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Only Bones

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A Rock Rock-Opera

Behind Me

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I'll Call You

Leap Day (Song-a-Week 2024/9)

I want to sing you all my best lines on your last day in this world
I’m saving up the pretty tunes for your last day in this world
They’re gonna make our hearts ache
And we’ll fall asleep under their weight
I’m one breath from paradise with you
I’m one breath from paradise with you

I’m gonna read you all my best lines on your last day in this world
I promise you’ll hear my best stories on the last day in this world
I’ve enough words for a thousand years
And I’ll read them ‘til I join you there
I’m one breath from paradise with you
I’m one breath from paradise with you

One Breath From Paradise

1983

Invention (Song-a-Week 2024/11)

Thank You Thank You

For r/songaweek Week 19: Lost Dog Laika. This song was inspired by both the Laika prompt and the novel Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis.

Lyrics:

I am the chosen one
My good is greater
Now that I'm blasting off
It hits me like a trailer
The rest of my life...
A million miles from home...

Somebody said it was a suicide mission
I said "I know" it was a lie of omission
I didn't consider there'd be time to regret

I remember my fathers tears
My sister screaming "How you think I feel?" 
And the love of my life stoically turned away
"How could you do it?" "You volunteered?"
Can't you see I want it something fierce
To be greater, well, greater than good

Now I'm homesick as a dog
Laika come pick me up

Plucked from obscurity
They said I'll make the books
Praised my maturity
And offered me free stuff
The rest of my life...
Signed, sealed, delivered...

I was duly warned, I wasn't forced
I made my bed outta zero g thorns
Now everybody's watching on TV

I remember my fathers tears
My sister screaming "How you think I feel?" 
And the love of my life stoically turned away
"How could you do it?" "You volunteered?"
Can't you see I want it something fierce
To be greater, well, greater than good

Now I'm homesick as a dog
Laika come pick me up

Laila pick me up
You're a good girl, you're a great dog
My bones are the new space junk
You can play with them if you want

Greater Good (Laika)

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Untie the Knot

I'd had a hard day
brought the clouds back to our door again
but I'd step inside 
and I'd step inside your light
in your light

And dark days came
but you always found the way
so I'd stay close behind
I'd stay inside your light
in your light
in your light

And the children too
what a job we did, me and you
and they grew bold and bright
and they grew inside your light
in your light
in your light

but now it seems 
I'm in your light
in your light
in your light

in your light I'm in your light....
it's in your light I'm in

In Your Light

Song-A-Week #32: Sixth Chord

Lyrics:

[verse #1]
I’ve been feeling trapped, ghostly and compact
Slouching in my chair, since all I am is there
The need to feel alive is building up inside
To chase the cresting dawn, I should be movin’ on

[verse #2]
Oh my honeybee, all we are is free
We’ll dance among the trees, drifting with the breeze
What we leave behind, we’ll yearn for, yet we’ll find
To hear another song, we should be movin’ on

[chorus]
I’m movin’ on, I’m movin’ on, like the clouds across the sea
No regrets, no looking back, just where we meant to be
Through the highs and through the lows, I’ll soar where dreams belong
I’m not sure what I’ll find, but I don’t really mind, since
I’ll will just keep movin' on

[verse #3]
In the desert sun, I ponder what I’ve done
The road ahead’s so long, was that choice I made wrong?
In this vast expanse, I’ll trust the second chance
To see what lies beyond, I’ll keep on movin’ on

[interlude thing]
You’re still on my mind

movin' on

this was the day
this was the day
seems like only yesterday
you went away
you went away
this is the anniversary
of no more anniversaries
happy antiversary

this is my card, this is my card
this is my card, this is my card

this is a year
this is a year
and all I have is in my head
and in here
in here
365 days
I don’t want to celebrate
I don’t want to
celebrate 

this is my card, this is my card
this is my card, this is my card

I’ll always love the lakes
I’ll always love the mountains
I’ll always love the sea
I’ll always love thee
I’ll always love thee
I’ll always love thee

Those were the days
Those were the days
I think about them
Every day 
Every day 
Every day
And you can’t take 
those days away
So happy anniversary
Happy antiversary

Have a happy...

Happy Antiversary

Broken homes
Broken hearts
Broken heads
City of hope
City of stars
City of tents

In the alley by the restaurant
In the scrub by the apartment block 

We walk fast
We walk right past
We only see what we want to see
We walk fast
We walk right past
We don't see what we don't want to see

Man in suit
Man on phone
Woman with coffee
Do you inhabit
another zone?
Can't you see me?

In the alley by the restaurant
In the scrub by the apartment block 

You walk fast
You walk right past
You only see what we want to see
You walk fast
You walk right past
You don't see what we don't want to see

There's no glory
living in hope
in the city of hope

City of Hope

We walk upon the shore
like so many have before us
and we look upon the sea
and we wonder
is that for us?

We're following the star
like so many have before us
and we look upon the moon
and we wonder
is it for us?

and is there something more
than us?

We walk among the ruins
like so many have before us
and we look upon their bones
and we wonder
is that for us?

We mark the shortest day
like so many have before us
the sun will come again
and we wonder
is it for us?

and is there something more
than us?

The swift and the swallow
The horse in his meadow
The trout in her pool
all fool's proof
There's something more
something
There's something more
something
more

Something More

Lyrics: 
Can I hold on?
Cause part of me wants to go.

Comb through 
Like I’m over you
Comb through
Like an open wound 
Removed 
Like an old tattoo
Removed 
Like a hope or two 

To far for my legs to walk
Bruised 
Black, blue and my name is lost

HOLD ON (r/songaweek)

Lyrics:
If you can't make up your mind 
Just breathe the country air
The oaks and pines will keep the time 
Just breath the country air

country air (r/songaweek)

"Summer Rain" - (Psych-Folk) [Themed] 

r/SongAWeek Submissions 2025 - Week 1 - "Passage of Time"

Do you ever feel the tides roll over you? Do you often wonder where they're coming from? 

If so, you may take a listen and reflect. 

Time is ever-present; in general here in particular. 

lyrics: 

The time we spent
was far and few 
between our troubled lives 

But if I had 
one thing I knew 
with you I was alive 

Half the time
was thrown away 
The other half cut short 

and if I'd had 
my head on straight 
I'd have been with you for sure 

I can see the tides roll over me 
and I wonder where they're coming from 

This is the sound 
of Summer rain falling to the ground 

This is the sound 
of Summer showers falling down to
feed the flowers 

Blowing in the wind
I could sit for hours and hours with you 
my only friend 

To sit down and 
remember you 
requires a shot of shine 

and after I've had 
one or two 
well maybe then I could be fine 

Images of broken rooms
fill my haunted soul

I wish I'd been 
a better man;
stood by you and held your hand 

I wish I could have warmed you
in the cold

I can feel the skies 
roll over me
and I wonder where they're coming from 

This is the sound 
of Summer rain falling to the ground 

This is the sound 
of Summer showers falling down to
feed the flowers 

Blowing in the wind
I could sit for hours and hours with you 
my only friend 

//layered vocals && outro: 

(feel the North wind blowing
feel the tides a-flowing
feel the North wind blowing
feel the water flowing)

~fin








Summer Rain

Song-A-Week 2024 #1: Passage of Time

Lyrics:

## Verse #1
Somewhere in that field I’m gonna plant a lovely tree
Carve into its bark my long and lasting legacy
Twisted, gnarled roots will pin my body in the dirt
Petrify my bones so I can sink into the earth

## Chorus
Nothing is built to last
The future becomes the past
So store me in a cask
and let me age like chardonnay
my raging soul will not decay

## Verse #2
Leave my hardened bones right where they lie inside the ground
For the rest of time, so they won’t ever be re-found
From my ivory hands will spring forth seeds to sprout new trees
Spread them ‘cross the world to give them opportunities

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