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StateOfGrace

I went down  to the corner market
To talk to the local prophet
He said $   12.50 please will that be cash or charge

Went home to my one room kingdom
To drink of the liquid wisdom
And let the spirit take the pain away
Take me far away to a better place
Take me back 
To a State of Grace

You know sometimes I’m feeling up 
Sometimes I feel a little down yea
Just trying to get ahead
But I just keep going round and round

Called in to the Tex Mex Shamen 
He said yea man keep on rocking
So I practice my licks till I feel in my finger tips

Let the spirit take the pain away
Take me back
To a State of Grace

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Solo¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

You know sometimes I’m feeling up 
Sometimes I feel a little down yea
Just trying to get ahead
But I just keep going round and round

So I search out the online gurus
To yourself they said to be true
The more you know the more that you will grow
And so it goes

Let the spirit take the pain away
Take me far away to a better place
Take me back 
To a State of Grace
To a better place
To a State of Grace

StateOfGrace 3

Cover Art is a photo of happy Buddha holding paint splotched glasses taken by me, (brad), in Vince's Cathedral of Junk in Austin, TX .  Thanks Vince! We all should worship at your Cathedral... From time to time... I certainly hope to!

Now as for this song:  If you can tell me what this song means please let me know... (oh and sorry these are the lyrics but they're a bit scrambled....hmmm ...scrambled scrubbing bubbles!)

Scrubbing Bubbles

meme bars 	  cream cream  obscene dopamene         scrubbing bubbles
germ dream 	  come clean 	contraband ampersand 	scrubbing bubbles 
shaving cream scrubbing bubbles 		pipe dream Steam Clean
dopamene 	  scrubbing bubbles 

outerspace hyperspace 	Nebuloid 		I got lost 		Hear me?
spatial myopia 			Planetoid 	        in the stars 	        in the fucking stars
woops in your brain 		desert gray
sweaty sky

I'm a doctor pie in your face
Not a packoid

suck the new low tar
filtered pacifier

in your face  in your place

Scrubbing Bubbles

Wasting Time

A Hundred Years From Now 
by Caddigan, Brennan and Story (1914)

Every one today is going crazy,
Everyone today is going mad
Each one is trying to do something decidedly new
Just to put the rest in bad
Everyday they change the style of dancing
Everyday they change the style of dress
Oh, Boys what is it coming to?
That's a problem we will have to guess

I wonder what kind of life they'll lead 
A hundred years from now?
I wonder what's going to be the speed
A hundred years from now?
The girlies are setting a pace today
That's turning the locks of gold to grey
We're living a life of constant alteration

I wonder if they'll have a tango dance
A hundred years from now?
I wonder if men will wear short pants
A hundred years from now?
There's no solution
It's all evolution
I wonder, and wonder, and wonder
How much the girls are going to wear
A hundred years from now?

Picture this town that once was just a pasture
Picture the girls who roam'd it years ago
They were the wonderful kind
You know the kind I've in mind
The sort of girl the world calls slow
Think of a girl today out in a meadow
Raking the hay a la decolletée?
No chance not in a thousand years
The girls today are all for cabaret

I wonder what kind of life they'll lead 
A hundred years from now?
I wonder what's going to be the speed
A hundred years from now?
The girlies are setting a pace today
That's turning the locks of gold to grey
We're living a life of constant alteration

I wonder if they'll have a tango dance
A hundred years from now?
I wonder if men will wear short pants
A hundred years from now?
There's no solution
It's all evolution
I wonder, and wonder, and wonder
How much the girls are going to wear
A hundred years from now?

A Hundred Years From Now (Caddigan/Brennan/Story, 1914) [cover/version]

Dither Clones

Traffic Blur

12. Traffic Blur

Innominatam

Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YXsyQppw_d0

Naviar Haiku 481:

travel home
even the air
has changed

Wai Mei Wong is a former early childhood educator living in Toronto, Canada. Her picture book Hello, Dark was shortlisted for the 2022 IODE Jean Throop Book Award, and chosen for the 2022 CCBC Spring Best Book for Kids & Teens Selection. She enjoys poetry, nature walks and funny movies.

She started writing Haiku in October 2022, after she became curious about this deceivingly simplistic form of poetry. Her inspiration comes mostly from her experience or the stories from people close to her.

1st Time for Everything

Likeness to Air

Likeness to Air (NaviarHaiku481)

E-Lima

Excuse Me While I Pour This Glass of Water

wondering o . consider it as a love

So happy to work with Dani on this amazing piece of music. She's a brilliant songwriter, singer and musician. Check out her beautiful songs: https://soundcloud.com/dontkillbutterflies

Beats and synths - Alex Jackson https://soundcloud.com/allsmilesuk
Guitar, lyrics and vocals - Don't kill butterflies
Lyrics and vocals - learningtoplay

slow dissolve

Planetary nature -- Don't kill butterflies (~ ltp)

I'm a composer, working from a 3' x 5' studio (some may call it a dinette) in a 5th wheel camper, while traveling the United States. I've been on the road for five years, so most of my recent work will have come from a different state (of mind and location) during my travels.

Music makes me feel better about everything. I don't know that I'm ever happier than when I am creating. I sometimes wonder if creativity isn't one of the primary keys to happiness. Do you ever feel better than when you say, "Look what I did."? This phrase magically conjures the purest sense of childlike joy.

Music works for every part of our lives. We all have music for when we are sad, happy, celebrating, meeting others, when we are alone, and even when we are lonely. Did a song come to mind as you read each of those situations? I remember the first song I ever heard on the radio, on my first bus ride to kindergarten. One of my favorite musical memories is playing in a band for steel beach on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.

I love telling stories with music. Everybody loves John Coffey in the Green Mile, but Mr. Jingles should have a song commemorating his reaching and joining the circus at Mouseville. If you agree, join me for this and similar journeys. The music here is synthetic, but as real as you would choose to have it.

My music most often lands on Soundcloud first and is inspired by one of my favorite communities, Naviar Haiku:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
I find writing to a Haiku prompt sufficiently limiting and exquisitely inspiring.

Likeness to Air (NaviarHaiku481)

Raymond Stull

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