This is a very old song written a few months before my divorce when I found out how truly hateful a person can be. *WARNING - This is NOT one of my corny lovey dovey songs and it expresses betrayal in the worst way. Vindictiveness is not a pleasant experience and it's pretty dark but hey you never know a person until you marry them, then it's too late! I always thought love was forever but evidently not! I was really skeptical about love after that crippling experience but a few years afterwards I finally healed mentally, emotionally, financially, and even musically! The video is rough ride as well, so watch at your own peril! It will drop tomorrow! PLAY IT VERY LOUD!!!

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/BkLOYBo1CIA

I regained my faith and met and married the complete opposite of that rotten hateful demon woman I was first married too! My wife today is the love of my life and the most kindest, beautiful, good-hearted woman I have ever met. There's a trail of flowers that blossom after her wherever she goes! I have written her many, many songs of love! I'm so happy now and have been for almost 20 years! My experience and advice, to anyone that wants to hear it, is to NEVER marry young, take your time and nurture a relationship, live several years together and see if both of you are compatible with each other. I married at 19 and that was a big NO NO! Be scared, be very scared!!🥺🤔😣😖🤢🤮

“VINDICTIVENESS”

I SEE THE DAGGERS IN YOUR EYES,   
I FEEL THE TENSION SLOWLY MOUNT,    
THE VINDICTIVENESS IN YOUR SOUL,     
GOT ME DOWN FOR THE COUNT, AGAIN,             
      
I SENSE THE HATRED FROM A DISTANCE,   
YOU'RE DRESSED TO KILL FOR YOUR REVENGE,   
THERE'S NO COMPASSION OR REMORSE,    
IT'S YOUR PRIDE YOU MUST AVENGE, IN THE END, 

I DON'T KNOW WHAT MAKES YOU ACT THIS WAY,         
IT SEEMS YOU CAN'T REST UNTIL I PAY,       
YOU SHOULD'VE WON AN OSCAR FOR YOUR VICIOUSNESS,          
HOW WELL YOU PLAYED YOUR PART,        
WITH VINDICTIVENESS IN YOUR HEART,         
YOUR COLD, COLD HEART!
          
I'M OVERCOME BY YOUR REACTIONS,    
HOW MERCILESS CAN SOMEONE BE,     
I SEE THE CRUELNESS IN YOUR CHARACTER,   
BURNING OUT OF HAND AND CRAVING THE DEATH OF ME,

I DON'T KNOW WHAT MAKES YOU ACT THIS WAY,          
IT SEEMS YOU CAN'T REST UNTIL I PAY,         
YOU SHOULD'VE WON AN OSCAR FOR YOUR VICIOUSNESS,           
HOW WELL YOU PLAYED YOUR PART,         
WITH VINDICTIVENESS IN YOUR HEART,        
YOUR COLD, COLD HEART!
          
BY JIM VALDES © 1996

"VINDICTIVENESS" (Video - https://youtu.be/BkLOYBo1CIA)

Here's another love related ballad that I wrote in 2006, around the time when I married my wonderful wife and my best friend Anita!! The lyrics are about how seldom my beautiful wife wears blue, which is my favorite color, but she looks great in all colors! It's another love ballad that wasn't recorded so well, I still had my old 8-track Tascam back then and I think it could have been mixed a whole lot better. I was still tinkering and getting used to the recorder! Charlie sang it perfectly and I double tracked his vocals, he also added some harmonica on the track as well. The video I put together last month and I threw in a lot of eye-candy and special effects at it to enhance it! 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/52xIijX6vOs

 I had forgotten about this song but when I was producing the video for "She Rescues Me" I noticed the song on the CD and did a video for it too! The melody is nice and the lyrics are sweet and it flows ok. Not my best song but it ain't my worst either! Very corny and old fashioned lyrics but hey, I'm an old fashioned lyric myslefI!😂 Take care and I hope everybody enjoys it! Thanks for dropping by and listening! (Oh and by the way, watch the video because all women look heavenly in blue, am I right?)🙏😎👍

“HEAVENLY IN BLUE”

YOU’RE SO HEAVENLY IN BLUE,    
LIKE A CLOUDLESS, BRIGHT, AND SUNNY DAY,   
OR THE CALM THAT TRANSCENDS A SUMMER SEA,  
YOUR SMILE ALONE CAN CHANGE MY POINT OF VIEW,   
YOU’RE HEAVENLY IN BLUE,
        
YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL IN RED,  
LIKE A CRIMSON ROSE KISSING AN AUTUMN DAY,
OR A SUNSET REFLECTING ON THE SEA,  
YOUR WHISPERS ALWAYS LINGER IN MY HEAD,   
YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL IN RED,
                                     
YOU’RE SO BREATHTAKING IN WHITE,   
LIKE A SILVER MOON OVER BISCAYNE BAY,     
OR THE GENTLE FOAM THAT PLAYS UPON THE SEA,  
YOUR STARRY EYES DANCING IN THE NIGHT, 
YOU’RE BREATHTAKING IN WHITE,

YOU’RE SO HEAVENLY IN BLUE,  
LIKE THE MORNING DEW THAT ALWAYS GREETS THE DAY, 
OR THE DEEP, DEEP, BLUE COLOR OF THE SEA,  
YOU RADIATE TRUE LOVE IN EVERY HUE,
BUT YOU’RE SO HEAVENLY IN BLUE.
  
BY JIM VALDES © 2006

"HEAVENLY IN BLUE" (Video - https://youtu.be/52xIijX6vOs)

      This is a brand new video that's dropping on YouTube later tonight!.  I finished it last week and couldn't wait to see what you guys think about it, so please watch the video after listening because without the video the sound effects make no sense and neither does the song! It's an instrumental piece and was part of the song "She Rescues Me" that I had to edit out of the song due to it being too long, so here are the sections that I edited out. 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/70LHA6YNi6Q

     It's one of my space adventures videos and I'll leave it up to the viewer to make sense of it!😂 It's pretty long at over 6 minutes but stay with it because it's pretty cool! I threw a ton of special effects at it, both video and audio, and most of it is in 4K, which absorbed lots of memory and it was very time-consuming to put together! Crank it up and watch it on a big screen TV for a mind-blowing experience. I love astronomy and Sci-Fi films, so periodically I'll post one of my Space Videos along my songs, so climb aboard and let's trip the cosmos together! Thanks for listening & watching and I hope you enjoy it and remember this before lift off: "Turn off your mind, Relax, and Float downstream...." 🙏😎🙃🖖

"SHE RESCUES ME AGAIN" (Video - https://youtu.be/70LHA6YNi6Q)

This song is a weird one, I wanted to write like a fairytale song and it became like a scary tale instead. How does it happen that where once there was love, now there is hate? Failed relationships are hard for everyone and this song just states the very sad truth that sometimes it's best to just walk away from a relationship after a short time rather than hanging in there for many years when you know it's never going to work. Been there, done that! I kept the music light and very Beatleque! The first line in the chorus says it all "Once upon a time, she was the one!" Well, they all can't be love songs, you know! It's a very simple song written around the "D" chord on the guitar, very jangly like those poppy folk songs of the 60's. I should have worked on this song a little longer, it's missing something? I'm singing it so maybe that's the fly in the ointment!😂 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/GdWGCXAwtJo

The video is new however and I had a very good time putting it together last year. I tried to support the lyrics as close as possible. The video is actually better than the song, I think! Not much to say about this song or video, both were kind of throw-aways! I wrote it at the beginning of the pandemic, maybe that's why it's so unmemorable? I like the Unicorn at the end of the video letting everyone know that Once Upon A Time it was a fairytale romance! Cheers! 🥂 

"ONCE UPON A TIME”

I TRUSTED HER,    
WHEN EVERYONE AROUND ME,  
SAID I WAS CRAZY,    
BELIEVED IN HER,   
PUT FAITH IN LOVE NOT REASON,   
NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D BE LEAVIN',  
NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D BE HURTIN' ME, 
OH BUT….       
     
ONCE UPON A TIME,       
SHE WAS THE ONE,      
NOW SHE'S LOST HER MIND,        
AND SHE'S COMING UNDONE,       
ALWAYS AND FOREVER,        
I'LL NEVER SAY NEVER,         
AGAIN, OH, 
          
SHE WRECKED MY LIFE,     
IT NEVER CROSSED MY MIND,    
THAT SHE WOULD BETRAY ME,       
RUINED MY LIFE,    
I CURSE THE DAY I MET HER,    
GUESS I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER,    
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IT COULD NEVER BE,   
OH BUT…
     
ONCE UPON A TIME,        
SHE WAS THE ONE,        
NOW SHE'S LOST HER MIND,           
AND SHE'S COMING UNDONE,         
ALWAYS AND FOREVER,          
I'LL NEVER SAY NEVER,        
AGAIN, OH, 
         
I KNOW, SHOULD HAVE TOLD HER SO,               
SHOULD HAVE MADE HER GO,              
AWAY,

ONCE UPON A TIME,     
SHE WAS THE ONE,        
NOW SHE'S LOST HER MIND,          
AND SHE'S COMING UNDONE,        
ALWAYS AND FOREVER,         
I'LL NEVER SAY NEVER,         
AGAIN, OH BUT! 

ONCE UPON A TIME,
SHE WAS THE ONE!
                                          
BY JIM VALDES
 © 2020

"ONCE UPON A TIME" (Video - https://youtu.be/GdWGCXAwtJo)

This is another song I wrote during the pandemic in 2021. I was really scared back then like I am now for our country. We are on the precipice of anarchy here in 2025 and I'm starting to think it will not end well for all of us. So I'm dropping this song of hope, It's about all people being united as one and about love! I worked very hard on this song, it took me several weeks to record and I used up every track on my old recorder. All the instruments are played by me, there is no A.I. in my music, and I'm singing all the vocals. It's a dream that I shared with Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, I am a child of the 60's and I still believe in kindness, peace,  and love. I guess I'm an idiot for believing that in this enviorment today! Our beautiful dream is now quickly becoming a nightmare! I don't understand why we hate so much? What do we gain by hating everyone? We are good people! I think history is repeating itself again right in front of our very eyes! Please check out the video, you will not be disappointed!

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/6G8SXX-y07w

     The video is brand new, I just finished it this week and since Easter is coming up, I put it at the top of the list. I worked for weeks on this video as well and I threw the kitchen sink at it! What the world needs now is love, sweet, love and I want all of us to remember the American Dream! I'm hoping and praying that the dream returns to us before it's too late! Thanks for listening and please let's make this dream come true! Peace & love to everyone! Happy Easter! 🙏✌🏼

“SITTING ON A DREAM”

I'M SITTING ON A DREAM,      
WISHING ON A STAR,     
MY PRAYERS TO GOD ALMIGHTY,     
HAVEN'T BEEN ANSWERED SO FAR,             

STILL HOPING FOR THE BEST,     
BUT READY FOR THE WORST,     
I DO BELIEVE IN MIRACLES,      
BUT FOR COMPASSION I STILL THIRST,

I'M SITTING ON A DREAM,          
STILL SITTING ON A DREAM,          
A DREAM OF ALL AS ONE,           
A DREAM FOR EVERYONE,         
FOR LOVE I GUESS, 
FOR HAPPINESS,         
FOR ALL TO BE REDEEMED,         
I'M STILL SITTING ON A DREAM,
     
I'M LOOKING FOR A SIGN,    
SEARCHING FOR A CLUE,     
SEEKING TRUTH AND JUSTICE,  
FOR ALL NOT JUST A FEW,    
 
SOME THINK WE'VE BEEN FORGOTTEN,   
ABANDONED AND BETRAYED,         
BUT AS FOR ME, I DREAM,   
THE DREAMS OF MLK,       
      
I'M SITTING ON A DREAM,        
STILL SITTING ON A DREAM,        
A DREAM OF ALL AS ONE,       
A DREAM FOR EVERYONE,       
FOR LOVE I GUESS, 
FOR HAPPINESS,      
FOR ALL TO BE REDEEMED,        
I'M STILL SITTING ON A DREAM,

DREAM, DREAM,          
WE SHARE THE DREAM, 
WE SHARE THE DREAM,       
WE SHARE THE DREAM, 
DREAM ON, 
DREAM ON,       
DREAM ON, 
DREAM ON.

BY JIM VALDES © 2021

"SITTING ON A DREAM" (Video - https://youtu.be/6G8SXX-y07w)

     This one is another instrumental artistic video. It's a Shadow Play or Shadow Dance of sorts and it's in the same style as "A Futile Tear" where I allow the viewer to create their own narrative. It's a bit avant-garde but I have many sides to me and I express myself in many different genres! A Jack of all trades and master of none!😂 It's an instrumental piece so please watch the video too or else the song will not make any sense, it kind of goes together with the film! 

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/mmxp5tgdUQY

      I had a lot of fun putting the video together and it took me a couple of weeks because I wanted to get it just right! A lot of sound effects were used and the editing was very time consuming but I really loved the results. The sound effects only make sense if you watch the video and the little piece at the end will be playing during the credits on the video. Please watch with an open mind and enjoy my Shadow Play!I Thanks again! 🙏😎✌🏼

"TOGETHER ALONE" (Video - https://youtu.be/mmxp5tgdUQY)

        This is an old song that I wrote way back in my disco days and reworked it in 2009. It's an instrumental now. I had lyrics for it when it was called something else but I turned it into an instrumental. I played a wicked Moog on it, all instruments are me, NO A.I. I'm allergic to that A.I. crap! I just finished a video for it with some wicked dancing on it but that won't be dropped until December, just in time for Santa to get those bell bottom pants and platform shoes back on and do the Christmas Hustle!😂 I never liked Disco much back in the day but I like it now! The second song towards the end is another funky song of mine called "Sex Object", this is the instrumental version that's playing over the credits in the video. I hope everyone enjoys it, I had fun recording it! If anyone knows how to do The Funky Chicken or The Robot, well now's the time to do it!😂🥂

"DISCO DAZE!"

This is another of my love songs for my wonderful wife Anita, written in 2006 when we were first married! So it's a true and personal song straight from my heart. She was and still is my One And Only Love! It has a bit of an old-time shuffle feel to it and I wanted it to sound like it belonged in a Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movie of the 1930's or an MGM musical of the 40's and 50's. Charlie sang it very well and I added a light & breezy jazzy guitar to it.  John Lennon used to call these type of songs "Granny Songs" but I love these old fashioned type of songs!

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/y6NGVfs0LRI

The video is an old one too, I produced it about 3 year ago and never posted it because I thought it was too corny but it's a special song for me so here it is, corn and all! We all just need to lighten up sometimes to recharge ourselves! I hope everyone enjoys it and thanks for listening & watching! Take Care!🙏😎✌🏼

“MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE"


COFFEE IN THE AFTERNOON,    
DINNER JUST FOR TWO,    
CUDDLING ON WINTER NIGHTS,     
STEALING A KISS BY CANDLELIGHT,
               
LAUGHING LIKE WE’RE LITTLE KIDS,    
SHARING OUR POINTS OF VIEW,    
SEEING EVERYTHING THROUGH LOVER’S EYES,   
ICE CREAM SODAS AND APPLE PIE,              

WHEN WE’RE TOGETHER,       
MY WORLD’S COMPLETE,       
THANK GOD I’LL NEVER BE LONELY,          
CAUSE YOU’RE MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE,      
         
A WARM SMILE EVERY MORNING,   
A STROLL DOWN THE AVENUE,    
WATCHING MOVIES OR BROADWAY PLAYS,  
SLEEPING IN ON RAINY DAYS,
             
WHEN WE’RE TOGETHER,       
MY WORLD’S COMPLETE,        
THANK GOD I’LL NEVER BE LONELY,          
CAUSE YOU’RE MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE.   
             
BY JIM VALDES © 2006

"MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE "(Video -https://youtu.be/y6NGVfs0LRI)

     This is an old song I wrote for Easter back in 2012. I wanted to write a song for the Christian Rock genre. Charlie really enjoyed it and sang it very well and I enjoyed writing it too! I tried to let the listener make up their minds as to whether the singer is "Blessed" because he has found the love of his life or if the singer is "Blessed" because of his love for God. I worked very hard on this song but it was way too long, so I had to edit some pieces out. Watch the video for a way cool holy experience!

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/tgFatwYUo6A

    The video is brand new, finished it on March 16th of this year and it took me about a week to put it together. I threw a lot of eye-candy at it and a ton of audio special effects too. The Bridge was especially difficult to produce. I do everything by hand so it was very time consuming. You'll notice that in the bridge is my tribute to George Harrison who was always a very spiritual person, I used the same chords sequence as his "My Sweet Lord" as a kind of tip of the hat to him. This video used a lot of memory since I used quite a bit of 4K clips! It was my first attempt at a "Lyric" video mostly, I recently did another one called "Broken Mirrors" which will drop later on this year. Thanks for stopping by and listening and Happy Easter to everyone! Use Chocolate eggs this year, the real ones are too expensive!😂 Bless you guys!🙏✌🏼

“BLESSED”

YOU’RE MY STRENGTH WHEN I WAS WEARY,    
YOU’RE MY SMILE WHEN I FELT DOWN,   
WHEN THE WORLD SEEMED OUT TO GET ME,   
IT’S YOUR SHOULDERS I FOUND,
     
WITH YOU, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER,         
WITH YOU, FORSAKING ALL OTHERS,         
WITH YOU, THANK THE LORD ABOVE I’M BLESSED WITH YOU,

YOU’RE THE COLOR OF MY LANDSCAPE, 
YOU’RE MY THREE WISHES COME TRUE,   
WHEN THE CARDS WERE STACKED AGAINST ME,  
YOU’RE THE ACE THAT CAME THROUGH,
     
WITH YOU, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER,      
WITH YOU, FORSAKING ALL OTHERS,      
WITH YOU, THANK THE LORD ABOVE I’M BLESSED WITH YOU,        
B-B-B-BLESSED, BLESSED WITH YOU,    
B-B-B-BLESSED, BLESSED WITH YOU,

IT’S INCREDIBLE HOW YOU SAVED ME, 
MADE MY LIFE WORTHWHILE AGAIN,        
WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS HOW MUCH YOU GAVE ME,
STUCK WITH ME TO THE END,

WITH YOU, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER,     
WITH YOU, FORSAKING ALL OTHERS,     
WITH YOU, THANK THE LORD ABOVE I’M BLESSED WITH YOU,     
I’M BLESSED, BLESSED WITH YOU,    
I’M BLESSED, BLESSED WITH YOU.
   
BY JIM VALDES © 2012

"BLESSED" (Video -https://youtu.be/tgFatwYUo6A)

     This song I wrote with Lillian Mareddy late last year. Lillian sent me these great lyrics and I worked with them for several weeks! First I had that little lick you hear in several sections of the song,  then a few weeks later I had the verses worked out but still no chorus. Then a few weeks after that I finally wrote the chorus. I had to tweak several of the lyrics to make it fit. So this song took months to write and it's like 3 different songs stitched together. It was a hard write, to tell you the truth!  The video went much smoother, although it's a little long, it only took a couple of days to produce the video. Charlie sang the song really well! Check it out when you can!

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/Aag8hDPMaOc

       I kind of made the video about a woman running away from a bad relationship because the guy was just too egotistical and lost his temper a lot of the time. I threw in a lot of eye candy in the video but I must admit, it's a little heavy handed and it meanders a bit. This was Lilly and my last collaboration so far. She contacted me a few weeks ago and I may be getting more lyrics from her soon. Thanks for watching and listening. The song on the outro is another song of mine which you're hearing because it plays over the credits in the video. Thanks so much and take care! 🙏😎✌🏼

“I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN”

THERE ARE THINGS WE KNOW AND THINGS THAT WE DON’T,
THERE ARE THINGS WE’LL DO AND THINGS THAT WE JUST WON’T,
HONEST EYES LOOKING FOR A MAP INSIDE MY HEART,  
ROSY GLASSES WHEN I CAN’T HANDLE WHAT I START,             
HMM, HMM,      

I LOVE HER SO AND MY LOVE FOR HER STILL GROWS,
BUT HALF THE TIME, I DON’T KNOW, WHICH PART OF ME STILL SHOWS, 
THE MAN OF HONOR THAT I WANT SO BAD TO BE, 
OR THE MAN OF ANGER, THE ONE I SHOULD SET FREE,
HMM, HMM,

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT I COULD BREAK HER FRAGILE HEART,
I SHOULD HAVE GUESSED THAT I MIGHT TEAR HER WORLD APART,
I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THIS COULD HURT,  
I SHOULD HAVE WALKED AWAY WHEN SHE BEGAN TO FLIRT,
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN I’D CAUSE DISRUPTION IN HER LIFE,
SHOULD HAVE FELT CALM WATERS TURNING INTO STRIFE,
I SHOULD HAVE WHISPERED THAT MY LOVE WOULD DO HER WRONG,     
I SHOULD HAVE WROTE IT DOWN AND TURNED IT INTO A SONG,

I FINALLY SEE ALL THE WAYS THAT I HAVE FAILED,
AND I REALIZE THAT NOW PERHAPS THAT SHIP HAS SAILED, 
BLEEDING PERFECTION WITH A SOUL THAT NEVER DIES,
I BLAME MYSELF, IF IT’S TOO LATE TO TURN THE TIDE,    
HMM, HMM,
  
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT I COULD BREAK HER FRAGILE HEART,
I SHOULD HAVE GUESSED THAT I MIGHT TEAR HER WORLD APART,
I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THIS COULD HURT,  
I SHOULD HAVE WALKED AWAY WHEN SHE BEGAN TO FLIRT,
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN I’D CAUSE DISRUPTION IN HER LIFE,
SHOULD HAVE FELT CALM WATERS TURNING INTO STRIFE,
I SHOULD HAVE WHISPERED THAT MY LOVE WOULD DO HER WRONG,     
I SHOULD HAVE WROTE IT DOWN AND TURNED IT INTO A SONG,

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YEAH, 
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN,
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YEAH, 
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN,
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YEAH, 
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN,
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YEAH, 
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.

BY LILLIAN MAREDDY & JIM VALDES © 2024

"I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN" (Video - https://youtu.be/Aag8hDPMaOc)

Hi everybody, my name is Jim and I’m a songwriter, I've written over 300 songs, I play guitar, bass, piano, and am a pretty good lyricist.  I play all types of music and have my own recording studio.  I use no A.I. or DAW or any computers to make my songs, all the instruments are played by me live on a multitrack studio recorder and Charlie, my vocalist, sings most of my songs and also plays the Harmonica on several tracks. I'm not a pro or a great musician but I do what I can with the tools that I have! I belong to the "Keep Humans In Music Movement" (KHMM)! Thanks everyone for listening and the world needs more music now, real music made by HUMANS not MACHINES! So let's all sing a song with our own voices, please! If anyone wants to collaborate, I am more than willing to do so and help write music or lyrics with any artists here on SoundCloud! Take care!👍😎✌🏼.

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