Gimme the Lute, Part 5

Song-A-Week #20: Something Borrowed

Lyrics:
[verse #1]
Something shifted in the seasons, feel the warmth on my twigs
Did you ride the westward wind to build a nest with my sticks?
Filled with joy you rest your wings on me

Black and blue does not mean pain when I see your grand feathers
Something ‘bout your upright crest makes my life simply better
Roots don’t hold me down, I’m feelin’ free

[chorus]
Oh, my jay, my Steller’s Jay
Oh, my jay, my Steller’s Jay
Please don’t fly away

[verse #2]
Sing to me that melody that you’ve hidden in your heart
Beautiful and sweet and pure, I wait for its impart
Love is all that matters in this tune

Morning comes and brings the sun that pulls you out of my leaves,
Still and silent as I am, my trunk is filled with grief
Waiting til I see you in the moon

steller's jay

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https://www.theoi.com/Text/OrphicHymns1.html#31

To Athena

Lyrics:
Trying to win your approval
Always ends in my bemusement
Say you just have to be truthful
While maintaining a connection

Think before you speak
It’s that easy
And if it sounds better in my head 
Well then it must mean

I’ve got a bad case
Of foot in mouth disease
The town crier came and
Read out the decree
This dumb bitch
Will be quarantined
I’ve got a bad bad bad bad case
Of foot in mouth disease

If I try to ask forgiveness
It only draws more attention
To the way I really biffed it
They’re already on the next thing

What you don’t kill
Makes it stronger
And if that statement’s true
Well I’m a goner

I’ve got a bad case
Of foot in mouth disease
The town crier came and
Read out the decree
This dumb bitch
Will be quarantined
I’ve got a bad bad bad bad case
Of foot in mouth disease

The healer’s not taking new
Patients/patience is key to this
It might resolve on its own
Practice is treatment
I wanna run away to
Somewhere that I am unknown
But they’d still see sickly green
And they’d start throwing oh

I’ve got a bad case
Of foot in mouth disease
The town crier came and
Read out the decree
This dumb bitch
Will be quarantined
I’ve got a bad bad bad bad case
Of foot in mouth disease

Foot in Mouth Disease

I cut my finger. So I practiced automation instead of guitar.

I Cut My Finger

written for r/songaweek 2024 - week 21 (Theme: Behold! The Gods!)

-He·phaes·tus-

Hephaestus (no vocals)

Song-a-week #22 - 

Prompts: "Breakers" and "Little Wins"

This is a story about little wins in the breakers. 

The chorus is vaguely reminiscent of the word for "beautiful" in Spanish, but it's more playing with the sound than a real meaning, and it's not really grammatically correct enough to call it Spanish. 

It felt good to just do a simple happy song, for once!

Photo art by Jakkapan

Lalindo

And I know this is true
A feeling of deja vu
It happened; make it two
A feeling of deja vu

Deja Vu

https://i.ibb.co/YDPLcQV/untie-the-knot.png

Untie the Knot

lyrics:

the angels flew to the ocean
the angels flew to the ocean
and like the waves
the day will break
the sun, will find
its place in the sky
and cast no shadow
on the ground 
where lion's teeth
have taken hold
of me
please release

Dogwood In Two Crosswinds

Song-a-week 2024 #25

Prompt: Déja vu

I spent the last few days hanging out with a bunch of amazing women in the woods, inspiring memories of being a wild kid running around in the woods, or whatever I could find that was weedy and wild.

Yes, you are hearing right- first two lines:
we've been. we've been here before;
weaving, weaving here before

We've Been Here Before

Denver-based folk musician currently cooking up some stuff 🍳

steller's jay

dolphinswarm

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