2025 Competition Entry:

Everyone’s On a Journey by Richard Barriball

Genre

Folk

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

All the sounds were generated by me and mixed using my Yamaha Genos keyboard.

Description

In 2007, I attempted the “kiss of life” on my Mum but she passed away.
This happened only four days after my Dad passed away also.
As well emptying two houses and arranging two funerals, we also had to
find care for my mentally disabled brother. It was a Spiritualist church in
Dunfermline a few weeks later that I received a message from a medium
that while my Mum was carrying me, she had a bleed and that I have a twin
brother in spirit.

While I was in Deal, Kent, in September 2019 to commemorate the thirtieth
anniversary of an IRA attack which killed eleven Royal Marine Band
colleagues (I served 25 years), I visited the Spiritualist church there for
the first time. I received a message through the medium that my spirit twin
has got a lot of collaborative writing to do with me.

Since returning to my home in Dunfermline from Deal on 23rd September 2019, I composed 9 songs in 9 weeks with the intention of uplifting the human spirit.

Bio

I served 25 years in the Royal Marines Band where I had lots of different wind band arrangements used at the Royal Albert Hall, Edinburgh Military Tattoo and I also wrote for A-list celebrities who I have shared the stage with. Here is my show reel: https://youtu.be/KIpw24PLwN0

Lyrics

The past is behind you,
The future’s not arrived,
The only time that exists is now,
Believe in your ideas,
Don’t let fear stop you,
Just take that first step and you’re on your way.
Do you trust the voice within who’s with you every day?
Do you trust the guide you have to show you the way?

Everyone’s on a journey,
Where are you going to?
Have you made intentions of how life should be?
Everyone’s on a journey,
I hope it’s a good one?
You are the master of your destiny.

If you’ve gone astray,
Just go with the flow,
Are you taking steps to where you want to go?
Through the mists of time,
We wonder through a maze,
Of many opportunities that come our way.
Always be responsible for everything you do,
Do you play the victim, or be true to you?

Everyone’s on a journey,
Where are you going to?
Have you made intentions of how life should be?
Everyone’s on a journey,
I hope it’s a good one?
You are the master of your destiny.

Instrumental

Do you trust the voice within who’s with you every day?
Do you trust the guide you have to show you the way?

Everyone’s on a journey,
Where are you going to?
Have you made intentions of how life should be?
Everyone’s on a journey,
I hope it’s a good one?
You are the master of your destiny.
You are the master of your destiny.
You are the master of your destiny.

Leave a comment