11/01/25 I pulled this track from my soundcloud to simplify my channel but now it's time to post it again since the album has been released. 

A HUGE THANK YOU again for all of the streams so far on this song and for these amazing comments, re-posts, likes, and plays. It is so unbelievable to me actually. Thank you for taking the time out of your life to listen to my music.  If you should choose to buy the entire album, you can get it as a download on bandcamp.

I pretty much wrote this tune in one sitting as a mantra song in itself.  I really do have "mantra cards" and I really "don't have much money these days". If you listen to the song you'll know what I mean. It would seem that for me, this song is even more necessary for my psyche than it was when I wrote it.

© 2024 Lyrics And Music By Brenda Doss 

Lyrics:
Made up 
Some mantra cards
And I carry them close everywhere I go
I can win I can change 
I can see myself reaching further

Don't have 
Much money these days
But I'm rich with a spirit that never gives up
I'm in this forever
As long as it takes I'll be dreamin'

On and on the world spins 
And here my only life to live
What will it be 
From now as I look forward?

It's all about 
The choices I make
What I do where I go for the rest of my days
I’ll learn from the past 
But I'll only look back 
When I'm older

No one's gonna take my dreams away
No one’s gonna change my resolution 
I want only memories
And no regrets yeah
I'm the one 
Who's gonna  make it right
Oh I'm the only 
Who's gonna live this life
So I'm holdin out this time 
For something more
Reaching further than I have before

I need 
My mantra cards
Seems the voices of fear 
They keep pulling me down
Faraway from the crowd 
I must learn what it means to be 
Silent

Cause only in my head 
A wall can turn into an open door
If I can see it 
I can walk right through it
While all around me life goes on 
I hear the beat of my own drum 
I listen 
And I know I'm getting closer

No one's gonna take my dreams away
No one's  gonna change my resolution
I want only memories 
And no regrets, yeah

I'm  the one 
I'm gonna make it right
Oh I'm the one 
I'm gonna live this life
So I'm  holdin' on this time
You see I'm holdin' on 
This time for something more
Reaching further 
Than I have before
I can see myself 
Reaching further

Debut

Reaching Further

Bringing back a song I wrote nearly seven years ago. The American soul -- we like to tell lots of good stories about ourselves. Here's one that's not so good -- the account of the Moore's Ford Lynchings, in which a Black WWII veteran and his pregnant wife were murdered. No one was ever convicted of the crimes. How much of this same cruel spirit is still with us now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Ford_lynchings

there’s a tree in Georgia that never should have grown
it held the bodies upright they were tied with rope

I will be redeemed I will sing and shout
I will be restored just not now

Mae Murray was  twenty four heavy with a child
when her head had fallen down they cut the baby out

forty legs that walked away forty eyes that saw
twenty souls that never said a word to the Georgia law

1997 fifty years had gone 
someone came to find the place and mark the dead with stones

Spotify Link

I Will Be Redeemed

A little bit of tropicana to warm up a cold damp UK afternoon!
Thank you always for your kind reposts plays and playlists!!!

Primavera

A Storm In The Desert

finitude et infini, l'amour et la mort, boussoles réelles de nos êtres : a new love song

 PAROLES

Quand je partirai
Pour les grands espaces
Pour la fille de l'air
Dans le temps qui passe

Quand je partirai 
par delà les nues
Léger comme l'air
d'une chanson des rues

Ne regarderai en arrière
Par-dessus les toits
Que pour Toi
Pour toi

Quand je partirai
Loin de vos menaces
Au pays d'amour
et d'eau fraiche

Quand je partirai
sans laisser de trace
Là où les amis
Gardent la place

Ne regarderai en arrière
par-dessus les toits
Que pour Toi
Pour toi

Henri Elie (copyright Mediter 2025)
___________________________________________________________

LYRICS

When I leave
For the great outdoors
For the Air Girl
In the passing of time

When I leave 
beyond the clouds
Light as air
a street song

Will not look back
Over the rooftops
Only for You
For you

When I leave
Away from your threats
In the land of love
and fresh water

When I leave
without leaving a trace
Where friends
Hold the place

Will not look back
over rooftops
Only for You
For you

quand je partirai

I would like to introduce my son, Joseph, who indulged his dad and did a fabulous job of filling out the end of this short tune with some wonderful guitar soloing on the outro. Even though he has only been playing for a few years, he is miles ahead of where I was at his age as a musician. I couldn't be prouder, and I know that my dad is looking down and smiling, as he played piano and wrote music. I hope this is the first of many!  
May we present:  As an example.

As an Example

Rarely do I use one backing track 2x in a row, but... Lovely Backing Track Provided once again by Elevated Jam Tracks ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZc7baNPUM
THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Where you came from
What’s in your name
How to grow a garden
Such a sinful shame
Won’t find it in your schoolbooks
History and Science
The truth has been cooked
To keep you in compliance

CHORUS
They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to grow
They don’t want you to know, whoa

[Music]

How money works
How to get ahead
How to heal your body
Rid demons from your head
Won’t find it in the library
Lookin’ high and low
Just pray to Mother Mary
Sit back, enjoy the show, no

They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to grow
They don’t want you to, want you to, want you to know

[Music]

Scroll through the web
The discrepancies
Like trying to navigate
The Seven Seas
Won’t find it in the Bible
If you don’t bear the light
Just who’s your greatest rival
Just who to fight

They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to know
‘Cuz they don’t want you to grow
They don’t want you to, want you to, want you to know..

[Music]

© 2025 Renee La Chapelle – All Rights Reserved

THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW

General Lautaro initiated and created combat squadrons, abandoning mass attacks by organized and coordinated groups.
Exploitation of the Terrain:
He used his knowledge of his land to design ambushes and guerrilla tactics, making the terrain a strategic ally. He used the sound of branches to transmit messages and kept his guards in the dark during the day so they could see everything at night.
Lautaro
Through his intelligence, he demonstrated that the Spanish were not invincible.
Lautaro became one of the undisputed leaders of the Arauco War.
Academic Study:
His innovative military tactics are studied in war academies worldwide, earning him recognition as a military genius.
Lautaro
He is an indigenous resistance fighter and a central figure in the history of Mapuche autonomy and the struggle against Spanish rule. Pedro de Valdivia decided to make an example of the Mapuche: he ordered their right hands and noses to be cut off. The conquistador thought the horror of seeing his brothers disfigured would serve as a lesson to the Mapuche, and they would think twice before rebelling again. But what he achieved was exactly the opposite.lyrics -lautaro- war machine man of fire and iron soul of a fierce puma fighting against the invader did you know that they were nothing more than dirty and bloodthirsty, indomitable that started the war with more victories lautaro-8 times- unique in his time willing to die liberating brave warrior for the people you are the sun did you know that you could be a nightmare for tyrants did you know that you could be a conqueror of giants,lautaro-8- you are not on the bills you are in the heart of those who proudly carry you in their blood they grow with your history your name is resistance they know that like you they can be dangerous,lautaro-8- part 2 - you have infinite eyes in a bird you transform you travel with the breeze spirit in freedom - they beat your children they humiliate they insult of rich lands they strip total silence or nothing they know that the message is hard 4 times- rest in your land 4 times

LAUTARO  (METALIZADO) ROCK METAL   2025

The Composer Speaks:

I always knew that I wanted to be a musician when I grew up. Admittedly, there were times around the age 7 or 8 when I thought that that maybe I could become a scientist for, as a child of the 60s and besotted with space and rockets, science was a very big and popular part of my childhood. There were also times, somewhere around my first big double digit birthday, when I felt so alone and detached from children and adults alike, that I seriously wanted to be a horse - not that I particularly liked horses but it seemed easier than being me. Throughout all this though, playing in the background as it were, being a musician was the thing I really dreamed of being, and it was playing music that made me feel alive.

After the age of 11, I hated school so much that I simply stopped going. I educated myself by watching programmes for schools on the TV and reading encyclopaedias and the like. It was around this age that the classical music that I had listened to previously gradually gave way to more modern influences, mainly European bands, generally the stranger the better. At 13 I played my first gig, and at 16 I officially ‘left’ school and I threw myself whole-heartedly into music.

I’ve always written my own music; the songs of my youth have gradually given way to more instrumental compositions and now at 65, and edging ever closer to 66, lo and behold, I’m not only a musician but also a composer. The fundamentals of being a musician these days are so very different to when I first began; in those days I wanted to be successful and rich and so famous that I could have my own studio and be left alone to record and release music whenever I felt like it. Nowadays, although I’m neither remotely rich nor famous,  I do have my own studio, am more or less left alone and I can release music whenever I feel like it - so I guess, in a way, I’m living the dream; I’m living in Dreamtime.

This simple composition appeared beneath my finger tips as I sat in my studio thinking about all of the above; with the old nursery rhyme running through my mind that accurately says it better than I ever could:

“Row, row, row your boat 
gently down the stream;
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily
Life is but a dream” 

Dreamtime

01 - Spitfire Audio - Lea Bertucci - Acoustic Shadows - Tenor Trombone - Decay Swell
02 - Spitfire Audio - Labs - Amplified Cello Quartet - Tension
03 - Spitfire Audio - Oliver Patrice Weder - Pads glacier
04 - Spitfire Audio - Symphonic Strings Evolutions
05 - Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions - Chamber Grid
06 - Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Stratus - Matrix - Rhythmic Waves - Preset 1
07 - Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Stratus - Matrix - Rhythmic Waves - Preset 2
08 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Violin 1 Staccato - Violin 2 - Staccato - Viola - Staccato - Cello - Staccato - Double Bass - Staccato
09 - Native Instruments - Noire Pure - Pure Felt

Fragile Tales [Part 2]

The 2nd EP of "past is the verse"

-Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/3FzSdRcwr3wI7z1QKqi9NN

-Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/life-is-good-single/1703920769

-Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.co.jp/albums/B08BYBLY21

-bandcamp
https://pastverse.bandcamp.com/track/life-is-good

Fragile Tales [Part 2]

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