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TAKE A TOKE OR TWO
V1
We’re livin’ in crazy times
Can’t keep up with this world’s crimes
When the chaos gets too loud
Gotta put your head in the clouds
Put your achin’ head in the clouds

CHORUS
Take a toke or two
Take a toke or two
If it’s all you can do
Take a toke or two
Oooooh-ooooh-ooooh

V2
Every fruit and herb of the Garden
God gave it all to us
He gives us dominion over everything
It’s about time in God we trust
In God we truly trust

CHORUS
Take a toke or two
Take a toke or two
If it’s all you can do
Take a toke or two

[Music]
V3
Let your pain run from your shoulders
Give your poor hip a break
Your mind might even create something
Something that isn’t fake
Yeah, create something that isn’t fake

CHORUS/TAG

Take a toke or two
You gotta take a toke or two
If it’s all you can do
Take a toke or two

Take a toke, take a toke or two
Take a toke, take a toke or two
If it’s all you can do
You gotta take a toke, take a toke or two

Oh, if it’s all, if it’s all you can do
Take a toke, take a toke or two


© 2025 Renee La Chapelle – All Rights Reserved


TAKE A TOKE OR TWO

'banjovi'

something until the next thing

banjovi

The Painter Birdy Hotel (1970)

Chris Junos is an electronic musician from Alexandroupolis, Greece, whose work blends IDM, soundscapes, and Balkan/Mediterranean influences, recorded live in a DAWless studio, reflecting a niche but growing trend in authentic, hardware-based music production supported by a 2023 study in the Journal of New Music Research on live recording’s emotional impact.

The album title nods to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose mythological ties to Cyprus and cultural fusion with Near Eastern deities (documented in 8th-century BC orientalization per Wikipedia’s Aphrodite entry) may inspire Junos’ cosmic-themed artwork and ethereal sound, challenging the Western-centric view of Greek mythology as isolated.

Aphrodite's Chill

Organics (2025)

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Liars-Deserve-To-Eat-Their-Own-Entrails-649828229

Stretched-Out Entrails

On This Side Of The Blues

Flowers.

Written in January 2024.

Published in July 2025.


During the first few months of last year, I was ill with my recurring kidney stone problems.

Fortunately, that passed.

I left some of the compositions I started unfinished, and some sketches were barely started.

This is one of them.

My mother lives in a typical Andalusian house in Seville.

One of the characteristics of these houses is that they usually have a courtyard where there are all kinds of flowering and non-flowering plants.

Obviously, they need to be cared for, watered, fertilized, etc.
My mother loves doing it, and in spring she reaps the rewards of her labor.

I always give my flower icons to the women I follow (I hope I'm not annoying them by doing that), so I thought it was interesting to draw inspiration from all of that to put this together.

17 Tracks native instruments MS2 & Old Xewton forum.
3 XPad 
2 iMini Arturia
1 iProphet Arturia
2 korg IM
1 Ob-xd 
1 flowtones 


Mix: my hear 
Software. Music Studio 2
Hardware.ipad

Cover. A part of the courtyard of my mother's house

Thank you for your comments

Next…. Crossroad

Flowers

Simple version of a relatively new song.  

don't leave me .. all alone. don't leave me all alone.
Light shining from your eyes was like heaven
And lights the way back to your love
And your wide open arms does my heart shatter and scatter me
Don't leave me all alone
I feel you near me at the sunrise.. I hear you tell me not to cry
But like waves they fill my eyes and tears wash over me.. this tragedy
Don't leave me all alone.
Your voice is fading now but im not letting go
I'll find a way back to your love ..and your wide open arms
does my heart shatter.. and scatter me..

Dont Leave me all Alone

Shadowmaker

En hommage à mon père, grand danseur de tango et grand amateur de musique argentine ( il n'est pas interdit, même aujourd'hui, de préférer en Argentine la musique et la danse au bruit des "tronçonneuses"!)

Comme cette idylle à Buenos Aires

Thanks for tuning in.  Stripped Down, Raw and Real songs are what you'll find here.  Write on, Songsters! 

Much love from the USA,
Renee