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Know your worth

Choose you and never abandon yourself for someone else. Let how someone else treats you be about them and not about what you did wrong. You are worthy of love and should never settle for less than what you deserve.

All too often we blame ourselves for how we are treated, but people show us who they are and when they do we have to believe them and not place blame on ourselves when people are unkind to us.

This is just a friendly reminder from someone who has walked this path and learned a few things along the way 🙂

Much ❤️ 

Mandy Alicia

check out all my music here https://linktr.ee/mandyalicia

Shut And Lock That Door

Mr and Mrs Livingstone
How nice to meet you, if I can
Living in an ancient land
In a house of sand.

Can you see me, smudged and tall
I’m standing on the garden wall
The tree line and the house are worn
The hillside is a bed of thorns.

I trust that you are feeling well
Almost recovered from the spell
And that this Afro carnival
Is not too hard to bear.
 
It must be time to talk again
As we did before the rain
Somewhere the steam was falling down
And I was in another town.

Summer wasn’t coming then
Your grandmother was all of ten
I was on the garden wall
The seaside was a bed of thorns.

I trust that you are feeling well
Almost recovered from the spell
And that this Afro carnival
Is not too hard to bear.

Mr & Mrs Livingstone r3

Irresponsibility is just fine, as long as you keep what's important to you.

Song : Hiroyuki Ishimoto
Lyrics : Yuji Yamamoto 
Produce : Davy Lotsbooks 
Performance : Gatta

Lyrics: 

Looking up at the sky,
The clear air permeates my body.
Just like tidying up a desk,
I simply discard what is unnecessary.
What is important is kept close.

When I feel lighter, I'll find “IT”.
IT's why I'm here now.
I've just kept doing IT all along.
From now on, I'll continue to polish IT.
Don't forget what's important.
Don't forget what's important.

I don't know anymore, I don't care.
Being irresponsible is just fine.

It's just fine. It's just fine.

It's like being pushed by a gentle wind,
Flowing smoothly, a bit lonely.

I don't know anymore, I don't care.
Being irresponsible is just fine.
I don't know anymore, I don't care.
Being irresponsible is just fine.

It's just fine. It's just fine.
It's just right. It's just right.

Just fine. / ちょうどいいのさ

Our first new song as Watchglass reunited. This started as a single idea that came to me through pondering another duo, Moon and Aries, who make music, separated by half a planet and yet not separate at all in their vision and shared passion. We hope you enjoy!  
PS Mark made a YouTube video for this one and we would love for you to stop by and let him know what you think. He's a quiet achiever but he's really proud of this and ought to be so.
https://youtu.be/sm6s5wXZqbw

It's not every day
It's not every lifetime
Something like this comes along
Hold it close
Feel it breathe
You have each other now.
She's come back to you.
There could be worse things
And better still to come.

Copyright Gina Graham 2022

If you love me keep me

Eons Romance

Vocals and Lyrics: @kaerian-1

Music:  Laar @https://soundcloud.com/user-325797522 (Recorded with Squire Jaguar, Squire CV 70s Jazz Bass and Fruity Loops. Drum patterns are taken from FL FPC plugin

Photograph: by Eric Pitteloud (all rights reserved)

Lyrics
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Ne t'approche pas trop près de moi
(les dramas c'est pas pour moi)
Je n'aime pas
Je n'aime pas être entourée
par tous ces gens bien intentionnés
qui cherchent à me corriger
me conformer à leurs normes
modifier ma vraie forme
(j'essaie de m'échapper, mais je me fais toujours rattrapper)
les vieux réflexes me laissent perplexe

La vérité c'est que j'aime être entourée
par des gens apaisés
sans combats de guerriers
non je peux plus digérer (gérer)
cette atmosphère de guerre
constante
idiote compétition
envahissante
incessante et persistante
Ne t'approche pas de moi
pour initier un combat
non je ne veux pas
que mon temps serve à ça
fatiguée de lutter
il y'en a si peu
il est si précieux
dépitée de gaspiller

rien ne sert de faire un drame
inutile est ce vacarme
l'expérience est faite
même si c'est une défaite
rien ne sert d'abimer le passé
inutile de vouloir l'effacer
juste avancer

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Don't get too close to me
(dramas are not for me)
I don't like
I don't like being surrounded
by all these well-meaning people
who try to correct me
to conform to their standards
change my true form
(I try to escape, but I always get caught)
the old reflexes leave me confused

The truth is that I like to be surrounded
by peaceful people
without warrior fights
no I can't digest (manage)
this atmosphere of war
constant
silly competition
invasive
incessant and persistent
Do not approach me
to initiate a fight
no I don't want
my time to be used for that
tired of fighting
there's so little of it
it is so precious
sorry to be wasteful

there's no point in making a mess
it's useless to make a fuss
the experiment is done
even if it is a defeat
there is no point in damaging the past
no point in trying to erase it
just move on

Ne t'approche pas

Ne T'approche Pas (Kaerian & Laar)

The Quest for the Holy Dumpling is the second concept album from the Smoking Trout, a SoundCloud collaborative band started by me, Stonerjazz (Jeff), and Uziel in 2021. We build these albums by releasing one song at a time, so the story is a work-in-progress. This is the first track on the new album to contain words/lyrics so it's really kind of launching a new tale that we'll continue to develop over the next year or who knows how long! In addition to Jeff and Uziel, we were fortunate to be joined by TexMexShaman (Stephen) and Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches (Jo Richter). For me, this was a really rewarding collaboration and perhaps one of my favorite tracks I've been involved with. Thank you so much to all who contributed. See below for more detailed credits (in chronological order of when each person contributed to the track) and to read Jeff's fantastic lyrics.

If you're interested you can find our first completed album, the Land of Zed by going to the 'albums' tab on my page or by looking up 'the smoking trout' on BandCamp. 

Stonerjazz (Jeff) @user-911083679 
Lyrics, Lead vocals, bass, and cowbell percussion

Tea R. Sea (Terry) @tea_are_sea 
Synthesizers, quirky percussion hits, production

Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches (Jo) @sonic-textures
Additional drums and percussion, especially on second half

TexMex Shaman (Stephen)@texmex-shaman
Guitar

Uziel @user-455619833 contributed
Background vocals, fluttering and modulated clarinet sounds 


lyrics:

you may have heard the creaking noise and tiny footsteps n the darkened corridors
that stretch to the southern boundaries of the unpolluted parts
where souls are living with total disregard for the nature of the Holy Dumpling
floating on the cosmic stew that simmers horizontally to your soul ln your heart

Traveling with the HOBO CYBERPUNKS, l learn a thing or two from the leader of the band Cosmic Stu who n a wild tangent and a Rant, described a different spot
a flthy plot, lnvaded by tribe of bots, who stank of superficiality
an opportunity that he lost

The teachers teach ln empty auditoriums to pupils lost ln 4 inch screens
sequestered ln squalid scenes, that go unnoticed as useless lnformaton ls gobbled up and gobbled down ln every home and every town
Put the monster down and walk away He sald
lron John ls not afraid of the queen
and even though the prlnce ls doomed
the purpose doesn't change

let me introduce you to some members of the band
there's Sally and Roberta who play the clarinet with beauty and with Grace
who plays the violin and Viola who makes the Djembe
bounce around the brain
with subliminal referrels to her pleasure and her paln
The horns are played by the twlns
Maurece and Nostradamus, their trumpeting sublime

the accordlan of course ls played by Johnny who you might remember from the land of Zed, He did eventually get out of bed and sald
Ths reminds me of a time when thngs were real and l could feel the rope of
hope wrapped firmly around and round my throat
before l knew the truth about the Lle
before l knew the meaning of goodbye

Now Stu he claimed to know or knew the whereabouts of the holy condiment that grew only
just outside his windowsill (and was essential to the Dumpling's flavor)
where he lived ln another life with Mary-Ann his ex-wife
who left hm for a guy named Sid who was a maestro on guitar
and had a band that traveled wide and far
including Mary Ann, and Larry too

Looking for that very thing
Hoping for just one bite
of that heavenly delight
before the turning of the light

The Holy Dumpling (Smoking Trout #2) w/ STONERJAZZ, TexMex Shaman, Uziel, Jo Richter

Lebo - drums
Peter Paul - bass, backing vocals
Tom - guitars, vocals

Laybow - Polaroid

Lyrics, music, and photo by Linda Straub

I barely ever saw him,
yet he was always in my life.
He spoke to me words of comfort 
a man so gentle and so wise. 

No more a man of flesh and sinew,
set free from life's human form, 
his voice speaks loudly to me,
live, let go, no longer mourn or conform. 

Rise up, look around, be profound.
Chase down your dreams
and don't stop until you astound.


Step out of your own shadow
and you will find me waiting there
in every beam of sunlight, 
in every breath of air. 

Open up your mind to the possible, 
be not afraid to do and dare.
Step out of your own shadow
and you will find me waiting there. 

Rise up, look around, be profound.
Chase down your dreams 
and don't stop until you astound. 

Chase down your dreams 
and don't stop until you astound.


Waiting There (Original) by-

Herman
Was made of glass
Or should I say
He was born that way.

Transparent
As a vase
Inside his head
You could see thoughts play.

Herman
Could be kind
He could also be
Cruel of mind.

His thoughts
Drifting away
Herman’s friends
Did not stay.

Lured
Onto city streets
The traffic shook him
Off his feet.

One moment
A glass dwarf
The next just fragments
Near a door.

Herman
Was made of glass
Or should I say
He was born that way.

Transparent
As a vase
Inside his head
You could see thoughts play.

The glass dwarf (Techno music provided by Crack Rock Jamz: DayBu$)

4-5 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - Glorious Game - Glorious Game (Reprise) - El Michels Affair - Dr. Suess

Writer of prose and poetry since mid-1960s. Given an acoustic guitar in 1978 by long-suffering sister. Many songs produced that way. More recently, guitar skills all but faded, using GarageBand and Logic Pro to put words to music.
ps. The Bandcamp songs should be free to download. Please let me know if they're not.

Mr & Mrs Livingstone r3

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