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

When the sunlight hits the water
And all the ripples sparkle gold
You meet with mother nature's daughter 
She's a wonder to behold
You can feel the life arising
As the crickets buzz and jump
And all the earth's awake and thriving
And you can tell the time has come 

Chorus:
And when you know you know you know
You just feel what's there to feel
You're gonna go where you got to go
to dream the dream and make it real
You gotta be what you got to be
When you see her there you see
When you know you know you know

And the spirit's there to guide you
And you've woken up to love
You can feel it there inside you
You just have to open up
And the heat is like a furnace
But the water's cold and sweet
Just to see her makes you nervous
Til your eyes will softly meet

Chorus

M8
That love has finally found its way to you after oh so long
Love has finally come and made you it's own

When you roll down to the river
And you hear those crickets play
When you see the gold light shimmer
Off the crest of every wave
Well if you meet her there you'll feel it
The ancient spell re-cast anew
You say the words and know you mean it
No, no-one teaches it to you  

Chorus

You Know You Know

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

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

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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

Batter Up!

Copyright Erin Wolf 2021
feat. Saoirse

Week 44 - Buy Me A Pink Balloon

Photo credit: Amazon ad (What can I say? Time was short this week. Ope.)

buy me a pink balloon
from a creature in a black lagoon
as the blue bird croons
a song for me and you

even when skies are grey
the golden sun hides away
purple haze or purple rain
i'll sing this song for you

i'll sing, i'll sing
somewhere over the rainbow
we'll find, we'll find
you and i

beneath the big ol' silver moon
orange fire crackles and the loon
cries out its gentle tune
for me and you

as we sit on this green, green grass
see the swooping bats as they pass
brown and big as rats
so glad to share this with you

i'll sing, i'll sing
somewhere over the rainbow
we'll find, we'll find

oh somewhere over the rainbow
we'll find, we'll find
you and i

Somewhere, We'll Find You And I

songaweek2021

this is just a little beginning of something I want to write to the memory of my Grandparents -they were the sweetest. :) 

I once caught a bus to the ocean
I sat with my sister and nan
From Randwick to Coogee it’s not very far 
We went by bus coz my nan had no car

She’d married a man Jack the Barber
Who always had time for a chat
Their love was my standard they rarely did fight
A marriage like theirs shone more brightly than bright

out of sight SAW 2021

Hey folks. My good friend Marcin is doing a fundraiser for Benny who is in need of funds for cancer treatment

This is the direct link to the fundraising page and your generosity would be most welcome by Benny and his family. This track here is not monetised this is just a little bit of musical love to help the cause

https://www.justgiving.com/page/marcin-man?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

All major credit cards are excepted. When I donated myself the bit I could afford I used a throw away virtual card and all was in order and that might be a way of making it more worry free for you.

The family need to raise £393,000 ($525,000) for the treatment and they so far have 20% of that total so they could do with every bit they can to meet the substantial sum.

Thanks for your help, Carl

You Tube Jam here
https://youtube.com/shorts/-P7sAwsDKvU?si=kYS9SZoALRzbjzu8


Benny the Brave

Good medicine miracles
With your help
Brave Benny's great life
Love for life Earth dealt
Give us a hand so more future felt
Train treatment to tame
This hurdle he will melt

Benny can jump it
Yeah Benny got power
Good Benny,
The purest good boy of this hour
Most of us have enough
Maybe a little too much
Please part with the extra
Get Benny's smile locked

Be generous dream
Be family of fine
Compassion for simpler life we define
Be all the love that you can
Give Benny more say
Whatever you can

Big thanks from boy brave
Big thanks for the heart
Together, found future
A little help finds new start
Be generous dream
Be family of fine
Compassion for simpler life we define

Benny can jump it
Yeah Benny got power
Good Benny,
The purest good boy of this hour
Most of us have enough
Maybe a little too much
Please part with the extra
Get Benny's smile locked

Be generous dream
Be family of fine
Compassion for simpler life we define
Be all the love that you can
Give Benny more say
Whatever you can 🔆

Benny the Brave

Words and music by Adam John Coulombe-Mann

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Rich Waring