***SPECIAL NOTE: The Cloud auto assigned the hash-tagged "Gospel" aspect of genre...I had been thinking movie inspiration...But hey, music is perceived in the ear of the beholder. 
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©Lyrics & Creator: Lady ElectroTrek...   
Title:
FUGITIVE'S FLIGHT
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VS 1: Fugitive in no man's land. Why you even bother to take a stand?

VS 2: You're not the type who is running from the law, just the mouths of every shark-toothed steely jaw.

VS 3: Tried to be a friend to 'man' but saw they didn't like your soft-hearted plan.

VS 4: It's a high price to pay, being an individual who moves society out of harm's way.

BRIDGE: Common ground is hardly to be found when you ruffle the feathers of those who didn't want you to astound.

Outro: Cut you out, so they don't have to pout. A pathetic angle they dangle with their warped sense of a mentally grid-locked tangle. So run free now. Take a bow.

Evident Circumstances

Fugitive's Flight

Somewhere The Light Remains

[Verse 1]
I saw you standing in the quiet—
streetlights trembling on your skin
like they weren’t sure if they should stay
or disappear the way you did

You smiled small and crooked
like a secret you outgrew—
and I swear the night leaned closer
just to hear what you weren’t saying

[Pre-Chorus]
And I’m learning people leave in pieces
some slow some sudden—
but they always leave a mark
you carry quiet

[Chorus]
But somewhere the light remains—
on a road where we once walked
kicking stones making plans
we were never brave enough to live

And every time the wind shifts
I feel you turning in my memory—
a soft echo a half-finished sentence
someone I keep losing even as I hold on

[Verse 2]
I’ve been running from myself lately
through towns that look like old regrets—
the kind where the windows
seem to know your name

I keep thinking I’ll forget you
if I drive far enough—
but the rearview keeps filling
with pieces of you I didn’t mean to save

[Pre-Chorus]
Funny how the heart remembers
what the mind tries to sand smooth—
names nights the warmth of a hand
you never meant to need

[Chorus]
But somewhere the light remains—
on a road where we once walked
kicking stones making plans
we were never brave enough to live

And every time the wind shifts
I feel you turning in my memory—
a soft echo a half-finished sentence
someone I keep losing even as I hold on

[Bridge]
You were good at leaving—
I was good at staying still
maybe that’s why we broke
like weather hitting glass

Slow cracks running wide
til they reached our quiet truth
but sometimes when I hear your name
I swear the world tilts the way it used to

[Final Chorus]
Yeah somewhere the light remains—
in the space between goodbye
and everything we never said
and I keep walking that memory road
barefoot hoping it hurts less someday
but every time the night softens
I feel you close again—like a breath like a ghost 
like a story I’m still learning how to let go

[Outro]
Maybe loving you
was the thing that taught me
how to stay—even when everyone else
kept leaving

Somewhere The Light Remains

Aaru

Demo song “Wintertime” was written back in December 2023 and is now being published🙏

Your Child of Nature ✨🌟❤️🌟✨

X-Mas Album

Wintertime (Remix 2025)

Cast of Characters:
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals, lyrics, acoustic guitar and composition
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST strings and mellotron
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – upright double bass, plucked and bowed
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – piano
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, Danelectro baritone electric guitar, and e-bow
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – production, mix, and mastering

Carl came up with this song at the beginning of November on his acoustic guitar, and shared it with the rest of us shortly after. Carl is a songwriting supernova, in case you're unfamiliar with our newest addition to the team. We're always excited and grateful to get to work on his music.
Mark was first to add his parts, although he tweaked them throughout the process. His work can be heard in the dramatic string arrangement and mellotron at the crescendo. Josh was next to jump in, adding his new upright bass to the song. He played not only the plucked part, but the bowed part in the strings section, too. Ken came along next with his perfect drums to complete the rhythm section. JJ wanted in on this, too, so he added the foundational piano you hear throughout. Last, but not least, Stephen dropped in his electrifying guitar solo and the accompanying textural chords using is Danelectro baritone guitar, followed at the very end by his magical e-bow part.
Once it was all in the bag, we asked Tez to produce and mix it for us, which he did in his always expert fashion.
This is our latest song of which Carl is the author. He's been making music with us for the past half a year now, and we can't get enough of his abundant creativity. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Also, Carl had this to say about his lyrics, "Labels and putting each other in a particular box is causing big problems on the planet. The song's meaning is born from trying to take labels out of our lessons. In a polarized world, the song pines how we will likely learn lessons properly if we leave ego out of what we are trying to learn. Maybe our art has more relevance for future generations if we do that instead of bolting it to the current people or ideas causing us problems."
Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Let's play cards
You lying runt
Word poker perfect
A joker to hunt
Motor makeup mouth
Dadless brain itched
Our sith can shout
Cycle of old child bewitched

Leave out the names
Remove their power
Lessons find refrain
Fake turned to flower

All liars die
'As honest tongue
Dinnseanchas signs our true right and wrong
Transmutation
Time understood
Truth trump card for hate
More blossomed love

Leave out the names
Teach tomorrow's hour
Lessons find refrain
Pure honest power

Lies from power
Carry hidden agenda
Justice can save us from these malady members
Unless they break our sacred norms
They've changed the game with iron fisted porn

Leave out the names
Control our stream
Lessons mute ego
Brutes turn to dream

The system protects us from crazy one
One system collective
Agreement by sum
Normals described
Standards of power
Transmutation of evil
Never named gives real flower

Let's label our love
Let's teach that today
Let lessons of dove
Show us our way

Leave out the names
Remove their power
Lessons find refrain
Fake turned to flower

Leave out the names
Teach tomorrow hour
Lessons find refrain
Pure honest power

Leave Out the Names (Eclectic Collective)

"The Sweet By-and-By" is a Christian hymn with lyrics by S. Fillmore Bennett and music by Joseph P. Webster. It is recognizable by its chorus:

In the sweet by and by
   We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
In the sweet by and by
   We shall meet on that beautiful shore.

Bennett described the composition of the hymn in his autobiography.

Mr. Webster, like many musicians, was of an exceedingly nervous and sensitive nature, and subject to periods of depression, in which he looked upon the dark side of all things in life. I had learned his peculiarities so well that on meeting him I could tell at a glance if he was melancholy, and had found that I could rouse him up by giving him a new song to work on. He came into my place of business [in Elkhorn, Wisconsin], walked down to the stove, and turned his back on me without speaking. I was at my desk. Turning to him, I said, "Webster, what is the matter now?" "It's no matter," he replied, "it will be all right by and by." The idea of the hymn came me like a flash of sunlight, and I replied, "The Sweet By and By! Why would not that make a good hymn?" "Maybe it would," he said indifferently. Turning to my desk I penned the words of the hymn as fast as I could write. I handed the words to Webster. As he read his eyes kindled, and stepping to the desk he began writing the notes. Taking his violin, he played the melody and then jotted down the notes of the chorus. It was not over thirty minutes from the time I took my pen to write the words before two friends with Webster and myself were singing the hymn.—Sanford Fillmore Bennett (1836–1898).                                   Wikipedia

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Image: Dante Muñoz

In The Sweet By and By

I was very lucky to finally hang out with @E-Noki IRL. For me It was the highlight of my motorcykle trip to Poland and Germany.  We had a guitar and handpan jam together in the rainy mountains, and that was the spark to this collab. Im very, very grateful for this experience <3 
We decided to have total creative freedom, so we both made our own versions of this track.
Please check out the wonderful @E-Noki version:  https://soundcloud.com/e-noki/grateful-rainy-tent-version?si=5692bc1703dd4275b4a5e7f368e96ffd&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Grateful - E-Noki & Miper

The Last Chance

You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory...one of the best song titles ever and one of Johnny's best songs.... from his 1978 solo album So Alone

 I stole that line  and his identifiable little Dsus riff for my tune about the past and his song that inspired it.

Johnny has been gone more than three decades now.. He had a serious heroin addiction which essentially destroyed his career and ended his life at the young age of 38 . He died alone in a hotel room  in New Orleans in April 1991.
He had a RnR swagger and style and I've always liked his energetic  loud guitar
there is none of that here mind you..this tune, it's all cheesy melancholic blather  with some simple piano and Midi cello with a sprinkle of  accordian


I just learned  that the  title of his song came from an  episode of the 50s sitcom the Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason spouting off to his TV wife Audrey Meadows that line ...Johnny like me found inspiration in TV...

here's a link to that song of his if you don't know it

https://youtu.be/TknY89kECq0?si=SUbl3fAHhnpiYqzn



Just Like Johnny Thunders

You can't put your arms around a memory
I love that line, almost divine
Such a great song
When I first heard Thunders play it, I was 17
I hadn't lived the life to know where it came from

We used to share a certain kind of chemistry 
Lovers fire, teenage desire 
It went so wrong
His song, welI I still play it, though I'm pushing 70
Brings me back to a place from where we have moved on

I stole a Johnny Thunders song to sing to remember you
Cause I couldn't find the proper words to say
Yeah just like Johnny Thunders 
You are gone, gone, gone
Heartbreaker, you made your getaway

You can't put your arms around a memory 
Johnny was one, a sensitive son
He went astray 
You and I, we both made it to the other end of this life
Another world, a different path we walk these days

I stole this Johnny Thunders song to sing to salute you dear
I'm sure you wouldn't want it any other way 
Just like Johnny Thunders 
One day I'll be gone, gone, gone
Heartbreaker, I'll make my getaway
Just like Johnny Thunders
We'll be gone, gone, gone
Heartbreakers we'll make our getaway 

words and music  HotR/ John Genzale


Just Like Johnny Thunders

Shake Down Time

You had a way with your words that will remain
Even when I'm old and grey, they still wont go
And in your hands, I'd be there for your commands
Eyes for mine to meet and be stranded in the scenery     

Held on by your golden features
Warning signs were never seen

Pretending you loved me 
Pretending you loved me 

And on the edge of all the trust that I had left
There you fell for someone else and I built a wall
So no one else could make my doubt myself like that
From that day until my last
But you're always in the past

Coming by in glowing pictures
Blazing on my memories
Haunted by my old addiction
Wanting what I cannot seek

Pretending you loved me  
Pretending you loved me 

And I held on in the hopes you'd come 
And have me falling at your feet,
Raising walls to break them all in defeat
But I didn't know that time wouldn't change your mind 
When I was ready for the siege,
Clinging on fast to things that never last,
Now I'm ready for release

Don't remind me of my weakness
Don't deny me inner peace
Don't reignite my old affliction
Fading from my memories

Pretending you loved me 
Pretending you loved me 
Pretending you loved me 
Pretending you loved me 

Fugitive's Flight

ElectroTrek

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