Lyrics:

Someday soon, maybe I'll get my life in tune, 
I'll change my ways, I'll leave my phone at home.
I'll leave my calls, my raps, my selfie reflections, 
Spurting alerts of up and coming insurrections.
I'll leave my motivator app, my Mickey D points,
My motoring map, my coolest joints,
My photos of fried crap I ate on trips,
And apps of traps on digital drum kits,
I'll change my ways, I'll get my life in tune.
I'll leave my phone at home.

Chorus:
He'll leave his phone,
He'll leave his phone,
He'll leave his phone,
He'll leave his phone at home.

I'll leave my phone at home, my lifestyle tools,
The Uber button that Lyfts my moods,
My MTA pass to the nether lands,
MyCupid's answer for coming together and
My socially awoke way of fraternizing,
My patented mantras for self-mesmerizing,
For fanatically exercising, moralizing,
Radically organizing and politically polarizing.
I'll get my life in tune.

Chorus:
He'll leave his phone,
He'll leave his phone,
He'll leave his phone,
He'll leave his phone at home.

I'll leave my phone at home, I'll get my life in tune,
You'll find me soon, getting attuned,  
Psychically groomed, spiritually harpooned,
Ethically unimpugned, commercially de-consumed.
I'll stop. They’ll be no socializing, mobilizing, 
Tranquilizing or synchronizing.
I'll leave my phone at home. I'll be dehumanizing.
I'll leave my phone at home. I'll be an empty room, An echoing tomb, an abandoned groom. I’ll leave my phone at home. 
I’ll be an untethered balloon.

Music, lyrics and performances by Rick Moss

© 2021 Rock Moses

He Left His Phone

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Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Lyrics:

I found a note in a drawer, scribbled to a landlord, or maybe a god, or maybe to myself. 

I can't recall the incident that prompted it, though the handwriting is mine. The words are faint, as if the pen was long dry; the impression tentative, only visible when angled toward the light just so. 

It reads: Fix it, please. By all that's holy. And again: Fix it, fool. At least it looks like fool. It may be: for god’s sake or father or fucker. The legibility trails off. And yet despite the weak hand, from the angle of the strokes and the language used, there's an undeniable urgency to it. Fix it, please.

It seems unlikely that the problem was solved. After all, the note wasn’t delivered. I wonder, is this unnamed something still in disrepair? The message could be years old — maybe a decade. What to do?  

I put pen to paper, but to whom do I direct my inquiry? How can I complain when I'm unsure what's been neglected. There are so many possibilities. 

But then, maybe it doesn't matter which issue I have in mind. Maybe it doesn't matter if I address myself or a god or the landlord.

Fix it, please. By all that’s holy. Fix it, fool. Fix it, father. Fix it, fucker.

Once again, into a drawer, forgotten once more. 

-- Words, music and performances by Rick Moss

© 2023 Rock Moses

Fix It

The One Man Male Voice Choir gives us another track from his forthcoming album 'The Queen is Deaf'; a tribute to legendary 80s band 'The Smiths' who did so much to bring traditional Welsh values of misery, insecurity and nihilistic pessimism to a broader audience.
This is 'I know it's over' of which the OMMVC says "It's got a latin flavour, provided by Rhosnesni combo Los Property, with backing vocals by The Caegotones, a legendary trio. The Wrexham Leader said 'the song's finale is taken over by The Caegotones in a massive exhibition of self-indulgence' which, in a Smiths tribute, is the highest compliment they could have been paid."

I Know Its Over

Mindfire

Our featured Wrexham artist this week is Brynley Edwards, arguably the initiator and founder of Wrexham's Mundane Realism movement, striving to paint reality honestly and to describe his life, 'warts an' all' as it were, via the medium of music. 
Brynley has been signed to The Fabulous Sandra records for several years and has seen notable success across the region. His album 'I can't get no recycling bags' sold out in Wrexham's WH Smiths after he won the H from Steps Award for Best New Wrexham Artist in 2021.
Despite his fame and fortune, Brynley still lives in his native Borras Park, two streets away from ex native wife, Kiley, who is now married to one of the drummers from Hawkwind.

To The Kworp! by Brynley Edwards

The One Man Male Voice Choir

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