Name: Evolved Self by Ora Belle
Duration: 4 min 31 s
Description: Lyrics © 2025 Ora Belle. All rights reserved.

“My Learned Peace” is not about a peace found by chance, but a peace earned and protected. It’s the calm that comes after the storm — when you’ve learned to no longer tolerate energies that don’t resemble your own.
An introspective piano piece reflecting growth, healing, and self-awareness — the quiet that follows understanding. A silent dialogue between two souls, where the piano becomes voice, breath, and reconciliation.
🎹 Written and composed by Liz Dicker & Francesco Adornetto

My Learned Peace

"The Magi represent all those who, led by a grace they do not yet fully understand, leave the familiar comforts of their own culture and their own 'wisdom' to seek a Truth that is greater than themselves." 
- Thomas Merten

"O star of wonder, star of night, guide us to thy perfect light." 
– John Henry Hopkins Jr., from the hymn "We Three Kings".

A piano improvisation for Christmas...Toward the end, the music begins to slow down, marking the final steps of a weary, miles-long pilgrimage. This change in pace represents the shift from "seeking" to "finding" - the quiet peace of a journey successfully completed.

Journey of the Magi

A quiet song about time passing, expectations, and learning to be a little less hard on yourself.
Instruments & Recording
Guitars:
Acoustic guitar performed by me on a Taylor 114ce, with a second supporting guitar part from a PG Music RealTrack.
Vocals:
Lead and harmony vocals performed by me.
Keys:
Piano and keyboard parts from PG Music MIDI tracks, along with a Logic Pro session piano track using an electric piano sound.
Bass:
PG Music MIDI bass track using a Native Instruments Rickenbacker bass sound.
Drums:
EZ Drummer 3.
Lyrics – Another Year’s Gone By
Another year’s gone by, one more closer to the day you’ll die
All those goals you’ve set, you haven’t accomplished anything yet
You’re hoping that the next year’s better than the one you left behind
As you stare wistfully at the mountaintop and continue on your climb
They say you should enjoy the journey on your way to your destination
But when the goal is elusive, it’s easy to feel lots of frustration
You’re hoping that the next year’s better than the one you left behind
As you stare wistfully at the mountaintop and continue on your climb
Maybe you should be a little less hard on yourself, maybe you should
Maybe you should cut yourself some slack
In the end it really doesn’t matter if your dreams go boom or bust
In the cosmic scheme we’re here for a short time and then we’re all just dust
Sometimes when you’re on a journey it’s okay to take a detour
Life’s an amazing ride with so many places to explore
Sometimes you feel that maybe you’re just a legend in your own mind
But all that self-doubt you’ve been having, you need to leave it all behind
You can follow your head, or you can let your heart do the navigation
You can follow the crowd, or set off on your own unique migration
Getting all those likes on social media can be intoxicating
And when you don’t get any engagement, it can feel so frustrating
Like Elsa in that movie Frozen, sometimes you gotta let it go
Stop chasing the latest fads, and be the star of your own one-man show
Maybe you should be a little less hard on yourself,  maybe you should
Maybe you should cut yourself some slack
Maybe you should try a little harder to find the silver lining, when things feel grim
Count your blessings and realize things aren’t so bad

Another  Year's Gone By

Evolved Self

This track is inspired by those people who deceive themselves and others...
Here's to being real 🖤
||| From the upcoming album Time Without Light |||
Releases soon on all major streaming platforms

Watch the video here
youtu.be/Yci5S6f8FPk

Lyrics:
Play pretend
Say we're friends
Odds and ends
Strange dividends

Stabbed in the back
A weak attack
Insomniac
Of the Zodiac

Crucify
This Goodbye
A battle cry
On standby

Say no more
Close the door
Forevermore
On this metaphor

I wish you well
In sweet pastel
An infadel
On the carousel

Faker
Heart breaker
Taker
Vindicator



Time Without Light

Faker

Photography by Lindushka lindushka.com: Solar Calendar, Seoul, South Korea.
Quote by Amanitalinda.

Remixes 2026

The Magic Journey to the Wooden Spoon (Extended Version 2026)

(FR) Deux voix se reflètent, comme deux fragments d’une même pensée égarée, elles se croisent dans un miroir sans jamais vraiment se toucher, accompagnées par le timbre boisé du violoncelle.
 "Mirroir" propose une introspection sonore, où l’on écoute autant ce qui est dit que ce qui demeure tu.
La série ExperImentAl explore la glossolalie générée par IA — cette forme de chant où la voix cesse d’être langage pour devenir pure émotion. N’essayez pas de traduire : laissez-vous simplement porter par la musique des mots. 
▸ La voix semble humaine… mais ne l’est pas tout à fait.
▸ Le langage paraît familier… mais ne veut rien dire.
▸ Et pourtant, l’émotion est bien là — palpable, non par le sens, mais par le chant.

(EN) Two voices reflect one another, like fragments of a single scattered thought.
They cross paths in a mirror without ever truly touching,accompanied by the wooden timbre of the cello.
Mirroir offers a sonic introspection — where we listen as much to what is said as to what remains unspoken.
The ExperImentAl series explores AI-generated glossolalia — a form of singing where the voice stops being language and becomes pure emotion.Don’t try to translate — just let yourself be carried by the music of the words.
▸ The voice sounds human… but isn’t quite.
▸ The words feel familiar… but mean nothing.
▸ Yet the emotion is here — not through meaning, but through melody.

Mirroir

'Sometime Later'  After a hectic day sometime an easy listening bit of Alternative Fusion is just "what the doctor ordered" Hopefully this fulfills that requirement. 

My Drouthy Cronie

Sometime Later

Retrofuturistic Spaceship

    Hello everyone, hope everyone is well! For my second song of the brand new year, I offer you a tale of a German Siren called Lorelei. I was reading about this mythical mermaid a couple of years ago and wrote a song about it. I'll give you some background on the legend, originally a water spirit or nymph, the legend was popularized by Clemens Brentano and Heinrich Heine, depicting a beautiful mermaid on a rock who combs her golden hair and sings a mesmerizing song, causing boatmen to crash their boats on the rocks.  "Lorelei sat on the Rhine River in Germany, famous for a siren-like legend of a beautiful maiden whose singing lured boatmen to their doom, inspiring numerous poems and songs."
     I have now written another song to this beautiful blonde maiden of the sea. I wrote the lyrics first and then one day a few years ago in 2023, during the end of the pandemic, I wrote the music to it. It's mostly an acoustic number with a nice little riff to it. I played the Bass part on an Acoustic guitar and really tried to keep it simple with not too much production. The ending is very interesting because it's a bit of another song I was working on but I just stuck it on the end of this song. It seems to have worked ok? Chalie sang it very well and he got into the whole spirit of the thing. He told me he had visited the statue of Lorelei on a trip to Germany as a teenager! Then he showed me a picture of her that he had taken. How cool is that?!? Very cool!

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/Lh4wVQ9BEoM

     I worked hard on the video but sat on it for a few years, I think I finally put it together in 2024 but I just couldn't find too many clips having to do with mermaids or sirens or sea legends and such. So I had to use some clips from Pexels and Pixabay whch may have been A.I.created, I'm not sure, I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to that stuff!! So I was torn on whether to post it or not. The song, I think,  is very good and Charlie sang it very well so I decided to post it this year anyway. It's an original and I hate to have it go to waste. 
     Lorelei is also Marilyn Monroe's charecter's name in the 1953 movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", her name was Lorelei Lee and it always stuck in the back of my mind as a kid. I've always loved Marilyn Monroe growing up, I thought she was awesome!! So when I needed a name for the song, my wife suggested Lorelei and I agreed and ran with it for a touchdown!!!!
     The lyrics are totally made up from all the stories I was reading at the time and I hope you guys like it! I'm always exploring new ways of writing songs, so if you don't like it, please forgive me!🙏
     
“LORELEI”

MY DEAFENING SILENCE,
HAS TAKEN ME BY SURPRISE,    
COLD DARK NAKED DEFIANCE,      
TO THE MAIDEN OF THE RHINE,             
      
FORBIDDEN SECRETS ARE MANY,    
TAINTED LOVE SHROUDED IN MYSTERY,      
RESEMBLANCE SO UNCANNY,     
HER EVIL SONG SEDUCING ME,
     
           
RELEASE ME LORELEI,         
PLEASE DON'T BREAK MY FOOLISH HEART,           
I SEE THE DEMON IN YOUR EYES,             
MY WILL'S AN EMPTY SHELL,          
BEWITCHED UNDER YOUR SPELL,         
LORELEI, 
          
MAIDEN OF THE SEA,    
WITH GOLDEN HAIR AND EYES OF BLUE,    
ENCHANTRESS CALLING ME,  
A SIREN'S CHANT OH SO TRUE,
     
SHALLOW WATERS ARE TAUNTING ME,    
MY NAME A WHISPER ON HER LIPS,          
HER SONG FOREVER HAUNTING ME,     
HER VOICE HAS SUNK MANY A SHIP,
             
RELEASE ME LORELEI,          
PLEASE DON'T BREAK MY FOOLISH HEART,         
I SEE THE DEMON IN YOUR EYES,          
MY WILL'S AN EMPTY SHELL,        
BEWITCHED UNDER YOUR SPELL,         
LORELEI, 

WHO ARE YOU LORELEI?           
WHAT ARE YOU LORELEI?              
WILL I SUCCUMB TO YOUR LIES?            
LORELEI, LORELEI, LORELEI.       

BY JIM VALDES
 © 2023

Evolved Self

Ora Belle

Recent comments

Thomas GT

Mike Fox

Related tracks