Hommage à une amie disparue.

Consolation

A little more tenderness,
I need it so much.
Look,  sister,
See what I've become—
A shadow without flame,
Drowned in disgust,
A puppet without a soul,
Everything weeps, everything is blurred.
Hold me in your arms,
And together let’s find again,
You know, this consolation.
Come into my arms,
And together let’s find again,
You know, this consolation.
The sea has receded,
Silently and fearlessly.
The waves have carved
Our cheeks and our hearts.
Suddenly orphaned,
The pebbles roll and crackle
On the soft sand,
Inviting us to unite.
Hold me in your arms,
And together let’s find again,
You know, this consolation.
Come into my arms,
And together let’s find again,
You know, this consolation.
A little more tenderness,
I need it so much.
Look, sister,
See what I’ve become.
It’s time to embrace,
To accept the sorrows,
To sing our prayers
For the living and the dead.
Hold me in your arms
And together let’s find again,
You know, this consolation.
Held tight in our arms,
From chrysalis to butterfly,
Let’s find consolation again.

Consolation

Music  & Lyrics: Jan Schonander

Going at it with mostly a single synth stem again....piano and 2 synths all being played at the same time. Drums, bass and vocal are separate.

LIVE OR DIE

Intravenous information
Way too much explanation
Getting to my circulation
Spin me round
I get high

I wanna know
You wanna know
To live or die
I wanna know
We wanna know
To live or die

From the sea or sky
It’s all the same
From the north and south
It’s all the same
It’s wet or dry
Feast or famine
Do this, do that, do something
Can’t be doing nothing

More and more…
On and on…

More and more…
On and on…
I can’t stop

It’s all too easy
I turn on the power
It’s never gonna touch me
It’s all too easy
Complete strangers
So far away
So far away

Needle drip drop overload 
Twist and turn hand it over
Play the game kick the can  
Spin the boy
I get high

More and more…
On and on…

More and more…
On and on…
I can’t stop

I wanna know
You wanna know
To live or die
To die
I wanna know
We wanna know
To live or die
To die

Live Or Die

Spotify

SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
WAS MET BY A FANFARE
THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
SIX IN THE MORNING
ARRIVED WITH OUT WARNING
>
HE FELL OUT OF THE SKY
NOBODY BELIEVED HIM
IT CAME AS NO SURPRISE
THAT IT ALL CAME TO NOTHIN'
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
HIS ACCUSERS, ON A HIGH
BOTH THE FOOLISH AND THE WISE
PREACH THE UNIVERSAL LIE
INSISTING HE MUST DIE
>
AS THE HECKLERS MULTIPLY
HIS EXISTENCE, THEY DENY
HIS REJECTION AND DEJECTION
A WRITTEN IN CONCRETE PROPHECY
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
A WORD TO THE UNWISE
THERE IS NO SOLUTION
IF YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW WHY
YOU ARE IN FOR A BIG SURPRISE
>
YOU LOOK IN THE RIGHT PLACE
BUT LOOK AT THE WRONG TIME
THE TRUTH IS ALL AROUND YOU
BUT NOTHING CAN OPEN YOUR EYES
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
THE ABILITY TO REASON OR THINK FOR YOURSELF
HAS DEPARTED THIS WORLD, AND DESERTED THE PEOPLE
>
BEYOND THE POINT OF REDEMPTION
YOUR'E THE BLANK GENERATION
YOUR LACK OF INVENTION
GIVING WAY TO PRETENSION
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
YOU MISTAKE THE GENII FOR JERKS
BUT FOR THE JERKS YOU GO BERSERK
AND PLACE THE JACKASS RAPPER
ON THE PEDESTAL HE BOUGHT
>
WHILE BORN AGAIN BOWIE
STARES YOU IN THE FACE
AWASH WITH NO PUBLICITY
DESTINED TO VANISH WITHOUT TRACE
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
SWALLOWED UP IN A SEA
OF MEDIOCRITY
WHERE THE KING IS IMITATION
WITH THE PUBLIC ALWAYS LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACE
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
HE'S ECLECTIC, HE'S PERSISTENT
HIS SONGWRITING; CONSISTENT
TO EVERY PASSING WHIM
HE'S ETERNALLY RESISTANT
>
THE WIDTH OF HIS IMAGINATION
EVIDENT IN HIS CREATIONS
BEYOND ALL EXPECTATION
USHERS HIM FROM STATION TO STATION
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
NON-EXISTENT BOUNDARIES
THE CORE OF HIS BELIEFS
WITHIN A BOX THAT HAS NO SIDES
THE UNIVERSE IS HIS FRUSTRATION
>
EVERYBODY ELSE IS WRONG
AND SURE TO UNDERRATE THIS SONG
THAT'S WHY I THINK I DON'T BELONG
THAT'S WHY I'M SOMEWHERE IN THE DISTANCE
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
WITHIN MY MIND, EXISTING WALLS
LIKE JERICHO, AFTER THE FALL
WERE PULVERIZED AND GROUND TO DUST
THOUGH THEY WERE NEVER THERE AT ALL
>
IF ONLY THEY WOULD DROP THE ACT
PARTITION FICTION FROM THE FACTS
MY ONLY MISSION, STILL INTACT
WOULD BE THE ONE I CAN'T RECALL
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
THE SUPERFICIAL MAKE SICK
CAN ONLY TURN A SINGLE TRICK
BUT PLASTIC PEOPLE ALWAYS WIN
IT'S ALL ABOUT SURFACE SKIN
>
IT'S DANGEROUS TO BE 
>
DANGEROUSLY DIFFERENT
TO THE SHEEP, I'M NON-EXISTENT
BEING DEEP IS AN AFFLICTION
SAYS THE UNNATURAL SELECTION
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
TO DISAGREE WOULD BE SIN
TO SWIM AGAINST THE SEA OF MAN
WILL PUT YOU WAY OUT ON A LIMB
AND VULNERABLE TO EXECUTION
>
I HATE THE WAY THE MASSES THINK
THE MEDIOCRITY THEY DRINK
THEIR MOUTHS ALL MOVE IN PERFECT SYNC
WHEN OTHERS DO, THEY ALSO BLINK
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP
>
I'M HAPPY THAT MY MIND IS FREE
MY 'DON'T BELONG' PHILOSOPHY
THE LIFEBLOOD OF HUMANITY
WILL GIVE MY PSYCHE FULL PROTECTION
>
SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP

SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEONS OF POP

Till the Sun Grows Old

Vale of Tears (Original Mix)

Eternal Expanse

Quiet River

harmonic interlude...feel free for new experience

Secrets Of Soul

Since we're getting close to Christmas, here goes my modest version of the "Come Unto Me" invitation.

Aprendei de mim, que sou manso e humilde de coração.
Em mim encontrareis descanso,
porque eu venci o mundo,
e a minha paz vos dou.
Entrai no descanso que vos dou. Erguei-vos.

Vós, cansados, vinde a mim.
Oprimidos, vinde a mim.
Na saudade, vinde a mim. 
Na verdade, que vos traz a liberdade, 
sem receios, vinde a mim.

Na miséria, vinde a mim.
Os que choram, vinde a mim.
Os que imploram, vinde a mim.
Vós, famintos de verdade e de justiça,
magoados, vinde a mim.

Escravizados, vinde a mim.
Vós, perdidos, vinde a mim.
Os que imploram, vinde a mim.
Os que choram pelas ruas da amargura,
os vencidos, vinde a mim.

Vinde a mim...

Vinde a Mim

'ex-love' 

I'm such a fuckin' fool
to have fallen for you.
You act like everything is cool,
but your words don't match what you do. 

I caught you in the act.
And how did you react?
You placed the blame right back
on me. Claimed I used the key misappropriately. 

But you're the liar and the cheat, ex-love.
So, why the fuck did you give me a key, ex-love?
If you knew you're gonna fuckin' cheat on me, ex-love?
Then turn it around, place the blame upon me, ex-love.

We're through.
Because of you.
Not me.

ex-love

Oh marshmallow donkey with a sting in your tail 
You’re the king of confections on a frightening trail 
Not a treat to meet in the midnight breeze 
A chewy nightmare that brings you to your knees

Marshmallow Donkey

Tempo 136
Tuning 415.30Hz - A
Timing 4/4
Key - Gm ➡️Eb➡️Gm

Lyrics

Why are you rushing?
These moments pass
Many 'been forgotten
Experience says
Guilty pleasures gushing
Weakmindedness
We're at our priceless best
When you short change your chest

It's too fast
Our now needs your presence to pass
It won't last
Set it slow
Now ask

Old friends won't be forgotten
Your rhymes forever there
New humans begotten
Hell, we needed no prayer

Ones who've passed
You're with us
Memories like yesterday
We raced fast,
Some tripped up,
In love, weed, booze, mdma.

🧘🏻Well, we say grace
Let's race
Face to face
Let's race

We say grace
Let's race
Face to face
Let's race

🔥We say grace
Let's race
Face to face
Let's race

We say grace
Let's race
Face to face
Let's race

We say grace...

🚀Must stop the Russian!
See what Kyiv says
Gaza won't be forgotten
Soon a day...
Your promised land

Guilty pleasures gushing
That's Trump's mindlessness

Be your priceless best
Look, you don't need to pray for this
You won't pay for

💥We say grace
Let's race
Face to face
Let's race
We say grace

The Race

In order to relate to your music most listeners need to be able to #pigeonhole it, if they can’t do this because you create tunes that are unique they'll likely dismiss your creativity, absorbing it years later when musicians, thinking they got there first, stumble on your sound!

I say it the way I see it, not the way THEY want me to see it!

Influenced by Gothic Music, lots of Funk, lots of Fusion, Post Industrial, Psychedelia, a smidgen of Post Punk, elements of Death and Dark Disco, traces o Trip Hop, Trap, EDM, Trance, Techno, House, Glam Rock, Nu Disco; Dub; I think you get the picture!

SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEONS OF POP

ATHENS DEATH DISCO aka GOTHIC FUNK