Song sketches written and recorded 8/2/23.

8/2/23

The better ones from the songs recorded to cassette on Yamaha MT50 four track over the past few days. 8/3/23

Good Four Tunes

Too much Frain Bloss?  I've trimmed all the excess into a playlist of the better bloss of the frain so far.  All these songs were written and recorded in the past week in August/Late July to cassette tape using a four track tape recorder.   I'm using this soundcloud as a sort of sonic journal so everything is temporary and I’ll delete stuff eventually.

Early Bloss

Copy of collection of songs on bandcamp.  Like a proto album.

Years of Moonlight

recorded on four Track to cassette

Here at the end of my 
souls straightening￼
It’s like my spine in a ball
And my heart on the brink

I took you to task 
right down the road 
you said￼
Take it for a spin
Find my drive in the way

It’s my one and only home 
But I never felt more alone

Is there something wrong 
with my heart on my tongue 
I just can’t leave my love 
at the door￼

tonight you swear￼
Nothing will be right 
again I’m stranded 
everything that’s wrong 
can’t be strong handed
Take it to the line
You want euphoria 

But everything you’ve 
been doing all along 
was all important￼

Wait down here for a ride
Be not unaware 
for I’ve been there 
100 million times￼

Green-Axe (4trak13)

Just for a word I’ve been waiting so long
Everything you heard about me is not wrong
I just need a moment please
to explain
Can’t outrun it let me forget

Photo is from Mt. Shasta in California.  Song recorded to cassette in North Carolina

Tell me something real so I have a sort of baseline￼
I can replay the reels when I think that you are lying￼

Desirelessness

Cassette.  Def running out of tapes will have to get more somewhere and tape over old ones.

Cold are the foibles of friendship
Never can do what you want￼
Mixed up between your emotions￼
And everything you’ve promised￼

But there will be time for both
Love me back and I will show it

Filling in where I belong￼
Gotta take me with all along￼
I hope you don’t take it the wrong way￼
I sure would

Not doing any good 
Not doing any good
Take it wrong way
Just in case
Just in case it could be true

Grey Robe Ragged (Wrong Way)

Here again I wish I had something of news￼
Something to relate and not to break or confuse
I’ve been trying so fucking hard￼￼
I’ve been doing everything I could think to do and it’s￼

Never enough
I’m just drowning in the mud￼
I can’t pick myself up
I can’t do anything 

I can’t pick myself up
I’m just drowning in bad luck
I can’t pick myself up
Like you can
Like you

Mudflow

Wind-Flicker

Sea Glows

Like Water to the Pool

Just Stay Down /Freak

There’s this temptation I get￼
But I can’t give in￼
Gotta stand
tall as your demands 
crush my soul￼

See I’m playing the long game
I’m looking far ahead￼￼
Im playing the long game
I’m stretched out the runway

Nobody could come close to closing 
nobody could see through the reason￼
Nobody could ever feel that feeling 
you better get started alone￼

The feeling’s unclothed￼
clean through your guts

And the tremble of your forehead
Gently outpouring 
I’m still playing the long game

Long Game

Lying awake for the next night in a row￼
Fading to nowhere
Counting dominoes

Walking out at late night I got to compose
Some sort of reason
Some sort of code 

Don’t give up too much of your love
You gotta save some￼
For yourself

Nobody can know it better
Than u



Is it all that you wanted￼￼
Is it all that you needed￼

Save Some

And then she died￼
It was a terrible time and a terrible thing￼
I don’t think I cried￼
When anybody was looking￼

I think it’s so hard to get up anymore
and walk out the door￼ to do the same

When you're dead and 
dying all on the inside
Nobody I could look in the eye 
and tell them I would rather die￼

Jealous of the squirrel￼
I’m jealous of the tree
They never had to love me

Jealous of the squirrel￼
I’m jealous of the tree￼s
They never had to love me

Jealous of the Squirrel

Hey hey
Things are going the same way￼
There’s no need for an update￼
Nothing is changing 

I still wake up every day￼
Unsure of my place on the planet￼
In this building 

As my heart beats
Like a balloon
And my radar
Going full unguided

But you already knew about it
I’m just beating a dead thing
So it won’t walk away

I’m on my last stop￼
I’m on my last breath
Can’t hold on much longer
It’s coming to the end
And I got nothing left

I got nothing left
I got nothing left

Nothing Left

I look around
Everyone doing what they’re supposed to
I’ve got permission from my head that say
I’m not allowed to

You got to go and get it
If you want it
You’ve got to go and get it
She said if you want it
You got to go and go and get it

Suppose

I record mostly everything to four track to cassette.  Everything is pretty unfinished, mostly stream of consciousness kind of thing.  This is like a journal.  I’m looking to collab and create.  In Asheville, North Carolina at the moment.

Ig: frainbloss