Still hanging on

“The Old Code” is a song about the invisible scripts that shape our reactions long before we understand them.
It’s about the rules we learned in childhood, the patterns we copied to survive, and the emotional reflexes that stayed with us long after they stopped serving us.
In this track, the narrator realizes that his body still follows an outdated program — a set of internal commands like stay quiet, endure, swallow it down, be strong, say nothing.
They once protected him.
Now they confine him.

The song unfolds like an internal dialogue:
Why do old emotions still flare up?
Why does the body react before the mind?
And why do behaviors from the past continue to run, even when life has changed?

The chorus hits with the core truth:
the old code is still active, still burning, but it no longer belongs to the man he is today.
Instead of blaming himself, he chooses honesty:
to see the code clearly, to recognize its patterns, to admit that it no longer fits.

The final conclusion is not resolution — it’s awakening.
A conscious decision to stop running on an inherited program and begin writing something new, even without knowing the next line yet.

“The Old Code” is a raw, modern rock confession about the courage it takes
to outgrow your own past.

The Old Code

A cinematic alt-folk-rock album written and produced by Charles Wallace, with unforgettable cover artwork by Trevor Martin that gives Abel Cain a face and a soul. The Church of Imperfect Humanity is a reflection on faith, failure, and fragile redemption.!Each track is a confession, each melody a fragment of memory, and each lyric a step toward forgiveness.

A Broken Hallelujah

The man from Palestine

Written and performed by Wheelman Getaway-Driver and Neli CoKo.
Bremen, 2/2020, all rights reserved.

Rabbit Hole

Fear is just another word
For hide behind the mask
All this things that sould be done
But we afraid to ask
Looking back I realize
There some more that meets the eyes
Looking back I realized lies

Here we are, playing game
Madness is the name
Remember times when we were stronger
And all this fortune and fame
Knocking on the empty door
Search for truth, nothing more
Haven't found what was looking for

This is not the path we choose
No revert, No excuse
It happens when you blindly follow
All these dreams of tomorrow
Is it true, is it real?
Cannot tell, cannot feel
This is not the path we choose
No revert, No excuse

See it, feel it
Holding in arms
Never let go
Forget fears and harms

This is not the path we choose
No revert, No excuse
It happens when you blindly follow
All these dreams of tomorrow
Is it true, is it real?
Cannot tell, cannot feel
This is not the path we choose
No revert, No excuse

This Is Not The Path We Choose

Feather Pendulum

Janine Levinson: lyrics, singing, vocal melodies, cover art. @janinelevinson

Jonathan Beckenstein: music, instruments, mixing.

I climbed to the top
thinking I would stop
and gaze upon the crystal view
but it turned out quite ordinary

I guess I think I thought
that everything would start
and I would find my heart
or something quite extraordinary

but there’s no here here
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
this room is full of ordinary men

I worked very hard
To be a member of
a high and mighty club
but it turned out quite ordinary

I guess that I supposed
when every door was closed
the thing that was behind
would be something extraordinary

there was no there there
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
the room is full of ordinary men

oh there there, dear
there are no answers here.
oh there, there dear
go forth and multiply

older now I know
the bill of goods I sold
the little boy when he was
something quite extraordinary

that there’s a special kind
of gem that he will find
that only special people get to see

there is no there there
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
there there dear

but maybe there’s a green
that I have never seen
the emerald kind of grass
that’s on the far side of the hill

there is no there there
the room is full of ordinary men

Ordinary Men (with Janine Levinson)

Joshua M Norton's Album

The Line That Held Us

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Hummingbird

;-Révolution Céleste-;

All music written, played and sung by me, but who gives a fuck anyway :)

Listen and enjoy

This Is Not The Path We Choose

ReliHex