Before I'm Gone

a country ballad for anyone feeling the empty chair at the table. Honest about holiday grief and gratefulness at the same time: giving thanks, while learning to breathe again—moment by moment. For fans of: reflective, lyric-forward country and Americana.
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Tryin to Breathe

War Should Be Illegal!

[Verse]
Fingers on the trigger, laws left to decay
Morals in the gutter, humanity astray
Bullets sing louder than the preacher's hymn
A choir of destruction, the devil grins

[Chorus]
War should be illegal, ain't no righteous cause
Breaking every boundary, ripping through the laws
Torture ain't justice, murder ain't no thrill
War should be illegal, we got blood to save

[Verse 2]
Uniforms of anger, marching through the night
Turning men to monsters, killing outta spite
Rape and pillage sanctioned, under flags unfurled
The darkest of desires, unleashed upon the world

[Chorus]
War should be illegal, ain't no righteous cause
Breaking every boundary, ripping through the laws
Torture ain't justice, murder ain't no thrill
War should be illegal, we got blood to save

[Bridge]
How we justify, the horrors we create?
Pointing fingers, passing blame, sealing someone's fate
A child with a rifle, a mother’s final scream
Shattered lives and nightmares, tearing through the dream

[Chorus]
War should be illegal, ain't no righteous cause
Breaking every boundary, ripping through the laws
Torture ain't justice, murder ain't no thrill
War should be illegal, we got blood to save

[Verse 3]
War Should Be Illegal!
Normally rape, torture and murder are
illegal, but in war everything is allowed.
Let's stop war and behave
humanely and live in harmony sake

War Should Be Illegal!

Left me on Read

“I’d Move Heaven & Earth”
This track dives into the kind of love that refuses to die, even when lifetimes get in the way. It follows Alexander and Astra — two souls who keep finding each other across centuries. In this life, they collide again in modern-day London, but the weight of their past lives hits Astra like a storm she isn’t ready to face. Every flashback, every echo of who they were, shakes her to the core.

Alexander feels it too. The familiarity. The truth. The ache of losing her before — more than once. But this time he’s determined not to let history repeat itself. The song is the cry of a man who would literally challenge gods, storms, fate… anything… just to keep their souls connected.

The lightning, the runes, the presence of Odin — they’re symbolic of the forces that have shaped their story through time. Old gods watching. Destiny circling like ravens above them. A love bigger than one life, trying to break through the chaos of another.

At its heart, this song is about recognising someone your soul already knows… and fighting like hell not to lose them again.

I'D MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH

[Verse 1]
When I first saw your face here
Something deep inside me had to really know
If you felt the same as I did
Or if I’d walk this road alone

[Verse 2]
The days rolled by I doubt you noticed 
You were living out a life already planned
Until the day your storm came calling
Then saw the love within my hands

[Pre-Chorus]
Time has passed, the storm has died
And now I’m shattered here to find
That every dream I held for us
Was broken in my mind
The night you said, goodbye, goodbye!

[Chorus]
I’d move Heaven and Earth
Just to keep you close
I’d challenge the Gods
So you’d never go
Oh…
I’m lost in the dark
As I walk alone

[Verse 3]
Now I’m replaying every moment
Every word you whispered through those sacred nights
Oh…
Your beauty cut right through me
Just like it shone beneath the crimson raven skies

[Chorus]
I’d move Heaven and Earth
Just to keep you close
Challenge old northern Gods
So you’d stay at home
Oh…Oh…
I’m lost in the dark
Can't find my way home

[Bridge]
We could’ve had forever
In another life.
Maybe in the future
Our love will reignite
Oh…
With you by my side 

[Chorus – Final]
I’d move Heaven and Earth
Just to keep you close
Challenge old northern Gods
So you’d never go
Oh…
I’m lost in the dark
Can’t find my way home
As I walk alone.
Can’t find my way home
As I walk alone
Alone

Dean R. Chandler 
19.12.2025

I'd Move Heaven & Earth

I'd Move Heaven and Earth

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Left me on Read

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