Dusk has settled down on a day so beautiful
descending rays of light so colorful
and it's hard to say goodbye

Day has passed to night on a life so beautiful
and every passing year was lived in full
and it's hard to say goodbye

If you knew how the ending went would it change the way you live?
If you knew another's fate would it change the way you give?
Will you be remembered when you're gone?
As the clouds just pass along

We go our separate ways without a smile for a friend...
maybe there's a better way?

We've left memories here that'll never fade away
The love we gave was free and that's what it's for
And I wanna tell you, when I'm gone, when you think of me I couldn't love you any more.

Now that the journey ends do you look back with regret?
Or will you remember the days and be proud of how it went?
Will you be remembered when you're gone?
As the clouds just pass along

We've left memories here that'll never fade away
The love we gave was free and that's what it's for
And I wanna tell you, when I'm gone, when you think of me I couldn't love you any more.

If there was a way to make it back
and relive the times we cried and laughed
I wouldn't change one thing
I wouldn't change one thing

In your next life find me
In your next life find me
In your next life find me
In your next life find me
In your next life find me
In your next life find me
In your next life find me
In your next life find me
In your next life find me

Poison Frog

Dusk Has Settled

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Redbridge is Steven Robert Vanderploeg.
Original Music and Entertainment Experiences written, recorded and produced by SRV. All instruments played or programmed by SRV, vocals performed by SRV.

To all the outstanding musicians out there who inspire me.

LINK TO MY MUSIC:

To celebrate 2000, I took a year off to write songs, novels, plays, and stories - and I've been doing that since. At the end of my first year, I won first prize in the USA Songwriting Contest in the Lyric Category for 'Drum Machines and Beauty Queens.' This led to co-writing songs with many excellent musicians, including those represented in songs posted here. 

More recently, I was one of seven finalists in the Crisis Lyric Category of the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest for 'Lockdown Blues,' and one of nine nominees in the 2021 International Song Awards with 'Didn't the River Know' and 'Blue and Gold.'

For the past two years, I've been collaborating with many talented musicians on Kompoz. I release many of these songs here and compile the best into albums released under Captain Stormfield's Trip on Spotify and other platforms (see links below).

Dusk Has Settled

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