Name: Who, What, Where, When, And Why by Erik & Elijah
Duration: 7 min 14 s
Description: Still speaking mad truth, to mad power- and forever imagining

The Strings of TIme

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New, silly, allegorical single created in a solo jam May 2015
-Elijah

Sing Away Like A Goat

Still speaking mad truth, to mad power- and forever imagining

Who, What, Where, When, And Why

All the quaking engineered
the murder in this brigade
i think we're doomed
it is a parting gloom

...

that was a special sort of bad
and i sang that way on purpose
we swears it

Murder In The Brigade- Falsetto

My Bones by Storm Rizing

just like my bones invisible
just like
too
too often it seems like my voice 
my thoughts
are not visible
so visible
i'm invisible
it seems like as we call out
that the most deep inside part of us
the truth
the truth i live for
is unseen and unheard
always delving deep an intention
did i mention that i like to talk politics
but at the end of each parched day
stranded in the desert of modern decay i 
i am always seeking 
to tame
let
let the wildness wander
yet in this life we squander i 
i have broken my leg
had to amputate it while i laid in bed
my own skeleton it is holding me up
but you
you don't see much of it
trying ta' recover from the broken hate and plunder
the way
the way that i have found my freedom
i am here on the verge
tryin' 
trying to prove my worth
word by word i'll sing away this curse i
i feel like this little song is just alright
it's just alright
cause after all what power do i have
not enough
too bad
too bad
it's really too bad
and the people who seem to have all 
all they could care to do
is to squander it on one stupid unimportant you 
need to expand you heart and your dream to encompass all humanity
i will let this silly little improvised song come to an end
seems like i need to defend 
defend my time
defend my mind
but never be afraid to bend and change
let this 
let this
let this
let this 
slip in and make you one
with
with with 
with yourself
be one
be one with yourself i 
i hope you prosper

My Bones

This Brave New World by Storm Rizing

i have not been alright for quite some time
malcontent to sit back and bask in the cake
this paradigm
it is so fake
and it fades in time
hope in fades in time
hope it fades in time
i'm sick of having my days measured in
in rationing
in burdensome performing
all I wish is to live in one
bask in the rays of the morning sun
bask in the rays of the morning sun
but it seems seems that this 
that this
that this maze
it paralyzes us in oh so many ways
with assurances
and hollow promises
expectations built on a hunger
a blunder
this wonder
sometimes it feels like only the ocean really knows me
i am nobody 
nature is the ultimate wisdom
unwritten
this mountain top that i am standing on
reveals to me 
that it all will just go on
so many calamities are mounting
a forest of trees (falling)
all the apologies that'll ever stand for them
every twisted 
perverted justification
will not be enough to atone
they should atone
countless crimes against all of life are committed
as this system hurdles on into a 
darker
braver
new world
this brave new world
this brave new world
this brave new world

("This Brave New World" is registered by Storm Rizing under a free-use creative commons license. Free to use, share, download, and edit. Please give me credit* Must attribute)

This Brave New World

Song of a Lost Raccoon by Storm Rizing

howl at the moon
for tonight could be our doom
I don't know you 
but I would like to show you
the world we know is in a great crisis
and everything precious 
everything great
is going to have to wait
there are equations that must be closed
so as the chaos comes in
don't forget to show your
beautiful side
your smile
your kindness 
and mile-by-mile
we'll make this world whole again
the dark powers that manifest
all of this crisis and painful circumstance in our lives
our lives have been drawn
against some unpleasant
uncertain dawn
the goal they sought out and set to own
business empires have shown
we are 
we are
we are starving
scrambling to just make it by
all the meanwhile
some fat cats
some blue blood
the upper class
this is the same song we've been singin'
you're probably the same ears that have been listinin'
we must do something about this great struggle
this doom that is mugging us
this is the time to struggle
I have found
that even this sound
all plans pale in the face
of how fucked
the human race
we-you injured ourselves
this system is murder
this system we live in is murder
and still here in two thousand-fifteen
the same trends of decline
that have been with since the last centuries
this paradigm has its roots in 
the same hunger for greed and power
leaves us destitute
and i'm so sad to see what its done to all my friends
and all the other people who wouldn't even pretend
stuck in a megalithic system that swallowed them up
demanding from us money for a home
and everything we could want or need or hope for
and all the ways that we went around to get in control again
we were deprived of our free will
because everything is bought and owned 
so-Oo-oo
that's when i turned to the streets that I miss 
that i miss so much
i really wish i was out there with nothing but a sleeping bag 
because then my time would be my own
my mind unimpinged
but sealed behind these hinges in this comfortable house
like a comfortable mouse
and here i watch as the world falls 
just like it always has
i am suffering because i have no way 
to do anything about
our decay
our decay it is a corpse
our decay 
our decay 
and its getting worse

(Song of a Lost Raccoon is registered to Storm Rizing under a non commercial, & free use creative commons licence. Must attribute.)

Song Of A Lost Raccoon

The vocals come from Radiohead's "fake plastic trees." The rain comes from my own humbold county recordings, just like most everything else.


Goodbye

Moonglow by Storm Rizing

cascade away
lose out
decay
ultimately dead
dead in the head
lost in sleep
burning in bed
habit is sunk
arms are weak
you're lost today
you're lost this week
the rain comes down
the bread is stale
you try to catch the drip
there's a hole in you pail
your shoes are broken
to match your hands
your eyes are lost
and so I am
and mellow you
and angry me
friendly sounds
that creep
silly sit-downs
and scary runarounds
and flying high through the skies don't know
losing out
I am shown the sun
I've shown the sun
I've shown the sun a smile
chase it mile by mile
really want to get out of here again
but the truth is 
that I want to be OK
wherever I am
no need to go
no need to plan
smiling bright
through the night
the fog it clears
lost my fears
lost my hope
but found a rope
I'm climbing now
into the sky somehow
the wind is bright even at night
the moon it glows
through the trees it blows

| in bittersweet memory of a girl who loved snails, fancied tea pots, and collected stolen signs - just like me. Who had my heart and drifted away. To all that was, and wasn't. I love you Ashley |

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Moonglow

Greetings fellow human beings!  enjoy our improvised hippie-freestlye "change the world music" 

This magical musical  adventure came to begin the Summer of 2014 in Medford Oregon,  I had the wonderful-albeit random experience of collaborating with Erik, a lyrical whirlwind  with me on lead guitar! Our energy and eagerness led to the creation of an album born of our twin interests, saving the world, and musical passion!

Special thanks to Lynne with the Bus, my hippie punk friend for very the Journey itself!

It is now 2015, and I have had a burst of musical output. I have really found my wings, and my voice. Please enjoy, download, and share my music...and remember to do good work, and keep fighting the good fight <3 



Who, What, Where, When, And Why

Erik & Elijah

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