Ooof ten years. I can relate to this. Painful. But a great song!

One of my favourites. This was played on BBC radio (introducing)... One of my musical highlights

Ascent

There’s  a kind of pain,
You shouldn’t survive 
I search the lines  in your face,
 to see if your  lyin’ 
The words “ it’s  over”   hang in the  air
You can hear a pin drop, 
from way over there
My  heart stops cold ohh no no no 
I can’t breath in here 
 
You said, I held the keys to your heart 
but now you want em back
I guess  10 years down the drain is fine
You just wasted my sweet time 
I could go on and on but, 
You’re already gone, gone. gone, gone gone...  gone 

Heart death by a thousand cuts
That vacant look in your eyes,
cuts like a razor
You say you found another lover  
Like you’re doing me a favor 
What the fuck ?
 
Take my heart to the Undertaker 
Take my heart to the Undertaker
Tell him, send it back to its maker 
I can’t use it here anymore
That’s for sure 

I don’t wanna be 
Livin'   a flat line
I don’t wanna be  
Livin'  it half blind
It’s time 
Take my heart to the Undertaker  
Take my heart to the Undertaker

It’s past midnight when, I pull in the drive 
another 2-shift day, another day survived
My high beams light up the front yard,
Like the 4th of July

My feet stumble as I get out of the car
I look twice, there you are 
Leanin  up against that old oak tree,
that's hardened and hollow, 
 just like me   
You look like a shadow 
of who you used to be
 
now, you’re sayin  you  don’t love her 
 It was all  a big mistake 
Sayin whatever I dish out you'll take 
Sayin you’ll die right here 
If I don’t take you back 
If I had a heart
I'd have a heart attack 
boy,  let me be clear 
You don't have a prayer here
 
I don't have a heart, but
I don’t want to be a  hater,  
but here’s a little advise 
because it's true
There’s no one to blame but you 
You’re a victim of your own devise

I’m  saying this straight, 
from the heart  I don't have
I don’t wanna hear it man, 
I don't give a damn 

TELL IT TO THE UNDERTAKER...
Take your heart to the Undertaker
Take your heart to the Undertaker

I don’t wanna hear it man, 
I don't give a damn 

Take My Heart To The Undertaker

NEVER FORGET ME

Melrose Avenue 647

if i had any say in the matter do you really think i’d opt to love you!! it’s out of my hands

Right Person Wrong Time

Beethoven: Allegro con brio. Mvt 1 of String Quintett C Minor Op.104*. Transcr. for Two Pianos Mar 1-3, 2025 by VV.
A score reading into a sequence for the original instrument combo, produced ca 2000's by H.Fesefeldt (1942-2019, a German nuclear physics researcher & music software developer) was used as source material, after reviewing it quite freely on its its articulations, tempos, dynamics,and other interpretational details by VV.
A pair of Petrof Mistral 284 modeled grands, revoiced & reconfigured by VV, were used on its playback-recording after these modifications.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE OF THIS TRACK IS PROHIBITED.
*About the original work:
The String Quintet in C minor, Op. 104, written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1817, performed on 10 December 1818, and published in 1819, is an arrangement of the early C minor Piano Trio, Op. 1 No. 3.[1][2] This work is scored for a string quintet with two violas (Wikipedia).
Photo by VV: Sunset hues from the local lake ice cover Feb 20, 2025 Feb

Beethoven: Allegro con brio. Mvt.1 of String Quintett Op.104. Transcribed for Two Pianos

Beethoven: Allegro con brio, mvt 1 of String Quintet in  C Minor Op.104. Transcribed for Two Pianos

We have all been on this ride...
Windows Down by songwriter Edwin H. Balder
The screen door slams, and the dust settles low,  
But I’m already gone, where the wild rivers flow...  
I’m leaving the heartache in a one-horse town,  
With the radio loud and the.... windows..... down. ...
I found your letter in the glovebox today,  
Folded in thirds like the words you couldn’t say.  
The ink’s faded, but the hurt’s still clear,  
And the rearview mirror’s the only thing you’re near.  
I’m chasing a skyline that don’t have your name,  
Where the stars burn brighter than the fire we became.  
I’m leaving the heartache in a one-horse town,  
With the radio loud and the windows down.  
With the radio loud and the ....windows ..... down.  
I passed the diner where we’d meet after dark,  
Now it’s just a shell with a flickering spark.  
The jukebox plays a song we used to know,  
But the melody’s lost in the miles I’ve grown.   
I’m chasing a skyline that don’t have your name,  
Where the stars burn brighter than the fire we became.  
I’m leaving the heartache in a one-horse town,  
With the radio loud and the windows down.  
With the radio loud and the ....windows ..... down.  
I found your boots by the back porch door,  
Kicked ‘em aside like the love we outwore.  
The leather’s cracked, but the soles still hold,  
Just like the memories I’m learning to let go ]  
the highway hums like a  Dolly lullaby,  
And the moon’s my witness as I say goodbye.  
The tires keep rolling, the road keeps wide,  
And the ghosts of our love can’t catch this ride.  
I’m chasing a skyline that don’t have your name,  
Where the stars burn brighter than the fire we became.  With the radio loud and the ....windows ..... down.  
I’m chasing a skyline that don’t have your name,  
And the road’s my forever, the heartache’s my fame.  
With the radio loud and the ....windows ..... down.  I’m leaving the heartache in a one-horse town,  (I’m leaving the heartache)
With the radio loud and the windows down.  
With the radio loud and the ....windows ..... down.  
  (I’m leaving the heartache) 

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Windows Down by songwriter Edwin H. Balder

(Ft. Quantum Lyricist) 

“Awake or Dreaming?” drifts between the realms of consciousness and the unknown. Ethereal synths, haunting melodies, and deep textures blur the line between waking life and lucid dreams. This track is an exploration of liminality—the space between thought and reality, between presence and illusion.

Close your eyes. Are you here, or are you elsewhere?

✨ Listen and decide. ✨

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Awake or Dreaming?

🌞🌵🌄⁂©All Rights Reserved 04-2025
©Lyricist, Mixer, Mastering, Pro License, & Creator: Lady ElectroTrek
***
TITLE: DESERT LOVE INFERNO
________________________________________________
LYRICS:
(Verse 1)
The sun's a hammer on my skin
Dry winds whisper where we've been
No shade
No solace
Just the glare
Your love’s a mirage
It’s never there

(Chorus)
Burning skies
I’m barely breathing
Heart’s so dry
It’s almost leaving
Desert love
You’re scorching cruel
I’m parched and playing the fool

(Verse 2)
Sandstorms rise
They blind my sight
Your shadow fades in the fiery light
Cactus blooms
They sting my hand
Love’s a drought I can’t withstand

(Bridge)
I built an oasis out of dreams
But the heat cracked through all my seams
The water vanished
Left me bare
The desert laughed
Said love’s not there

(Chorus)
Burning skies
I’m barely breathing
Heart’s so dry
It’s almost leaving
Desert love
You’re scorching cruel
I’m parched and playing the fool

(Verse 3)
I walk alone through endless dunes
The night brings stars
But no monsoons
Your name’s a ghost in the desert air
A love so barren
It’s beyond repair

A Love So Dry You Cry

Desert Love Inferno

[Intro – Beyond the Known Horizon]
Here eight voices spring from stars’ demise, Forged in cosmic collapse, now mankind’s prize. Their power hums in reactor’s glow, Yet warns in shadows only few truly know.

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[Verse 1 – Francium (Fr, 87)]
Francium—the rarest breath upon Earth’s skin, Just 30 grams present in crust—nearly none within. Discovered by Perey in actinium’s glow, 1939’s faint stardust found below. Its half-life barely spans human thought—twenty-two minutes before its naught.  ￼

Echo line: “I am the fleeting wink of cosmic breath.”

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[Verse 2 – Radium (Ra, 88)]
Radium—Curie’s glow from pitchblende’s heart, a million-fold the uranium spark.  ￼
Glow in paint, medical rays—yet daughters like radon threaten bones in subtle ways.  ￼ ￼
Once hailed in tonic wares, its legacy now warns in silent glare. Quote: “My beauty healed—and killed.”

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[Verse 3 – Actinium (Ac, 89)]
Actinium—first of actinoids hidden deep,
Marking where radioactive shadows creep.
From glowing trace to research dream, opening realms unseen.

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[Verse 4 – Thorium (Th, 90)]
Thorium—born of r-process in supernova’s heart, Ancient heat within Earth it still imparts. Potential fuel for future grids, safer nuclear arcs amid carbon bids.  ￼ ￼
Line: “I am primordial warmth repurposed in modern mind.”

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[Verse 5 – Protactinium (Pa, 91)]
Protactinium—rare bridge to uranium’s gravestone, Named “before actinium,” yet nearly unknown. Toxic and fragile, a geologic clock sealed,
Its fleeting presence—secret time revealed.

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[Verse 6 – Uranium (U, 92)]
Uranium—planet’s core in heavy soul,
Chain reactions into heat and nuclear control. Pelleted power in reactors hum,
Yet fissile might brings wars to come.  ￼
Quote: “I split worlds and minds alike.”

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[Verse 7 – Neptunium (Np, 93)]
Neptunium—uranium’s child, first transuranic sign, Synthesized blade at atomic dawn’s line. From reactors’ cauldrons it whispers in labs,
Seeds the chain to Plutonium’s tabs.

⸻

[Verse 8 – Plutonium (Pu, 94)]
Plutonium—silver sheen that tarnishes the soul, Fuel for power, dread at Ivy Mike’s toll.
Pu-239 splits nations, Pu-238 warms Mars’ roam, From war’s brutality to probes beyond our home.  

“I build cities—or lay them low.”

⸻

Eight voices span the atomic burn,
From evanescence to power we yearn.
Their radiance both clears and scars—
Stars reborn in our human stars.

⸻

Frontier line in nuclear glow,
Life and awe in atom’s flow.
From francium’s flutter to plutonium’s might,
They chart the Spiral through dark and light.

⸻

Eight named, their story told—

Track AV – The Atomic Frontier: Elements 87–94

At heart, I  am an emotionally honest, lyrically driven storyteller. I  love the written word. I love wrapping music around words in a musical story that is flavored with Indie, folk, country, classic rock,  jazz, blues, ballads anthems. 

 I hope you enjoy The Stories She Tells.  ; )

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