This is an act of bright imagining of that moment before the moment... all lovely aspiration. And it sounds just like that.

You achieved Lofty Life with this song. No need to yearn anymore. Unique music!

this is gorgeous. solid chord selection, and then it all kicks in at 58s and gets even better than gorgeous somehow? So many wonderful aural and atypical rhytmical elements to make this one truly reverberate the deepest soul-strings of my nether-pulse

This is an ever-changing playlist of my favorite songs and/or artists peppered all over the SCloud at a given moment. 

The list is loosely sequenced in order of favorites, but every single one of these tracks and artists generates within me a tremendous and equal amount of aural joy, keeping me (mostly) sane whether at home or work.   :D

Current faves found thru SCloud that I can't stop replaying...

A song about mixed feelings around coming home.

Lyrics:
Home for three days just a short stay
Just enough time to do my washing and
Phone a few friends for a few words
Catch up on all the sleep I’ve been missing then
Write a postcard to a friend in pain
Home for three days—I’m back again

Home for three days, take a bath and shave
Shake the dust from my body and
All the thoughts of foreign ways
Laid to rest in my memory
Listen to an old song with a close friend
Home for three days—wish they’d never end

Home for three days and my turn
To wash the stairs and sweep the alleyway
Join the dole queue, pay the fuel bill
Find my room’s in such a state again
Grey and chilly skies, nights drawing in
Home for three days—where to begin

Home for three days, back in old ways
Troubles resurfacing, walls need plastering
Home for three days, happy anyway
In three days time, I’ll leave it all behind again…

Win Hill

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Home for Three Days

video here:   https://youtu.be/Kzodqzwbjr4

A popular Irish song about unrequited love. Brendan and I get the chance to play this live together sometimes.

Brendan Wakely on guitar:  https://soundcloud.com/brendan-wakely
Chris O on vocals and 8 string uke
Home recording

The Salley Garden

The Salley Garden (W.B. Yeats) ~ Chris O & Brendan Wakely *video link in description

This composition started as an experiment in using virtual instruments and an early attempt (in fact first attempt) at orchestration. It is very rough around the edges and highlights the need for me to improve my mixing skills, but I think it has something raw about it. I hope you find it interesting to listen to.

Uprising Twenty - Two

A song about interruptions.

Lyrics:
In the time of Walter Cronkite
And Huntley and Brinkley
Reporting all the news
Straight forward and succinctly
Programs people watched
Would dissolve with proclamation
With words that froze the viewing nation

"We interrupt this program"

Back then things were black and white
Except for a couple wars
One was cold the other hot
Whatever that war was for
Could be 'bout weather or sport
Or something thing Kruschev said
And Kenneydy's retort

This is a "special report"

Cuba had the Bay of Pigs
That stained the CIA
Bullets flew in Dallas
No one forgot that day
Martin down in Memphis
Robert down in L.A.

"We interrupt this program"
Brought fear of what they'd say

Now we have the world wide web
And all that that implies

The news comes from the people
And seen through world wide eyes

We interrupt this program
Can still grab our attention
With so much going on these days

It's hardly worth the mention

This is a special report

Stand by for breaking news

We interrupt this program

Have we got news for you!

And that's the way it was.

We Interrupt This Program

Concealed

wrote down a letter
shrouded it in code
gonna mail it off in the first class post
to some unknown address
from long ago

and if ever you do see me down the road
please do not shout out
I will not slow
if I should hear some distant voice
from long ago

you coulda lit my fuse
but it's too early to say
cancel my subscription
down with the masquerade
if you're so honest 
I'm the longest day

you may lay claim 
to banish all my blues away
but it's just conjecture deception and facade
when it was you who put most of them there
anyway 

I'm mailing all of my blues away
I'm mailing all of my blues away

somewhere out in the distant multiverse
my entropy is flowing in reverse
and all my branches are forming
to build a church

where I can go and get some peace
retrieve my letter off of
the holy priest
and slowly build my life back
piece by piece

I'm mailing all of my blues away
I'm mailing all of my blues away

but you know just lately
I have come to doubt
what in the hell it is that 
I'm taking about
maybe you'd be better off without

and in about a billion years or so
I'll figure something out
you don't already know
and mail it to some address
from long ago

recorded at home on my 8 track

thanks a million for stopping by folks, really appreciate it, keep on being cool✌️

From Long Ago

sa Meuf

“Icarus (It’s Not Fair)”

If I was never meant to fly
Why do I desire heights?
Oh don’t burn my pride
If I wasn’t born to touch the sky
Why do I wanna try?
Why oh why oh why

Oh see how birds dance in sunlight
Oh so why not me?
It’s not fair
Oh see how clouds shape the sunlight
Oh so why not me?
It’s not fair

If I wasn’t born to aim so high
Why can’t I bend my eye?
	Oh don’t choke my pride
If I wasn’t meant for a lofty life
Why do I wanna rise?
Why oh why oh why

Oh see how birds dance in sunlight
Oh so why not me?
It’s not fair
Oh see how clouds shape the sunlight
Oh so why not me?
It’s not fair

O my father, let me soar!

Oh look how I dance in sunlight
Oh it’s so me
I’m so fair
Oh look how I shape the sunlight
Oh it’s all me
I’m so fair

O my father, see me go!
---
Music by Corey Ball
Lyrics by August Lysy

Icarus (It's Not Fair)

some one close to me/ was that way/N those days

Thru & Thru/ True Enough/ Was In His Blood

Complecks's track Imaginative Stormy Night with Llanpsych guitar
Mixing by ComPlecks :)))))
Check out the original here
https://soundcloud.com/zack-gunville/imaginative-stormy-night-cpk?si=e550d07044fc4fb0881765469d4f9308&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Imaginative Stormy Night by ComPlecks  Feat. Llanpsych

This song is best ingested in conjunction with its symbiotic Music Video as part of a complete breakfast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02yvaKW0YiM

"My oh my" is what You say
when the strifes of life at last give way
to a moment with a slow decay
where freedom sings its soft hooray

This song was inspired by a journey I took, a process of discovery and healing, of hope and vigilance, of pain and sweet empowerment, and of freedom! The journey never ends (it goes on and on and on and on!! hehehe)

The song is dedicated to my Myo guide, Jessica, who inspired me, educated me, aided me, and encouraged me with tenacious tact and outstanding optimism. Thank You so so much Jessica! :) This video contains a few servings of my current levels of joy and liberation thanks to You hahahah

Within the lyrics are many wink-winks and nudge-nudges for any Myologists out there, or any fellow Myofunctional journeyers and tongue-tied alums. ;)

Let this also be a gentle advocation for myofunctional therapy for anyone who it may benefit, and a solid recommendation to contact Jessica at https://www.opusom.com/ if You do decide to tread that path.

A few production notes, the drum kit is entirely comprised of samples I recorded of my own mouth-sounds, a tedious process, but I've always wanted to try it and this song presented the perfect thematic opportunity!
For longtime fans, the video features some old familiar faces, Loveman (from the 'Let Me Love You' video) and Funkman (from 'In A Funk' fame), they were more than pleased to join me in singing and dancing to this track!
And lastly, this has been my first attempt at such sneaky video editing techniques, it was quite marvellously fun and edifying to spend some time and effort creating and learning new techniques :D

Thank You to family, friends, fans, and all who support and encourage my creativity,

May this song represent a morsel of my(o) Love for You

<3

Lyrics:

//

For anybody feeling weak, (So damn tired)
Getting tired of losing sleep, (We've tried)
There's no use in grinded teeth, (Go take five)
Lets put our tongues up in our cheeks (For a while)

My oh my
say goodbye
to all ties
That been holdin us down
Myo Myo My
We could float into the sky
Make our way where the birds fly
Bound for the unbound
myoymyoymyoymyoo
clip the string on the yoyo
let it spin let it go for a roll
From the floor to the rooftop
mymymymymomyomoymoyoo
Open up and let the tongue grow
Big smile let the gum show
yeah, that hits the spot

We're losing air far from our peaks, (Deprived)
But I heard about a cave where we can breathe (Let's get inside)
Right beneath our nose, too close to speak it (We a little shy)
We seal our lips closed like it's our little secret (And we smile)

Myo Myo My,
Say Goodbye,
To all ties
From the floor to the rooftop
Myo Myo My,
We could float into the sky,
Make our way where the birds fly,
Yeah, that's the spot.

We climb high finding the sweet-eet-eet spot
We fly by smiling at used rooftops

//

xoxo

Official Music Video

Myo Myo

I Can't Be The Only One

“Silas”

Silas
While you were sleeping last night
I had a vision
So real I shook with fright
My room was a prison
Whose key was lost in my mind
I searched all, blindly
But felt nothing to find

How can I convey to you
What came to me immediately
When reason and words defy
If I were you, I’d doubt it, too
But it was no dream or fantasy
I saw it true as I do you
About this I’d never lie

Silas
Can’t you believe me, my friend
I am no zealot
Nor are my wits at their end
There came a sheriff
Whose open mouth shone a light
He lit inside me
And I saw him the Christ

How can I convey to you
What came to me immediately
When reason and words defy
You say my mind has become skewed
But such is said too easily
Harder to accept the truth
From across the great divide

He set me free
He is the key
He came to me
He heard my plea / He is alive

How can I convey to you
What came to me immediately
When reason and words defy
Would my joy could pass to you
But it came to me unwantedly
I resisted like a restless fool
But he’s changed my very mind

- - -
Music by Corey Ball
Lyrics by August Lysy

Silas

PATERNITY


if you’re going down
down onto the sea
don’t leave without me


boarded up the house
threw away the keys
blown down to my knees


once we lived as a family
splendid circle of three


fifth of bourbon won’t
kill the memories
what you meant to me


memory of a family
partner, kiddo and me:
rocky beach and light house beam
counting rabbits in sunset dream


once we lived as a family
splendid circle of three


if you’re going down
down into the mud
don’t leave without me

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks to Janine Levinson, Wheelwright and David Weiss for early listening 
and encouragement.

Paternity

Is anyone still out there?
Well hello there if you are taking some of your valuable time to read this! As the lyrics to this (probably)final song say, its been a long while……
The last time I checked into Soundcloud was maybe last December, wow…. 
I packed up for a holiday in Hawaii, ran the Honolulu Marathon, watched a volcano erupt, cast my dog’s ashes into a lava field and drank a tropical island's worth of cocktails while watching the sunset with my wife. And then returned a few weeks later decidedly unenthused about the Cat and my collaborator.
Gina had been making noises about returning to an on again / off again musical partner. That wasn’t unexpected and was actually a bit of a relief as I hadn’t been enjoying this for a while. Our last few songs had been tortuous to finish, including this one which was finally finished I think way back in October 2022.
Cat Came Back was always a lot like an arranged marriage - nothing at all in common but we kind of made it work 3 minutes at a time. But by late last year, it had become very hard work. And as you fellow Soundclouders know, outside of personal satisfaction, the rewards for all of that hard work are not very large. So, if the personal satisfaction is gone, there’s not a lot left to motivate oneself. 
In addition to that, there were a few rather large elephants in the room regarding my collaborator that I won't go into but nevertheless constantly weighed very heavily on my mind throughout our time together and I was finding these increasingly difficult to continue to ignore for the sake of making music together.
So anyway, when I returned a perhaps brief hiatus accidentally turned into this - silence for what, 7-8 months? Haven’t picked up an instrument in all that time and they currently sit in my garage gathering dust. Took up Chess, what a rabbit hole that is! Continued running. Listening as always to a lot of old jazz. Continued seemingly never ending renovations to my house. Spent a lot of time with my lifelong friend, William Styron’s Black Dog, as a matter of fact he's here sitting right by my side now. 
So what now? I sat down a few days back and listened to a few things that were unfinished as of late last year. Maybe its time to start again. Find a new collaborator or two? Anyone know anyone who might be a match?
In the meantime I’ll dip my toe in and check out what some of my favourite Soundclouders have been up to while I was away. I'm sure I've missed out on some really great stuff.

Minor Exotica (Turned To Black)

I'll Never Love Again

Worst poet wanna-being worster singsong-person. 

Lost to learning. Living the attempt.

The 2nd page for English Minor (@english-minor), because one page cannot contain us. ✊

We're very grateful for your listening to our humble musical offerings and for your comments, shares, and likes. Thank you for checking us out.

We're a songwriting duo who continues to grow (hopefully for the better).

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