I much admire your musical industriousness.

Like that heavy guitar sound that comes in around here 👍

Great track all in like the melody style in the chorus a bit different 😀

Awesome melodies and harmonies! Liking this!

Spellbound

So I poured another measure and it doesn't look right
We'll be giggling and dancing 'til the end of night
So close your eyes and down it as the next one pours
Well now I've gone and said it as I am all yours

CHORUS
There's  nothing in this world that could ruin today
[I feel I'm alive]
I have these mad ideas that I whisk you away
[We blossom and thrive]
There's nothing in this world that could ruin a night electric
What makes our minds tick?
There's nothing in this world that could ruin today

And I didn't finish laughing 'til my stomach hurt
The kind of words that aren't the most conventional flirt
So pour another vodka, which one of them is mine?
I think I may have overpoured like I'm inclined to

CHORUS

Another Vodka

I spent years hiding under the table
Half expecting a war
I just escaped although I'm slightly less stable
But I'm alive after all

CHORUS
Give a snigger give a round of applause cuz I'm smiling
Please excuse all my obvious flaws whilst I'm smiling
See me laugh hear me cry with excitement
I'm smiling and striving not to let you down

If there's no picture it didn't happen
Forever searching the truth
I've got my naughty school boy cap on
I think that I'm bulletproof

CHORUS

I spent years hiding under the table
Where I was waiting for you
I stayed there for as long as I was able
But now I've started anew

CHORUS

Bulletproof

How can 20 odd years fly so fast whilst I wait
There's a magnetic force that grasps for my soul mate
Noone else really stood a chance to compete
From day one you accidentally swept me off my feet

CHORUS
I've been waiting to hold you
Waiting for a long time
I've been thinking about you
These funny old thoughts of mine
I've been nothing without you
I can barely read the time
The minutes they pass so fast together
I'm holding this moment close forever
I'm thinking like a romantic valentine

I'm a joker whilst I dance and giggle I'm the fool
I melt a little every time I see you and I drool
When life is tricky every single one of us needs a lift
I kind of think that after all I've been through you're a gift

CHORUS

Funny Old Thoughts

You've probably laughed a little bit about what's written
I surprised myself that it is such a lengthy tome
It talks about a guy that's been forever smitten
That hunted long but sadly he returned alone

CHORUS
And in this song it has flashes of true story
In this song
And in this song that I hope is not too boring
In this song there's a very happy ending

I blushed a little bit but I still kept on writing
Some parts that I'm embarrassed over how I behaved
It was like I had two inner demons there up fighting
But after all I got the final chapter I craved

CHORUS

In This Song

I've been hoping to see you
I've been hoping for days
I've been counting the hours
To get me out of this malaise
I've got so much to offer
All this time we're apart
Absence just makes me suffer
Oh be still my beating heart

CHORUS
Well that's life
I'm standing here waiting
For our life
And though its frustrating it will be worthwhile
It's our life
In shadows we're dating
For our life
Its really worth stating I've been here a while

I've been yearning to see you
And not just in my dreams
I'm all lustful and playful
And all the laughing splits my seams
When I hold you against me 
And I'm feeling your breath
I know I've much to offer
In the time that I've got left

CHORUS

I've been hoping to see you
And we crawl across the floor
With a giggle and splutter
There's really nothing I want more
It's the most perfect painting
It's the most perfect song
An elaborate story
The joy of which goes on and on

Shadows

I find myself sketching my autobiography
I've written tend pages of bland bland mediocrity
And then comes the page I've dreamt of for ages
I'm trying to describe how your laugh is contagious

CHORUS
What you're meaning to me is too hard to conceive
What you're meaning to me
There's so much to achieve and its all a relief
What you're meaning to me

If I say to myself I've a skill penning literature
But the words leave my brain when I'm set on describing you
And then comes the page when everything changes
I cannot describe on multiple pages how great it it

CHORUS

And then comes the page I've dreamt of for ages
Oh skip a few pages we're heading for Vegas

CHORUS

What You're Meaning To Me

High Desert

J-Starfish Polka

Rhythm of the Night

This song has had a facelift, I originally wrote it back in 2001, then I rewrote parts of it in 2020 during the pandemic, then I recently touched it up a bit and produced a video for it. It's a little weird but I tried to convey the feeling when you're starting to lose your mind and life becomes harder and harder to deal with, it's a bit Grungy. I had to edit it down because it was like 6 minutes long! If you watch the video when I post it on YouTube, it will all become clear! It's a bit disturbing so listen with an open mind! This is not for everybody, I've had this buried for like over 20 years. This audio is from the video that's why it's so noisy.

“DON’T KNOW WHAT?”

DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY MIND?
ON THE VERGE AND BORDERLINE,
DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ALL WORTH GOING THROUGH?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?             
      
DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE REALLY TRYING TO SAY?
NOTHING'S WRONG I'M OKAY, 
DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THIS FUSS IS ABOUT? 
I'LL WORK IT OUT,

DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?
I'M SEEING THINGS I AIN'T SUPPOSE TO SEE,
WHY DO I HAVE TO CHANGE,
INTO SOMEONE I DON'T WANT TO BE?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?
         
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY HEAD?
SUICIDAL THEY ALL SAID, 
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY BRAIN?
CAN'T STAND THE PAIN,

DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY LIFE?
GETTIN' HIGH MAKES IT ALL RIGHT,       
DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO LIVE OR DIE?
CAN'T STAND THE LIES,
          
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?
I'M SEEING THINGS I AIN'T SUPPOSE TO SEE,
WHY DO I HAVE TO CHANGE,
INTO SOMEONE I DON'T WANT TO BE?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER ME?  
  
DON’T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY MIND?
ON THE VERGE AND BORDERLINE,
DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ALL WORTH GOING THROUGH?  
DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO? 

BY JIM VALDES © 2001/2020

AGE OF CORONA

"DON'T KNOW WHAT?"

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(KARAOKE) Enigma - Retrun To Innocence

playing in castles

Eloge sensuel de la rousseur (Damga/La Gazelle)

spring sunshine

This song was written for piano by Hitoshi Yasui, chairhouse of Tokyo, who was generous in allowing me to arrange and record it for guitar. It is from his "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" project. His mission “is to create gentle, calm, peaceful, beautiful, relaxing piano music and share it with all human beings." He writes, records and posts one beautiful piano composition each day. This song, "ayant servi pour plusieurs parfums", is number 1371 from september 16, 2017. His original piano version can be heard here:
https://soundcloud.com/chairhouse/ayant-servi-pour-plusieurs-parfums-1371-by-chair-house-09162017

Thanks to Hitoshi for his daily musical watercolors and thanks for allowing me to adapt this for guitar. Please visit and listen to his original piano music @chairhouse.

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ayant servi pour plusieurs parfums

Ayant Servi Pour Plusieurs Parfums

Prolific musician, author, photographer and oddity.  With influences ranging from the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, the gothic melodrama of Nick Cave, the glam of Bowie and the nakedness of Iggy Pop - this is Marc Freak.  Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe.  An experiment in DIY and lofi.  The odd bum note here, the even odder bum note there.  But with art do we care?

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