Day is done and I’m coming home, – think happy thoughts to lessen my load, clench my fists and get in that mode – forgive me but long is my road, take a side street because I need some time, to create a smile that isn’t mine, I’m pulling up an hey I’m doing fine, aside from losing my shine. Did you notice that tear in my eye, was hoping that you’d ask me why,  so much to tell you about my day, well maybe it’s just better this way
Yet all this time I always knew – how grateful I was for you but trying times get the best of me
with my chin up I face the day – I never knew any other way – then to grind it out – but I guess that’s just me – it’s my reality 
I have seen the worst of everyone – and it’s made me positively numb – March to the beat of someone else’s drum – was always trying to be just someone – take a side street cause I need some time – to create a smile that isn’t mine – I’m pulling up and I’m doing fine Except I’ve lost that shine
Did you notice that this wasn’t me? do you think about who we used to be?  Do you have a heart or has it gone to hell? trust me woman this man can tell – I’ve hid away for far too long – Let me break it out here in this song – I was not the only one who was wrong, will I ever find a place where I belong 
Yet all this time I always knew – how grateful I was for you but trying times get the best of me  
with my chin up I face the day – I never knew any other way – then to grind it out – but I guess that’s just me – it’s my reality 
Day is done and I’m coming home – think happy thoughts to lessen my load – clench ,my fists and get in that mode – forgive me but long is my road

Eric Festa's Album

Grateful

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered using Logic. 
Guitars played: Taylor 714CE in DADGAD Tuning
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.

Acoustic guitar instrumental.

Reunion

When you've got to burn the midnight oil while staying cool, calm, and alert, try a cuppa Midnight Coffee.


An original composition, No AI, written MIDI to DAW

VST INSTRUMENTS: Synth, harp, acoustic guitar, piano, and basses set to hip hop beats using Studio Brush Kit & Lo-Fi Funk @ 70 bpm.

COVER ART by SUNNYBECK using AI-generated original images via DaVinci app and altered in Photoshop to create original CGI, including the Midnight Coffee type rendered as smoke.

© 2023 SUNNYBECK
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Midnight Coffee

Lite

C&F  Fa$t B1ack Prod By   Chameleon

A Rom-Com on a celestial plane meets a reality in a Virginia grief group. 

Re: the chorus -- no shade intended, Ben Gibbard.

Influences: Ted Leo, Death Cab for Cutie, ColdPlay

To the Heavens

Give in

Are you awake?
It doesn’t matter anyway
I pull the brake
It’s neither Monday nor the lord’s day

Pretty little thoughts
Surrounded by knots
Bombshells and fears 
Crowded people that cheers
Is it time to give in?
Watch the others spin?

I think you’re awake
Does it all make sense?
I think we release the brake
It’s for our own defence
I have no faith in the politics
Nevermind, it was a joke
But I’m afraid of the reaper
And I think we’re broke

Give in

Allegro Moderato

First movement of a "SONATA OF MELODIES" 

Primo movimento di una "SONATA DELLE MELODIE"

MELODIE

Melodie (I)

Take Me To The Riverside (Version 2)

Crime Of Passion,== Gene Jumper, ( cover ) Ricky Van Shelton

Everyday I wanna do more and more music I didn’t forget or give up on who I am things are just different now,that being said I felt that the first song I ever did was necessary.I will be back remember to always do what you love no matter what anybody says.

Stuck

Music producer and music artist: electronic, instrumentals, dance, pop, R&B, hip-hop, alternative rock, funk, ambient, and slow chill vibes.

Take Me To The Riverside (Version 2)

Russell B. Anthony