This is great, Carl! Very good lyrics. And yes, smiling is so important! Way to go 😊

lovely emotive track.........like a cry from the wilderness

This is a wonderful alternative rock song‼️ Emotional song‼️

You know love is smooth but I'm getting very disillusioned by trying to do this. I get zero support from the people I know... Zero. I've worked harder at this than anything I've ever worked at before and the people that supposedly love me ignore it. I'm an open book so I'd be flat bang lying of I said that doesn't bother me... So fucking annoying man... so annoying

Your voice just gets me, so wonderfully expressive dude

Until The End Of Time

Just a reminder that as high as we ascend, we own the fact that we must also descend.

afrozensecond made an awesome mashup. 
Check it out: https://soundcloud.com/afrozensecond/two-space-junk-parts-collide

Ascension's Descent

Calm before the storm

Legion

Remember

l'art pour l'art - Chiaroscur
April 2025
Duration: 3:10
Listen to the Playlist, l'art pour l'art: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/lart-pour-lart
Cover art painting: Carol Klepper
Cover art lettering: John-Marc Ventimiglia
For guitar, harp, bansuri, Bhutan bells, Tibetan singing bowls, brushed gong, gong, virtual instruments and percussion

l'art pour l'art - Chiaroscur

2 IRISH JIGS PLAYED WITH MY NEW BANJO. ENJOY!!!!
Please subscribe my YOU TUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@aleriattimusic

2 BANJO JIGS

File Updated 02/05/2025 @ 21:18 GMT ~ Added more acoustic rhythm and lead and continued building the vox. Piano and bass in too+  Lost reverse vst

Lyrics

Love is smooth

The symbols are smooth
Sacred numbers
Clues
Is it just me?
Or is it universal seed?
Coincidence?
A self expected pattern maybe?
Or our minds usb to true intentionally free

Let love choose your smooth
Let love win
Be spreading that grin
Ear to ear
Then we all hear clear
Love is smoothed
Go, maestro, choose!

I found the mood
In love it's always smooth
No rude, just food and thanks
The simple syncs this complication chant
The formula has no reason
Decosions by fate
My soul season

Let love choose your smooth
Let love win
Be spreading that grin
Ear to ear
Then we all hear clear
Love is smoothed
Go, maestro, choose!

I'm smiling at you
Smile at me too
Loving smoothed
Positive is proof
Teach our youth

Love smoothes
Love win will
While we're strumming
Ear to ear...
Where's your grin
Love must win
Make me smile
We running from miles

Yeah, smoothed
Smoothed
Smoothed
Smoothed

Golden ratio,
How many bars this time you gonna know?
I think it's a bout time we won...
Lets stop right now... Thats ah 161

🌞
The good old smile... It's contagious. the physical manifestation of projecting positivity. From birth our Mum's and Dads smiling faces solidify that reference for most of us lucky enough to have that. I try and get my kids to force themselves out of angry moments with a smile... It rarely gets as far as an attempt... But when they try it... It always neutralizes their negative feelings. We need more smiling at each other in my pea head opinion. It's not the whole song but wanted to give smiles a shout out and appreciate them for the amazing thing they are. Even with people you've never met. Your presence with them is instantly warmed by a smile... Here's to smiling 😊

I do crack up laughing sometimes imagining making emoticons in conversations and doing them for real...Sometimes they're placement in messages is hilarious when you imagine the person or yourself actually doing the face in a real conversation... We would all look like complete muppets 😃 Placed right though and in the real world... There's no beating a smile 

Imagine for a second 100,000 Israelis and 100,000 Palestinians... Some alien came along pissed off watching them... I bet that's how they fix it... Weapons taken... They all need to line up face to face, human to human and smile until it's fixed. One can dream 🔆

Track ended up 163 bars plods along at 88bpm

Love is Smooth

      This is a brand new song and video for everybody. It's a dance number with a bit of a Bo Diddly rhythm to it! Do you remember the Hand Jive? (Watch Grease, they do it in the movie at the dance). I used every track I had on this number, guitars coming at you from all directions!😂 I decided to sing this one since Charlie has been busy lately, I worked super hard on it! It's about gossip and busybodies sticking their nose where it doesn't belong! Love is love and no matter who you love, as long as you love them, then you're okay by me! 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/erDBG5Nm8ak

The video was a lot of fun to do and I spent several days on it with lots of dancing and hugging and kissing! So if you don't like any of those things then you can move on down the road with your bad self! This song and video will make you smile and maybe even have you twinkle a toe or two! It is a toe-tapper, for me anyway!😂 Thanks for dropping by and I hope everyone enjoys it and has a big smile on their face after listening and watching the video! Stay safe and take care! This will be my last month on SoundCloud as Artist Pro! It's too expensive and their monetization sucks! I'll revert to the FREE account with only a few of my songs available! Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mothers out there! Cheers!🥂

“THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU"

I'M GETTING SICK OF ALL THIS GOSSIP,
I'M GETTING TIRED OF ALL THESE TONGUES, 
WAGGIN' IN MY EAR, 
"SHE'LL BREAK YOUR HEART, SO EASY DOES IT",
TELLING ME LIES THAT I DON’T WANT TO HEAR,
      
BUT I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE DO,
THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU, 
THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU, 
 
PEOPLE KEEP TALKIN' TRASH AND THEY LOVE IT,
PUTTING YOU DOWN BECAUSE YOU TOE THE LINE,
WELL IF THEY DON'T LIKE YOU, THEY CAN SHOVE IT,
NO USE IN TRYIN' TO CHANGE THEIR LITTLE MINDS, 

AND I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE DO,
THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU, 
THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU,  
     
THEY THINK THAT YOU'RE THE TYPE THAT HITS AND RUNS,
"SHE'LL HURT YOU GOOD, JUST GIVE HER TIME",
BUT I AIN'T BUYING IT,
THEY'RE ALL JUST FULL OF SHIT, 
FALLING IN LOVE STILL AIN'T NO CRIME,

BUT I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING,
I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE DO,
THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU, THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU,
THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU, THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU,         
THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU, THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU.

BY JIM VALDES © 2025

"THAT'S BETWEEN ME AND YOU" (Video - https://youtu.be/erDBG5Nm8ak)

A satrical look at starving artists (Note: I'm married to one).  Influenced by the songs of Mose Alison and Terry Allen. The cover art is AI with the prompt "bad art in a museum." Maybe AI has a sense of humor?

Lyrics:
Tiki torches up on the wall
A Polynesian restaurant
At the end of the hall
Upstairs
They set up a gallery wall
Welcome to the cut-throat world of low-budget art

She's been dreaming of
A grant from the Walmart Foundation for the Arts
For her electrified
Polka dotted
Mannequin parts

He's been spreading genius around
All the other artists they just sit and scowl
But you can't buy his work at Sotherby's
Look for him in the parking lot of KFC

I am surrounded by
Amateur David Hockneys
I'm in cubist hell
Welcome to the cut-throat world of low-budget art

The 'MacArthur Genius Award'
They don't want to call me back
No one is to blame
Someone bought my work
But they don't want the painting
They just want the frame

Organic vegetables in a stall
At a Farmer's Market
At the mall
 I have my table set up
With my hot  🔥  avant-garde
Don't you know that I'm the vanguard?

I've got my genius on display
I've got my beret
Because I'm a genius
Let's keep that between us
The cut-throat world of low-budget art
The cut-throat world of
Low budget art

The Cut-Throat World Of Low Budget Art

Death of X$TACY

Dear Universe. Please stop all war on planet Earth and give all humans Peace now 🙏🏽

Thanks a centillion for ALL the support. I love you all for helping me in so many ways with what I've loved doing for 38 years, making music. This is a human made list of life dives. I'd happily explain any process to you if you wish or are wondering something about TBD. Just ask, I'm Carl and I love sharing what I've discovered and learned especially in the songs themselves. I see songs as one of the finest ways to learn something and bolt your truth to on any subject in a direct yet maybe less imposing manner as your singing it and making it mellifluous. It's hard to sing what you feel is a lie so in my view writing truly honest lyrics and making them songs can be a mini thesis for you on any subject.

No AI here...

Love is Smooth

The Beautiful Dark

Recent comments

Ultrasonic Pest Repellent

Tea R. Sea

The Beautiful Dark

THE BOY

Related tracks