In the style of a rebound roll-in-the-hay, this is my first recording after my post-house-move slump. We're all a bit shame-faced about it, but it needed doing.

Based on a couple of quotes from Rumi (which may or may not have required some pumped-up beats), here are the lyrics:
This being human is a guest house
Each morning brings a new arrival

A joy, depression, or a meanness,
Or unexpectedly, a momentary awareness

Welcome every one them
Even crowds of sorrows,
who sweep your out house violently
And strip your things away,
Still, treat each guest honorably,
And entertain each visitor
They may be making space in you
for some new delight

The da-ark thought, the shame, the malice,
MEET them at the door laughing...
Invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
Each one’ s a guide sent from the beyond

Chorus

Today, 
like every other day, 
we wake up empty
and frightened
Don't grab your phone, no
Reach for your guitar

Let the beauty
we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways 
to kneel and kiss the ground.

Guesthouse

"Greed (What More Do You Want)" (#489, 210807)

 * co-written with Texas Dave * 

I’m sick of my Ford
Lord gimme’ a Cadillac
I always want more
Ain’t that a fact

Look in the mirror and ask myself
What I’d say to someone else

What more do you want
What more do you need
When we already have it all
Anything more is greed

My bathtub’s too little
Give me a pool
A fountain in the middle
That would be cool

Look in the mirror and ask myself
What I’d say to someone else

What more do you want
What more do you need
When we already have it all
Anything more is greed

Could use more money
How about my own bank
And a good lookin’ honey
Please and thanks

Week 32 - Greed (What More Do You Want) 210807

Week 32 (For me it's week #2)
songaweek.org Theme: No uncertain Terms
r/songaweek Theme: Road Trip

A7           B7
Firing up the engine
on a sunday night
i know where I'm headed
everything's alright

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

The radio is playing
The best bloc party song
the steering wheel is dancing
fingers tap along

the road marking is glowing
a sign shows I went far
but I don't care bout traveltime
I love it in my car

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        A7              A7->
that's guarding my goodbye
I am coming please don't wait
I'll take my time


A7           B7
Leaving home is easy
with cuuuriousity
I think the world is waiting
a concrete fantasy

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

The truck drivers are greeting
Am I now one of them?
I feel like I am flying
smelling gasoline

The towns that I am passing 
have names I can't pronounce
but I don't need coordinates
I am straight southbound

Fm                       E7             A7
There is nothing but the way on my mind
it's the road myself the time and the light

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        Fm                A7->
that's guarding my goodbye
I am coming please don't wait
I'll take my time

         D              E7
It's the warm and fiery morning sky
        Fm              F#
that's guarding my goodbye
        A7               C
I am coming please don't wait
E7              A
I'll take my time

The Road, Myself, the Time, and the Light

lyrics:

pretty boy, the heart of downtown,
walked all over my deepest schemes.
your mouth, drives me east by south,
I'd recognize it even in a dream...

and now this city is stained by you,
can't shake the feeling you're in all I do.
and now every minute is frozen like a statue,
I get the feeling life's not life without you.

like a wave, it took more than it gave,
still I smiled complacently.
should've tried to change my own mind,
still fall for you eventually.

and now this city is stained by you,
can't shake the feeling you're everywhere I look.
and now every minute goes by with a touch of blue,
I get the feeling life's not life without you.

and I know they're lying when the say
we only dream in shades of grey
cause I saw your eyes even clearer
than the back of my hand.
I wish it wouldn't have to be this way.

and now this city is stained by you,
do you still remember me the same way I do?
and now every minute is frozen like a statue,
I get the feeling life's not life without you.

and I know they're lying when the say
we only dream in shades of grey
cause I saw your eyes even clearer
than the back of my hand.
I wish it wouldn't have to be this way.
and I know they're lying when the say
we only dream in shades of grey
cause I saw your eyes even clearer
than the back of my hand...

I'd recognize it even in a dream.

in a dream

Songaweek Week 34
songaweek.org theme: Shape of your shadow
r/songaweek theme: Reverb

Aren't we peculiar 
Aren't we estranged
Aren't we indifferent
Aren't we unchanged


The look on your face 
The shape of your shadow
A twisted projection of your soul
The gestures you make
The sound of your echo
A twisted projection of your soul


2x
Please tell me 
what you think  and
Please show me
what you got
I'm on the
brink of losing hope

For gooo_ooood


Aren't we audacious
Aren't we afraid
Aren't we imprudent
Aren't we astray

Shape of your shadow

Revisiting some of my band Side Street catalog from 1970s with some new musicians on board - Jarod Fedele on drums and Neal Morse on lead guitar.

Sunstroke

see again
free again
Welcoming the promise of the light
Walk again 
Talk again
Soon the darkness will be far behind

You held my hand and led me through the shadows
I saw the shape of all that is to come
I held my breath to dived into the water ever flowing
To swim into your depths of love 
Nothing   here will be enough

Dream again
Need again
Call among the planets and the stars
Fall again
War again
Shake the cosmic ruins of my heart

You held my hand and led me through the shadows
I saw the shape of all that is to come
I held my breath to dived into the river ever flowing
To swim into your arms of love 
Nothing here will be enough

Steal again
Feel Again
Open up my eyes that blind my shame
Break again
Make amends
Change the way my shadow hides in rain

Oh your arms of love
Welcome all of me
Shatter all the pain
let the rusty chains fall free

shadow shape

Anythings_possible(2).wav

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021

Week 35 Prompt: Batter Up!

Note about the song: I'm actually not old enough to have actually seen some of the baseball players mentioned in this song, but honest to goodness, my little toddler heart swooned for Paul Molitor, who left the Milwaukee Brewers to play for the Toronto Blue Jays. 

--

well i remember when i was just a kid
we'd pile into that pick-up truck and we'd get on in
and we'd head down to County Stadium
down in ol' Milwaukee
cheering on the Brewers with soda and coffee

always had a bag of snacks
forget those cheap crackerjacks
peanuts and starburst and licorice galore
screaming out the players' names
even though we'd missed the '82 team 
just the same still got to see some of the big time stars

like Robin Yount, Rollie Fingers, 
and my favourite one of all, 
Paulie Molitor before he went on to 
Toronto and all
i'd scream and i'd hoot and 
i'd holler with the best
scream, "Batter Up! Uh, who's next?"

and all those times when we 
couldn't get down to the game
down at the ballpark, it didn't matter, 
we could listen just the same
to Mr. Baseball himself, Bob Uecker, 
calling out every play
"Batter Up!" i'd listen to him say

oh those sweet memories
they stay with me
listening to the baseball game with my family
hearing the sound of the ball crack against the bat
oh i'll remember nights like that

Anythings_possible(2).wav

Rich Waring