"Wheel Of Misfortune" by jg
prompt:  Fun n Games due 4.25

Wheel Of Misfortune

Everybody wonders often
I can’t answer for you
Keep it even in the coffin
feels i’ve had for you. 
arm in arm we walk together
even though we’re not together
Tell me when the bankrupts soften
Can I buy just a “U”

a puzzle prize
I can’t solve to save my life. 
fun and games
should be fun but you’ve walked away
I guess i’ve lost a turn. 

R S T L N E ONE HEAR ME
R S T L N E ONE CARE?

Wheel Of Misfortune

a 2011 songwriting game song
brought back to life when I felt i
needed some practice with real multi-track drums 

Here I resuscitated an abandoned project from 10 years ago
for mixing/tracking/recording experience.

Drums by Jim Perry
Everything else by Me.

Unpromised Land

Embitterment Sea by Jose Galvez
Prompt: Let's Do This

Lord my god, I think yr killing me. 
A tongue honed sharp severs a tie. 
Not about to keep this livable
I’ve turned the other way
But It’s nothing unforgiveable
I’m out of edge I’d take. 

Beneath a tree
A chronic embitterment sea
You leave me alone
I’ll leave u alone.

(Let’s do this)

Jose Galvez 2022

Embitterment Sea

"Defeated" by JG
prompt: champion

1,000 cheers. That’s a lot of victories
but 1,000 tears roll down. 
One Time I think 
we’re bound to hit the side of the barn
And we’ll throw in the sink
flushed out. 



There’s nothing more that I needed
On the floor as I lay here defeated
I’ve championed most that matter except for U.

There’s nothing more that I needed
some will say that i may have succeded 
But what’s deep down i know I failed for U.

Defeated

Steve made a pledge on the www.pledgemusic.com/ozma to help us fund our new album. In return Steve got a custom made song to his choosing.  He used this opportunity to make a special song for Amy, as this song was going to be part of his proposal.  I had the challenge of writing this song and fitting his lyrics into an original song.  A difficult task, but something I was definitely up for.  In the end she said "yes", and It's awesome that I got to be a part of it!  enjoy!  -- Jose


--the lyrics given to me to by Steve to make this proposal song:

In high school
They first met 
She liked rock n roll 
But was a teacher's pet 

He loved her smile 
And he could make her laugh 
When she held his hand 
He nearly lost his breath 

Saying Amy 
Run away with me 
We’ll spend the rest of our lives together 

So fast 
We can make this last 
Take my hand and we'll run forever 



He was a little broken 
But she made him whole 
She was so soft-spoken 
And he helped her grow 

They shared their secrets 
And they shared their past 
They planned for the future 
And they fell in love fast 

Saying Amy 
Run away with me
We’ll spend the rest of our lives together 
So fast 
We can make this last 
Take my hand and we'll run forever 


They crossed oceans 
And they crossed hearts 
They kept old promises 
And made new starts 

They've grown older 
And a little more wise 
But there’s still one question 
When he looks in her eyes 

Saying Amy
Will you marry me
Let's spend the rest of our lives together

Life goes fast
But we can make this last
Take my hand, now and forever

Saying Amy - (for steve eulenberg's proposal)

week 15 songwriting game "like an animal"

Nothing But Skin

It's getting late, end titles are on their way
let's not wait, I don't care how this ends
just enough light, to make it feel right,
don't take it back now, it's time I show you how
It's gettling late, OH 

Real love, like an animal, it doesn't matter,
let's go again,
Feel love, delicious love, it doesn't matter, we're
nothing but skin

we're nothing but skin

It's getting late, end titles are on their way
let's not wait, I don't care how this ends

Real love, like an animal, it doesn't matter,
let's go again,
Feel love, delicious love, it doesn't matter, 
we're nothing but skin
nothing but
nothing but skin

Nothing But Skin

Track 2 (prompt: "return")songwriting game 2016
"I WILL RETURN" by jose galvez

Stranded vast on a rubber raft
Floating on in an endless trap
We’ve lost a friend and we’ve lost the time.
But We’ve got our minds, we’ve got our lives

What keeps me in, what keeps me on
Is my return, is my return
I dream you in, i’m breathing on
I will return, i will return 

Hey! If I live
Every promise that I’ve made, i will return

Take me back to the ocean wide
Bound and fenced on the other side
We’ve lost the freedom and the time.
But we’ve got our minds, we’ve got our lives.

Hey I’m here
Now I’m here
Wave i’m here
Every second I’m awake, a serve return 

Hey Now I’ve lived / every promise that i’ve made



I Will Return

Jose Galvez 2016

Fell On Black Days (soundgarden cover)

hold the lever
by jose galvez
Prompt: "half-blind" 

ride in the passenger seat OH
 can be itself a feat cuz you
hold the lever  hold the lever 

a  learning curve so steep and OH
the habits that i keep while you
 hold the lever u hold the lever 

but it’s okay and i’m not frayed
with you oh
  And I’m okay 
 And i won’t stray 

WITH YOU  / WITH YOU
the turns, i’ve learned,
can only guide us now.   

half-blind but i see Oh
clearly you look for me
& you hold forever
we hold forever 

the pictures scrolling deep Oh
the messages that I keep  and hold forever 
and hold forever

And i’m okay and i’m not frayed 
with you / with you

the turns, i’ve learned,
can only guide with you / with you / oh

  ride in the passenger seat OH 
can be itself a feat cuz you
hold the lever  U hold the lever  

U hold the lever
And i’m okay and i’m not frayed with you

Jose Galvez 2017

Hold The Lever

The first track on the cd as well as the first song recorded for this project. This track was featured on the real world brooklyn on episode 6 where they played a 90 seconds of the tune while crediting me at the bottom.  

love is never enough

"making it on my own" by jose galvez
songwriting group prompt: SICK

Back when, the time we spent and,
a real blast-kickin good time. 
a time stamp, brings back an old amp,
the one that blasted all night. 

now age, a plushed and cold cage,
the pain in wasting our time.
the vibrance, has turned to tired rants. 
I’m done, I can’t, tonight

I’ll make, this work here on my own.
I’ll grow this garden with my own rake.
And make it in my own,  And owe you nothing at my own pace. 
I’ll make it on my own
I know it’s harder but i’ll grow a ways
I’ll make it on my own
I’ll make it on my own

sick enough by now
& I sink so deep in the couch
I can leave i can leave
I don’t know how
Cuz it hurts, nothing worse
when you get going

Jose Galvez 2018

Make It On My Own

"Let's Go To Chicago"
by jose galvez
Prompt "CHICAGO" due May 8

Think it’s time. for a change 
Think you know what we gotta do
There are fools. out today 
And you know there’s more to boot
  As they gather I fear and I wonder 
we gotta split this capitol town.
Anything would be much better now
and I’ll take you where you wanna go  

girl we made it a good run here  but you know what we gotta do 
But if you say that you don’t know>
then LET’S GO TO CHICAGO 
so LET’S GO TO CHICAGO 

All these dickheads with misspelled signs 
makes a dent in my weakened soul 
Anything would be much better now 
so I’ll take where you wanna go
  Anytime, Any place, say the word,
 and we’ll race The **Ck OUT of this ILL town> 
You and Me … we gotta be.   
the luckiest dreamers around. 

girl we made it a good run here  but you know what we gotta do 
But if you say that you don’t know>
then LET’S GO TO CHICAGO 
so LET’S GO TO CHICAGO 

 I don’t know what color your eyes
are baby but your hair is a long and brown  
but if you say that you don’t know 
then let’s go to Chicago 
lets’ go to Chicago  ooh
LET’S GO TO CHICAGO

(if you don't start spreading it, you won't start sweating it)

2020 Jose Galvez

Let's Go To Chicago

Another Day Another Nightmare by JG
Prompt: "when the well runs dry" due 6.20.20

Sleeping means i’ll never have to see
Waking up I check my phone to read. 

Another Day / Another Nightmare
When the well runs dry
And no it ain’t fair 
I know  /  I know

Trudging on I hope and still believe
Painting on a face I’m forced to see
Inside / Inside
the crime I cry

Another Day / Another Nightmare
When the well runs dry
And no it ain’t fair 
I know  /  I know

Jose Galvez 2020

Another Day Another Nightmare

What I would say to you now  (Jimmy Eat World - cover)
learned/tracked/mixed/mastered in less than 6 hours!

Always wanted a proper recording of this deep cut JIMMY EAT WORLD track... decided to experiment with some new recording plugins to recreate this classic.

LYRICS:

Still sitting there with your legs crossed,
Not paying attention to me.
	If we talk, just curious,
Would this end up like it always does?

It's all the wrong I've done, all the wrong I'll do.
Keeps me from trying, It keeps me quiet.

	Throw out your arms to each side.
It's easier to let things go.
	And when we talk think what we say
There's questons then silence and in silence we remain.

It's all the wrong I've done and all the wrong I'll do.
It keeps me from trying, keeps me from calling you.

Something I just found out, something you know by now.
Hope makes you so strong, strength keeps you alone and far away
Far away...

What I Would Say To You Now (COVER)

"Happy Again" by Jose Galvez
Prompt: "Is this the end" due July 20

I walk in the clouds.
wondering what’s everyone
complaining about. 
taking a break feels good right now.

here four months out
walk with my head down full of furious doubt
is this the end i’m wondering now.

but then it’s them.  
waving their hand
and smiling again.  
and when i stopped to attend. 
i’m happy again. 

all our new friends. 
under our nose and around the bend. 
I don’t really have to pretend. 
i’m happy again.

Happy Again

thumbs with soothe plugin 8_4

Songwriting Game (due oct 5.20)
DECENCY is HEAVENLY
by jose galvez
PROMPT:  "red blue and green"

There’s a bar / It’s set to low
Now I wonder How we got here
All the highs / sinking low
And we’re under how'd we get here

Kavanagh To Saginaw
Qanon to Babylon 
Loaded thugs to speedy drugs
Gail force norms to firestorms

   Decency is heavenly
   standard now is battered down.
   Decency is heavenly
   standard now is battered down.

We’re battered down
but we will return

Red blue and green ->all faded grey 
Now just how the hell we’d get here
All the flavors bittersweet
Now just how the hell we'd get here

Decency is Heavenly

BIDING TIME by jose galvez
prompt: red blue and green
due: october 5

ENTRY #3

& my world now inside. 
Not a courtesy in sight.
& our soul burning on fire
& a Joy hinged on a hire

Hope the dream come true 
Lives are on the line 
By the time we’re through  
In our biding time. 

I'll be the first in line
Give a hug & high 5
Not a thing sure fire
With our joy hinged on a hire  

Hope the dream come true 
Lives are on the line
By the time we’re through 
In our biding time. 

Waited too long To hear him go

(My head was shaken out
Eyes were scratched right out 
Bleeding red & blue everywhere. 
Until we’re holding hands
& hangin with our friends 
Biding our time til that wonderland)

Bidin' Time (songwriting game)

ALL THESE SONGS ARE HOME DEMOS FOR MY SONGWRITING GROUP.   MEANING WE HAVE about 10 days to write and record.  If you're interested in joining the songwriting group. hit me up.

jose galvez (songwriting game -- demos)

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