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Title: Reel Life
Post by: kenny mac on March 18, 2025, 11:49:11 AM
This is unfortunately true today and it paints a bleak future for our children.
You see it everywhere and I'm glad I lived in a time when this phone epidemic did not exist.
The spelling is correct as it is reel as in a film reel and not real .
Hope you like it.
Hes watching all the people
On their mobile phones
 passing by each other
Locked inside their zones

All Searching for some new friends
To secure a like
A blog that's just went viral
A  trend that shows a spike

And this real worlds been forgotten
All the brain cells disappear
Yeh this apple core is rotten
We have no real fruit here  to bear

And he cries as he remembers
How the children used to play
He remembers interaction
And the words he used to say
We gave it all away

And this world is fading slowly
Like the raindrops on the street
Yeh this life's one big illusion
A heart without a beat.

Welcome to reel life
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: Johnbee on March 18, 2025, 12:04:26 PM
Truer words were never said.  The devices have taken over.  You can walk into any room now and instead of people conversing with each other they're all silently clicking away on their phones.  It's pathetic.

The haunting music adds to the solemnness of this great tune.

 :) John B
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: StephenM on March 18, 2025, 02:51:04 PM
I ain't gonna read the lyrics yet because the beauty of the music is flowing into me and healing me... and that is great...
in the darkness I find light... in what is lost I find hope... and the music absolutely conveys this... love will triumph... it always has and always will.
Welcome to love.  Welcome to real life.
beautiful work Kenny!  Beautiful song.
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: godinqc on March 18, 2025, 03:53:01 PM
Great song Kenny .. I really liked the lyrics, also great vocals.
Very well produced and played.. Well done .
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: Farrell Jackson on March 19, 2025, 07:34:40 AM
The first thing that stands out to me is the cool, Mark Knopfler like, mellow guitar riffing. If I recall correctly you use your fingers instead of a pick which would account for the excellent smooth tone. Beautiful vocals and truthful lyrics. I find myself relying on my iPhone more and more. It's addictive. Super song Kenny!
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: hardlock on March 21, 2025, 02:33:31 AM
A fine song well performed. Great style that holds you to the theme. 8)
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: SE on March 29, 2025, 10:06:25 PM
Kinda forgotten but so true,has Dire vibe on the guitar.
Cool listen!!
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: DarrenG / The Devil's Toupee on March 30, 2025, 03:36:13 AM
Great lyrics and sadly true. What a great song, excellent vocals and the music is brilliant too. From the synths, strings to the wailing guitars.
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: SteveB on March 31, 2025, 05:24:48 PM
This is hauntingly beautiful; and sadly prophetic. A wonderfully-produced piece. Well done.  8)
Title: Re: Reel Life
Post by: OdilonGreen on March 31, 2025, 06:38:24 PM
Yeah, it's a real problem. I like how the music has a quiet urgency; it doesn't pound you over the head with rage or with sadness, but there's an impassioned sense of loss, of important things slipping away. It draws listeners into a sense of mourning, as the swells of the music and the guitar tug at our souls.