Name: Turn Yourself Around by The Lark and the Loon
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: The debut album from Jeff Rolfzen and Rocky Steen-Rolfzen. Recorded in their cabin home in the Ozark hills these 19 tracks explore their traveled history and sound.

You Ain't Gotta

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This song is a 2 part description. It is about love from our Lord Jesus and how we are lost without him and also lost without the love from a partner. The violin in the song is the mood of love.

Lost Without You

I just am really fond of this song, on an album that got no thanks at the time and didn't do well.  And I found it really weird that there are no other cover versions in 43 years or so.

It's in the 14 day holding period with Distro-Kid to formally become a cover song with a real license, while it's like that I have it on SoundCloud but non monetized so it earns zero until then.

Can't Turn My Heart Away (Art Garfunkel Cover)

Memories

I liked the technical challenge of this song.  A lot of moving vocal segments around and the first time that I sang harmonies against myself.

Looking at it a day later: it's like theres an extra measure in the verses where Bill shortened once he got to the 2nd-and-later, and I didn't because I cut and pasted, so it explains why I have to idle extra time each verse to deal with that.

But it does inadvertently fill the requirement that "cover songs should have their own weird signature that doesn't match the original too closely"

I very consciously did -not- read the spoilers for who Laura was really about before cutting the cover.  One fun way to interpret who Laura is, if you didn't know it's Joel's mother, is not an ex-wife or an ex-gf, like some are saying, but let's say a niece or a biological daughter that he never sees until Laura is an adult, but what hurts is they're cut from the same cloth, they're -so- similar but Laura's karma is different and gets her in trouble and he always has to financially bail her out etc.  Be a fixer.
She's genius-level but does substances way harder than him and routinely almost gets killed.  Loose cannon.  The 'umbilical cord' in this sense is then the aid he has to give, she -never- shows signs of growing up or out of this phase.

Laura (Billy Joel Cover)

Lead Vox/Reading + Backing Vocals Arrangement by Stephanie Rodriguez M.

Words, melody, piano part (Yamaha U3 acoustic piano tuned to 432 Hz) by Ivano Bersini.

Cover art by a friend/un amico. 

Thank you very much to all listeners-:)
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Poems see beyond reality, poems are part of Us: thus, thus, thus, the song begins

Sleeping stars fall 
Fall worn-out images 
Forbidden dreams fall 
Fall mundane signs 
Dull luminous signs fall 
Fall curtains
That obscure Truth.

The memory of Us shining beings emerges,
strong is the ancient beat of Our heart.
The memory of Us shining beings emerges,
strong is the ancient beat of Our heart.

Poems
rebellious waves
poems
sincere waves
poems
search for truth
poems and truth

if you close your eyes
you might find them
reality
unspoken truth,
poetry
manifest truth.

The night
Glides over My face
Like soft dew
that in the morning
leaves
the marks of a battlefield
where ancient emotions
melt and heal
in the strength
of the sun's rays.


The memory of Us shining beings emerges,
strong is the ancient beat of Our heart.

Poems
rebellious waves
poems
sincere waves
poems
search for truth
poems and truth

if you close your eyes
you might find them
reality
unspoken truth,
poetry
manifest truth.

Dew petals
glide over my eyes
like binary codes
travelling fast
towards the future
and leave Our world
now ancient
already silent
defrauded of emotions.


Poems see beyond reality, poems are part of Us.
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Note
​Any element that refers to a person, such as personal pronouns, etc. will be capitalized (e.g.: We, You, Me…) to remind us that We are part of the primordial energy from which everything originated, in Us the divine spark is present, We are souls and not merely biological mechanisms with a limited life cycle (with this conviction and deep feelings I also wrote my previous publications).
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Thus, it represents a way for Me to honour and re-evaluate the human being, which should not be considered separate from the whole, instead perceiving its subtle connections to the entire Creation, of which We are a part.

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 Poesie
(Original Italian version)


Le poesie vedono oltre la realtà, le poesie sono parte di Noi: così, così, così, inizia la canzone.

Cadono stelle assopite 
Cadono immagini usurate 
Cadono sogni proibiti 
Cadono insegne mondane 
Cadono insegne luminose spente 
Cadono sipari
che oscurano la Verità.

Emerge il ricordo, di Noi esseri splendenti
forte è il battito del Nostro antico cuore.
Emerge il ricordo, di Noi esseri splendenti
forte è il battito del Nostro antico cuore.


Poesie
onde ribelli
poesie
onde sincere
poesie
ricerca della verità
poesie e verità

se chiudi gli occhi
potresti trovarle
realtà
verità sottaciuta
poesia
verità manifesta.


La notte
scivola sul Mio viso
come morbida rugiada
che al mattino
lascia
i segni di un campo di battaglia
dove le emozioni antiche
si sciolgono e guariscono
nella forza
dei raggi del sole.

Emerge il ricordo, di Noi esseri splendenti
forte è il battito del Nostro antico cuore.

Petali di rugiada 
scivolano sui miei occhi
come codici binari
che viaggiano veloci
verso il futuro
e abbandonano il Nostro mondo
oramai antico,
già silenzioso
defraudato delle emozioni.

Le poesie vedono oltre la realtà, le poesie sono parte di Noi.

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Nota
Ogni particella che si riferisce alla persona, quali pronomi personali, ecc. iniziano con la lettera maiuscola (es: Noi, Ci, Vi, Me...) per ricordarCi che Noi siamo parte dell'Energia primordiale da cui tutto è scaturito, in Noi è presente la scintilla divina, Noi siamo anime e non semplici meccanismi biologici con un ciclo di vita limitato (con questa Mia convinzione e sensazione profonda ho scritto anche le Mie precedenti pubblicazioni).

Rappresenta così per Me un modo di onorare e rivalutare l'Essere umano, che non dovrebbe considerarSi separato dal tutto, percependo invece la sottile connessione con l'intero Creato, di cui siamo parte.

Poems

HORMIGA

"Yo me llamo Domingo Espinoza,
yo soy... me quedo en la iglesia,
¿Cómo se llama? yo soy... yo no soy mero mero de aquí,
yo soy de Tlanchinol".

Trueno intenso,
tiempo negro,
viento frío,
llueve intenso,
olor a fresco.

Dolerá hormiga.

"Allá de Tlanchinol, allá de la Sierra de la Huasteca,
cerca de Tampico, ¿Si conoces Tampico o no conoces?".

Luna blanca,
pecho lleno,
cae neblina,
sube y gira,
cae a tierra.

Dolerá hormiga.

"Ajajajajajajá, acá na'más pues,
a que esta persona es este,
y yo me quedaba aquí atrás,
aquí, aquí me queda... ¿Cómo se llama...?
aquí me quedaba atrás".

Campo abierto,
solo cielo,
cerro abajo,
viene fiero,
sopla en serio.

Dolerá hormiga.


Composición, producción, mezcla y master: Sojue Stradac Portada: Mis dibujos + Leonardo AI

SILUETAS

Hormiga

Hi everybody,
here is another original tune I wrote in the last couple of days. It basically sums up a dystopian future for someone like me, being in his early 20s. But its the harsh reality for many people - or at least I assume it is...
Maybe you like it :)
If so leave a like, repost, follow, or a comment for some feedback and support.
Thanks :)

Asleep

NEXT TO YOU (ACOUSTIC)

The debut album from Jeff Rolfzen and Rocky Steen-Rolfzen. Recorded in their cabin home in the Ozark hills these 19 tracks explore their traveled history and sound.

Turn Yourself Around

The Lark and the Loon

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