.
    Stepped up to the plate and in 5 short years
    headed up my first big cattle drive.
    Well the mist settles down on the Texas trail
    On a late September night
    While the train takes the cattle on many a track
    Leaves me old, no turning back.
    This is the last big cattle drive.
    This is the last big cattle drive.
    This is the last big cattle drive.
    4 min
  • Lonestar Cowboy
    This is about the "Lonestar cowboy". The last of the traditional dying breed of cowboys in the state of Texas.
    Phil Bowen on: 12 string acoustic guitar, Fender strat, steel guitar , keyboards and vocals.
    Engineered, mixed and produced- Phil Bowen
    Lyrics
    Every little turn
    takes you on a different road.
    Every little turn
    takes you where the cowboys rode.
    Every single road
    leads you to a different place.
    Every single road
    is like an obstacle race.
    They call him the Lonestar cowboy
    out in the sun and rain.
    They call him the Lonestar cowboy.
    It’s all, yeh its all, in his name.
    Every little turn
    you can see him in the corner of your eye
    Every little turn
    there’s a backdrop of a Texan sky.
    Rising with the morning sun
    he brushes down the dust and grit.
    He feels the sweat on his brow,
    you can see he’s not counterfeit.
    They call him the Lonestar cowboy out in the sun and rain.
    They call him the Lonestar cowboy. It’s all, in his name.
    They call him the Lonestar cowboy. It’s all, in his name.
    They call him the Lonestar cowboy. It’s all, yeh its all, in his name.
    3 min
  • The Legend Of The Dutchman's Mine
    This is the legend of the Dutchman's mine.
    Music and lyrics: Phil Bowen
    Guitars including: 12 string guitar, steel guitar and electric guitar: Phil Bowen.
    Keyboards: Phil Bowen
    Produced and engineered: Phil Bowen
    Lyrics
    Lost soul of the dutchman’s mine,
    In the desert of intrigue and the dollar sign.
    Close to the town of Wickenburg
    lies a legend of a man who found the gold mine.
    Time blurs the story over many a year,
    lives being lost and many a tear.
    So here lies the tale of Jacob Waltz
    And the legend of the dutchman’s mine.
    The story goes that rich gold was found
    high up in the mountains of superstition.
    Chinese whispers mixed tales unsound
    but the legend persists with each expedition
    Look no further it’s likely a dream.
    Superstition mountain has no gold seam.
    Maybe it’s in Bulldog near Goldfield.
    It’s just a legend of a gold mine
    It’s just a legend of a gold mine.
    Each gold mine is lost in the southern breeze.
    It seems gold fever can spread like a virulent disease.
    If time stood still for a hundred years,
    and they prayed to God for his help divine,
    they’d still recall the tale of Jacob Waltz
    and the legend of the dutchman’s mine.
    5 min
  • Austin Last Fall 2021
    Updated version of Austin last fall (2021)
    Guitar and steel guitar: Phil Bowen
    Keyboards: Phil Bowen
    Music and lyrics: Phil Bowen
    Engineered and produced: Phil Bowen
    5 min

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