great wistful mood  --you kinda own that territory Imre!!

Superbe finesse et mélange instrumental! Le petit côté orgue à barbarie est délicieux👌

idiosyncratic, a little strange and very French...superb!!

The musical equivalent of a 'right riveting read'! A real aural page turner. Compelling listening,thanks for sharing this three/four delight,Imre.

Wow! This is sweet and so beautiful! Thank you for sharing with us!

IMRE CYRANO 1  songs for others

An original song by J.J. Terrell

Left Behind

It’s really about the nights we shared
Underneath all the stars

Now that we’re apart, it’s hard to breathe
Thinking of the love, the dreams we weave.

Oh babe I need you back, it’s true

Memories linger, they haunt my mind
Every lonely moment, I’m left behind
I see your face in the setting sun
Without you here, I’m all but done

Time keeps passing, but the ache won’t fade
Our song still plays, in every serenade
If you could hear me, would you find your way
Back to my arms, where your heart should stay?

Ohhh babe, I need you back

Memories linger, they haunt my mind
Every lovely moment, I’m with you
I see your face in the setting sun
Without you here, I’m all but done

Oh babe, I need you back
It’s true


Left Behind

Additional electric guitar by Lutz Boddenberg

Color of the Night (Jam Session)

Lyrics & vocal : UK Man
Music, instruments & mix : PJ Project

Oh Kim

True story: I socialized with a guy in the late 90s who had been in a mid tier rock band (redacted) in the late 70s/early 80s. After the fame, there wasn't any money, and he had a regular everyman job like me. He had great stories, though...
A slow burner blues with a smooth groove.

Lyrics:
I just hate that celebrity bullshit
I can smell it
From a million miles away
That's what he'd say
Right there, at the bar
Having a drink
Or 2
Or 10

A broken-down singer
With too many dreams
A broken-down singer
With too many screams
Up over
A heavy metal (huh!)
Double kick drum
He says: I've been on tour all over the world
I've  been to a lot of places
And I just love every place that I'm from
But, I could use 
A billion dollar blues
Billion dollar blues
A billion dollar blues...

I was restless
And I had stars in my eyes
Dreaming about the magazine covers
And the limousine rides
Having those women at my will
Taking all the cash out of the till
Some nights I  just stay up late
Thinking about it. 
Thinking about what could have been

And......
Then I walk in ...
To a room full of bitter Muses
With bad attitudes
And  short fuses
I could use
A billion dollar blues
Billion dollar blues...

Billion Dollar Blues

Nothing like a pesky raccoon to stir things up a bit… Oh, hello. Glad you dropped by. A raccoon, I named Bandit, has taken up a vacation residence under the shed here. It’s right next to the raspberry patch and apple trees. A couple nights ago, Bandit snuck into my small greenhouse, where I grow tomatoes and peppers, and made a salad of the pepper plants, munching one plant completely down to the stalk. Bandit also likes the heavy crop of choke cherries here. He also uses the back corner of the vegetable garden as a latrine, which last summer was up on the house roof. I’d awaken with a start to hear little footsteps running across the roof. Luckily no roof excursions this year. Anyway, this is a Blues song with some solo banjo. Lyrically, it has a couple of reflections about life, mortality, gardening, relationships and partner expectations, letting go of life dreams, a nod to Bandit, the wacky weather, and making peace with old age. And of course, there’s a fair amount of daydreaming going on, while plucking banjo. Hope all is going reasonably well with you, wherever you are on Earth, during this whirlwind tour we’re on. Mark

Back Porch Banjo Blues

Another awesome electronic collaboration with David a.k.a. @blackmarketbrains ! I love his minimal techno beats so asked him to send me one that included one of his cool old movie samples.I was inspired right away to lay down some melodic loops and even a bit of guitar.

Cover image is public domain, an illustration from an old edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Forge the Creature! w/ Black Market Brains

Lyrics included
Paul Paploviante offered the instrumental:
https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/expedition-offer-open-collaboration?in=user-234918190-88573969/sets/paploviante-and-friends-ar-1&si=01cc01ddf6974af6a0aafa048c99803f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

i made lyrics about an expedition...not the kind of journey to discover the environment, but the one we do exploring ourselves and renewing.

Singing is for me a "sine qua non"... I did several vocal lines and made it faster and more robot-sounding (added samples, dallek sounds, synth); i even played on my guitar (Eko Est 1959) some notes. Hope you enjoy!
             
Expédition--lyrics

Je commence une expédition
Je récrée mon identité 
et j’établie un lien profond 
avec moi-même et la nature


Je prends conscience que je suis unique
Aujourd’hui Je fais le premier pas.

Je retourne à l'essence de l'existence.
une remise à zéro du corps et de l’esprit 

Loin du bruit,  
 la nature pure. 


J’embrasse mon  individualité et danse alors dansez

Expédition (collab Paploviante)

NEW COLLABORATION with https://soundcloud.com/billy-korg
Lyrics:-
It's time to face the lies we're told
Indoctrination's got a hold

Down the rabbit hole
Down
Down 
Down

When you look up and see the sky
All of those trails 
You should ask why
When you look up and see the sky

Are they spraying us for fun
Or blocking out the sun
'Cause I'm not the only one
Who's looking up and seeing that

Change this 
Change this
We've got to change this

When you look up and see the sky
All of those trails
You should ask why

Down the rabbit hole
Down
Down
Down

When you look up and see the sky
All of those trails
You should ask why

Are they spraying us for fun
Or blocking out the sun
'Cause I'm not the only one
Who's looking up and seeing that

Billy Korg / winkanwoo 2025

Down The Rabbit Hole

Down The Rabbit Hole - Billy Korg & winkandwoo

Opus84

The Aries & The Leo (II)

https://youtu.be/M5SC20mK5nY


BONJOUR MADAME RHODA SORRY TO INTRUDE
MA QUESTION N’A PAS DE SENS
MAIS ELLE S’ADRESSE À MES SENS
TEL L’AQUARIUM DE SAINT-SAËNS
WOULD YOU PAINT ME IN THE NUDE?

IN THE SOUTH DE LA FRANCE
AU CHAUD SOLEIL DE PROVENCE
WHERE THE LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT
AND GOATS FLY IN THE NIGHT
OH I WISH I WAS YOUR CANVAS I WISH I WAS YOUR BRUSH
WISH A HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

BONJOUR MADAME RHODA  NOW THIS MIGHT SOUND A LITTLE CRUDE
MAIS N’Y VOYEZ PAS D’OFFENSE
MOI SI PUDIQUE DE NAISSANCE
I COME UP WITH THIS NON SENS
WOULD YOU PAINT ME IN THE NUDE?

IN THE SOUTH DE LA FRANCE
AU CHAUD SOLEIL DE PROVENCE
LA DOUCEUR DE SES ÂNES
LA MONTAGNE DE CÉZANNE
I WOULD LOVE A GENTLE TOUCH FROM THE TIP YOUR BRUSH
AS A TOAST TO YOUR BIRTHDAY

BONJOUR MADAME RHODA JUST A FEW WORDS TO CONCLUDE
A LA JEUNESSE DE VOS SENS
SES COULEURS SON ESSENCE
ET EN TOUTE INNOCENCE
WOULD YOU PAINT ME IN THE NUDE

BON ANNIVERSAIRE
80 ANS
ET DES POUSSIÈRES ET DES POUSSIÈRES
ET DES POUSSIÈRES ET DES POUSSIÈRES
ET DES POUSSIÈRES ET DES POUSSIÈRES….

CYRANO (Lyrics + video link) song for class 120 & class 357

STARS DANCE LIKE DIAMONDS IN THE MOONLIGHT
WELL I DON’T
I DON’T
AND FORGET ABOUT OUR FIASCO YOU MIGHT
BUT I WON’T
NO I WON’T

I WAS THERE RIGHT ON TIME ALL SET FOR A DRINK AND MAYBE MORE
BUT BAD LUCK  LOCKDOWN	

THE PLACE WAS CLOSED AND THERE I WAS BANGING AT THAT DOOR
OF THE DRIFTWOOD BAR
OF THE DRIFTWOOD BAR

THEN CAME HEIDI THE OWNER OF THE JOINT
WHOM I WAS
TO IMPLORE
SHE SCREAMED HEY WHAT’S THE IDEA  WHAT’S THE POINT
KNOCKING ON
THIS HEAVEN’S DOOR

I SAID MAM I WAS ONLY HOPING FOR A DRINK AND MAYBE MORE
WON’T YOU PLEASE 
LET ME IN
I WILL SIT QUIET AND STILL AS A MOUSE ON THE FLOOR
OF YOUR DRIFTWOOD BAR
OH THE DRIFTWOOD BAR

SHE SAID SORRY BABY I WOULD LOVE TO BE COOL
BUT RIGHT PLACE
AND WRONG TIME
HAVEN’T YOU HEARD OF THE GOLDEN 6 FOOT RULE
NO FACE TO FACE
OR EMBRACE

SO YOU MR DRUMMER I WAS SUPPOSED TO MEET
YOU SHOULD KNOW
I WAS THERE
AS WE SAID
I WAS THERE RIGHT ON TIME IN THE VERY EMPTY STREET
AT THE DRIFTWOOD BAR
THE DRIFTWOOD BAR


SO IF YOU HEAR THIS SONG FLOATING IN THE AIR
NOT KNOWING WHAT COMES NEXT
THAT’S THE WAY I FOUND FROM ME TO YOU TO SHARE
BETTER THAN JUST ANOTHER TEXT

STARS DANCE LIKE DIAMONDS IN THE MOONLIGHT
WELL I DON’T
I DON’T

THE DRIFTWOOD BAR (Lyrics) song for Carita

BACK LAST JULY AWAY FROM DETROIT
LOST IN THE CITY OF LIGHTS
IT FELT LIKE HOME SO MUCH I WONDERED
WHERE HAD I BEEN ALL MY LIFE 

FELT LIKE A GHOST OR A BONZE
IN MY HOTEL BAR ONZE		
WITH AS BEST COMPANY
MEMORIES OF MY MOTHER
A BIRDHOUSE COLLECTOR

WALKING AROUND LIKE INVISIBLE
THE NARROW STREETS OF 68
MY LIFE ITSELF SEEMED LIKE A RIDDLE
WAITING FOR ITS TWIST OF FATE

FELT LIKE A GHOST OR A BONZE
IN MY HOTEL BAR ONZE		
WITH AS BEST COMPANY
THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER
A BIRD HOUSE COLLECTOR  

BACK IN DETROIT AWAY FROM JULY
I HAD PARIS ON MY MIND
RUE MAITRE ALBERT LA BUTTE AUX CAILLES
I COULD NOT LEAVE THEM BEHIND

I HAD A PLAN AND WAS FIXED TO RETURN
A LATE GHOST OF 68
BUT
HOW COULD I KNOW THAT THINGS WOULD TURN
INTO THIS TWIST OF FATE

FEEL LIKE A GHOST OR A BONZE
FAR FROM HOTEL BAR ONZE		
WITH AS BEST COMPANY
THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER
A BIRDHOUSE COLLECTOR  

THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER
A BIRDSHOUSE COLLECTOR

A BIRDHOUSE COLLECTOR (Lyrics) song for Scott

HEY BETH DON’T CARRY THE WORLD UPON YOUR SHOULDER

LITE BRITE IS A TOY KIDS USED TO PLAY WITH
AND BETH YOU WERE RIGHT THAT’S WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE 
RIGHT BEHING THE HEAD OF SOME SWEET GODDESS 
ON THE DISPLAYS IN A TEMPLE OF VIETNAM
THEN YOU MISSED A STEP AND TORE YOUR SHOULDER 
THINKING YOU HAD RAISED THE GODDESS’ ANGER 
WITH YOUR SIMPLE STATEMENT 
NOTHING BUT A COMMENT 
WHY ON EARTH A GODDESS SHOULD GIVE A DAMN
ANYWAY TODAY WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GIVE YOURSELF A REST JUST EMBRACE THE BEST 
AND NEXT TIME BREAK A LEG BETH

THEN WE FLEW BACK HOME AND A WHAT A MESS DEAR
PROBLEMS WITH OUR HOUSE I WON’T DESCRIBE HERE 
AND YOU YOU KEPT RELATING WITH WHAT YOU HAD SAID ABOUT THE LITE BRITE DISPLAY BEHIND THE GODDESS HEAD

THEN A PANGOLIN SHOOK THE WORLD OVER 
NOTHING YOU COULD CARRY UPON YOUR SHOULDERS
STILL SO MUCH FOR OUR PLAN TRAVELING THROUGH EUROPE 
JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IT TURNED INTO A FLOP
ANYWAY TODAY WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GIVE YOURSELF A REST JUST EMBRACE THE BEST 
NEXT TIME BREAK A LEG BETH

THEN WELL YOU SEE WHAT IS GOING ON BETH 
MARCHING OUT THE STREETS AND CRAVING FOR A BREATH 
SOME CALL IT PROTEST SOME CIVIL UNREST
MAY A SOFT WIND BLOW FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST
ANYWAY TODAY WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GIVE YOURSELF A REST JUST EMBRACE THE BEST 
NEXT TIME BREAK A LEG BETH

LITE BRITE IS A TOY THAT SELLS NO MORE NO 
GUESS THE RULES HAVE CHANGED SO DID THE PLAYERS 
YOU JUST KEEP ON PAINTING BETH
THIS WORLD OF YOUR OWN
GODDESS ON YOUR THRONE
AND LET IT ALL BE BLOWN
FOLLOWING VASARI’S LIVES OF THE PAINTERS

A BIRDHOUSE COLLECTOR (Lyrics) song for Scott

IMRE LODBROG

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