Well god damn if it didn’t happen again
It’s been a long long month and it’s coming to an end
Just me and you and our other two
It’s been a lovely time but now I gotta unwind

You know I love you more than anyone else 
And I do believe I couldn’t do this by myself
And just because I need some time to breathe
It doesn’t mean that I don’t need you

Well god damn if it didn’t happen again
It’s been a long long week and it’s coming to an end
We forgot about our lessons and our discipline 
Old dad cant get a win 
It doesn’t matter to anyone

You know I love you more than anyone else 
And I do believe I couldn’t do this by myself 
And just because I need some time to breathe
It doesn’t mean that I don’t need you

Well god damn if it didn’t happen again
It’s been a long long day and it’s coming to an end
Slave your whole life away 
Ya gotta seen your friends
Me be me and you be you
And we’ll All be K in the end

You know I love you more than anyone else 
And I do believe I couldn’t do this by myself
And just because I need some time to breathe
It doesn’t mean that I don’t need you

Stephen Malson's Album

Double Negative

The fourth song of our summer series "We Can Solve Most Things If We Talk" is a hymn to Hope.  It is the enduring attribute of mankind to be able to think beyond the most painful circumstances and imagine a better life and a better world.  Peter is not just a fine writer of melody and lyrics, but a very able and eloquent guitarist and vocalist.  Oddrun graces this song with her angelic voice as if she were Hope itself, and in duet they give the song wings.  Seagull's synths, bass, and mix are ever sure and seamless, a true labor of love.
Music, Lyrics, Guitars & Vocals; Our dear poet Peter, soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Vocals; Soundcloud's most wonderful voice; Oddrun, @oddrun-eikli
Compilation and mix by visionary producer; Seagull, @farout-music-studio

Will you Raise Your Right Hand?

Peter
Can you number the circle’s rim, each point on a list?
Enumerate the air, simply cupping of your hands
Freedom lantern’s falling dim in honesty’s fading mist
But will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Oddrun
Can you census the clouds, in a ledger of the sky
Set out in a single line each and every grain of sand
When the despot weaves his thieving lies will you stand idly by
Or will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Peter & Oddrun
Can you audit every atom, in a volume for the shelf
Each uniquely named, indexed on demand
Does the mirror only fathom, a shallow of your self
Or will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Oddrun & Peter
Can you detail every shimmered light on a canvas of the stars
A snapshot of the cosmos as at light speed it expands
Will you document but passive shame in the volumes of your pale memoirs
Or will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Oddrun & Peter
Can you hoist the flag of humankind above the crass material world
Crush the armies of greed, their legions to disband
When the shining banner of grace is finally unfurled
Did you raise your right hand, when hope made its stand?

Hopeful Man--Will You Raise Your Right Hand (Peter, Oddrun, and Seagull)

Greg Hurley: Composition / Arrangement, Lyrics, Vocals, Horns, Slide guitar, Guitar, Keys and FX, Bass and Drum programming, mix and mastering.
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Tell Me Why

Days in the sun
Wonders of love

What we gave up
Can’t believe us
How could we not find a way forward?

Stars off course
A black hole in my heart
Pulls me 
Always with remorse

I feel the force
I fall apart
When I think of what we could have been

Jupiter spins
With 95 moons when 
Venus has not one
For lovers like us

Sunsets fading
I keep thinking
We could have made it
That could have been us
Could have been us

Love Love Love
Is such a fleeting light
Love Love Love
Is it worth the fight tonight

Tonight
I’m waiting all night

And I’m still willing to try
Is there a way for us to save us

I feel a pull
I feel our hearts
Gravitating

Is there a way for us to save us
a way to save us



Stars still off course
Rip open my heart
Fools pulled apart 
Once more

Love and divorce
The fight’s no more
And all I think 
What could have been 
Us

Jupiter spins
Even worlds end
Venus cools when
Lovers give up

Sunsets fading
I keep thinking
We could have made it
That could have been us.
Lyrics written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2024

Wild Christopher & Unguided Express-We could have been

Album My Strange Night Stories
nowyyorg 2024

Why Always Me ?

a week ago I discovered a track by @mark_f_2019 - https://soundcloud.com/mark_f_2019/jesse-demo ... and asked wether I might remix it, respectively, add saxophone. I'm glad he agreed, and somehow I could play, what I had in mind :-)

Jesse (demo) by Mark F // Sax Remix

Here's a vocal experiment, nothing too serious.


DAY TO DAY

Many many words to say
There's always a price to pay
It's never black or white but grey
Taking it day to day

It's time for action
A physical transaction
Forget your faction
No interaction

I stay humble
I don't ever mumble
Let the ego crumble
I won't ever stumble

Many many words to say
There's always a price to pay
It's never black or white but grey
Taking it day to day

The word's on the beat
Yeah I don't cheat
Goals to meet
Better move your feet

Keep it on the level
Bass and treble
No time to revel
Yeah no time to revel

Time to get deeper
No more sleeper
The price ain't cheaper
Closer to the reaper

Keep it on the level
Bass and treble
No time to revel
Yeah no time to revel


Cover art created with https://www.canva.com/

RiZLiX - Day To Day

A short song loosely based on a real guy I worked with in a CD/Record store. He was one of those guys who knew everything in their musical area of interest, from the most obscure to commercial. C'mon, you've met this guy!
From the album "Röckers" (2024)

Lyrics:
Are you looking for some metal?
You're gonna have to wait around for a while
Are you looking for some metal?
Yeah, you're gonna have to wait around

For record store Eric
Cause that's his section
And he's possessive about it
Record store Eric
He knows all the metal that you need
Whether it's Screamo
On Japanese Imports
Death metal blue?
Just write down what you want
On a Post-It
I swear
He's gonna call you back
He's gonna call you back

Record store Eric
He's a rock & roll cleric

Ahh, well, we don't touch anything in his section
He says
Eric: "Just keep it in the backroom."
Eric:  " I'll shelve it when I get in."

He knows all the metal bands that you want
If you want a band from the 90s
Put out one album
On Sub Atomic Records
From Reseda
His hair line's receding!
Record store Eric
Rock & Roll cleric
If you want Nu-Metal
Eric: " Why the hell would you want that?"

Record Store Eric

What Suit?

Strange Goins On

Stämmor Före 1991

Förlåt att jag inte lyssnade. 494 ( 1982 ) Margareta Theorin ( Margareta )

I am a finger-style guitarist living on the Texas high plains.  At the core of my music is melody that is inspired and informed by my Christian faith, family, friends, and countless influences through the years from the great composers, to jazz, folk, rock, Latin, Celtic, and the many fine musicians I have come to love on the Cloud, some I have been privileged to collaborate with.  Thanks for stopping by to have a listen. Comments are always welcome. Feel free to click on the picture of any track to learn more about it.

Hopeful Man--Will You Raise Your Right Hand (Peter, Oddrun, and Seagull)

David Dunham