Bea Arthur

Take me there once again I do want to play

I Do Want To Play

I've been away from SoundCloud for a while working on my new album and several writing projects, but the album's nearly done, so I thought I'd emerge from my cocoon and post this song, which means a lot to me. It features my good friend Akmaral Zykayeva on violin. For the past ten years, I've been doing a lot of consulting work in Kazakhstan. I met Akmaral in Almaty, Kazakhstan about six years ago. She is a hugely gifted composer, singer, and violinist who records as "Akmaral Mergen" and also as "Mergen" (Mergen means "woman warrior" in Kazakh).
For this song, Akmaral wrote a beautiful six-violin arrangement, playing all the parts herself.
The photo on the cover is the view from my hotel room in Almaty on one of my trips. In the foreground is Almaty Opera House and in the distance are the snowcapped Tien Shan Mountains (the "Celestial Mountains"). Beyond the mountains is Kyrgyzstan. 
Main guitars on this song are my Taylor GC-5 acoustic and my 1966 Guild Starfire XII (electric twelve-string).
The cricket and bird sounds at the beginning and end were recorded by me with a field recorder in a wild area of southern Wisconsin.
(This song can be found on my "Twilight on Tunnel Road" album, which I'm happy to say won the Alternative Album of the Year award from the Madison Area Music Association.)
LYRICS:
"Let Me Go”
Words & Music by Timothy Walsh

Nothing I say to you makes it untrue.
Let me go—I can’t say how much I love you.

Taking it all away, I can’t bear the day.
In the night I just see your face staring at me.
Let me go.

Seeing I don’t know why, why you must try
to go far away now, climb mountains so high.

Every single day, I’m making my way.
I can’t deal with you gone and I’m not okay.
Let me go.

I don’t say you should not go—closing off the future before you can know.
I just can’t get loose from your strings,
they’re wrapped around my heart entangling all things.

I remember how we used to play, how we used to dance, how we used to run,
dissolving in the moonlight as if we were one.
And all those days, all those times, all those nights we held to each other,
held so tight as if we might lose the one thing we love.

And I think that I can’t go on now,
without you I’m lost, I just don’t know how.
Now the light has gone out of my life,
nothing ahead but torment and strife.

Twilight on Tunnel Road

Let Me Go

Lyrics: LOVE

Love, ¿What is this? Love
Cause I’m falling here without
I’m falling here without you
Love, ¿What is this? Love
When there’s nothing else to prove
And leave behind
You’ve been searching for things
To keep your heart away
Don’t get me wrong
¿Why we’re holding away?
The good things around of us
And all that remains
And I got so much more time to act
Got so much more to say
Ok let’s figure it out.

NEW SINGLE 'LOVE' OUT! Apple Music, Spotify & More!

Original Photography by Natalie 'ColourPhotography' of Carnaby Street on London, a photography under free license content from Pixabay

Love[The Single]

LOVE

Stream

Electric Fizz

Second Stream

Sad old man sits in his room, counting the things he owns.
Found a box half full of memories. Life he used to know.

Once a poet so debonair, words would flow like rain.
The drought that plagues his fragile mind, and words...would never come again.

And he knows, and he sees what he is now

Pictures in the box, face of a happy man.
Love letters and trinkets, gifts from long lost friends.
His arrogance and ego drove them all away.

In his heart a cancer grows, derived from loneliness
There's no life outside that box, no hope...there's nothing left to say.

And he knows, and he sees what he is now

Between the Waves

Outside the Box

Hymn To My Republic (Original)

Newsflash

(Featuring Marc Johnson on Mandolin and Lead Guitar)
video: https://vimeo.com/461991945

Stir up the ocean
Make a breeze butterfly 
Make rain on the mountain
Then tomorrow is dry

The years pile higher
You feel the lows and the highs
Yet you never do swim
In the same river twice

If you never skate
You’ll never fall through the ice
Afraid in the mountains
Means you’ll never be high

If you don’t cross snakes
You’ll avoid all the bites
But you never will swim
in the same river twice

You’ll never swim
In the same river twice
You’ll never swim
In the same river twice

This long gone Greek
He had his his nose in the sky
His ghost contemplates
The meaning of time

His atoms still swirl
In the oceans and ice
Yet he still never swims
In the same river twice 

You’ll never swim
In the same river twice
You’ll never swim
In the same river twice
You’ll never swim
In the same river twice

The Same River Twice (featuring Marc Johnson)

Drowning

in the faces of the fallen
in the coldness of the day
in the silence of the morning
in the waiting of the way

awake in the morning time
waiting for someone to come and bare
the weight of what you said last evening
crushing down on me

waiting for the time to say it
waiting for the key 
that fits the lock that holds this empty room closed
the prisoner is me

falling into water, i can't breathe
the water retreats

and if there comes a day 
when mountains fall into the sea
there was time to choose your battles, save your honor
in spite of me

the moon controls the undertow
the water covers me
the tide moves in, the weight of the water
crushing down on me

falling into water, i can't breathe
the water retreats
drowning, deeper water
become one, the water and me

in the time it takes the brain to stop breathing
i could have said i was wrong
in the time it takes the heart to stop beating
i could have reached for your hand

In the faces of the fallen
In the coldness of the day
In the silence of the morning
In the waiting of the way

falling into water, i can't breathe
the water retreats
drowning, deeper water
become one, the water and me

Absent

Drowning

VIDEO ANIMATIONS: 
New: Chimney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awBu3XskCFA
(Three Stars For) Anybody’s Heaven Animation: https://vimeo.com/545768158
Like Clockwork Animation: https://vimeo.com/472825527
The Constellations Freeform: https://vimeo.com/448738001
The Same River Twice: https://vimeo.com/461991945 
Dream Cycle Video: https://vimeo.com/301394027 
JetBelly is a project of bassist Scott Montgomery, based in Studio City, CA; It's #indie #powerpop #rock #folk and sometimes #psychedelic in various combinations, most of it written and recorded while traveling. Scott takes a guitar, recording interface and a Neumann TLM107 mic pretty much anywhere in the world, if they'll let it on the plane, so songs or pieces of songs have been recorded in odd corners of Nashville and Paris, Providence and Provence, Kauai and St Martin and dozens of other cities. Mostly in rentals and hotel rooms.

The Same River Twice (featuring Marc Johnson)

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