This track came from a frustration with fake perfection, the endless filters, edits, and illusions people hide behind online. I wanted to capture that edge, playful but cutting, with sass and honesty woven into every line. “Photoshop Can’t Save You” is a reminder that realness always wins, and no amount of makeup or Photoshop can hide what lives deep inside. It’s attitude, it’s truth, and it’s me calling out the performance.

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Photoshop Can’t Save You

The Birch
© 2025 R3Zondo

birch tree glows
outside my window,
wrapped in frost
like silver streetlight halos.

branch tips dressed
in cotton laced hoodies,
snowflakes thread
like sequins on hood fringe.

she stands still
no breeze, no echo.
frozen light
catches fire in her coat.

and morning yawns,
slow scroll through the skyline.
sprinkling her limbs
with fresh chrome and sunshine.

(Summary)

This song is about pausing to notice beauty in the everyday, the way a birch tree outside my window becomes alive with silver and fire when snow and dawn light touch it. It’s a reminder that stillness can be radiant, and that even the most ordinary corners of our world can hold a quiet magic if we look close enough. Writing this felt like catching a fleeting winter moment and freezing it in melody.

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Birch

This song is a haunting meditation on humanity’s choice between greed and compassion. I leaned into an inspired soundscape so the words feel timeless, floating in an atmosphere of spacey guitars and ambient echoes. For me, this piece is a reminder that love, kindness, and unity still matter in a fractured world. It’s not just a speech, it’s a song of resistance and hope.

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The Dictator’s Plea

This song is about dance as a language deeper than words, a way to confess, connect, and reveal without ever speaking. For me, Language of Motion captures the idea that movement holds truth and vulnerability, that every step is a piece of my soul expressed. It’s both intimate and universal, about healing, release, and connection with others through rhythm. Dance is not performance here, it’s confession, it’s prayer, it’s the way we feel most alive.

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Language of Motion

This song came from that deep ache of heartbreak that lingers long after someone’s gone. I wanted to capture the feeling of driving down an empty desert road with nothing but old memories riding shotgun. It’s a modern country ballad with echoes of vintage emotion, heartache, grit, and resilience all wrapped together. The repeating line “Still walkin’ this trail of tears” is the emotional backbone, a reminder that healing takes time and every mile carries its story.

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Trail of Tears

“Girl, Same!” is a confessional pop dance anthem that captures those late night conversations where friends realize they’ve lived through the same heartbreaks, mistakes, and messy love stories. It’s vulnerable but celebratory, turning shared pain into unity on the dance floor. The chorus is meant to be shouted together, almost like an inside joke turned into a rally cry. This track blends EDM euphoria with real talk, laughing, crying, and glowing through the chaos.

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Girl, Same!

This song is my way of holding on to hope when everything else feels broken. It’s about finding strength in the middle of loss, letting go of the past without giving up on the future. The phrase “there’s always tomorrow” is my reminder that no matter how heavy today feels, light still waits in the next day. It’s a soulful ballad, and built for a powerful vocal that rises from pain into resilience.

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There’s Always Tomorrow

“Whirlpool” is about the pull of cycles we can’t escape, the way we can feel suspended in forces bigger than ourselves. To me, it captures what it’s like to be held at the bottom of an emotional storm, half broken, half awakened. It’s both a warning and an acceptance, a song about how surrender can lead to renewal, even when you feel lost in the depths.

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Whirlpool

“Prey” is a sultry, slow-burning R&B confession where love turns into hunger and devotion becomes sacrifice. I wrote it to capture the dangerous intimacy of being consumed by someone who disguises control as affection. The repeated prayers of hallelujah and amen carry both surrender and resistance, layering spirituality over raw desire. This song is about being both the feast and the faithful, a reminder of how love can sanctify or devour. It’s haunting, sexy, and painfully true.

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Prey

This song is about falling into the same cycle of hurt even when you swore you’d move forward. Two Steps Back captures that restless tug-of-war between healing and relapse, between strength and the ache of old habits. I wrote it from a place of raw honesty, picturing the desert quiet and the echo of love that keeps pulling me back even when I know better. It’s weary, tender, and a little haunted, just like the spaces we sometimes return to.

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Two Steps Back

“Finality”, written about the quiet truths we avoid until they catch up with us. It’s about the weight of unsent messages, the pride that keeps us from healing, and the reality that endings are unavoidable. Instead of grand metaphors, it leans into everyday moments, empty rooms, photos, unspoken words, that carry the heaviest meaning. For me, this song is both an admission and a release, embracing acceptance where denial once stood.

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Finality

🎶 From Cassette Tapes to Creating My Own Sound 🎶

When I was a kid, music was more than background noise, it was my escape, my teacher, and my first real love. I’d sit with two cassette players, playing the Beatles on one and singing into the other, trying my best to match artists like Paul McCartney or Barbara Streisand’s range (sometimes successfully, sometimes not so much) 🤣. Homework could wait, lyrics in my wide rule notebooks couldn’t.

Life took me through winding roads, retail, hospitality, consulting, caregiving, but music never stopped calling. 45 years later, after many personal losses, and loosing one of my sons last year, I turned back to songwriting as therapy. Every song I create starts with raw lyrics, usually scribbled in one shot as I choreograph in my mind, then evolves into a fully produced track through hours of refining vocal coding,  instrumentation, and feel. I blend personal stories with AI driven music tools, letting technology and emotion work together to capture what I hear and see in my head and heart.

Now, I’m finally sharing it. Not perfect, not polished to death, just real. This is me, finally putting the music out there for you to hear.
Peace & Love ❤️ 


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Photoshop Can’t Save You

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