“Smoke and Chrome” rolls down the highway with a heart full of dust and danger — a southern blues-rock anthem built on thunderous riffs and midnight rhythm. Frost Livingston paints a picture of engines growling, smoke rising, and dreams chasing taillights into the dark. It’s raw, restless, and made for those who find peace only behind the wheel.

“All I need’s the road ahead — smoke and chrome, and nothing left to lose.”

12. Smoke and Chrome

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade
By David Husted

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade Sun Drops    
Melting on an ocean's horizon   

I Wipe the mud from my knees
over madness
The windows are weeping as I lay dreaming 
Of stranded Islands
Empty and stripped clean


Ohhh… Your corners curve like lemonade
Zoo keepers  open up in their cages 
Bubble gum wrappers floating flames flickering orange    
We're  Basking in an almost; Ireland and Italy in Brooklyn

V2
Einstein and Heisenberg in parliament
Embers proliferating magic
Thriving through the time fields sucking information from the cosmos
Our very constitutions dust and water; 
Gold and oil on the alter now;  be a ghost to this chatter
Plot our lives in advance,……….     Of the rising sands

Ch
Ohhh… Your corners curve like lemonade
Zoo keepers  open up in their cages now
Bubble  gum wrappers floating flames flickering orange    
We're  Basking in an almost; Ireland and Italy in Brooklyn

Bridge

We will not Run
We will not run   

Ch 

The Chorus has a psychedelic vibe to it but with its own unique twists and turns.  I tried not to box myself into corners with my lyrics and used a very open ended process to my word smithing.  I felt know need to present you anything too "air-tight" in terms of story or arrangement.  This is what I love about song writing. I toss up ideas (the crazier the better) and see what happens.  Once I have a kaleidoscope of working pieces I gently mold them into forms that contain loose tendrils of cohesiveness and meaning but only just barely.  This is one of those song's I created with no preconceptions or creative borders and I just let my mind go where it wanted to.  Sometimes this works and sometimes it is a disaster.  In this case I arrived at something I liked enough to share with you.  

Never mind that Dave, what is the song about?  

It has something to do with the excruciating beauty of a sunrise.  It has something to do with love.  It has something to do with how quickly time moves forward.  It has something to do with how impermanent everything really is (including us).  It has something to do with how lucky we are to be the tiniest spark of a flame witnessing this miracle before us for the most minuscule parenthesis in time.  It has something to do with stepping out of my self imposed cage, and yet not running away and hiding.  It has something to do with staring this beautiful, wild catastrophe of existence right in the face and enjoying the ride.   Far Out Dude. Now go put your favorite tie dye shirt on, grab a cup a coffee and listen to my song : )!   Groovy Man…..Will Do!  

May your corners curve like lemonade.

Your Corners Curve Like Lemonade

Lothlorien

Thirteenth Kiss  By The Welcome Parade (https://soundcloud.com/deadlover80), (https://soundcloud.com/ask0the0dust)

Oh my god

Thirteenth Kiss
Pure bliss
On shattered lips
My shattered lips

The Thirteenth Kiss
The purest bliss
On shattered lips
My shattered lips

So you really want to know
How I get so high
I'd lie for you
I would die for you
I would kill for you
You're all it takes, just to get me by

Thirteenth Kiss
The purest bliss
On shattered lips
My shattered lips

So you really want to know
How I get so high
I'd lie for you
I would die for you
I would kill for you
You're all it takes, just to get me by

So you really want to know
How you get so high
I'd lie for you
I would die for you
I would kill for you
You're all it takes, just to get me by

Notes: 

	Nothing exists without the pieces...each piece adds its sliver of magic to the whole.  As the project grows, the magic grows beyond the boundaries of what was capable by the pieces alone.  The slivers ignite, they burn like a forge and melt the pieces together into something uniquely its own.

	Sitting in the production chair waiting for the pieces arrive... where the story starts and where it ends, is miles apart.  At some point in the process the magic seeps in and I marvel at how that comes about.  One moment you open the session and it is simply different...more alive...more of something. That's the thing worth chasing... it's worth witnessing...it's worth touching if only for a second.  

Tainted Icarus (Jeff) : Working on this has made me feel cooler than I have any right to feel.  I got to work on, play on and sing on a great song.  Jay nailed something great right from the start.  From the moment I heard it... I thought "Hell yeah... I want to be part of that".  Our first meeting, we all agreed  we are going to focus on crafting a piece of music that was something we wanted to listen to. Mission successful for me!!!

We have some things in the works as a band going by the name: The Welcome Parade.  I am very excited and hope to start sharing details soon!

13th Kiss (Feat. Deadlover, Thom Dust)

Junk

If you Can

If You Can

I jot essentials down - I couldn't miss it
I think you want me ungowned - your text's implicit
I may have simplified and truly pissed it
Do not forget I can be totally explicit

CHORUS
I Will love you 'till I'm famous
And I will love you 'till your beauty fades
Cuz love forever is just dangerous
Its bitter and contagious

Are you listening now? I hear a dialling tone
I've wasted many hours fondling a spurned bone
Try again tomorrow and my number will be unknown
I really cant be bothered to even class you friend-zoned

CHORUS

Touch me here, touch me there, I felt a tingle
But don't touch for too long I very rarely mingle
I like the accent but don't understand the lingo
Lets just get on with it, I'm happy staying single

CHORUS

I Will Love You Till I’m Famous

Meet You In The Endless Forest
Amanda Kim Sanderson can be found at, https://soundcloud.com/phoebeelena

Sounds Divine, Stars In Heaven

Sounds Divine, Stars In Heaven (Amanda / numbers in the dream)

Music and all instruments......................................................Jussi Welin
Vocals and lyrics.......................................................................Jimmy Rivas

Being alone has a special way                                                                                   
of changing the way we look at every day                                                      fondness grows stronger-when the heart stays away-
(Chorus)
But a child of stone                                                                                                can never see what the words of love really mean
A child of stone can never feel what I'm feeling today

I look around at the face of life                                                                                 I see the streets filled with guns and knives                                                      
We're all yearning to live a safer life
Wonder what it will take-to do this or make or break
(Chorus)

Stone.............Welin/Rivas

Ride Change

Track is composed, recorded and mixed, with Ableton Live by Frank "LichtBildGestalter" Borsikowski

Herbstspaziergang

HerbstSpaziergang (walk in fall)

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.

2021

“Dear Tom”

How’s the retirement, Tom?
Why now so quiet, dear Tom?
You’ve a cozy, small place here
Where a man could disappear
	Is that what you’re doing, Tom?

Do you get visitors,
Or only the odd, lost bird?
Friends are a blessing,
But even friendship’s passing.
	Do you have friends, dear Tom?

Where’re your pictures?
Don’t you have children?
Well, didn’t you marry?
Man, you’re just like a pilgrim!
Searching your life
Through the flowers and barbs,
Searchin’ alone under your very own star!

Did you get lonely?
What did you do then?
Did you have family?
Well, why didn’t you call them?
I’m sure they’d have loved
To hear from their uncle—
A family together
Lends old age a pleasure!

Listen’t’me blather, Tom,
I don’t mean to nag ya’, dear Tom.
The truth’s I admire you
And all that you’ve lived through.
	You’ve lived quite a life, dear old Tom

How did you do it, Tom?
What were you trying to prove?
Seventy years
And six careers
	I can understand why you’re so tired...


From a cop to an actor,
From a ref to a coach,
Have you ever considered
All the lives that you’ve touched?
Don’t be so modest
I speak from experience
An honest man like you makes a difference!

I should be going
It’s nearly past sundown
But I’ll visit again
Next time I am in town
Never you doubt it
I will return soon
As sure as I draw breath
And you lie in this tomb...

I won’t forget you...won’t forget you...won’t forget...

- - -
Music by Corey Ball
Lyrics by August Lysy
Mastered by Spencer Martin

Dear Tom

Visit davidhusted.com to encounter my music in a deeper way.

Deep bow of gratitude to you for giving my music a listen, for liking, for commenting and/or for sharing when any given song resonates with you.  You help create a community that lifts music out of the nooks and crannies and allows it to be heard a little bit more than it otherwise might have been.  Thank You sincerely for that. Gratias tibi ago; Pax!

I love to create music.  It is really that simple.  

Dave