Don't Throw It All Away

The Decision

Wild Ways

From Atlantic Thrills "III" out June 6th on Almost Ready Records

Atlantic Thrills - "Dirty Love"

Dragon Fuzz Blues

Shine on, oh

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As If You Know

Gonna' Make Music on the Rainbow Bridge v. Country Rock
Reidmoto: Lyrics & Producer

On 5.22.25, I had to put my beloved, beautiful, and sweet doggie Dallie down. She was a 16 year old Australian Cattle Dog (Blue Heeler), and had diabetes for three years which was controlled by two insulin shots a day.  But in May, she stopped eating, and had bouts of intense, howling, screaming pain. She was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, which I've had myself, and I could not let her suffer such intense pain. 

I feel like there's a HUGE HOLE IN MY HEART, and I'm still grieving for her and hope to see her again on the Rainbow Bridge.

Gonna' Make Music on the Rainbow Bridge 

[Verse 1]
When it’s time for me to give up the fight
to go home and be at peace
I wanna travel easy and light
So I get a retro rocket release

[Pre-Chorus]
I only need two things in that pine box
A photo of my doggie Dal-lee
My very best friend and Pal-eee
and just in case, I don’t want no locks

[Chorus]
The other is my beloved Fender Strat
Gonna make music, when I find out
where that Rainbow Bridge is at
Just thought of a third thing, a straw hat

[Verse 2]
I wonder how big a transition it will be? 
Me and Dal-lee can play ball again
and she’ll be jumping for joy
and filled with glee bein' with me

[Pre-Chorus]
I only need two things in that pine box
A photo of my doggie Dal-lee
My very best friend and Pal-eee
and just in case, I don’t want no locks

[Chorus]
The other is my beloved Fender Strat
Gonna make music, when I find out
where that Rainbow Bridge is at
Just thought of a third thing, a straw hat

[Bridge]
I wish I had directions or a map
I’m sure the Rainbow Bridge is a 
Popular destination
For pet resurrection

[Eight bar both guitarists play a  harmonized, soaring guitar solo]

[Interlude]
Sure, there’s a lot of people I miss
and will be so happy to give them
a hug and a kiss

Make up for lost time
Some left in their prime

But I’m going to find Dal-lee first.
My hope to reunite’s
been an unquenchable thirst.

[Pre-Chorus]
I only need two things in that pine box
A photo of my doggie Dal-lee
My very best friend and Pal-eee
and just in case, I don’t want no locks

[Chorus]
The other is my beloved Fender Strat
Gonna make music, when I find out
where that Rainbow Bridge is at
Just thought of a third thing, a straw hat

Gonna Make Music on Rainbow Bridge v. Rock - On 5.22.25 I had to put Dallie down.

LYRICS:
Yeah, Yeah
Kid Napoleon 
Name ring through the hall 
Like a podium  
Thought I’d rule the world 
By sophomore year 
Now the empire’s dust
Nobody here  

Cuz autocrat like that
Don’t give nothin’ back  
Take the crown
Break it down
Watch the empire crack  
Cuz autocrat like that
Don’t give nothin’ back  
Now I’m sittin’ in the silence 
Where my shadow raps  

Jason Nada, fifteen
Bored in class  
Found a tricorn hat
Started spittin’ fast  

Hand in my coat
Thought I looked like a king  
High school hallways bowed 
When I started to sing  
Got a clique in the lunchroom
Fans in the bleachers  
Bars sharper than the rulers 
Of my history teachers  

Yeah, I studied empire
I knew how they fell  
But I swore I’d be the genius 
Who rewrote the tale  

Cuz autocrat like that
Don’t give nothin’ back  
Take the crown
Break it down
Watch the empire crack  

Cuz autocrat like that
Don’t give nothin’ back  
Now I’m sittin’ in the silence 
Where my shadow rap

First, cut the teachers 
Who were hatin’ my grind  
Then the lunch staff starvin’ me
Wastin’ my time  
Counselors talkin’ like 
I’m just one more stat  
Nah, I’m Kid Napoleon
Remember that  

Took the wrestlers down in rhymes
Cheer squad too  
Every “enemy” I listed 
Got erased from my crew  
But paranoia’s a poison — 
My friends looked fake  
If trust is a test
Every student breaks  

Who can I trust? 
Not you, not me  
Every crown in the mirror 
Lookin’ treachery  
Every empire falls
I read that fact  
But I thought I was different… 
Til the ceiling cracked  

Who can I trust? 
Not you, not me  
Every crown in the mirror 
Lookin’ treachery  
Every empire falls
I read that fact  
But I thought I was different… 
Til the ceiling cracked  

Now the hallways echo 
With nobody’s feet  

Empty gym, empty class
Empty throne, empty seat  
No applause for my verses
No teacher to grade  
No rivals left standin’
No crowd to persuade  

I destroyed my own kingdom 
For a crown too tight  
And I’m alone with my rhymes 
In the flicker of the light  
Kid Napoleon
Age fifteen
That’s that  
Cuz autocrat like that… 
Autocrat like that!

That’s the tale of Nada
Yeah
Jason’s gone  
You destroy 
Until nothing’s left to lean upon  
Remember this empire
Built on pride and rap  
Cuz autocrat like that… 

You don’t get nothin’ back.

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Cuz Autocrat Like That

Do you see it now
Do you see my power
Do you see it now
You've become my flower

To share 
With the world
To help others
To share 
With the world
To help and discover

A World of Truth
A World of Truth

Truth
For the world
Truth
For the world

Give back
What they all need
Give back
Begin to feed

A World of Truth
A World of Truth

A World of Truth
A World of Truth

Truth
For the world

A World of Truth
A World of Truth

Truth
To help and discover

Truth
For the world
Truth
For the world

The world
For the world

A World of Truth

For the world

For the world

A World of Truth
A World of Truth
A World of Truth

A World of Truth

I Don’t Love. I Burn.

(Verse 1)
You taste the smoke on my breath before we even kiss
You trace the fault lines on my skin with your soft fingertips
I whisper warnings made of glass, I tell you they will break
You just smile that foolish smile and lean into the flame

(Chorus)
'Cause I don’t love. I burn.
A wildfire in a human form, a lesson you won’t learn.
I turn your garden into ash, your safety into storm…
And still… you return.

(Verse 2)
You wear my scorch marks like a crown, a map of where you’ve been
Show them off to worried friends who ask you ‘how’ and ‘when’
And you explain me like a hurricane, a thing you can’t contain
A holy, cleansing, perfect kind of devastating rain

(Chorus)
But I don’t love. I burn.
A wildfire in a human form, a lesson you won’t learn.
I turn your garden into ash, your safety into storm…
And still… you return.

(Bridge)
Don't you think I see the ghost of what you used to be?
That steady light inside your eyes before you gave the key to me?
But a fire has to feed, my dear, it can’t just warm the room…
You come to me to feel alive… I am your chosen tomb.

(Guitar Solo: Slow, bluesy, and full of space. Each note bends and cries, dripping with soul and a sense of beautiful decay. It sounds like weeping, then acceptance.)

(Final Chorus)
(Softly, almost a confession)
I don’t love… I just burn.
A collapsing star, a final turn, a lesson you can’t learn.
I’ll be the last thing that you see, the only thing you earn…

(Outro)
(Vocals become a hypnotic, layered whisper over the fading bassline)
And still… you return.
To the heat.
To the ash.
…You whisper my name.
(A single piano chord rings out and fades to silence.)

I Don’t Love. I Burn.

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