Une chanson qui parle d’un gars qui vit un gros chagrin d’amour.
Il a perdu celle qu’y aimait, pis il s’traîne la culpabilité de l’avoir échappée.
Même s’il essaie de s’anesthésier avec la route, les distractions pis la musique, y’est pas capable d’oublier.

La nature autour — la terre rouge, le ciel gris — c’est comme un miroir de c’qui se passe dans son cœur.

C’est une toune de peine, de route, pis de survie.
Parce que des fois, la seule chose qu’y reste à faire, c’est de chanter pour pas s’éteindre.

Terre Rouge

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"In a Sentimental Mood" is one of Duke Ellington’s most beloved ballads, composed in 1935. According to Ellington, the melody came to him spontaneously one evening at a party in Durham, North Carolina, when he tried to calm a tense situation between guests. The tune’s lush, lyrical melody and harmonically rich progression immediately set it apart as an Ellington classic.

The song was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra in 1935, and it became a jazz standard, later immortalized by legendary collaborations—most famously, the 1962 duet with John Coltrane. “In a Sentimental Mood” has since been interpreted by countless jazz greats, from Billie Holiday to Sarah Vaughan and beyond. Its timeless beauty and gentle melancholy make it a favorite for both vocal and instrumental arrangements.

Fun fact: The version recorded by Ellington and Coltrane is often hailed as one of the greatest jazz ballad performances of all time, blending Ellington’s elegant piano with Coltrane’s warm, expressive saxophone.

In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington

🕯 I Leave Ashes Behind 🕯
A slow-burning soul elegy wrapped in velvet smoke.
No anger. No goodbye. Just the soft hush of someone choosing absence with grace.
Minimalist jazz-inflected instrumentation meets intimate, breath-warm vocals — a departure so quiet, it echoes.

This is not closure. This is sovereignty.
She doesn’t vanish — she simply leaves nothing behind but ash.

🎧 Mood: detached, graceful, unshaken
🖋 Line to remember: “I leave ashes — dry and clean / Like I was never in between.”

Let the silence speak.

I Leave Ashes Behind

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Verse 1

I don’t need closure, I don’t need grace
I watched it burn and turned my face
No final words, no bitter cries
Just smoke curling through the sky

Pre-Chorus
You’ll search the air for what we were
But darling, I don't leave a blur


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Chorus

I leave ashes behind
Not love, not hate, not the ties that bind
No trace for you to follow back
No scent of me on your collapse
I leave ashes — dry and clean
Like I was never in between


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Verse 2

I left the dress, I kept the name
I walk in silence, not in shame
No bags to pack, no doors to close
Just lighter steps where nothing grows

I didn’t flinch, I didn’t stay
I simply turned and slipped away

Pre-Chorus
You’ll search the air for what we were
But darling, I don't leave a blur


---

Chorus

I leave ashes behind
Not love, not hate, not the ties that bind
No trace for you to follow back
No scent of me on your collapse
I leave ashes — dry and clean
Like I was never in between


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Bridge (the ritual of disappearance)

No candle lit, no mourning song
No looking back to prove him wrong
No trace of me in what you find
Just breath… just dust… just disinclined


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Final Chorus

I leave ashes behind
Not love, not hate, not the ties that bind
No myth for you to twist or keep
No echo waiting while you sleep
I leave ashes — soft and wide
Then I return to what’s inside

I Leave Ashes Behind

Old song, re-recorded. A paradox that’s  cruel but true

Velvet and ice  .mp3

Tear stained ink and smiles..wav


https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7VENqXn7EZs&feature=shared

https://open.spotify.com/album/7zgLXHp5YbKTi8v4Zj7DLS?si=k8Y8eKkRRQGUQIffAJHkQg

https://music.apple.com/us/song/italy-a-betrayed-land/1832045080

Italy, a Betrayed Land.mp3

The Deliverance 
From something 
I have become. 
The perception 
That makes  
My heart numb. 
This is how 
We become dumb. 
The value of the form 
Overriding a soul 
Justifying a vision 
And its norms. 
I call upon my name 
This hallowed  
sacred identity 
Is all the same. 
To know what  
You don’t know. 
To see when 
It doesn’t show. 

The acceptance 
Of the invited angels 
Surrounding  
The ground 
Around me 
As they sing 
And spread  
Their wings 
Granting me 
A chalice 
Allowing me to see. 
I am not a body 
I am free.
 
I am among 
The ministries 
Who and what 
Has changed me? 
Buddha, Christ, 
Mohammed, Shiva 
Their names are 
The same as mine 
In this sacred plea. 

The acceptance 
Of the invited angels 
Surrounding  
The ground 
Around me 
As they sing 
And spread  
Their wings 
Granting me 
A chalice 
Allowing me to see. 
I am not a body 
I am free.

The miracle of grace 
The gift of 
This holy place 
Inside my place. 
Freeing me 
Of a world 
And what is displaced.



Deliverance

[Verse]
Under the green light you smile at me
I know you mean well I don't mean to be cold
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Verse]
We share a last laugh a last dance and a last song
I look in your eyes and you start to cry
I said "come on let's just get one more drink"
We know what happens when you overthink

[Chorus]
It's a cruel world when you're so full of love
They'll take it from you like they're entitled to
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Verse]
The city's in ruins and you're standing in the ashes
No
You don't remember the way it once was
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Chorus]
It's a cruel world when you're so full of love
They'll take it from you like they're entitled to
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Outro]
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

Under the green light

Push

This is a direct remix (Suno) from a demo of myself, singing and playing guitar. so the lyrics, melodies and guitar are all written by myself.

Going to the City (Mastered) (Remix1b)

Let no one kill the child
I carry deep in my chest,
the one who laughs for no reason
and dreams without looking ahead.

Let them not dim his gaze,
nor steal away his mirrors,
where he still sees mighty castles
and ships built out of wishes.

Don’t silence his laughter,
don’t cover up his sky,
don’t sell him hollow truths
dressed in the price of goodbyes.

Let no one kill the child
I carry deep in my chest.

Let no one tell him “grow up,”
as if that were some great quest,
nor drag him through the alleys
of a world grey and story-less.

Let him wander barefoot
through the puddles of memory,
with a stick as his brave sword
and a flower as his secret.

Let no one kill the child—
though at times he may be still,
he saves me from the sadness,
and defends me from the chill.

Let no one kill the child
I carry deep in my chest.

In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington

Ricardo Farão

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