MUSIC: Three Tune Tuesday 87 - 3 Songs about "One Love"! (2 Covers + 1 Original!)

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Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town in South Africa!

Sorry for the lack of microphone / amplifier. There were power-cuts at the time of recording! Third-World Problems!

This is my 22nd week contributing to "Three Tune Tuesday", an initiative started by @ablaze. It is week 87 overall!

I am trying to stick to a set pattern, where I perform 2 cover songs (written by famous artists) and 1 original song (written by me) around a theme. This week, I am picking the theme of "One Love"!

Obviously there's a cover song I could do by exactly that name "One Love" by Bob Marley! Shall we start with that? Here's the original:

For my second cover song, well there's actually another song that uses the phrase "One Love". It's "One" by U2, which has a wonderful chord progression! I remember the first time I played it on a decent steel string guitar and realising I could actually sound quite nice on the guitar... Here's the original version:

Now it's time for my original song. I have some scary news... This 22nd original song in a row is the last one that I have already finished. From now on, if I want to keep the pattern going... I need to write some new songs! Oh dear!!!

The very last original song on my list (so far) is actually something I haven't played for many years, but recently I heard my early recording of it and thought that there should definitely be the odd venue where I should try and bring it back... what do you think?

It is called "Don't Turn Away"... and it's about compassion and empathy for your fellow man. I can almost feel the younger version of me, wondering why the world is so unfair, as I sing it...

So that's week 87 done and dusted! Thank you so much for listening! I hope to see you next time! Perhaps I will unveil a new song that won't even be finished yet - that will help me get over my perfectionist habit!

Before I go: Please look out for my weekly cover request post on Thursday! If you make a song request in the comments, and then I attempt the song, you get rewarded with 50% of that post's rewards in HP!

Lyrics for "Don't Turn Away" by @jasperdick (original)

There's a storm outside your window
It's been raining for so long
But you don't care as long as you are warm
You say there's nothing wrong...

But outside, it's just getting wetter
And in time, you will close the blinds forever...
Don't turn away...

'Cause there's a new day dawning...
And there's a new world forming in your mind
Where the homeless beggar cries
And she cries just like your mother...
Don't turn away... Don't turn away...

There's a storm outside your window
The thunder of the gun
But you don't care as long as you are safe
You're the only one...

But outside, there's a million people dying
If you could see, maybe you'd stop denying...
Don't turn away...

'Cause there's a new day dawning...
And there's a new world forming in your mind
Where every bullet fired
Is fired right at your brother...
Don't turn away... Don't turn away...

You're an old man now, you finally walk into the rain...
It's too late, it's too late, you realise in pain
It's too late, it's too late
The world changed, the world's changed
It's too late, it's too late...
You turned away...

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