IL FAUT TAIRE LE TEMPS

Les vérités fragiles, celles qui indisposent
Des heures indociles qui vieillissent les roses
Sous des lueurs ingrates dans ce compte à rebours
Les années qui partent aux allers sans retour.

Les folles images sans oraisons verbeuses
Nous tournent la page des idées voyageuses
Devant ces rêves fanés de pensées furtives
Le souvenir d’un passé aux humeurs positives.

Il faut taire le temps, se faisant si rapide
A moquer le présent sans le rendre stupide
Briser le miroir des ans, s’il est tant lucide.

Sous couvert d’absolu, larguer le mauvais sang
Vers des terres inconnues au milieu d’océans
S’oublier des hier sans se moquer de tout
Il reste tant à faire pour aller jusqu'au bout.

Il faut taire le temps, se faisant si rapide
A moquer le présent sans le rendre stupide
Briser le miroir des ans, s’il est tant lucide.

Il faut taire le temps, se faisant si rapide
A moquer le présent sans le rendre stupide
Briser le miroir des ans, s’il est tant lucide.

En rêvant de son mieux, vers de jolies pensées
Un sourire dans ses yeux ne peut faire qu'avancer
La vie est ainsi faite, elle va, elle vient, elle fuit
Et même quand tout s'arrête, rien n'est jamais fini.

Mais regardons l'avenir, il reste tant de choses
Beaucoup d'éclats de rire qui font les vies en rose
Profitons du bonheur en vivant ce présent
Et sans penser à l'heure qui brisera ce temps.

Il faut taire le temps, se faisant si rapide
A moquer le présent sans le rendre stupide
En vivant les instants… en vivant simplement.

IL FAUT TAIRE LE TEMPS (Chanson Française)

CLOUDS AND RIPPLES  from Echoes From A Distant Past

Circles

Home Beneath The Sun

This is the love march
Come on get in line
To all the beat-down disheartened 
It's you I got in mind
What's that they say
Someday the mighty gonna fall
And the last ones among us
Be the first ones after all

This is the love march
Cuz we got love in our hearts
Everything else fades away
Everything else falls apart
Got a drum beating a rhythm
A poet with a rhyme
Come on step it up now
Take it double time

Oh, oh, how did we get so low
Lord up in heaven
Lord up above
Would you give us the strength
To bury the bastards with love

This is the love march
Armed with love and understanding
We're many million strong
Every day we been expanding
When there's nothing left to fight with
And nothing left to say
We stand up on our feet
We go marching anyway

This is the love march
Just take a look around
Heads help up high
Feet on the ground
Saying no to the bullies the villains and thieves
I know a bit about love
And they ain't love to me

Oh, oh, how did we get so low
Lord up in heaven
Lord above
Would you give us the strength
To bury the bastards with love

Though I'm so tired
I keep going
We keep going

Selma, Alabama
Washington DC
Delano, Ohio and everywhere in between
They can't hold back the tide
Try as they may
Eventually it's gonna be
Love that wins the day

This is the love march
Cuz we got love in our hearts
Everything else fades away
Everything else falls apart
Got a drum beating a rhythm 
A poet with a rhyme
Come on step it up now...

This is the love march
When there's nothing left to fight with
We still got love, love, love
All you need is love, love, love
This is the love march...

(Hey there, in case you don't know, Paul Butterfield Blues Band had a wonderful song called Love March...perfect for the times)

Love March

Morag is a character in Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott. I've been meaning to compose more tracks for this project for some time. 
I quite liked the idea of her being steam punk. Whatever, her character is full if vim, hence the 145 bpm.

Morag

Original song I started writing this back in 2016. It was one of those songs that I always felt like it was missing something...and years later it really came together. Sometimes it's just about the right timing. I'm thankful of the inspiration from such a beautiful soul(Cherry) Such amazing memories! From meeting at a downtown Austin music venue, flying up to Canada, to walking across a small town bridge. Thanks for listening!:)

For the Rest of your Life

You deserve to walk on diamonds
You deserve to sleep on islands
I don't care how old I get
I'll open every door
Love you more and more
Always keep you warm
And fight through every storm

You...Have me...For the rest of your life, for the rest of your life, for the rest of your life, for the rest of your life

You deserve to fly like ravens
You deserve to touch the heavens
I don't care how old I get
I'll pull out every chair 
Compliment your hair
Always share my food
And love your every mood

You...Have me...For the rest of you life, for the rest of your life, for the rest of your life, for the rest of your life

Tonight I feel so bright
Tonight I feel so bright with you 
So bright with you 
Oh!

And you...Have me, for the rest of, for the rest of you life

You deserve to walk on diamonds
You deserve to sleep on islands
Yes you do

©Daniel Colter Valentine

For the Rest of Your Life (Original song live)

Hereafter

Music written in response to the sudden loss of a beloved pet. Sorely missed but always loved and remembered well.

Words - Before me, before it rained
We were together in time and now rightly pained.
Nothing I can do to change it
Nothing's gonna make it go away
Here in my heart you have a home to always stay.

Before me, the tides keep on changing
Before me, I'll keep rearranging again and again.

Time and time again we wake up then fall asleep
When will the sun come out and bring us all up from the deep.

B4ME

Peace &  Love to 🇺🇦 & 🇷🇺

I used the vocal take from this video version for IG this evening:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIpO-8utJTM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

The Ukrainian flag features two colors: blue and yellow. The blue represents the sky, while the yellow represents the wheat fields, symbolizing the nation's natural landscape and agricultural heritage. 


Lyrics
I still hear you
You may hear me
In heart it's the yellow
Your wheatiest fields
The blue the sky that filters their clean
It's filled with red
We're sorry and we hope
The madman moves on and it's life gets revoked
Till then please stay strong
You face final power struggle for Earth and for all 
Your pain is new balance
Not in vain
Our kids are the chalice
In heart it's the yellow
Your wheatiest fields
The blue the sky that filters all of our dreams
Let that yellow mean food
Let that blue not mean blue
Let peace reign with borders by you 🇺🇦

For the yellow
For the blue

Let's send new blue
Skies that knew old red
Old red put to bed

Our Blue and Yellow

Cover Art: Wilhelm Grimm (left) and Jacob Grimm (right), portrayed by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1855) PD-US
Music and Lyrics Copyright 2025 Joe Stroffolino

Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the forest all alone.
They stumbled across a delicious looking candy-coated home.  A cannibalistic witch captured them and put them in a cage. Those were the kind of stories they used to tell children at a young age.

The brothers Grim told stories that were a reflection of their time
There was disease famine and poverty and things were not going fine 
We had to sanitize the stories because our modern stomachs are weak
And you’ll get in trouble if you read a book to kids, and it makes them shriek

Three little pigs were in a brick house trying really hard to survive 
The big bad wolf came down the chimney, fell in a pot of water and was boiled alive.
Cinderella’s stepsisters wanted to marry the prince, but they couldn’t fit into her shoes so they chopped off their heels and toes because they had so much to lose 

The brothers Grim told stories that were a reflection of their time
There was disease famine and poverty, and things were not going fine 
Little Red Riding Hood in the bedroom with a wolf dressed in human clothes.
Wondering why her grandmother had sharp teeth and a snout instead of a nose. Jack climbed the beanstalk, there was a giant who wanted to grind up his bones and make some bread. He stole the magic harp and the hen that laid golden eggs and the giant ended up dead

There’s days when you want to take a sheet of tin foil and stick it in your baseball cap
To keep all those negative thoughts from getting in your head and making you a miserable chap
Did it all start when you were a child, and your mother read you that bed time story that perhaps in retrospect may have been a bit too dark and gory

The brothers Grim told stories that were a reflection of their time
There was disease famine and poverty and things were not going fine 
Now we environmental devastation, nuclear weapons and milk that might have bird flu
Just turn on the news you don’t need a fairy tale to put the fear of God in you
But if you take away all the parts that are dark, sick twisted and gory. 
Do you have anything left that actually resembles a good story.
***
Vocals and backing vocals -  Joe Stroffolino 
Guitars - Joe Stroffolino ( 2 Strumming tracks: Taylor 114ce and Fender Squire and I picking track:Taylor114ce)
Bass, Saxophone, Horns: PG Music Real tracks
Piano andi Strings: PG Music and Native Instruments
Drums: EZ drummer 3
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro 11

The Brothers Grim

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I just want to say that nothing would have been done here without the encouragement from the really great people here in the SC community.  Thank you.
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Circles

~Mark F