No idea what you are saying, but you say it so beautifully.  Love this song.

With the advent of our democratically chosen fascist plague looming I'm going to reprise this one which is basically about -- wait a minute I don't do  "it's about's"  --  it's about whatever you think it's about.  I feel it now more than four years ago when I wrote it.

Do you see the same things I do 
in morbid visions of the night
I'll confess I'm in need of some discipline
a circumcision of the mind

a single moment's indecision can mean the difference of a life
wait for the signs of antipathy
I'll be coming right behind

is it time to take our things and go running for the line
there's nothing here that's worthy of the sacrifice
why keep me waiting in the dark
as if you and I were born to all this suffering in our stars

Jacob wrestled in the desert
with an angel who would not give his name
does faith only come to me in my anguish and shame

witness to your own decline
you just lie and tell yourself it's alright

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Why Keep Me Waiting

Back at my acoustic piano for my first song of 2025. 😊🎶🎹🌷

Thank you @wane-of-summer for a wonderful master. 😊🎶❤️❤️❤️

All my colours are on display
But it seems
That you want me anyway
Oh how we’ll grow

I’m no bed of roses
But you help me bloom…

Oh how time flies 
And the petals fall
Oh now I bloom
No thorns in sides
Oh how we grow

I’m no bed of roses
But you help me grow…

In full bloom…

All my colours
Are on display 
But it seems
That you need me anyway

BED OF ROSES (acoustic piano)

Poolside-party At Pickfair

Pōkarekare ana, ngā wai o Waiapu
Whiti atu koe hine, marino ana e.

E hine e, hoki mai ra
Ka mate ahau i te aroha e.

Tuhituhi taku reta, tuku atu taku rīngi
Kia kite tō iwi, raru raru ana e.

E hine e, hoki mai ra
Ka mate ahau i te aroha e.

Pōkarekare ana, ngā wai o Waiapu
Whiti atu koe hine, marino ana e.

E hine e, hoki mai ra
Ka mate ahau i te aroha e

Pokarekare Ana (public domain cover)

Ma chanson parle de cette douleur silencieuse qu’on ressent quand on doit partir… sans raison évidente. Elle raconte la peur de quitter quelqu’un de bien, quelqu’un qui n’a rien fait de mal. C’est ce paradoxe cruel : aimer quelqu’un, mais ne plus se sentir à sa place. J’y parle de la culpabilité étouffante, du poids de la décision, et de ce moment où, au lieu d’accuser, je demande de l’aide… pour partir. Parce que je n’ai plus la force seule. C’est une chanson pleine de tendresse, de regrets et d’honnêteté.

Aide-moi

Dedicated most especially to L.K.A.--our new little grandson so freshly arrived from the face of God.

Oh, that all children were loved.

Thank you, dear Oddrun, for the color and depth of meaning you bring to my music.  
Thank you, Arne, for your help and encouragement.



Melody composition, poem and voice: @Oddrun-Eikli
Piano and Composition: Debra Buesking (Inspired by Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze") 
Studio Mix: @Arne-Hiorth


Let Nature Embrace you.

Wrapped in red, orange and blue
The little baby in mothers arms
Tiny white jasmin growing in her garden
Mother Nature dressed in spring
From magic skies of mint
Every color spins new
In future clear as aquablue

Let Nature Embrace you
Gently
So gently

Life`s colors flow from gold to umber
In crocuses, Petunias
In Asters and in Pansies
A thousand shades of reds
In yellows and in brown
From Magic skies of mint
Every color spins new
In future clear as aquablue




May Nature Embrace you
Gently
So gently

Gently: Oddrun Eikli and Debra Buesking

Cappuccino

My Friend is about the loss and reunion of a true friend.

Lyrics
Intro
Friendship's more lasting than a river that flows through a glen, a glen

Verse 1
Where are you now, my friend, my friend?
I thought we'd be together till the end
Your absence is thick like the scent you used to wear
I wear your perfume and see your dreamy stare

Chorus 1
My friend you're something stronger than I can explain
No ring of steel is needed for us to remain
for our love returns again and again

Verse 2
I see your face in the mirror before me
as if time had no continuity
No need for words between us
The mix of our perfume brings years to dust

Chorus 2
My friend you're something stronger than I can explain
No ring of steel is needed for us to remain
for our love returns again and again

Verse 3
Friend your return to me is a sign 
that after all these years you're mine
Trouble will come and test our spine
Trouble can't steal two hearts like yours and mine

Chorus 3
My friend you're something stronger than I can explain
A ring is needed for us to remain
for our love returns again and again

Close
Friendship is lasting as our love returns again

Lyrics by Wayland Stephens and Mary Pothanikat

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My Friend

This instrumental track builds on a collaboration with my brother https://soundcloud.com/skai-eriksson/desert-odyssey-acoustic-guitar-and-piano 
The original song just had acoustic guitar and piano.  Torben Fugger heard the song on SC and took it to a new level of orchestration adding tasty slide+electric guitar work.  At that point it sounded like it needed some low end, and Wayne Cribbs stepped in to add a tasteful bass guitar track.

You can listen to Torben's other elegant orchestral music on SC: @torben-fugger

Here is the credit in the order the instruments were added.

Acoustic guitar: Timothy Lundberg
Piano: Skai Eriksson
Electric guitars: Torben Fugger
Bass guitar: Wayne Cribbs
Mixing/Mastering: Erik Lundberg (Skai Eriksson) with lots of help/feedback from the rest of the group.

Desert Odyssey (w/ additions by Torben Fugger and Wayne Cribbs)

I am anything but a pessimist. I am not depressed either. However, the world is in such a sad state that, when I look for song lyric topics, I can hardly find anything positive or fun. Instead of singing, you just want to cry. Or scream. 

I wrote the following song in memory of the immeasurable pain and incredible will to survive of the Ukrainian people – neither as a lament nor as a protest song, just as an almost normal love song. 

Although I don't know the basics of the Ukrainian language, I also decided to write a Ukrainian version too (will be published soon) with the help of DeepL because this language sounds so extra beautiful – one special of so many diamonds of Europe's cultural diversity.

Image: Dmytro Kotenko who died on the third day of the Russian invasion. He was 21.

Music, lyrics, vocal prompt and production by ©Hans-Michael Albers. Vocal performance by suno4.5

Lyrics translation by DeepL:

Will I ever see you again?
Just once more?
Wandering through worlds, spaces and dreams.
No matter where, no matter when.

Losing all time forever
as if we were music.
Only us and nothing else anymore.
As if there were no war.

Coming together like two halves of a whole.
Barely able to breathe with happiness,
Your heart beating as loudly as mine.
In this moment.

Gazing at you silently as you sleep so beautifully.
So indescribably close,
I've never seen anything more beautiful.
And it was all true.

Why can't this continue?
Why are you a ghost?
Will I ever see you again,
Before it tears me apart?

Will I ever see you again,
Before it tears me apart?

Pokarekare Ana (public domain cover)

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