A fusion of folk, pop, and blues is the vehicle that carries a lyrical journey of finding emotional and political connection in an ever disconnecting world

Love and Struggle

When I was a boy I had a plan
To save the world as best I can
But as I grew so did a hole
I am who I am and I am no more

Deeper and deeper I found the abuse

Abused every short cut I could find
Took my rewards like an addict in line
Until one day I met a girl
She broke my needles and gave me a world

Deeper and deeper I feel in love with you

All the wrongs that I could right if I could find more pages
But I have found to just put down the book is more courageous 
We only get so many tries before we're left behind
so don't be vain, it's just a game, the end cannot erase us

The hole inside me had been flushed
I found a home inside your touch
Love is a shield in a world at war
and I said, don't worry this world won't hurt me no more

But deeper and deeper I filled my hole with you

The hole inside me had no end
I cooked your love and shot it in
That's the only way I know
I wonder where that hole does go

All the wrongs that I could right if I could find more pages
But I have found to just put down the book is more courageous
We only get so many tries before we're left behind
So don't be vain, it's just a game, the end does not erase us

I don't know,
I don't know,
I don't how to get over you my love.

You got up and walked out the door
Don't worry I won't hurt you no more
I am who I am, and I am no more
Don't worry this world won't hurt me no more

Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Vocals: Ned Parker
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangment: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

The Hole

On the night that we first tried, to open up our lives
I had no idea what laid behind those brownie eyes
And the deeper that I go, the more that I am shown
That there are things that human minds can truly never know

Because I cannot explain, how when we are apart
You can touch my heart and you can share my brain
And put yourself inside, everything I find, everything is you you you

My deepest root, my upper eye
my humming bird, my butterfly
the gem inside the gemini
the horns with which you hold me by
my hooves my hands my heart mi sol
el fuego en my corazon
you live inside it all, I'll never be alone

And the things that you create, seem to rearrange
a world that I can't take into a different place
Where I can search for hope and know that it is true
because everything is you you you

(Chorus)

And the things that I create, are nothing more than shapes
reflections of the quantum beauty that you radiate
And in this search for home, don't ever be afraid
I'm never far away, you'll never be alone

Rhythm Guitar, Vocals: Ned Parker
Lead guitar: Jake Reynolds
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangment: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

El Fuego En Mi Corazon

Tell me what is this line
That you drew in the soil
To restrict my mind
To a piece of the whole

From the Nations of lies
To the nations of poor
There is no fight
Worth fighting for

Do you believe in a line
Does it give you pride
Do you think that your side
Is worth more

From the planets up high
To the rivers down low
There is no price
On a human soul

These lines are designed to keep tied to 1 or 2 economies
And you'll be tried and facing life, if you help an economic enemy

If only it were free to move across these lines and see the families that we were told are our own enemies
That's when we would see, that they're no different, we're all just trying to raise our children but forced fund our own militaries
But same team, same team, same team

So tell me what is this line
That you drew in my mind
Just to make me afraid
So I'd fund your crimes

But from the streets of LA
To the caravan lines
There is no fight
There are no lines

Do you believe in a line
Does it give you pride
Do you think that your life 
Is worth more

Well from the planets up high
To the rivers down low
There is no I
There's only the whole
There's only whole

One way
One way 
One way

Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Drums, Vocals: Ned Parker
Bass: Jake Reynolds
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

Do You Believe In A Line

On the day that Manny ran away 
he made himself a home behind the CVS 
and that's where I had first heard him convey
What he calls sanity

2 in the afternoon
a young man in an old man's body told me not to move
"you'll scare my dinner away"
As two rats ran away

3 burritos later we were in an elevator
just to ride it up and down 
and that's when I had asked you how you hit your brain
b/c I think you're insane, you looked at me and started to say

If I had my reign, I would give it all away
because I can't rule you, but can I rule me?
or do I have to pay to play the only game that you've considered to be sane
Then I will have to buy my way outside this insanity

The first week I moved in down the street
Me and Manny traded places and as he laid in all the blankets
said your ceiling had no stars but my own life is a mess

He said your life is nice, if you don't mind that 9-5
is forever wasted, you'll have no imagination once your 35
and did you hit your brain, b/c I think your insane, but I won't make you change

because (chorus)

Well the days were getting longer, and so was Manny's hunger
and I just got so busy that I lost track of our visits
and I didn't have much money but I grabbed a box of triscuits
and I came around the CVS and found your body motionless
and though I knew you passed away, I hoped you'd hear me say

If I had my reign I would give it all way
because I can't rule you, I can only rule me
or do I have to pay to rule me?
is this the only game that we're allowed to play?
Now you don't have to buy your way outside this insanity
Now you won't have to buy your way outside this insanity
I wish that I could buy your way outside this insanity
So for you I'm going to find my way outside this insanity

Vocals, Rhythm Guitar: Ned Parker
Lead Guitar, Bass: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

Manny

Bye baby Bye
I'm escaping to the sky through the arms of gemini
don't cry baby cry
you will always be my only satellite

And if you love me so
then you'll let me go
take to June upon a moon already orbiting your eye
so you don't have to fight
because your gravity is holding me tight

Bye baby Bye,
You'll be swimming up to Mars on a moonlit cancer tide
Don't cry baby cry
I will always be your only satellite

And if I love you so
Then I'll let you go
And I'll hope you find the ocean tide that leaks beneath my eyes
and sweeps you deep inside
where my gravity is holding you tight

If the fish inside your soul has to swim away
then the earth inside this bull will evaporate
but you can breathe me in, and I will stoke your flame
till your fire burns to coal, till my air returns the rain

and we can try again on the other side of another dream
because I believe that we align no matter what these signs have to say

Bye baby bye,
don't you let this world confine the beauty bubbling in your mind
Cry baby cry,
till the water turns to fire in your eyes

And if you feel alone, and the night gets cold
don't you shiver, I'll deliver you the arms of gemini
they'll wrap you good and tight
and my gravity will hold you tonight

Guitar, Percussion, Vocals: Ned Parker
Production: Jake Reynolds
Lyrics and Arrangement: Ned Parker

Recorded at Otherside Studio

Arms Of Gemini

I am a singer-songwriter based out of Washington DC. I write songs about love, politics, and personal growth. My recorded songs have a folk-pop sound to them. When I play live, I perform as one-man-band with a more raw acoustic sound.