carries the feel of a woodsy ramble. lovely!

This song is about political predation I started to see, beginning in the US, around 2000. It got far worse, in my estimation, around 2010. It's a song I had bouncing around in my cluttered mind for years, but never actually sat down and flushed out until 2010. Or so? I dunno. The final lines "don't place blind faith in black snake politicians" is an overt reference to fossil fuel corporations, their corrupt relationships with politicians in the US and abroad, and corporate capture of the US government. I got the idea from the indigenous legend "Prophesy of the black snake." Pipelines and oil trains, the visible signs as literal power is amassed and America literally divided. Americans, literally divided. Political power isn't as easy to see, but t's just as destructive. More so.

at any cost

they will prey upon your sympathy
they will tear our bands apart
and they will break your back, your will, your brain
so they can take whatever they can gain

they'll see you dead to keep in power
you're just opposition to devour
why are you loyal to the cowards?
sweet liberty turned bitter, sour

is that the cost? (x3)
is that too high?
too high now

it doesn't matter much what happened here today
cause if it don't make the cover page...
they want you to forget the things they did and said
so they can do it all again another day

when blood is spilled for their desire
and they have all that they require
they'll tell you "freedom's cost" is higher
take honest words back from the liars

is that the cost? (x3)
is that too high?
too high now

don't place blind faith in black snake politicians
they'll make you so afraid, can't even pay, pay attention

https://splatmusic.bandcamp.com/track/at-any-cost

off the windscreen

At Any Cost

Buy at any cost

01 At Any Cost - Splat - Off The Windscreen

Let's Go Back To The Forest

I wrote this song after an in-depth conversation with my mother who spent years searching for her mother.  It's in 7/8; perhaps reflecting the irregularity of relationships.

Bouzouki, harp, bass and drum programming, mixed and premastered by Dónal Lunny
Mastered by Ivan O'Shea
Editing/Vocals/BV/guitar/photo of my mum by SuZanne

(Because you asked Jeff.  When my Ma met her mother she commented on the colour of her eyes and said, "They're brilliant blue..." and it's the way she said it and looked that stuck in my mind)

Brilliant Blue
Her eyes are brilliant blue, mine are brown
I take after my father, they say he was a farmer
My mother's at the window as I say goodbye
I've only just met her, she is 84 0r 85

Refrain: Brilliant blue eyes, greet my brown
I've waited all my life, for this

2lb 4oz wrapped in cotton wool, placed in a cardboard shoebox
given to nuns in Bloom Street
Manchester in 1940, I was one of many a child and mother
sent from Catholic Ireland

Refrain      Lahlahlahs

Sixty-two years since we met, mother
I just wanted to see you one time, if you want me too
Your eyes are brilliant blue, mine are brown
as I leave the white-haired woman
It was dead of winter I was found

Lahlahlahs   Refrain

Brillinat Blue Master         

Brilliant Blue featuring Dónal Lunny

A link to the accompanying youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsZfb0pNTL8&t=27s
This is the tenth in a series of gentle, experimental, guitar based instrumentals. There's maybe one more track to come in the collection.
This one was inspired by an exhausting but rewarding climb to the top Pen y Fan, the highest peak in the lovely Brecon Beacon National Park in south Wales, UK (see Video)
Thanks for listening ........... Richard :)

Cloudlines No'10 (Pen y Fan)

For my vocal version of this cover go to: https://soundcloud.com/peter-wheeler/summertime

The Sound of Silence - Instrumental Version

Summertime - Instrumental Version - Cover

A big thank you to Jeff Roberts and Andrew Borderick for playing on....."Just a Boy".

This sad and devastating local story has been on my mind for a long time.... I'm reminded about this tragedy nearly everyday as I run along the Mississippi Blvd and see the memorial. 

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Just A Boy
Written by TJG August-September, 2021


Thank you to Jeff Roberts (@jeff_roberts)for his catchy bass guitar work!
Thank you to Andrew Borderick (@andrew-borderick)for the fantastic B3! 
Thanks to Rene (@para-lia) for feedback on an early draft - always appreciate that. 

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Mix 1: September 23, 2021
Mix 2: November 9, 2021
Thanks to Eddie Cilettie for departing some of his wisdom about mixing ;-)

Verse 1
You move like a summer breeze
There's whistling in the trees
You're always on my mind
You were just a boy
Don't leave me alone

Refrain 1 - instrumental and hum

Verse 2
You know I hate Christmas Eve
It brings me to my knees 
You're always on my mind
You were just a boy
You were just a boy

Refrain
How they took your life
What a senseless crime

Verse 3
You said you were going for a ride
But I didn't say goodbye
You're always on my mind
Don't leave me alone!

Refrain
Well they took your life 
by surprise
Such a senseless crime
Such a senseless crime

Verse4
And After all this time
I can't heal
and baby sometimes I can't feel....

Refrain
Yeah they took your life
Yeah they took your life
Such a senseless crime
Such a senseless crime
How they took your life
How they took your life
Such a senseless crime
Such a senseless crime
How they took your life

outro
You move like the summer breeze
and I hear you whistling in the trees....

Just a boy (ft. Jeff Roberts and Andrew Borderick)

Dark deep wOOd
LOst in leaf floor 
Of dIstaNT
RevOLving ORB

Vocal, vocal melody, harmonies, lyrics and vocal recording: Suzanne Ledwith.
Music and Production: @sixfourzerotwo
Cover design: 6402.
Photography: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker.

He Of Ebony feat. Six Four Zero Two

The more I learn, the more I've become fascinated by the mysterious and elusive nature of consciousness and the creative process. Ideas that flow freely one day become elusive the next, and when and if they resurface, they've usually gone through some kind of evolution not of my making. This piece has been a long time in gestation, evolving and shifting as I've played around with various patterns and transitions.

Crystal

A rambling guitar fest,an overindulgent lyrical example of cereal box religion and home grown philosophy. Still,it's pretty short!

We've been here a million times
The wheel will turn again

Don't think of life in absolutes
To succeed or fail
We are merely players
In a futile tale

I have no pretence of honour
I won't be falling on my sword
Principles are fine you see
If it's what you can afford

I'll tell you my stories
Solemn tales and grave
It took me years to teach
My mind to misbehave

No Principles-The Storyteller

Progressive composition at the junction of genres and a great experiment with instruments
https://open.spotify.com/album/0gx9aL3qFniJoeKJGJ5JqO?si=gfgfrIcXQqCODxCXdMF82A
https://www.instagram.com/terra_sapiens/
https://www.facebook.com/terrasapiens/
https://terrasapiens.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/HomoSapiens3/featured

Terra Sapiens - Der Schwarze Geist

keep the hope...

please also check my YouTube Channel:
https://youtu.be/jHs9JJO18mg
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分断 / Dangerous Division
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調子いい時にだけ現われ　並んで走ってる

こいつは俺が育てました
こいつは俺が発見しました

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ちょっと待って
君に見えているレールは
人を運ぶためのもの

リアルな浮世に
石ころ蹴り込んだなら
立派なもんさ
今日は　そこを　去れよ




フィクサー気取りの妙なひとを操るのは
分断を狙う怪しい影に違いない

こいつは俺が育てました
こいつは俺が発見しました

インフルエンサー頼みの　浮上


ちょっと待って
君に見えているレールは
人を運ぶためのもの

リアルな浮世に
石ころ蹴り込んだなら
立派なもんさ
今日は　君じゃ　ない


ちょっと待って
君に見えているレールは
人を運ぶためのもの

リアルな浮世に
石ころ蹴り込んだなら
立派なもんさ
今日は　家へ　帰れよ

Let's Go Back To The Forest

FuWatt-2

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