Trial By Fire

Be Mine

MIX/MASTER: Woods Studio

Dreams are pretty things
What pretty things are dreams
Hide them from the sun
Admire in moonbeams
And watch them waft away
On the slightest breeze
They do as they please
Each pretty as it comes
Pretty as it leaves

Wishes unfulfilled
Hopes that failed to soar
Blood unfairly spilled
You need then all the more
Dreams
Pretty to the eye
Dreams
Not true and not a lie
yes dreams
They’re a private joy
Like the busted toy
To which a child clings
Dreams are pretty things

If it’s plain as can be 
That reality
knocks you all about
Tuck yourself in
And let your dreams out

Working toward a goal
Other people set
Telling heart and soul
It’s not your time yet
With your eyes on the clock
Till the work day ends
When the night descends
You won’t be alone
Dreams will be your friends 

Yes dreams
Know what you desire
Dreams
Provide what you require
The freedom that flight brings
Wings if you need wings

Where skies are always blue
Your loved one loves you
And the whole world sings
DREAMS ARE PRETTY THINGS!

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Dreams Are Pretty Things

Delicate Steve Sings

I'll Be There

I put my finger to the ground  to check the pulse of the current times, but to my great shock, the ground was frozen solid. This is a song about not recognizing yourself in today's world and wanting to distance yourself from idiotic debates about woke/anti-woke, transhumanism, and trans fats. Maybe move to the mountains, fish for trout, set a few traps, fell a birch tree, and chop wood. Or is this the incels' national anthem? IDK.


Lyrics:

I drive electric
Sure don’t smoke
Get offended by your dirty joke
Everybody's frowning, and I just don’t care
Everybody's howlin’, and I still don't care

I'm gone, and I'm going
Ain't coming home with no excuses
Yeah, I’m done, and I've had it
Ain't gonna care 'cause I'm a loser

Everybody's whining about the winding roads
Everybody's bitchin’ 'bout the heavy loads
Everybody's nagging about the Norwegian rain
Everybody's complaining 'bout the same and the same

I'm gone, and I'm going
Ain't coming home with no excuses
Yeah, I’m done, and I've had it
Ain't gonna care 'cause I'm a loser

I'm gone, and I'm going
Ain't coming home with no excuses
Yeah, I’m done, and I've had it
Ain't gonna care 'cause I'm a loser

Dirty

luke drops by the garden to share some tracks off his up coming album called novel tea

luke sweeney 5-21-25

“Sum’r Nights” is a campfire anthem for restless souls, blending folk and French pop to send heartfelt notes across the universe like a message in a bottle, cast out to sea from my sandy legs to yours. I hope it lingers in your ears long after the final chords fade—like the last light of summer slipping below the horizon— and maybe it'll even sparks some spirited sing-alongs for years to come.  This is the clean version of the song, which will appear again later this year as the closer to the ‘Novel Tea’ LP, out August 29 on Future Gods.

Novel Tea

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Luke Sweeney - Sum'r Nights RADIO EDIT

Recorded one of our favorite Leonard Cohen songs.

Recorded at Kawari Sound
Engineered/Mixed by Zach Goldstein

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Dream Vacay

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The long-awaited arrival of ‘Peace Meal’ [Royal Oakie] in 2019 felt like a rebirth, in that the songs are the fruit of a communicative collaboration between this plane of existence and another; stuff of the cosmos that Sweeney has been personally tasked to deliver. Meanwhile, breezy melodies and buoyant beats showcase what was musically Sweeney’s most pop-oriented album to date: “a smorgasbord of influence: there’s Kinks and T. Rex, there’s Mungo Jerry and the smallest touch of Latin vibes; waltzy beats. Above all, the lyrics are clever, kooky and funny and god bless him, they’re interesting... Sweeney writes songs with a connective energy about them. This Sweeney has soul” (TheBayBridged).

With his notebook handy and his microphone on standby, Sweeney is back on the proverbial horse with a 2021 EP ‘Critique of Nature’ featuring his top-streaming song to date in ‘Natural Force’, which was lauded as a “stylish synthpop success” that “hits it out of the park” (Obscure Sound).  Sweeney's 4th full-length album, a dedication to his late daughter Rishi, is slated for release in November 2022, with another LP already in the can for 2023.

Luke Sweeney - Sum'r Nights RADIO EDIT

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