Originally written by Robert Pollard, released on Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills, 2001.

Sister I Need Wine

Written by Tobin Sprout.
Originally performed by Guided By Voices, released on Motivational Jumpsuit (2014).


- Shine (Tomahawk Breath)-

In a place
Shine all day
Falling down for us
Shine
Tell me now
Shape what you're going through
Again
Releasing all the words
Can you hear me?
Can't you see me?
Can you sigh, all the way?
Chasing dreams again
All my seeds again
Racing down again
In the sun
In the sun

Shine (Tomahawk Breath)

SOLITUDE
Recorded & mixed by Joseph Meiring
Written by Jeff Ament and Robbi Robb
Originally released on the Three Fish debut album, 1996
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Dawn it breaks.. I am alone
I'm awake, my eyes unopen
Half in the dark.. half in the room
Half in the light.. sealed by your womb
Sail through my eyes out in the dark
Oceans of sighs adrift in her bark
Islands lay scattered, islands won't talk
Life hardly matters here in the dark..

I want you in solitude
I need you in solitude
I want you in solitude
I haunt you in solitude...

Once a jester in circles of friends
spoke in whispers, star words and gems
see to my scars, make them mend
adrift on her bark once was a friend
Sail away, I sail away...
I sail nowhere, nowhere, nowhere...
Hear her laugh through the air
down from the past into my lair...

I want you in solitude
I need you in solitude
I want you in solitude
I haunt you in solitude...

Solitude

My take on Jeff Ament's interpretation of the Ramones song 'I Just Want To Have Something To Do.'

Originally written by Joey Ramone, 1978, released on the Ramones album Road To Ruin.
Re-arranged, performed & recorded by Jeff Ament, 2001, released on the 2001 Pearl Jam fan club single.

All music in this version performed, recorded & mixed by Joseph Meiring.
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I JUST WANT TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO

Hanging out on Second Avenue
Eating chicken vindaloo
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do

Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight

Wait Now
Wait Now
Wait for me now

Hanging out all by myself
I don't want to be with anybody else
I just want to be with you
I just want to have something to do

Tonight, tonight
Tonight, alright
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight
Tonight, tonight, alright
Tonight, tonight

I Just Want To Have Something To Do

Gagging Order
Written by Thom Yorke, originally released on Radiohead's 'Go To Sleep' single, 2003.
This version was performed, recorded & mixed by Joseph Meiring.
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I know what you're thinking
but I'm not your property
no matter what you say
no matter what you say

move along...
there's nothing left to see
just a body...
there's nothing left to see

A couple more for breakfast
a little more for tea
just to take the edge off
just to take the edge

Gagging Order

Written & Recorded by Joseph Meiring
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Seems like there's no place left to go...
time moves on and it's not slowing...
Your name is cast in gold and glorified
It's such a simple thing to manipulate and lie
Propelled with desperation, riding fear waves
Your conscious has no place around here

I know what keeps you up at night
I know what makes you hide and die inside
Mistake my awareness for empathy
inflame your passions now and serve me
Pay no attention to my faceless friends in masks
we'll burn this world to glass

I'm your mouth all full of metal

Mouthfullametal

Written & Recorded by Joseph Meiring
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Hey now it's all over
You don't really need this
weight on your shoulder
let it go
You take what you can as you go
No need to fret now
we'll equalize in the end

It's always changing
don't get attached my friend
Things always change
don't get attached my friend

All this time now
you thought it chipped away
but you got something too
float on this river
we intersect, yeah
a million different ways
you thought this was a maze
it's infinite, open...

It's always changing
Don't get attached, my friend
Things always change
Don't get attached, my friend
Things always change
Don't get so down, my friend
Things always change
Don't get attached, my friend

Things Always Change

Written, recorded & mixed by Joseph Meiring
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I know you see right through it
a truth that lies
condensed down to a lone thought
a being of light

I dreamed this moment
into existence
no brainstorms, no microscopes, component breakdowns...
a pure explosion of being

Floating down the street all night
soft landscapes and gnashing teeth
caged by modern needs, this light
needs to proliferate and breath

I dreamed this moment
into existence
no brainstorms, deep analyses, complex dissections...
a pure explosion of being

A Pure Explosion of Being

Written, recorded & mixed by Joseph Meiring
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Your love is like a drug 
the more I get, the more I can't get enough 
of you... 
could you feel the same way too 
Where is my charmed eye 
lost in tears of the twilight 
of your touch... 

Don't say goodnight 
hold me now, don't let it die 
my darling, you... 

It's all I can do 
be still my heart and stay true 

I know nothing lasts forever 
and these moments are worth more than I can 
ever remember 
so lover, don't let go... 
my darling, you... 

Come back... 
Dark clouds surround morning and night


released August 15, 2018 
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In Twilight

Guitarist, singer, songwriter, audiophile, vinyl record enthusiast, biologist, and maker of killer home-made lattes.  These are home recordings that I've decided to share.

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