Shayfer James - Good Life

Polka's Not Dead

Sleep Is for the Weak

Taken from the 2007 Sideonedummy release, 'Super Taranta!'

Super Taranta!

Wonderlust King

Melt in the Sun -small fools

We are two mariners
Our ship's sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
It's ribs are ceiling beams
It's guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill

You may not remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eighteen
But, I remember you
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave
At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout
Spending all your money
On the whores and hounds
(oh, oh)

You had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease
As time wore on you proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch
(oh, oh)

And then you disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her mind
Then, one day in spring
My dear sweet mother died
But, before she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
(oh, oh)

"Find him, Bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave"

It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and neat
But, never once in the employ
Of these holy men
Did I ever, once turn my mind
From the thought of revenge
(oh, oh)

One night I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton cruelty
The following day
I shipped to sea
With a privateer
And in the whistle
Of the wind
I could almost hear
(oh, oh)

"Find him, Bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave

There is one thing I must say to you
As you sail across the sea
Always, your mother will watch over you
As you avenge this wicked deed"

And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months at sea
Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets clean
When came this rumbling from beneath
The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed
And before us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale

(oh..)

Don't know how I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
That you should survive
As well as me
It gives my heart great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear
So lean in close
And I will whisper
The last words you'll hear
(oh, oh)

The Decemberists - Mariner's Revenge Song

A word of stone from yesterday,
It left me in a silent fray.
A cold and judging, hollow sound,
On lonely ground, on lonely ground.
I was a soul in disarray,
Until you came and lit the way.

And in your eyes, a mirror gleams,
Fulfilling all my broken dreams.
A soul reflected, pure and whole,
You give me back my very soul.
The world outside just fades from view,
I am restored, in seeing you.

We meet where sun on stone is sleeping,
A truth inside my heart is leaping.
Your quiet gaze, a gentle art,
It mends the pieces of my heart.
The doubt that held me in the night,
Dissolves in this forgiving light.

And in your eyes, a mirror gleams,
Fulfilling all my broken dreams.
A soul reflected, pure and whole,
You give me back my very soul.
The world outside just fades from view,
I am restored, in seeing you.

An angel's presence, soft and low,
That helps a wounded spirit grow.
You guide me from the dark I knew,
And make the fractured self anew.
This bond was waiting from the start,
A sacred space within the heart.

Here in this light, this sacred space, 
The scattered self finds its true place. 
Your eyes reflect what's pure and whole, 
You don't just mend, you give me back my soul.
No longer broken by the fray, 
In your reflection, I can stay.

—
Arrangement and vocals: Volker Redder, Udio, GarageBand
Loops and samples: Volker Redder, GarageBand
Editing and sound design: Volker Redder, Ozone 11, Sound Studio, VirtualDJ, GarageBand
Lyrics: Volker Redder, translated with the help of Google Translate
Cover design: Volker Redder, Adobe Photoshop, FLUXpro, Apple's Keynote

You Give Me Back My Soul

5th Sin-Phonie

I Am All I Got

Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon

Go to the Light

A covered version of "Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel, ShadyVox is back at it again!
Please go and check out the song over on his Bandcamp to show your support for this amazing track: https://shadyvox.bandcamp.com/track/stuck-in-the-middle-with-you

Stuck In The Middle With You

Stuck In The Middle With You (Cover) - Sheriff Hayseed

littleDEATH Masters:

Problem - Coming April 2019
losemyHEAD - Released January 2019
Cheap Beer & Nicotine - Released November 2018

Co-Wrote, Produced, Engineered, Arranged, Performed On, and Mixed all 3 tracks.

Go to the Light

Murder By Death