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TRUTH RAY - ASTRAL YOUTH

I was a dot inside my own tapestry 
I was amused by all a those they things 
the did not see

but all that I really needed was
somebody else to believe and read 
all the Natural Rhapsody 
all the Natural Rhapsody 

I walked alone inside a my own territory 
I was a victim of my own stupidly 

but all that I really needed was
somebody else to believe and read 
all the Natural Rhapsody 
all the Natural Rhapsody 

no target on my back but
still they kicking me

while I'm down struggle to see
what's staring straight at me 
one way ticket to happy

I was inertias latest cripple casualty 
I was immune to all a their forms
and repartee

but all that I really needed was
somebody else to believe and read 
all the Natural Rhapsody 
all the Natural Rhapsody 
all the Natural Rhapsody 


Natural Rhapsody

Wrote the title phrase on a birthday card and immediately thought  that's a 'song title'.  The first take of the vocal was a loose ramble but I just left it in - it seemed to fit.

Love Our Together Life

That cliché thick and thin about loving all the time
We’re not vascillating over always gotta rhyme
Doubling up in laughter keeps an even keel
And getting to a sweet spot finally it’s real

We drove out to the cliff and back
Now it’s all about giving back

It’s life upon a road with little jobs to do
And a race across the sand to share the view
It’s pouring out the drinks as the sun dips down 
And talking ‘bout the people who we see around 
Love our together life
Love our together life

Back in days of war it was tight in the lip
And the putting up of walls with a face half lit
Cause expectations could never be met
And it takes a lot of years to wind it back to less 

Yeah giving up on hurt and feeling how it was
In the years embryonic burning hot
And the psyche bathed in the songs of the time
But transplanting now to a wiser kind of rhyme

Love Our Together Life

you (tnx to my special friend Sidartha)

Rising For Air (G. Di Nunno)

It's now to throw aside and bleed
Out the poisons I've collected
That span that took more than gave
Open arms to leave rejected

All that pressure building
Attempts at fitting in
Followed scripts as written
Left stricken from the spin
That rise for air
Rising.

Remembered how you laughed me down
Once the aura lost its luster
And joined the band of lonely ghosts
Isolated, cold, to shudder.

Friends fled through the back door
As scissors cut the ties
Got the hand-down remnants
With footprints left by spies
That rise for air
Rising.

It all depended on a former vision
The effort given rewarded with tension
A lightened hatred as the months were flying
Became a new scene; tell me how that happened?

Where stares were hard
A lightened mood
Has entered here
And washed away.
What led to this
Is memory
To part and go
Not looking back.
Rising
Rise for air
Rising
Rise for air.

All lyrics and musical performance by Gino Di Nunno
Copyright 2024.

#8. Rise For Air

They say money can’t buy you happiness, it’s easy to say that when you’re rich
Cause when you have no money, life can be a bitch
If someone gives you a billion dollars, you’d be willing to give it a try
Seems better to be filthy rich than a guy who’s funds are running dry

You looked at your bank account and the money was all spent
And as you poked your toe through a hole in your sock you wonder where it all went
The prices keep getting higher when you go to the grocery store
And then one day you realize that you’re one of the working poor

You feel like a hamster on a wheel
You feel like you got the raw end of the deal

Life keeps handing you lemons and you’re sick trying to make lemonade
And every day your enthusiasm for your job continues to fade
You tell yourself someone’s got to do the dirty work, so the sausages get made
And every day you have a new bill that that needs to be paid

You feel like a hamster on a wheel
You feel like you got the raw end of the deal

You’ve been working so hard but you can’t seem to get ahead
Some days you don’t even feel like getting out of bed
They say that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result
There’s days when you sit in your cubicle and you want to jump up and bolt

You feel like a hamster on a wheel
You feel like you got the raw end of the deal
The billionaires are doing perfectly okay
And you’re just treading water trying to make it through each day

They say money can’t buy you happiness, it’s easy to say that when you’re rich. 
Cause when you have no money, life can be a bitch
If someone gives you a billion dollars, you’d be willing to give it a try
Seems better to be filthy rich than a guy who’s funds are running dry

Where The Money Went

Rocket

Forkin' Fancy

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He's just a Georgia Boy through and through

Georgia Boy

Newborn and the Slow Death of Ego

Songs with a twinge of humor (and some a bit more serious).  
I do not use AI to create my songs. 
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Recently I have had the urge to pick up my guitars (Taylor 114ce and Fender Squire) and I have been trying to use more guitar in my songs.  
My go to .vst plug ins are  EZkeys 2, EZ Bass and  EZ drummer 3) and my DAW is Logic Pro 11. 
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Where The Money Went

Joe Stroffolino