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Music composed and performed by Todd Brown

Life, drives you to the ground
Kicks you when you’re down
Wants to wear your crown

Love, comes as no surprise
Right before your eyes
With truth instead of lies

Stop explaining
Days are waning
Then you realize
That it’s your time to fly

We have travelled through this life 
Through the tears and strife
To the other side

Dreams, elude us when we sleep
And rivers run so deep
The secrets they will keep

Lives are taken
Plans, forsaken
Then you realize
That it’s your time to fly..

It may be we’ll never understand
Building castles in the sea and sand…

Love, comes as a surprise
Right between the eyes

For the Love of Life

关云长　Guan Yun Chang（？～２２０）

Guan Yun Chang was a Chinese figure from about 1,800 years ago.

He is a popular figure in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, and for some reason is now worshipped as a god of commerce.

He remained loyal to Liu Bei, the founder of Shu Han, and was admired by many of his contemporaries, including Cao Cao, for his extraordinary bravery and sense of duty.

Among the military commanders appearing in "Epic of the Three Kingdoms," he was as popular as Zhuge Liang, and because he valued righteousness, later generations deified him and designated him as the Guan Di (Guan Emperor).

He is worshiped as the god of business in Chinatowns around the world. He is given special treatment in "Epic of the Three Kingdoms" and is described as Kwan Gong rather than Guan Yu.

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关云长是一个大约1800年前的中国人物。
他是《三国演义》中的一个热门人物，由于某种原因，现在被当作商业之神来崇拜。

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战神关云长< The God of War>.mp3.

One by One

It's finally time to set off on your journey, and it's an exciting moment as you wonder what kind of world awaits you!


In 5 billion years, the sun we see every day will exhaust its fuel and meet its end. The sun, which will expand larger than Earth's orbit, will engulf the planet and obliterate everything on it. If humanity manages to avoid extinction and maintain its civilization, we will abandon our mother Earth and migrate to another planet. However, the sun of that new planet will also eventually die, and once again, we will set off for another planet. There is no place in this universe where humanity can live permanently.

Is this tragedy, which will occur 5 billion years from now, the first of its kind in this universe? No, it is a catastrophe that has struck countless intelligent life forms over the course of 13.7 billion years. There must have been life forms that, after repeated cycles of war-induced civilizational collapse and rebuilding, could not escape in time and were wiped out by the death of their star. 

Will humanity be able to depart before the death of the sun?


The melody and arrangement are from the MacOS7 era, about 30 years ago.
The external synthesizer sounds that were played with this MIDI file at the time no longer exist.
I replaced them with similar sounds, but I may revise them again.

Departure

Departure（旅立ちの時）

Decided to try recording a short version of this country song recorded by Merle Haggard in 1968.

Today I Started Loving You Again - Cover by Tony

The Recursives in party mode - live at the Hand pub with an Elvis classic. And it’s Elvis’s 90th birthday today 😎
Neil - lead vocals and drums
Bri - sax and backing vocals
Al - bass qand backing vocals
tez - guitars

Burning Love - The Recursives live at The Hand

Hello friends! 
We invite each and every one of you to listen to our next track together! We hope you enjoy the vibe! 
Thanks for liking, reposting and commenting! 😎🎹🎸
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Bill Brooks (Remnant60) ..... synths, bass, production and mixing
Surfers like Us ..... guitar, composition

Things Change (w/Remnant60)

Lyrics:

laying on my bed like an ocean
waiting for the sun to rise
so much emotion so many questions
will i ever love again

sick of changing places
sick of empty faces
i believe in everything
but i don't really care
sick of missing out
on all my empty dreams
i believe in everything
but i don't really
i don't really care

Empty Faces (alt. mix)

I Wanna Rock

1934..rumbling round the Riviera with my rumbustious rabscallion jazz ravers. Tended to favour matinée performances, leaving the nights free for freeform experimentation into the long-term effects of toxifying agents on the human condition. 

One of our troupe, Dmitry, hailed from Minsk, Belarus. A talented flautist,  he had to give up after a fairground curse left him with a continually dripping nose. Untended, he would have mucus from chest to toenail in seconds. A beaker secured rather painfully to his top lip gave him some respite. 

In concert, he found a niche by standing on a large tin box, eyes fixed on the back of the hall and allowing his snozzle to drip with metronomic precision, thereby creating a not unpleasant percussive 'thwock' sound . Didn't miss a beat. Had to slop out in the interval of course. Later moved into heavy industry, lubricating machinery with his sniffer! 

Dmitry's multi-pitched vibe is captured here.
Be good

Nick

Dmitry The Drip

This is what I did.
Fast asleep now
Time was our only enemy 
Be good
Nick

Dmitry The Drip

Nicholas Ridiculous