Trouble     (c2022)

Song composed during a Fredericton Arts Alliance Residency. Joint composition with Bryan McDaniel. Guitar Bryan McDaniel.

There is nothing wrong with you because you are different. Everyone is different.

We do not have to be homogeneous; we do not have to be the same. There is distance and difference between even the closest of human beings. We do not have to walk the same path to share the same vision: that all view points are valuable; except for hate, which is not a viewpoint at all but a dark glass some people see through… losing all clarity and beauty.

We do not need to stand above someone. We can stand side by side and not be in each other’s shade…so that we all receive the same amount of sunlight. 

Two great things we can do in life: Have the courage to be yourself, your unique self and embrace what is different about you; and the second thing is to embrace what is different about everyone else …what is their unique contribution to the world?  (And maybe doing the second will only come from doing the first. Maybe you can’t accept everyone else’s differences unless you accept your own). 

Every power struggle, abuse, and essentially all inequity in the world is related. We need to solve the inequities in our own lives in order to impact the world’s inequities and essentially set a good example so that others will follow, not you; but your behaviour, by making changes on their own.

Differences are very important. We need them to understand things…without differences we cannot compare, understand, and get perspective. We wouldn’t even have a concept of time without differences! Differences create understanding if we embrace them and only difference can create change and growth…the concepts of change and growth are also not possible without differences! 

The ironic thing is that humans sometimes think that rejecting differences and striving to be the same will create unity. But the opposite is true: only through accepting all our differences and celebrating them can we truly unite and move forward. 

Maria

Difference

The Valuable Friends:

@janinelevinson - Incredible Vocals and Voice Effects
@rick-4-1 - Beautiful Drums
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Stuff

WAITING FOR THE RAIN

And the vines abide
And lean on old familiar ways
From Hadrian to the Satellite Empire
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill

The hidden lines and lives
Walk their natural time above the plain
From hill fort to the bunkers underground 
The hill can quicken up your pulse
Standing on Dryhill
You can taste it on your breath
Standing on Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Waiting for the rain 
Waiting for the rain

Aeons old and yesterday
In a scintillation (Standing on Dryhill)
A breathless moment under 
The curious twinkling stars (Standing on Dryhill)
The water moves beneath us
It moves below the ice

(below, be-low)

A long-gone, summer swift scream
The hill is not dry
The vines do not wither
Rippling the waters of our many lives
The heart of the hill 
Beats on
Pushing the sleeping rabbit to awake and run (run, run, run)
Seize the seasons
Hang the reasons
In a thousand years the hill will not remember us or its many names…
Our heads boiled, eaten down to the white bone

And the vines abide
And lean on old familiar ways
From Hadrian to the Satellite Empire
You can feel it in your soul
You can feel it in your soul
Standing on Dryhill
Standing on Dryhill
Waiting for the rain
Standing on Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Looking from Dryhill
Waiting for the rain
Waiting for the rain

Standing on Dryhill…

Phil McWalter Jan 2023
Recorded at Dryhill, Upper Rissington, Coventry and California
Art: My own manipulated image from the top of the hill...

Waiting For The Rain

Spotify

Leggaeton

The Director Of Speech

New World

Guitar: The Boilerman https://soundcloud.com/boilerman-615719656
Music, Lyrics, Vocal, Electric Piano, Bass, Drum Programming: Jan Schonander

Resung, remixed and remastered from almost four years ago.

This is a clash of psychology with science, and, well, early The Cure meets Bowie's Scary Monsters. It's easy to be close to somebody and still not be seen or heard no matter how loudly you speak. Mixed all this up with some actual invisibility science, so believe it or not, in terms not being seen this song stands on solid physics, until it doesn't....

BEND THE LIGHT

You see me
You look through me
You hear me
Can you hear me?

You’re blinded by your reflection
I’m invisible in the shadow of your glow

I absorb you
I deflect you
I’m a scientific wonder
My surface is cool
My paint is dark
A massive anomaly
A singularity
A Nobel prize in disguise
I’m in disguise

You’ve got the angle
You could be near or far
On any wavelength
You bend the light
You bend the light
You bend the light
You bend the light

I wait for you
You walk by me
I’m a meta material
New spectrum
No infrared
I’m headed to the Blue Hall
A Nobel prize in disguise
I’m gonna be famous
I’m gonna be famous

You’ve got the angle
You could be near or far
On any wavelength
You bend the light
You bend the light
You bend the light
You bend the light

You bend the light
But I’m gonna be famous
You bend the light
And I’m famous

Bend The Light

Bend The Light | The Boilerman 🎸


Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

The rhythm grabs control
Suddenly our body's in motion
We move...We groove

Sensation Sensation
Ooh Ooh... Ooh Ooh
Ooh Ooh

The power of the beat
Throbs the dancefloor
Yeah it steams
 Alpha and Beta Brainwaves
Oscillate, synchronized to the beat

And lovers are free to be

Lasers flash to the kick
You're caught in an instantaneous 
...trance state

The rhythm is in control
Suddenly our body's motion
It moves to the groove
We are one on the dancefloor

Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

Obscure emotions are washed away
Flooded by analogue synth waves
Everytime we're caught up here
in our induced trance state of mind
Ooh Ooh... Ooh Ooh
Ooh Ooh

Laser flash strobes and kicks
Instantaneous trance
Let's go, hold my hand
Let's go, and dance
Don't,you, leave without me
Come and dance one last time to the beat
One last time to the beat

Dance with me be tranced be free 
Dance with me be tranced be free
Danse with me be tranced with me
Dance with me...danse with me
Danse with me be tranced with me
Dance with me be tranced be free

Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh 
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Ahh oh yeah
ooh ooh huh huh ooh ohh

Wivresse my dear soundcloud friend and producer is credited for this amazing AI art creation.  Jano and the Electronix has entered into my soul with his synth's.

Be Tranced With Me

Be Tranced With Me (collab Jano And The Electronix)

A song about a narcissist who is oblivious to those around him.
Lyrics:
Punctured with your needles and tubes
Inside your hotel room
Life is like a cyst
Or an open wound
Waiting to exhume
I've never been emotionally deep
I think that's why I'm still alive

We met over drinks
And our shared emotional baggage
Minor characters
We'd lost the plot
At first thought
It's all the damage that I brought
Sitting next to you
Clearing my head
Outside your abstract sick bed

I always seem to get my way
You know that's the way this boy was raised
I've learned everything from American movies
The way that I talk
The way that it rots
The way I walk
With feelings twice removed
Inside your hospital room
Abstract sick bed

(Abstract) Sick Bed

Come back to yearn

Thy WILL Be DONE

Insomnia
Searching these oceans in your eyes
Scanning for life has none survived
Oath in the black of night I meant these words I said
This is the dream I had that shook me wide awake in bed

Rose from these ashes
Birthed in this primal crust
The violence in the crucible  
This silence is so beautiful
Raw from these lashes
We’ll all return to dust
These crimes are inexcusable
The lambs become invisible
The pounding of the inward tide 
The sound that lets me sleep at night

Solving the codes inside your head
Did you abandon them for dead
This is the chronic, deep insomnia I dread 
These are the dreams I have that cause me to convulse in bed

Insomnia

Songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois.  Contact via email simplecircuitsmusic@yahoo.com or PM.  Thanks for your kind feedback!


Insomnia

Simple Circuits