bSRK sent me this vexing instrumental and I was taken in ... I had to add vocals!

You look like you come from somewhere else
A talented stranger maybe
With the wheels on your suitcase
Going click.....on the brick......

You look like you come from somewhere else
I'm gonna tell you a secret
Because I like you
Late at night, late at night
I hear the click.....on the brick......
From the wheels on your suitcase

You look you're from somewhere else
With the click.... on the brick.....

Click Click

My Little Caldera

Music by bSRK
Melody, Lyrics, Vocals by Janine

Tonight the moon Is full and white
The mood is right for me …tonight
And in your eyes a sparkle that gives me a clue
Could I be so lucky to spy 
A shimmer of danger in you?

Oh dance with me!
But noooo, tu dices que no puede ser
Como se quiera -- My Little Caldera

Tonight my heart Is full and ripe
The mood is fine for me …tonight 
Cool, so cool, but I feel a simmering heat
A fire that I may ignite, 
A whisper that leads to a fight

Oh dance with me!
But noooo, you say it never will be
Como se quiera -- My little caldera
My little caldera ---my little caldera

Tonight the sky is full of light
The stars will shine on us tonight
And in your eyes, will I discover the clue?
Will I be the one who will find
The secret that burns within you?

Oh dance with me!
But no, tu dices que no puede ser 
Come se quiera-- my little caldera

Little caldera
You’re my explodera
Oh I should beware-a
My little caldera

My Little Caldera

Easy Words    2017   Janine Levinson & BSRK

Song & Vocals, Janine Levinson
Arrangement and everything else: BSRK

Faith is just a word until you're struggling to believe
And you learn the truth of trust 
when trust is what you need    
May not be too hard to say but it’s sure hard to be,
So wrap yourself in easy words
Wrap yourself in easy words

Love rolls off the tongue 'til someone's askin you to change
And loyalty is nearly free 
'Til it's measured on the page
The things we do and things we say
ain't always the same
We wrap ourselves in easy words
Wrap ourselves in easy words

We talk talk talk around it        
Take a long hot walk around it
Make a big wide arc around the truth

We sing strut prance about it       
Do a sexy dance about it
Stop!  you better hope your soul is still in there!

To say that you'll be there don't cost a thing at all
Standing on the outside; only time knows if you'll fall
The future holds the answers 
and she ain't answering my call
I'll wrap myself in easy words
Wrap myself in easy words

Worst Of

Easy Words

beSRK was doing what he always does: cruising across the galaxy listening to Janine on the old tube radio in his spaceship. He brought this tune back to earth so that he could listen to it on his headphones.

Journey Through a Vacuum Tube

BANG BANG BANG       

Janine levinson: song, vocals      2017
beSRK: arrangement, all instruments, produce, mix, master

He knew everything that we were thinking
The sparkle in the eye was all he gave
Socked it all away and just kept drinking
Stashed our secrets for a rainy day 

He knew dirty things that we were dreaming
His dreams justified by all of ours
But his soul was depraved and he was sinking
And pretty soon his let his dreams go wild

He followed his heart
To a very dark place
And at our expense, I’m afraid
He heard that voice
And by then he was crazed
And he got carried away

Bang Bang Bang
He took my head
Walkin but still on the inside
Bang Bang Bang and I was dead 
Good bye!

Bang Bang Bang

Music, production: beSRK
Vocals: Janine Levinson

You’re a tribute to yourself
In a charcoal suit
And those shiny shoes

Float across a restaurant
In a cloud of rare cologne  
Just like a red balloon

I’m kinda thinkin you don’t need me
To build up your head of steam
So why don’t you …
Why don’t you write it yourself…
Why don’t you write your own stupid love song?

Do It Yourself

Music, production: beSRK 
Lyrics, vocals, melody: Janine Levinson


They had a chemical attraction 
And she wanted something real

But those earthly bounds
They got him down
Shackled by the thoughts he couldn’t help

Coulda been a better man
Coulda had a better plan
Coulda built a future for himself

The girl needed more than nothing
And he couldn’t think of nothing else

Live by the sword and die for something
He was gone and she was by herself

Those earthly bounds
Just brought him down
Shackled by the thoughts he couldn’t help

Coulda been a better man
Coulda had a better plan
Coulda built a future for himself

Chemical Attraction

All music, production, arrangement:  beSRK @besrk
Vocals, melody, lyrics:  janine levinson @janinelevinson, @janineandtheproblem

You know that we ain’t getting any younger
Honey that’s the way things got to be
Tell myself that grey is still a color
The achy heart becomes an achy knee

But we still got to get on board
Baby it’s our day
Driving fast and furious
You know it ain’t the only way
We’ll take a slow cruise
We’ll take a slow cruise

The truth is life is always growing shorter
For everyone in every passing day
Bodies getting tired and dancing slower
The boogie groove becomes the rock and sway

But we still got to get it on
Baby it’s our day  
I say my lips are curious
And when you rock my way
We’ll do the slow groove
We’ll do the slow groove

The truth is life is always getting shorter
We do the slow groove
We do the slow groove

The Slow Groove

music by @beSRK
melody, lyrics, vocals @janinelevinson
guitar magic by @guitarbeard

Quit Wasting my Time

I don’t reminisce
I won’t look back
It’s a bore and the opposite of invention

“Remember when”
That’s a useless phrase
Learn from your past and get on with living

I don’t complain
I don’t bother to blame
It’s a bore and a massive waste of time
You will learn or you won’t
You achieve or you don’t
And when I talk about blame it will be mine
Quit wasting my time

I don’t reminisce
I don’t look back
It’s a fruitless tree and not worth shaking

And “if only I had,”
That’s a pointless phrase
Life gives you chances and you take them

I don’t explain
I don’t owe you a thing
It’s my life and I’ve got limited time
I live for today
Just stay out of my way
Keep hold of yours, leave me mine
Quit wasting my time
Quit wasting my time

I’m not gonna gossip
I don’t want to chit chat
It’s a bore and the opposite of conversation
Don’t pander to me
Don’t smooth out your words
That’s intentional soul deprivation

I won’t explain
I don’t owe you a thing
It’s my life and I’ve got limited time
I live for today
So stay out of my way
Keep hold of yours, leave me mine
Quit wasting my time
Quit wasting my time

Quit Wasting My Time - featuring Guitarbeard

Where I Wanna Grow.          2017

music by @besrk
vocals, lyrics, vocal melody by @janine levinson

It’s been long long time   
As I sleep like a hungry seed
Holding the hillside
In the dirt of a fantasy

But this isn’t my time
As I wait for the sky to weep
And dream of the sunshine
For a ray to tumble down on me

I never told you how 
And now I think it will be forever
The light is so far away
From the places that I want to grow

This isn’t my real life
It’s a ghost of a conversation
I think of the ways I’ll vine
In my green and wet imagination

No this isn’t my time
Just a joke of anachronism
Outside of my reach 
I'm a prisoner of my own vision

I never told you how 
And now I think it will be forever
The light is so far away, oh
From the places that I want to grow

Where I Wanna Grow

I sent beSRK a vocal track with no lead sheet, no instrument track, nothing, and asked him create a chord landscape underneath. I think it came out just beautiful.

All For Love         

What I do
This is all for love       
It’s the truth
This is all for love
Lay my head down at your feet   
Fall asleep  
This is all for love

Let us not investigate shadows falling through the trees
Let us press our palms together        
Lie atop the matted leaves

What I do 
It is all for love
Can’t you see this is all for love

Things can be so complicated
Figures darting through the trees
Looking for the blinking beacon underneath our cotton sheets 

Take your weight upon my back 
Can’t you see this is all for love? 

What I make  
It is all for love  
Hold the seed  
It is made for love

Sing the walls with colored words 
Draw your face
This is all for love

All For Love

A Secret Garden

Vocals, melody, words:  Janine Levinson @janinelevinson
Everything else: beSRK @besrk

art 
art
art and music

art and music are attempts to communicate things that are not easily explained in words

the artist works in a state of surrender 

the artist buries deep into their brain to a place where words do not exist, and they attempt to convey what it's like in that brain

they have a secret garden, and they burn to convey the beauty of that garden, however painful

they bury deep into a place
a place inside their brains
where words do not exist
and yet they will communicate
give you all their pain
share their secret things
give you all their pain

they have a secret garden

A Secret Garden

J9 & beSRK are Janine Levinson (@janinelevinson, @janineandtheproblem) and beSRK, a mysterious stranger from the north @beSRK

Janine and beSRK

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