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Indie Fresh-Ups (August 2020)

Bea Arthur

Dragging around your history
You know it meant nothing to me
Live now as though you're never coming back
You know now is a good time to breathe

To say yes to this is
to say yes to suffering 
and joy in unequal measures:
It's to say yes to your 
pollution, and mine

In this moment -
permanent -
in all of the borrowed light
In this moment -
permanent -
things like us can happen 

Dragging around your history
You know it meant nothing to me.
You had no choice but to relive and relive
Sick of self-sabotage and -salvage

To say yes to this is
to say yes to suffering 
and joy in unequal measures:
It's to say yes to your 
pollution, and mine

In this moment -
permanent -
in all of the borrowed light
In this moment -
permanent -
things like us can happen 

Stop waiting for something external 
Stop waiting for something external to propel you 
Stop waiting for something external 
Stop waiting for something external to propel you 

You're just gonna have to accept that there are some things that I love about you 
that you never can know 
that you never can
You're just gonna have to accept that there are some things that I love about you 
that you never can know 
that you never can
I'm just gonna have to accept that there are some things that you love about me
that I never can see 
that I never can see

Here 
comes your strength breaking through 
like sun
from the bottom of the lake 





reliving (demo)

Love is the foundation of our lives! This is a piece for all who experience love and share love with others. I dedicate it to my wife who has accompanied me for three decades of my life, for better and for worse. But this song is very universal! Enjoy listening!!!

Love Song

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

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

LUNCH

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

All You Desire

If the kids wanna dance
Hot shoes - tight pants
High spirits - cheap bear
My eardrums - Can't hear or won't hear
I'm not here

CHORUS
If the kids wanna dance let them dance, let them dance
If the kids wanna dance let them dance

I'm tired - so what?
Party - I forgot
Can't take the pace
But I'm trying to catch the bass, deep bass
In yer face

CHORUS

One step, one fall
I'm proud I've gall
Raise your finger in the air
Let the world know you care
I don't care, I don't care

CHORUS

If The Kids Wanna Dance (Let Them Dance)

Peep the making of the beat -
https://youtu.be/ck5lUQLiChU

Vacate

What's Wrong?

Stole the lightning and the silverware
Stole moonbeam that was shining there
Stole the jasmine scented breeze away
Steal morning noon and yesterday

Well, I’m a scoundrel, I’m a thief
Now it’s gone, ain’t no relief
All the beauty you’ve ever known
Yeah, it’s mine I took it home

I stole the dewy mountain air
Your walking shoes and another pair
That boulangerie of baking bread
Sorry, that’s no longer in your head 

Well, I’m a wanted man, I’m wanted worldwide
Now I’m doing my jobs from the inside 
 
Don’t need to break in, open door
Walked right in and I took the store
All the wisdom you’ve ever known
It’s mine, mine, mine and I took it home

I’m doing my jobs from the inside 
I’m doing my jobs from the inside 
I’m doing my jobs from the inside 

Ooh. From the Inside

All that fibbing and all the truth
Packed ‘em in, shoved ‘em in the boot
All the lovers that you’ve ever known
Yeah, they’re all mine and I took ‘em home

Ooh. From the Inside

Can’t call the cops, and that’s a crime
Can’t see me so I can’t do time
All the you that you’ve ever known
It’s all mine I took it home

Ten thousand sunsets off I go
Well, they’re worth millions that I know
And in the dark I slip away
My trail as random as a ricochet 

My trail as random as a ricochet

The Thief

"Don't Speak Too Soon" is my first attempt at being an engineer and producer. It was a lot more involved than just showing up to the studio to record my parts! I think more hours were spent reading and watching tutorials than actually recording.

One of the biggest mental and technical hurdles I had to overcome was losing all my vocal takes and having to re-record them all over again.

- Geoff

Hold Me Close Hold Me Tight

Don't Speak Too Soon

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

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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.

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