Performed by Yelena, Bitzone and Roger Berkowitz

Yelena (guitar and vocals)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (percussion, bass, e-piano, atmospheres, mix & mastering)
https://soundcloud.com/unearth-noise (lead guitar and FX, slide guitar)
 
Image: Art Nouveau vignette

Remixed and remastered by https://soundcloud.com/bitzone for "and, in time, the Time will take it all" album, final version: February 18, 2018

I was smitten by this song few years back,
It kept coming back to me until I decided to record it.

And here it is - full production of our take on "One More Cup of Coffee" by (One and Only) Bob Dylan,

I am so grateful to https://soundcloud.com/bitzone and https://soundcloud.com/unearth-noise, 
their mastery endlessly enriched my original recording.  

--
One More Cup Of Coffee
by Bob Dylan

Her breath is sweet
Her eyes like two jewels in the sky
Her back is straight, her hair is smooth
On the pillow where she lies
But you don't sense affection
No gratitude or love
Her loyalty is not to you
But to the stars above

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore you go
To the valley below.

Her father he's an outlaw
And a wanderer by trade
He'll teach her how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade
He oversees his kingdom
No stranger dare intrude
His voice trembles as he calls
For another plate of food.

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore you go
To the valley below.

Her sister sees the future
Like her mama and herself
She never learned to read or write
There's no books upon her shelf
Her pleasure knows no limits
Her voice is like meadowlark
Her heart is like an ocean
Mysterious and dark.

One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore you go
To the valley below.

One More Cup Of Coffee [bitzone production w/Unearth Noise]

Performed by Yelena, Bitzone and Roger Berkowitz

Yelena (Vocals, acoustic guitars and acoustic FX, dobro, synthesizer, jaw harp)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (percussion, bass, atmospheres, mix & mastering)
https://soundcloud.com/unearth-noise (lead guitar,  rhythm guitar)

Image: artifact design from Sutton Hoo, England, 6th-7th century

Remixed and remastered by https://soundcloud.com/bitzone for "and, in time, the Time will take it all" album, final version: February 18, 2018

Blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954.

Hoochie Coochie Man [bitzone production w/Unearth Noise]

Performed by Yelena & bitzone

Yelena (acoustic guitars, vocals, electric guitar with Ravish Sitar pedal, hurdy-gurdy)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (synth, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: Illustration for "The Feather of Finist, the Bright Falcon" by I.Bilibin, 1902 

Remixed and remastered by https://soundcloud.com/bitzone for "and, in time, the Time will take it all" album, final version: February 18, 2018

She Moved Through the Fair

My young love said to me "My mother won't mind
And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind"
And she laid her hand on me and this she did say
"Oh, it will not be long, love, till our wedding day"

Then she went away from me and moved through the fair
And so fondly I watched her move here and move there
And then she went onward, just one star awake
Like the swan in the evening moves over the lake

Last night she came to me, my dead love came in
So softly she came that her feet made no din
And she laid her hand on me and this she did say
"Oh, it will not be long, love, till our wedding day"

She Moved Through the Fair [bitzone production]

Written by Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett
Performed by Yelena & bitzone

Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (orchestral samples - strings and woodwinds, bass, drums, and production)

Image: Art Nouveau vignette by Géo Dorival


Morning Glory

I lit my purest candle close to my
Window, hoping it would catch the eye
Of any vagabond who passed it by
And I waited in my fleeting house

Before he came, I felt him drawing near
And as he neared, I felt the ancient fear
That he had come to wound my door and jeer
But I waited in my fleeting house

"Oh, tell me stories", I called to the Hobo
"Stories of old", I smiled at the Hobo
"Stories of cold", I wept to the Hobo
And I waited in my fleeting house

"No" said the Hobo, "No more tales of time
Don't ask me now to wash away the grime
I can't come in, it's just too high a climb"
And he stood before my fleeting house

"Then you be damned", I screamed to the Hobo
"Turn into stone", I wept to the Hobo
"Leave me alone", I knelt to the Hobo
But he walked away from my fleeting house

Morning Glory [bitzone production]

Performed by Yelena & bitzone

Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (keys, bass, drums, and production)

Intro: excerpt from Russian folk song "Shar Goluboy" (blue balloon)
Clips from the film "The File on Thelma Jordon", 1950 throughout the song 

Image: fragment of Art Nouveau vignette

Price

Raindrops shine on the window pane
Street lights make them yellow diamonds
Shadows move across the wall
Footsteps in the hall

Your hands were empty
And the heart full of hope
You would never fail
Music will never stop

It's a damn good place -
Top of the world
Even if you're there
For no reason at all

Price, price, price
Seems like it's always price to pay
For a silly little wisdom
For a cheep cliche

Price, price, price
Such a dear price to pay
For a penny wisdom
For a dirt cheep cliche

Dancing till the sun comes up
Velvet gloves on the floor
Silence fell like ton of steel
Whisper makes you kneel

The rhyme is lost
And the reason left the room
Girl with the silver hair
Never married her groom

Price
Seems like it's always price to pay
For a silly little wisdom
For a grand cliche

Price, price, price...

#Chanson

Price [bitzone production]

Song from 1967 French film with the same title
Written by Francis Lai and Pierre Barouh
English Words by Norman Gimbel

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (keys, bass, drums, and production)

Image: by Arthur B. Barrett, The Studio magazine, 1895

Live for Life (Vivre pour vivre)

Come with me my love and seize the day 
And live it fully, live it fast
Never think about tomorrow
Till 'morrow's been and gone and past
We'll pour the wine and fill the cup of joy
And drink as it were the last
Live, just live for life

In Paris today, in Amsterdam tomorrow
Sixty minutes through the sky
Come with me, see the setting sun
And stay with me to see it rise
And say to those who say it's mad
That mad we'd rather be than wise
Live, just live for life

If you let me I will lead you
Through the mystery and wonder
Of a world you've never known before
Share the splendors to be shared
Magic places to explore
Dare the dangers to be dared
Life is all of this and more
This and more

(spoken)
The world is your oyster...

Yesterday's a mem'ry, gone forever
Tomorrow is a guess
What is real is here and now 
And that is all that we possess
So take my hand and we will take the moment
If just moment's happiness
Live, just live for life
Live, just live for life

Live for Life [bitzone production]

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (e-piano, backgound layers - keys, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: Art Nouveau vignette by Géo Dorival 

Dogwoods

Young dogwoods all along the road
Blooms of pearlescent white
Blue of the sky and river
Remember the happiness of May?

I'm blinded by the spring this year
So tired of this endless fear
Unknown never disappear
Remember universe expanding...

Are you waiting for a shoe to drop?
Are you waiting for the light to change?
Are you waiting for this day to end?
Are you waiting for this life to pass...
Could be...

Tracing steps of long ago...
Hearing drums of different time...
Finding rhythm of falling rain...
Spinning gold thread in my hands...
...
So tired of this endless fear
Unknown never disappear
Remember universe expanding...

Dogwoods [bitzone production]

Written by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (bass, percussion, and production)
Sound clips from bitzone's audio sample library and Getty Images Music 

Image: fragment of illustration by Harry Clarke from The Studio magazine, 1899

Dead and Lovely 

She was a middle class girl
She was in over her head
She thought she could stand up in the deep end
He had a bullet proof smile
He had money to burn
She thought she had the moon in her pocket

But now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now

I've always been told to remember this
Don't let a fool kiss you
Never marry for love

He was hard to impress
He knew everyone's secrets
He wore her on his arm just like jewelry
He never gave but he got
He kept her on a leash
He's not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at

But now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now

Come closer, look deeper
You've fallen fast
Just like a plane on a stormy sea

She made up someone to be
She made up somewhere to be from
This is one business in the world where that's no problem at all
Everything that is left
They will only plow under
Soon every one you knew will be gone

And now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now
...

I've always been told to remember this
Don't let a kiss fool you
Never marry for love

Everything has its place
Everything has its price
What's more romantic then die in the moonlight?
Now they're all watching the sea
What's lost can never be broken
Her roots were sweet but they were so shallow

And now she's dead
Forever dead
Forever dead and lovely now

And now she's dead
Forever dead
And she's so dead and lovely now

Stream/Follow

Dead and Lovely [bitzone production]

Inspired by Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens and cinematographic masterpiece, that moved me so much in my youth, - "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky 

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, synth)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (keys, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: illustration by R. P. Gossop from The Studio magazine, August 1900

Gardens of the Zone

By the Ocean of Sadness
Was the Land of Fireflies
So cry your tears
Cry your tears if you can

Save yourself
No one can help you
They're watching you in dismay

Your colors were red
Your colors were blue
But now your color is just see-through

So cry your tears
But no one can help you
The time doesn't flow back

The Time
Doesn't 
Flow
Back...

Gardens of the Zone [bitzone production]

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, synth)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (synth, bass, drums, and production)

Image: illustration by Chas Pears from The Studio magazine, October 1894

Freezing Rain

Morning rain, cry, cry, cry
Winter ice, melt, melt, melt
Troubled wind, don't you dare bother me
Spare my soul

One of these mornings
I get off this crazy train
And the gold of the morning sun
Will be mine
And my heart would heal
And my spirit soar
I will travel this dreaded road
No more

Morning rain....

His shoes were worn
And the skin was old and wrinkled
And he softly, oh so quietly
Talked to me
'Why should you work
so hard', he said
'The fire is slowly dying...'

'All margins are drawn
And the list is all written
All buttons are sewn
All apples are bitten
And the only damn thing
We are all born to do
Is to quietly, quietly, quietly
Disappear'

Freezing rain, freezing rain, freezing rain
Road is closed

I've seen you before
I am sure you know it all
And I do, yes I do
Know your name
Your wisdom is deep
And it's good for fleecing sheep
I will listen to you
No more

Morning rain, cry, cry, cry
Broken heart, bleed, bleed, bleed
Troubled wind, don't you dare bother me
Spare my soul
Spare my soul

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535242258763/

Freezing Rain [bitzone production]

Written by The Neville Brothers

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed synths, field recording)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (samples - strings and e-guitar, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: Notturno by Lionella Nasi from "Gli Adornatori del Libro in Italia", 1923-1927 compilation

Field recording is of daily 7PM cheers for New York City essential workers during COVID-19 pandemic

Yellow Moon
(with the excerpt from Lord Byron's poem)

Yellow moon, yellow moon
Why you keep looking in my window?
Do you know something 
You know something I don't know

Did you see my baby 
Walking down them railroad tracks?
Oh can you tell me
If he is ever coming back?

Is he hid out with another
Or is he trying to get back home?
Is he wrapped up in some other arms
Or he is somewhere all alone?

With your eyes so bright and a-shiny
You can see the whole damn land
Yellow moon, can you tell me 
If another stole my man?

Yellow moon, yellow moon, yellow moon,
Did you see my creole baby?
Oh can you tell me 
If he is still friend of mine

...
(spoken)
So, we'll go no more a roving
   So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
   And the moon be still as bright.
...

With your eyes so bright and a-shiny
You can see the whole damn land
Yellow moon, can you tell me 
If another stole my man?

Yellow moon, yellow moon, yellow moon,
Did you see my creole baby?
Oh can you tell me 
If he is still friend of mine

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535244014676/

Yellow Moon [bitzone production]

Poem by Robert Burns 
Music by Yelena

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed VSTs)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (mellotron, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: Illustration by Fred Hyland, circa 1900 

Field recording from freesound.org:
"seagulls....waves." by juskiddink (https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/)


I wrote this song in my teenage years with Russian translation of Robert Burns poetry. Some time back I revisited my song and adapted it using original language of the poem.

---
Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive (adapted)
Poem by Robert Burns 

Behold the hour, the boat arrive;
You go, the darling of my heart;
Sever’d from you, can I survive,
But Fate has will’d and we must part.

We must part...

I’ll often greet the surging swell,
The distant Isle will often hail:
“Here I took the last farewell;
There, latest mark’d his vanish’d sail.”

We must part...

(spoken) 
Endless and deep shall be my grief;
Not ray of comfort shall I see,
But somehow, I belive
That you will still remember
Remember me...

We must part...

Along the solitary shore,
While flitting sea-gull round me cry,
Across the rolling, dashing roar,
I’ll westward turn my wistful eye...

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535246403871/

Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive [bitzone production]

Words and Music by Jacques Brel
English Words by Rod McKuen

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed VSTs)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (mellotron and production)

Image: Fragment of the drawing by Charles Robinson for The Child World,  The Studio magazine, December 1896

If You Go Away (Ne me quitte pas)

If you go away on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night bird’s song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay I'll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We'll sail on the sun, we'll ride on the rain
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind
And if you go, I'll understand
Leave me just enough love 
To hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you will
You must tell the world to stop turning 'til
You return again, if you ever do
For what good is love without loving you?
Can I tell you now, as you turn to go
I'll be dying slowly 'til the next hello
Ne me quitte pas, ne me quitte pas, ne me quitte pas

But if you stay, I'll make you a night
Like no night has been or will be again
I'll ride on your smile, I'll sail on your touch
I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much
And if you go, I'll understand
Leave me just enough
To hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you must
There'll be nothing more in this world to trust
Just an empty room, full of empty space
Like the empty look I see on your face
Oh I would have been the shadow of your shadow
If it only kept me by your side
If you go away, if you go away, please don't go away

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535248764942/?nic_v2=1a6CMtY7u

If You Go Away [bitzone production]

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed VSTs)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (synth, samples, voice, bass, bassdrum, claps, and production)

Image: llustration from Art et Decoration, Paris 1897-1911

Used Illusions

I used to dream of gentle breeze
And laughter floating on the waves
Of crystal river
I had illusions, I used them all
I didn't leave a single drop
Not a drop

My hope runs thin
Nowhere to hide
Such a strange place
Rain pouring down
Leave all you have
Take me with you
And fly away
Away
Away

Leave it all behind
Take me with you and fly
Away

I look in every pocket, in every drawer
For any dream I may have put away
But nothing there
I hear the sound and rush inside
It's only the beating of my heart
Just my heart

My hope runs thin...

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535250675883/

Used Illusions [bitzone production]

Chanson, Ballad & Blues 
All songs are produced by brilliant producer and musician from Germany https://soundcloud.com/bitzone. 
Thank You for listening!

In this project I arrange and record my original songs and favorite covers. Sometimes I set poetry that resonate with me to music. 
Thanks for stopping by!

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