Smiling through Bad News

Hacia el centro मुफ्त डाउनलोड To the center

I had a dream, and I wrote this song not to forget it. 

Technical highlights: hand played bass, slightly odd riff on chorus (15/2) & some extra psychedelia.

Pic & sounds taken with my phone during a recent experience which could help me understand the dream, maybe…

Letra  /  Lyrics:

NÍMOR (No sé dónde estoy)  /  NÍMOR (I don’t know where I am)

Entré en la sala sin hacer ruido,  /  I entered the room making no noise,
los pocos que vi eran desconocidos,  /  the few ones I saw were strangers,
busqué una cama que estuviera libre y dormí.  /  I looked for a spare bed and slept.

Al día siguiente no encontré mi sitio,   /  The following day I didn’t find my place,
todo estaba lleno de desconocidos,  /  the whole room was full of strangers,
me di la vuelta para salir y te vi.  /  I turned around to leave and I saw you.

Nímor, no sé dónde estoy...  /  Nímor, I don’t know where I am...
Nímor, no sé quién eres…  /  Nímor, I don’t know who you are …

La cama de al lado estaba vacía,  /  The bed at your side was empty,
y me preguntaste si la quería,  /  and you asked if I wanted it,
la quise y pronto nos hicimos amigos,  /  I did and soon we became friends,
desconocidos.  /  strangers.

Nímor, no sé dónde estoy...  /  Nímor, I don’t know where I am...
Nímor, no sé quién eres…  /  Nímor, I don’t know who you are …
Nímor, no sé qué pasa…  /  Nímor, I don’t know what’s going on...
Nímor, no sé dónde estoy...  /  Nímor, I don’t know where I am...

Te pregunté “¿cómo se llama este sitio?”  /  I asked you "what’s the name of this place?"
y me contestaste que estaba contigo,  /  and you answered that I was with you,
y sin darme cuenta te quise mucho y dormí.  /  and unconsciously I loved you so and slept.

Ahora del sueño ya me he despertado,  /  Now from the dream I’ve already woken,
tu nombre lamento no haber preguntado,  /  your name I regret not having asked,
te llamaré como el sitio en que te conocí.  /  I’ll call you like the place where I met you.

Nímor (…)  /  Nímor (…)

ER27HC06 ©1995 ®2015

Honorable broadcast (34:47 - 40.00): http://jeffhickmott.podomatic.com/entry/2015-09-18T05_02_20-07_00

Nota para el oyente español: ninguna influencia de Chiquito de la Calzada en el título; lo pongo tal como lo soñé y punto.

NÍMOR (No sé dónde estoy)

'SAVE ME'
Written, Performed & Produced
by Andrew Borderick copyright 2017/2020
Mastered by Andrew Borderick 24/08/2020
       
IF ROCK N ROLL IS ON MY MIND
I GET LOST IN A CLOUD OF SOUND

IT'S A MAGICAL WORLD OF MYSTERY
THIS IS LIFE ACROSS THE BIG BLUE SEA

IT'S A LONG WAY TO BE FROM HOME
NO WIND IN SAIL COULD TURN TO STONE

SAVE ME, (FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD)
SAVE ME, (EDGE OF THE WORLD)
FROM THE WRONG SIDE, THE WRONG SIDE, WITH LOVE

THERE'S NO CREDIT ON THIS TINY SHIP
A ONE TICKET A HALF WAY RIDE

GOT THAT ROCK N ROLL ON MY MIND
I'VE OPENED MY EYE'S TO A CLEARER SOUND

SAVE ME, (FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD)
SAVE ME, (EDGE OF THE WORLD)
FROM THE WRONG SIDE, THE WRONG SIDE, OF THE WORLD

(BREAK)
(REPEAT CHORUS 2)
(END)

Timeline

SAVEME

SAVE ME

Evocative song to listen to without hurry... most serious job I've done lately, say no more.

Letra / Translated lyrics:

SI TÚ ME FALTARAS  /  IF I MISSED YOU

Abre tu risa mis ojos,  /  Your laugh opens my eyes,
olor a café por la mañana…  /  smell of coffee in the morning…
Para murmurarte un beso  /  So as to whisper you a kiss
me levanto de la cama.  /  I get up from the bed.

Aaaay! Si tú me faltaras  /  Aaaay! If I missed you
aaaay! de tedio moriría.  /  aaaay! I’d die of weariness.

Me despierta muy temprano  /  Wakes me up very early
el olor de tu cuerpo a mi lado.  /  the smell of your body beside me.
Para que se haga de noche pronto  /  So that it gets dark soon
rápidamente me he levantado.  /  I have got up fast.

Siento que mi vida se desliza por el sabor tan suave de tu cuello y de tus besos.  /
I feel my life slips along such a soft flavor of your neck and your kisses.

Puedo ser ligero como el aire y filtrarme con mi fuego en tus sueños y en tus deseos.  /
I can be as light as air and percolate with my fire into your dreams and your desires.

Busco el momento cada día de volver para gozarte, para olerte, para amarte…  /
I look for the moment every day to come back so as to enjoy you, to smell you, to love you … 

para amarte, sí, aaaay! para amarte.  /  to love you, yes, aaaay! to love you.

Juega tu lengua en mi cerebro,  /  Your tonge plays in my brain,
recorren mi espalda tus caricias.  /  your caresses cross my back.
Miro el reloj y suspiro,  /  I look at the clock and sigh,
deseando que acabe el día.  /  wishing the day to finish. 

Aaaay! Si tú me faltaras  /  Aaaay! If I missed you
aaaay! de tedio moriría.  /  aaaay! I’d die of weariness.

ER40FI07

Si tú me faltaras (de tedio moriría)

This is a bonus track to my Christmas Album" Songs to Write by". I'm adding it now because I finally had the time to mix it, and it was originally intended to be released with this album, but I couldn't finish before Christmas Eve. It's about the importance of knowing history as to not repeat mistakes.

Lyrics:
Can you hear my colors now?
Left a message somehow.
Trees overgrown like a flowing gown
She waited up all night
The call never came out right

Mai Lai was wrong
Forgotten souls repeat the grind
Torn to wave in the wind
Many who saw it didn’t believe it was happening. 

Happening again. It’s happening again. 

The mob is doomed to repeat again. 
What have we learned and forgotten.
In the pouring rain you looked the same
As me. 

Darling softened dream
To lay upon 

The leaves blew through the screen door
Before the lights went out

A moment in time
The oceans grew dark and the clouds tore the sky
And that’s all the time would allow me to feel
Before the clock struck nine.

Mai Lai was wrong
Forgotten souls repeat the grind
Torn to wave in the wind
                              Happening again. It’s happening again. 

The mob is doomed to repeat again. 
What have we learned and forgotten.
In the pouring rain, well you looked the same
As me.

Happening Again  (Bonus Track)

Released by:            €meralds music 
Released date:        21 June, 2019
Lyrics and vocals:   Jeremy
Cover art:                  C J

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh u ohhh oh ohh ohh ohh
U na na na na nahhhh ahhhhh
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh u ohhh oh ohh ohh ohh
U ohhh ohh ohhhhhh

Verse 1
Time heals everything, they say
I hoped and hoped but no way
How am I suppose to heal when every time,
I'm reminded of you when I smile?
You know you're happiness, right?
Come back, turn into day my night

Chorus
I can feel it, you're coming back to me
Can't replace you, No, I'd rather be
That you're gone is what I disagree
I've been black and blue since you left
From the start I knew you were everything

Verse 2
Why do bonds that break love ones ache?
I try so hard to fake when I'm awake 
But the reality hits me every day
As long as you're not here, it's never okay
Let heavens guide the step you take
And bring you back for goodness sake

Back to me

[BEAT BY FOREIGN][VOCALS BY TYFANG][VOCAL PROD. IGNAFYT] (Outer Source Art)

PLANETARIAN EVACUATION // 4AM

At School

(part one of two songs)

part II: https://soundcloud.com/temple-of-the-haunted-man/gazing-at-lost-pictures

Pictures And Memories

You know you never  really wanted more
Than to have favor come through your door
Better ways had the cans all stacked
Pile of laundry was hidden in the back

Connected like a magnet
Stifled and stagnant

Where’d it go- the galaxy
around the paisley tapestry-

 He  was hitched in the trailer park
Couldn’t ride the laughing lark
Impatient man standing at the mini mart
Complaining at the clerk- like a form of art
As he lay in his cheesy chair
Distant in his hidden lair 

Check it off
Like a list from a doting mom
Hassles given at the second stop
Holy Rollers with   their blah blah blah
Chain gang slashing at the
 Bedrock chain gang

Bedrock Chain Gang

https://soundcloud.com/temple-of-the-haunted-man/sets/keep-the-streets-empty-for-me
speech by Charlie Chaplin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator)

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor.
That's not my business.
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible.
Jew - Gentile - Black Man, White.
We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other's happiness.
Not by each other's misery.
We don't want to hate and despise one another.
And this world has room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has posioned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynincal.
Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much, and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
More that cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities life will be violent, and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ...
Soldiers!
don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!
Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines!
You are not cattle!
You are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts!
You don't hate!
Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers!
Don't fight for slavery!
Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!
In you!
You, the people have the power - the power to create machines.
The power to create happiness!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite.
Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power.
But they lie!
They do not fulfil that promise.
They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers!
in the name of democracy, let us all unite

Nowhere And Everywhere (speech by Charlie Chaplin)

Latency

Prod- Chxse Bank
Prod- Nick Notes DOJO -Prod 2019
DOJO Productions 
all rights reserved to the beat makers above.

[Winter expressions]

Kids on Bikes

Hey you don’t live you agonise
Sifting the flour looking for lies
I know in the high jump I’ll hit the bar
Trying too hard not to do you harm (do you harm)
You don’t love you analyse
I wanna see trust in your eyes

Look out the window and see the fun in the park
The twisting and turning of kids flying past
Let go the blame in the stories you write
Let’s love with the freedom of kids on bikes 

Don’t you remember those care free days
Kids seeking out the latest speed craze
But you’re on the sideline your mind in a funk
Questioning me ‘bout the warmth in my blood
You don’t love you analyse
I Wanna see trust in your eyes

Look out the window and see the fun in the park
The twisting and turning of kids flying past
Girl let go the blame in the stories you write
Let’s love with the freedom of kids on bikes

Life is for living 
Love is for breathing
There’s beauty inside you
Send it revealing

KIDS ON BIKES

Track composed using "Oliver Patrice Weder - OPW" by Spitfire Audio

P A N D O R A

Molly's Ghost - 11:30:19, 1.40 PM

Gone

This song is the story about the struggle between persistence and self-doubt.

I was doing cartwheels on the lawn.
rite of passage in the dawn

And the moment I looked away
I knew I couldn’t stay
Both roads led astray

I was dancing in the wind
Loving the breath to begin
Reading poetry out of mind
Daydreaming my time
Away into clouds
A timeless shroud
All we are
We carry along

Growing up and into size
They gather moss and hypnotize
The placid lakes and roaring tides
They can’t abide they can’t abide
The candlelight lights youth so bright
Who are mesmerized by the curtain rising
Curtain rising Curtain rising Curtain rising
Now
Rising now


I was worrying about all that stuff
If my love was strong enough
To hold it all together
So the days could get better
Curtain rising on the letter

Curtain Rising

The day I finished working on this track, I met the love of my life. It was a gift of fate, a gift from God. It's been 4 years and here I am again alone, again in mono. The circle closed. Happiness doesn't last. So mono is relevant to me again. However, life goes on and there is still a lot of interesting things ahead!

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/mono

A Sense Of Eternity

Mono

I've always loved 'Bladerunner' and wrote my original homage to the great first film many years ago. However, I was never happy with the mix I came up with...so I've had another go.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on it - and that replicant Rachel!

Play on Spotify

Replicant (the winter mix)

My new album "Dreams of the Byzantines" is streaming June 13th, 2025. Please check out my new website darrencsullivan.com for videos and albums to purchase.

Thanks for the kindness and support.

Smiling through Bad News

Darren Sullivan