Grunge In A Barn

Verse]
In the desert's hush where shadows creep
A cactus stands tall no need to weep
With spines like armor it guards its soul
Underneath the stars it feels whole

[Chorus]
Oh cactus king of the barren land
You thrive where no one understands
Through scorching sun and freezing night
You hold your ground in the fight

[Verse 2]
A lizard darts by to steal some shade
Beneath your arms a haven made
Your roots run deep in the sandy sea
A lesson in strength for you and me

[Chorus]
Oh cactus king of the barren land
You thrive where no one understands
Through scorching sun and freezing night
You hold your ground in the fight

[Bridge]
When rain does fall your flowers bloom
A splash of color in endless gloom
Your thorns they speak of trials endured
A silent story raw and pure

[Chorus]
Oh cactus king of the barren land
You thrive where no one understands
Through scorching sun and freezing night
You hold your ground in the fight

Cactus King (feat. Lenny O’Connor). Lyrics in description

[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

Song and lyrics Intro . Heavily copyrighted

She had a laugh that lit the morning.
Now there’s silence in her room.
They say love can turn to madness…
But this — this was doom.

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Verse 1

She covered bruises with a smile
Said, “He just drinks too much sometimes”
The neighbors turned their eyes away
As she rehearsed her careful lines

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Verse 2

He said, “If I can’t have you, then no one will”
Possession twisted into pain
She ran, but shadows always chase
Now her name’s a candle in the rain

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Chorus (powerful, rising with full grunge band)

Dark days, dark hearts
No more silence, no more scars
She was light, she was fire
Now she’s ashes and a choir
Dark days… and we’re still blind.

Bridge

Raised with sisters, taught to care
How did we end up drowning here?
Where men confuse love with control
And no one fights to save her soul 

Outro

We rage, we scream, we burn the night
This ends today, we rise, we fight!

Dark Days,Girls.  With lyrics in description

#Mariposa #Merced Valley. #El Capitan #Half Dôme



Copyrighted Vesuvius 2025
Lyrics
Dust on the dash, pine in the air
One winding road, we’re almost there
The river hums, the sky turns gold
In this wild cathedral, carved and old

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Verse 1
Left Mariposa at the break of day
Coffee warm, maps tucked away
The Merced sings beside our ride
Chasing the dawn, side by side

The granite walls begin to rise
Ghosts of giants in the morning light
A thousand feet, straight into blue
I swear the mountains watched us too

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Verse 2
El Capitan stands calm and proud
A silent sermon, not too loud
Ropes like veins across its face
Every climber leaves a trace

We pulled over just to feel
The sacred hush, the towering steel
It’s not the words, it’s how you breathe
When nature whispers: “don’t you leave”


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Verse 3
Then Half Dome crowned the end of day
Like some old god who lost his way
A silver helm in sunset fire
Calling hearts and feet and wire

You turned to me and softly said
“If heaven’s real, it must be red
Like these rocks in fading light—
Let’s come back here when we’ve made things right”


Outro

From Mariposa to Yosemite
We found more than we hoped to see
A road, a song, a sky so wide
And love that rides the mountainside

From Mariposa to Yosemite.  Lyrics in description

#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

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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

⸻

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

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

Dude, you got the blue tooth of death

Vesuvius 2025 cop.       Lyrics

Please mind the gap between the train and the platform…”
—click, hum, silence—
Yeah, there’s a gap alright.

[Verse 1]
Neon rain on plastic dreams,
A billboard smile where the sirens scream,
Someone sleeps beneath the crown,
While the city keeps him down.

[Verse 2]
Golden towers scrape the grey,
Their windows never face this way,
I see your coat, it’s paper-thin,
Winter’s teeth are closing in.

[Chorus – darker tone]
Mind the gap — it’s swallowing whole,
The money, the mercy, the pieces of soul,
You can pray to the gods of the trap,
They’ll answer back — mind the gap.

[Verse 3]
Coffee cups and credit cards,
Buy your peace in bodyguards,
Every law they twist for fun,
Is a loaded gun for someone.

[Bridge – whispered, half-sung]
Static in the speaker’s breath,
Talking down the steps of death,
Somewhere under London clay,
A voice repeats the same cliché…

Mind that f…gap.       Lyrics

Vesuvius Inc 2925

Every week, the world slides a little more
Smokestacks choke the sky, and we look away
Rivers bleed with the color of our neglect
And the children learn to pray in silence

Chorus
It’s getting a little darker, a little colder
Every heartbeat echoes on the edge of fear
We’re burning the pages of the world we borrowed
And no one’s listening — or maybe they just don’t care

Verse 2
Politicians wear their lies like old tattoos
We follow shadows, forgetting how to see
Morality drowned in a flood of empty words
And the streets hum with the weight of apathy

Chorus
It’s getting a little darker, a little colder
Every heartbeat echoes on the edge of fear
We’re burning the pages of the world we borrowed
And no one’s listening — or maybe they just don’t care

Bridge
But I still feel the fire, still feel the rage
Beneath the ash, beneath the haze
If we scream together, maybe we can ignite
A spark in the darkness, a flicker of light

Chorus (final)
It’s getting a little darker, a little colder
Every heartbeat echoes on the edge of fear
We’re burning the pages of the world we borrowed

A little more darker.   Lyrics

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..

Grunge In A Barn

Jef Tale