Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Rubber Rock

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Desert death
No glass no mirror
Reflect the heat, but not the Sun
Barely alive and barely breathing
What was the prize when the West was won?

Think you're happy
and I think you're great
No trees no shade
but I can wait
Cause love's a shadow 
and I know
what it is I need to create

No place to hide 
but underneath the water
I must be tired but
I still want her

He doesn't dress like other men
Not even a little
So I wonder, then
What's in the middle?

I guess you're happy 
and I think that's great
No answers yet but
I can wait
Cause love's a shadow
and I know
what it is I need to create

Great people
and great advice
But my mind
is a sieve not a vice
And my neck
is ready to split and choke
Avec all the meanings I evoke
(all the dreams and thoughts)

That makes you happy 
I think that's great
Pure, innocence
I cannot wait
Cause love's a shadow 
and a color
I know
A shade
That I need to create
            March 19, 2024

Shade Of Love

Written, Arranged, Performed and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Fox Steps... Walk down on me

Simple Fascination
Walk down on me
Palace life
Program the man for me
Who is ever wandering the street
Alleyways and loss of pigment
The bars are all we walk along
Barred in as all in need

Whose legs walking over me?
Down in damp
Presence of family and piece of mind
Working over new age person
Homely and ever degrading
Left out with the mold crown

Seeking out the telegrams of World War Two grandfather
Getting less and less like his son
Ever wandering the cobblestones
Gas lamp lit
Always Chinese lanterns in the clouds
And simple fascination

Walk down on me
I stole from whom I don't even know
Damp shining with past
Good and bad memories

I walk across cattails and stones
Marshes growing into forest
For whom I know not
Waves of wind and soil wash down on me and feet
Whose legs walking over me?

Fox runs lithely with broken leg
I dream to them to tell tales
Running this side mountain path
War passed through here
Soldiers and tunnels and faces
I do not know

Walking on me
Tiny steps
Like paper pads and concepts
What you've done to me
They also know
That for me
The marsh will grow
Like simple fascination
Take a photo
Step
And take
What you owe
        May 23, 2024

Fox Steps

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Take in fire - liquid fire
Scream like dragon - world knows your name
But there is no more power over you
There is no power greater than you

Hands tied back and trapped
Hot breath is in my face
You think I am hurt
But I am prepared
I am prepared

Take in fire - liquid fire
And take in breath no more
There wasn't any to be had before
Now I am all I am
Now I am all me

Grass between your toes
In the prints, the paths of tigers
But they are extinct
They don't come around here no more
There is no more food
So no need to come this way no more
              August 15, 2024

Taking Fire

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
No doors, no windows
Something has to be broken to get out
Stay with me just a little longer
Though friendship or love cannot create a way out

But the path is jagged
Travel over rough terrain
Sharpen yourself, again and again

Seared as if by live coals
Will you ever have the name?
Storms roll over to pass the time
In rain, we all dream the same

I was looked upon by the clear eyes of despair
A future died today, I was there

No time for pity or sadness
The reasons are not
No courage within to fight the fear
only dull resentment against his lot

Had been open hearted, had he?
The selfish are always happy
A half moon is brighter, my senses keep
A pain under the surface of sleep
causing uneven breathing to sweep
but not break the surface, it is too deep

A voice over the edge of the dream
Voices drifting from the garden below
"Come and be healed and be grilled
I'm raking the coals"

Goddess love and be healed by me
Corruption in the night, recognized again
For colors I didn't live, and stories I didn't see
In rain, we all dream the same

Their thigh is torn
Their figures spread ash and flame
Vigor pricked by a thorn
The nightmare of how we all dream the same

I didn't create
and I didn't stay (or decorate)
The frigidity diplomat just wouldn't go away
But behind my eyes was never only just for me
Is there no justice on which this someone I can disagree
Or some delight we make to blame
On all dreaming the same

Slowing down
The madness Bridge Schools
save the brain
He laid down and loved every moment of drool 
every instinct of pain
Every time he wept
and every time he slept
In the rain,
Dreaming how we all dream the same
August 16, 2024 and December 9, 2024

We All Dream The Same

Slivered Shadow

This Too Shall Pass

Written, Arranged, Performed, and Produced by Kyle Bolan
Art by Kyle Bolan

Lyrics:
Threw the keys in the sink disposal
Found 2 bodies in the bathroom stall
I just don't seem to care
Never really cared at all

They ask, How could I not have noticed?
How could I have lived with you there
I just didn't seem to notice
I just didn't seem to care

That time was only metal for you
That time was always dirge
I didn't seem to want to know
I didn't have the urge

Kept clean and did the dishes
Fed the dog and the fishes
The cat could never be found
I never bothered to look around

Staying awake seemed a chore
Yet I smiled as I swept the floor
I don't remember having this many walls
I guess I never really noticed
Never really noticed, that's all

February 28 and March 3, 2025

Untitled Song 1

Sub Mission IV

LYRICS:
When it's too hard to keep up,
Just getting by,
Pushing that boulder up to the sky,
What would happen if we just let go?
Let go.
Drop the ball.
Let the boulder roll down the mountain into the town.
Why are we holding this burden for them?
What do they know?
Let go.
Sisyphus, let go.

Sisyphus, Let Go

Terraforming Mars

Productive slacker, a musical satisficer. Do it with love and DEVOtion.

Sub Mission IV

Red Lemo

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