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Once in a Million Years
May 22, 2021  All Rights Reserved

Once in a million years
Stars align just to make it so 
Laying aside the fears
A feeling that we can’t let go

All through the day
It’s just like dreaming
Time slips and slides away
While we are scheming

Once In a million years
Fates are tellin you hold the phone
Pushing away the tears 
Believing that there’s no one home

Drift through the days
We’re only dreaming
Time slips and slides away
As we are scheming

Once in a million years
It’s crystal clear the time is now 
Leaving it in the rear view mirror
A time that never knew just how

All through the day
It’s just like dreaming
Time slips and slides away
While we are scheming...

Once in a Million Years

Photo: Physically choreographed charcoal art by Heather Hansen

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)
August 19, 2021 All Right Reserved

Round and around go the days
Reaching for something that slips away
Is this the price we must pay

Speaking of things that you don’t understand
It’s a crying shame
Lingerin’ too long like an overplayed song
it’s a fools game

Over and over we go
Hoping for reason to take control
Try not to let it all go

Tellin me this and you’re tellin me that
to ad nauseam
I’m goin my way and you’re going yours
To the bitter end

Round and around go the days
Reaching for something that slips away
Is this the price we must pay

The Price (Round And Around Go The Days)

Reasons Why
11/12/2021  All rights reserved

The reasons why we turn away
From all that’s seen…
A complication for another day
And the lies between…

The living daylights up the darkest night
And places we have been…
Raise a glass to our prosperity…my friend 

The reasons that we go out late 
And stay too long
A complication for another day
What could go wrong…

The vapid prattle and another beer
As the clock strikes half past two
Tell me everything I long to hear, would you…

In the season of obscurity
Lines will fade
A complication for another day
We’ve got it made

The living daylights up the darkest night
And places we have been…
Raise a glass to our prosperity…my friend…

The reasons why we turn away
From all that’s seen…

Reasons Why

All rights reserved 3/29/2022

All is Fair

You won’t take a chance and
due to circumstances
keep the color well within the lines

how come you don’t care and
Won’t be made aware and 
stick with birds of familiar hue

Can’t you see
It’s killin me…

You don’t lend a hand and
cannot comprehend when
It ain’t jumpin off your tv screen

Like a crow without wings
You cannot believe things
If it ain’t standing right in front of you

Don’t you see
It’s killin me…

On and on…
You sing your song
Won’t be long
until it’s gone

All is fair
In love and tears
Hold on tight
Through the years…

Times they come and they go 
Many things we don’t know
Wipe the mist from the camera lens

Fear still grips so tight and
Keeps us up at night then
Builds a wall made of razor wire

I can see
We won’t be free…

All Is Fair

Get Home
Written and performed by Todd Brown
Sonic adornments provided by Boxy https://soundcloud.com/boxy-683069948
All rights reserved 2/18/2023


All that we are
is not near or too far
all that we do
will not make us brand new

Take the ruby from my hand
and see how it glows
a thousand yesterdays will hold on tight
until we get home

We've travelled so far
not to know who we are
Curtains will fall
making clear to us all

Take the locket from my hand
and see how it shines
a thousand yesterdays won't make it last
until the end of time

I've waited so long
just to find
If you'd just

Take the ruby from my hand
and see how it glows
a thousand yesterdays will hold on tight
until we get home

Get Home

Flight

Baby, I know you cannot hear me now 
 'Cause you're fast asleep 
 But I love you now 
 Colors inside your head go spinning around 
 Like a ferris wheel 
 Exploding and falling to the ground 
 Oh, people are screaming, people are screaming 
 My baby, she's dreaming 
 Oh, people are shouting, people are freaking 
 I'm just staring at the ceiling 
 Waiting for the feeling 
 Oh, oh but when she calls, 
 I know she's the one 
 Makes me want her harder 
 Makes me want to be a little stronger 
 Still I see monsters 
 Still I see monsters 

 Baby, I know you cannot hear me now 
 'Cause you're flying around 
 At the speed of sound 
 Colors inside your head go spinning around 
 Like a ferris wheel 
 Exploding and falling to the ground 
 Oh, people are screaming, people are screaming 
 My babies, she's dreaming 

 Oh, people are shouting, people are freaking 
 I'm just staring at the ceiling 
 Waiting for the feeling 
 Oh, oh when she calls 
 I know that she's the one 
 Makes me want it harder 
 Makes me want to be a little stronger 
 Still I see the monsters 
 Still I see the monsters  


 

I See Monsters

An original track about whatever you interpret it to mean. The title recognizing a day that is under represented generally speaking in music.  :) Experimenting with some ambient sounds through a fender Rhodes keyboard.

Tuesday Plans

Lightness is upon us
It's written in the air
Understanding is not here
Once the dream awakens
And slumber fades to light
Morning ushers out the night

A sinking feeling beckons
Not able to conceive
Lock it up and throw away the key
Take a breath and give it
Wash your face and hands
Grasp another set of new demands

It was a thing for danger 
that drew her to the light
Now and then it would ignite
Another chance at finding
Some ice inside the rough
Hope that one day it would be enough

A sinking feeling beckons
Not able to conceive
Lock it up and throw away the key
Take a breath and give it
Wash your face and hands
Grasp another set of Tuesday plans




Tuesday Plans

Bridges

When I told you of the chapter
you said you would read it 
now I sense that you are weary
and you couldn't feel it
every now and then I wonder 
are you comprehending?
this one aint gonna turn out nicely
got no rosy ending

Wish that I could build that bridge
that leads me to your heart
knowing that the way to you
leaves its mark
when we gonna find a way
it's a ribbon through the dark
wading through your deep dank sea leaves a mark

Maybe I should reconsider
true my expectations
its so clear that you cant hear me 
there's no revelations
the sun is sinking on the sky now
another day is ending
think that I'll be on my way now
gotta stop pretending

Wish that I could build that bridge
that leads me to your heart
knowing that the way to you
leaves its mark
when we gonna find a way
a ribbon through the dark
searching through your deep dank sea for a spark

Bridges

Find a Way

Written and recorded July 2016.

Will u retrieve me
 when I stay a little long...
 Suitcase and memories
 Put 'em back where they belong

 Silkscreens and moonbeams cling to my mind  
 Suitcase and memories ...


 If u can see me
 Through this thinly veiled disguise
 Crosswinds and hair pins
 U can't see em through my eyes

 Silkscreens and moonbeams cling to my mind  
 If u can see me..

 Chorus:
 Can I talk to you now...
 Tell u where I'm going
 Would you offer me now...
 Another road worth knowing  
 Will you relieve me from the ashes of the past 

 Blue skies and white lies
 Elusive as the day is long
 Coastlines of cayenne
 Take it in before it's gone

 Bright haze of sun rays race through my mind...
 Coastlines of cayenne...

 Chorus:
 Can I talk to you now
 Tell u where I'm going
 Would you offer me now...
 Another road worth knowing  
 Will you relieve me from the ashes of the past

Thin Disguise

All rights reserved  4/15/2017

Is it any wonder that I see u 
Is it any wonder that I care
Holding on to pieces in the middle of the afternoon
Is it any wonder I go there

Pictures of a place and time that once had been
Feels just like a warm breath on my skin
Rolling back the pages of a dream that has been left behind...
take me to that place inside my mind

Is it any wonder that I wander
To a space so deep inside my mind..
Wading through the increments of all that we have ever known
is it any wonder that I do

Pictures of a place and time that once had been
Feels just like a warm breath on my skin
Rolling back the pages of a dream that has been left behind...
take me to that place inside my mind

Any Wonder

All rights reserved 9/9/2017

All is Well

If you're looking for a reason
for the things you need today
familiar faces and some mild diversions
it's just another way

All is well...

With the dawning of the season
could I spend some time with you
anticipating all that we would see
'fore autumn winds break through

All is well
All is well
all is well can't you see

Are you're looking for a reason
why I do the things I do
a silky body and some citrus notes
don't mind if I do

All is well
All is quite well
all is well can't you see

mmmmmmmmm.......

All is Well

All Rights Reserved 4/23/2018

Frayed and tattered fabric fills the air
Capturing a trace of what was there
Lingering in sullen places as if time stands still
Eventually...

Shadows cast their way into the room
seeking light and quelling it too soon
Relishing in ruination no one can see
Eventually...

Celebrate this time and leave it all behind
Serendipity is in your sight 
Celebrate the sun and leave the rest undone
Whatever you do
It's all up to you

Rays of light meander through the pane
Sheds itself on any who remain
Ruminating in the hallway, seeking someone new
Eventually...

Celebrate this time and leave it all behind
Serendipity is in your sight 
Celebrate the sun and leave the rest undone
Whatever you do
It's all up to you

Celebrate the Sun

01/06/2019   All Rights Reserved

Why do my eyes not see
Into the masses that are breathing next to me...
What is it on your mind
And on the faces of the people left behind...

Looking into the distance
The lights are streaming by so fast... 
creeping on through the havoc
the future’s gainin on the past 

Spending the time of day
Among the people and the places on the way...
Stumbling through the night
In search of anything to make me feel alright

Looking into the distance
The lights are calling out at last... 
Wandering through the havoc
the future’s gainin on the past 

Coming apart at seams
The hazy vestiges of lost ones and their dreams...
Seeing them one more time
The cloudy images that linger in my mind...

Flying along that freeway
The lights they’re streaming by so fast...
Wading in through the havoc
The future’s gainin on the past
Gainin’ on the past...

Gainin' On The Past

All Rights Reserved April 23, 2020

Artwork by Walter Piehl  

The rodeo’s in town
You gotta head on down
And check out at all the painted faces
Just head on down the line
To places you will find
Will ease the memories and traces
 
The things you say I can’t believe it
Tell me one more time
 
Just head on down the line
To places you will find
 
Come in out of the cold
The tokens bought and sold
No longer held in long embraces
You came into the room
In ended all too soon
As if there were no time and spaces
 
Tell yourself if you believe it
Listen to the sound
 
You came into my room
It ended all too soon
 
The rodeo’s in town
You gotta head on down
And check out at all the painted faces
Just head on down the line
To places you will find
Will ease the memories and traces
 
The things you say I can’t believe it
Tell me one more time
 
Just head on down the line
To places you will find
 
The rodeo’s in town
You gotta head on down…

The Rodeo's in Town

This song is my attempt to process the wrenching incident that took place in my hometown on Memorial Day.  My hope is that real change will come from George Floyd’s murder though 2020 is seeming eerily similar to 1968.  
Tech note:  the jet plane heard in the recording was not intentional, just bad timing.  ***Updated with live drum kit 3/26/2023.***

All rights reserved June 11, 2020

Close your eyes
Til you can see it
look inside
Til you believe it 

A weight is upon us now
Digging itself a hole...
When it seems it’s beyond us now
It’s time to take control..

Free your soul
Til it confounds you
Take the time...
As it surrounds you

I see you lying there
Reaching for your last breath
Your future is dyin there
While the whole nation wept

A city cries
Beneath the skies
We gotta try 
To get it right...

Get It Right

All rights reserved 9/7/2020

Late to the Show

You came in from the pouring rain
And stepped into the light...
Worn and frayed
That stormy night...

You slipped up to the microphone
Held with all your might
Quarter past ten
That Tuesday night....

The kit it fell silent
The bass man he froze 
Echos through the rafters
Straight to the soul...

The silence was so deafening
Until you let it go...
Rich and arresting
How could they know...

The teardrops rolled like thunder
From your eyes into theirs
Rivers of emotion 
For all to hear...

The kit it fell silent
The bass man he froze 
Echos through the rafters
Straight to the soul...

Late to the Show

Tomorrow
December 27, 2020  All Rights Reserved

Shadows stretch upon the avenue in time
And echo chambers pass the time away...in rhyme 
With repetition by design...
Right before our eyes
One more time

When the mourning comes before the dawn
Underneath electric skies 
There’s a place where we can run and hide
A place for you and I...

Tomorrow holds the second hands...of time 
The past will leave itself behind...this time
The wheels of change will turn from yesterday 
Roll on down the line 
One more time...

The forest lies somewhere beyond the trees 
If we could get there that’d be fine...
Reason’s just another casualty
of a truth so undefined...

Shadows stretch upon the avenue in time
And echo chambers pass the time away...in rhyme 
With repetition by design...
Right before our eyes
One more time

My favorites by tbone711

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