J'AVAIS TOUT VU...

I was a bike messenger. It never leaves you. 

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40 quarters
in your pocket
strap your helmet
grab a lane
asphalt pinball
in the morning

rocket on
marathon

trucks and taxis
coming at you 
double dance move
get away
asphalt pinball
it’s a hustle

canvass bag
cargo tags

cop in bike lane
traffic ticket
time is wasting 
run away

open car door
broken window
glass on pavement 
shitty day

chain links clicking
through Manhattan
red light running
all the way
asphalt pinball
burning muscles

it’s the same
in the rain
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photo by Max Bender via Unsplash.com

Thanks to Wheelwright for his sage suggestion to include backing vocals.

Asphalt Pinball

This round I'm covering a Japanese pop song.
The problem is, I don't know Japanese but I really like the music.
The original was performed by veteran singer-songwriter Hideaki Tokunaga.  
I kind of shifted a little bit towards country pop in my arrangement and added an outro sax for completeness.  Just see what you think.

Apology to my Japanese friends for my probable weird pronunciation.

[CREDITS]
Composition : Hideaki Tokunaga
Vocals & Programming :   Michael C. Lynn
Fiddle : Wanda Vick @Band_in_a_Box
Tenor Sax :  Tom Keenlyside @Band_in_a_Box

[LYRICS per Google Translation]
For you
I do not mind staying in my memories
For you
Transparently, I love you

Easy eyes are created
I keep silent in that sky
Even if you do not miss a mystery love
Now I can not find a night here

For you 
I'm looking at a dream I have never seen before.
For you
Close your eyes, I love you

As the moment of two people runs out 
the troublesome thing to wear on your body
I can show you through

A desperate thought has risen up in that
All goes on to love as it is

For you
I do not mind having even my memories
For you
Transparently, I love you

[ORIGINAL LYRICS]
あなたのために hu hu
想い出さえも 舍てて かまわない
あなたのために huhu
透きとおって I love you

やさしい目が 创りだす
その空气に 默り迂む
ミステリーな恋  愉しんでも
探せない夜が いま ここに  

あなたのために huhu
见たことのない 梦を见つめてる 
あなたのために
目を闭じて I Love You

二人になる瞬间へ
走りだして 行くために
身に振りかかる わずらわしさ 
突き拔けてみせる いつ だって 

沸き起こる とりとめない想い
すべて 爱しさへ つづく

あなたのために ya ha
想い出さえも 舍てて かまわない
あなたのために ya ha
透きとおって I Love You

For You  (Anata no Tameni)  Cover

K-Lilloise

Music, mix, production, and master by David k. A. Spencer
https://soundcloud.com/david-spencer-543878720

Vocals & Lyrics by Cosmic Keanu

Vocal master by Hobocop
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Lyrics:

I’ll follow you
Wherever you may go
Follow you
Through the desert
Or the storm
Follow you
I’ll take this road
Follow you
No matter
Where you go

Finally found you
Won’t turn away,
because you
are my saving grace
Forever,
I will stay

I’ll follow you
Through the dark of night
Follow you
Until we reach the light

Don’t turn away
Or be afraid
In all honesty,
We are saved

I’ll follow you
You’ll never steer me wrong
follow you
To the other side and home
Follow you
I’ll take this road

No matter
Where it goes
eyes upon
the world to come
The truth is all else
will pass away
Don’t turn away
Don’t be afraid
We are saved

We all wander
Jesus showed the way
Call on His name
Every tear is wiped away

I Will Follow You (David k. A. Spencer & Cosmic Keanu)

THE BOY - THE LIGHT

Everything by THE BOY

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THE LIGHT

Gambit [instrumental]

The extracted and altered picture shows NATO razor wire in detail, source: Wikipedia


The Bulky Latch

in
(This is how we look like our borders)  (4)

1
Here it goes no further
Thanks to "strategic partnerships“
And with a lot of financial support
High fences
NATO barbed wire
And trenches
Detention centres
Uniforms and armament
Identification and
Exploitability checks
Exclusion, exclaves

ref
And sun and sand and waves
And sun and sand, waves

2
Onrushes
Distribution keys
Control of crowds and masses
By all means necessary
No more loopholes
Don’t talk about the rest
This is how we look like our borders (rep)
Exclusion, exclaves

ref 
And sun and sand and waves
And sun and sand, waves (2)

out
This strangeness in me
(just a part of the tragedy)
Oh there is a strangeness in me
(just a part of the tragedy)

The Bulky Latch

It’s all on me, It’s all on me.

thelem

Fading Light drifts between dream pop atmospheres, shoegaze textures, and chillwave vibrations, shimmering with an ethereal glow.

Cybophonia - Fading Light (Radio Edit)

Be excellent to each other!

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
--Ephesians 6:12

"Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word."
--Thessalonians 2:16

Enter through the narrow gate. 
For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
--Matthew 7:13-14

For am I now seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
-- Galatians 1:10

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
--Matthew 6:24

I Will Follow You (David k. A. Spencer & Cosmic Keanu)

cosmic keanu