Really nice song about complexity. How despite the good and bad, his kids are always grateful that they get to call him call him Dad. Great line and it says a lot. Love how the catchy melody and upbeat vibe puts a foot on the scale in the illustration of the character.

Hey Ethan, I am amazed that a young guy like you would capture some of the nuances of being an old man. Also, it is a very adventurous chord progression you employed here. Keep it up Bro. Doug Sheehy

Love the chord selections. Didn’t hear a couple of them coming. 👏🏿👏🏿

"But the times between the good ones May extend for quite a while A day in the life" this is a hard hitting line.  Really enjoyed this.  As Doug said a lot of nuance and furniture in the room as it were.  Also, really like the phrasing and that guitar rhythm it is really propulsive and it's some nice texture to the content over it. nice work.

Such wonderful perspective taking in these lyrics and excellent story telling.  Nice guitar playing and some cool unexpected chord changes.  Beautiful guitar playing, and lovely warm, intimate vocals.  The melody is also very compelling and memorable.  The song has such a nice smooth, introspective feel to it - it makes your heart go out to this guy.

especially like the progression here in this section!

yes! I love that you imagined all this! you foreshadowed the next prompt as well here with a song with someone's name in it. cool jazzy chords. this is the sort of thing I was hoping to hear with this prompt

A DAY IN THE LIFE

A day in the life
Of a cynical old man
He’s not quite willing to
Fight those words
And he’s not sure he still can

He loves his wife
But he hardly holds her hand
You’d have to go back far in time
To see that love again

And it’s not that he’s uncertain
It’s not that he don’t care
But he goes about his morning
With a blank and empty stare
A day in the life

A day in the life
Of a guy we know as Paul
But after all these years he hardly
knows himself at all

It doesn’t seem right
To feel shame for what he’s done
Actions spoke as loud as words
Can’t take back either one

And he eats his lunch in silence
He often does so now
He knows when this all started
But he’s doesn’t quite know how
And it’s not that they don’t like him
He can make them crack a smile
But the times between the good ones
May extend for quite a while
A day in the life

A day in the life
It’s a life where nothing’s wrong
But after all is said and done
He’ll only live so long

He sits down after dinner
To look at photographs
His kids have been gone so long
They feel like kids he never had
But he tries hard to remember
That despite the good and bad
His kids are always grateful
That they get to call him Dad
A day in the life

A Day in the Life - Demo

Dearly departed,
I knew before it started
When I said skip it I didn't mean all of it
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Unless it kills who you are
that makes you weaker forever 
and strengthens the walls which you use to
continue to justify, the silence, only interrupted by
skylines and rail
which make you set sail 
again and again
land is nowhere in sight 
another day, another night 
what you gave is what you got
you can't have what you sought
your thoughts twist and they turn 
no longer empty, just fraught 
with the fear and the pain of another one lost

what did you expect 

no matter the cost
you threw yourself out like batter to box
thoughts scatter then saunter 
emotions shatter and wander
each time shorter than the last
they linger and launder
the son's daughter will dawdle 
the hands of the potter will bottle the bother 
why ponder to falter 
why share in the sonder of one half of one whole partner

I'm not cut out, I'm too fragile to saddle this
Must I be devastated for creativity's catalyst 

I sink in my chair, I've sat in this 
A kink in my hair and I tear from this
A thousand yard stare and I'm blinded by all of it
If love's a job I've chosen to quit 
Gave my notice, let's make the severance quick
the freedom is already making me sick
I'll lay around all day not doing shit
And tell myself
The undying quiet is for my benefit

Dearly Departed

Everything about you was so neat
From head to torso, your once in a while smile so sweet
Like presents on Xmas our presence meets

Your hands say hi, but your eyes say hello
Our gazes graze idly, bullseye, I stare, but beware of Ides, Mid, I know
Round spectacles, so spectacular
Call me farsighted cause I'm delighted by your prudence
Every expression calculated; every word measured

If I could cast your spirit in a cask
I… would empty EVERY glass for you
In search of every last
Forecast about the sadness of two 
Masochists and I'd rather risk 
a scriptless past
And be typecast for the chance that you don't pass
On an imaginative casualist that sinks quick and thinks slow
So I'll ask if...   

Spotted

That week wait makes me weak; wait, 
What's six plus you minus Tuesday? 

At this rate I'll choose any date
Low and slow, it'll always be worth, the wait

There are no mathematics that can calculate,
No algorithm that can satiate
No AI that can replicate

Your fire, forged from the laurels of your toil
Your water, borne, from dug deep soil
Your earth, radiating contrasting gradients
Your air, feminine, soft and defiantly daring

Locked tight like a tidal wave,
Tara, the very air of you sets my earth ablaze
You've got all the elements that I crave
And I can only ever wish for it to be true
But I already know, it'll always be Me and, it'll never be You

Every Element

Inspired by a Google review of the Bel Air Motel in Austin, TX. 

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Eden Guest Recitation by Trace Casanova - IG: TraceCasanova00

The lights bright, the sound tuned
Here I come, my name booms
Welcome to my room
Its the perfect medium, its all I got
How can you be so sure and I so not?
Forever I was the prodigy
We all were, we had to be

Your solos flow so flawlessly
My figure uncertain, my hands; messy
Tonight I fear the spotlight
I swear if it were any other night 
Alone I sing, like its my last tour
Together I fall
I fall forever, once yours


Eden - Guest Recitation by Trace Casanova

June July music and lyrics by Meg Lauren 
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar- Meg Lauren
Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Background Vocals- Nick James Boettcher
Engineered/Mixed by Nick James Boettcher 
Mastered by Harold LaRue at Harold LaRue Mastering, Houston, TX.
Copyright 2025 
All rights reserved

Lyrics:
Homemade rockets that you fire to the sky
Revealing all your secrets while I try not to cry
Shoot 'em round, watch 'em spin by
Then we get, then we get just as high

When you leave take me with you
Shall I grieve my lost tissue 
Let freedom ring, ring, ring

June's been a bitch for many a year now 
Flying her false flag promises and summer sounds
While she steals life and limb,  whole bodies plucked from within my grasp 
Even my own isn't owned at last

When you leave take me with you
Do you feel how I miss you?
I miss you so.

June casts a shadow on July's summer skies 
I'd heal you with words if I wasn't so lost  
I've seen better
I’ve seen better days




June July

Available on 01.12.2015 from:
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Mungo's love classic 80's rub a dub without apology. So they jumped at the chance to re-record Johnny Osbourne's ice cold classic with the “Bumpy” one himself. They enlisted the help of Prince Fatty, whose all-star cast of musicians licked over the classic "He Prayed riddim" with such warmth, you would never guess he lives in breezy Brighton. Then they bolstered it with two scoops of Mungo’s drum and bass...

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