CUBAN FIRES

This is a song about a week in CUBA over 20 years ago. After a summer romance that blew my mind it was time for her to go back to school shortly after we got back. 
I didn’t want the week to ever end. 
I remember the moment I fell for sure.it hit me like a tidal wave. 
I didn’t want to get back home and it to be over. 
I would have done anything to just stay there...

CUBAN FIRES

I remember how it felt  
The sun
The rain
The way time slipped away

It was only me and you 
The clouds
The sand and magic Everywhere

I prayed the nights would never end 
-Cuban fires burned so bright-
It was just the stars & you and me 
-Cuban fires burned all night-
That’s when a tidal wave hit me 
-I knew right then ,Everything changed-
I’d move those mountains into the sea 
-Just to have you stay here with me-

I can see you standing there
Your smile , the stars and moonlight in your hai

The Cuban fires burned
Like our hearts, our hearts 
Our hearts were Two young hearts in yearning 

 I prayed the nights would never end 
-Cuban fires burned so bright-
It was just the stars & you and me 
-Cuban fires burned all night-
That’s when a tidal wave hit me 
-I knew right then ,Everything changed-
I’d move those mountains into the sea 
- [ ] -Just to have you stay here with me-

CUBAN FIRES

DeafGod

BELIEVE

Seems like a dream to me now

Nothing is what it seems
 
I hear the ticking in my sleep

I know it’s coming for me 

 You heard me talking in my sleep

The words that fall out of reach my dear

I admit I made the deal but never the show

The hands of time ticking down 

I can hear the distant sounds of the metronome 

Calling me


My heart is breaking in time

My heart is breaking in time

My heart is breaking in time


So take me down to the lowest of the low

Where the poets sold their souls

A place where no one ever goes

To the crossroads of the soul

A place where no one goes 


The faint ticking of that metronome

hear my heart breaking in time

Breaking in time



My heart is breaking in time

My heart is breaking in time

My heart is breaking in time

I don't know how this happen to us in our prevents

I can hear you talking with the smoke and the winds

So take me down to the lowest of the low

Where the poets sold their souls

A place where no one ever goes

To the crossroads of the soul

The faint ticking of that metronome

hear my heart breaking in time

Breaking in time

Lowest of the Low (Devil's Metronome)

SUPER GALACTIC GYPSY SOUL

The song is about the slippery slope/ path of addiction for mainly entertainers, but could be used to reference anyone suffering from addiction.
 The Soul Taker is basically heavy drug addiction itself being grouped into a live being. It is conceptually drug addiction and how easy it gets its claws into someone. Especially entertainers who may be easily drawn in . Even though there are people who bring the drugs and offer them, its still the person taking them that is making the decision. In the song, the Soul Taker takes on a rock star-like status sitting front row with one of his girls. Her name is Meth-elene Using the first part of the name "Meth" to play on words and identify one of the drugs that will bring anyone to hell and back. Methamphetamine , used in Crystal Meth and many other street derivatives are the main play here. 
In the song , it says he wants to take us out after the show, his eyes are like diamonds and smiles like pearls , he is the king of the new stage  or fills your veins a with poison. While he takes all your possessions and Meth-elene , shows a tattoo on her lip that says Welcome to hell and then replaces your possessions with a loaded gun with only one bullet for a trip around the sun.This could be reference for a needle or a pipe and it being a weapon that will kill you shortly if you let it.
I’d like to introduce you to someone I know 

He’d like to take us out tonight after the show,

His eyes shine like diamonds and his smiles are like pearls

He takes centre stage with his favorite girl 

This is the soul taker 

And his girl methelene

He is the star of the new stage 

And she dances like a queen

After the show you’ll hear everyone yell 
And you’ll see a tattoo on her lip that says “Welcome to hell”

He will strip you of your best things
She ll replace them with a gun
The gun will have only one round. 
For a trip around the sun

For a trip around the sun

This is the soul taker 

And his girl methelene

He’ll fill your veins with his poison 
I think you know what I mean.

This is the soul taker 

This is the soul taker

SOUL TAKER

SCATTERED

UNAMUSED

This song is about a night we had on a rooftop in Mexico. The building was the last one , overlooking the beach and the ocean. We danced all night. The DJ’s all took turns and the sunrise was just phenomenal. 
The energy was electric. Now, we have been lucky enough to have done this a few times, but this time was special. If you were there with us, or have done something like this, then you know what I mean. 
If you haven’t experienced it………… 


Every nerve in your body is lit up.
With energy, from everyone on this rooftop.  

We Feel alive, so beautiful and so free. 
Look up to the stars above and feel the warm sea breeze. 

I hope you remember, this night with me. 
We are all one here , 
Just where we want to be. 

Feeling the music 
Feeling the beat 
With all our beautiful people…….
and you here with me

We were dancing on that rooftop,
Dancing on that rooftop, like it’s the last night of our lives.  
All we see is the ocean, all we hear is the music 
Do we know how lucky we are to all be here together tonight ? 

Feeling the music , at one with the skies above , 
We all see it changing slowly, 
Hand in hand 
Lets watch the sunrise……


John Ball

DANCING ON THE ROOFTOP

Seems like the air in here is getting so thin

Feels like the days are done before they begin

I know there’s more than one way through this

I know we've been through more than this

So, much more than this  

Every little thing i see reminds me of you and I catch my breathe when I feel you near me

Sometimes when the wind is howling through the trees

and the moonlight sleeps under city lights 

I swear I smell your perfume falling from the breeze

In this moment, We are so alive

We are the stars that shine so bright  

Breaking through , so much to dream about here with you.

John Ball

GHOST

I’m on the edge of a feeling I don’t recognize. 
I can feel the cold winter at the door.
Time can behave so cruelly
Sometimes.
Can you feel it as we fade away
In the midst of everything you ever wanted to say.
You see this plan slip away.
In the face of everything you seem to rise above. It was time that got you in the end 
I’m looking out from the edge of the world,
Every scene I see reminds me of the man I used to know 
I can see it in your eyes
So cold outside.  
And there is nothing left to say I’m at the edge of the world. 

This is not the same as your every day broken heart. 
This is clearly something else.

This is not the same as your….oh my God my heart is gonna melt. 

This is clearly something else

John Ball

THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE

A song about anyone who was not able to be themselves either by identify or gender. For anyone who hasn’t been able to openly love who they wanted to. 
For anyone who hides from the world. A song also for all the Hearts and Souls in the past who especially couldn’t and were never able to be themselves. 
It’s hard sometimes but there’s always another day and some of them are spectacular! 
I have been blessed to have family members that show me daily how try to be perfect like them.  
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

Perfect 

This song is for the one who were afraid to say, what they wanted to say 
This songs for everyone who feels they can’t be who they really are. 
This song is for the ones who’s voices were never heard and I sing this song for anyone still hiding from the world. 
hiding from the world 
 
This song is for anyone who is  afraid to love who they wanted to love. 
For all the hearts and all the souls who never had a chance at all. 
I sing this song for you.  This song is just for you.   I sing this song for anyone still hiding from the world. 
Still hiding from the world

Take our hand and say it loud stand up and show them how because you are perfect just the way you are 
Take my hand I know that 
Sometimes the days can be so long
Take my hand I know that the nights can
Feel so cold. 
Hold on for one more day 
The sun will shine again the winter snow will be so white so just hold on for one more day. 
Solo 

Take my hand I know that 
Sometimes the days can be so long
Take my hand I know that the nights can
Feel so cold. 
Hold on for one more day 
The sun will shine again the winter snow will be so white so bike hold on for one more day.

John Ball

Perfect

12 million minutes 

I don’t think I can take another day like this

But I can’t wait to feel til I feel it again 

I don’t think you can see all the pain inside of me 

But I can’t wait to feel it again 

Feel it again

Feel it again 

Feel it again 


I hope it cuts me so deep

I hope these wounds never heal

I hope the bleeding never stops 

I hope the pain still remains

The pain still remains 
reminds me of just what you did


I hope it cuts me so deep

I hope these wounds never heal

I hope the bleeding never stops 

I hope the pain still remains

I hope it cuts me 
I hope it cuts me 


I hope it cuts me so deep

I hope these wounds never heal

I hope the bleeding never stops 

I hope the pain still remains

12 Million Minutes

THE DREAM
The entire dream was in vivid colour 
I woke up at least 20 times 
the dream had music, the same music every time 
So i got up all night and scored/ learned to play the parts
in the morning added the rest and lyrics

DIONYSUS WEPT (Blood-Red-Wine skies)

Some day you’ll be driving in L.A. a song comes on the radio , you know it’s just for you and some day with someone far far away , my song comes on their stereo and I want you to know it’s just for you.

DRIVING IN L.A.

SILENCE BREAKS

There’s only so much I can take
I got a heavy, heavy ache
I’m in and out of sleep and 
My mind plays tricks on me

Do I wanna be free
I’m begging you please 

If you see me 
Don’t ask me How I am
Cause you already know 
When you see meWalk past me 
Cause I don’t want to hear
 your voice anymore

In the middle of the night
There’s some thoughts
I just can’t fight
Inside my mind
I’m not free

It’s like a disease 

If you see me
Don’t ask me How I am
Cause you already know 
When you see meWalk past me 
Cause I don’t want to hear
 your voice anymore


When you see meWalk past me 
Cause I don’t want to hear
 your voice anymore

If you see me
Don’t ask me How I am
Cause you already know 
When you see meWalk past me 
Cause I don’t want to hear
 your voice anymore…….

BALL. (whitebeard) THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE

DON'T ASK ME

Do you remember we got so high in New Orleans 
We watched the sunrise near a Louisiana stream
I got lost for a week in Tennessee 
The mountaintops seemed so alive and free 
Remember the dealers and the sharks on the keys 
Still don’t know which was more dangerous (to me)

These were the times of our lives. 
The best times of our lives 
No one else would understand 
I can still feel the wheels rolling 
Taking us to the next Any-town
In anywhere USA 

The wheels keep on turning

These were the times of our lives. 
The best times of our lives 
No one else would understand 
I can still feel the wheels rolling 
Taking us to the next Any-town
In anywhere USA

ANYTOWN

More Than I Ever Converted

Sorry Converted

Stagnation Converted

Charlie Converted

12 Red Wine(1) Converted

John Ball discusses his book,JUST LOOK !! on the vodka Friday podcast May 5, 2023

VODKA FRIDAY PODCAST - JUST LOOK

How long should this pain stay? 
How long? How long?
I cut myself just to see if I still feel. 
Can I feel anything at all?

CUT MYSELF DEMO.mp3

How long will this pain stay? How long? How long? 
I cut myself, just to see if I still feel. 
Do I feel anything at all?

CUT MYSELF

AFRAID

Its like  ghetto phunk

NeGATIVE SUPERMAN

MORPHINE

TIN BOX (NOISEFLOOR)

solo release when I was 24 heavy and loud 

BIO:
BALL. (white beard)
BALL. Is a producer , musician and songwriter from North America.
Ball-music.com
jball@ball-music. .com

BALL.(white beard)

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