Grief

Grief is life
So grief is good
Feelings forever
'Till body Earth food
We find ourselves with suffered loss
We find each-other
Solidarity sauce

Grief is hard
So grief is skill
Mind torn apart
So future still fulfil
Sincere condolence
Together in need
In today we are bound
For tomorrows seed

Grief,
Galvanise this Galaxy
Go gentle now time
Groom new gaeity
This gloomy game gives gruesome gut
Glow in god like glory nut

Bolt my brain to fix accept
Grueling grief please force concept
I have all I need
Less the beautiful you
Rest in peace lost conscious clue

Grief is life
So grief is good
Feelings forever
'Till body Earth food

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432Hz
Key Gm
Capo 3
3/4

Instrumentation
-Ovation Acoustic & Vox live
-Additional vocal
-Celtic Harp om keys
-Celtic Tin whistle on keys
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Grief

Vital Signs

Vital to mind
Whats the kind
Will it be friendly
Or of a hostile find
To be or not to be
To tilt or to absorb
Mirroring good glee
Or projecting our bad blood

Vital we see
A universe as me
Willingfully
Aww be brain of free
A vital peruse
The cosmos as we choose
Vital to know
How mind controls the show

The body a window
To the portal of conscience
Nobody of flow
Fortune teller of nonsense
Most makes no sense
The filter finds skill
Sieving the junk
Empowering the thrill

Each decision thats made
Finds a world good or bad
Precision of wisdom
In time mutes more mad
Experience honed
Meditation of mind
Less of that phone
Find more of your true kind

You are the universe
The universe is you
You do become it
Too it becomes you
Controller of entropy
When being of brave
When sanity found
Next children you save
 
Vitality found
Balanced pleasure and pain
Thoughts don't become stuck
Controlling your frame
Escape not addiction
Just love for it all
The truest affliction
Celestial enthral

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Instrumentation
-Classic Electric Piano on keys
-Ovation Acoustic Guitar picked
-Epiphone Electric picked
-Epiphone Electric Lead
-5 String Ibanez bass
-Atmos pads on keys
-Indie disco beat 14 sections
-Piano on keys with reverse effected delay pedal

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This song attempts to pay homage to a side I've only learned of Albert Einstein recently enough and that is his interest in consciousness and us psychologically. Although it's obviously not what he's most famous for he seems to attribute some of his most important truths to your mindset and that the universe unfurls itself whatever way that mindset is and by the mood of what it absorbs and projects. I'm probably filling in some gaps there...

"The most important decision you will make in your life is whether you live in a hostile universe or not" Albert Einstein

I feel given the prevalence of so many conspiracy theories most likely confirming the hostilty in peoples heads and in turn those people finding that via their self honed internet algorithms, maybe a good few of us could do with learning that possible truth about our heads. His hunch is kind of confirmed by modern neuroscience and psychology with the discovery of how we actually rewire our brains via neuroplasticity
and we can effectiviely train mindsets in and out of ourselves. Most of the bias ones just make it in their the same way even if their grounding can be questionable such as conspiratorial thinking

Thanks Einstein you genius you!

The "To be or not to be" is a reference to the Shakespeare character Hamlet, where Hamlet ponders how death may be preferable to his suffering, yet for the fear of what lies beyond in the afterlife or lack of a life after death. I think the fallibility we show in the fear of death is fascinating and personally where I think we have evolved the ideas of god and heaven and hell etc... I wonder will we only truly find a proper understanding of empathy for ourselves and each-other when we transcend those fears and start living for life as opposed to generating unprovable realities to look forward to beyond the lights getting switched off permanently.

The pic is my amateur attempt at recording the aurora borealis when it was visible from Ireland earlier on this year for the first time in my life. My most interesting memory of it is what was visible by the naked eye and the phone camera was pretty noticeable and showed me clearly the spectrums we don't see around us all the time quite clearly. The phone picked up the wave lengths much more clearly then my eyes it seems...

Vital Signs

Having another stab at  Humanity 😆 Voice goes some slightly different places here which is always nice to experience as an artist. Maybe a bit of Whacko Jacko influence coming through a bit. What a musical legend Michael was 🤍

The pic is a map of the world which lives beside my studio. I need to update it but I've got lots of my SC connections marked there. Cheers you bunch of inspiring nut balls 😘 

Humanity

We found it looking inside
It worth a mention
Pay close attention
Its love
Its inner light
It’s good
Its right
Its hope with cope
It’s something inside
It’s worth a mention
In every moment
No tension

Find a map,
Draw a heart,
Top lines intersect on an Isle that we are part
Try funny,
Live poetry,
Rule writing
Love love
Let's all absorb this Éire dove

For a while our neighbours tried to fight
They took our Oak,
Built boats,
Made blight
But we survived and became beacons of light for all Earthling'

Before invasion our Druids shone
Just altered myths now paint them wrong
I see mesoamerican beings
Too advanced for christian scenes

So the church rolled in & tried to brain wash us
It worked for a while until the poor kids got it...
So we learned and evolved and found new truth
New truth defined in protecting our youth

So here we are,
Smack bang in the middle
We'll explain it in word,
Or sing it with a fiddle
In the end we are neutral
As neutral as neutral can be
The secret?
Just love and have a laugh
Be a real "me"

Just be the real "me"
We need more real "me"

We found it looking inside
It worth a mention
Pay close attention
Its love
Its inner light
It’s good
Its right
Its hope with cope
It’s something inside
It’s worth a mention
In every moment
No tension
Just flow in projection and reflection
Conversation with true observation

Humanity

Serenity

Scene for soul
Sown serenity
Good tranquil whole
Many hearts in need

This pristine we know
Sine waves join in-between
Good guitar glow
Sign shine sensed sheen

Let's not walk away
Walk with me
Let's see what we see
Celebrate what we be

Soul to scene
Flow now honed pristine
Glow tranquil whole
Many hearts see clean

Let's not walk away
Walk with me
Let's see what we see
Celebrate what we be

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107 BPM
4/4
440Hz
Key Em


Instrumentation
-Ovation Acoustic picked
-Vocals
-Piano on keys
-Atmos Pads on keys
-Basses on keys
-Cellos on keys
-Violins on keys
-Gentle sine bells on keys
-Harp on keys
-Epiphone Electric slide
-Epiphone Electric picked

Serenity

Dream Meme

Oh listless list
Poked for plays
Success is sucked
Mathematical maze
Dreams...

So many years
All written down
The piles of paper
Ironing frown
Beams...

It's lists of light
Just pines for love
It's darkness cleared
We're facing up
Screams...

The hate can't win
So hope we spell
A hope to hone heaven
And douse water on hell
Memes...

Do it with heart
Make it kind
Play a good part
Lighten finds
Do it with care
Pure purpose
Beautiful flare
Virtuous circus

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Tempo 94 BPM
6/8
Key Cmaj7
440Hz

Instrumentation
-Ovation Acoustic and Vox live
-Piano on keys
-Airways pad on keys

Dream Meme

A song which builds on Earth, Fire, Water and Air.  Each line is attributed to one of the four classical elements
🌍🔥💦💨


Elemental

Part of Earth
Fuelled by fire
Good walking water
Air breath of choir

Soil of spirit
Good burning soul
Elixir hears us
Breathing whole

Rock of real
Hot with hope
Liquid love
The freshest scope

Planet proved
A flaming feel
Art thirst we choose
Lungs of steel

Friend of grass
Warmth of love
Drinks on me
Respire dear dove

Inspire as Earth
Burn internal fire
Be your water
Air escort and squire
Inspire as Earth
Burn that fire
Beams of water
Fresh air of choir

Elemental
Human call
Spirit clean
Pure purr
Power pristine
Soul of love
May all hear your call
Elemental

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Instrumentation

-6/8 beat following the bass
-Ovation Acoustic picked
-Ibanez 5 string Bass
-Vocal runs x 4
-Lost reverse atmos pad on keys
-Crystal Caverns atmos pad on keys
-Ambient keyboard lead
-Epiphone Electric

Elemental

Ghosts in the code

Ghosts in the code
Building bodies we own
Future server farms of friction
Ghosts we own

Ghosts in the code
Seeking bodies to norm
Present pocket monster
Non-fiction
Ghosts we hone

Ghosts in the air
Lurking
Listening
Wave monsters
Pattern mining their pictures
Ghosts we dare

Ghosts on the surge
With ghosts we merge
Ghosts in the air
These ghosts we dare
We're the ghosts in the code
The ghosts we hone
Ghosts to merge
Got ghosts absurb

Got ghosts in the code
Ghosts in the code
Ghosts in the code
Ghosts in the code

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66 BPM
4/4
Key Dm
440Hz

Instrumentation
-Vocals x 3
-Ghost piano with 1/4 delay 20% wet
-Beat pitch shifted down 7 semitones
-Ibanez 5 string Bass
-Vowel Pad on keys
-Epiphone Electric with 1/4 rev effected delay pedal (910 msec)
-Lost reverse alchemy pad on keys
-Additional modern 80's beat with reversed sections incrementally for effect

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The pic is cool and was part of a nicely timed double sun rise. So I took this pic just after dropping the kids to school. Their school is situated in one of the highest elevations in the town, so when I drove home I got a second rise over my tree line out the back garden which is the pic for the previous track elemental. Love sun rise so much ☀️ The beast 🧬

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The track is about us beings the ghosts in the technology code. We are merging ever more with it. I noticed someone suggest, destroy the data centers in a comedy sketch. It's interesting to think about it going back that short few years. Although it ain't going to happen, starting the internet again knowing how detrimental social media is for the the majority and how fundamentally materialistic tech aides intensifying in us... Not a bad idea.
Busking anyone...
No data centers no SoundCloud so F that 😆
🎶🧬☀️

85 data centers in Ireland and that number will increase to 130 by the end of 2026! Sucking that ⚡🔥🌍

Ghosts in the code

What gives

Oh wasteful war
'Be not our theme
We wish us safe
From fight and fiend
In solitude the music heals
We link our hearts with better feels
We wish a world of heavens hope
Where we're alive
Just healthy folk
We wish a world of harmony
For other strive
Pure intention beamed
We want a world of good with light
Make past dark heart of heartless blight
The melodies tell where beauty lives
Love legacy shell our integrity gives
The rhythms rule the turn of sphere
They beat our brains
New patterns clear
The words are wise when words of soul
Rhymes on the rise to soothe us whole
No holes in heart when fear is fixed
Nice fires in thorax
True tender tricks
The only garden we wake today
This garden of just you and me
Give us peace
Give us love
Give us all gentle enough
Stop the death unnatural
Stop imposed greed factional
Give us peace
Give us grace
Give us good please human race


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Listen to Syntaleta 🕊️🇺🇦, a playlist by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/ivF7dZkbTHTCsbskXT

Wrote this after listening to that wonderfully emotive composer. They make me want to play piano better 😅

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Key Gm
440Hz
3/4
120 bpm

Instrumentation
-Piano on keys
-Vocal
-Harp om keys
-Lost Reverse pad on keys
-Acoustic guitar picked x 2
-Scientific method kit (Pattern Non-linear)
-Ibanez 5 string bass
-Epiphone Electric
-Rising Sun atmos pad on keys

What gives

Cast of Characters:
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals, lyrics, acoustic guitar and composition
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST strings and mellotron 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – upright double bass, plucked and bowed
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – piano
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, Danelectro baritone electric guitar, and e-bow
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – production, mix, and mastering
 
Carl came up with this song at the beginning of November on his acoustic guitar, and shared it with the rest of us shortly after. Carl is a songwriting supernova, in case you're unfamiliar with our newest addition to the team. We're always excited and grateful to get to work on his music. 
  Mark was first to add his parts, although he tweaked them throughout the process. His work can be heard in the dramatic string arrangement and mellotron at the crescendo. Josh was next to jump in, adding his new upright bass to the song. He played not only the plucked part, but the bowed part in the strings section, too. Ken came along next with his perfect drums to complete the rhythm section. JJ wanted in on this, too, so he added the foundational piano you hear throughout. Last, but not least, Stephen dropped in his electrifying guitar solo and the accompanying textural chords using is Danelectro baritone guitar, followed at the very end by his magical e-bow part. 
  Once it was all in the bag, we asked Tez to produce and mix it for us, which he did in his always expert fashion. 
  This is our latest song of which Carl is the author. He's been making music with us for the past half a year now, and we can't get enough of his abundant creativity. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
  Also, Carl had this to say about his lyrics, "Labels and putting each other in a particular box is causing big problems on the planet. The song's meaning is born from trying to take labels out of our lessons. In a polarized world, the song pines how we will likely learn lessons properly if we leave ego out of what we are trying to learn. Maybe our art has more relevance for future generations if we do that instead of bolting it to the current people or ideas causing us problems."
Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Let's play cards
You lying runt
Word poker perfect
A joker to hunt
Motor makeup mouth
Dadless brain itched
Orange sith can shout
Cycle of old child bewitched

Leave out the names
Remove their power
Lessons find refrain
Fake turned to flower

All liars die
'As honest tongue
Dinnseanchas signs our true right and wrong
Transmutation
Time understood
Truth trump card for hate
More blossomed love

Leave out the names
Teach tomorrow's hour
Lessons find refrain
Pure honest power

Lies from power
Carry hidden agenda
Justice can save us from these malady members
Unless they break our sacred norms
They've changed the game with iron fisted porn

Leave out the names
Control our stream
Lessons mute ego
Brutes turn to dream

The system protects us from crazy one
One system collective
Agreement by sum
Normals described
Standards of power
Transmutation of evil
Never named gives real flower

Let's label our love
Let's teach that today
Let lessons of dove
Show us our way

Leave out the names
Remove their power
Lessons find refrain
Fake turned to flower

Leave out the names
Teach tomorrow hour
Lessons find refrain
Pure honest power

Leave out the names (Eclectic Collective)

The Present

Love through lessons of light
Some time can find some time not right
We find new switch
A different bright
These memes evolve to lesson' tuned tight

The tempers get tamed
We lessen that anger
No target refrain
When observing with cander
Just candle in the dark
To discover new scene
A scene of less suffer
A scene of painted dream

A present for pride
Some present of proof
Please present confide
In gifts got from truth
A present we pried from the soul with soup
Please present inside
Call the cleanest for youth

Good mind made malleable
True to honest intent
Not clouded in questionable,
Uncontrollable dissent
Good mind made mature
Through healing consent
Just offerings owned in neutral present

A present for pride
Some present for proof
Please present confide
In gifts got from truth
A present we pried from the soul with soup
Please present inside
Call the cleanest for youth

A present with pride
Some present of proof
Please present confide
In gifts got from truth
A present we pried from the soul with soup
Please present inside
Call the cleanest for youth

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Instrumentation
-Ovation Acoustic and vox live
-Piano on keys

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The song image was a nice moment yesterday evening. I was waiting to collect Matilda from Irish dancing and whatever way the window fogged up in conjunction with a light mist it made a circular rainbow of the street light outside. Then focused on the foreground drops on the window made it a pretty cool pic 🌈💦
Ted my young lad who was with me said, "Dad, it's looks like a quasar black hole" Hes 6 man... Ain't no way I was thinking of black holes when I was 6. It's pretty cool how our knowledge evolves through generations 🧬🎶

The Present

Featured Friend:
Listen to Joe Strofolino
https://on.soundcloud.com/vI7zPkarJico4UmQC3
Joe is a fabulous writer and musician with some very unique angles on song writing. Joe emalganates his comedy skills and experience very well with his music and offers a great mix of feelings throughout his repertoire.



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Welcome to TBD.


All these creations are made by hard work and years upon years upon years of practice and trying to explain this world and the human condition to myself in the process through poems & songs.

Thanks for all of your wonderful support.

Peace and Love to Everyone,

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