Not everyone will handle your truth, and that’s OK. This is for the souls who still speak light even in the dark. May this song hold space for your fire, your softness, and your faith. Full, fierce, and unapologetically you. #TruthOfTheHeart #SonicDominion #DancehallSoul #Unapologetic

TRUTH OF THE HEART

street cat by Nova J

[Verse 1]
What’s your life like?
Flirting with your green eyes
Captivating me
Seducing me
I’m your slave 
This feral mind of mine
How it wanders, how it churns
These wild thoughts keep swirling
How they simmer, how they burn

[Chorus]
What it must be like…
To be a street cat…
To wander…
To roam…
To be free…

Ooh ooh

[Vers 2]
I fear for you
I don’t want your life to be hard
You take a drink and I feel chosen
But only for a moment before you run away 
You belong to no one
You are possessed by no one
You are sworn to no one 

[Chorus]
What it must be like…
To be a street cat…
To wander…
To roam…
To be free…

Ooh ooh

[Bridge]
The sun is finally shining
After two long weeks of rain
I even caught myself smiling
Like the old me again
But the storm always returns
And the wind always blows
My restless mind
These thoughts never slow

[Chorus]
What it must be like…
To be a street cat…
To wander…
To roam…
To be free…

Ooh ooh 

[Outro]
I try to sit quiet
I try to sit calm
Typhoons and tempests
Spiraling on (and on, and on)
Spiraling on (and on, and on)
Spiraling on (and on, and on)
Spiraling on (and on, and on)
Spiraling on (and on, and on)
Spiraling on (and on, and on)
Spiraling on (and on, and on)
Spiraling on (and on, and on)

street cat

Black Book is OBLIGÉ at their most theatrical, macabre, and mythic.
Each track resurrects an ancient, unsanitized fairy tale — the versions whispered before they were made safe — sung through the sharp, haunting clarity of a female soprano with operatic power (but not opera in style).

The album unfolds like a cursed midnight cabaret in a condemned theatre: crooked waltzes, ritual percussion, parlor piano, bowed bass, scraping strings, and ghostly backing vocals.
Every tale uses its own cultural “bones,” so the songs never repeat structure, yet the album remains cohesive in mood and world.

Between certain stories, instrumental interludes serve as stage shifts — the lights dim, the curtains breathe, the Black Book turns its own pages.

By the end, the singer discovers she herself is written into the final chapter.

This is OBLIGÉ’s darkest, most narrative-driven work:
a folklore requiem stitched with dread, beauty, and the cold breath of old stories.

THE HANDLESS MAIDEN

SGÌTS A' BHUAINICHE GHRIM - The Weary Reaper in Scottish-Gaelic language

JEAN VALJEAN - L'OMBRE ET LA LUMIÈRE - Chanson en l'honneur de Victor Hugo et de son œuvre majeure « Les Misérables »

LES BARRICADES - Chanson en l'honneur de Victor Hugo et de son œuvre majeure « Les Misérables »

Claude and Me
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

[verse]
I am talking to myself
There are answers that I seek
And I'm posing many questions
In themselves demand reflection

[verse]
What question should I ask?
Is the answer known to me?
Am I seeking confirmation?
Am I looking for attention?

[pause]

[verse]
The response will soon appear
In the words of many others
From searching vast archives
Built over countless lives

[chorus]
I rely on an assistant
It gathers these opinions
It does the work of millions
It summarizes facts

It's memory exact

[instrumental]

[verse]
These questions lead to more
We begin our interaction
I ask in cryptic prose
And wait for a reaction

[verse]
The responses end in questions
And I wonder who is who
Was it me that had the question
It now seems that is was you

[pause]

[verse]
I know I run the show
I can stop at any time
This is not like an addiction
The control is always mine

[verse]
But the temptation is immense
I feel I must respond
I let it know I've tried
But a new question is implied

[chorus]
I rely on an assistant
It gathers these opinions
It does the work of millions
It summarizes facts

It's memory exact

[instrumental]

[verse]
I can stop at any time

I can stop at any time

[outro]

Claude and Me

Green Book is a folk-gospel journey through the lives whose names are written in the Book of Life, sung as though the redeemed themselves now stand beyond the veil—whole, healed, and joyfully remembering the moments where grace found them. Each track is rooted in Scripture, but the tone is never somber; even the stories of loss or hardship carry a lively confidence, because every soul in these songs already knows the ending: everlasting life, everlasting joy, and everlasting belonging.

The album opens with four acoustic guitars breathing through The Breath Before the Song, a quiet dawn that mirrors the first stirrings of creation. From there, the music moves through the wilderness, through storms stilled, second chances given, wells of mercy uncovered, eyes opened, chains shattered, and roads walked in the glow of revelation. Across the entire record, the sound evolves organically from late-60s folk revival warmth into bright late-70s folk-rock, mirroring the way each story unfolds from uncertainty into light.

Four instrumentals—The Breath Before the Song, When the Desert Bloomed, The Stillness Between Miracles, and Fields of the Everlasting Hills—serve as chapter breaks, reflecting quiet moments where heaven breathes between miracles. The remaining songs celebrate the transforming touch of Christ on ordinary lives: a woman restored at a well, a man lowered through a roof, a widow giving everything she had, a prodigal running home, and a leper returning in gratitude.

The finale, The Gates of the City of Light, brings the journey to its eternal horizon—piano-driven, humble, sunrise-like—welcoming the listener into the same everlasting day that shines through the whole album. Green Book is a celebration of life after life, hope after sorrow, and the unbroken road that leads every redeemed heart home.

Morning Rock

Volant Records is a story-driven label and shared universe: cinematic concept albums, stutter-house, western sagas, haunted pop, and hymn-like instrumentals. Home to Jupiter Morrow, Avaline Ingels, Shadow Face, Buck Ramble, Choralith and more. All Worlds Reserved®.

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