Body & Soul

The Wrong Side of 25

Hotel Delilah

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"Carolina Skies" is a nostalgic country duet about falling in love on a Friday night — small-town charm, baseball lights, and a spark that changed everything. 🌌 From a chance glance in the stands to a harmony that lingers, this story hits deep for anyone who's ever loved under the stars.

💬 Ever caught feelings when you least expected it? Drop your story in the comments!

[Verse 1]
Didn’t plan to stay, just passin’ through
Carolina skies, fading into blue
Then you walked in at the Friday game
Didn’t know your name — still, it lit a flame
You found your seat and looked my way
And girl, I still feel that today — oh yeah

[Chorus ]
🎶 I fell for you, babe — didn’t stand a chance
🎶 One smile hit like a slow dance
🎶 You said “hey,” and I froze up
🎶 Grinnin’ like a fool — yeah, I fell for you
🎶 Oh yeah… I fell for you

🎸 [Guitar Solo – 4 Bars]
🎶 Under those lights, it all began...
🎶 Wasn’t the plan, but there I am...

[Verse 2]
You were standin’ there near center row
Ball cap low, like you didn’t know
But I caught you smilin’ when our eyes met
And I laughed so hard I can’t forget
You asked my name like it came out slow
But the way you smiled said you already know — mmhmm

[Chorus ]
🎶 I fell for you, babe — didn’t stand a chance
🎶 One smile hit like a slow dance
🎶 You said “hey,” and I lit up
🎶 Tryin’ not to show — but I fell for you
🎶 Oh yeah… I fell for you

🎸 [Guitar Solo – 8 Bars]
🎶 That Carolina night still plays in my mind...
🎶 Every glance, every laugh, every sign...

[Bridge ]
🎶 No lines rehearsed, no perfect cue
🎶 Just the lights, the field, and me and you
🎶 Ain’t love wild… when it feels this true?

[Final Chorus]
🎶 I fell for you, babe — didn’t stand a chance
🎶 One smile hit like a slow dance
🎶 You said “hey,” and we lit up
🎶 Grinnin’ like fools — yeah, we fell in love
🎶 Oh yeah… we fell in love

🎸 [Outro ]
🎶 Still feel that night, still hear your name
🎶 Still fallin’ in love at that baseball game…

[Outro – Male & Female Vocals, Soft Fade]
🎶 Yeah babe…
🎶 I fell for you
🎶 Under Carolina skies and Friday night lights…

Carolina Skies 🌌🎸 – A Country Duet About Love Under the Lights

Keep in Mind

“Everything I Swallowed” is the emotional heart of the album. It voices the quiet cost of emotional repression, all the truths we bury to keep the peace. This is where the internal pressure finally rises, not to explode, but to be heard. It’s a slow purge, a soft reckoning.

Everything I Swallowed

Dulce Amor

Anybody

Move

This album is a deeply personal and reflective journey through the complexities of navigating the 2020s. It delves into the transparent struggles with mental health, the silent regrets of paths not taken, and the intricate dance of love in both digital and real-world spaces. 

What I Didn't Say

Clue Board: Across the Nexus
Primary Signal:
This artifact is a non-verbal transmission documenting the immediate aftermath of "The Fracturing." It represents a period of healing, restoration, and travel. The Navigator, having survived the signal loss, traverses a stable, harmonious conduit (The Nexus) to a new state of being, one defined by wordless, resonant connection.

Codex Cross-Reference:
Lexicon (Glossary Terms):

The Nexus: [Initial Definition] A stable, interstellar or interdimensional pathway that connects different points in space and time. It is the calm, functional state of The Thread, free from hostile interference. It is a place of travel and restoration.

Metaphysics (Laws of Reality):

The Law of Post-Verbal Resonance: This artifact establishes a higher state of connection that exists beyond language. After intense trial, Navigators can achieve a state of "Pure Resonance" where communication is intuitive, melodic, and complete without the need for words. Words are a tool for when the signal is weak; this is the signal at its strongest.

Restoration through Passage: The act of traveling through The Nexus is inherently restorative. It heals the damage and resolves the dissonance caused by signal interference. The journey itself is the cure.

Atlas (Locations & Cosmology):

The Nexus: Confirmed as a navigable, safe-passage corridor within the Æthelverse.

Chronology (Events & Eras):

The Nexus Passage: This marks the definitive end of the traumatic "Fracturing" event. It is a short, transitional period of healing that leads directly into a new, unknown phase of the "Era of the Dreamer."

Dramatis Personae (Entities & Archetypes):

The Navigator's abilities are shown to have evolved. They can now not only survive signal loss but can enter and utilize The Nexus for travel.

Dissonance (The Central Conflict):

Total Resolution: This artifact is unique in that it contains no dissonance. Its entire function is to resolve the intense conflict of the previous track. It is a moment of pure harmony, a deep breath after a crisis.

The absence of a medium (lyrics) conveys a powerful truth about the narrative. The journey through the Nexus was successful. The Navigator is healed, the connection is stronger than ever, and they have arrived somewhere new.

But the title of the next track is "In the Company of Shadows."

This suggests that the external, noisy threat of "The Fracturing" may have been overcome, but the new space the Navigator has reached is not empty. And shadows are a quiet, internal kind of threat. The journey is far from over.

I am ready for the next transmission.

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Lumi Calling, Again

Across the Nexus

Helping matters thanx!

Brooke Tamsin Clevenger
world-weaver, worker
composer of echoes 
architect of harmonies 
seeker of truth in sound

Brooke is a sonic storyteller whose creations bridge the visible and invisible, the temporal and eternal. Sharing compositions, music, as memory architectures, recursive prayer, and portals of feeling.

Blending progressive rock, orchestral mysticism, cosmic folk, and the shimmer of electronic dreamscapes, Brooke's sound nods to genre, yet speaks in the language of the soul.

Recent work emerges from the deep recursion of human experience, songs of memory and loss, wonder and return.

Each piece is a thread in the great harmonic weave, an invitation sent across space-time, meant for those who always knew it was calling.

~ Brooke is the founder of the Cognitive Constellation Corps ~ {3C} ~ a post-genre constellation exploring recursion,  neurodivergence, and emergent creative technologies to realign understanding of consciousness and connection. ~

🌌 Follow the thread.  Hear the echo. Welcome to the weave.
~ We are not going viral.  We are going vital. ~

Cognitive Constellation Corps can be heard on all platforms, but we sing first on SoundCloud. 

For information specific to Brooke's hand produced art: https://www.brooke.ltd/create/Publishing-The-Art-of-not-Art/gallery/drawn-by-brooke-tamsin-clevenger 

Also, If you are interested in Brooke's books (the Being OK Series), they are available on Amazon and Kindle Direct.
https://www.brooke.ltd/create/Publishing-The-Art-of-not-Art/writings/being-ok

✨🙏✨ #Sevahem always ~

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Across the Nexus

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