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We used to know how to read a room
Knew exactly what to say…
Now we’re divin in too deep
Never losing any sleep
in the bed we made

We used to take the time 
To see another point of view 
Now we toe another line
Like a party to a crime
In the bed we made…

Driving home
so alone
the streets on fire
Winding down
to the sound
it seems so dire

Why did you have to come around
as if you’ve made some kind of grade
My ears don't want to hear 
Now would you please just disappear
in the bed we made

Driving home
so alone
the streets on fire
Winding down
to the sound
it seems so dire

The Bed We Made

Vocals: @Oddrun-Eikli 
Trumpet: @Arne-Hiorth
Lyrics: @user-264930040 (Peter)
Piano: Debra Buesking
This piano composition takes its cues from Beethoven's Bagatelle "Für Elise".  It seemed a bit of fun to give Beethoven's famous piece a new twist and so we have.  Thank you to my dear friends Oddrun, Arne, and Peter, for this marvelous and joyful experience of working together.  It brings us all a bit closer together.

An Autumn Pastorale

The year’s getting late, now summer’s sleeping
I contemplate how autumn’s creeping in.
Berries shining for the birds
As they harmonise each others’ words In a chorus like the angels heard.

The year’s getting late, for carefree living

Lazy times, with honest give and take.
Simple joys like baby smiles
And climbing hills to see for miles
The evening star switching on…year’s getting late

The year’s getting late, memories clinging
Better times, that sweet hope’s bringing in
The last of this year’s butterflies
Mother nature’s neat surprise

Can’t those days come back please? … year’s getting late.

Autumn Pastorale | Oddrun E, Arne Hiorth, Peter the Poet, & Debra B

3/ De la folie jusqu’aux illuminations, les raccourcis abondent.

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“MELORAN” drifts like a memory bathed in light, flowing gently at ~74 BPM in D minor. Its lo-fi textures soften every edge, while cinematic ambience spreads wide yet remains intimate (Stereo width ~0.45). With a dynamic range of ~19 dB, melodies rise and fall like faint tides, and spectral energy around ~2.7 kHz glows before fading smoothly past 7.4 kHz. The result is a mix that feels luminous, calm, and quietly nostalgic.

This track is made for late-night reflections, quiet study, or walks under dim streetlights. Subtle neo-soul voicings and light jazz inflections weave in and out like echoes of the past, giving “MELORAN” both warmth and melancholy. It’s a piece that carries peace in the present, while holding on to fragments of memory.

Technical Notes: ~74 BPM • D minor • Stereo width ~0.45 • Spectral centroid ~2.7 kHz • Rolloff ~7.4 kHz • DR ~19 dB • RMS ~-17.3 dBFS • 48 kHz

Genres:

Primary: Lo-Fi Chill / Cinematic Ambient
Secondary: Neo-Soul / Jazz-influenced Downtempo

BPM: ~74 (slow-downtempo)
Tonality: D minor 
Stereo Image: Stereo; (Side/Mid ≈ 0.45)
Spectral Centroid (avg): ~2.7 kHz
Spectral Rolloff (85% avg): ~7.4 kHz
Dynamic Range (P95–P05): ~19 dB
Overall Loudness (RMS): ~-17.3 dBFS
Sample Rate: 48 kHz

Fusion Breakdown (%): Lo-Fi Chill 35% / Cinematic Ambient 30% / Neo-Soul 15% / Jazz 10% /  Experimental 10%

MELORAN

Discoteca

VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/6ktAtxn3Jqk?si=sNqE2bLBMC9icspO

Me dijiste que viniera conmigo Vamos a dar un paseo bajo la luna  
Vamos a ver las estrellas  
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
Pero la noches es mía  
E yo digo no ven a bailar conmigo

Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca  
Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca  
Porque me gusta la discoteca  
Teca teca teca  
Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca  
Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca  
Porque me gusta la discoteca  
Teca teca teca

El ritmo que avanza  
El ritmo que te lleva  
Lleva lleva lleva  
Porque me gusta la discoteca  
Teca Teca Teca  
La música que te calienta  
La luz que te encanta  
Anta Anta Anta

Pero la noches es mía  
E yo digo no no no nooo  
[chorus many voice]

Porque me gusta la discoteca  
Teca teca teca  
El ritmo que avanza  
El ritmo que te lleva  
Lleva lleva lleva  
Porque me gusta la discoteca  
Teca Teca Teca  
La música que te calienta  
La luz que te encanta  
Anta Anta Anta

Me pregunto qué es mejor que pasar la noche con amigos Bailar y hacer ruido hasta la mañana y luego ir a la playa a darme un chapuzón  
Desnudos desnudos desnudos  
Mi amor te amo pero no voy a renunciar a todo esto

Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca  
Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca

Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca  
Vamos a bailar mi amor  
Vamos a bailar a la discoteca

Discoteca

Alternate version of a recent idea ("In The Forest Fair"):

Love was a bending flower
At the fading hour
A twilight song
Sun-starved for too long

Love was resolute
Digging a deeper root
A patient scheme
A bottomless stream
A paradox supreme

And where are we tonight?
Shall we shine some light?
Fragile yes, but strong
Our twilight song

And still we feel the fire
Down to the wire
This crazy flame
It warms our frame
Lights our way
Consumes us without shame

Love was a bending flower
At the fading hour
Fragile yes, but strong
That's our song
Our twilight song
Twilight song

Image by Christina Victoria Craft (Unsplash)

Our Twilight Song

Wrote and recorded this in anticipation that there may be peace agreement ? Hopefully that’s today ! 

Dust in the air whispers the fight
Broken streets bathe in twilight
The walls don’t talk but they hold the pain
Every shadow here knows the name

Oh where is peace in Gaza tonight
Under the stars
Under the fight
Oh where is hope
Where is the light
Peace in Gaza
Oh hold it tight

A mother hums though her heart is torn
Cradling dreams that were never born
Children draw skies where the doves won’t fly
They colour  the truth but they live the lie

The ground shakes but the spirit stands
Empty hands still demand

Oh where is peace in Gaza tonight
Under the stars
Under the fight
Oh where is hope
Where is the light
Peace in Gaza
Oh hold it tight

Peace in Gaza .mp3

Greeting Earthlings, this is your Master Of Ceremonies with another Halloween track for you unfortunate viewers and listeners out there to be creeped out about! This is track #3 for October 2025. This one is about psycho's and crazy blood-thirsty murderers ready to chop you up into little pieces when they snap!(😂🎃😂). **NO A.I. USED IN SONG OR VIDEO EVER!!**

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/x61N_vOzeX0 {Viewere Discretion Advised!}

The video is a little gruesome, so beware my viewers! I tried to write it from a demented killer's point of view! Make sure you hold on tight to your Teddy's and keep the lights on while watching! (ha,ha,ha,ha!). You never know when an unhinged psycho will creep up behind you! 
     I worked really hard on this song and video and Charlie sang it perfectly! I wrote it in 2019 just before the pandemic hit,  around Thanksgiving of that year. I really like this one but I think it needs a bit more Cowbell!😂 I tried to make the video into a mini-slasher film and I spent a couple of weeks on it and storyboarded it and everything! I think it's one my best Halloween videos so far! Definitely NOT a love song! 
     In these days it seems we're all a bit unhinged with everything that's going on and the government being shut-down and all the hatred and death around the world and A.I. breathing down out necks!  When I wrote this song I had Alice Cooper in mind, the king of Shock Rock!! He may be too old already but I think he's still kicking! 🎃 Well, I bid you all a fond farewell and have a good night and don't let the bed bugs bite! More fiendish fun songs & videos to come until this Halloween is upon us! Make sure to sleep with one eye open at all times! 😂 Take care and stay safe!🙏🎃✌🏼

“UNHINGED!”

SOMETIMES I FEEL UNHINGED,   
CAN’T CATCH MY BREATH,     
DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO,      
TRAPPED LIKE A RAT IN A CAGE,                   
LOSING MY MIND,     
SLOWLY COMING UNGLUED,     
NOBODY GAVE A CRAP, NOBODY GAVE A DAMN,     
THIS ANGRY BOY BECAME AN ANGRY MAN!   
OOH, OOH,
    
SOMETIMES I WANT TO KILL,    
DESTROY THE WORLD,     
INFLICT GREAT PAIN,     
LIFE IS A BITTER PILL,         
BLOODY BUTCHER’S KNIFE,      
BURNING ACID RAIN,     
NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER,     
WHY KILL YOURSELF WHEN YOU CAN KILL YOUR BROTHER!       
OOH, OOH,

MY TORTURED TWISTED MIND,          
RIDDLED WITH HATE,          
HAS MADE ME BLIND, OH YEAH,             
MY LACK OF EMPATHY,          
HAS LIT A FIRE,           
DEEP UNDER ME, OH YEAH,

SOMETIMES I FEEL UNHINGED,     
DREAM OF SUDDEN DEATH,     
SENSE ALL HOPE IS GONE,      
IT FESTERS IN MY BRAIN,     
UNDERNEATH MY SKIN,      
UNTIL I DON’T BELONG,      
NOBODY BATS AN EYE, NOBODY GIVES A HOOT,     
I FEEL LIKE A RATTLESNAKE UNDER A COWBOY’S BOOT,     
OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH. 

BY JIM VALDES
 © 2019

"UNHINGED!" (Video - https://youtu.be/x61N_vOzeX0)

"Its a not perfect sound in a no perfect world..If music would be perfect we could stop create and everything would sound the same"
guitar vocal choir recorded at the same time make melody and lyrics....nothing special just simple and thats me..thank you for listen / Stina Crow 2025

Lost in shadows

My sister Cindy wanted me to write music for her. It is becoming increasingly hard to play and that makes me sad.  I have lay so far back in my powerchair that I can't see the controls. I can't tolerate sitting up, it's too hard to breathe. Some days I can't even get out of bed.

My son attached a projector to my computer so my screen is now 6'x4', and I have a small keyboard I hold in my hand. So I try to keep up, but it takes much longer to do anything. ALS is not easy to deal with. It's important to stay positive and make good use of the time I have left.

Something To Remember Me

Song from the rock opera Five Thousand Sasquatch

Gold Colored Teacup

Here you will find little acoustic pop songs; melancholy, dreamy-folk things. Sometimes some jangly, fuzzy rock tunes or ambient pieces as well. Work-in-progress demos to finished tracks, informal playlists to official album releases. Enjoy.

Our Twilight Song

Tom Hanson