There can come a time in one's life when one simply forgets one's inner-core ambitions, dreams & aspirations.. this song is about that reconnect.

"WINGS OF MY OWN" - Music & Lyrics by Carl Braund
(This is a draft version for vocal reference)

I’m away – spirit-bound..
Like out a gate kicked open 1st sign of spring.
Pick a star – check the wind..
That’s just me boltin’ for the horizon!

Empty nest – off my chest..
I taught them everything I know.
As for that star – sails full of wind..
Without oppression, kids, they’re sure to soar!

CHORUS:
Along the way, somehow I forgot that I had wings of my own.

S   l   o   w     m   o   t   i  o   n    .....      flyin’ time..
What the hell is going on in my life?
Try to stay – positive..
There’s no way I’m going down for the count.

So much good – just in front of me..
‘til I find my centre, it remains out of reach!
So, to the core – I must go..
And again remind me of what the hell I’m here for!

CHORUS:
Along the way, somehow I forgot that I had wings of my own.. wings of my own.

Lick my lips – pickup sticks
The Spindrift tells that I’m close to shore.
I now recall – as a kid..
The image in my dreams of who I’d be.

Fancy that.. all this time,
I just forgot about little ole me!
Not this time – just being bold..
Apparently I’m really good at that it seems!

So, I’m away.. Spirit-bound..
Glad I didn’t miss this time to change now.
So here I go – trust myself..
‘Cause at the end of the day – there’s nobody else!

CHORUS:
Along the way, somehow I forgot that I had wings of my own.. wings of my own.
So here & now, it’s my time this time to use these wings all my own..
So here & now, it’s my time this time to use these wings all my own..
..use these wings all my own..
..use my wings.. all alone.  Great..

Copyright SOCAN © 2013 Carl Braund

Wings of My Own

Originally a soundscape experiment, this ditty was constructed back in the early '90's, by Bob Sibony & Carl Braund.
Copyright©Carl Braund 1991

When we were finally finished, we immediately considered this piece as a soundtrack & basis for a 2:33-minute partially animated 'short', so I quickly dawned the pencil & paper and started sketching out the visuals.  There really was only one way to pull off this level of conceptual visualization,  thus it became a concept for an ambitious IMAX teaser flick for the time!

After approaching Toronto's own ALIAS Animation Software and being offered their latest & greatest releases to utilize for the project, as well personally speaking to one of IMAX's founders on the telephone getting their interest & backing, the project was then stonewalled at the acquisition of computer hardware (particularly SGI) in order to undertake this massive project..  the entire concept has sat on the creative shelf ever since.  I have produced a storyboard for the visuals, though this would involve the melding of both live footage as well as serious reality animation rendering.  This certainly was an exciting proposition at the time.  I have seen many incumbents since the letter of intent for this project had been submitted, and still find the melding of intense visuals and customized audio composition has yet to be specifically explored on such an extreme level of production.  This project was very specific for this purpose.

My ambition is to one day revisit this project & get it to actually take flight as it truly should..

In the meantime, just enjoy the audio journey..

Controlled Flight Into Terrain

Took one of my tunes & had some fun in the Studio with it - had an exceptional Performer/Producer take it up a few notches!!  I'm truly humbled by this all & extremely grateful for the interest!

Recorded at Kensington Sound Studios, Toronto
Produced by Vezi Tayyeb
All additional tracks beyond piano & lead vocals performed by Vezi Tayyeb.

Recorded October, 2023, Toronto, Canada.

The Distance / mixdown 2023

Published on Oct 18, 2015
Written Wednesday, March 21, 2012

A politically-motivated song depicting one's absolute resentment toward a nefarious gang of individuals who outright deceived & abused an entire country affecting an entire population in any way, let alone negatively. Game is up ~ there's the EXIT.

Hand Drum, percussion, production: Bob Sibony
Piano, keyboards, vocals: Carl Braund
Song & lyrics written by Carl Braund

"YOU know it works both ways ~  when we say what’s on our minds
And find the time to say the things we really want to say..

BUT then again somehow ~ communication’s skewed & bent
To forge your message in cement & cornerstone my home..

JUST who are you? – Come barging in my life – a constant flow of strife
Imposing all your thoughts & wishes too..

PLEASE keep them to yourself – it’s not your job – so just stand down
And tell your mob the plan’s been scuttled due to reality..

THAT’s just the way things go as you know
When one takes the lower road in hopes to save themselves a little steam…………..

THERE are no real shortcuts as per say
The price of convenience is all interest for dearly you will pay..

FOR what goes around indeed comes around in spades
In ways you wish you simply chose a different way..

WITH hopes the next time you are faced with choosing right from wrong
That you rekindle the memory of the Karmic interest you still pay..

I wouldn’t mind so much the thought that you were representing WHO you really are
And not just nefariously saying ‘neigh’..

YOU Trojan Horse your way through the gates
Like all’s O.K. & no one noticed, paid attention or took heed..

YOUR Blatancy & maniacal buffoonery
Has roots of a foreign money tree..

AN Emperor’s New Wardrobe Poster Boy,
You gallantly walk the walk & talk the talk & walk the talk & talk the walk &………………………………

JUST who are you? – Come barging in my life – a constant flow of strife
Imposing all your thoughts & wishes too..

THAT’s just the way things go as you know
When one takes the lower road in hopes to save themselves a little steam..

BUT then again somehow communication’s skewed & bent
To forge your message in cement & cornerstone my home..

YOU know it works both ways when we say what’s on our minds
And find the time to say the things we really want to say.."

Copyright©2012 Carl Braund
Copyright©2015 SOCAN


It Works Both Ways

Original lyrics & composition Copyright © Carl Braund 2006

A Heartbreak Like No Other.

(I thought) the last thing we’d
want to do
is hurt each other
I thank you for
reaching down &
pulling me off the ground.

In our own way
we hurt inside.
for our own reasons.
Intentions are good,
just seems so out of season.
though, as we know
it comes around
the cycle.
So all is not lost
we’ve helped
discover,
prepared more for what’s to come..
What lies ahead..			
a heart break like no other..
a heart break like no other.

Life is most certainly
a crazy ride
Fueled by what you’ve got
What you've got inside.
But sometime when you’re running
when you’re running dry,
you can use whatever momentum
you can find –
even from getting pushed aside.
Oooh, oooh..

So please let's not start
throwing blame.
I know that you're hurting
but I too feel the pain.
This is not what we wanted,
no, no, no
it's the dark side of our dream.
a heart break like no other..
a heart break like no other.
a heart break like no other..
a heart break like no other.
a heart break like no other..
Oooh, oooh..

A Heartbreak Like No Other md1

MY EVERYTHING
Composed & performed by Carl Braund, December 2012, written April 12, 2012.

I just opened my eyes
To this beautiful day.
And I look out for you
(Be)Cause that’s what I like to do.

You mean so very much to me
Sort of like my everything.
Exposing my vulnerability
The sort of thing that would bring me to my knees..

BREAK x 1

We somehow feel it’s meant to be
And yet so foreign to our dreams.
What we once never had
Has become all we need.

I know too well that nothing lasts
I just love to be with you.
With hopes that’s not too much to ask
But knowing it’s just not good enough for you!
It’s just not good enough for you..

BREAK x 2

I just opened my eyes
To this beautiful day.
And I look out for you
(Be)Cause that’s what I like to do.

You mean so very much to me
Sort of like my everything.
Exposing my vulnerability
The sort of thing that would bring me to my knees..

Copyright © Carl Braund 2012

My Everything

I’ve got the love for you honey  (Chorus)
I’ve got all the love you want honey eehey yea hey hey
I’ll supply all the love you need honey
If you’d ask me to – while I’m here with you..

Da do de la duda daduda daduda da - da dutin du da da dududu
Da do de la duda daduda daduda da - da dutin du da da dududu
Da dutin du da doo - Da dutin du da doo

(Well) I was sittin in a bar called the Spotted Dick
I double-checked mine & it wasn’t it
Low & behold right next to me
Sat a gorgeous girl who I had overseen.

‘Although we just met’ she said tenderly, ‘I like what you do there in front of me!’

(Chorus)

‘You don’t understand’, I tried to tell her like it is..
I’ve been here an hour – I’m not inquisitive.
I just looked out the window & I read the name
Just makin’ sure it wasn’t me to blame..

(Chorus)

Oh, this is all going much too far
I just figured out exactly where we are
You think I’m the kind of guy who likes to play
(Well) It’s girls like you who leave a scar on my emotions..

I’ve done all I can, I thought, to turn this girl around
When she ain’t lookin’ I’d slide out of town
And then she got up and as she walked away
I looked at her hour glass & figured – life could end today..

(Chorus)

Copyright © Carl Braund 1999 SOCAN

If You'd Ask Me To

Dash-A-Far           by Carl Braund 1982

You star the laughter scene
Though no one knows exactly who you are
Some years gone by – and really why are you still here?

The plains & forces really you’d wish appear, instead they disappear, they disappear.
I don’t belong in such a dirty scene
Who am I to be so mean?

The screwed I’ve screwed – they’re all bad news
The tough get rough – they’re bound to lose
But still, where do I stand?  Where do I stand?

(Ch)  Routine between the lines
Not seen or noticed as you read on..
The pages near finished, you realize the secret has bonded you for so long..

Repeat the meet – the track won’t bend
Such a sporty microcosm in the end
I must break lose – relocate
Before I blow my brains my fate

It can’t be so, I will you know
I’m tired and ill can’t stop me now
You’re in my will – I will – I will.

It’s here, the end, if not pretend
Hallucinate, degenerate,
If so I go my friend, I go my friend.

The plains & forces, the dirty scene
I’ll take my life – it seems so sad..
The common man will leave..
It seems so sad the common man will leave..

(Ch)  Routine between the lines
Not seen or noticed as you read on..
The pages near finished, you realize the secret has bonded you for so long..


Copyright © Carl Braund 1982 SOCAN

Dash-A-Far

This is about every single one of us..

The Same..						by Carl Braund
				              Written	Nov. 12, 2004
                                                                                          This recording  July 2009

*As one looks to the other side..	
One feels the need for change.
Such thoughts possess us like a gilded cage..
Only to the bird.
	
For we WANT the same.	
We FEEL the same.
We HOPE the same…..
We DREAM the same.

It doesn’t matter what we say,
It only matters what we do.
The act remains – the word just fades.
Our thoughts lead us into a complex maze,

But our FATE’s the same.
Our BLAME’s the same.
We WORK the same…..
We BLEED the same.

So quick to judge our fellow kind.
The only difference is in our mind.
Beheading by serrated knife,
My cut-throat brother, don’t just take a life (for you see…)

….The flag behind you is my own flag,			
The god we honour is the same god.
My world you’re killing is your own world,
Let’s face the hate and end the strife..

We hide behind each other from our own lies,
Believing in our truths.
Today’s the day we better recognize
Without each other we both lose!

	We’re ALL the same.
	We’ll LOSE the same.
             (&) We’ll GAIN the same…..
	The SHAME’s the same.    (Solo)  
	The PAIN’s the same…..
	The HATE’s the same.
	Our FLESH, the same.   ^
	Our LOVE’s the same.
                   Our TIME’s the same…^….  ……..
                    We CRASH the same.
                    We DIE the same…..,
But don’t be fooled in this life, we’re never born again…
For the CRIME’s the same..

*Intro Repeat.					

Copyright©2004 Carl Braund

The Same

Oh, Such is Life – Lyrics & Music by Carl Braund

Oh, such is life
My child grows before my eyes
Every blink of sight might satisfy the dry sting
But what I’d miss seems everything.

So clear the path
So well trodden, beaten, woven from what was
To what we'd strive to be 
We dreamed we’d be..

Chorus:
I’d breathe my lungs so full of air
To die and float to keep you above the waterline
I wouldn’t think twice (nor) hesitate, I’d just do
My child, I owe it all to you.

I know I feel I’m sane
But to be in doubt if this each day
I begin to realize that where I am & what I hold on to
Was not there yesterday - & could be gone tomorrow

I look to the sky
And in the clouds, everything is as it should be
The way its tossed around by all that surrounds
(It’s) The chaos that’s the common ground.

Chorus:
I’d be my life & father you
I learn from you just as much as you learn from me.
We both know, the world should know the Earth has a soul
My child, I pass it on to you..

Oh, such is life
My child grew before my eyes
Every blink of sight may have satisfied the dry sting
But what I missed seems everything.

Copyright © 1991 Carl Braund
Demo Recorded April 26, 2013.

Carl Braund

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