Folk to the Rock mixed with some cowboys!

YOUR KIND OF LOVE originally appeared on the Steve Cohen album Crazy. It was engineered by Grammy award winner Glen Barratt @ Morningstar Studios in Spring House, PA.  The song is written to bring attention to the growing problem of hate crimes.

YOUR KIND OF LOVE

Buy it on BandCamp https://hurdygurdymen.bandcamp.com/track/ruby-monday-good-enough

Ruby Monday (Good Enough)

She was never good enough, for all the roles they handed out in life
She waited oh so patiently, for someone who could finally see her pain

But the author never showed up in her land, at least in no way she could understand
understand for her life

She stood upon her pedestal, eating more though feeling full inside
Confusion is the final state, for all the love we confiscate with lies

And she could never ever turn the page, from years of mother’s sycophantic rage
all the rage she held inside

And the tranquilizers never did the trick, they always left her feeling somewhat sick,
sickened and alone


Friends would call with their advice, of what to do to make things right and new
But they hadn’t lived through what they spoke, their words were simply borrowed quotes and views

And their answers could never quite withstand, all the questions which a heart demands,
 a heart demands to know

Take a stroll along the shore of stillborn lives and metaphors unseen
There you’ll find a horror show of drowning souls that couldn’t let go and be

And they never ever tire of their hands, of building pretty castles in the sand,
for eternity

photo by Sydney Sims

Ruby Monday (Good Enough)

So give me your hand dammit
Why are you so insecure
All of this self-created confusion is making you sore

You're always running aren't you
It's funny one day you'll laugh at it too
About all your dozens
Of made-up problems
It's all in your head

So won't you follow me
And just give me your hand

So give me your hand dammit
Why am I the one that's insecure
And underneath it all
It's just a mask
To hide it all away now
Oh to hide it all now I can't find you anymore......

Made up

Struggling songwriter trying to make ends meet

Dragged Down By The Riptide

"Everything Is" is a song written for individuals and loved ones affected by Alzheimer's and dementia. 

"Everything Is" by Le Jank feat. Drew Seeley

I wish for more days like the past inside me
But that’s doesn’t mean I don’t hope
I accept the present as this moment the rest 
Is out of our control
So...

All you need to know is all things are going to be alright
Everything is going to be alright now
Everything is going to be alright

I dream my life clock could tock tick, go backwards
To when the future seemed more clear
But I'll keep growin' to the sky with each blink, unshrinking
Until I forget how to fear
So...

All you need to know is all things are going to be alright
Everything is going to be alright now
Everything is going to be alright

Ⓟ © 2022 The Jank Guitar Store Records. All Rights Reserved.

Everything Is

The first single from Please Silence Your Phones

https://music.apple.com/us/album/nasty-little-themes-single/1660226463

https://open.spotify.com/album/1aWNbbhKjzBFPX3Tf6ShIO?si=BpJMfU3rTAWKEsq-Fvo5Iw

04 - Nasty Little Themes

Lyrics:

Seeing you in this haze of smoke and poison
Closeness emerging, enveloped in bright lights 
Fingers briefly entwined
I'm loving tonight's little lie

Feeling you in this haze of empty promise
Little hedonist luring us away from silence and from the light of day
Your smile, your hand in mine
I’m loving tonight’s little lie

Refrain:

Bring on the magic, the sparkle in your eye
Opium to me - I know you’ll leave me high and dry
One more time, just one last time, relishing this thrill
Baby I can handle it - the solitude 
Tomorrow’s chill

Seeing you in this haze of lust and nectar 
Your scent 
Dig in the knife
Time passes, urgency fades
Embrace the night, leave a dent in the picture
I’m loving tonight’s little lie 

Seeing you in this haze of smoke and poison
Closeness emerging, enveloped in bright lights 
Fingers briefly entwined
I’m loving tonight’s little lie
Feeling you in this haze of empty promise
Little hedonist luring us away from silence and from the light of day
Your smile, your hand in mine
I’m loving tonight’s little lie

Refrain

By Laura Bos 2023

Tomorrow's Chill

I don't know what you saying
Cause I've been in my own world
No time to speak right now
Cause I don't wanna break this
Creativity comes to those who seek it
Revelations speak out to the ones who speak it
And I've been seeking it for all my lifetime
Now I've found it so I've got to write rhyme

And In this world we need to show our love
Keep your mind lifted to the skies above
When darkness comes down
Don't fall to fear
When your heart is open, hoping
Jah is near
When your heart is open, hoping
Jah is near

So why you
Stepping up to me like that
Most people know I try to
Keep a humble mindset
When you walk up with
Heavy fist on my door step
I know what you want
Is to see me locked up
But I bend around that route
and I ain't going that way
What sense does it make to you
To keep a good man locked away

And in this world
We need to show our love
Keep your mind lifted to the skies above
When's darkness comes down
Don't fall to fear
When your heart is open, hoping
Jah is near
When your heart is open, hoping
Nah nah nah nah nah nah
Jah is near
Ohh
Jah is near

They say knowledge is power
But there is no power
Like generosity
So give to another
As if he was your brother
Let's feed all the hungry
Spread courage to the ranks
And give a little thanks
To the people fighting over seas
It's time to make a change
Not the promise of a change
F political policies
And we've got the science
If we put our minds behind
There could be no more disease
With this generation come a new generation
And it's up to us to teach
How to be leaders
In this world of creatures
Cause we all deserve to breathe
And if we taught them forgiveness
There would be less prisons
Cause we all deserve to be free
Oh ohh to be free

In this world we need to show our love
Keep your mind lifted to the
Skies above
When darkness comes down
Don't fall to fear
When your heart is open, hoping
Jah is near
When your heart is open, hoping
Nah nah nah nah nah nah Jah is near
Oh oh Jah is near

So why you stepping up to me like that

Jah Is Near

From the soundtrack EP to the book series
"The Orballian Chronicles"
Written & illustrated by John Mendenhall

Books & additional info available here:
www.orballia.com

Orballia

Heart of a Warrior

Free Download

Heart Of A Warrior (Arama's Theme)

VALARIE

What has happened to the girl
I used to know from years ago
She's gone and all she left me
Was an empty shell

Those days are over
We're getting so much older now

Life is seldom constant
But you know I'll always be there
When you need someone to talk to
If you're feeling down

Looking back I find
It was all the little things
That meant so much

Valarie
Valarie...

What has happened now to us
We've grown and all we've sown is dust
Become some of the things
We thought we'd never be

Those days are gone an now
It seems we're far less bolder now

Time is in a bottle
Left uncorked, emitting vapor
Turn around and come back later
All those years are gone

And looking back I find
It was all the little things
That meant so much

Yesterday
Seems like I knew the answers
Not figuratively
I mean yesterday

She spoke to me
I believed in her
Not literally
But threads of truth

Valarie
Valarie...


© 2020 John Mendenhall

20/20 Vision

Valarie

Morning Show

Need me

I wrote the music/melody to this song when I was 12 years old. Later, I totally re-wrote the Title & Lyrics and recorded it at 24.

Recorded on a Tascam, 4-Track 'Syncassette' in January of 1985.

Original Track link: 
https://on.soundcloud.com/gRHoA

Copyright: 1985

The image used in the icon is not mine.  I am not making money from this song.
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

RON SNYDER - Execution By Electrocution (1985 Extended Version)

Pretext In C Major

Acoustic demo of Elliott Smith's "Alameda" performed by Indio Romero (guitar and vocals) and Tigra Romero (vocals)

You walk down Alameda
Shuffling your deck of trick cards over everyone
Like some precious only son
Face down, bow to the champion

You walk down Alameda
Looking at the cracks in the sidewalk
Thinking about your friends
How you maintain all them in
A constant state of suspense

For your own protection over their affection
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own
'Cause you can't finish what you start

Walk down Alameda brushing off the nightmares you wish
Could plague me when I'm awake
So now you see, your first mistake
Was thinking that you could relate
For one or two minutes she liked you
But the fix is in

You're all pretension
I never pay attention
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own
'Cause you can't finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own
'Cause you can't finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
You broke your own
'Cause you can't finish what you start
Nobody broke your heart
If you're alone it must be you that wants to be apart

Alameda

Alameda (Elliott Smith cover)

This Time

Echoes in the cosmos, messages in the night,
Crossing cosmic oceans, in the endless night.
The silence is a symphony, the darkness is my friend,
Is this the price I pay, for a message that I send?

Messages

Thank you for listening!

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Lyrics:

When you're lying to you
You're lying to me
When you're lying to you
You're lying to me
When you're lying to you
You're lying to me

Small amounts that turn into dust
Dancing girls from the valley
They're turning off and on

But the shape of the disappearing
Amounts will change
To the person who leads their fight
The only way as an escape from emotional...

The second face with weak perhapility
Her body that bites roses
The real self is already lost in the dam

Small amounts that turn into dust
Dancing girls from the valley
They're turning off and on

As their destiny pleases
Two-faced faces in the mirror
Of face of the prediction
The available amount is within reach

ALTRUISM

16th April is the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden - this is a song about the battle and the aftermath.
 please see FB link for more back ground https://www.facebook.com/david.s.mccormack.9  Thank you for listening :)

To Whom It May Concern

Rock/alt rock song by Beats Working
Album: Electroman
Vocals, guitars & production by John Hardman
(p)(c) Swamp Records/Swamp Music UK for all territories

Injecticide by Beats Working (John Hardman)

For most of 2018 into 2019 Sobalsky was living in a car, tent, or hourly rate hotel in both Florida and Louisiana. The booze and dope that once gave relief had at this point turned their backs on him. He was nearing the "bottom."

Sobalsky hit a level of desperation very few people ever experience. Desperation only the real alcoholic and dope addict know. it's pure misery, spattered with moments of freedom when the dope first hits the veins, and that first sip of whiskey warms what is left of the soul...

Sobalsky writes about this desperation with brutal honesty. Inspired by the likes of Tom Petty, he wrote his debut album, iota, in active addiction, and recorded the album sober many years later. In 2021 he added a telecaster and a keyboard, branching out from previous all acoustic recordings. All songs are about living... the hardest thing to do sometimes...

sober since 5/11/19
if you are struggling, send me a message. I'll help you 

Folk to the Rock mixed with some cowboys!

Daniel Thomas Sobalsky aka iota