Fantastic commentary on 'our great leaders' who routinely demonstrate how their 'giant steps' make child's play seem very advanced!! Cool title for this exquisitely satirical mash-up!!

Dope vocal mashups with a minimalistic drums

This is Mental ❤️❤️in the best way possible 🔥

Live Reflexion#005

To all the strangers out there pretending to be human every day. I find myself falling short all too often.


I'm not what you see
Merely a version of what may be
If you read between the lines

We just pretend
Wear our masks
We will defend
With all our power
Anyone who tries
To see what we really are

Best be on your guard
Divining the truth can be really hard
Hard to read the signs
Wearing my disguise
I can be what I want through another's eyes
You never see what's mine

We just pretend
Wear our masks
We will defend
With all our power
Anyone who tries
To see what we really are

I'm a stranger
I'm a friend
You don't see that I just pretend
I never cross that line

We Pretend

As the old Soviet joke goes, “In the Soviet Union, we know what the future holds. It’s the past that’s always changing.”      (lyrics below, after the song description)                                             
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In this small, quaint college town, the town-gown relationship, for most of the 150 plus years since the college’s founding, had been productive.  The town benefited economically,  & students appreciated the town's charm, history & heritage.   Often on sunny days, classes of students would visit the park at the downtown square, brought by their history professors to learn not only of the town's history, but also about eleven young local men lost in America's Civil War, memorialized by the modest statue of a lone soldier, who had stood like a sentry at the the park's entrance since 1905.

But times change, don't they...
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More Americans died in the American Civil War than in any other war in our country's history, including each of the World Wars.  In my song, the word "Daughters" references the Daughters Of The Confederacy, a women's civic group formed in the 1890's by daughters (and wives & nieces) of men lost in that war.  The attached picture is the inscription on the base of a statue of a uniformed soldier, standing in a park in Dallas, Georgia, a small town 30 miles northwest of Atlanta.
                                                            



Lyrics....
My name is McKenzie, and Jenkins and Embry,
And eight other names you still hear in these parts,
For over a century, I stood quiet at the entry,
On East Main into Lafayette Park,
A plaque was engraved, told why I was placed,
On those gardened grounds,
In this Small American Town.

Commissioned in 1905,
By the Daughters for fathers who died,
I was erected to honor eleven so bold,
Not a single one knowing he’d never grow old,
On these boys account I’d forever stand proud,
Stand sturdy & stout,
In this Small American Town.

The kids from the college on Heritage Hill,
Would hold class in the park’s warm sunshine,
They learned of this cruel war we waged with ourselves,
How 600,000 had died,
And of eleven from here just about their age,
Small farmers & blacksmiths & craftsmen by trade,
None fought for cotton, not one owned a slave,
And they learned why the Daughters placed me on that mound,
To keep those boys’ memories around,
In this Small American Town.

But enlightened new students don’t meet in that space,
Through new glasses old wars just don’t look the same,
Now scholars say men who went off to that war,
Fought not out of duty, but hate,
I feared I’d be forgotten by Heritage Hill,
Yesterday’s soldiers, obscure battlefields,
But alas, rearranged history determined my fate,
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Wise men have long warned of changing the past,
Of purges & vengeance & iconoclasts,
Then one fateful night there was smoke rolling down from the Hill,

Quickly surrounded by torches of fire,
Cursing & spitting & rage in the air,
Rope round my shoulders, a cheer by the crowd,
I came crashing down to the ground….
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An uneasy quiet in the town since that day,
Hushed conversations about how things have changed,
But up on the Hill it’s all smiles & goodwill,
For it’s the 2nd weekend in May,
Ceremonial speeches, awards all around,
Uncles & aunts & parents in town,
To watch the sweet children who torched & burned me to the ground,
Be awarded their caps & their gowns,
In this Small American Town.

Small American Town

To the beauty of simple things, like that of this beautiful Spanish Sparrow

SPARROW

Victor Villamor.....Low Whistle
Guitarra y producción.......Javier Piñeira

Voyage Through Cassiopea

I’ve traveled the seas and I’ve wandered the lands
I’ve sprinkled the seeds grown into these grass
Encircled by peaks I’m unable to pass
I feel like a stone being crushed into sand

You can run all you want you can cower and hide
Fall asleep with a gun and wake up with a knife
The Devil has come to ruin our plans 
These are the deeds of a desperate man
You can dig all you want I’ve got nothing to hide
No blood on my hands no guilt in my mind
My body is old but I give what I can
These are the deeds of a desperate man

I came to a town where nobody smiled 
And tilted my hat to a woman and child
I offered support but the people were shy
Their soil ablaze and the desert is dry

You can run all you want you can cower and hide
Cloak your skin from the sun fornicate with the night
The Devil has come to ruin our plans 
These are the deeds of a desperate man
You can dig all you want I’ve got nothing to hide
Overcome by the heat and it messed with my mind
My shoulders are frail but I do what I can
These are the deeds of a desperate man

You can run all you want you can cower and hide
Fall asleep with a gun and wake up with a knife
The Devil has come to ruin our plans 
These are the deeds of a desperate man
You can dig all you want I’ve got nothing to hide
No blood on my hands no guilt in my mind
My body is old but I give what I can
These are the deeds of  a desperate man

Desperate Man

There's A Party In My Head

Opus78

As Winter Holds Me

New & Different

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*Why so serious?
Said The President to The Joker with a promising smile! ~ LS.

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Dope wordplay & flows Ian. Inspirational & Meaningful.

Was inspired by this 4sure ...
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/by-the-numbers-160-bpm

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Made up Lyrics / Oddrun (near the end)

One look(embrace me) at (you)LIE
That's one look at you

One look(embrace me) at (you)LIES
That's one look at YOU

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Check them out, if you haven't already 😁👍

Oddrun
https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli

Debra Buesking
https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking

IPG1 aka LOU
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1

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Soundcloud Samples

Debra Buesking & Oddrun Eikli
https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli/embracable-you-mix-2

IPG1 
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/by-the-numbers-160-bpm

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Other Samples

Gaming Music - Legend of Zelda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDRGeVWdvOE

Star Wars - The Imperial March / Darth Vader Theme Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYMETt578MM

Janet Jackson - Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMuoowyCkUU

Snap - I Got the Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I

*Extreme is back Yay*
Extreme - Rise / Nuno Solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ_AOIbj8AA

Naruto AMV / Pablo Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpzSf91nC1k

Random American Presidents clips
Bush / Clinton / Obama / Trump / Biden

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*No copyright infringement intended*

I highly suggest to check out all the original sources and get inspired just like me. I'm not here to be " on fire " I'm just here to inspire / share and show some love for this artform and the original creators. You can find all my source material in the descriptions.

I'm not signed, all my creations & remixes are just a Hobby and not connected to any money-based profits. However if you use my music to make money I will not be held accountable. When listening to my music you are agreeing to these terms.

Remixed by LS / 2023.

Life's A Parody feat IPG1 / Oddrun & Debra Buesking

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Main
https://soundcloud.com/user-820148039

Life's A Parody feat IPG1 / Oddrun & Debra Buesking

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