Awkward (WIP)

Zhao Gao（?〜207B.C.）

Zhao Gao was a eunuch from the Qin state. From a young age, he served Ying Zheng, the future First Emperor, but his origins are unknown.

He was highly trusted by Ying Zheng and even served as the tutor for his youngest son, Hu Hai.

However, when Ying Zheng died, he changed his will and made Hu Hai the emperor, plotting to usurp the country.

He used Hu Hai as his puppet and wiped out all resistance. Even Li Si was no exception to him.

The Qin Dynasty unified China at the cost of many lives, but due to the misrule of Zhao Gao, it continued to fall into ruin.

Check out the music video for the song here!
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https://youtu.be/it0ovUUTjWo?si=FknuOfFhqBYRPAvt

　　　　　　　　　赵高

赵高是秦国的一个宦官。他从小就侍奉未来的始皇帝嬴政，但他的来历不明。

他深受嬴政的信任，甚至担任他的小儿子胡亥的家庭教师。

然而嬴政死后，却改变遗嘱，立胡亥为皇帝，密谋篡位。

他以胡亥为傀儡，消灭了一切反抗。就连李斯对他来说也不例外。

秦朝以牺牲许多人的生命为代价统一了中国，但由于赵高的暴政，秦朝不断走向灭亡。

赵高 狂牡丹 <Zhao Gao  The Mad Peony>mp3

Funny Kind of Sad

Halfway to Heaven
(John Stone)

I’ll never get to heaven
After all the things I’ve done
When offered up temptation
Temptation always won

But when I’m with you baby
I really couldn’t care
For all the stars in heaven
As you take me half way there

Half way to heaven
If on judgement day
They won’t let me into heaven then
This is what I’ll say
Half way to heaven
If on judgement day
They won’t let me into heaven
Then I'll know I’ve been half way

I saw you on the dance floor
Invited you to dance
Our bodies met in time and space
And there we took our chance
Though I’d like go to heaven  I really couldn’t claim 
If I had my time all over that
Things wouldn’t  be the same

Half way to heaven
If on judgement day
They won’t let me into heaven then
This is what I’ll say Hey Hey
Half way to heaven
If on judgement day
They won’t let me into heaven
Then I'll know I’ve been half way

We write a story
The story of our lives
We hold the pen so tightly
It comes as a surprise
When words we’ve written
Are not the words we say
The part we would have wished for
Cannot be the part we play

But when I’m with you baby
I really couldn’t care
For all the stars in heaven
As you take me half way there

Half way to heaven
If on judgement day
They won’t let me into heaven
Then this is what I’ll say
Half way to heaven
If on judgement day
They won’t let me into heaven
Then I'll know I’ve been half way

Halfway To Heaven

All Day The Hoary Meteor Fell

I've been away from SoundCloud for a while working on my new album and several writing projects, but the album's nearly done, so I thought I'd emerge from my cocoon and post this song, which means a lot to me. It features my good friend Akmaral Zykayeva on violin. For the past ten years, I've been doing a lot of consulting work in Kazakhstan. I met Akmaral in Almaty, Kazakhstan about six years ago. She is a hugely gifted composer, singer, and violinist who records as "Akmaral Mergen" and also as "Mergen" (Mergen means "woman warrior" in Kazakh).
For this song, Akmaral wrote a beautiful six-violin arrangement, playing all the parts herself.
The photo on the cover is the view from my hotel room in Almaty on one of my trips. In the foreground is Almaty Opera House and in the distance are the snowcapped Tien Shan Mountains (the "Celestial Mountains"). Beyond the mountains is Kyrgyzstan. 
Main guitars on this song are my Taylor GC-5 acoustic and my 1966 Guild Starfire XII (electric twelve-string).
The cricket and bird sounds at the beginning and end were recorded by me with a field recorder in a wild area of southern Wisconsin.
(This song can be found on my "Twilight on Tunnel Road" album, which I'm happy to say won the Alternative Album of the Year award from the Madison Area Music Association.)
LYRICS:
"Let Me Go”
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

Nothing I say to you makes it untrue.
Let me go—I can’t say how much I love you.

Taking it all away, I can’t bear the day.
In the night I just see your face staring at me.
Let me go.

Seeing I don’t know why, why you must try
to go far away now, climb mountains so high.

Every single day, I’m making my way.
I can’t deal with you gone and I’m not okay.
Let me go.

I don’t say you should not go—closing off the future before you can know.
I just can’t get loose from your strings,
they’re wrapped around my heart entangling all things.

I remember how we used to play, how we used to dance, how we used to run,
dissolving in the moonlight as if we were one.
And all those days, all those times, all those nights we held to each other,
held so tight as if we might lose the one thing we love.

And I think that I can’t go on now,
without you I’m lost, I just don’t know how.
Now the light has gone out of my life,
nothing ahead but torment and strife.

Twilight on Tunnel Road

Let Me Go

your_face_in_flames_.mp3

Dreadfro performs a live acoustic set from my living room!
Video: https://youtu.be/QUbWfLjrXGk

Dreadfro: https://www.instagram.com/hekrin_zero_772/

Dreadfro: Living Room Session

“Inspired by The Beatles and 90’s US Indie this is a song with an affirmation like chorus about being yourself.”

Open up 
Your words are all that matters
Open up
Let your heart sing and shatter
Open up 
I hope you look inside yourself and you finally see how much you matter 

Let yourself 
be yourself 
let yourself 
be yourself 

Open up 
Your eyes see the light in the shadows
Open up 
Don’t listen to words of all the others
Open up 
Keep on moving forward 
You have nothing to lose 
You have nothing to lose 

© Heart House Records 2024

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

LETYOURSELFBEYOURSELF

Piano ballad pro demo with session vocals. My lyrics and music, copyright Jay Rich 2024. The second title, Pro Patria Mori, refers to the Wilfred Owen poem Dulce et Decorum Est (it is sweet and right) Pro Patria Mori (to die for one's country). Owen took the line from the Roman poet Horace and quite rightly called it 'the old lie'. These are Owen's (a sad casualty, dying just a week before Armistice) unsentimental words:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

My scathing lyrics below:

The Aggrieved Dead/Pro Patria Mori

V1:

Suppose for just a moment
That heaven's truly real
And the dead could all come back
To tell us how they feel

V2:

Especially those fallen
In the two world wars
What would long lost soldiers
Say to mine and yours

Lift:

I can see the warning signs:
What they'd make of modern times
Maybe they could offer us advice

Ch1:

Would they say we died for you
And this is all that you can do
Most of us were way too young
To lose our unlived lives by brutal tank and gun
You stab each other in the street
Your standards are down at your feet
And what it feels like watching you
Is that the sharpest knife has run our hearts right through

*****Break*****

Bridge:

So yes we're really well aggrieved
Like we've been meanly deceived:
Signing up for King and country
Fighting for our peace and freedom
Nothing much has come of it
Nor will, nothing's right or fit
Broken Britain, you ain't kidding
Now we're cynical and bitter
There was no real point in winning
Save to check the long-gone threat of Hitler

Ch2:

Would they all say we died in vain
'Cause there ain't been no worthwhile change
So many young are feral thugs
Who waste their money, get blind drunk, and take hard drugs
As adults you got no real sense:
You just go starting wars again
So if we could turn back time
We'd surely never ever face that firing line

Outro:

Owen's moving poems
Said we suffered such indignity
Pro patria mori - the lie:
For this land we'd never die
How we wish we'd done things differently
So differently, so differently, so differently




The Aggrieved Dead/Pro Patria Mori (solo write pro demo, session vocals)

The Dream Continues(See You In The Continuation Of Your Dreams)

on some new shit, questioning everything we come from. divided we stand alone- united we stand as One. 
fuck 12 and all opps in all forms. 
I live forever now, my spirit walks on even when I'm gone, still spittin songs about what's wrong.
We are truly lost and left behind.

                     Losty forever ❤️


your_face_in_flames_.mp3

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