Express Train

Since growing up in an old neighborhood of Victorian homes, I’ve occasionally recalled one particular property at the end of our street that had fallen into disrepair. It was one of the biggest houses in the area and looked like it must have been quite the impressive home in its day. But my friends and I always imagined what horrified tales must lurk in those shadows. All these years later I can say that the house and property were completely replaced by modern, more cheerful condominiums, the rusty gates and wild overgrowth long gone. But I recall some of the history I learned about the once proud estate and felt it all made for great Halloween tale telling as Nat and I have tried to convey in this rockin’ trip into the dark and stormy night....

Written and performed by Daniels & Durgy
Produced by Nat Daniels of Gentle Rain Records
©2025 Daniels & Durgy

Lyrics: Thirteen Ravens

Dead of night, I’m walking home
The rain is beating down
I should have grabbed a cab before 
I left the pub in town

The sidewalks here on Franklin Hill
Uneven with despair
Lead me past the iron gates
The old stone mansion there

Behind the broken fences 
Overgrown with thorns
The thunder booms must fill the rooms
And stir the ghost that mourns 

He was a wealthy statesman
And this his grand estate
He had it all but shame did fall
Upon his final fate

Now all these decades later 
As the world just passes by
I stop to put my collar up
And hear an eerie cry

The mansion long abandoned 
There stands a silhouette
And on one bare limb of a tree
A dozen ravens sit

Above the broken gables
Circles one last mate
As if to warn that somewhere there
The old man lies in wait

Lightning cracks the darkness
The ravens scatter fly
They croak like deadly demons cast
Into the sullen sky

Thirteen ravens on their watch
To hold the blackened past
While crooked shutters hang upon 
Their secrets to the last

But I must pull away now
From this place where shadows dwell
Where thirteen ravens tell their tale 
And hold you in their spell

Thirteen ravens like a chain
Of nightmares in the rain

Thirteen Ravens

With Feline, Tree, Bird and Human Power. Let's get that Peace for the planet. Please and Thanks 🔆 Oh and a Spider Mite showed up on the page at one point. Mite power too ❤️‍🔥


Instrumentation
-Live Run of Acoustic and Vocal
-Additonal Acoustic run
-Piano run (Needs a take 2)
-Additonal Vocals

Make Peace with Love

Good memories heal
All memories teach
Food for our souls
Greater good we can reach
Measured discern
Spread butter for spirit
Make peace with love
Listen
You'll hear it

'Aint no point in crying over spilled milk
Save your worries and woes
For survivalist silk
Concern is control flying with wings of dove
Our chance is to change
And make peace with love

Make peace with love

Just call on your soul
Talk to your spirit
Human quality control
Listen
You'll hear it
Clean up together
Spread the load
Make peace with love
Historic future is told

Make peace with love

The gauge is your family
Great spirits at rest
Potential in code
DNA left of best
Biological verve
Inside fits like a glove
All known moral ground
Make peace with love

Make peace with love

Listen to caring
Listen to honest
Hear those who qualify
Good truths upon us
Hone wonderful answers
And feed that new known
Make peace with love
Light of Lennon is known

Make peace with love
Make peace we own
Light of Lennon is known
Make peace with love
Peace we own

All life is precious
Systematic and synced
Let's protect it and grow
Good future of think
Locked to our moment
No below
No above
No pedastal proud
Make peace with love

Make peace with love
Make peace with love
Make peace we know
Light of Lennon we own
Peace we own
Make peace with love
Inside fits like a glove
Make peace your own
Make peace we own
Make peace we own
Peace we own
Make peace with love



Make Peace with Love

Cover of Steve Miller Band version 1968

Drums, bass & vocals : Little Man
Guitars : PdB Orchestra

Mercury Blues

Taylor 114 CE (Strumming my guitar)
Logic Pro BeBop Organ (Playing my MIDI keyboard)
Logic Pro Classic Electric Piano (Playing my MIDI Keyboard)
Drums (EZ Drummer 3)
Bass (PG Music Real Track)
Vocals and Back up Vocals (me singing).
Copyright 2025 Joe Stroffolino
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Cover art:  photo of Halloween skeleton edited with Adobe stock images.
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Won’t You Please Just Go
Verse 1
It used to be that right and wrong were clear cut, black and white
And people had the courage still to stand and fight the good fight
It used to be that folks could bridge across the partisan divide
Do the right thing and set their differences aside
Now the tech bros want to colonize Mars, and create a brand-new utopia
And if you’re skeptical of their vision, you’re just a luddite with myopia
They’re dreaming of a world of like minds, a place with no dissent
But too much group think has a way of becoming malevolent

Chorus
Won’t you go, won’t you go, won’t you please just go
Get on that rocket ship and fly to Mars (good riddance)
You say you’ll build a better society on the fourth rock from the sun
But there’s lots of work on Earth that still needs to be done.

Verse 2
Columbus sailed west and began a bold new age of exploration
But life on a barren rock seems like a recipe for frustration
It’s easy to be seduced by all that science fiction snake oil
but once you get to Mars, it’ll be nothing but drudgery and endless toil

Bridge
Seems like there are better ways for billionaires to spend their cash
Than living in a tin can on Mars like high-tech trailer trash.
They say the higher you fly, the harder you can fall;
Why trade a living planet for a dusty red ball?

Verse 3
Things can get kind of messy down here on good old planet Earth
You can turn tail and and try to escape this place of humanities birth
You can wipe the slate clean but there’s something in our DNA
You can make people march in lockstep but eventually there will be hell to pay.


Chorus
Won’t you go, won’t you go, won’t you please just go
Get on that rocket ship and fly to Mars (good riddance)
You say you’ll build a better society on the fourth rock from the sun
But there’s lots of work on Earth that still needs to be done

Won't You Please Just Go (to Mars)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFarTsSW9A

[Verse 1]
Les signes de tendresse le long de ma vie
Représenté par des signes d'affection
Les caresses
Les étreintes
Les baisers
L'enlacement des mains

[Pre-Chorus]
Ils se sont estompés dans ma mémoire
Peu à peu avec le temps
Quand j'essaie de m'en souvenir
Ils se sont effacés avec le temps
C'est difficile à dire
C'est difficile à voir
Avec le temps
Les souvenirs s'estompent

[Chorus]
C'est tout
C'est tout
C'est tout
C'est tout


« La musique est le véritable souffle de la vie. 
On mange pour ne pas mouvoir de faim.
On chante pour s'entendre vivre. »
(Yasmina Khadra, Les hirondelles de Kaboul)

Tendresse – Jours lointains

Titre : Jours lointains
Poète : René-François Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907)
Recueil : Stances et poèmes (1865).
Nous recevions sa visite assidue ;
J'étais enfant. Jours lointains ! Depuis lors
La porte est close et la maison vendue :
Les foyers vendus sont des morts.

Quand j'entendais son pas de demoiselle,
Adieu mes jeux ! Courant sur son chemin,
J'allais, les yeux levés tout grands vers elle,
Glisser ma tête sous sa main.

Et quelle joie inquiète et profonde
Si je sentais une caresse au front !
Cette main-là, pas de lèvres au monde
En douceur ne l'égaleront.

Je me souviens de mes tendresses vagues,
Des aveux fous que je jurais d'oser,
Lorsque, tout bas, rien qu'aux chatons des bagues
Je risquais un fuyant baiser.

Elle a passé, bouclant ma chevelure,
Prenant ma vie ; et, comme inoccupés,
Ses doigts m'ont fait une étrange brûlure,
Par l'âge de mon cœur trompés.

Comme l'aurore étonne la prunelle,
L'éveille à peine, et c'est déjà le jour :
Ainsi la grâce au cœur naissant nouvelle
L'émeut, et c'est déjà l'amour.

René-François Sully Prudhomme.
À découvrir sur le site https://www.poesie-francaise.fr/rene-francois-sully-prudhomme/poeme-jours-lointains.php

Les signes de tendresse

Super impressed by my buddy @dough-factory 's rhyming skills on here! This one started out as a beat from Ryan, I added trippy synth, organ and guitar noodling then sent back to him. He mixed, arranged and added the killer vocals as well as some record skips that add a nice touch.

Faded (What a Day)

00:00 Min. Child of Nature (Intro)
01:22 Min. Water Hunter
04:07 Min. Tree of knowledge
06:50 Min. Song of the Sea
09:20 Min. Garden of Transformation
10:54 Min. Before the Rain
14:45 Min. ARKA
16:05 Min. Black Water Reprise
19:18 Min. Wildflowers Part I
21:38 Min. Elfin Delfin
24:37 Min. Wild Wild West
26:43 Min. Wildflowers Part II
28:21 Min. Pixie´s forest
30:24 Min. Neptune
33:06 Min. Wildflowers Part III
34:38 Min. The Blue Dragonfly
36:49 Min. Tribute to the Trees
39:55 Min. The Sun
42:25 Min. Turning Circle
43:45 Min. Child of Nature (Outro)

Words & Music by Child of Nature: @childofnature
℗ 2019 Child of Nature

Didgerdioo, mouth harp, singing, poem, spoken word & soulful inspirations,chant mantras, video clips & photos by Amanitalinda 🧚 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️
@amanitalinda

Additional instruments & vocals by Jeamland

Mix & mastering & sound design by Jeamland
Near-field recording by Jeamland
Record producer by Jeamland
@mortenjeamland

©2025 Jessy Records

Video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@childofnature_innerchild

Concept Album

Concept Album (New Mastering 2025)

FELICE INSIEME A TE

Con te cantai orizzonti e mari aperti  
Con te impegnai tutti i miei sentimenti  
Con te imparai a scoprir cos'è l'amore  
E tu darai e tu dirai cancellerai  

Non sono un attore di teatro  
E nemmeno un bambino appena nato  
Un gioco da scartare o un passatempo  
E tu darai e tu dirai cancellerai  

Felice insieme a te non sono stato mai  
Un furto di emozioni e di allegria  
E maledetto questo buco in fondo al cuore  
Che provo a riparare e a mandar via  
Felice insieme a te io non lo sarò mai  

Un passo falso in questa vita mia  
Un grande balzo nell'oscurità  
Non provo neanche più la fantasia  
Io proverò ci riuscirò cancellerò  

Tu mi darai il motivo per partire  
Tu mi dirai che non mi hai amato mai  
Vivere insieme a te è anche morire  
Cancellerai dal cuore tuo il nome mio  

Felice insieme a te non sono stato mai  
Un furto di emozioni e di allegria  
E maledetto questo buco in fondo al cuore  
Che provo a riparare e a mandar via  
Io proverò ci riuscirò cancellerò  

Felice insieme a te non sono stato mai  
Un furto di emozioni e di allegria  
E maledetto questo buco in fondo al cuore  
Che provo a riparare e a mandar via  
Io proverò ci riuscirò cancellerò  
Felice insieme a te io non lo sarò mai

Felice insieme a te

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRRQxWPRkdA

Child of Nature

Turning circle (Mix 2025)

Turning circle (Mix 2025) & Video Link

Bandits Pop

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Express Train

Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference)