In the velvety night
As stars collide….

I hear your song
It brings my body to life
I feel your rhythm
... a celestial call

I’m drawn to you
As helpless as a moth
To a flickering beam of light
Like a spaceship…
Blasting….
From the earth’s atmosphere
Feel this gravity
Raise auditory desire
We’re dancing on the edge
Of a cosmic crime
Your touch on the deck
It ignites the dance floor
Like a supernova’s fire

My heart is lost
In musical desire

Feel the rhythm
Our bodies sway
Like 2 planets colliding
In one celestial wave

Our love’s the music
That echos through our space
A symphony of passion
That won’t go astray

Our love becomes the music
That echos throughout space
A symphony of passion
That won’t... go... astray

Blast off
Last flight from Mars
In the cosmic night
Where beats align
In the cosmic night
Where we are all one

DJ
I’ll save my soul for you
Forever entwined
In an infinite journey
An intoxicating aurore
Of heavenly harmony

It’s only in these moments
When I feel alive
When I feel alive
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

You’re my shining star
Your music is love

Last Flight From Mars

This instrumental track, performed by GOLTZ (Gunther Benedict-drums, Christoph Musil-bass, Mario Palaschke-keyboards), is the result of a late-night improvisation in the early 1990s.
Cover: Oil painting by my wife Andrea

Dunkelbunt

"Will Ye Go Lassie Go" is a Scottish/Irish folk song that is also known as "Wild Mountain Thyme" or "Blooming Heather". The song is about a young man who asks a young girl to go with him to gather wild mountain thyme. It is a popular folk song with a long history, and there have been hundreds of recordings made of it by various artists. 
About the song
Title: It is known by several names, including "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?", "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "Blooming Heather". 
Origin: The song's tune and lyrics have their roots in the Scottish folk song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Robert Tannahill. 
Theme: It's a love song about a young man asking his "lassie" to go with him to find wild mountain thyme in the heather. 
Popularity: It is a very popular song worldwide and has been recorded by many artists, including The Corries, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, and Kate Rusby".                     

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Image: Alex Kinkate

Will Ye Go Lassie Go- The Corries (Cover)

I did this about a year ago -- posting again because I reworked it a bit, and I just really like the tune. The 2nd & 3rd verses were inspired by a fellow SoundCloud member's life events. Due for release on Spotify Nov 16!!

Is it There

one two three four five six seven
all good children go to heaven

is it there
is it right there by your side

while you were sleeping
a summer rain fell through the night
(hear the sound of the falling rain there in the night)
and the taste of bitter dreams became sweeter
with the gentle sound in your mind
(knowing that soon the sun will rise leaving the night behind)

is it there to remind
that everything will be alright

I put down the page knowing there was no turning back
I watched her breathing in the sacred arc of life
I wandered alone in a hallway lit by an exit light

so much time when you were young
didn't feel the pendulum
now the saturnine faces of the ones we love
you wonder why

if I could have anything that I could keep safe and never undone
I would hold you in this fragile moment in the september sun
it means everything to have you near me





Is it There

not sure what to think, i cant always be wrong...right? its fine. ill be the villian

pieces in her mind

"Follow Your Dreams with all your Heart…" 

from album (LIFE) original release: 2018

mix and mastering by @amin-pishehvar 🙏

Reflection of Dreams

Here's a very special song & video!! It was a collobaoration with Olga V. Glushakova from VerAeternum. I wrote the lyrics and she wrote the music, sang it, perfromed it, arranged it, basically did everything else! Check out her channel on YouTube, it's amazing! She is a magnificent songwriter and performer! A natural star! Link below!

https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCyWV-rT_YK-kdXl3CABwY6g?si=2JpOQqwqmBf7hYIg

  I sent Olga like 5 lyrics and she picked this one to compose the music for and did a great job! I love what she did to bring my lyrics to life! I had offered these lyrics to other musicans before but what she did with them was nothing short of fantastic! It was a wonderful experience, she's the best! As far as the lyrics go, they are quite simple and reflect all things about love and how when you're in love it's everywhere you look. On the billboards, in the movies, in a book, it's in the air!! Olga made it itno a modern sounding song! I think it's great and her and her team did a superb job with it. 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/QrpLfWs-3is

I added a little musical build up at the begining of the video and then mixed her video into it. I hope everyone enjoys it and goes over to her channel and subscribe and support Olga, she is an amazing artist! Thanks for watching and take care everyone!

“I DON’T CARE WHY"

IT’S UP THERE ON BILLBOARDS,    
IN EACH BALLADEER’S SONG,   
AT CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY,      
OR JUST DRIVING ALONG, 
WHENEVER I’M CLOSE TO YOU,    
I FEEL IT STIRRING INSIDE,  
UNDER THE MOONLIGHT,     
IN STORMY OR SUNNY SKIES,    
DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, 
BUT I DON'T CARE WHY,        
      
WHILE DRINKING MY COFFEE,    
WHILE READING A BOOK,   
IT’S IN EVERY MOVIE,   
WHEREVER I LOOK,    
THAT FEELING COMES OVER ME,    
WHEN I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES,    
CAN’T SEEM TO SHAKE IT,     
NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRY,    
DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, DON'T UNDERSTAND IT,     
BUT I DON'T CARE WHY,

WHILE I'M TAKING A SHOWER,  
HAVING MY LUNCH AT NOON,    
AT THE TOP OF EACH HOUR,    
IN EVERY PHASE OF THE MOON,   
WHAT A STRANGE ODD SENSATION,   
THERE’S JUST NOWHERE TO HIDE,    
I GUESS I’M IN LOVE?     
THAT MUST BE THE REASON WHY,    
DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, DON'T UNDERSTAND IT,      
BUT I DON'T CARE WHY,    
NO I DON'T CARE WHY,     
DON'T REALLY CARE WHY,    
I JUST DON'T CARE WHY.   

BY JIM VALDES & OLGA GLUSHAKOVA © 2025

"I DON'T CARE WHY" (Video - https://youtu.be/QrpLfWs-3is)

This is the quiet version of the song. It's about those conversations you have in your head, that you never say out loud. Sometimes they are about other people, and sometimes they are about yourself. Sometimes they make sense, and sometimes they don't. Others make you laugh, and others make you cry. But they are all you, and it's OK to have them. Wherever they take you, please try to remember that you are loved and important to someone <3

I made two versions, depending on the mood that you are feeling. Sometimes we need to some nice quiet acoustic guitar :D

Didn't
If it didn’t matter then
Why did you let go slow
Maybe you don’t mean it
And you want me to
Let you know

If it didn’t matter
Then why did you
Burn those letters
That I wrote for you
But I would too
Because they were
Long and boring
To tell the truth

If it didn’t matter then
Why did you say I’d better
Be taking good care of them
Of course I would be, I’m a jerk
Not a monster and those cats
Are my daughter’s
And I love how they got her
And they’ll always sleep on me

If it didn’t matter then
Why did you say she’s better
Off without me
But you never said that
but I did… to myself…

I did it again
It’s just something I do
But it’s not who I am
I’m a man, not a monster
And those cats are my daughters
And I love how they got her
And they love me to bother
And eat all of my pizza
And they’ll always sleep on me

If it didn’t matter then
Why did you
Say the weather reminded
Of you of that one day
When we stopped the car
because the rain

Didn't (quiet)

Wow, this is it, the final song I will be posting for the untitled album Stricknice, Bitzone, Wou-Wou & the Wormling and I have been working on! We posted the first song, “Ghosting Out,” from this set on January 4, 2021. I started this set of 12 songs in 2020, during the pandemic, using demo tracks that Wou-Wou graciously allowed me to use. I can’t, yet totally can, believe that it took 5 years to finish and finally post all the songs. I am still not sure if all 12 songs will be included in the album since the total run time is about 43 minutes and I like albums to be a little closer to 30 minutes. We still also need to decide on the track sequence. Eventually the album will be posted the album on Bandcamp for free. 

I have written it many times before and I will write it again, it has been an immense pleasure and honor and blast to work with Sticknice, Bitzone, and Wou-Wou on this set of songs. I feel so lucky to have had this opportunity.  

Track Credits:
Heartscore: Violin
https://soundcloud.com/heartscore/tracks
https://heartscore.bandcamp.com/album/the-edge-of-times
https://www.youtube.com/dirkradloff
Stricknice: Guitar
https://soundcloud.com/j-nice-6
Bitzone: Additional Drums and Bass, Mix, and Master
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
https://www.bitzones.net
Wou-Wou & the Wormling: Synth, Synth Bass, Drums, Original Demo Track, Song Art
https://soundcloud.com/wouwouandthewormling
https://wouwouandthewormling.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/wouwouandthewormling
the Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, Samples, Production
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

I don’t wanna have to do this
But I would be terribly remiss
If I just pretended to shoot and miss 
Maybe I could find somebody nobody’ll reminisce 
Maybe I could find somebody deserving the abyss 
The kiss of deaths sweet lips 
The heat of cold bullets
Rationally tearing you from the grips 
Of life meaningless in this soulless culture gone amiss 
I’ve been hunting these woods since my childhood 
Living as any self respecting and god fearing man should
sovereign and secured in responsibility for one’s own livelihood  
The devil wants you to believe in falsehoods 
and city life leads to no good
The heathens all had me misunderstood 
I wouldn’t want to be with them if I could

It feels like its been me and the bird forever now 
And i can’t allow myself to let him down 
I have him in my sight 
But there is two of ‘em 
Damn it 
What am I going to do with ‘em 
I’m going to have shoot both of ‘em 
I can’t leave a witness
Gotta move with swiftness 
At least this 
male’s a total stud 
and bird will pleased 
As he falls with a thud as his chest spews out blood 
and soil turns to mud
This is the right thing to do, isn’t it
After all I made an agreement 
I can’t permit 
Bird to throw a fit
or It’ll be me my head 
that sits on that wall 
And I really wouldn’t want him to leave me 
and be alone again

The Shrike Pt. 4

Heartscore, Stricknice, Bitzone, Wou-Wou & The Wormling, and the Couch King - The Shrike Pt. 4

I was jealous of you
So strong and so handsome
But I never knew
That death held you ransom

It’s so long ago
The days they die in decades
And I still do not know 
If our ghosts ever age

I remember your face
Though your voice drifts away
No phones now remain
From back in the day

You had a sweet lover
You were true to her
And I wonder, my brother
If she could have been your future

I know who you were — I know who you’ve been
You are eternally seventeen

November is cold
Your death made it colder
Never getting old
As the Winter gets older

When you departed
The world shrank so small
You left us cold-hearted
Left a shadow on us all

I sand and I wrote
In some strange sort of penance
To all of the ghosts
That remain as our tenants

You never learned tod rive
You just began to live
But you were so alive
In the time that God did give

I know who you were — I know who you’ve been
You are eternally seventeen

I don’t know where you are
O, brother, where art thou?
But there’s memory in this heart
In this moment, in tis now

There’s hatred in the loss
Though you’re forever pure
Maybe those who pay the cost
Are those who must endure

But I laid blame beneath your feet
And I screamed to skies
For I could never meet
Whichever god had closed your eyes

You were halfway through college
You never quite left school
You died while you’re still honest
You eternal, young fool

I know who you were — I know who you’ve been
You are eternally seventeen




Seventeen Acoustic

Silver Charm

11_7_25: New song out, in two different flavors :D Hope you all enjoy!

Moe Kim is middle-aged man who doesn't usually refer to himself in the third person. In another life he was a surgeon but left the field because he got really tired and needed some rest. Now he has more time to record music, which is way more fun than living at the hospital.