I like this part - nice guitar line under the vocal -has a The Cure sound

Steve... this is just about radio ready for the right station. I'm much enjoying your use of your voice here.

Very cool song Steve! I'm diggin' it said the gravedigger!👍😎✌🏼

I hope to someday finish animation I started years ago of flamingos in the rain dancing to this song.

Synth harp, guitars, clarinet, cellos, and bass set to hit hop, conga, and bongo beats at a tango’s pace of 70 bpm. Rain audio recorded live in December 2023.

I wrote an extended version of this track more than a decade ago during a time I was experiencing intense physical pain. As I fled inwardly into creativity to escape, this music narrated the discovery of a quiet harbor from pain.

Later I became amused watching a wildlife documentary of flamingos and their mating dance. As they marched together in step, abruptly turning their heads and beaks known as head flagging to an unknown beat accentuating their synchronized rhythm, I imagined flamingos dancing the tango. Initially I had ambitions to create an animated short with Tango In The Rain as the soundtrack. With time constraints, I leaned more toward the immediacy of digital music-making than animation and discovered pain relief in the process. And as a fan of old movies, this tune evolved into my fantasy score for a different Singin' in the Rain type of musical of animated dancing flamingos.

I hope the music takes you to your own safe harbor, hopefully a place of grace, comfort, and peace. My best wishes to you.

Tango In The Rain

Lyrics:

I'm sorry for all the boxes
we have to carry out now
we have to fill with the past
we erase the traces 
and lay new ones 
in far away places
would you like to keep this?
or shall we throw it away 
like we did before

I can't wait 
for the dawn
of the new day

I feel sorry for all the boxes
that are now closed and carried out
driving fast out of this space
No more possiblity
to change our mind
to change and turn around
the road goes steeply down
because all promises no longer
mean anything, mean anything 

If you ask how I'm 
I would say I'm ok
if you ask how I'm 
I would say I'm ok

A Trace To Keep Control

The Boxes

Alien Insects In My Garden

Original song
https://soundcloud.com/nathandawe/nathan-dawe-we-aint-here-for-long-demo

Mastered by OfficerMurphy
https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

Nathan Dawe - We Ain't Here For Long (Holding On Remix)

Cover
Original by Leonard Cohen (1984)
(I got help with the guitar backing)

Hallelujah   (Cover)

'utopia' 

Cast of characters: 

one man verity show – @one-man-verity-show – Scotty – melodic guitar, lyrics, vocals 

cgmaness-- @user-419254289-15129531 – Chris – guitar intro 

J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell –electric piano, synth   

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen – guitar solo and e-bow guitar 

K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums 

Llanpsych– @llanpsych –Tez– textural guitar, mix, and production 

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –five-string fretless bass guitar, original seed 

The Eclectic Collective – composition

lyrics:
Can't obtain no fucking mortgage. 
And I can't pay no fucking rent.
I would rather you probe me 
than get fucked by our government
who attempts to control me 
and put nonsense in my head.
Who would rather see me
livin' in debt or end up dead.
Come and take me away.
Beam me into space.
Fly me to a planet
where there exists no hate or greed. 

Take me to Utopia.
Teach me all your ways.
Save me from dystopia.
It's time to turn the page.
Something better must exist
out there beyond the stars,
where everyone can love and live,
unlike what's become of ours.

utopia (with the Eclectic Collective)

lyrics/vocals PurpleClaire

https://soundcloud.com/purpleclairemusic

lyrics-
you give me chills -you give me fever
you make me ill- you make me quiver
i know i gotta break this cycle of woe
how can i when youre in my head everywhere i go?
so i slip down deeper - nowhere else to go
getting weaker - i just cant say no

you make me sweat you make me rage
you make me rust you make me smaller and amaller and smaller and smaller and small

i know i gotta stop this spiral
i know i gotta break this cycke of woe
just cant seem to find the right road - keep my feet upon the right road

you give me thrills you give me the fear
you make me blind you make me hear things- louder and louder and louder and loud

i know i gotta stop this spiral i know i gotta break this cycle of woe
just cant seem to find the right road - keep my feet upon the right road

what would i be? who would i be ? without you

Cycle of Woe - PurpleClaire & AudioBake

Done With The Day

Funky Lunatics Style with a great flowing Saxophon
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

Lunatics 155 Grooving Funky // Joerxworx & Ratzzz

Lunatics 155  Funky Dream // Joerxworx & Ratzzz

Little pieces

🔻 Song Insight
What’s Left To Love captures the moment when devotion collapses into disillusionment. It’s a stripped confessional where love’s ruin becomes a quiet reckoning—one voice, one 12-string guitar, and the echo of what used to matter. Every breath feels recorded from inches away, like an afterthought whispered into an empty room. The song wrestles with identity and worth after betrayal, blurring the line between what’s real and what was performed.

🔻 Lyrics

Intro:
Instrumental

Verse 1:
What I had, you’d take—
It’s not what you say,
It’s in my pain,
Your praise to your fame.

Interlude:
12-string acoustic


Bridge:
Dying by your hands,
Fighting to be free,
Nothing inside,
No longer me.

Pre-Chorus:
I wanted you to care,
My insides you tare.

Chorus:
Left me to my own,
You saw my bones,
Tighten this noose,
No longer I was of use.

Verse 2:
You pull at my flesh,
I hand you what’s left,
You spit in my eye,
As blood soaked your lies.

Refrain:
You left your name inside my scars.

Chorus:
Hate me—the parts I lost,
Hate you—what was us,
Broken—what was inside,
Taken—hope that died.

Interlude:
12-string acoustic

Verse 3:
You stole the one thing I’d known,
Parts that made me real,
My heart that bleeds,
A reason to feel.

Bridge:
I looked for you in your eyes,
Nothing looking back,
Blank memories is all I’d see.

Pre-Chorus:
I wanted you to care,
My insides you tare.

Chorus:
You pull at my flesh,
Handed you what’s left,
You spit in my eye,
As blood soaked your lies.

Refrain (fading):
Your voice still breathes inside my scars.

Outro:
The cost of gold—you’ll never know,
The pain—you’d never feel,
It’s lost on you, this screenplay,
Full of what’s left to lose.

Refrain:
The cost of pain lost on you,
Lost on you,
Lost on you.

🔻 Personal Reflection
There’s a point where you stop fighting to be understood and start singing to survive. What’s Left To Love came from that edge—the silence after everything breaks. I wanted to capture the moment the performance ends, when all the noise falls away and you realize you’ve been playing your part in someone else’s story.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
This track represents 4Me2BeFree’s dedication to vulnerability over perfection. It blurs the line between confessional art and cinematic intimacy—songs built from truth, recorded in emotional close-up. What’s Left To Love is the sound of rediscovery, where pain transforms into presence and raw honesty replaces production gloss.

🔻 Copyright Notice
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What’s Left To Love

Off for the rest of the summer.  Back in the fall.  Be safe.

Thanks for listening and more importantly, thank you for sharing your work and recommendations!

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