In the Face of You (Part III - Hope)

A slightly restrained version of 'Something Strange'

Something Less Strange

Persephone

Duet

Art work: Juanita Mulder via Pixabay

誰かが今も狙撃されてる
今夜のおかず
今夜のおかず
ごはんのしたく
ごはんのしたく
いくさのしたく

Even though someone is being sniped at this very moment, 
I am thinking about tonight's meal.
As I am preparing dinner, someone is preparing for war.

Duet

R     o     X     X

This is a track Hedd and I wrote in 2019 before the pandemic. I sure miss him.
I love the words he wrote for this. We were trying something a bit different than our usual. Give it a listen and tell me what you think.
Tom

Fall Away

Hedd (Randy Hedrick)- Lead vocals
Tom_ everything else.
Recorded at RoXX Studios.


Verse 1 
Lucid dreaming
Witness the world inside your head

Pre chorus 
Stop their screaming
Shadows crawling across your bed
Making it all come to light

Chorus 
I had a dream that people were kind
But in that dream - hate would blind
And never lift us
As we fall away

Verse 2 
Silent crying
Your pillow soaked with salty tears
Inner voice
Trying to temper hopes and fears

Pre Chorus 
Stop their screaming
Shadows crawling across your bed
Making it all come to light

End Chorus 
I had a dream that people were kind
But in that dream - hate would blind
And never lift us
As we fall away

I had a dream that people were kind
I had a dream that love would bind
And lift us all
Before we all fall away

Copyright 2022 all rights reserved

Fall Away

When It All Falls Down

This is a weird one!

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

Prohibited Topics

21 8 15

Give Me One Reason [Tracy Chapman]

if stayed in that fast lane/not the same.

I'm His Kid  & Glad He Did/He Weighed The Fame /I Saw Him Change

Words and music Antipodeans 2022. Recorded and engineered at Grovehill Studios. Mastered by Dr Hackey at the Hackey Sack. Snowflake by Zdenek Machacek on unsplash.com

Lies Are Like Snowflakes

Worn out shirt
soft and faded
cotton threads gone bare 
in places 
 Days I put it on 
I feel just like I did 
          when 
A while back and 
           then 
brush my cheek against its fabric 
I’ve made it stretch and give
same way I learned to live 
and 
I put it on so I feel just like I did
              when
A while back and 
               then 
pearl buttons over silver clasp
white ivory combs in a lightnin flash 
caught out in the open 
gettin drowned 
this sodden clothing 
where my warmth is holding 
in a shirt that’s softly fading 
cotton threads gone bare in places
every tear has been repaired 
for the life and memory of the person 
that I was and who I’ll always be

I'm His Kid & Glad He Did/He Weighed The Fame /I Saw Him Change

Walkin' in Pa's Footsteps