Jacaranda Tree

Long, long days
The slow haze
I'm out of phase
This brain backsliding

Strange notions
New emotions
Swallow the potions
As the clock is winding down, down

Now I'm gathering all the leaves
From the ground
I put them in my dream tree
So I'll never forget

Blurring vision
Then collision
Indecision
And it's all blindsiding

Behold the wonder
Torn assunder
Gone with the thunder
Now where is it hiding?

So I'm gathering all the leaves
From the ground
I put them in my dream tree
So I'll never lose them
Now I'm gathering all the leaves

Image by Liana S (Unsplash)

The Gathering

Reworking of an earlier tune:

Haunting melodies in the murky dawn
They find their way into our song
Do you mark them, do you hear
The morning calling like Chaunticleer?

Now rhythms pounding in the rain
And we are marching in their campaign
A trail of tears, all the wandering
Oh there's nothing for it but to sing

Come on Melody, love, you and I
We'll lift our voices to the sky
We'll sing whatever, come what may
Oh bring it on now, seize the day 

Image by Melody Hanson

But to Sing

Deep in the dark of memory
Where clouds roll in and out
I find your ghost wandering

You were the torch I carried
You were the first paragon
I wonder, I wonder
What if I had held on?

What was your life, how did you find it?
I suspect something good

I wish you didn't haunt me
Oh probably, that is a lie
Or maybe I'm just waiting, hoping
To journey once more back through time

Some things you never imagine
You block them from your mind
But whispers fill the shadows
And when you're not looking you may find

I'll follow you down the halls with no end
The wondrous might-have-beens
I could linger, I could spin

I wish you didn't haunt me
I guess that's a lie
I wish I could go back
I want to journey back in time
I wish, I wish
I don't know what to say
You were, you were the only
The only one who ever got away

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A Ghost Story

Album LIBELLULA (2025)
Brano: SATELLITE
Artisti: Alberto VENTRELLA - Luigi BONIZIO
Voce: Luigi BONIZIO
Chitarra: Alberto VENTRELLA
Contrabbasso: Ivan APPINO
Percussioni: Marco GIOVINAZZO
Cori: Minerva BONIZIO
venbo@gmail.com


SATELLITE (Ventrella Bonizio)

Album LIBELLULA (2025)
Brano: LIBELLULA
Artisti: Alberto VENTRELLA - Luigi BONIZIO
Voce: Luigi BONIZIO
Chitarra: Alberto VENTRELLA
Theremin: Lorenzo GIORDA
Cori: Minerva BONIZIO
venbo@gmail.com

LIBELLULA (Ventrella Bonizio)

Fragments of these moments wither in our hands
I assume you know this and that you understand
Hold on my love, we're at the borderlands
Just wait with me

All that is gone now, or soon will be
Like drops within a boundless sea
Just let it go and float

And maybe, they'll be back again
Yes maybe

The silver slipstream, mercurial
You feel it in your heart, immemorial
It never leaves you, this ancient pull

And maybe, we'll be back again
Yes maybe, we will rise again

When I think of this winding road
Somehow it circles back to all we know
We think we're lost, but then we're home
It's crazy

Count up the treasures we found on the way
The unexpected courage in the fray
And all we held close slipped away
We let it go

We count the cost too, we do the sums
The dreams discarded, the light that comes
Hold on my dear, we're far from done

Now maybe, we'll be back again
Yes maybe

When I think of this winding road
Somehow it circles back to all we know
We think we're lost, but then we're home
It's crazy

These broken vessels, fragility
Fleeting moments, fallacies
Just drops within an endless sea
And they'll be back

Image by Ivan Stepanov (Unsplash)

Back Again

Are we're going now
Is this our getaway?
We've hit the wall
Is it time to ricochet?
Far from here
From these evil days

We'll fly away, fly

Now we won't give in
They won't pin us down
We'll never live
In their Shantytown

But we don't know if we can
We don't know if we will
Is this a plan?
What's possible and what's a dream?

And if we fly
Will we ever look back again?
I will not lie
I cannot see the end

Just fly away, yes fly

No we don't know if we can
Is this really a plan?
Do we make a stand?
We don't know what will come
Or how long is too long
When do we run ... fly away?

Are we going now?
Is this our getaway?
Is it time
To ricochet?

Image by Paul Blenkhorn (Unsplash)

Ricochet

Are we're going now
Is this our getaway?
Have we hit the wall
Is it time to ricochet?
Far from here
From these evil days

We'll fly away, fly

We won't give in
They won't pin us down
We'll never live
In their shantytown

But we don't know if we can
We don't know if we will
Is this a plan?
What's possible and what's a dream?

And if we fly
Will we ever look back again?
I will not lie
I cannot see the end

So fly away, yes fly

No we don't know if we can
Is this really a plan?
Do we make a stand?
We don't know what will come
Or how long is too long
When do we run, just fly away?

Are we going now?
Is this our getaway?
Is it time
To ricochet?

Image by Khristina Sergeychik (Unsplash)

Ricochet (update)

I heard your enchanting joke
A masterstroke
(And apropos)

The subtle lie that you spoke
Was almost baroque
Rococo

At first your words in my ear
Sonded sincere
And elegant

But I do declare
Though you seem so fair
It's all counterfeit

Beguiling one
You play the sun
But shadows are your way
Wolf in sheep's clothes
Everyone knows
The sinner's not the saint

Oh chameleon face
The things that you praise
You want to tear down

But your charming words
Will scatter like birds
At the predator's sound

Now it's true, you're so eloquent
Shiny pearls
Fall from oyur tongue

But something, something's bent
Something's crooked
I feel stung

Beguiling one
You play the sun
But shadows are your way
Wolf in sheep's clothers
And everyone knows
The sinner's not the saint
Beguiling one
You play the sun
But darkness is your game

Oh beguiling one
I think we're done

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Beguiler

Here you will find little acoustic pop songs; melancholy, dreamy-folk things. Sometimes some jangly, fuzzy rock tunes or ambient pieces as well. Work-in-progress demos to finished tracks, informal playlists to official album releases. Enjoy.

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