[Verse 1]
First met you on the courthouse steps
You had a ticket for a car that was borrowed
You said "Take me to the firemen's ball
They'll forget about it by tomorrow"

[Verse 2]
We danced and you introduced me as your husband
It was just a little white lie
But I loved it
You said
"Let's go make it a little more true"
And we took off in a hurry
We got hitched and got it over
While the wedding bells were still ringin' in my ears

[Chorus]
Tell me
Girl
What was wrong with me?
Was it my taste in music or the way I kissed you?
Or the hours and hours that I spent with you in bed?
Was it something that I said?
Was it the way I held your hand
When you introduced me as your husband?
Why a girl wanna leave such a smart and gentle man?

[Verse 3]
You brought me to your parents' house
You said
"Just play along for the weekend"
They had their questions and their doubts
But by the end
They were believing

[Verse 4]
We had fun
We put on a good show
I guess some people just get off on pretending
I could tell that your daddy didn't like me much
So I left
'cause it seemed like the right thing
It was just the one time
But I know how much it meant to you
And I hope I didn't mess it up too bad

[Chorus]
Tell me
Girl
What was wrong with me?
Was it my taste in music or the way I kissed you?
Or the hours and hours that I spent with you in bed?
Was it something that I said?
Was it the way I held your hand
When you introduced me as your husband?
Why a girl wanna leave such a smart and gentle man?

Why me ?  Lyrics in description

All songs copyrighted 
Lyrics

Intro – Spoken/half-sung, atmospheric]
Yeah, they trim the trees,
They rake the fire away.
Build fences strong,
But can’t outrun the laws today.

[Verse 1]
Juan’s got a scar that runs ear to chin,
Said it came from Sonora, not from sin.
He brings his boy on Sundays, just to play
Near the pool he’ll never swim in anyway.

[Verse 2]
Mowin’ lawns under redwood shade,
Hands in dirt while the rich get paid.
Sings to the birds in broken slang—
Every word feels like a chain that hangs.

[Verse 3]
They came last night in unmarked vans,
Took three men like they weren’t even men.
Left their tools in the morning dew,
Leaf blowers still, boots filled with truth.

Verse – Chicano’s Voice]
I send my pay to a border town,
Where mamá lights candles when the sun goes down.
My name’s not ‘hey’ or ‘you in the hat
I got stories, but no time for that.


[Bridge – whispered, rising tension]
Is this freedom, is this fear?
Do we only welcome those we mirror?
My friend cries but hides his face—
Guilt’s a shadow you can’t erase.

[Final Chorus – crescendo, all-out delivery]
They build your world and vanish in the smoke,
Names unspoken, dreams that broke.
You walk on marble, they crawl through flames,
Still you can’t even learn their names.
No green card, no last call—
But they stood taller than us all.

Eucalyptus Blues

Under copyright 
Lyrics

I walk the streets but no one sees
The face behind the flashbulb freeze
They cheer my name it cuts like glass
A fragile mask I can't surpass

[Chorus]
The spotlight burns it blinds my soul
A shining weight that takes its toll
I scream for peace it echoes thin
Fame's a game you never win

[Verse 2]
The mirror shows a stranger's eyes
A haunted glare beneath the guise
The crowd adores but they don't know
The cracks beneath the golden glow

[Chorus]
The spotlight burns it blinds my soul
A shining weight that takes its toll
I scream for peace it echoes thin
Fame's a game you never win

[Bridge]
I traded dreams for fleeting fame
But lost myself inside the flame
The echoes fade the crowd moves on
But I remain when they are gone

[Chorus]
The spotlight burns it blinds my soul
A shining weight that takes its toll
I scream for peace it echoes thin
Fame's a game you never win

Infamous Fame.   Lyrics in description

#lost job #lost home #lost wife #lost children #new home on the street #fentanyl #in the subway ´s hum


Copyright Vesuvius 2025

Cold on the concrete, boots worn thin
Eyes like glass, soaked in gin
No name, no plan, no fight left to win
But he used to drive freight through the Oregon wind
Verse 1
He lost his job in a company slide
They said, "we’re downsizing," and smiled while he died
Mortgage unpaid, then she walked out the door
Now he sleeps with the rats near the grocery store
Verse 2
There’s a girl in the alley with eyes like fire
Numbed out on fentanyl, dressed in barbed wire
She talks to ghosts and sings in the rain
Used to dance ballet before the veins gave way
Verse 3
And the suits pass by with their collars tight
Averted gazes in the neon light
They clutch their phones like holy charms
Afraid to see themselves without their arms
Chorus
We’re just a few steps down,
From the edge of town
Where the cold don’t care
And the snow comes down
When your world caves in
And there’s no way out
You’re just a face in the crowd
Just a few steps down
Bridge
What do you do when the fire’s gone black
When the world don’t wait and it won’t look back
Do you shiver alone in the subway’s hum
Or curse the sun when the morning comes
Chorus
We’re just a few steps down,
From the edge of town
Where the cold don’t care
And the snow comes down
When your pride gives way
To a cardboard crown
Outro
And the Strat still wails like a midnight train
While he fades like steam in the winter rain
One more name that no one says aloud
Just a few steps down…
Just a few steps down…
Just a few steps down…
Just a few steps down…
Just a few steps down
Just a few steps down…
Just a few steps down…

Just a few steps down. Requiem

#Haïti #US TPS #deportation #overstay #panic #ICE


A song for all Haitian who they « overstayed » in the US.
Lyrics
Verse 1
They came in dreams from Port-au-Prince
With echoes in their blood
Salt and sugar in their skin
And fire under the mud
They crossed the waters long ago
To seek a place to grow
But now the tide has turned around
With nowhere left to go

Verse 2
They say you’ve had your time up north
“Back to the island dust”
As if the gangs don’t own the ports
And hope is built on rust
The land is broken, hearts are too
Each street a loaded gun
You send them back to burning roofs
As if the past is done

Verse 3
They whisper now in laundromats
In kitchens, schools, salons
Mothers braid the fear in hair
And hide it from their sons
The papers call them “overstayed”
Like luggage left too long
But you don’t deport a beating heart
And still pretend it’s wrong

Bridge
How do you pack a life like thread
Back into a storm?
Where ransom is a daily tax
And grief becomes the norm
You’re not returning “citizens”—
You’re sending lambs to flame
And every name you fly back home
Is one more silent name

Chorus
There’s no safe shore, no promised land
When justice folds its hand
No torch, no song, no open gate
Just fear you can’t withstand
The sky is loud, the sea is cold
The flight is final, fast
And what they built with trembling hands
Is buried in the past

Outro
So count them out, then fly them in
To hell they did not choose
But you can’t send a soul to die
And say you didn’t lose

⸻

No Safe Shore …for Haitians

#Tamalpais #MuirWoods #Stinson Beach #Point Reyes #lighthouse #Green Gulch Farm Zen Center #gardening

Lyrics .copyrighted Vesuvius Inc.
Woke to the hush of an open sky
In the garden where the shadows lie
Hands in the soil, breath like the tide
Let the noise fall off, let the world subside

Verse 2
Steps in the zendo, soft on the floor
The bell rings once, and I’m wanting no more
Muir Woods whispers in tall green rows
Even silence has somewhere it goes

⸻

Chorus 1
Stillness is louder than I ever knew
And the self fades gently into view
Nothing to prove, nothing to chase
Just fog on the hills, and the wind on my face

⸻

Verse 3
Stinson lies low like a thought in the sand
While the lighthouse holds the edge of the land
Foghorns cry for the ships at sea
Each one a call that passes through me

⸻

Bridge
No answers come, but the asking is peace
The tide pulls back, and I find release
Not in the future, not in the past
But here in the breath that I hold at last

⸻

Chorus 2
Stillness is louder than I ever knew
And the redwoods know what I’m passing through
Nothing to fix, nothing to be
Just sky and salt, and the wide, wide sea

⸻

Outro
And I walk back down the garden row
With everything I need, and nothing to show
The silence at Green Gulch, deep and wide
Still growing inside

Silence at the Green Gulch Farm

Meditative version of Silence in the Green Gulch. SILENCE AT was a song about stepping outside your comfort zone and how zazen changes how you see things.
The image of waking up to a quiet sky shows the inner state of someone who meditates.

I thought that two different versions would better show this duality that binds us.

Woke to the Hush of an Open Sky.

The true story of my first and unique groupie. Lyrics copyrighted by Vesuvius Inc
#groupie #devoted #fan

Lillibeth Lilly in her vintage coat
She wrote my name on a crumpled note
Front row queen with a tambourine
Her smile sharper than a guillotine

[Chorus]
Lillibeth Lilly
Oh you thrill me
You’re my first and only
It’s kinda silly
Lillibeth Lilly
Heart so frilly
You’re the song I hum when it gets chilly

[Verse 2]
She’s got a notebook full of crooked stars
A playlist made of air guitars
Her lipstick shade is Rebel Red
Sings my lyrics louder than I ever said

[Prechorus]
Oh
The way she sways
Steals the days
Turns the grays to gold bouquets

[Chorus]
Lillibeth Lilly
Oh you thrill me
You’re my first and only
It’s kinda silly
Lillibeth Lilly
Heart so frilly
You’re the song I hum when it gets chilly

[Bridge]
When the lights go low and the curtains close
She’s the echo in my prose
A melody I’ll never lose
The reason I’ll always choose

Lillibeth Lilly Classic

Vesuvius Inc copyright 
2025
Lyrics

I walked back in but the doorwas strange
The colors shifted the walls rearranged
Familiar faces wearing borrowed names

[Chorus]
I’m lost I’m lost where did it go
The world I knew from long ago
The streets they hum a foreign tune
Under a sky that hides the moon

[Verse 2]
The clocks still tick but the time feels fake
The ground beneath me starts to shake
Shadows whisper what they used to be

[Prechorus]
Was it me or the world that changed
Or both in a dance estranged

[Chorus]
I’m lost I’m lost where did it go
The world I knew from long ago
The streets they hum a foreign tune
Under a sky that hides the moon

[Bridge]
Maps don’t work the stars don’t speak
The air feels thin my voice feels weak
Is this a dream or just a trick
The pieces don’t quite seem to click

Stranger Things. After the Pandemic

As Roshi Albert Low so well put it, the art of detachment and the art of inner life are two sides of a same coin.

A Quiet Life. Tribute to a true Zen Master

#Barcelona. #Cinqueterre #Mont St-Michel #Etretat
#Over tourism #Selfie #instagram #Tic-Toc

Lyrics copyright Vesuvius 2025

The Edge of The Frame. Selfie Time

Copyright Vesuvius 2025

[Verse]
Ormuz whispers in the night
City glows but never bright
Broken alleys
Neon veins
Rusty trains 

[Verse 2]
Factory ghosts hum their tune
Under a tired
Cold-blooded moon
Chimneys cough
Streets don’t sleep
Secrets buried
Promises deep

[Prechorus]
Echoes of engines
Lives collide
Steel and soul
Nowhere to hide

[Bridge]
Hands are calloused
Hearts are tough
Every corner’s got its bluff
Dreams get dented
Roads stay rough
But somehow here
It’s just enough

Ormuz. King of the Narrows .  With Lyrics

Polar Bears are everywhere in Churchill Manitoba
Copyright 2025. Vesuvius

[verse1]
Up in the north where the frost bites deep
Where the wind hums secrets that the tundra keeps
The stars hang low like they’ve lost their way
Churchill wakes in the icy gray

[Chorus]
Polar bears on the streets tonight
Ghosts in fur under pale moonlight
You can hear their breath in the frozen air
In Churchill town
You best beware

[Verse 2]
Snow piles high where the train tracks end
A place where strangers turn to friends
But the white kings roam
No throne in sight
Their kingdom stretches past the night

[Prechorus]
The ice cracks loud
The river groans
The bears walk soft
Like they’re carved from stone

[Chorus]
Polar bears on the streets tonight
Silent hunters in the fading light
Eyes like embers in the northern glow
In Churchill town
The wild runs the show

[Bridge]
They own the alleys
They own the shore
Legends whisper they’ve been here before
No fences hold them
No walls too tall
The Arctic’s call
It conquers all’

Bears in Churchill      With lyrics

Lyrics, Music.  Vesuvius 2025

White villages climb  
the mountain side  
Whispers of jasmine  
the night is wide  

Cobblestones glowing  
in fading light  
Echoes of guitars  
through falling night  

Verse 2  
Ronda stands bold  
where eagles fly  
Stone bridges crossing  
the endless sky  

Mijas in silence  
with candles that gleam  
Holds every secret  
holds every dream  

Pre-Chorus  
Shadows dancing  
fire’s embrace  
Footsteps striking  
timeless grace  

Chorus  
Andalusia  
burning gold  
Stories rising  
fierce and old  
Through the singing  
I can hear  
A thousand years  
still living here  

Instrumental Break 
 

Verse 3  
Olive trees sway  
crimson dusk  
Wind carries smoke  
with sacred musk  

Moonlight silver  
Alhambra walls  
A nightingale sings  
as darkness calls  

Bridge  
Clap of hands  
cry of soul  
Duende rising  
takes control  
)  
Andalusia  
burning gold  
Stories rising  
fierce and old  
Through the singing  
I can hear  
A thousand years  
still living here  

Extended Instrumental   


Chorus (big return, with harmonies)  
Andalusia  
burning gold  
Stories rising  
fierce and old  
Through the singing  
I can hear  
A thousand years  
still living here  

Outro 

*Andalusian sky…*

Malaga Andalusia

Song and Lyrics Vesuvius Inc .Alife of bad times and high times.

Just a boy, obedient, piano lessons on Sundays
Head full of noise, they called it ADHD

Verse 1
Then the snow broke me, a ski run gone wrong
Four months in the white room, morphine in my veins
Two years of methadone, not the glory I dreamed of
But I walked out limping, with music in my hands

Chorus 
🎵 I stumble, I fall, but I rise again
Carrying fire in the songs I play
From silence to riot, from prison to stage
My revolt is the only way I live today 🎵

Verse 2
In a northern town, where music barely breathed
We built a band from shadows, played our hearts to ghosts
Opened for Hammill, Van der Graaf in the cold
Dreaming Crimson chords, chasing giants’ echoes

Verse 3 
Then the girls came, the bottles, the idols on the wall
Grace Slick on vinyl, Randy California calls
I thought we were eternal, but we burned too fast
One year in a clinic, where everything seemed possible

Chorus 
🎵 I stumble, I fall, but I rise again
Carrying fire in the songs I play
From silence to riot, from prison to stage
My revolt is the only way I live today 🎵

Bridge
Out of the shelter, I fell once more
But love found me, wide as the Canadian sky
She showed me the wild, the space to breathe
And two children later, I began again

Verse 4 
A small studio, guitars against the storm
Grunge was the resurrection, raw and alive
So many deaths, but a music of revolt
And I need that revolt to keep my heart beating

Final Chorus  
🎵 I stumble, I fall, but I rise again
Carrying fire in the songs I play
From silence to riot, from prison to stage
My revolt is the only way I live today 🎵

My life ( autobiography) All the events really happened

We were both 14 years old. Mimi has been like a guiding light in my memory, a first spark of tenderness that shaped my view of the feminine. It was a really special moment of connection.
Instant soulmate vibe.

Mimi

The Stromboli volcano is awakening, Naples almost got destroyed, and there were a bunch of tsunami deaths.

Volcano in the sea. The Stromboli

Song and Lyrics under Copyright. If dreams were the streets where we at night
And reality just a shadow fading in light
Would the clocks still tick or stop in their flight

[Prechorus]
Would the sky still be blue or painted in gold
Would the stories we tell be the ones we hold

[Chorus]
Dreams are reality dreams are the truth
The mirror is lying it’s hiding the proof
Dreams are reality where we belong
An endless melody a never-ending song

[Verse 2]
If the sun was a lamp we could turn off at will
And the stars whispered secrets so soft and so still
Would you stay in the dream or climb up the hill

[Bridge]
The illusion’s a dance a masquerade show
Reality’s fading it’s time to let go
The dream is the answer the place we all know

[Chorus]
Dreams are reality dreams are the truth
The mirror is lying it’s hiding the proof
Dreams are reality where we belong
An endless melody a never-ending song

If you’re dreams were your real life ? Lyrics in description

The most astonishing landscape in CA
Song and Lyrics Vesuvius 2025

Verse 1]
Mist rolls over tufa towers,
Silver water mirrors the sky.
Winds whisper ancient hours,
Where gulls and ghosts both fly.

[Verse 2]
Salted shores, a lonely stretch,
Stones like bones beneath the sand.
Every echo feels a sketch
Of a world untouched by human hand.

[Pre-Chorus]
And I walk this shoreline, heart in thrall,
Every step a question, every shadow calls.

[Chorus]
Mono Lake, you haunt my eyes,
Your silence speaks where the spirit lies.
Frozen moments, time suspended,
Here I stand, my soul defended.

[Verse 3]
Sunlight fractures on the waves,
Colors strange, almost unreal.
Memories drift like water graves,
And the wind alone can heal.

[Chorus]
Mono Lake, you haunt my eyes,
Your silence speaks where the spirit lies.
Frozen moments, time suspended,
Here I stand, my soul defended.

[Interval / Instrumental]
(Piano arpeggios with soft synth pads, echoing the haunting, open landscape — guitar or strings can weave in slowly)

[Outro]
Mist returns, tufa shadows fade,
One last gull cries, the lake remains.
I leave with echoes in my chest,
Mono Lake, my quiet unrest.

Mono Lake is haunting me.  With lyrics

When all I listened to for a year was Sufjan Stevens in 2012

The pines whisper low
Secrets in the wind
I hear them hum
But they never rescind
A trail of footsteps
Fading in the dew
Where were you going? I never knew

[Chorus]
Echoes of the pines
Calling me back home
Through the hollowed hills
Where the wild things roam
Oh
Echoes of the pines
They sing to me tonight
A melody of longing
Beneath the pale moonlight

[Verse 2]
The river runs deep
Carving stories untold
Its banks hold the scars
The dreams it stole
A raven watches
Perched on the bending oak
It knows what I’ve lost
But it never spoke

[Prechorus]
The wind carries whispers
Soft and low
The kind only the wanderers know

[Chorus]
Echoes of the pines
Calling me back home
Through the hollowed hills
Where the wild things roam
Oh
Echoes of the pines
They sing to me tonight
A melody of longing
Beneath the pale moonlight

[Bridge]
I chased the sun
But it fell behind the ridge
Crossed the valley
Lingered at the broken bridge
The forest breathes
It knows my name
But it’s never quite the same
Never quite the same

Michigan. For Sufjan. With lyrics

Fresh sound, new start. Don’t understand lyrics and the title track ? Don't worry, neither do we. A good tune is enough.

Apsos delirium

Powerful  4 minutes song. Absurd title. Absurd lyrics.

Apsos bacterium

Apsos laudanum

My MacDo is burning

The Fall of the House of the Dwarves
Verse]
Seven dwarfs with phones in hand
Mining likes from digital land
Hi-ho hi-ho they’re trending
Man

[Prechorus]
Snow White’s laughing in the back
They’re viral now
No going back

[Chorus]
Seven dwarfs on TikTok
Can’t stop won’t stop
Dancing in a loop
Till the beat goes pop
Seven dwarfs on TikTok
Scroll and drop
Swipe right swipe left
Till the clock goes flop

[Verse 2]
Grumpy’s got his grumpy groove
Dopey’s got the cutest move
Doc’s analyzing all the views

[Prechorus]
Sleepy yawns but still he spins
Happy’s grin? That’s how it begins

[Chorus]
Seven dwarfs on TikTok
Can’t stop won’t stop
Dancing in a loop
Till the beat goes pop
Seven dwarfs on TikTok
Scroll and drop
Swipe right swipe left
Till the clock goes flop

Dwarves.

Seven dwarves. ( A Project 7 ). Con letras

A dystopian tale. Con letras

I put my socks in
They disappear
Left a sweater here last year
The machines hum a ghostly tune
Under flickering lights
Neon blue

[Prechorus]
Is it magic or a trap
Are my clothes never coming back

[Chorus]
Lost in the laundromat
Where do my t-shirts go
Lost in the laundromat
It's a mystery
I’ll never know

[Verse 2]
The spin cycle feels like time travel
Shirts and jeans begin to unravel
The dryer’s door a black hole gate
Swallowing fabric
Sealing my fate

[Bridge]
Quarter after quarter
I feed the beast
A feast of cotton
Denim
Fleece
I’m stuck here folding what’s left behind
But the missing pieces haunt my mind

[Chorus]
Lost in the laundromat
Where do my t-shirts go
Lost in the laundromat
It’s a mystery
I’ll never know

Lost in the Laundromat# 7. ( A Project 7)

Verse]
We carved our names on the moonlit stone
Promises whispered where the wild winds moan
You said forever
I said I’d try
We never thought about goodbye

[Prechorus]
Your laugh was thunder
Your touch was fire
We fed the flames of our own desire

[Chorus]
Until we died
We burned so bright
Lit up the dark
Chased off the night
No second chances
No rewinds
We loved like fools
Until we died

[Verse 2]
We danced on rooftops
Broke every rule
Life was a game
And we played the fool
The clock kept ticking
But we stood still
Chasing the rush
Chasing the thrill

[Prechorus]
Your eyes were lightning
Your voice the sea
We drowned in moments
Just you and me

[Chorus]
Until we died
We burned so bright
Lit up the dark
Chased off the night
No second chances
No rewinds
We loved like fools
Until we died

Until We Died

Before the End

Vesuvius Inc. copyright 2025 
a soft version of Until We Died
Jef Tale: vox, guitars, mellotron

Until We Crashed

Vesuvius Inc. All rights reserved Chorus]
January thirty-two
You don't have a clue
What to do
With your new tattoo
Shoulda known
On the way to the tone
Yeah you were alone
January thirty-two
You don't have a clue
What to do
With your new tattoo
Shoulda known
On the way to the tone
Yeah you were alone

[Verse]
Lost all my marbles
Never in the right place
But I'll stay
At least today
I'm sure to stay
My marble place
January
Thirty-two

[Chorus]
January thirty-two
You don't have a clue
What to do
With your new tattoo
Shoulda known
On the way to the tone
Yeah you were alone
January thirty-two
You don't have a clue
What to do
With your new tattoo
Shoulda known
On the way to the tone
Yeah you were alone

[Verse]
I've lost all my marbles
They're never in the right place
But I'll stay
At least today
I swear I'll stay
My marble place
January
Thirty-two
January
Thirty-two

[Chorus]
January thirty-two
You don't have a clue
What to do
With your new tattoo
Shoulda known
On the way to the tone
Yeah you were alone
January thirty-two
You don't have a clue
What to do
With your new tattoo
Shoulda known
On the way to the tone
Yeah you were alone

January 32th

Knight In Shining Armor

All songs, -music and lyrics - are copyrighted..
As an author - composer, I like to sing, with my natural voice or slightly transformed with different devices, according to my mood. I also play all kinds of keyboards and a little bit of 6-string guitars, both acoustic and electric.I'm pretty old, but I've still got a fairly wide vocal range, though it's getting lower and lower.
I also have a small home studio called Vesuvius( thx Sufjan Stevens! )
I like to work alone, or with two or three partners, male or female, highly qualified.
And I get some much fun to discover amazing new talents on Soudcloud. That's why I follow more people than I'm followed by. I'm just too curious..

Jef Tale

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