Here's a sampling of my songs from the past 15-20 years.

Tunes With Words

If I Ever Lost My Head

Horse Heaven Hills

Butter Dish (lyrics)

Why would you want a butter dish?
Does butter even care?
Butter needs a butter dish
Like fish need underwear
It don’t need a dish of its own
Just put in on a plate
And take it off your Christmas list
My young and bonny Kate

Why would you want a gravy boat?
Does gravy like to sail?
Gravy needs a gravy boat
Like it needs the Holy Grail
It don’t need a boat of its own
Just put it in a pot
And take it off your Christmas list
Be glad for what you’ve got

Why would you want a coffee urn
Has coffee earned the right
To have a private dwelling place
To loiter day and night
It don’t need an urn of its own
Just put it in a jar
And take it off your Christmas list
And kiss it au revoir

Why would you want a sugar bowl?
Oh for the love of Pete
Sprinkled from most anything
Is sugar not as sweet?
It don’t need a bowl of its own
For any bowl will do
Take it off your Christmas list
There won’t be one for you

I’ll give you pretty things my love
And tie them with a bow
I’ll light a beautiful Christmas tree
With cândles all aglow
I’ll give you shiny diamonds
And I’ll be your humble slave
But you’ll not have a butter dish
Until I’m in my grave

Oh dry your teary eyes my love
And look beneath the tree
Santa was more generous
Than I can ever be
For there a silvery gravy boat
A sugar bowl I see 
A coffee earn of porcelain
And a butter dish for thee

Butter Dish

Dream Horse

Oh, the summertime has come
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

I will build my love a bower
By the cool crystal fountain
And round it, I will pile
All the flowers of the mountain
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

I will range through the wilds
And the deep glen so dreary
And return with their spoils
To the bower of my dearie
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

If my true love, she'll not come
Then I will surely find no other
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie, go?

Wild Mountain Thyme (cover of the version by The Corries)

This song is about love and lost and the emotions of going thru that.

I Think I Remember You

In this track I used piano, electric guitar, Korg Minilogue, Rhodes, electric bass, drums and djembe.
Thank you for listening !
Composition: Julien Apelian
Recording studio: Audio Colors
December, 13th, 2024

Thrive

Winter Bossa

Falling down

You lead a merry dance
Spin me round and round
'Til we all fall down
Falling down

And when I try to follow
I'm always falling down
My feet can't match the music
I feel like I'm a clown

Sometimes I catch your rhythm
I feel on solid ground
Then we all fall down
Falling down

You march to a different drummer
You hear a different sound
So we all fall down
Falling down

And when I try to follow
I'm always falling down
My feet can't match the music
I feel like I'm a clown

Out of Step

Deep Inside Of You

The villians roam unchecked across the prairie.  A damsel is in distress.  Then a hero emerges and . . . spaceships?

space western

Recording on a tiny Korg digital 4 track several years ago, but I no longer have this machine or the original file, so I'm unable to work directly on the original tracks.  Using Logic software, I added strings, flutes, electric piano, fart sounds, kick drum, and synth bass to the mp3, and enhanced the sound as best I could.  Totally rearranged the song to feature strings more, and to draw out the bridge and ending.  I really love this song a lot.  The lyrics are silly but sincere.  

I Want You All the Time

Silence is nice every once in a while
Turn off the world and all that commotion
Just close my eyes and pretend that I'm sailing
All by myself in a ship on the ocean

Here comes an Albatross, simple and free
Where are you going?  where do ya fly?
He follows my ship as I drift in the sea
He dives and he soars way up high in the sky

He's flying around and he won't go away
It's nice for a while but now it's annoying
Still up there shrieking, hurting my ears
He poops on the deck and I wish he'd get going

Now I am screaming with blood on my face
He's ripping my flesh with his talons of doom
I run around blindly, fall into the sea
And sink to my my death in a watery tomb

Silence is nice every once in a while
Free from the worries of ever-day strife
Sit and relax for a minute or two
But too much serenity can cost you your life.

Silence

Dimensions

Stories Of Life (Start Over)

Here's another song from the mid to late '90's featuring my sister Janice and me on vocals.  I've spruced it up a bit with new percussion, electric guitar, and some vocal effects on the "chanting" section near the end.

Dry Socks

Happy feelings make me glow
First my face and then my toe
All my hairs down to their stubs
About as sweet as grizzly cubs
Kiss the world and make it smile
Let it hold your hand a while
Put your tongue into the ear
Of flowing rivers, fresh and clear

Oooh happy feelings
Oooh happy feels in the air
Little flowers in your hair
Do you have a few to spare
Happy feelings everywhere!

Pinch the butt of happiness
Make it scream, "My God!  Oh yes!"
Be yourself until it hurts
While thunder cracks and lightning spurts!
Sleep a while in muddy groves
Deep beyond the hidden coves
Happiness is to be had
So have a happy day, you cad!

Oooh happy feelings
Oooh happy feels in the air
Little flowers in your hair
Do you have a few to spare
Happy feelings everywhere!

Butter Dish

The Rolling Slowdowns

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