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"Be You" Lyrics copyright © 2025 John Carse
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Be You

Throughout the song, there's a persistent presence ("you're here anyway")—a haunting memory, an old love, or even guilt—that lingers no matter how far they run. It’s not a plea for forgiveness, but a reckoning without apology, where survival and self-honesty matter more than redemption.

In essence: it's a modern outlaw ballad about carrying scars, owning mistakes, and staying true to yourself even when the road leads nowhere holy.

Black Smoke & Regret

I'm Your Bluesman, Baby" is a soulful, emotional declaration of devotion and identity through the lens of a traditional bluesman. The lyrics narrate a life shaped by hardship, heartache, and long, dusty roads, but all of it leads to one core message: unwavering love and loyalty. The singer offers his pain, his guitar, and his truth—promising to always be there, playing the blues that tell both his story and hers. Through each verse, he reveals his past, his loneliness, and ultimately his hope, anchored in the bond with the one he loves. It’s a slow-burning confession that blends grit with vulnerability, capturing the essence of what it means to be someone’s bluesman—not just a musician, but a companion through joy and sorrow.


I'm Your Bluesman, Baby (traditional)

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What It Takes

We sleepwalk into dreams that turn into nightmares as we wake

Deep Fake

What began small has grown great in community. Many paths, many differences – and yet they form a picture full of strength, honesty, and beauty. This song celebrates the power that carries us when we stand together.

Grown Together

Text:
(Verse 1)
We dream of tusks in frozen lands,
Of woolly beasts and ancient clans.
Science reaching through the snow,
While forests fall and rivers go.

(Chorus)
Resurrect the past, erase the now,
We dig up bones, but break the bough.
A million lives about to drown,
But we chase ghosts beneath the ground.

(Verse 2)
The buzz is gone, no bees in bloom,
The silence swells, a future’s doom.
We clone what’s dead, but kill what’s near,
Pretending progress, fueled by fear.

(Bridge)
A flying bug, a tiger’s cry,
Vanished as we wonder why.
Bring back the Mammoth, make it roar —
But who will listen anymore?

(Guitar-solo)

(Chorus) 
Resurrect the past, erase the now,
Rebuild the beast, forget the cow.
A million voices cry somehow —
But we stay silent, heads bowed down.
Resurrect the past, erase the now,
Rebuild the beast, forget the cow.
A million voices cry somehow —
But we stay silent, heads bowed down.

(End Einstein spoken without music)
"Wenn die Biene einmal von der Erde verschwindet,
hat der Mensch nur noch vier Jahre zu leben.
Keine Bienen mehr,
keine Bestäubung mehr,
keine Pflanzen mehr,
keine Tiere mehr,
keine Menschen mehr."

Resurrect the Past, Erase the Now (Cover)

Dreaming in Slumber

We are the future

This one’s about scars that don’t stay silent. I wanted to take the weight, the burns, the ghosts, and flip them into something that roars back. The lyrics are bruises turned into rhythm, silence breaking into choirs, pain stitched into a fire that never goes out. It’s survival, but not quiet survival—louder, messy, and alive. Every scar sings here.

Lyrics:

Echoes burn (burn, burn)
Echoes burn (burn, burn)

Life threw stones, left lines on my skin
Turned the weight of the world to the drum within
Cigarette sparks became fire on stage
I carved my story on a broken page
Bruised but I move, I rise through the bend
Made rhythm from pain, every scar a friend
Storms hit hard but I learned how to bend
Even silence can’t stop, echoes won’t end

Hear it now, voices rise
Shadows sing in the low lit skies
Chains can’t bind what the fire made free
Every echo still speaks in me

Echoes burn (burn, burn), louder than fear
Every scar’s a song I’m keeping near
Echoes burn (burn, burn), carried me through
Every mark a hymn that grew
From the silence, from the fire
Every wound became a choir

Sing it back, oh oh, oh oh
Sing it back, oh oh, oh oh

Fed off the pain til the sparks got higher
Riding the wave made the ghosts sink quieter
Every setback taught the beat to survive
Cracks in my chest kept the rhythm alive
Steel in my lungs, thunder in my chest
Lessons in the marks put the doubt to rest
Every wound found its voice in the flame
Echoes burn and they’ll never fade

Hear it now, voices rise
Shadows sing in the low lit skies
Chains can’t bind what the fire made free
Every echo still speaks in me

Echoes burn (burn, burn), louder than fear
Every scar’s a song I’m keeping near
Echoes burn (burn, burn), carried me through
Every mark a hymn that grew
From the silence, from the fire
Every wound became a choir

They tried to break me into pieces
Now I’m an orchestra of scars
Each note a flame that lit the dark

Echoes burn (burn, burn), louder than fear
Every scar’s a song I’m keeping near
Echoes burn (burn, burn), carried me through
Every mark a hymn that grew
From the silence, from the fire
Every wound became a choir

Sing it back, oh oh, oh oh
Echoes burn (burn, burn)

Echoes Made Of Fire

How Often

A mix of ballads and thought provoking Space stories and actions!

Cosmic Drift

Text:
[Verse]
I was driving and she called me
I picked up and heard her cry
Told me how she's missing Mommy
So I turned around and drove all night

[Chorus]
'Cause she's on a dirt road
I had to get home
And give her a hug
Tell her
"I love you"
Yeah
I know it hurts
Though
But don't you worry
No
'Cause she's up above and lookin' out for you
Yeah
Your mother's now an angel
Mm-mm
Mm-mm

(solo)

[Verse 2]
There's a man who used to hold me
Had to let him go tonight
Said he didn't know what to do
I said
"Well
Buddy
Now you're lucky number two"

[Chorus]
'Cause she's on a dirt road
I had to get home
And give her a hug
Tell her
"I love you"
Yeah
I know it hurts
Though
But don't you worry
No
'Cause she's up above and lookin' out for you
Yeah
Your mother's now an angel
Mm-mm
Mm-mm

(solo)

[Bridge]
All that you could want
All that you could need
Well
Now she's up above and lookin' out for you
Your mother's now an angel

[Chorus]
'Cause she's on a dirt road
I had to get home
And give her a hug
Tell her
"I love you"
Yeah
I know it hurts
Though
But don't you worry
No
'Cause she's up above and lookin' out for you
Yeah
Your mother's now an angel

Your mother's now an angel

An 80's hair band version of one of my most listened to songs on here. Hope you dig it!

Forever Mine (80's Guitar Rock Mastered Version)

Text:
Intro:
We built our homes with open gates, not walls,
Let the green in — never thought about the calls.
Tiny footsteps under doors, beneath the floor,
Something crawls within what we ignored.

Verse 1:
We sold our soil, in flowerpots from foreign lands,
Imported dreams in soil that slipped through our hands.
We planted palms, olive trees, nothing wrong we thought,
But in the earth, the silent army was wrought.

Pre-Hook:
We wanted paradise, flowers and sun,
We got invasion, and the damage begun.

Chorus:
This is our quiet war, no guns, no enemy we see,
Just ants beneath our feet, our own fault, how blind we be.
If we heal the ground, shut the gates, break the chains we've made,
Maybe life will find a way, before all colors fade.

(Solo)

Verse 2:
Homes have cracks, internet goes dead,
Little steps invade where we used to tread.
Every petal’s shadow hides a thousand feet,
We ignored the rules, now we feel the heat.

Bridge:
There’s no front line, no smoke in sky,
But war’s still here, in every crack, in every lie.
We can’t bomb them out — this war is inside,
Heal with our hands, with truth as guide.

(Guitar-solo)

Final Chorus:
This is our quiet war, but we can still stand free,
If we plant with care, guard what earth can be.
Close the gates, cleanse the soil, turn fear into repair,
Our war can end — if we learn to care.

Outro (soft):
We learn to care, we rise from despair.

Our Quiet War

Text:
Verse 1:
I walk through signals fading slow,
In every light, a shadow grows.
The static hum inside my chest,
Keeps whispering what I confess.

Pre-Chorus:
I built a wall of sound and fear,
To keep the silence from drawing near.

Chorus:
I’m just echoes of myself,
Lost between the truth and someone else.
Can you hear me breaking down the shell?
I’m the voice I never meant to tell.

(solo)

Verse 2:
The mirrors lie but still they show,
The parts I killed to let love go.
Your name still burns beneath my skin,
A ghost that moves where I have been.

Pre-Chorus:
These wires hum like memories do,
I’m still electric when I think of you.

Chorus:
I’m just echoes of myself,
Lost between the truth and someone else.
Can you hear me breaking down the shell?
I’m the voice I never meant to tell.

Bridge:
There’s no sin in being broken,
No shame in what remains unspoken.
If I fall into the sound tonight,
Let me fade in flickering light.

(solo)

Final Chorus:
I’m just echoes of myself,
Calling from a quiet kind of hell.
But if you find me, ring the bell —
I’ll come home, invisible, but well.

Outro:
(Soft synth drones and vocal reverb fade)
“Echoes… of myself…”

Echoes of Myself

Text:
Verse 1:
I watched the heavens dance with flame,
unseen arcs I could not name.
While we gazed at distant stars,
the bullet came without alarm.

Chorus:
When the sky falls — will you hear the sound?
When the sky falls — will you stand your ground?
In the dust, in the dark, in the light that dies,
When the sky falls — none survive who hide.

Verse 2:
The crater blooms where life once stood,
the shockwave breaks the fragile wood.
The oceans burn, the air turns gray,
and famine knits tomorrow’s day.

Bridge (spoken):
They missed it — that bullet from space.
We mapped the stars, but lost our place.
The impact zone — instant death.
The rest — a silent, creeping theft.

Final Chorus:
When the sky falls — will you hear the sound?
When the sky falls — will you stand your ground?
All we made, all we loved, in blinding skies —
When the sky falls — truth will be our cries.

Outro (fading):
The sky falls...
The sky falls...
Silence.

When the Sky Falls

Text:
[Spoken Intro – “Jim’s Awakening”]
Where am I?
The air smells like plastic, the lights don’t flicker — they hum.
Everyone’s eyes are glowing blue…
Did I die — or did the world?

I reach for a match,
but fire’s gone.
There’s only screens now…
and no one burns anymore.

(Soft electric guitar fades in…)

Verse 1:
I woke up in a world of glass and glow,
everyone’s face lit by a screen below.
No one talks, they just scroll and stare,
and I’m standing here — breathing air.

Chorus:
People are stranger now,
colder somehow.
Eyes wide shut in the digital crowd,
People are stranger now.

(solo)

Verse 2:
I walked past ghosts in mirrored halls,
reflections whisper from shopping malls.
I said, “Hey, I’m Jim…” but they laughed it away,
“Who’s Jim?” — “Just another yesterday.”

Spoken Bridge:
They used to sing my songs in firelight,
now their music comes from clouds.
No guitars, no pain, no soul,
just code and ads — too loud.

I met a boy with wires in his head,
he said, “Man, I don’t dream — I download instead.”

(solo)

Chorus (reprise):
People are stranger now,
don’t even know how.
Hearts on mute in a digital crowd,
People are stranger now.

Outro:
Maybe I’m the ghost that stayed too long,
in a world that forgot the song.

Stranger now... stranger now...
(echo fades into analog hiss…)

People Are Stranger Now

Text:
Verse 1
They built those walls, they climbed those towers,
Now age dissolves their ivory powers.
Their flats will open — gates unguarded,
But what remains when keys discard ed?

They say: “It’s change, it’s coming fast,”
But futures built on past ain’t meant to last.
Empty halls echo unclaimed dreams,
While streets bleed silent in between.

Pre-Chorus
So when the doors swing, who’s left to stand?
Shadowed lives will reclaim their land.

Chorus
It’s no good — when the rich relinquish their hold,
It’s no good — if the new don’t break the mold.
They hand down fortunes, but what do we own?
Empty spaces where souls once roamed.

(solo)

Verse 2
Baby boomers’ keys will fall like leaves,
A shifting tide no one perceives.
New hopes rush in, but filtered by greed,
And hearts shrink small in times of need.

I see the faces pushing in,
They chase a dream that soon wears thin.
Will their faith hold when walls go bare?
Or will it crack with vacant air?

Bridge (spoken / whispered)
“Not another squatter in my name,”
They shout, but their voices sound the same.
Change is silent, slow as dust —
But the land remembers, and hearts combust.

(solo)

Final Chorus
It’s no good — when the rich let go,
It’s no good — if the new don’t grow.
In empty homes and hollow walls —
We fight to hear the human calls.

Outro (soft, echo)
They open doors — but can we cross?
It’s no good…
It’s no good.

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ghazal Majidiii