Song-a-week 2025

Song-a-week 2025 #1

Prompt: The passage of time

These are two stories I heard from these fires in LA.  My heart goes out to all those affected. 

(Trigger warning - If you've been through a fire, this could be hard to listen to!) 

Photo credit: Josh Edelson/ADP/Getty Images (Fair Use)


#palisadesfire #eatonfire #lafires #hurstfire #sunsetfire #climatechange #forestfires #firefighters #fireinsurance


Where Fires Burn

Song a week 2025 #2 -

Prompt: Off the Rails

I was staying up way too late doomscrolling, LA fires, war, impending doom of 4 years of a dangerous megalomaniac, climate change... And by the time I tried to go to sleep I was just too stressed. I need a lullaby. So, I started singing myself this lullaby. I found it quite soothing. 

I turned on the light wrote down the words, went downstairs and recorded a bit on my phone, and went back upstairs and went to sleep.

Simple, but effective.

photo credit: A painting I picked up at Goodwill with no signature

Dream Deep

Song a Week 2025 #3 

Prompts: 
Lost in Translation (using another language) 
and Roses (well, that's the part that I used) 

The title/chorus is a french phrase that is generally translated as meaning "Let's send them packing". Specifically, it translates to "Let's send them on top of the roses", as in, throw them into the thorns. 

If you are curious about what I refer to in the last line of the last verse, check out electiontruthalliance.org , SMARTelections.us , and Dire Talks on YouTube. The graphs are intriguing, if not straight -up damning. 

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Photo: Adobe Stock Image

Envoyons-les sur les Roses

Song a week 2025 #4

Prompts:
- Dorian Mode
- "How Did You Know?"

This started with some chord progressions and the chorus came up, kind of non-dorianish, and various bits of verses and a bridge came in with some of the dorian-ish progressions.
I usually write lyrics first, so this was different. It's more cohesive than I thought it would be... Although it doesn't make perfect linear sense, It's still a song. 

It's basically reflective of the angst of going through a month everyday since January 20th, with general disconcerted musings. 

Trigger warning - It includes some vague imagery of a disturbing situation. 

Where We Are Going

Song a Week 2025 #5 

The "Ask an Axolotl" song was stuck in my head, like an earworm that has hacked into many of our brains recently. And what's going on in D.C. would not leave my head either. 

I wrote another song this week, but I couldn't finish work on it, because this one was insistent on being written. 

It's odd writing about this insanity with a children's song, but, this is all so very, very odd. 
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Photo Credit: Fair use; author unknown; please advise, if known

DOGE Hacker (Ask an Axolotl Parody)

Song a week 2025 #15 - 

Prompt: "Stream"

I started with a stream of consciousness babbled into my phone while I was driving down the highway.  However, I couldn't hear the words very well on my recording, so I rewrote it. It's no longer stream of consciousness, but it's about streams, nonetheless.



Flowing Going Down

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