From a Late Northern Summer in 2025 and continuing into Fall. All lyrics and words written by Mark Brunke, music generated with or via prompt, both textual and musical, and then manipulated by me, Mark. It's really like coaxing a performance through careful suggestion. I'm an experienced musician. Similarly to how one would hire musicians and give them the details of a song. The lyric based pieces are all started from scratch. Updated: Mixing it up more, still everything in this Playlist, the music is written by me and Ai and I'm mixing, to distribution. I start with phone vocal or guitar melody notes, or old mixed demos. I have an exceptional level of control and just fiddle with it in Suno until it's done. That's what this is, writing music by iteration of original prompt and lyrics, now with melodic and rhythmic inputs. Yet another update, really more of a tool in my shed now, and I'm not going to give away what's in the sauce, you like, come on back, we'll have all the hits you love to hear. All lyrics and music copyright Mark Brunke 2025, ASCAP.

Dreamtime- Today's Top 40 Hits

“Transistor Hymn” reflects on the turbulent spirit of 1966, weaving historical imagery and personal memories into a haunting meditation on conflict, identity, and the search for a better future. The lyrics explore themes of war, political disillusionment, and cultural upheaval through vivid snapshots: a family watching the world unravel through a TV screen, protest signs etched in café windows, and music becoming both escape and resistance. As the verses move from past to present, the song draws a line between then and now, questioning whether progress has truly been made or if history simply loops in new disguises. The chorus poses a raw, unresolved question—can a fractured world still be reimagined? Through its stark imagery and lyrical contrasts, the song ultimately carries a quiet but persistent call for peace, understanding, and renewal, grounded not in grand slogans, but in the everyday acts of remembrance and change.


Transistor Hymn

(Verse 1)
I saw you vanish through silver rain
Dancing slow with a ghost in chain
Your shadow brushed a name I can’t say
It cuts like glass but drifts away

(Pre-Chorus)
Someone whispered, “Stars remember
But love burns out like dying embers”
I close my eyes, but I still hear
Your voice dissolve, yet feel you near

(Chorus)
Oh my heart, will you ever be mine?
You’re a constellation I can’t align
Oh my love, you’re the dream I can’t hold
A frozen fire, a story untold

(Verse 2)
She said, “Wait, maybe some other time
Not now, not here, just cross the line”
I said, “Forever is a cruel word
But I’ll keep waiting, unheard”

(Bridge)
Drift through waves of hollow sound
Your name is lost but still I’m found
The less I know, the less I bleed
But you’re the ghost my soul still needs

(Chorus)
Oh my heart, will you ever be mine?
You’re a constellation I can’t align
Oh my love, you’re the dream I can’t hold
A frozen fire, a story untold

(Outro)
“Say something sweet,” I hear you sigh
“Come on dreamer, tell your last goodbye”
“Come on dreamer, tell your last goodbye”
Fade into the sky…

oh my heart

[Verse 1]
You left your coat on the chair
Keys still hang, but you're not there
Your name's still in my phone
But I don’t pick up when I'm alone

You were smoke in my chest
Now you're just a little less
I used to wait for your sound
Now I don't look around

[Chorus]
You don’t live here anymore
Not in my bed, not at my door
Not in the cracks of the kitchen floor
You don’t live here anymore
No more steps on the second stair
No more shirt that you used to wear
No more waiting like before
You don’t live here anymore

[Verse 2]
Your cup’s still in the sink
But I don’t stop to think
You were fire in disguise
Now just ashes in my eyes

I don’t rewind your voice
I’ve learned I have a choice
You were thunder in my room
Now I sleep right through

[Chorus]
You don’t live here anymore
Not in my bed, not at my door
Not in the dust, not in the drawer
You don’t live here anymore
No more notes on the bathroom glass
No more hoping that you'd come back
I don’t knock like I did before
You don’t live here anymore

[Bridge]
Ooh, I changed the locks
Ooh, I lost the map
Ooh, you were just a ghost
I finally let collapse

[Final Chorus]
You don’t live here anymore
Not in the light, not in the war
Not in my dreams like before
You don’t live here anymore
You don’t live here anymore
You don’t live here…

You don't live here anymore

Dreamtime

Open Season categorizes the difficulties the USA has had during the last four years.

1. You Can't Keep a Good Man Down

Fading Lines

Too Unkind

Outside

To Work and to War by The Prismatics is a powerful, anthemic ballad that explores the dual burdens of labor and conflict that shape the human spirit. With its driving rhythm and lyrical grit, the song reflects the lives of men caught between the grind of daily toil and the call of battle — a cycle of sacrifice, endurance, and resilience.

The verses paint stark images of factories, fields, and battlefronts, where sweat, struggle, and silence forge both despair and hope. The chorus swells with a martial cadence, echoing the sound of fifes and drums, embodying the march of generations bound to labor and sacrifice. Yet beneath the weight of struggle lies a yearning for freedom, redemption, and a dream beyond the plow and the battlefield.

Blending raw storytelling with soaring refrains, To Work and to War is at once haunting and inspiring. It’s a song for dreamers and fighters alike — an ode to endurance, solidarity, and the relentless pursuit of meaning in the face of hardship.

To Work And To War

To Work and to War

If I Could

Artist's Waltz (Saturnine Mine Waltz)

alt-Pop, Downtempo, Dreampop, Exotica, Lounge Pop, Indie Pop, Pop, Jazz-Pop

last saturday (pippa’s version)

Golden Radio Dawn

Lyrics: 
A simple moon ray
Lit up my room
A fragile whisper
Dissolved the gloom
The steady thumping of my heart
Made me wonder why you never came back

Why do you make it seem so easy
To break the oaths, to shatter the glass
I can’t accept the anatomy of absence
I still sense your skin almost all the time

I stare at the abyss of the night sky
I see us in a vision, the remnants of your touch

In the gravity of your absence, I drift through the void
Dark matter thoughts where the light is destroyed
And I lay here… love deployed.

Come on, don’t leave me with my cryptic parables
It can’t be so easy to live your life as if I was never yours
I’m here, trying to poetize this burning feeling
To romanticize what’s fleeting
To make some sense of why you’d go

One moment you believed it, the next you were leaving
You left me feeling small, so pathetic
All I have is to cling to some dignity
By telling this story like it’s prophetic…

In the gravity of your absence, I drift through the void
Dark matter thoughts where the light is destroyed…

All I want to say is I hate that you’re gone
And I loathe that you forgot
And I hope that you regret it,
That your heart can’t forget it,
When my shadow appears, may you endlessly dread it

Lyrics, production, covert art: Adriana Lazcano

all I want to say..

If Only

Ce n’est pas une chanson d’amour, mais une lumière qui s’ouvre, une respiration, un miroir, une main tendue..

Témoin tranquille

Guitarist, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Engineer, Sound Design, Sound Mixing, Sound Sculpture, Sound for Film and Video, Sound Art Installation. I also play bass.

If I Could

Mark Brunke

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