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It’s a mixed bag. 
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The Chronicles of Skookum Bardily

Underachiever Of The Year

Calendar

Best Foot Forward

The Illusionist steps to the stage.
In a whisper insists,
Nothing exists,
Save the world
That a mannequin made.
In a mask everything was betrayed.
And a crowd then appeared,
Made of billions of tears.
The performance was played everyday.

The soldier looked down at his gun,
And he struggled and fought,
At the scene he had wrought.
He had thought he was right,
But he's gone
And he's killed himself in everyone.
And the target he missed,
Always last on the list,
Were the ones who said it must be done.

You can hide your spirit away,
But you can't hide yourself from your soul.
And one way or another,
In time you'll discover,
You are one,
It is all,
Have no fear if you fall.
It's the wings that will lift you to love,
We are evermore.

When the Mother was taken away,
And the Father was lost,
All the children were forced,
To another to kneel down and pray.
It was normal to live in dismay.
And in time they forgot,
That their gods were of nought,
And they begged for the masters to stay.

You can hide your spirit away,
But you can't hide yourself from your soul.
And one way or another,
In time you'll discover,
You are one,
It is all,
Have no fear if you fall.
It's the wings that will lift you to love,
We are evermore.

@saturday_smith mashed this together.

We Are Evermore

Just A Thought (The Sound of a 23 Legged Giraffe Running Across The Desert)

When I Was Still....

Inspired by piano piece written and played by @tarjeija.  Check him out: https://www.youtube.com/@tarjeija

Eternal Drift (from original by @tarjeija)

Obscura

Rush

At The Heart Of The Z-Pinch

Behind every figurehead there is a priest caste, a procession and a ritual. 

The Kingmaker

Facing the wrong way,
Wringing hands,
Like a clock 
Running backwards
Into the past.
Watching for clouds
On a trek through the desert,
Wrapped in a fur coat
With bags full of sand.

Weaker than yesterday,
Hanging on
To a weight 
That would float away
On the air.
Something familiar,
Seems so strange
To be keeping 
The same thing 
Not changing...

Who drew the map?
Who chose the path?
Who said it had to be this
And not that?
Thirsting for more
From a cup full of malice.
Challenged by no-one 
To knock it all back.

Congratulations,
You're right about everything.
How could you be wrong
When everything's true?
One point of light 
In the dark of a night sky
Haven't you seen the stars
Shining round you?

Counting the red days,
Bleeding out,
Hoping there'll be a 
A small hallelujah.
What looked like certainty
Took a wrong turn
And the price was paid
Measure for measure.

Taking the pain
Fumbling gains
Every door leads to 
Much more of the same.
Wondering if  
There's a way to surrender.
Fighting as if
There is no time to lose.

Setting a fire to 
Reverse the inversions,
Making sure that you 
Don't die in your sleep.
Waking to find 
This is a simulation
Who is the one 
That shines light from the deep?
Who decides everything
That you see?
Who is the one that is 
Already free?

Did you get what you deserved?
Took what was offered
Oh, but nothing that was worth it.
So you complain,
But did you even make the effort?
You be the judge of that.
Who lived the life behind you?
If you give nothing back
Who owes you anything?
All of your dreams came true,
Be careful what you wish for.
I'm sure you'll get 
There in the end.

Written, performed, produced and mixed by Saturday Smith And The Shadow Band. © 2023

I'm Sure You'll Get There In The End

A song about how we don't seem to ever live and love as well as we know how to.  Listen to that inner voice. Let it be your guide. Or stay miserable. Its your choice.

Lyrics:

There's a little voice,
Sits in the back of my mind,
Whispers to me all the time,
Tells me that life is divine,
Tells me that life is sublime,
But I don't listen at all,
How can this all be a ball?
The shit hits the fan,
Then the wall
I built round myself to avoid,
The world,
It's so big, I'm so small,
I don't wanna change,
Life is hard,
But the voice in my head's undeterred,
Why, when it's always unheard,
Does it keep
Trying to teach me
(Trying to teach me)
How to be happy and unstressed
(Trying to teach me)
How to be one with all that is
(Trying to teach me)
Why do I act so unimpressed?
(Trying to teach me)
Why do I never acquiese?

Trying To Teach Me (Demo)

Are you moving on or staying put? A song for those who feel the need to grow.... ;)

Calendar #2 (Demo)

A song about apathy, fear and procrastination. It's a demo. If I can ever be bothered to have the courage to record it properly I might do it later, when I get around to it.

Sooner Or Later (Demo)

Nobody does anything because of you. It's all about them.
You don't do anything because of someone else. It's all about you. Take some responsibility, goddamit!

Calendar #1 (Demo)

Hey you...yeah, you.  Get out of the way! Whose way? YOUR way, dummy, go on, go, move, skidaddle!!!

Get Up & Go (Demo)

Crazy is all fun and games, until somebody gets hurt. Knowing when to bail is an essential skill in the world of relationships.

Evr'y Summer Girl (Demo)

You got dumped. It happens. Get drunk, do some drugs, sleep around a bit, whatever you need to do; but above all, have some self respect. You'll live. Now stop crying, get over it and move on. You're bumming everyone out.

Forgotten (Demo)

Lullaby

Arc Ringtone

Say what you like about me, my friend.
It's easy to judge a situation that you've never been in.
I paid no price for your thin cruel mouth,
For all of your talk I can still walk with my head held high.

You color me blue,
To think of me weak.
It's never nice when they're telling you that you're a freak.
When I forgive you,
It's better for me.
So slap me hard and I'll try to turn the other cheek.

Cos Eddie said, "It don't matter none anyway."
And Eddie said, "Let it all go."
She's the one who kept me hanging on and taught me to be strong,
Cos Eddie knows how to go with the flow.

My wayward life is a road without end.
My spirit is brighter for the troubles that have brought so much pain.
So stand at the bar with your herd (hurt) if you will.
I'll follow the light that leads my way up to the top of the hill.

Now I know the truth,
Of what we can be.
It's hard to hate when you recognise divinity.
When I forgive you,
It's better for me.
So slap me hard and I'll try to turn the other cheek.

Cos Eddie said, "It don't matter none anyway."
And Eddie said, "Let it all go."
She's the one who kept me hanging on and taught me to be strong,
Cos Eddie knows how to go with the flow.
Yeah, Eddie knows how to go with the flow.

Eddie Said

From the people who brought you "Tequila Marking Board."

CuriousScam - Vocals, instruments, programming and arrangements.
jason:d - Words and vocals

Produced, recorded, engineered and mixed by @curious-scam

Lyrics:

The Spectacle doesn't serve me well
At all
These days.
I can feel all the edges of this drunken malaise.
I've got stones in my chest,
Where my heart used to be,
And debt took the roots
Of my bonsai money-tree.
Every road leads to another,
How they go on for days,
And we try to lap each other,
As we hurtle through the maze,
Getting bigger, getting badder,
Getting sicker, getting sadder,
Getting nothing but the grift
While rich men's wallets get fatter.

But there's a road I haven't travelled,
They won't let me pass that way.
Through the razor wire and fences
The unwary never stray.
But I'm breaking out tonight,
With all my cutters and my soul,
To find my way back to my home
I'll pay the traveller's toll.

Chorus:
Put your coins in your pocket,
It's only metal here.
Take your heart and unlock it,
And know now what you fear.
It was you all along,
Who never wondered why.
They just had a dream to sell you,
It was you who bought the lie.

Before sirens, dogs a hollowing,
I fled the city wall, 
And bled as I was beaten
By the forest that I crawled
Through
Out
The trials and the judgement,
That I laid upon myself,
All the pain that I could muster 
Was jagged on my breath,
And in my ears the wind did shriek,
My spirit cried aloud,
As across the mountain peaks
I heard an ancient sound.
It lifted and embraced me
And held me as I walked.
Of Light and Sound and One Is All
I listened as it talked.
The drum beat, 
As my heart did
And led me through the night,
To the path of a shaman's tent,
As dawn began to light.
"You seek to meet your maker."
The shaman took me in,
"She wishes to see you again,
You'll find her here within."
He handed me a strange brew,
I drank to no (know?) delight,
It dragged me to the sewers,
And left me shining bright.

Chorus:
Put your coins in your pocket,
It's only metal here.
Take your heart and unlock it,
And know now what you fear.
It was you all along,
Who never wondered why.
They just had a dream to sell you,
It was you who bought the lie.


SHAMAN: 

Time evolves and comes to a place where it renews again.
There is first a purification time,
Then there is renewal time.
We are getting very close to this time.


Ayahuasca, take me home,
Fractalled,
Within,
Understanding,
Form begotten of the void,
Sweet surrender, soul surviving.
There will be a veil no more.
In between opposing forces,
One is all and all is one,
In the pain there is catharsis.
Mark this well and never doubt,
Those who mock are to be cared for,
Sick, as they are,
Of the plans,
Made to make us all feel better.
You and you alone can fly,
Eagle feathers are your birthright.
Ayahuasca! 
Never die,
Dancing in the Song
Of the Light......

Chorus:
Put your coins in your pocket,
It's only metal here.
Take your heart and unlock it,
And know now what you fear.
It was you all along,
Who never wondered why.
They just had a dream to sell you,
It was you who bought the lie.









Go, Get A Shaman - @curious-scam feat. jason:d.

You take their money
And you cheat and you lie and you steal
Their energy, their place to be,
You're so consumed by the power to will.
You tie their hands and blind their eyes 
For a cheap thrill.

You spoil the waters
With confusion and the stories you tell,
Removing one from every other
As you poison the well.
You need no saviour 
Fortune favours the bold
And your behaviour tells the world
I am the only one here
I am the only one here

You classify and stratify 
While never seeing the whole.
No flaws in your plan
You've decided there is only the goal.
Your separation is the sign of a lost soul.

Who is your self?
What is it made of?
Where does it reside?
This camouflage that makes the murder
Look like a suicide.
There's no inside to divide,
The outside's all in your mind.
You are the only one here
You are the only one here

Your clumsy magic is a tragic glamour
No evidence
Of higher intellect
Superior in every sense
I know you're thinking 
"I'm the only one here!"
And that's true
But you're confused
About who is who....

There is only one here
There is only one here

Written by jason:d
Produced, arranged and mixed by @curious-scam
Bass, guitars and drum programming by @curious-scam
Vocals, additional bass, guitar and keyboards by jason:d

The Only One Here (Produced and arranged by @curious-scam)

These days I feel so confused,
Everybody's always talking like they're reading the news.
I wake up and I'm so conflicted,
The sirens kill the silence,
I'm becoming addicted,
To being less than I was before
And the inside of my head is getting used to the wars
On terror and drugs and the population,
Who think a politician's gonna hand 'em salvation.

Can't see the wood from the trees,
I wasn't gonna pray but since I'm down on my knees,
If anyone can hear me,
If there's anyone out there,
A little bag of weed would make this easier to bear.
Don't wanna play the game,
The rules are always changing,
But they rule us the same,
It's funny how the scum always rise to the top,
But if we got our shit together we could make it all stop
Badabbadab 

Don't talk to me about wrong and right,
When your bombs are wrecking nations 
And your soldiers are fighting.
I don't care what you wanna believe in,
You'll never get to heaven on the back of deceiving.
Don't wanna be led by a sociopath,
Who'll be hiding in a bunker in the aftermath.
Why are we fooled in every election?
The road to hell is paved with all our lazy intentions.


Can't see the wood from the trees,
I wasn't gonna pray but since I'm down on my knees,
If anyone can hear me,
If there's anyone out there,
A little bag of weed would make this easier to bear.
Don't wanna play the game,
The rules are always changing,
But they rule us the same,
It's funny how the scum always rise to the top,
But if we got our shit together we could make it all stop
Badabbadab 

It's no measure of health to become accustomed
To giving them permission to be running this hustle.
We're being had by a bunch of grifters
And everyday the rest of us are royally fisted.
I couldn't give a monkey's what you all wanna do,
But I've had enough,
I'm giving up
And leaving this zoo.
Stick around if you wanna be chattel
Or take away consent to let them treat you like cattle.


Can't see the wood from the trees,
I wasn't gonna pray but since I'm down on my knees,
If anyone can hear me,
If there's anyone out there,
A little bag of weed would make this easier to bear.
Don't wanna play the game,
The rules are always changing,
But they rule us the same,
It's funny how the scum always rise to the top,
But when we get our shit together we can make it all stop
Baddabadab

Written by jason:d, 
Produced, engineered and mixed by @curious-scam
Guitar/Vocals: jason:d
Bass Guitar/Drum Programming: @curious-scam

Badabbadab (Produced and arranged by @curious-scam)

Oh my child,
Wrapped in dreams,
I lay you here,
Against your mother's breast,
Safe upon the Earth,
Running free.
To the winds I speak your name,
And ask them for the strength,
To let you be.
Cos, I don't mind just tell me your heart is
Open and here.
Wherever you wander,
Remember you're loved and,
Remember,
Remember me.

Written by @curious-scam and jason:d

Words/vox/guitar - jason:d
Synths and drum programming - @curious-scam
Produced and engineered by @curious-scam

Prayer (@curious-scam feat. jason:d)

Written, arranged, yada yada yada by @saturday_smith

The path is no straight line,
It spirals round in time.
I've been in this place,
Again and again.
Each test that I come through,
A dead man watches all I do,
One hand in my way,
The other behind.

Taken to mean what's said,
Nothing but pain leads you to your death.
I beg to differ,
I plead with myself,
"Don't ever be the same."
Working out the rules to a loaded game.
When I let go I know I rise.

Chorus

Whenever I fly,
Whenever I soar,
The world just falls behind me,
The darkness cannot find me,
Shadows are gone.
And then I am home,
Then I am home.

Verse 2

Old woman, what d'you need?
Why are you here with me?
Can you tell me?
What's the deal?
If I could blow this joint,
Make my way back to the zero point,
I'd be heading for the hills.

Hear all through bleeding ears,
Reading all the books of a thousand years,
Caught up in thoughts that are not mine.
Given another truth,
Wrap it up nice,
Easy on the proof.
Ideas have had me,
Now I want my mind.

Chorus

Whenever I fly,
Whenever I soar,
The world just falls behind me,
The darkness cannot find me,
Shadows are gone.
And then I am whole.
Then I am whole.
And then I am one.
Then I am one.

Whenever I Fly

I didn't know there was this much Green in the whole galaxy...

Written, recorded and mixed by @jasond-ee

Featuring Rey out of off of Star Wars
Cheech Marin
The Green Lantern
Opie and Anthony & Louis CK

Paradise 420

A dragon burning on my breath,
Smoke back the ire inside,
The words are turning red,
I thank the lord that there's 
An angel in my bed,
Things could be worse my friend

I hear the voices in my head,
They're armed and dangerous,
And they sound quite upset,
I'm vilified and demonised,
For baking people's bread,
Things could be worse my friend.

Where did you goto?
Where did you run?
So many dreams ago
When we were having fun.
Gave yourself for security,
Sign of the times I do suppose,
But it seems a shame to me....

Somebody's hiding in your past
Snuck back behind yourself 
In some old photograph,
If I was bitter I would prob'ly kick your arse
Things could be worse my friend.

Of all the people that I knew,
Dressed up like unicorns,
Eventually shot through.
One day to break away was all I asked of you,
Things could be worse my friend.

Where did you goto?
Where did you run?
So many dreams ago
When we were having fun.
Gave yourself for security,
Sign of the times I do suppose,
But it seems a shame to me....
Where did you run to, 
Where did you go,
We played the music I was never keeping score
But the price we had to pay,
Meant the bailiffs came one day
Snuck through the back while I was sleeping 
And took my friend away.

Could things be worse my friend?

Written, performed, produced and mixed by @saturday_smith

Could Be Worse

There's a reason why Steve Jobs was like, anti-social media.  He knew it was poison....

Better Than You

History is make believe
And nothing is quite what it seems
Good deeds are just for show.
The doctors are all sick
And wise men put us in the shit.
Everybody follows
And hopes to be a rose tomorrow.
We're told to stand in line
While Pharaohs drink our blood like wine.
Those that see
Share their crazy dreams
Only to be told
These are ways from days of old
Now pay your share
To multi million billionaires.

I don't wanna be here a lifetime
Always stressing 'bout the state of my goldmine.
I don't wanna be here a lifetime
Walking circles till the end of the timeline.

When you were mine
I thought the sun would always shine
I loved you most.
But I know,
We live in thrall to ghosts.
Beneath this spell
We make a heaven of a hell.
We hunger to be seen
As anybody's meant to be,
They say it soothes your soul.
But we are 
All under a dark star.
If this is love
We won't escape the ones above.

I don't wanna be here a lifetime
Always stressing 'bout the state of my goldmine.
I don't wanna be here a lifetime
Walking circles till the end of the timeline.

I don't wanna be here a lifetime
Always stressing 'bout the state of my goldmine.
I don't wanna be here a lifetime
Waiting for someone to throw me a lifeline.

I don't wanna be here a lifetime
Always stressing 'bout the state of my goldmine.
I don't wanna be here a lifetime
While my heart just takes a beating, repeating and bleeding for love.

Written, performed, mixed and produced by @saturday_smith

Under A Dark Star

Welcome to a poor reflection of the inside of my head...everything is a work in progress and nothing should be taken to be a final version.  That goes for all the songs on this page as well.

"A bum note is defined by the note that comes after it." - George Benson.

SKOOKUM: adj: large; powerful; impressive; excellent; first-rate.
Origin of skookum: 1825–35, Chinook Jargon: strong, powerful, fearsome: Lower Chehalis:(skwəkw ə́m)ghost, spirit, monster.

BARDILY: adverb,(Scot): bold-ly; audacious-ly; defiant-ly

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