Pilgrim's Paradise

Little Rowboat

Death & Taxes

Paradise (feat. BADBADNOTGOOD & Sean Leon)

Show No Regret

Sometimes Christmas brings back a softness you can’t quite name.
The lights across a valley, the quiet hush of snowfall, the glow of a fire… all of it can carry the echo of someone who shaped our world in ways that never fade.
This song is a wish sent out into that quiet. A hope that the peace of the season finds the one who still lives warm in memory, wherever they may be.
If you’ve ever felt someone beside you in the stillness of a holiday night, this one is for you.

Written and produced by Brook Stanley.
Music created and performed by Hal Bishop and The Scout Line, a music group created in the studio by TopMedia.ai, blending real Southern storytelling with AI music tools.


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Read-Along Lyrics

Merry Christmas Wherever You Are

[Intro]
[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 1]
The Christmas lights across the valley
Glow soft like they remember us.
Snow keeps fallin' on the rooftops
Giving the whole scene a quiet hush.
As I sit alone on this porch swing,
Watching the day’s fading light…
I swear I still hear our carols,
In the stillness of this holiday night.

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
There were nights this season that shimmered
With the warmth we used to know.
Snuggled close beside the firelight,
Singing low while embers glowed.
Now the wind moves through the branches
Like a memory brushing near.
Christmas always seems to bring you
Close enough to almost hear.

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
If you are listening, love
Here is my wish this Christmas night.
May the calm this season carries
Wrap around you, soft and light.
When a soft light stirs around you
Or the hush settles where you stand,
Know that it’s my Christmas spirit
Reaching out to take your hand.

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
This year I hung one stocking by the fire
For the times we held so dear.
Not for gifts or expectation,
Just to keep your spirit near.
And now as the embers settle,
I swear I feel your presence grow.
Our love still lingers in this season,
While Christmas shines its gentle glow.

[Instrumental Break]

[Final Chorus]
If you are listening, love
Here is my prayer in steady light.
May the peace of Christmas find you
Wherever you are this Christmas night.
And if the world around you softens
Or a shimmer stirs the air,
I’ll be somewhere in that moment
Letting you know I’m always here.

[Outro]
[Soft Instrumental Fade]
Merry Christmas, love, wherever you are.


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Merry Christmas  - Wherever You Are

'to have & to hold' is not a biography, a lecture, or a historical reconstruction. It is an imagined world — one you step into to feel your way around an idea rather than to learn it.

The album takes place loosely in early-20th-century Cambridge, at the moment when Western thought was beginning to strain under its own certainty. Science had proved astonishingly powerful at breaking reality into parts, explaining mechanisms, and producing results — yet at the same time it was encountering problems it could no longer fully contain. Probability was replacing certainty. Events mattered as much as objects. Meaning no longer sat still.

Out of this tension emerged process philosophy: the idea that reality is not made of finished things, but of ongoing happenings — that love, time, marriage, and even truth itself are not states you reach, but activities you keep participating in.

The album imagines this moment through a human lens. A mathematician trying to complete a system of logic. A thinker insisting that nothing important is ever truly finished. Proofs accumulating. Years passing. A marriage understood first as a statement, then slowly revealed as a practice. Love appearing not as romance in the foreground, but as something quietly unfolding elsewhere — happening whether it is attended to or not.

Rather than explaining these ideas directly, the songs allow you to inhabit them. You hear bells ring. You feel evenings close in. You sense the weight of unfinished work and the relief of letting something continue without control. The philosophy is not taught; it is lived.

This is a soft documentary in sound — an audio quantum leap into a world. Its purpose is not accuracy, quotation, or instruction, but immersion. By the time the album ends, you may not be able to define process philosophy in a sentence — but you may feel why it arose, what problem it was answering, and why it still matters.

To Have and To Hold is an exploration of commitment not as possession, but as attention.
Of marriage not as a conclusion, but as renewal.
Of understanding not as something you arrive at — but something that keeps happening.

If you listen closely, nothing here ever quite resolves.
But something continues.

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Little Rowboat

Daniel Caesar