Sounds great and lovely guitar progression. 

Beautiful song and very well produced!!Thank you.

The deeper you dig down for treasure, the stranger the strain on your soul.

your work is epic and cinematic in its scope- amazing as always :)

Ooooh, those harmonies, though!! This is a treat, Julia! While I'm guessing you did both parts (unless your daughter sang with?), it reminds me a bit of Joy Williams & Taylor Swift on "Safe & Sound" mixed with a bit of classic folk/rock blended in. I absolutely adore this one! Really well done!

Brilliant. I'm stunned, and not from Checkov's phaser🤣 The closer you get the more distance there is! Wow! Sometimes we need a rest from the secrets. 😢💔👏👏👏 by David Easterling

wow, I loved how that second vocal track kind of came from another side/realm! your voice should be insured Julia, it's like a treasure

Dancing in her eyes
(Mark I Anderson)
 
After 
All the words of anger
Silance fills the room like a light
To shine upon this moment
Waiting there for answers
But who’s to say who’s wrong
When no one’s right
 
You struggle
To leave this moment
Behind you in pieces on the floor
There’s nothing you can say
To bring them back together
They’ll never be the same
As before
 
[Chorus]
When you shoot a poison arrow
Your words have deadly aim
It pierce’s her with sorrow
As your heart feels the pain
You can’t take ‘em back now
You couldn’t if you tried
Those angry words like tears
Are dancing in her eyes
 
I’m sorry
Seems to come up empty
And weighs more than everything you fear
If words are not enough
To reach inside the places
Where love will hide
It disappears
 
[Chorus]
When you shoot a poison arrow
Your words have deadly aim
It pierce’s her with sorrow
As your heart feels the pain
You can’t take ‘em back now
You couldn’t if you tried
Those angry words like tears 
Dancing in her eyes

When you shoot a poison arrow
Your words have deadly aim
It pierce’s her with sorrow
As your heart feels the pain
You can’t take ‘em back now
You couldn’t if you tried
Those angry words like tears

When you shoot a poison arrow
Your words have deadly aim
It pierce’s her with sorrow
As your heart feels the pain
You can’t take ‘em back now
You couldn’t if you tried
Those angry words like tears
Dancing in her eyes

Dancing in her eyes

Another brew from the witch's cauldron!  A spacey, vibey, space-vibe song aka space-rock-vibe-core, aka space-fusion-metal aka classical-from-outer-space.  As Sun Ra would say "I was supposed to bypass this planet."  J/k enjoy the audio waves Bro-hn Lennon! Take a wild trip, Bro Diddley.

Best paired with space juice (seltzer and your favorite 100% juice like limeaid or coconut mango juice) and dark chocolate.  As they say in Michelin star restaurants, "Put it in your mouth and enjoy it."  Why not?

October 11 Song

"Never Thought To Ask" (#728, 231031)

 	Co-written with Rob Stanley

He clocks in just after midnight
His world begins when the day is done
Livin' side by side with millions
Who never see the sun

Lookin' for the road to freedom
Paved with faces from the past
Walking slow toward the questions
They never thought to ask

Everybody got the answers
Comin' at you hard and fast
No one talkin' 'bout the questions
We never thought to ask

On a Wednesday in November
She's back behind the bar
Teaching someone off a night shift
How to fix a broken heart

They both see the glass as half full
And they know that it won't last
They're just lookin' for the questions
He never thought to ask

Everybody got the answers
Comin' at you hard and fast
No one talkin' 'bout the questions
We never thought to ask

I was born this side of midnight
Didn't see no silver spoon
Didn't see no easy answers
Just some howlin' at the moon

Chasin' memories 'round the corner
All but runnin' outta' gas
In the shadow of the questions
I never thought to ask

Week 44 - Never Thought To Ask (231031)

Grandma’s Flowers  
For Esther M. Henderson
(Mark I Anderson)

[Chorus]
Grandma’s flowers / were there on the table
Every Sunday morning back in 94
I can still see her / out in that  garden
Though grandma’s flowers aren’t there anymore

[Verse}
She tended her garden
With hands that were hardened
From turning the soil
From raising the kids
She never complained though
And I can’t explain no 
I only admired her
For all that she did

[Chorus]
Grandma’s flowers / were there on the table
Every Sunday morning back in 94
I can still see her / out in her garden
Though grandma’s flowers aren’t here anymore

[Verse]
The years were unkind though
The hardest of times you know
She lost her husband
To the angry old sea
Leaving no one to help her
And no one to tell her
You’ll be okay Esther
If you believe

[Chorus]
Grandma’s flowers / were there on the table
Every Sunday morning back in 94
I can still see her / out in her garden
Though grandma’s flowers aren’t here anymore

[Bridge]
It brings a tear when it’s painful
It brings a smile when I recall
Her gentle hand like that of an angel
Holding onto mine so I wouldn’t fall

[Chorus]
Grandma’s flowers / were there on the table
Every Sunday morning back in 94
I can still see her / out there in her garden
Though grandma’s flowers aren’t here anymore…

Grandma’s Flowers

Sorry doesn’t cover it
much too small for what I’m trying to say
I am so sorry - I’m sorry anyway
Tried to give the love I had but… 
Somewhere in the dark it slipped away
I am so sorry
I wish that I could take the pain away

And when I think of how it was, 
And how it seemed to fade
It seems to me it’s all because,
The same mistakes I’ve made

This time, I'll rise, I'll shine, 
I'll face it all
I'll give my heart to love
Or not at all
I'll walk towards the lights
That make me smile
In wonder and delight
I'll face it all this time

Will this year's love be worth the name?
I've fallen into lust again
And only got lonely
It's no-one's fault but mine I know
Kept trying to make it work and so
I wouldn't see it couldn't 
And all I did was hurt us both
And stole our time away

Bridge 
Chorus

And when I think of how it was, 
And how it seemed to fade
It seems to me it’s all because,
Of old mistakes I’ve made
If all I did was hurt us both
And stole our time away
I only hope that Grace and growth
Can show another way

Chorus

This Time

Float Your Boat (#732, 231104)

 	by Donna Frost, Milton Blackford, Jay Brown, and James Tristan Redding

Stay out of the water if it don’t float your boat
Stay off of the stage if you can’t hit the notes
If you ain’t got gas in the tank don’t hit the road
Stay out of the water if it don’t float your boat

When the lightning strikes don’t take a walk in the rain
And if they think you’re crazy ain’t no need to explain
When you can’t say something good there’s nothing good to say
And if the boat don’t float stay outta’ the lake

Stay out of the water if it don’t float your boat
Stay off of the stage if you can’t hit the notes
If you ain’t got gas in the tank don’t hit the road
Stay out of the water if it don’t float your boat

Don’t make no promises you don’t mean to keep
Don’t say it’s over until you’re six feet deep
Don’t hate on the sinner unless you’re free of sin
Don’t hold the door if they ain’t ready to come in

Week 45 - Float Your Boat (231104)

In the afterglow

I’ve wandered 
I have wondered
I’ve pandered
I have blundered
Hearts asunder
Like a condor
Raining lightning
Woodstove burning
Writhing churning

(wandering running)
Under ashes 
asunder coals
Basking in the afterglow
Ashes dance in the wind like wild  snow

On sandy shores I lost myself
A bit of every being became me
The birch tree swaying, a little elf
Inside the retina, dreams are playing
A bit of light became every flavor to me
    
Surrender, flee, survive, attempt to dream
All the sacred parts lost in the scrap heap.

Copyright Evan McDoniels 2023

In The Afterglow

you know, I was scared too.

lyrics:

I was starting to believe in you.
I was starting to think it was true...
I fell in love with you.
I was starting to build up my trust
but it took one blow to turn it to dust,
now it hurts like a bruise.

And what a dangerous man you are,
taking my worst fears and turn em into your work of art... cause I fell in love with you.

Dreams of snakebites and fallen teeth,
you became the root of my insecurities...
oh what have you done to me?
I was scared in my blood and bones,
still you had the nerve to leave me alone
cause I fell in love with you.

And what a dangerous man you are,
taking my worst fears and turn em into your work of art... cause I fell in love with you.


(dreams of) fallen teeth

When it all kicks in together
It can be the perfect storm
Yeah and the task that's there before you
It just feels like so much more
Than you can do, keep walking through
And though it's shit, I must admit
There's no way it'll beat you
If you don't quit

If you're going through hell, keep going
If you're going through hell, keep going
Keep your head up, baby
Don't let up, baby
Let your feet take you on to the top
If you're going through hell, keep going
Baby don't stop

With the seasons turning colder
With the winter on the way
When the devil on shoulder
Knows the darkest things to say
Don't turn away,
Just take a deep breath
Let your feet get on the move
I know you'll find the fight inside of you

Chorus

Don't stop TAKing the next right step
Don't stop MAKing the best of what you get
Don't stop PRAISing the progress you see
ONE foot in front of the OTHer you'll get THROUGH eventually 


Chorus 

Going through hell

Begin again
(Mark I Anderson)

If I had a heart 
It would beat like yours 
If I had a heart
It would beat like yours
I can’t  pretend
I’d never turn away
But I’d turn and say 
Begin again

If I knew of love
It would look like you
If I knew of love
It would look like you
I’d remember when
That fire burned 
That’s how I’d learn 
To begin again

[Bridge]
Are you here with me  
Or have you gone
Too much metaphor
For moving on
I’ll be here like this until the end
Then again
Ill begin again

Every setting sun
Tries to fade away
Every setting sun
Tries to fade away
I would rise up when
I’d cried those tears 
Throughout the years
To begin again

If I had a heart
It would beat like yours
If I had a heart
It would be like yours...

Begin again

Week 40 #songaweek2020. Photo is church, pandemic-style (Facebook Live kitchen-table worship  with my pastor). Partially inspired by Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 

The closer you come to the mirror
The further you feel from yourself
You’re facing the facts
But there’s more to the story 
You’re something like what they see
And nothing short of you

The harder you hold out for meaning
The smaller it shrinks from your grasp
when did it ever make sense
In the cold hard light of you?

Come
Weary one
I will give you rest

The longer you live with your secret
The louder it lies in the dark
And cries to be heard
And held to the light

The deeper you dig down for treasure
the stranger the strain on your soul
When will you ever have
Enough?

Come
Heavy-laden one
I will give you rest

Come
Every last least one
I will give you rest

Rest

Half of folk pop duo Cabin of Love. One-quarter of Americana band The Foragers.

Rest

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