Hey folks!
My name is Steve but I have been writing and recording as Leonard Scaper since the early 70's. I was a young landscaper back then and I thought Len Scaper sounder like a cool stage name. It kind of stuck over the years.
I am here because I like to listen to homegrown music.
I had thought to introduce myself with a new solo original but I have just finished a collab with a recording artist from Germany named Christiane Spruit and I think this song is important in this harsh time in which we are living.
You can check my own stuff out in the link in my sig.
This song started with a feeling that I have had that if we can only abide in the open and spacious ground of our minds we can better handle the intense way that our world seems to be closing in around us. Chris took that concept and composed this beautiful piano track. The lyrics were inspired by that track.
I post my songs in the hope of getting better at both the writing and the production by reading how the songs land with folks like you......so please always tell me what you don't like as well as what you do.
The Open Groundhttps://soundcloud.com/scaperandspruit/open-ground CHORUSWe have made our lives here
We will not trade
What we have found
Will we be saved
On the open ground
V 1This is our home
We have been tested here
But now things feel kind of strange
As foretold in the songs
This is where we belong
But now the times have changed
CHORUSV 2No one lives alone
And with danger so very near
How can we feel free
Seek the open ground
Let your thoughts run free
And you will see
CHORUSCHORUS 2
We have played out lives here
We will not trade
What we have found
Will we be saved
On the open ground