Take me away from here
I've been locked inside this cave awhile
living like a man exiled

Watch the sky shift
there's no birds left
breathe this vague air
always so scared

How did we get back here?
How did it all disappear?

Show me something
help me find my wake back home again
I can't stay here in this absurd

We're all sinners
locked in winter
how our bones ache
facing ourselves

How did we get back here?
How did it all disappear?

Lyrics: Guy Capecelatro III, JC Weatherby
Music: Weatherby, Capecelatro, Rioux

Last Miracle

Lyrics: Guy Capecelatro III
Music: Weatherby, Capecelatro, Rioux

Vampire Garden

Mirror Mirror

In Lylac

Alien World

Kali Brigade

AntiReal

There's a coming storm 
rolling in bringing rain
Watch the way the trees 
lie right down 
they don't complain

Move me along 
shake me free 
of this form
There’s no antidote 
no drug to save
on x ray days

Watch the sky glow red
and disappear
and a new world rise
After that there won’t 
be many of us 
who’ll remember

Move us along
tell me would you mind 
starting new
One last miracle 
to absolve us
on x ray days

Twist the tourniquet, 
release a fire 
to pierce the veil
Where’s the antidote 
to revive our soul 
I wish you well

Lyrics: Guy Capecelatro III, JC Weatherby
Music: Weatherby, Capecelatro, Rioux

X Ray Days

Lyrics: Guy Capecelatro III, JC Weatherby
Music: Weatherby, Capecelatro, Rioux

Anywhere But Here

Perhaps coming to the end of a dry spell... or at least thinking about it... I cracked open my Facebook on December 8, 2022, and top of my feed was a post from Andy Summers (of The Police) playing Message in a Bottle, with a challenge to do a remix.  So, I put some bass, and cracked open my voice which hasn't sung a note in MONTHS... LOL... here is the result.

A. SUMMERS MESSAGE (In a Bottle)-- Fragment

Why you always pin me down on the ground
you say that I'm too queer
cuz I couldn't throw a football
or chug your pissy beer
why you always pin me down
you say I worry you 
I say y'aint got yer head on right
Why you care at all

Try to land a punch on my face
but I'm just ghosting you
I'm on a different planet now without you
I've got my words and my sex and
every little thing is alright

On the island of misfit toys
our own rhythm to obey
our own light to guide our way
its a different thing from you, that's ok
you wear me down
you say I worry you
let's see can you imagine
why you care at all

Our battle's just begun
the war may not be won
but we're all in this together somehow
our ties are underground
why you always pin me down
you're just pinning you
let's see can you imagine
why you care at all

Try to land a punch on my face
but I'm just ghosting you
I'm on a different planet now without you
I've got my words and my sex and
every little thing is alright

Every Little Thing is Alright

Every Little Thing Is Alright

Another 80's classic reborn for our fractious times; "Stand or Fall," originally by The Fixx.

I know it isn't PC, but I took the liberty of changing the lyric on the chorus, which in The Fixx's original version is "it's the Euro theater..." which is strange to sing, being based in the US, during a time when our national politics are so fractured. And since the rise of right wing nationalism seems to be resurgent across the globe, I changed this lyric to "it's the global theater..."

In a live performance of this song, which you can find online, Cy Curnin sings "it's our human dimension," which I also incorporated into the chorus.

And lastly, hearing this song for the first time in the 80's - listening to it on FM radio and cassette tape - I always thought the lyric was "it's your own fear." Which, I think, fits the context of the song. So I added "don't give into your fear..."

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Covers

Stand or Fall

Stand Or Fall

For hope we wait
lost on the shore of a dying sea
we survived your bombs
our babies in arms
breathe air you breathe

Our cities in ruins
we're sun-scorched and desolate now
we're a host on the tide
wave after wave
no fence will ever hold us

We're not aliens
we're water and carbon
and minds that dream
children of the earth
and a god that resides
in all living things

Can't wish us apart
deny our place
or turn us around
we're a part of you all
we're you're mirror reflection
the sign of your disgrace...

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Notes: In George Orwell's "1984" Winston Smith, the protagonist, attends the daily "two minutes hate" a gathering where the crowd shouts at a screen depicting the government's endless war against the heretical people of East Asia... In one scene a plane dive-bombs a group of refugees, and shoots down a woman holding her infant child... Orwell's scene was the inspiration for "From On High," which refers to the very real plight of Syrian refugees trying to get into Europe...

Immigration is a human right... Some day because of climate change you might have to immigrate, too.  Love your fellow humans!
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1984

From on High

From On High

I make music reflecting our times in a mix of genres; 90s Alternative, Alt Metal, Dreampop, Shoegaze, Electronica -- He/Him, Progressive, LGBT/Feminist, Pro Climate, Yogi. Love Your Fellow Humans!

Anima Strange

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