A lovely tune, J.M. and Debra’s singing fits nicely

Awesome singing lyrics beautifully played guitar

TRACK NOTES
Strangely enough given the title, the verse melody of this song came to me in a dream, in which I was watching a stranger play it on a guitar. I woke up and found the words (and the chorus) in a day or so, starting with the very first line. It's about a couple's journey. Thanks to Irish artist Martin Gale for his kind permission to use an image of his painting "Couple".

CREDITS
Debra Donahue - harmony vocal
J.M. Kearns - lead vocal and guitars, harmonica
Thanks to Irish artist Martin Gale for his kind permission to use an image of his painting "Couple".

LYRICS
I will stay when the weather is warm
And drink to your health, far from the storm
In the sun, we’ll dance really slow
And sit on the cliff where the green river rolls

CHORUS:
But don’t ever dream
You will find
Me walking away
When life is unkind
Don’t ever dream
You will see
Me turning my back
When you’re down on your knees

If you find a mouse in your bed
I’ll go for a ride, and free it instead
When the cold and the wind and the rain
Are shaking the house, and you are in pain

CHORUS
Instrumental

I will stay when life is a bore
And I’m much too old to laugh anymore,
When the light is starting to fade
You’ll sing me a song ’bout that plan that we made:

I will stay when the mist on the lake
Is lifting at dawn and there’s coffee to make
We will sail in a crimson canoe,
Away from the world, and bid it adieu
Away from the world, and bid… it… adieu.



Dont Ever Dream

Beginning of Me (original demo)

Good Old Days Are Gone

Read The Room

Quietly Optimistic

Combined a couple poems/songs from some notepads from about 10 years ago, when I was 28 ;) .....lots of juicy stuff....a little bit of good poetry  :) Thanks for listening and supporting my music endevour!!! Much love fom AZ!

Governed By These

recorded feb 2024
few tracks I hope to develop 
heroes of the park eventually

some of the first tracks I wrote after moving house, and some of the first tracks written mainly with guitar

even if these tracks arent great - its still worth getting something out there as a start i think.

Long Weekend

This is a demo, comment to improve! From the upcoming album Through Hell and Heaven.

Lyrics:
You,
standing in a pinakotek.

You,
staring a Kandinsky’ stuff.

Meeting in the bar,
white wine.

Little sips,
shy eyes.

Few words,
Approaching breathes.

Speaking of art
and filosophy,
hands
touching.

Lost in blossom

You,
a Koons baloon.

Me,
Mondrianesque.

We,
laying on a Merz Igloo

Embraced
in a Schiele’s Kiss

The universe is
far

We're in a tender
dream

The world now have 
faded

We’re between the stars
as bodyless souls

and we can love
and we can love

Our place is a
Nocturnal lake
Riding a blue
horse

We're Braque collages,
Delunay spirals.
Warped Cezanne bodies,
Transfigured Fontana's dot.

We're nothing more than air,
Nothing less than clouds.
We're Lissitzky geometry
And Guttuso' colors.

We're not in time or space,
Neither in history.

We are merging together
Into the lake.
We are the light
Of the lullaby.

But we're in Earth,
embodied in history.
Politcs and choices 
divide us.

Now we just
avoid ourselves.

Love story into the pinakothek

Just a really sad song about losing the life long battle to depression but knowing there always there even when gone

From Someone You Love

"Lost in the Mancha" blends melancholia and joy, inspired by Spanish travels and Cornish roots. Meticulously crafted over two and a half years, its precise, evocative soundscapes offer peace and introspection, drawing comparisons to Ben Howard and Laura Marling. It's a whispered story and thriving through change.
credits

5 Shapes

Notes drift like shadows
In the silence of night
Each echo fading slow
Chasing the light

Spaces between sounds grow
A void fills the room
In the stillness we know
This quiet gloom

Whispers of the absent
In the dissonant sky
A climax that cries out
Then says goodbye

Long pauses speak louder
Than the notes ever could
The still air grows prouder
In this haunting wood

Chaos in the middle
Clashing chords collidea
A tempest just a riddle
Then the storm subsides

Whispers of the absent
In the dissonant sky
A climax that cries out
Then says goodbye

Long pauses speak louder
Than the notes ever could
The still air grows prouder
In this haunting wood

Chaos in the middle
Clashing chords collide
A tempest just a riddle
Then the storm subsides

Chaos in the middle
Clashing chords collide
A tempest just a riddle
Then the storm subsides

Goodbye

Whispers Of The Absent

mandy

pass this note

Hi, friends. My new album is now on Bandcamp at https://jmkearns.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-surviving-in-the-city-vol-1 . Please enjoy it there!
BIO:
At age 30, J.M. Kearns abandoned his native Toronto and a future in academic philosophy, and thumbed his way to L.A. to be a songwriter.

In L.A. there were a couple of near-breakthroughs — an audition at Electra-Asylum Records, a song meeting with Warren Beatty — but then things got real. Kearns had to eat. He worked as a house painter, then a telegram-singing donkey, and then he really hunkered down, as a bureaucrat at a huge downtown law firm, exchanging molecules with tall office buildings. He did a lot of writing and recording, but not a lot of performing.

That changed when he moved to Nashville. After a thousand writers’ nights, he was given his first real gig, an 8:30 slot at a notorious club called the Gold Rush. Good things started to happen. Kearns found his mojo as a performer and a band formed around him, dubbed the Lonely Mammals. In 2007 he issued a CD with them called Death or Life, and Elmore magazine gave it a rave review. Also that year, his novel The Deep End was published (https://www.amazon.com/Deep-End-J-M-Kearns/dp/1500502707 ). And five of Kearns’ songs were recorded by independent artists. 

In 2010 Kearns moved to Cape May, a beach town at the southern tip of New Jersey, where he performs in a trio called The Squares with his partner Debra Donahue and their friend M.Q. Murphy. And of course, he keeps writing songs. Oddly, his life’s circle became unbroken when a musician friend got him a job teaching philosophy at a nearby university. In May 2024 Kearns released his first solo album, Before the coffee gets too cold.

His new album, Songs of Surviving in the City, Vol. 1, releases on Nov. 15th, 2024, and it’s now in preview on Bandcamp at https://jmkearns.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-surviving-in-the-city-vol-1 .

Watch this space: next year Kearns will release three more albums of songs that you've never heard. Love Songs Only; Undiscovered Country, and Earliest Songs-Toronto.

Dont Ever Dream

J.M. Kearns

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