April 2025 Three Kairos and Fortune

cobbled moth regerated

Written and recorded before breakfast. I  later re-did backing though and used subscription to re-upload 

Please let me let you down
I'm just a clown
My mind isn't sound 
It's known around town
Could you let me let you down?
Do let me lay about 
I've never been stout 
In my struggle with doubt 
Until I get gout
Please let me lay about 
Why don't we embrace love?
Why don't we embrace love?
Why don't we embrace love?
Embrace love
Would you let me let you lie?
Let your heart calcify 
I couldn't let myself comply 
Quite brave for a wise guy 
Would you let me let you lie?
Never could let you let me down
With words and deeds that confound
So let's wear a long gown 
And watch the sun going down 
Never never never let me let you down
Never let me let you down

Never Let Me Let You Down

Phone recording take 1 million
2/10/24


My eyes are stinging and my temples throb
Haven't done what I could
I'd take myself to bed right now 
But that would be too good 
Deserters, cowards and two-bit crooks
Live more successfully 
Even P.T. Barnam and Edward Bernays
Would not have gone near me
I'm a lost cause in this community 
I'm a lost cause and that's alright you see
I'm not a loner but I'm ostracised 
Or maybe I withdrew 
The Monasterys are for warriors 
And out here I'm taboo
Double-minded and triple blind
I've seen the depths of despair 
I admit I feel touched by grace
Just been a tourist there
I'm a lost cause on this thoroughfare 
I'm a lost cause and I don't really care
I'll leave it all give away my guitar 
If I could stay on the road
But that's untrue in all honesty 
I'm stalling for a cheat code
I'm a lost cause in this strange abode 
I'm a lost cause in this episode 
I'm a lost cause 
I'm a lost cause -  of you and yours






Lost Cause

This is an old song that was orginally called 'Flowers in Your Head'  begun in the late 70s by my dad and his friend. He completed it in the 90s and recorded it with a local band (we can't fully remember it). Having not come up with much myself lately,  I was inspired again when remembering how much I liked this, so I re-wrote it again with some different words,  and probably ruined it. 
Melody by Rob Benson (Verse, Chorus) and The Cobbled Moth (Middle 8, or whatever its called). Lyrics by The Cobbled Moth, and Hoppo (who wrote the first verse and part of second).

Cooler is slang for jail. The Song of Songs is worth a study. Beno of LCR FM is in there and the Azerbaijan link. 

Phone recording 24.12.24. 

When I'm feeling lonely and my life is dead and I feel so useless that my face is red 
And I know I can't get away 
The cooler's in my head 
The coolers in my head, the cooler's in my head no no no no oh
Well I turn the radio way down low DJ D says not to go
Back to Stockholm yeah I'm alone just like they said 
The coolers in my head, cooler in my head no no no no oh
You're locked up in a teacup
Diagnoses all wrong 
Bad domain, rage in vain
For lost Song of Songs
Even though you fled
The coolers in your head cooler in your head wo oh oh oh
Where we met was Persia but the north turned red, later left turned right
The same families led 
And I know I can't get away the coolers in my head 
The coolers in my head, cooler in my head No no no no oh 
Cooler in my head, Cooler in my head oh oh oh 




The Cooler's in my Head (collaboration)

The ancient Greeks had two distinct concepts of time: Chronos and Kairos.  

"Tombstones often display the dates of an individual’s birth and death, separated by a dash. That dash represents the person’s Chronos time on earth and how it was spent.
Kairos time, on the other hand, points to the right, or opportune, moment (the supreme moment), a moment of indeterminate time in which events happen. Kairos is vital time, God’s time. While chronos is “tick-tock” time, kairos is a powerful moment when time stands still. Kairos time is when God interrupts our routine and touches us so deeply that we are forever changed".

Photo - Mount Athos, Greece 

I believed in love alone
I believed in rolling stone 
I believed belief is vain
When I was young when I was crazed
Just a kairos ago
Can you believe what's happened to us in us look-see 
It happens in no time 
Time
Outside of time
Just a Kairos ago
I believed in love alone
I believed that I was grown 
I believed belief is vain 
I'm shown more but cannot say 
What's been happening today
Just a kairos ago
Can you believe what's happened to us in us look-see 
It happens in no time 
Time
Outside of time
Just a Kairos to go
A kairos ago 
Kairos never goes
A kairos ago

Kairos

I wrote this a couple of days ago and worked on the lyrics a bit then recorded just now on my phone. The starting point was thinking of a Syd Barrett lyric which mirrored Elvis "I don't care if the sun don't shine".

Photo - Usher Gallery, Lincoln, April 2025


Yes I mind when the sun won't shine
And I must live in shadow
When the dry spell comes must carry on 
Until there's no tomorrow
Getting up I know I'll fall again
And when I'm not wanted at all 
By the grace of God I don't despair
But for goodness sake of course I care

You bet it's true and I get the blues
Whilst you suffer for nothing 
As I play kick back watch melting wax 
Then I'm late again rushing 
Falling down I know I'll rise again 
And while I'm hated I stand tall 
Had to accept life isn't fair 
But for goodness sake of course I care
For goodness sake of course I care 








 





Of Course I Care

Written this morning

Starting point was current or remembered feelings associated with what became the title.

Photo - Old City, Baku

How do you do it baby
How do you do it love?
We will never get along
How do you write those songs?
How do you do it bitter sweet
You're just a person when we meet
You and I don't get along
Song bird my life's absurd 
Sing the word I'm yours 
My love false dream
Song bird my life's absurd
Sing the word I'm yours
My love my pain
How do you do it baby
How do you do it love
You could never right this wrong
How do you write those songs?
You hold no secret bitter sweet
You're just a person when we meet
We will never get along
Song bird my life's absurd 
Sing the word I'm yours 
My love false dream
Song bird my life's absurd 
Sing the word I'm yours
My love my pain (and again)
Song bird  sing the word we're yours
Ooo oo ooo
Song bird the songs were never yours 
Our love our pain
My love my pain
How do you do it baby how do you do it love?
We will never get along
How do you write those songs?



Those Songs

Photo: Blessed Fools-for-Christ Mikhail and Nikolai. Photo: Anatoly Goriainov

Wisdom starts with fear of the Lord
So the Psalmist said 
Wisdom starts with fear of the Lord
Is the Psalmist dead? 
The faith is by experience 
Not found in human sophistry 
I couldn't believe  
So came to see yes
I found my fortune
And it didn't come a day too soon
I found my fortune 
My treasure 
And I pray you find yours -  
Palaces of silver and gold
All must pass away 
Seek the man who never grows old 
Moth to a flame 
Wintertime is cruel 
Agreed the fool with nothing on his feet
Then he cried paradise is sweet 
I found my fortune
It didn't come a day too soon
I found my fortune 
My treasure 
May you find yours too 
I found my fortune
It didn't come a day too soon 
My treasure 
And I pray you find yours too 


Fortune

The AI-generated answer is evolving:

"Cobbled Moth Regenerated is a musical project associated with the artist known as The Cobbled Moth, who creates lo-fi demos using a Tascam pocket studio, acoustic guitar, and other instruments.
 The project features songs such as "In the Valley of Tears" and "Not the Way," which are available for free streaming and download on SoundCloud.
 "In the Valley of Tears" includes lyrics reflecting themes of searching for home and finding strength in weakness, drawing a metaphorical connection to the biblical concept of the Vale of Tears.
 "Not the Way" was written and recorded during a heatwave while the artist was watching Wimbledon, and features a personal moment captured in the background with the artist's son saying, "but it's too sunny mamma".
 The artist describes themselves as an outsider songwriter, and their work has been praised for its emotive chord changes and lyrical depth".

PS
All of my SC uploads come with a zero AI guarantee. If they're bad it's entirely my fault. 


Rayna On The Radio:  Unsigned Radio Hour https://soundcloud.com/raynaontheradio/sets/october-21

"Single" REVIEW: https://joyzine.org/2024/01/10/single-review-cobbled-moth-the-happy-somethings-what-ive-found/

*First page: The Cobbled Moth (Started  2014) - www.soundcloud.com/thecobbledmoth 

COLLABORATIONS so far:

With The Happy Somethings (both had radio play):

'What I've Found' 
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/fcje6

'Bitter' 
#SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/fSVcs

With Aine Parkes: 

'Even Knights Need Their Rest' (Lullaby written for my son) https://on.soundcloud.com/aQrSk

With Lin: 'Fantasy' #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/eRK2m

With Sal (Sarah) Lettes:

'By the Way' #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/U8eFC

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