Name: A Quiet Life. Tribute to a true Zen Master by Jef Tale
Duration: 4 min 35 s
Description: 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.

Greenish Yellow

I Want To Win

Por Si Volvieras, Canciones

Cazafantasmas (En Vivo)

When the Lavender Blooms

#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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Sun remix at a gain of 7.
The power of a devoted fan

Lillibeth Lilly  (sun remix for a grunge ballad

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. Ballad under a mellotron sky

When you're young, there are things you don't understand... yet.

Bianca and the Hammond Organ leading the pack

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

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..

A Quiet Life. Tribute to a true Zen Master

Jef Tale

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