When I make music, I often think of the people who have gone...

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Wenn ich Musik mache, denke ich oft an die Menschen, die gegangen sind...


Music: Axel Menningen
Cover Image: pixabay.com

Gone

I did this song for Pride 2022, and I couldn't get it right until I added the Rhodes, and after that I just left it. It was never mixed properly, I had it way too hot going into the master, and the vocals were not done well. So I reworked it, I pulled it up a third, keeping and transposing the Rhodes MIDI track and warping the rhythm guitars as best as I could, and redoing the acoustic gtr and vocals. It's a little better now. I thought I would post it since the last few have been kind of downers lol

With my complete and heartfelt apology to Anastacia...

Here’s to the ones that feel like they don’t belong,
That are looking for a reason to keep hanging on
You’ve got a friend in me and you know that it’s so
And together we are stronger than you will ever know

If there’s a way to stand out you’ll find it
When it’s your time to shine you will blind them!

Now there’s a word going ‘round they’re tryna shut us down
Cause we don’t act like the others in their country club towns
And they’re spreading lies, they try to dehumanize
But they’re just putting us down to bring their selves up high

And we’ll never back down, we’re gonna stand our ground
And we won’t shut up, we’re gonna shout out loud

It’s our life and we’re gonna live it
They don’t have what it takes to break our spirit,
There’s a word that they hate, but they’re gonna hear it,
We’re gonna sing it out loud today, that word is,,,

Now it seems insane, they have so much to gain,
When they create some kind of drama just to smear our name,
We all have fear, and we all have pain,
But a little understanding goes a long, long way

And we’ll never back down, we’re gonna stand our ground
And we won’t shut up, we’re gonna shout out loud

It’s our life and we’re gonna live it
They don’t have what it takes to break our spirit,
There’s a word that they hate, but they’re gonna hear it,
We’re gonna sing it out from up above, that word is,,,
LOVE!

Love is the answer
Love brings understanding
Love pulls us together
It’s a word so demanding
Love wins over hate
It always prevails
Love tolerates,
Love never fails!
Love is what guides us,
It’s a beacon that blinds us
It will always finds us
Love will unite us!

The Word Is Love REDO TX 91324

A tune from several acoustic guitars, a bass and vibes

blue

Iron Leaves And Electric Hearts

John West's Paradise

passing clearings

One Love, One Jah

One love, one Jah, mi seh we ah di same
No matta weh yuh come from, we call di one name
One love, one Jah, mi seh hold di flame
Together we ah rise up, nah play no blame game


Dem waan divide wi, but wi stronga dan dem
Wi chant fi di peace, nah go follow problem
Jah light ah shine bright pon di wicked an' dem
Mi seh love inna mi heart, nah tek no condemn


Mi bredda an' mi sista, wi ah walk pon di way
Jah guide wi footsteps, every night an' day
Di riddim ah di heartbeat, mek di spirit stay
One love fi di people, mek di vibes dem play

One Love, One Jah

NEVER pronounce something a Symphony movement unless you have thought about it for at least six months (which I did not do). I have been reading a book by Rimsky Korsakov (again) about composition for strings. Hopefully some of what he wrote is beginning to sink in. It took me 1,161 other works before I attempted my first symphony movement...though in fact, I did not set out to try and make a symphony movement. It would be more accurate to say that it made itself, when my careless languorous muse was good and ready. I shall now engage in Symphony pronouncement regret syndrome, until I come to my senses and rename the piece.

Symphony No.1 (1st movement - Adagietto) Op.23

You saved me from the flood, 
you saved me from the flames
You pulled me from the ash, 
you called me by my name
I was sleeping with the ghosts, 
dancing with guilt
waiting in the rain 
no fire in my veins

here but far away
 a match without a spark
a shadow on the highway, 
broke down in the dark
signs in the sky, 
I hadn’t seen you yet
Living just to die
running on regret

You saved me from the crash, 
from the smoke and twisted steel
When the world turned to ash, 
you taught me how to feel
I was digging through the ruins, 
looking for a trace
a buggy in the dunes
last in the race

lost in the land 
burned out in the sun
An empty bottle in my hand, 
always on the run
Of a reason, of a purpose, 
of a light behind the face
No me or you, but us
I’d finally found my place

You saved me, you saved me
From the fire, from the fall
You saw it all and saved me

I was chasing empty neon 
down old forgotten roads
Trading pieces of my soul 
for the weight of heavy loads
But you stood there like an answer
 I never thought I’d find
A lighthouse in the wreckage,
a pulse against the tide.

A miracle in motion, 
with mercy in your eyes
an elixir or a potion 
that lifted my disguise
a prophet or a saint
an angel by my side
A beacon in the chaos,
a fire I couldn't hide.

You saved me, you saved me
From the fire, from the fall
You saw it all and saved me

You saved me from the flood, 
you saved me from the flames
You pulled me from the ash, 
you called me by my name
I was sleeping with the ghosts, 
dancing with guilt
waiting in the rain 
no fire in my veins

here but far away
 a match without a spark
a shadow on the highway, 
broke down in the dark
Reading signs in the sky, 
I hadn’t seen you yet
Living just to die
running on regret

You saved me, you saved me
From the fire, from the fall
You saw it all and saved me

You Saved Me

Photo by hiding ninja on Unsplash
Photo by fr0ggy5 on Unsplash
performed on midcentury wurlitzer by fr0ggy5
uncut but cloned pitched echoed speed 120% in nch

cooking up plot euphoria piano improv

The melody is cold and clear, like the breath of northern Scandinavia.

Scandinavia

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