Tarnished Forever (feat. Andy Nolte)

Written & Performed by: Jeska

This song was inspired by the word fathom from the song writing group I’m in called 11:59. It took me a while to think about what the word meant to me and couldn’t get the Little Mermaids “Fathoms Below” out of my head & tried writing about mermaids. Eventually I scrapped that idea & decided to find a victim that’s death involved water & immediately thought of Natalie Wood. 

Lyrics

A) She was a glamour girl
Sitting on top of the world
Starting at a young age
Mama made her own that stage

Catapulted to fame
Had to change her name
Always chasing the stars
Mama knew she go far

￼B) But that deep dark water
Keeps on haunting me
And that deep dark water
That mama’s gypsy always sees

￼A) On top of the world
When she was a little girl
Ripped the wings from a butterfly
Mama knew she’d cry

Then she’s a mother a wife
Wants nothing more in life
Never saw her again
When she sailed to Catalina island

￼ B) But that deep dark water
Keeps on haunting me
And that deep dark water
That mama’s gypsy always sees

Solo section 

B)But that deep dark water
Keeps on haunting me
And that deep dark water
And that deep dark water
And that deep dark water
That mamas gypsy always sees

Deep dark water

Too Mesmerized to Run
Music and Words by Mark Magram (2023)

(v1)
There's people in line at the drive thru
There's people in line at the bank
There's people in line at the drug store
Waiting to get their fix

They're living in boxes in cities
They're living in houses of cards
They're cutting their skin to look pretty
They're spraying the weeds in their yards

How did they know what you were thinking
Before you were ready to buy?

(ch)
The bars are full at midnight
The gas station's open for drunks
The deer just staring at headlights
Too mesmerized to run
Not knowing what's to come

(v2)
Agree to the license agreement
Open your life like a book
Talk to the robot assistant
Bite into the bait on the hook

How do they know where you're going
Before you get into the car and drive?

(ch)

(bridge)
And they can sail away on the ocean
Until their boats run into the sky

(v3)
The doctor will fix their afflictions
If they remember to take all their pills
They don't need to quit their addictions
Just sell them the cures for their ills

How do they know what you're needing
When you don't even know it yourself?

(ch)
The bars are full at midnight
The gas station's open for drunks
The deer just staring at headlights
Too mesmerized to run
A trace amount won't hurt them
They're having too much fun
Just fill them with distractions
Too mesmerized to run
They'll never know what's to come
They'll never know what's to come

Too Mesmerized To Run

The Lunatic Asylum
Music and Words by Mark Magram (2023)

I've been sick inside my head
I can't sleep inside my bed
And the doctor gives me pills
All I hoped for was a cure
The doctor said he wasn't sure
But the pills will keep me sane

(ch)
Welcome to the lunatic asylum
It's where I live my life
Welcome to the lunatic asylum
No one leaves alive

Got one pill to ease the pain
Got one pill to calm my brain
And I'll never taper off
Doctor has a one-track mind
Checks roll in he's doing fine
Just as long as I stay hooked

(ch)
Welcome to the lunatic asylum
The world we live in now
Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Everyone is trapped inside

(bridge)
They say you are what you eat
If so Im a hunk of meat
The only plan we've got
Medicating all our ills and lay down in a grave plot

(ch)
Welcome to the lunatic asylum
The world we live in now
Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Everyone is trapped inside

The Lunatic Asylum

A game soundscape of a grassland, created for a giant monster game

Grassland Game Soundscape

BONUS TRACK) Guy Forsyth And Jeska Bailey - Give It Up Or Let Me Go

This is the correctly edited version of an assignment that I gave to my IGST students.  

Their assignment: Edit the stuttering out of the audio track, using Reaper to do it.  The digital artifacts that were heard in the original track were accidentally made, but purposefully placed.  Here, the artifacts have been removed.  This was designed to be a backing soundtrack to their Assignment #1 sounscape.

Assign2 music : Corrected

Amazing Grace
how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
was blind but now I see

Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
and grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
the hour I first belived

Amazing Grace
how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
was blind but now I see

We've been here 10,000 years
Bright shining as the sun
and we've no less days
to sing God's praise
then when we first begun

Amazing Grace
how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
was blind but now I see

I've got one first on the platform
the other on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans 
to wear that ball and chain 

Oh Mothers tell your children
don't you do what I have done
don't live your life in sin and misery 
in the house of the rising sun

Amazing Grace
how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
was blind but now I see
but now I see 
But now I see

All songs by Guy Forsyth (c)2019 Monkey King Music, BMI, 
“Daddy’s Listening” by Guy Forsyth and Jeska Bailey, 
“The Things That Matter” by Guy Forsyth and Brian David Keane (Miett Music, ASCAP), 
“Nobody Gonna Bail Me Out” By Guy Forsyth and George Rarey (BMI), 
“Mercy Now” by Mary Gauthier (Mary Gauthier Songs, BMI), 
“The Messenger” by Daniel Lanois (BMI),  
“Sing About It” by The Wood Brothers (O. Wood/C. Wood/J. Rix) Royal Kook Music (BMI),
 Wood Sound Publishing (BMI), Spinach Pitts Music (ASCAP), 
“Wherever Is Your Heart” by Timothy Hanseroth, Phillip Hanseroth, 
Brandi Carlile (c) WB Music Corp./ Southern Oracle Music LLC, 
and Amazing Grace words by John Newton (Trad.), 
House of the Rising Son (Trad.) music uses the Dave Van Ronk arrangement that Guy
 first heard from The Blind Boys of Alabama, hey, folk music! 


Thanks to Collings guitars for the amazing ladder-braced Waterloo. 
Guy Forsyth uses Elixir strings.

12_Amazing Grace House Of The Rising Sun

TEXAS NATIVE JESKA BAILEY IS A POWERHOUSE MUSICIAN WITH “HONEYED, SOULFUL VOCALS” (GLIDE MAGAZINE) WHO IS MAKING A SPLASH IN THE AUSTIN MUSIC SCENE. THE “GIFTED VOCALIST” (AUSTIN MONTHLY) IS KNOWN FOR HER PERFORMANCES WITH THE GUY FORSYTH BAND, THE HOT NUT RIVETERS, AND THE HONEYSUCKLE RAGE RIDERS, BUT JESKA IS A STAR IN HER OWN RIGHT. HER HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED FIRST SOLO RELEASE, MURDERINO, COMING IN LATE 2022, IS A RIVETING LOOK INTO TRUE CRIME, FEMINISM, AND POWER STRUGGLES, PACKAGED IN A COMPELLING BLUES-FOLK ALBUM. NO STRANGER TO THE STAGE, JESKA IS A MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, A TRAINED OPERA SINGER, A FIERCE BLUES SINGER, A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER AND A PAINTER. SHE’S APPEARED ON AMERICAN IDOL, AUSTIN’S “50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK” RADIO PROGRAM, AND PERFORMED THE NATIONAL ANTHEM ON ESPN AT THE TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY. CONSPIRATORS, HER 2019 ALBUM WITH HER HUSBAND, AUSTIN LEGEND GUY FORSYTH, WAS HERALDED FOR ITS “BEAUTIFUL VOCALS” AND “SHINING HARMONIES.” SHE TOURED THAT ALBUM ALL OVER THE WORLD, TO GREAT RECEPTION, AND IS READY TO HIT THE STAGE IN SUPPORT OF HER NEW MUSIC. JESKA’S LOVE OF COMMUNITY AND HER SKILL AS A MODEL/PHOTOGRAPHER HAS YIELDED 50,000 LOYAL FOLLOWERS ON INSTAGRAM, AND SHE IS READY TO TURN ALL OF THOSE FOLLOWERS INTO MUSIC FANS. A THREE-TIME CANCER SURVIVOR, JESKA SPENT THE PANDEMIC WRITING, RECORDING, PLOTTING, HELPING OTHER ARTISTS LEARN HOW TO SURVIVE IN A VIRTUAL WORLD, AND GENERALLY LETTING HER CREATIVITY RUN WILD. SHE LIVES WITH HER PARTNER AND THEIR BLENDED FAMILY IN BUDA AND CAN’T WAIT TO RETURN TO REGULAR MUSIC TOURS AROUND THE WORLD.

BONUS TRACK) Guy Forsyth And Jeska Bailey - Give It Up Or Let Me Go

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