This is a beautiful song. I love the piano..strong lyrics and great delivery, excellent track!

very nice..like the piano sound and feel..thank you for this :)

It’s all around
Daylight breaks on frozen ground
And I've never told you
How good it feels to grow old with you

The night is cold and hard as steel
But you and I will never feel
The silent night the shivering morning
This burning ember heats our home

Its all above
An icy wind. A burning sun
And I’ve never told you
How good it feels to come home to you

The night is ours. It’s short but sweet 
And desperate hours before the week
A daily grind a cold design
This burning ember heats our home

So cry out
What's wrong with the world?
Why can’t they see
Things like you and me?

It’s all around
Daylight breaks on golden ground
Have I ever told you
How good it feels to have grown old with you?

The night is hard and cold as steel 
But you and i will never feel
The hardened heart, the cold of shoulder
This burning ember heats our home

It's All Around

"The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, the poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse  to allegorically describe the atmosphere in the immediate aftermath of WW1. The poem was written in the weeks following Yeats's pregnant wife's recovery from the flu. The virus had apparently bought his wife close to death. 
These themes of senseless destruction and pandemic seem to echo the world in which we currently find ourselves and the work seems like a chillingly apt allegory for our present situation.

A further twist to this piece is that the dialogue was generated using AI Voice cloning, the AI was trained using a recording of the English actor David Warner, who passed away in July 2022. The text of the poem was then simply copied into a text dialogue and the audio was then created within a minute. I slightly slowed the audio, split some sections and added some subtle convolution reverb, but otherwise the voice you hear is generated entirely by the AI.  
While this has been an interesting exercise in discovering what is possible, it does concern me regarding the rate at which AI technologies have suddenly exploded into the public arena.

Should we be worried.... possibly?

Dialogue: AI txt to speech generated using Eleven labs speech synthesis
Accompaniment: Andy & Helen

The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats (A dark ai verse for dark days)

Pull you through (John Taylor Cover)

Does anyone really listen to anyone else these days? Story of a person who thinks he's a good listener, but isn't. Kind of a dark and cynical song.
This is a rough demo never meant for release. But, maybe someone will listen...

Lyrics:
In the job interview
He didn't even ask me any questions
I just sat
And listened to him talk
He said: Just because my Father started this business
Doesn't mean I didn't fight for everything I have
I noticed his ringtone
Was Metallica's
Enter Sandman
(Oh) he said: Son, there's 2 types of people in this world
The ones that get thing done
And the ones that just let things go
Oh, they will never know
The thrill of selling burner phones
And counterfeit colognes

He said: You're a good listener!
Hell Yeah, I'm a good listener!
Good listener blues
Give me all the details of your life
The shrapnel and the hue's
Good listener blues

Sitting in rehab reception
She told me all about her history
And  how she now has a
Spiritual connection
I think
It's the poor magician
Who gives away his misdirection
Did she mistake my blank stare?
For her mis-perception?

She said: You're a good listener!
Hell yeah, I'm a good listener!
Good listener blues
is it a shoulder that you can use?
Give me all the details of your life
Cut through the sinew
To your truth
Good listener blues
Good listener blues

I took the story of my day
I wrote it down
Now you're suffering too!

Good Listener Blues

It seems there are always horrific conflicts/crises everyday. It seems they never change..the events/the causes/the excuses/the regrets.  I think these events are not as complicated as they seem and ghat the solution is equally simple. We are born with empathy and bond to each other and the planet and we slowly learn/are taught otherwise. We have to find the way back

so how about this time we really follow through with all our holiday cheer and have goodwill towards men all year

lyrics:
Gaza is crumbling
both sides are crying
nothing will be gained

Kiev is on fire
for one man's desire for fortune and for fame

"defund the police!"
"You will not replace me!"
stupid empty words
spoken in hatred
solving nothing
but keep us in a downward spiral

the map to peace
you've always had
but you never found the treasure
always looking in the wrong place
never knowing what to measure

the answer to peace is the golden rule
you know, the one you never do but always say
love your brother as yourself 
and all this goes away

Find your way

This is the full version of the theme  song from the podcast/album.

Album can be found on all digital stores.

The podcast can be found here:

Beyond The Doorway https://www.podbean.com/pi/pbblog-d649h-fd9548?wlapp=1

Beyond The Doorway (Theme Song-Full Version)

Original by Nazareth 1982
Vocal : Janne Hennie

Dream On W/ Janne Hennie

Well I've been waiting at the edge of this party
folks gone past 'happy drunk'...
and now the fights are startin'
yea
and I'm wishing I could walk away...
but I'd be lying, cause baby
I could lay down and die from the breath I've been holding
yea...cause for you...
I've been pining
an old hound dog...gone to howling
at the end of a very long chain
yea and I recall
this ol sad story...
oof where The Red Fern Grows...O
how could my life go on...
now that I know....you exist?
O
yea and I'm wishing I could run away
but I'm not denying...
yea, O baby
I could lay down and die from the breath I've been holding
yea O whoa whoa
like that ol hound dog...
gone to howlin'...
at the end of a very long chain

A Very Long Chain

indie bossa-nova: light on your feet, heavy on your heart

more info: http://www.jh0st.com/aerochute/
music video: https://youtu.be/xZASRIKmpNo
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AEROCHUTE 

faster than faster her, 
flyer than higher, you can shake down an airplane fly girl... 
when you move i don’t even have eyes just to know i see you. 

harder and further her, 
no parachute can prove it 
take a leap of faith love. 
all i know, it's you who's brave enough to be afraid now. 

will catch you when you fall after all 
mended wings bring your heart to mine. 
(faster, higher, further faster) 

lighter than arrows her, 
shall we keep flying over faces and places we know? 
or strip bare unclothe those words that sting even when not spoken. 

falling forever friend, 
The clouds’ll catch us 
not a broken bone will scratch us! 
cheating death for now hold hands while i take the fall when we land. 

will catch you when you fly suicide 
mended wings bring your heart to mine. 

-- 
album artwork: jin-suk.com

Buy on Bandcamp

aerochute [video in description]

Given

No Room Left

Music video:
https://youtu.be/MVMYtWtD3Hs

featuring @4catsncoffee on violin
:
Memories flicker between yearning, sorrow, and hope at the moment you realize your loved one has gone. Sweet blessing is an alt-folk tune with southern gothic undertones.
It is the opening track off the d'ville EP:
soundcloud.com/jh0st/sets/dville
:
------------------------lyrics

Sweet blessing,
why are you playing dead, eyes in the back of your head?
I know even though your skin is cold
You're playing the fool in me.

Just last week? Just last week 
you wrapped your pretty head around this old tree
and tried your best to drown 
but when darkness came down
Whispered please save me…

Sweet blessing come back, come back down 
Way down with your hands on the...
'Cause lately I've been thinking of
starting over as we grow young.

On Sundays you go to church alone
Leave your sister's children
Wondering why their two moms are so distracted…

When you come back
you come back, and break all the mirrors again
and scream that dying's the only fair thing
that's left in this world.

Sweet blessing come back, come back down 
Way down with your hands on the...
'Cause lately I've been thinking of
starting over as we grow young.

/violin solo @4catsncoffee/

Close those books
Close those books, they smell like dust and ghosts
These old words can't convey the pain
'cause our time is forever near us.

I know a place...
Know a place where almighty sky in the rain
Towers above the earth where we once lay

So bring that broken...
Broken violin with just one string
And I’ll, I'll bring the drums
and we'll sing and dance a play the darkness away.

Sweet blessing come back, come back down 
Way down with your hands on the...
'cause lately I've been thinking of
Starting over as we grow young.

d'ville

2020

Sweet Blessing [ft. 4catsncoffee | video in description]

Music available on bandcamp https://thebargainbasementbutterflies.bandcamp.com/

The Bargain Basement Butterflies are gleefully inspired by Kraftwerk, Erasure, OMD, the Lightning Seeds, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, The Cure, Laurie Anderson and a host of other terrific artists old and new.

Living Life and Making Music, because what else is one to do? 

Open to collaborations.
I do love to sing...or play.

No Room Left

The Bargain Basement Butterflies

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