So I run, I run to you

SHAKIN' MY TREE is the raw, unflinching sound of a broken heart caught between leaving and loving. The DC Sound Project delivers a soul-stirring track about the dizzying fall from grace when a relationship turns toxic. It's a confession wrapped in a melody—a defiant admission of pain where the only lie is pretending that "my heart wasn't breakin'." A deeply honest look at the moment you realize you're 'deep fried' and 'tongue tied,' but still magnetically drawn to the one who brought you down.

Lyrics

Don't get me wrong, 
I'm not lost or forsaken. 
I took a fall,
From you shakin' my tree.
If I was to swear,
That my heart wasn't breakin',
The only one lyin',
Is me.

Under my breath,
I swore that I love you.
There's nothin' left,
There's no reason to stay.
If I was to swear, 
That my heart wasn't breakin'.
I'd see myself right,
By the end of the day.

Call off the dogs,
I've done enough runnin'.
I'm deep fried,
I'm tongue tied.
I'm fadin' away.
There used to be so much,
But you left me hangin',
Here on the edge,
With nothin' to say.

Under my breath, 
I swore that I love you.
You standin' there,
On a warm summers day.
My mind was ablaze,
I'd do anythin' for you.
Please don't you stop,
The games that you play.

They keep me grounded, 
I know my place.
All of my senses, 
Explode into space.
So if I was to swear,
That my heart wasn't breakin',
I'd see myself right,
By the end of the day.

SHAKIN' MY TREE

One of 12 new Christmas songs on SoundCloud Christmas playlists 2025.  This is a song about wine and how it emerges from grapes to our tables and social gatherings. Wine has an incredibly long history. This song plays homage to that history and hopefully entertains you and your friends/family at social events this year. Following are the lyrics for those interested:

WINE DANCE

[verse]

Berries glisten at morning light, sheen of dew born of night
In warmth of sun growth's begun
Color shows green to red, even gold 
At first frost grapes part the vine, merging next as nectar wine..ooh...nectar wine

[chorus]

Raise a toast to lessons past, taste ambrosia from your glass
Naught but wine has held a place where people seek both mirth and grace
Lusty red to golden white the living liquid brings delight
To we hale people all well met,  better still when lips are wet. 

[verse]

Wine brings joy when friends unite, leaving long remembered nights
With ruby red, depths are plumbed and inhibitions oft succumb  
Wine spurs thoughts we’ve never thought, some worthwhile, some are not.

[chorus]

Raise a toast to lessons past, now sip ambrosia from your glass
Naught but wine has held a place as people seek both mirth and grace.
Lusty red to golden white the living liquid brings delight
Taste this gift that for a night sends woes and cares to misty flight…woes and cares take misty flight…cares take misty flight...

Wine Dance Happy Holidays

Arms Around Me

[Verse 1]
Your arms found me
the way dusk finds a window—
like it always meant to land there
and stop the shaking

My breath softened
right against your shoulder
like it had finally
run out of places to hide

[Pre-Chorus]
funny how the body knows
before the mind catches up
some truths arrive
as warmth

[Chorus]
And the moment you held me
everything fit—
and the world lined up for a good second
You pulled me close
and it felt like home
like something gentle
I swear the room stopped moving
when your arms wrapped around me

[Verse 2]
I’ve been touched before
but never like this—
never with patience
never listening with their hands

You didn’t say a word you didn’t have to—
your chest rising against mine
told me everything
your mouth couldn’t

[Pre-Chorus]
sometimes the safest place
is just a heartbeat you trust

[Chorus]
And the moment you held me
everything fit—
and the world lined up for a good second
You pulled me close
and it felt like home
like something gentle
I swear the room stopped moving
when your arms wrapped around me

[Bridge]
I didn’t know your touch
could steady the whole sky
didn’t know warmth 
could quiet me down
You held me tight 
and every part of me
finally believed 
I was worth holding

[Final Chorus]
The moment you held me
I knew—this is what right feels like
no rush no fear just two bodies
finding the same quiet second
you pulled me close
and I melted into you—
this small perfect thing
arms that feel like home

Arms Around Me

The heartbeat of lightning set to 80’s synth rock

lightning’s-way.mp3

11/25/2025

I Welcome You Home For Christmas

(FR ) Après "Song of LIA", LIA revient… l’émotion aussi.

Un piano oublié sur le sable, des pas qui s’éloignent,
et une lumière qui s’élève — comme un secret jamais dit.
Une ballade pour ce qui aurait pu l'être…
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La série ExperImentAl explore la glossolalie générée par IA — cette forme de chant où la voix cesse d’être langage pour devenir pure émotion.
▸ La voix semble humaine… mais ne l’est pas tout à fait.
▸ Le langage paraît familier… mais ne signifie rien.
▸ Et pourtant, l’émotion est bien là — palpable, non par le sens, mais par le chant.


(EN ) After "Song of LIA", LIA returns… and so does the emotion.

A lone piano on the sand, fading footsteps,
and a rising light — like an unspoken truth.
A ballad for what could have been…

_________
The ExperImentAl series explores AI-generated glossolalia — a form of singing where the voice stops being language and becomes pure emotion.
▸ The voice sounds human… but isn’t quite.
▸ The words feel familiar… but mean nothing.
▸ Yet the emotion is here — not through meaning, but through melody.

Ballade pour un Non-Dit

AGAIN


🎵 VERSE 1

3AM and my phone’s near dead,
My pride’s been lying cold instead.
Blocked your number, told all my friends
I’m done with you — this chapter ends.

But this city’s cold and my bed is wide,
And my “never again” slipped overnight.
My finger shakes when your name pops up,
To hell with sense — I just want us.


---

🎵 PRE-CHORUS

I know the ending, I’ve read this script,
How you pull me close, then let me slip.
Like stale old coffee, like cheap red wine —
But I’m already halfway down the line.


---

🎵 CHORUS

I do it again, again,
Run laughing toward the crash I know.
I fall again, again,
Break pretty ’cause I can’t let go.

Just one more moment where we feel alive,
I swear I’ll quit you after one last try.
(Lie.)
I do it again.


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🎵 VERSE 2

Your hallway smells like smoke and sin,
We play “happy ending” in your ruin again.
You don’t say much — just pull me close,
Nobody lies like we do, God knows.

Tomorrow morning I’ll hate myself,
Promise I’ll leave, swear I’ll get help.
But right now it’s only your breath on mine,
And how damn well we wreck each other tonight.


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🎵 PRE-CHORUS (Shorter)

I know the ending, I know the script —
The crash comes once the lights all dip.


---

🎵 CHORUS

I do it again, again,
Run laughing toward the crash I know.
I fall again, again,
Break pretty ’cause I can’t let go.

Just one more moment where we feel alive,
I swear I’ll quit you after one last try.
(Lie.)
I do it again.


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🎵 BRIDGE (Spoken/Whispered)

Once is nothing.
Twice — a twist.
Third time’s foolish…
And we’re past fifty of this.

Why am I shocked
that it hurts again?
That it bleeds again?


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🎵 FINAL CHORUS (Explosive)

Come do it again, again!
Drive both our hearts against the wall!
Just once again, again —
Give me the pain, I want it all.

One more moment where we feel alive,
Maybe this time’s when we finally die
(Hope.)
Come do it again.


---

AGAIN

STAY 'TIL THE SUNRISE

DAMN RIGHT, I'M STILL THE ONE

A voice speaks from the middle of grief not the loud kind, but the quiet kind that you maybe can hear in empty rooms and unasked questions. 
The song follows someone walking through the spaces a loved one left behind, imagining how life might have felt if they had stayed. 
Every hallway, 
every chair, 
every silent corner,
is a reminder of what once was.

Two friends still wait in the shadows of memory, hoping for a return that will never come. 
The song keeps circling the same impossible question: “What if you never left?”
Would their lives look different? 
Would the light still be there? 
Would laughter still survive?

As the story unfolds, reality breaks through the dream. 
Time has moved on yet the longing remains. 
The bridge cracks the illusion, showing acceptance mixed with ache.

It’s a song about absence, the weight of remembering, and the fragile hope that the one who left might still hear their name in the night.

A quiet plea for recognition.

A portrait of the ones who stayed.

Enjoy...
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Lyrics:

What If You Never Left

[Verse 1] 
What if the dawn still knew your voice
And your footsteps never faded into silence
What if the chairs, the rooms, the lonely nights 
Could breathe your presence
could erase your absence
In a world where you stayed, would light have remained
Would laughter fill the air instead of the ache
I know I’d be happier, you know I would

[Pre Chorus]
Two friends you left behind still stare in the dark
When your name is whispered, their hearts skip a beat
They don’t live forever, you know
And they still look for you

[Chorus]
What if you never left
Would the autumn leaves still tremble in your wake
Would our reflections find the strength to stand
I just want you to see us
The ones you left behind in the hollow space you made
If you never left, we might have stayed

[Verse 2] 
I walk the halls 
we used to share
And every corner holds a trace of your laughter
The clock ticks soft but the world is loud
With memories of you 
that taste like disaster
I catch a glimpse a smile in someone else’s eyes
And wonder if you ever think of us
Or only of the flight you chose, the night you whispered goodbye

[Pre Chorus]
We are not immortal, you know
Our hearts beat in borrowed time
And when I say your name, they still search. They still hope you’ll come 

[Chorus] 
What if you never left
Would the stars align with the promise of tomorrow
Would the storms pass gently, the sky stay clear
I just want you to see us
The ones whose light faded when you walked away
If you never left
maybe we’d still be here

[Bridge] 
This what if moment holds me in its grip
A mirror of what might have been
But the reflection cracks and the pieces fall
And I see it’s no longer worth dwelling in the past
Yet I still whisper into the night
You left
We stayed
And we remember

[Chorus] 
What if you never left 
Would we still dance beneath the moon’s pale glow
Would our hearts forgive the fear that kept them small
I just want you to see us
Frail, still breathing, still bearing your name
If you never left, would we still be whole
would we still be whole

[Outro] 
Look for us in the silence
In the empty air between your words
We don’t live forever
But we remember you
What if you never left

What If You Never Left

Written and performed by Bluebird
Produced by Richard Brown and Bluebird 

Lyrics:

I saw you sleeping while you were awake
Like a thousand pieces all out of shape
Why are you hiding? Why can't you be yourself?
Why are you hiding? Why can't you see yourself?
 
Wicked little faces, yeah you're wicked little faces

You say you're dreaming of another place
But you don't remember the lines on your face
Why are you hiding? Why can't you be yourself?
Why are you hiding? Why can't you see yourself?
 
Wicked little faces, yeah you're wicked little faces
It's not like me....


Wicked Little Faces

MUSIC MADE IN CANADA: Music has been a large part of my life since my teen years when I started playing guitar. Used to play popular pop and country songs in bars, songs written by other artists but for past couple decades have focused entirely on writing and producing my own songs across a number of genres: pop, country, blues, and more recently dream pop and what I'm calling whiskey blues dream pop, a style that merges the two and that seems complimentary to my ear. I believe each style can sound good and give people pleasure: that's my goal in writing. Now I produce sounds featuring both male and female vocals as the lyrics dictate; variety is the spice of...well, you know. Thanks for listening.

Wine Dance Happy Holidays

Dream Pop Productions