Tainted Muses

Night Visions

Lyrics

It’s a dark cave, and it swallows you up
Carribean waves, bold and seductive
Majestically they try to lure you
You’d like to go but they’d engulf you

“I want my peace”, is what he says with a grimace and frown 
His head bows down
“If it wouldn’t have been for you bastards I’d be long gone”

The sunlight can seem so cynical
It’s kindness you take as hypocritical 
Personally I’d like to avoid strife
But go ahead and make an opera of your life

Cave

Fantasy

Lyrics

Make a palace out of this dreary room
Harsh electric lights reveal a hidden allure 
Come, take your glass, let the grimness go
Fragile, unlikely charm at moments so rare
Old coat, a smoke, you say: “Let’s have one more”
“Good night” on the street, I make my way home
Lonely night, your image clear
The fog will lift by morning light

Dreary

Dreary (no beat version)

By The Hill (mix 2022)

Days

Dreary (original version)

The wine makes you look pretty
You know we think you're sweet
It's all the same to you
Party those demons away

A butterfly like you
A bird in rainbow colors
You flutter and you charm us
Nectar flowing through your veins
The stage is your home base 
The night is your lover
The light of day is far away but closing time too soon

Abandonment makes us feel pretty
Anarchy keeps us young
It's all the same to me 
Let's laugh the night away 

A butterfly like you
A bird in rainbow color 
You flutter and you charm us
Nectar flowing through your veins
The stage is your home base 
The night is your lover
The light of day is far away but closing time too soon

A butterfly like you
A bird in rainbow color 
You flutter and you charm us
Nectar flowing through your veins
The stage is your home base 
The night is your lover
The light of day is far away but closing time too soon

Pretty

Fog descends over me
When you're arousing to me
Melt into madness
Desire so sweet
Intoxicating
Wakes me up at night
I bite your name into my pillow
Clouded judgement inspires touches
I can almost taste your lips
Would have kissed you then and there
Dreams folded in haze
Your eyes
Time warp
In the night a shadow descends over me
Hologram embrace
The light of day too close
I want to hold on to this moment
Taking in your beauty, inhaling all of you in dreams
Just be with me
Just a moment to imagine what could be and will not be
Just let me breathe
Melt into smiles and laughter, stroking your hair
Caught in a bubble, before I let you go
Imagination 
How soft your skin might be

Limerence

Lyrics:

Seeing you in this haze of smoke and poison
Closeness emerging, enveloped in bright lights 
Fingers briefly entwined
I'm loving tonight's little lie

Feeling you in this haze of empty promise
Little hedonist luring us away from silence and from the light of day
Your smile, your hand in mine
I’m loving tonight’s little lie

Refrain:

Bring on the magic, the sparkle in your eye
Opium to me - I know you’ll leave me high and dry
One more time, just one last time, relishing this thrill
Baby I can handle it - the solitude 
Tomorrow’s chill

Seeing you in this haze of lust and nectar 
Your scent 
Dig in the knife
Time passes, urgency fades
Embrace the night, leave a dent in the picture
I’m loving tonight’s little lie 

Seeing you in this haze of smoke and poison
Closeness emerging, enveloped in bright lights 
Fingers briefly entwined
I’m loving tonight’s little lie
Feeling you in this haze of empty promise
Little hedonist luring us away from silence and from the light of day
Your smile, your hand in mine
I’m loving tonight’s little lie

Refrain

By Laura Bos 2023

Tomorrow's Chill

Lyrics:

It's not so easy to make me lonely
It's not so easy to make me cry
Take your tricks and games and throw them out the window for now
I've got irons in the fire - put you on the back burner

You looked so fragile, looked so pale
Sweat on your brow, your hair a charming mess
Your eyes were kind but dazed

Clouded judgement inspires affection, inspires respect, inspires trust
Your eyes were dazed
This time I'll keep my sense, I'll keep my pride, I'll keep my distance
But you looked so fragile, looked so pale 

(Backing vocal, freely quoting "Blue/Violet Light": No turning back, your reflection fair
Your shadow music, vibrating in dull light
My vision blurry, your image blurry
Caught in a Timelapse in dull light)

It's not so easy to make me lonely
It's not so easy to make me cry
Take your tricks and games and throw them out the window for now
I've got irons in the fire - put you on the back burner

Easy (original version)

Half Time 2024

Illusions (2024 version)

Peaceful mind, calm waves
Content serenity
Seclusion suits me, no storm takes me by surprise

It’s just a small thrill when the lights go dim
But a presence light the room
I’ll just bite my tongue, but I’ll get my fill
When a smile lights up the room (2x)



Presence
Copyright 2024

Presence (first, short, version)

Tomorrow's Chill (edited version, new vocals)

Lyrics:

Peaceful mind, calm waves
Content serenity
Seclusion suits me, no storm takes me by surprise

It’s just a small thrill when the lights go dim
But a presence lights the room
I’ll just bite my tongue, but I’ll get my fill
When a smile lights up the room (2x)

All trouble fades away when a brightness fills the room
My sorrow fades away when a light brightens the room
No grimness, spite or fear can take my lightness from the room
He smiles and teases, says: can’t take my lightness from the room (repeat ad nauseam)





Presence
Copyright 2024

Presence

Muse (original version)

Voix de la Steppe by Romanian composer George Enescu played by me on a slightly wonky honky tonky piano with noisy pedal, recorded with mobile phone

Voix De La Steppe by George Enescu

Lyrics:

Excuse me if I shed a tear, I’ve no right to do so
I might have picked up a scent on cool summer evenings
On a cramped, busy side stage
On that ugly street they find solace in cigarettes and stale beer
Light hair framing a face with wild eyes
Fiery but kind
And now the street is deserted
An empty space
An echo where the scent of a muse still lingers
Still getting under my skin

Excuse me if I take a stroll, the wind and rain lured me
I close my eyes and inhale thrilling, fleeting memories 
Energetic movement
Beauty burning behind my eyelids, immortalizing a fading dream
Light hair framing a face with wild eyes
Fiery but shy
And now the street is deserted
An empty space
An echo where the scent of a muse still lingers
Still getting under my skin

Vocals, piano and production by Laura Bos 2024

Muse

Lyrics:

Peaceful mind, calm waves
Content serenity
Seclusion suits me, no storm takes me by surprise

It’s just a small thrill when the lights go dim
But a presence lights the room
I’ll just bite my tongue, but I’ll get my fill
When a smile lights up the room (2x)

(All trouble fades away when a brightness fills the room
My sorrow fades away when a light brightens the room
No grimness, spite or fear will take his brightness from the room
He smiles and teases, says: can’t take my lightness from the room) (repeat ad nauseam)





Presence
Copyright 2024

Dreary (2025 version)

Waiting (instrumental)

Monkeying around with my DAB, this time with an IPad and only an on screen piano 😜

Walking in the Night

Walking in the Night 2nd version

Waiting part 2

Ipadexperiment
Written, sung and produced by Laura

Lunch Interlude

By Laura 2025

Special thanks to Nina and her out of tune piano, which she kindly let me sample

Waiting part 3

Tempest

Savour

Lyrics

Movement like water, elusive yet concrete
Taking my breath away, impossible to escape
Vulnerability and strength, juxtaposed 
Shadows passing by, elegance fills the eye
Let me savour this
Just let me savour this

Sapphire flashing, a shock of pale gold
Sinew shifting beneath linen’s soft fold
Backstage silence, on stage blinding lights
Chiseled grace, lushness fills the eye
Let me savour this
Just let me savour this

Savour (part 2)

My song “Presence” played and sung live, with a few small effects added. A lot of static too, alas

Reminiscence (Laura)

Pinned to spotlight

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