I went looking for it in the sound of ‘91
The proof was in the kiss and in king’s x it’s love
It was a song for love, a sixties mind, a bull’s eye guitar
Glittering in every step a rising joy star

Walked around a dying tree with dust arms raised 
I found it in the copper caps and white stalk maze
The devil falls and living walls, splash stone floor
Shimmering in every step a rising joy star

In the now, in the end, it’s there in a memory’s hum
I vow to attend to the pointlessness swelling inside
You’ll SEE me rise, with a truth loud as a snare drum
Leaving the Past and the future behind

Making something out of nothing music in our minds
Push it farther move it closer dreaming unwinds
Listening with intent a syncing of hearts
Vibrating every step a rising joy star

Imagination, effortless, no need to worry
Loosening the beat, goodness no need to worry

In the now, in the end, it’s there in a memory’s hum
I vow to attend to the pointlessness swelling inside
You’ll see me rise, with a truth loud as a snare drum
Leaving the past and the future behind

Songwriting Challenge Jan 2023

This is a bare bones track I did for Ithaca songwriting challenge.  I had harmony tracks but was having issues with latency in the harmony track using Audacity (I tried everything to fix it!) 
Anyhoo…Cheers to grit and putting it out there!

Finding A Way Home

somebody somewhere

January 2023 Ithaca Songwriters Challenge #1

Starlight
By Eric Banford (Jan 2023)

Starlight
You're there but not there
A memory of something long gone
Your light fills the air.

Starlight
You're there but not there
You've travelled millins of light years
To me standing here.

You're constant, unfailing, steady and bright
I trust that you'll be there when I step into the night
Though sometimes obscured by clouds
I feel you near.

Starlight
Where did you go?
How can something so long gone
Inspire me so?

Starlight

V1: how does it feel
when you can’t find a friend
how does it feel
when your loves at an end
how does it feel 
when you’re swimming upstream
how does it feel
when life’s tearing at the seams

CH: how does it feel, how does it feel
how does it feel, to be the only one 

V2: how do you know
when your time has come
how do you know
when the solo’s done
how do you know
it’s time to set it free
how do you know
it’s as good as it seems

CH: how do you know, oh how do you know
how do you know, 
when you’re the only one 

V3: where do you go, 
when the world gets hard
where do you go 
to get a new start 
where do you go when 
the waves are crashing down 
where do you go
after you leave this town 

CH: where do you go, where do you go
where do you go, when your the only one

CH: How does it feel, how do you know
where do you go, when you’re the only one

DEMOS

Only One

This is a song written by Lora Pendleton and about letting go of the ties that bind. Demo recording performed by Lora Pendleton and Fwends. The Fwends are Meredith Dimenna and Emil Halas.


Turn Me Loose

Dealbreaker

put me in a time machine
it will all work out
put me in a time machine
i will never doubt

sunshine on the water
rabbit in the grass
a first love repeated
days dancing by fast

the neighborhood changes
a heart takes its blows
fate, it rearranges
the stories we know

each dot on these pages
each screen with it's glow
time to be courageous
make it so

Ami Worthen's Album

Time Machine

Demo recorded in February 2018. Song by Ami Worthen.

lyrics:

in between ideas and dreams
watching wonder flow
in between a rocket ship
and a seaside sparrow

chorus: 
in between the mystery, in between the snow
in between the songs of spring
and the fire's glow

in between a thought that seems without a place to go
in between a teapot's steam and the kitchen door

chorus

in between starlit moonbeams
planets to explore
in between a mountain stream
and a lion's roar

chorus

Jason Krekel's Album

In Between

Evil City String Band playing "Pay Day" with the Tuvan throat singing group Alash, on WVBR's Crossing Borders program. Alash surprised us by improvising amazingly on this old American blues song.