You Say You Don't Wanna Let Me Down

First track on a loose concept album I did for the RPM challenge 11 years ago. Essentially, Broken Arrow is one man's perspective on the end of the world. We have destroyed society though some horrific mechanism, perhaps nuclear war, and our protagonist travels the wasteland with his guitar looking for other musicians, hope and a chance for some of us to start anew. I used a pretty convoluted recording process, but I like the songs, I hope you do too.

The Pact

Broken Arrow

For my unrequited.

One pole of the bipolar swing even though you know perfectly well this other person was no good for you, is to nonetheless feel the sting of rejection periodically.  Going live the anniversary of Claudius's death in AD 54.

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Octa

I Understood You To Have No Further Use For Me

Buy on Beatport

I've been looking for some in me
To many shadows cover me
To much sorrow on my face
the ones I need turning away
can I be alone will be ok?
Can be alone
What's in my heart, can it be set free?

I'll be ok
He sends his peace my way
I'll be ok

Sometimes I felt nothin baby
Wondering if the truth still reign
Emptiness was like a blanket baby
Use my scars to turn love away
I never enjoy all of the good things
I wasn't a friend to me
The world's reflecting baby
what I thought I buried inside me

I can't undo
But I'll use whats broken me
I'm tired of handing my self over
To my Enemies
I wanna be, what he has called for me

He Sent It My Way

I never thought I'd say it
Like a brick through our window
That let our house start shaking

I didn't think I had it in me
To break what I've known
And let these walls be forsaken

But I'm not sure I ever knew you
Like you needed me to
But I swear I could taste it

I tried my best to ignore it
But the seed it took root
And shed the fruit that's now wasted

Why did I waste my time
Falling down hills to climb?
All who knew me saw right through me
What did I hear you say
This is a hollow play?
Not much to doubt while bleeding out

Sometimes I cannot see me
So I'll pull a sheet over
To give me some shape now

I hope I'll be able to find me
In the void it creates
There's a beauty in the breakdown

Who are you to say
I'm better off to stay
What don't kill me, might just heal me
What did I hear you say
This is a hollow play?
Not much to doubt while bleeding out

I'm holding out for hope now
That when the bottom drops out
They'll be something to catch me

But sometimes it's nice to fall
At such great heights
You can see it all completely

There's not much to doubt
While bleeding out
There's not much to doubt
While bleeding out
There's not much to doubt
While bleeding out
There's not much to doubt
While bleeding out

Bleeding Out

The Falling

Seeking a platonic relationship with a deliberately different lady runs into trouble with jealous boyfriends or husbands.

I suppose it's a decent enough conceit that they're genuinely spooked.

This music track is featured in the Rosebud Vibe-coded Game "JazzTown Citylifer" on Itch.IO and GameJolt

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Deka

The Unlikeliness Sets The Boundary

A splendid short piece with a title from the Transitive Vampire

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Were I But Jocular, I'd Laugh Oftener!

Space Level Jackpot

It started slowly
Creeping unknowing
There's something in my head
Swallowed in paranoia

It's sickly sweetly
I'm submerged completely
Everything's spinning
My heart's a hummingbird

I can't deny it
Cells multiplying
My heart's beating faster
Headed for disaster (scream)

Is this how I lose you?
Is this how I lose you?
Is this how I lose you?
Did I die tonight?

Your face is in my hands
I'm a stranger in badlands
Where time moves slowly
I'll scream until I lose my voice

Spine in all directions
A flooding in my senses
A prisoner in my body
Is this forever for me?

Is this how I lose you?
Is this how I lose you?
Is this how I lose you?
Did I die tonight?

There's a ringing in my ear
Louder than last year
A pain in the middle my chest
And flashing lights now in the mirror
Am I alive or am I dead?
Will this be repeating in my head?
I see you now and what I've done
And all the things that can't be unsaid

Year of the Rabbit

Hummingbird

Tony Pearson - Rhodes Electric Piano, Jazz Guitars, Trombones
Produced, Arranged, Composed And Played By Tony Pearson
Recorded, Engineered, Mixed And Digital Editing By Tony Pearson
Studio One Recording Center
ARP Songs 2025, ARP Productions 2025, Sagi Music 2025

"Something Different" Just Recorded By Tony Pearson  10-20-25

A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

Were I But Jocular, I'd Laugh Oftener!

Doug Stoothoff