This Place Our Home

[Ray Brookes]

Just piano and vocal.

A song about whatever real estate we each of us live in.

Upon these fields, our battles raged
Upon these streets, our lives are staged
Our stories told on bloodstained page
This fate our own, this place our home

And from these shores, our ships have sailed
Heroes returned and widows wailed
And on these rocks some dreams have failed
This fate our own, this place our home.

Within these walls, we've armed our sons
Polished our swords, re loaded guns
We've licked our wounds thank God we won
This fate our own, this place our home.

[Hilary]

Beautiful!

[Zoltan]

Beautiful! You really do this style well. There's a certain sense of honesty to your vocals that makes everything believable. The lyrics are pure poetry and the piano playing really shines. The performances are filled with great small details. The gently hummed parts, the way the piano flows. Everything is picture perfect.

Always joy to hear your songs 

[Farrell Jackson]

Stunning and beautifully written and performed Ray! The piano, voice, and lyric stages a very retrospective vibe...well done!

Farrell

[DarrenG / The Devil's Toupee]

another beauty ray. Just your vocals and the piano always sound great. Yeah lyrics are always poetic and gives you pause for thought.

[StephenM]

you are like a better version of Kenny Rogers....what?  did I just say that?

amazing piece here Ray....like Hilary said

BEAUTIFUL!!!

[Groundy]

Superb, Ray, thanks for sharing, love it... Alex

[Hook]

Wow! Brother this is wonderful.
Rock on!

[Ferryman_1957]

Wow, another stunningly beautiful keys and vocals song (I just listened to Kenny's "Sinking"). This just works so well Ray, very thoughtful lyrics, a vocal full of emotion and sensitive piano playing. A simply wonderful listen.

[guitarron]

Really a great song. Nothing like the simplicity of a nice sounding piano and vocal.