10 seconds
the difference between everything and nothing
the thinnest margin
it was supposed to be beautiful
so hard to say goodbye
maybe the next time
maybe the next life
it was supposed to be beautiful
maybe the next time
maybe in the next life
it was supposed to be beautiful

as always, thanks to our dear friend Adrian :)
https://soundcloud.com/adrianhallam

supposed to be...with Adrian Hallam

it's a sweet surrender
groundhog day down
a warm reflection
natural

back to basics
with two feet down
having lost the premise
we simplify

it's not goin' away
everything changes
it's a beautiful day
when we rearrange it

you may get bigger
but no better
it's a curious game we play
by and by

everything changes

Thank you to https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein for creating this fine 🎶
Love will always be the greater force.

Lyrics: 
So, don't you think it's getting old now
Empty rounds, sprayed all around
So, don't you think it's getting old now
It could be different now
Somehow

Not another one, oh no

Wake up

not another one - Jonathan Beckenstein/cw

Belle on flute

can you hear the mission bells
ringing out like memories
can you hear the mission bells
blowing in the window

can you hear the mission bells
emanating from the hills
can you hear the mission bells
blowing in the wind oh

toll


can you hear the mission bells
ringing out in foreign lands
can you hear the mission bells
through warm, arid, desert sand

toll

the lovely Belle on flute
Straddie at full moon

can you hear that sound

high above the full moon glows
throwing shadows on the world below
far below

can you hear that sound
rising up with the northern wind
climbing up to heaven on high

maybe it's the sound
turns it all around
maybe it's the mood
you do

we'll be coming off high
as the innocence dies
we'll be running on low
as we hit the open road

something tells me that it don't get better than this right now


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_HpsMZXiPQ

sound

you'd have thought it'd be more simple than this
the army gathered 'round their supposed enemy
soon it became clear that all was lost
yeah, all was lost

his mother begged him, no, don't go, this isn't right
i cannot bear to lose, my son, to a war unwinnable
who's proving what to whom

he promised her that he'd return victorious
bring glory back to us
because enough's enough
you'll see

and when they told her that his body wasn't found
she fell to the ground
oh, no
this cannot be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo5-xhmWta0

Michael Weber's Album

lost

feels wonderful from here
and it seems worth mentioning
thru the early morning chill
see the world awakening

and so it is
and so it goes

see the luminescent leaves
dancin' with the breeze
the critters start to seek
a way to go

the butterflies that float
together carelessly
bring beauty to the day
already beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWRy1dAUq0Q

summer

it's fine, is seems
you stop, believe
the simple words
rain starts to blur

droppin' down your trail
put it in the mill
next up on your list
send a handy wish

full daisy chains
'n stacked remains
a joke that fits
non stick surface

this massive charge
come foolish hearts
you mix love in
on top of it
a hundred firsts
go unrehearsed
perplexing wind
to lure you in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssaejcaOrc

wish

wouldn't you like to know
are we supposed to know
how it ends

wouldn't you like to see
how it's gonna be
when it's all over

we could leave it up to chance
a little bit of romance never hurt
we could let it all just be
call it destiny 
enjoy the ride

if we knew maybe we'd get it right
or would we be resigned
would we make the most of time
living knowing that

wouldn't you like to know
how it's gonna go
will it rain

it may take a little while
to learn to live life
preordained

wouldn't you like to know
are we supposed to know
how it ends

Belle on flute :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svQLctmIze8

preordained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmbJge0sCMY

desire

something tells me won't be walking home today
all the memories keep tellin' you to stay
oh, the little things you thought you knew so well
put you in a spell

tell yourself, just to carry on
help yourself, to a little love
just exhale, feel the music in you heart
tell yourself, it'll be all right
it may take, the needed time
tell yourself and get through the day

when you know that there is nothing you can do
you wait

when it seems that it will never be the same
again

https://youtu.be/E4B-QTMuNt8

Belle mentioned clarinet for this one, so I opened the old case and gave it a go.

well you can't know exactly where to turn
when you find you're losing hold
no you won't know exactly what it is
'til you know

it's a mountain you'd rather not climb
if it weren't so beautiful
keep it simple read between the lines
no one knows

chasing up high into the sky
might as well enjoy the ride
when you go warm in the sunlight
maybe you'll sing a lullaby

no you can't have everything at once
it's a matter worth repeating
but the golden view is pure delight
breathe in

so as much as it may seem real
all the stories they merge into one
with convictions higher than the hills
the unknown has its own will

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqA1SyUwqZk

age old question

the red wine is goin' to my head 
and i ought be goin' off to bed
but i'm dreamin' still of 
great things to come 
thinkin' about the time when we'll be 
free from

'n i'm thinking about time 
you were feelin' right
the rain went over your head 
'n left you petrified 
as soon as the winds had called 
to shout out loud 
your new name 
it's hard to see when your shadows nearly fade

can you wake from this one this time

do you remember when we 
were up north ridin' with psychopaths 
oh they carried bottles of blackened 
whatever it was 
they were whacked 
we were there with them a while trapped trapped on
do you reckon we made it thru that night 
just to get back to time 
sweet time

it doesn't figure out
what is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dvAHYSN4Yk

head in the clouds

you thought you had an idea
that it was a certain way
and then you realized it all had changed

all the mystery that you thought
would pull you down has brought you higher
all the wonder of the other way
to show you to another place
another
another place

look in my eyes, see what you see
everything's different

you might approach it differently when you see different faces
you might approach it true as one
you might find something better than you thought you understood
you might find something different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x_vPc7b6N0

different faces

you never know what you know when you know what you know
'til you know what you know don’t you know

https://youtu.be/m7MJ4VnEq2k

gone

you thought you had an idea
that it was a certain way
and then you realized it all had changed

all the mystery that you thought
would pull you down has brought you higher
all the wonder of the other way
to take you to another place
another place

look in my eyes, see what you see
everything's different

you might approach it differently when you see different faces
you might approach it true as one
you might see something better than you thought you ever knew
you might find something different

different faces accoustic

i sang
you sung
he she it singed
we sing gid
you sanged
they sunked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpX8NQkAuWM

the unsong

we've been waitin' for so long
for this chill to come along
you are hoping that it won't 
say goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YC-bvK43dQ

kissing the summer goodbye

merci D :)
https://soundcloud.com/blindsessionproject

comes back to us - blind session/camo

maybe we'll agree to disagree
maybe we'll see thru the trees
maybe we'll walk hand in hand
maybe we'll fall
maybe we'll stand

maybe we'll look in and see what we can take
maybe we'll brush it off
and learn to live in a new way
maybe we'll take a stand
maybe we won't stand for anything
maybe we'll just relax
upon the old decrepit swing

maybe we'll just rejoice
about the time that remains
maybe we'll just hold on for our lives

a new way

the waves are fallin' over my head
the waves are crashin' over my head
you pull yourself up by the bootstraps
'n collect
take inventory of
what remains

the waves are crashin' over my head
yeah, how I even got out of bed

it's funny how time can cure your deepest ills
it's funny how denial can keep you well

the waves are crashin' over my head
the whitewater leaves you spinnin' down

Belle on flute :)

waves

if ya don't know where you gonna go
how you gonna ever place it

if ya don't ride with the moonlight
how will you know that the time has arrived

so rise
and shine

if you don't know how to unload
how ya ever gonna take off

if you're undone check into the sun
maybe you'll make your way up

so rise
and shine

how do ya know
if you don't know
how do you grow
if you don't show
what do ya say
what are you for
under the sun
everything's wonderful

so rise

if you don't wait you won't be late
take a little time to contemplate

let it go 'n see where it all shakes out
'til you really know what it's all about

so rise
'n shine

rise

shut off the noise
go quiet

we're hopeful
that change is good
we try to be understood
the meaning that's left behind
can find us in its sweet time

though oceans apart
we sing with one heart
to the language 🎶

we wrestle with our doubts
and wonder what it's all about

we try x again to run

and you roam and you roll, etc., etc.
you know how it goes

2nd time around
you got your feet on the ground
as you return to you

you find you
the stripped down you

you're under duress
you're feeling the rest of it
and you get down to the truth
you cast aside
you can try to hide it

it suits you well
the truth

instrumental created by an anonymous musical friend
yep, get by with a little help from me friends :)

shut off the noise

down by the waterside we could smell the sea air and all the life
to be around

like the wind blows

down by the water's edge we could hear the sound of migration
and feel the change of the season

the wind ii

hey there mother
I can hear you
though I'm far, far away

hey big sister
now I miss ya
wasn't supposed to go this way

the river
gives and takes
like my father
I was born to live

under water
you get closer
to the beginning

you can only do 
what you do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDyMlxVP5Y

the river

magic

could see it comin’ from far away a need created to satisfy a need
it was a sunny day the feeling was something other than sunny
with heads bowed down & hands at motion in this electric sea
the passers by could see them missin’ the best damned part of the day

how could this happen they asked? 
there’s freedom, isn’t there? freedom to know most everything 
we have seen them take their minds away and give them nothing in exchange 
so now we’re fighting back
yeah now we’re fighting back to be together again somehow

a chance to be there
a chance to be here
a chance
to be HERE

sunny day

this is a really special song for me
Andre and I have been friends for a number of years now
we met at a school called Thunderbird where we had a good time writing some original songs
I guess it was my first electric-type band experience too.
Hope you enjoy Andre's elegant touch on the guitar.
He's had it for years.
https://soundcloud.com/axmarallion

back to where we started - w/ andre

on the way up you may find it
on the way back down we’re reminded
how impermanent this existence is
you don’t take for granted the times like this
on the way up

on the way up when the going right
takes a twisted turn sends you out of mind
what else can you do but to see it through
every day indeed is a gift anew
on the way up

way up, on the way up

on the way up while recovering
you are not alone you’re discovering
it is down, not out my good friend of time
there is so much hope that is kept alive
on the way up

how we lose ourselves, but we can get it back again 
i know 

on the way up you’ve survived it
all the way back up we’re reminded
just how good it feels just to be alive
on the way up

recorded with Jeff Forrest, Doubletime Productions, San Diego

On The Way Up

on the way up

I try not to force the song writing process
to let the songs write themselves

cam-o the chameleon

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