A soft and gentle musical piece featuring a smooth and reserved guitar.

Chasing Your Memnory

Early Fall

This song is dedicated to the sublime sounds of Joliz and the poetic words of Hans H. Hiebel… https://soundcloud.com/user-198565200/augenblick

I had an old blue car no Cadillac
The sun in the morning at my back
Driving east follow the railroad tracks
Until I reach Montauk Point

Little summer towns all dressed in pink
A million places to stop and think
Throw a stone catch it before it sinks
Be back before the setting of the sun
Seemed easy like breathing when I was 21

I dreamed of Berlin and Amsterdam
Neon lights and a one way plan
Passport pages in a shaky hand
Standing in the line to board the plane

The night came soft with a lullaby
Backseat blanket and a blood-red sky
A girl named Jean with the clearest eyes
Said she’d wait but she cut and run
That’s how it goes when your 21

Worked as a DJ in a bayside town
AM/FM radio playing the sound
Of Sinatra, Chapin, and some old Motown
While kids played under the pier

Played midnight songs for the drunks and losers
Waited for dawn with the coffee boozers
Wrote some lyrics about shakers and movers
How they burned out just for fun
It was a flash and a bang when I was 21

Now I pass these roads from time to time 
The sun gets tangled in the power lines
I roll the window down shift to drive
But the past just fades and comes undone
Seemed easy like breathing when I was 21

Another scandal another war
   The news reminds us we're not special anymore
   My own horizon, just a barren sea
   There ain't much colour  besides black and grey and green

   Another road ahead, another place to grow 
   Watching all the stories come and go
   They package up the wonder, sell the dream 
   There ain't much colour besides black and grey and green

    The war within was meant to be   
    Lost somewhere but I began to see
    The script is old, the actors   change
    But we’re still stuck on the same  old stage

     Instrumental 

   The world keeps turning, a tired old machine,
   It sounds so loud, but feels the same.
   Each hopeful promise, it starts to wear thin
   Another ending, before we begin.

   The war within was meant to be   
   Lost somewhere but I began to see
   The script is old, the actors   change
   But we’re still stuck on the same  old stage

  Another scandal another war
  The news reminds us we're not special anymore
  Another scandal another war
  The news reminds us we're not special anymore



The War Within

When Air India Flight 171 crashed shortly after take-off on June 12, 2025, 260 people died and with them their dreams.
Among them was the Joshi family. The family was on their way to a new life together. Father Prateek Joshi had already been working as a radiologist at Derby University Hospital in England for four years. Now his family and wife Komi Vyas, also a doctor, were to join him. He had traveled back to India to accompany his wife and children on the flight to London. Daughter Miraya was eight years old, the twins Nakul and Pradyut five. Just before take-off, they took a cheerful selfie for their loved ones. It was to be one of the saddest photos ever...
This song was inspired by the fate of this family and is also dedicated to the Joshi family.
But the song is also intended to encourage all those who want to change their lives for the better and are not afraid to take risks.

BETWEEN HOPE AND HEAVEN
Music & Lyrics: A. MELZER & DJ LEKICH

[Verse 1]
They packed their bags in the midnight glow
Left the town they used to know
A small house on a dusty lane
A life’s struggle, endless strain
They’re gonna leave the pain, put the future on the line

[Verse 2]
With his wife and his kids in tow
He whispered, „Loves, now it’s time to go“
A one-way ticket, dreams held tight
Gonna chase these stars through the endless night
Feels so right with the future on the line

[Chorus]
Between hope and heaven
They’re gonna find their way
They’re gonna leave behind the shadows of yesterday
With hearts so heavy, but spirits high
Gonna take to the clouds, and together they’ll fly
And make their way to where their futures lies
Between hope and heaven

[Verse 3]
The old life fades as the engines roar
A world unseen on that distant shore
His little girl clutches his hand
Eyes wide with wonder for the promised land
She understands the future’s on the line

[Bridge]
And so in life it comes to this
You take a chance, you take a risk
An angel’s touch or a devil’s kiss
And hope and heaven is all there is


SOUND GUARDIANS are:

ANDREAS MELZER - Music, Lyrics, Production, Artwork and Mix

DJ LEKICH - Vocals, BGV's, Music and Lyrics

MARTY STRAUB - Bass

SHIGEKI ADACHI - Strings accompaniment

WOLFGANG MELZER - All Solo Guitars & Fill Ins

BETWEEN HOPE AND HEAVEN
Music & Lyrics by Andreas Melzer & Dj Lekich
©2025 by SOUND GUARDIANS

Between Hope And Heaven

BETWEEN HOPE AND HEAVEN by SOUND GUARDIANS

We all have been there and done this. At a boring meeting or class, semi-watching TV, listening to your spouse, etc. you start to daydream. Your mind wonders far away from where it should be, hence the title.

I am playing the lead guitar and via my breath and keyboard controllers the Swam flute (Bansuri) and the vocal.  Band-in-a-Box is supplying the balance of the tracks using my sound sources.

Far Away Places

Backing: Band in a Box
Vocals: SynthesizerV (Amara, Sheena, Weina)
Photo by Gracia Solenyanu on Unsplash

No Stopping Our Love

I was somewhere in Virginia
With the Catskills on my mind
All the mountains are connected
Like the days we left behind

I was walking in Savannah
Where the river meets the pines
You were painting by the window
Sketching out the crossing lines

I’ll be with you in the morning sometime
When the birds all wake too soon
But tonight I asked the stars to draw a line
And let the night lean into you

I was drifting down to Asheville
With the blue hills bending low
You were dancing through my memory
Like a firefly in early snow

Now I'm waking up in Berkley
With the jasmine in the air
Every coast just keeps on curving
But I still find you everywhere

I’ll be with you in the morning sometime
When the birds all wake too soon
But tonight I asked the stars to draw a line
And let the night lean into you

I’ll be with you in the morning sometime
When the birds all wake too soon
But tonight I asked the stars to draw a line
And let the night lean into you

Night Lines (with Joliz)

Don't Take That Curve

Not what we seem
in God’s own dream
Ever radiant and undefiled

I am THAT I am THAT I am THAT I am

One Victorious Being
Beyond all meaning
Self-luminous All Seeing Eye

I am THAT I am THAT I am THAT I am

Truth will prevail
Supreme Lord we hail
We awaken in your glorious grace

Beyond THAT I am THAT I am THAT I am

I Am That

Another lonely Sunday here in my studio. It has been a few months like this on Sundays. My co-composer, lyricists, accomplished finger picking guitarist, and one of my best friends BobH is fighting brain cancer. Please join me in praying for Bob.  Thanx 

I am playing my fretless bass and lead guitar.  Band-in-a-Box is playing the balance of the tracks using my sound sources.

The Lonely Guitarist

Thoughtful music to awaken, heal and inspire through simplicity and harmony....and no AI ever.

I Am That

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