Open your eyes to another day, 
all possibilities in which to play.
But you'll deal your deals and plan your plans 
while the creases form upon your hands.

The second hand spends round and round, 
taxing your days without a sound.
You plot your future and log your past, 
ignore the fact that nothing lasts.

All the lines you've drawn align in time and space, 
as random chances slip silently away.

(C) Pain is a seed. Some things can't be.

The hours fall, you fill the page, 
the days depart, you pace your cage.
And listless is your soul in your mock security, 
it cries and kicks and screams in your dull maturity.

The years drone on, you waste your time 
filling out forms, standing in line.
Live by rules that someone else has set... 
squander every opportunity you get.

Father Time is laughing horribly at you 
and all the freedoms you'll eternally eschew.

Soft War

Fate

Fate (by John Ludi & Greg Kutcher as Soft War)

MUSIC FOR THE THINKING FEW.

(NOTE for RepostEx users: I don't repost AI if I can detect it, and I only repost songs I like or show some level of competence or promise...and they usually don't involve an 808, misogyny, Autotune or singing off key over a prerecorded track...and at my age I'm FAR more interested in quality connections with listeners than going "viral". ALSO: mostly an aging rock/folk/prog/indie guy...can't really judge or really relate to Hip-Hop, Auto-Tune and other more modern styles...sorry.)

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter/cultural relic with a diverse and "arty" array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the current culture.  Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and finds the materialistic priorities of our civilization incredibly wrong and destructive.

Just another old one man band unsigned musician who sings and plays a little guitar, bass & drums and fools around on the piano; expert in writing songs that usually disappear with the wind, and in composing musical flops.  Folks say that I´m a composer, but I think they´re wrong: I just download the music I hear and feel in the atmosphere and give it back to the people. I don´t do a living from music; I ´m an attorney and horse breeder who gets noisy when I download the music I hear and feel.Thanks for checking out my page and listening the noise I´ve been doing for the past 50 and so years when I get musical.  I´m based in Bogotá, Colombia, and always open to do collabs.

Rare Elements is an eclectic alternative rock project lauched in the early 2010s from Tampere, Finland. Today, RE-project is progressing led by Harri Sarpavaara. Joel Kuortti (and Harri) is most often responsible for the lyrics. Harri is responsible for the music (vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, keys, synths, drum machine, drums programming, composing, arranging, recording, mixing, and mastering). Rare Elements’ music is produced in its own studio in Tampere.

Feel free to contact: harri.sarpavaara@gmail.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3jGSxbCRMnvR0gi8V7tO4F?si=A2cWNIm_QZSe0Tlv0qCoWw

Website: https://rare-elements.webnode.fi

I love music of all kind. I love experiments.

Pop Punk/Rock
One man's crusade to bring back dickies and sweatbands (by the elbow or not at all)