🔥 "Bag It Up" - Track 8 from "City Lights Desert Nights" 🔥

"Bag It Up" isn't just a track; it's an anthem, a sonic embodiment of success. As the eighth gem in our album, "City Lights Desert Nights," it encapsulates the essence of ambition, hustle, and the ultimate triumph. 💼💥

Join us on this audio journey, where trap beats intertwine with futuristic vibes, creating a symphony of victory and accomplishment. Let the rhythm drive you through the neon-lit pathways towards your triumphs.

08 Bag It Up - Jaywalkerblack & Shooting Stars - City Lights Desert Nights

Official video via this link: 

https://youtu.be/hTVqDsQmymU?si=gREErNDuCOFMVDI2

music & drums performed on Roland Jupiter 80 
Written & produced by Mike Molino, Mastered at @woods_studio
Wolf photo courtesy of michaelsongs visit their YouTube page here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKGeO4yHBqhe2nu9TTFOZA

Ran to the mountain top but still not high or far enough away 
I still could hear them call my name 
Chocking on soda pop it fizzled to my tired and worried brain 
For a moment I forgot their pain 
Love, Used to hold each other when the day was done
Love, Now we duck and cover cause we can’t outrun 
My girl is beautiful sharp mind hot body personality 
She brings to life my wildest dreams 
My mind is hijacked thinking real is fake 
now true and fantasy is on a collision course full steam 
Love, Acting like a stranger but I know you well
Love, Waving to each other from across the cell 
deja vu  I lose my mind just thinking bout you
But then it’s 
Holy smokes when you come around here 
Oh yeah 
Believe in me like I believe in you 
She has a softer side when showcased on the full sized movie screen
But when the lights go down oh no
From far away the hurricane looks like a pillow in the blue 
The silver lining hides the truth 
Love, Used to hold each other when the day was done
Love, Now we duck and cover cause we can’t outrun 
Love, Acting like a stranger but I know you well
Love, waving to each other from across the cell
I used to get real scared just thinking bout it WWIII 
now psychopathic thugs have got nothing on me
But still it’s 
Holy smokes when you come around here

come around here

¡Esta conga no es una anguila! 

Believe me; I should know. We've been sharing a room for weeks!

This Conga Ain't No Eel

The fourth song of our summer series "We Can Solve Most Things If We Talk" is a hymn to Hope.  It is the enduring attribute of mankind to be able to think beyond the most painful circumstances and imagine a better life and a better world.  Peter is not just a fine writer of melody and lyrics, but a very able and eloquent guitarist and vocalist.  Oddrun graces this song with her angelic voice as if she were Hope itself, and in duet they give the song wings.  Seagull's synths, bass, and mix are ever sure and seamless, a true labor of love.
Music, Lyrics, Guitars & Vocals; Our dear poet Peter, soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Vocals; Soundcloud's most wonderful voice; Oddrun, @oddrun-eikli
Compilation and mix by visionary producer; Seagull, @farout-music-studio

Will you Raise Your Right Hand?

Peter
Can you number the circle’s rim, each point on a list?
Enumerate the air, simply cupping of your hands
Freedom lantern’s falling dim in honesty’s fading mist
But will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Oddrun
Can you census the clouds, in a ledger of the sky
Set out in a single line each and every grain of sand
When the despot weaves his thieving lies will you stand idly by
Or will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Peter & Oddrun
Can you audit every atom, in a volume for the shelf
Each uniquely named, indexed on demand
Does the mirror only fathom, a shallow of your self
Or will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Oddrun & Peter
Can you detail every shimmered light on a canvas of the stars
A snapshot of the cosmos as at light speed it expands
Will you document but passive shame in the volumes of your pale memoirs
Or will you raise your right hand, when hope makes its stand?

Oddrun & Peter
Can you hoist the flag of humankind above the crass material world
Crush the armies of greed, their legions to disband
When the shining banner of grace is finally unfurled
Did you raise your right hand, when hope made its stand?

Hopeful Man--Will You Raise Your Right Hand (Peter, Oddrun, and Seagull)

Days in the sun
Wonders of love

What we gave up
Can’t believe us
How could we not find a way forward?

Stars off course
A black hole in my heart
Pulls me 
Always with remorse

I feel the force
I fall apart
When I think of what we could have been

Jupiter spins
With 95 moons when 
Venus has not one
For lovers like us

Sunsets fading
I keep thinking
We could have made it
That could have been us
Could have been us

Love Love Love
Is such a fleeting light
Love Love Love
Is it worth the fight tonight

Tonight
I’m waiting all night

And I’m still willing to try
Is there a way for us to save us

I feel a pull
I feel our hearts
Gravitating

Is there a way for us to save us
a way to save us



Stars still off course
Rip open my heart
Fools pulled apart 
Once more

Love and divorce
The fight’s no more
And all I think 
What could have been 
Us

Jupiter spins
Even worlds end
Venus cools when
Lovers give up

Sunsets fading
I keep thinking
We could have made it
That could have been us.
Lyrics written by Chris Barnett for Questionable Enterprises LLC. © 2024

Wild Christopher & Unguided Express-We could have been

Album My Strange Night Stories
nowyyorg 2024

Why Always Me ?

Hoppin' & Boppin'

One of Jobim's all-time classics. Done with more keyboard than has been usual for me with these songs.

Meditation

A short song loosely based on a real guy I worked with in a CD/Record store. He was one of those guys who knew everything in their musical area of interest, from the most obscure to commercial. C'mon, you've met this guy!
From the album "Röckers" (2024)

Lyrics:
Are you looking for some metal?
You're gonna have to wait around for a while
Are you looking for some metal?
Yeah, you're gonna have to wait around

For record store Eric
Cause that's his section
And he's possessive about it
Record store Eric
He knows all the metal that you need
Whether it's Screamo
On Japanese Imports
Death metal blue?
Just write down what you want
On a Post-It
I swear
He's gonna call you back
He's gonna call you back

Record store Eric
He's a rock & roll cleric

Ahh, well, we don't touch anything in his section
He says
Eric: "Just keep it in the backroom."
Eric:  " I'll shelve it when I get in."

He knows all the metal bands that you want
If you want a band from the 90s
Put out one album
On Sub Atomic Records
From Reseda
His hair line's receding!
Record store Eric
Rock & Roll cleric
If you want Nu-Metal
Eric: " Why the hell would you want that?"

Record Store Eric

Lost Girl [Thought I'd Lost You Forever]

[Verse]
Lost girl in the moonlight, call my name
Thought I'd lost you forever, no more games
Fading in the shadows, feel your trace
But I'm holding on, still sense your space
Through the echoes, I hear our song play
In the dark, love's fire keeps my heart swayed

[Chorus]
Every time I close my eyes
I feel you whisper in these skies
Holding on to what we've known
Love like a river, can't let go

[Verse]
Our paths diverged in the misty haze
Yet your memory lingers, through the maze
In the midnight silence, hear your sigh
But I'm reaching out, beyond the night
In the quiet, our story unfolds
Through the tears, our bond ever bold

[Chorus]
Every time I close my eyes
I feel you whisper in these skies
Holding on to what we've known
Love like a river, can't let go

[Bridge]
Though the pain cuts deep and wide
Our love's an endless, rhythmic tide
In the fractures, the light seeps through
Brutal love, yet beautifully true

[Chorus]
Every time I close my eyes
I feel you whisper in these skies
Holding on to what we've known
Love like a river, can't let go

Lost Girl [Thought I'd Lost You Forever]

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