Cheering me up

I’ve got my work cut out with you
Your fitted shirts, and your patent leather shoes
A choice of cars to drop your kids at school
You’ve got it
I want it too
 
I’ll find you drinking at the bar
You’ll tell me all about your personal par
Then late at night I’ll walk you home, sweet home
You’ve got it
I want that too

The wheel of fortune just keeps spinning on and on
Where it stops no-body knows
Your run of luck just bounced right off the table
You had it 
I’ve got it now

We’ll go inside for one last drink
I’ll fix your nightcap while you take a leak
And when you wake up you’ll be six feet deep
You had it
I’ve got it now

You thought the world belonged to you
Well now you know it was yours to lose
I was just waiting in the wings out there
You had it
I’ve got it now
 
You shouldn’t feel too bad about yourself
I quite admire your nerve
If I had been the one who had it all
I’m sure, you would have got to me first

The wheel of fortune just keeps spinning on and on
Where it stops no-body knows
Your run of luck just bounced right off the table
You had it 
I’ve got it
You blew it 
I won it
You lost it
I’ve got it now

And when you curse the day we met back then
And think about your life
Console yourself with this one last thought
It’s me, that’s sleeping with your wife

You had it 
I’ve got it
You blew it

You've got it, I want it

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Latest single just released along with the launch of SisterMaryEllen.com

Our Ride Is Over

“Bipartisan Compromise”

Love comes suddenly into your life
Flooding you heart and soul
Love comes suddenly into your life
Love’s out of your control

They met at a political conference
They were sitting in opposing aisles
Their eyes met briefly, there was confluence
He turned red, she turned blue, then they both turned and smiled
O such lovely smiles

Love comes suddenly into your life
Flooding you heart and soul
Love comes suddenly into your life
Love’s out of your control

They were paired in one of many breakout groups
Where they each first heard the other one speak
She carried on as if she were addressing troops
And he matched her fury, staring sternly, rebuking her with a nationalist screed
O how sweet

Love comes suddenly
Don’t matter left or right
Love comes suddenly
With a heart to harmonize
Love comes suddenly
Proposal to wet your eyes
Love comes suddenly
Bipartisan compromise

And love will bring the truth
When love shines its light
On all their principles
Testify!

Love comes suddenly into your life
Flooding you heart and soul
Love comes suddenly into your life
Love’s out of your control


He caught her sneaking out back of the conference
With nascent love in her shimmering eyes
And he held her gaze with such confidence
That they both knew, red and blue, that for this love they’d compromise
O is that so
O is that so very wise?

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Music by Corey Ball
Lyrics by August Lysy

Mastered by Spencer Martin

Bipartisan Compromise

PETER & CHICKEN

UNTITLED

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7rrwK6mWs

FANTASTIC SPACE

Mountain-skier

Out of the Box June 2022
An experimental interlude of found and altered sounds

Ambient Shift

Days

Cruel Summer

Ocean Breeze

Pacman created this Dynamic track. I told him how much I liked it and he asked me if I would like to create lyrics to run with it. I was very excited about doing so. Pacman I hope I did your creation Justice. Much thanks to Julian Apelian for his awesome mixing and mastering skills.  We really appreciate that.

Music and music production - Michael Carballo https://soundcloud.com/pacman-mic-mastery
NayJ. -  Lyrics, Lead vocals, backing vocals
Julien Apelian - Track production...mixing and mastering https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1

Wooooooo
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Ever you wanted me to do
That's what I wanted to do
Still you were not satisfied

Ever you wanted me to be
That's what I tried to be
But I kept on dying inside

Trying to keep my head above water 
But I keep on sinking 
Feel like I am drowning

Trying to keep my head above water 
But I keep on sinking 
Feel like I am drowning

chorus: 
Drown drown drown drown drown drown drown drowning
Drown drown drown drown drown drown drown drowning
Where did I go wrong

Drown drown drown drown
Drowning
Drown drown drown drown
Drowning

Said I was the perfect girl for you 
You told me I was your dream come true 
Why do you feel the need to change me 

I'm drowning 
Can't keep my head above water 
Can't keep my head above water

Ever you wanted me to do
That's what I wanted to do
But I just couldn't seem to satisfy you

Ever you wanted me to be
That's what I tried to be
But I felt myself dying 

I couldn't keep my head above water
I just kept on sinking sinking 
I felt myself drowning drowning drowning

chorus:
I I can't keep my head up above water no
I I felt myself drowning drowning drowning

Trying to keep my head above water 
But I keep on sinking 
Feel like I am drowning

Trying to keep my head above water 
But I keep on sinking 
Feel like I am drowning yeah

chorus:
I I can't keep my head up above water no
I I felt myself drowning drowning drowning

Drowning oh 
Drowning drowning 
Save me revive me

Spoken words:
I'm sinking
I'm drowning
Rescue Me
Save me
Is Your Love
Strong enough

Drowning  - NayJ. and *PACMAN*AKA*PAC*

Heart-Shaped

Whens

Jonathan Beckenstein: Guitars, bass, musical composition and mix http://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein
Clarence Paisley-Cheesemont: Drums
Wheelwright: Vocals, vocal melody, lyrics and sampled cello

This track is available on Immaculate Distraction https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

I am a great admirer of Jonathan's work and when he approached me with this wonderful piece of music asking if I might have a go at lyrics and a vocal I felt really privileged. I wanted to try to do as good a job as I could, but initially I struggled, and then, feeling extremely despondent I took a break from it. On my second attempt I think I started to listen properly to what the music was saying – rather than imposing too much of myself on it – and I  began to get melodies and word patterns that seemed like they were there under the surface already.

This has been an amazing project to work on, and Jonathan has been hugely supportive throughout. I've done my bit for sure, but it would have been nothing without the music.

Jonathan's posting of the song is here:

http://soundcloud.com/jonathan_beckenstein/we-all-know-how-it-ends

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Last night I dreamed that I could play the guitar
I was on The Titanic trying to sing
My heart will still go on
But I kept getting it wrong and
I couldn't get the high notes but
At least we hadn't hit the iceberg yet and

All the stars above us shone
Like cheap sequins in the sky
Like they'd all just been stuck on
By someone who didn't try

I was studying Kate Winslet
She was standing by a ventilation inlet
In a girly dress despite the cold and
I could see that she was not impressed
By my extraordinary rendition
I said you're looking nice and
I need relationship advice and she replied
Let's take a walk on the starboard side

And the stars above us shone
Like cheap sequins in the sky
Like they'd all just been stuck on
By someone who didn't try
When life's too flattering too sweet
We all like to pretend
But we all know how it ends

We're listing to port and
Kate's politely listening as
I'm listing all the things I should have said to you but
Never did
And realistically I think she's thinking
Less about you and me and
Rather more about the fact that
We've all started sinking yeah
Into the unforgiving sea oh

But the stars above us shone...

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We All Know How It Ends (Wheelwright + Beckenstein)

Art, craft, pop music, toys, and creative extropy.

“Into Your World" was played on BBC Introducing. Have a listen at. https://www.korima.net



Korima’s song “Root” from debut EP “Into Your World” aired on RTÉ 2XM- The  London Ear - 23rd September 2023
 
The London Ear | The London Ear - RTÉ 2XM (rte.ie)
 




Samhain
The púca
Of all the ghosts and fairies abroad on Halloween, the púca (or pooka) was the most feared and October 31st was known as Púca Night in parts of Ireland. The púca, meaning 'goblin', can be malevolent or benevolent and is not solely associated with Halloween. It's a mythological fairy and the ultimate shapeshifter, capable of appearing in a variety of forms but most commonly as a dark horse or part dog.

Spring Solstice


Winter Solstice 
The Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice occurs on 21 or 22 December, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn. At sunrise on the shortest day of the year, for 17 minutes, direct sunlight can enter the Newgrange monument, not through the doorway, but through the specially contrived small opening above the entrance known as the ‘roof box’, to illuminate the Chamber.

Samhain
The púca
Of all the ghosts and fairies abroad on Halloween, the púca (or pooka) was the most feared and October 31st was known as Púca Night in parts of Ireland. The púca, meaning 'goblin', can be malevolent or benevolent and is not solely associated with Halloween. It's a mythological fairy and the ultimate shapeshifter, capable of appearing in a variety of forms but most commonly as a dark horse or part dog.

October 

Night migration of birds.

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September

Barn swallows bury themselves in mud in lakes



August

Barn owls and birds of prey on the move
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July

Watching bats emerge at dusk.

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June

walking in meadows




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May
The Dawn Chorus:  Ireland 5 am.
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April
First swallow of the year
Welcome, welcome
From out of mud in lakes
Were you resting there?



March

Unveils like a first thought
A whisper



February

"Nothing stands out yet", you said
As you looked over your shoulder
Broad and rounded, square and hunched
I thought I heard you say, "We are water
And over time we solidify"

Concept Art by SuZanne Ledwith
Photography by something&knot Productions 
Graphic Design by Simon

January
Snow white egret
among fields of greenandbrown
Are you lost in its vastness?
Bubulcus ibis.

DE-cem- ber
Silver EEL migration 
down river to the sea
on a moonless night

through
an obstcale 
of nets
Cutting blades
pollution
And 
Par -a -sites
White egret



December
Mild to touch, not yet winter
snow drop dropping still
daffodil 

November, can I surrender to your dying
Are you truly dying or surrendering



Is it not enough to be ALIVE, autumn 
As birds migrate thousands of miles, autumn
Of an inner stirring and outward knowing

Is BE-ING
to Our Mind
bor -ing

As summer turns, it turns
To autumn, autumn
The slugs and worms live at the root; 
The slugs eat the juice of carrot
Is it good for their EyEs too...?

I buried a 'th' in the soil
With vowels and nettles
And I, this eyE, aye, oh
This What...?
This sometimes
Known thing
Doesn't kNOW oh oh

Winter take, take these
Sor rows, lay them
Deep ee eep
To become worms
for the birds to eat


ever ever
Denied to

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Concept Art by SuZanne Ledwith
Photography by something&knot Productions 
Graphic design by Simon

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Cranky Yellow

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