“I choose beauty over bitterness
I choose discovery over doubt
I choose freedom over fear
I choose grace over grief
I choose peace over panic
I choose surrender over suffering
I choose trust over terror
I choose wisdom over warefare

I choose life, light and love”
 Emmanuella Raphaelle

Nothing Short Of

E484K

Originally had a different twist but John Eagle convinced me to tone it down a bit. Glad i did.
Thank you John Eagle for the push.
The song pretty much tells the story i think.
We all yearn for the good old days.
Never been to Mississippi but I'm sure it's a wonderful place.
Hope you enjoy. I over did it here and there.
I had kids walking in the bedroom so the sound comes and goes here and there.
Picture is of an old store in granville, tn.
Link: http://www.granvilletn.com/photos
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If I Ever Get Back To Tupelo
John Delk 2015

Now there's a little country store outside of town
Where an old hound dog use to lay around

There's a sweet smell when you go inside
They got RC Cola and a big moon pie

You see an old truck if the weeds ain't tall
Sitting out back where we played ball

That old truck's it's been around the world
Driven thru the dreams of the boys and girls

That's the place that I wanna go
 If I ever get back to Tupelo

There’s an old church called the first free will
There's Maggie Brown and my cousin Bill

You can hear the bell ring miles away
An then you hear the organ Miss Maggie plays

There'll never be a sweeter sound
Than Sunday morning in that Mississippi town
 
That's the place that I wanna go
 If I ever get back to Tupelo

Now Daddy and Mama they're both gone
My sister married and they moved on

The old cemetery is down river road
That's where I'm gonna park this heavy load
 
That's the place that I wanna go
If I ever get back to Tupelo

That's the place that I wanna go
If I ever get back to Tupelo


If I Ever Get Back To Tupelo

This track is the result of collaboration with the wonderful vocalist Sar Araion, who brilliantly managed to convey the depth of the lyrics of the great Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky

Music and adaptive translation by Guitarbeard https://soundcloud.com/coda2009
Magic voice by Sar Araion  https://soundcloud.com/sararaion

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/100

If only, as before 
I were proud, 
I would leave you forever, 
I would split my Kingdom in two.
 All the things I can never part with, 
all that is not worth effort.
I would say; you carry away 
with you a hundred promises, 
a hundred holidays, a hundred words. 
You can take them with you.
And to me there is only cold dawn, 
One hundred belated trams 
and one hundred raindrops 
on the tram tracks, 
A hundred alleys,
a hundred streets 
and a hundred 
drops of rain, 
running after me.

Если б, как прежде, я был горделив,
Я бы оставил тебя навсегда.
Всё, с чем расстаться нельзя ни за что,
Всё, с чем возиться не стоит труда, —
Надвое царство моё разделив.

Я бы сказал:
             — Ты уносишь с собой
Сто обещаний, сто праздников, сто
Слов. Это можешь с собой унести.

Мне остаётся холодный рассвет,
Сто запоздалых трамваев и сто
Капель дождя на трамвайном пути,
Сто переулков, сто улиц и сто
Капель дождя, побежавших вослед.

100 (Guitarbeard / Sar Araion)

No means No.  Stop means Stop.  Silence does not mean yes.

Don't Tell

Start again (better with headphone)

An old track, (quite a few years old), very badly recorded...

The dragging of the day
as the salt sea wails
against a white and endless sky
impaled again

Roaming, floating 
I don't know why
On a ragged tide now
As mad gulls fly

Scorched to the depths now
A small town wails
and old mistakes
that have been made
wade down again

Floating, roaming
I don't know why
Adrift on a ragged tide now
As mad gulls...cry...

Mad Gulls

Two - Rock_Flexible

Jerry Lewis Melting Clown Painting

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco
https://youtu.be/6tGNg9dK-iI

Memories

Hoping For Tomorrow

le chant d'un rêve,et d'une guitare qui prie
deep man

If I Ever Get Back To Tupelo

John-Delk