Blissfully vacant is the 2nd track from my 2025 album Second Skin.
Release Date to 4th April 2025
You can see video here https://youtu.be/KW25Py6b7Gw

Second Skin

Blissfully Vacant

BLISSFULLY VACANT

As The Shadows Dance

IT'S JUST ANOTHER DAY 
(c) JunkHeap August 03 2021 / Remixed-Remastered May 2025

Cindy looking down main street,
in the summer heat.
She knew the fair wasn't far off.
The summer isn't ready to give in, 
so she took off for the end of town.

Met her friends and their hunger was clear.
Bought a pizza with some bucks they had,
a few bottles of liquid divine.
So fine for a brief time, 
down near the river.
...away from mom and dad.
Feeling like adults for the first time.

It's just another day,
It's just another day.

Height of summer, you feel me.
Sidewalk bustle, people pushing past 
beside the busy street.  Shops looking neat.
Restaurant aromas into the eve.
I remember your smile, enjoying the time,
in the downtown feel.

It's just another day,
It's just another day.
It's just another day.

Bird song, and insects humming,  
feeling so present.
Single-engine plane buzzing by
way up high, in a nearly cloudless sky.
The smell of grass in the sun's heat. 
Kids are playing, kicking a ball.
...and this is it...

It's just another day,
It's just another day.
It's just another day.

It's Just Another Day

Where You Going Now

Where the Noise Still Hums a Tune (For Ennio)

LYRICS:
There is something there 
Waiting in the dark
Feeding on your fear
Clawing at your heart
Seekers of the truth beware
We are not alone in here
The leaders are now lost
Time is only borrowed
Monsters walk among us
Run and they will follow

Sorrow is a long clear note
Sung by everybody’s ghost
Monsters walk among us
Ubi est deus tuus

How can I believe in our gods when they leave us to live in this seething mass of misfortune and suffering?

Ubi est deus tuus?

This song was written by Kevin Lyons and myself, it's really about nothing, just a play on words on my part but Kevin made it his own and composed a beautiful tune for it. I added some guitars and percussion to it. Turned out very nice. *UPDATE: Kevin passed away in Germany last Mother's day 2025. I just found out and am very saddened about this. I don't have any other information on what happened yet. He has a channel on YouTube "Kevin W Lyons" if anyone would like to listen to his music and songs. He and I wrote several songs together from 2022 to 2024 and I made videos for several of them and they are here in my channel on YouTube. if you would like to watch them. This is one of them in which he wrote the music and sang, I wrote the lyrics and played guitars. I will miss him dearly. 🙏🙏🙏

VIDEO - https://youtu.be/tkkaH9YYpjM

“A REFLECTION OF ME”

THIS SONG HAS NO PURPOSE,
NO RHYTHM OR RHYME,
JUST THOUGHTS STRUNG TOGETHER,
HELD CAPTIVE IN TIME,

IT SOLVES NO GREAT MYSTERY,
DOESN’T MOVE ONE TO TEARS,
JUST WORDS ON PAPER,
WORN THIN BY THE YEARS,

NO SECRET MEANING,
NO STRUCTURE OR PLOT,
JUST ANOTHER FACELESS STRANGER,
PASSED BY AND FORGOT,
             
THERE’S NO HIDDEN INSIGHT,
THAT THIS SONG WILL REVEAL,
JUST SOME VERSES AND MUSIC,
THAT MAY OR MAY NOT APPEAL,

THIS SONG HAS NO PURPOSE,
NO REASON TO BE,
IT’S CREATION A PUZZLE,
A REFLECTION OF ME,
A REFLECTION OF ME,
A REFLECTION OF ME.
                          
BY JIM VALDES & KEVIN LYONS © 2023

"A REFLECTION OF ME" (Video - https://youtu.be/tkkaH9YYpjM)

                   

the song is metaphorical...not biographical 

Princess Margaret                                                                                    
The pageant begins, now court is in session
I bow to your Grace, that look on your face,
the serpent uncoils.
                                                                       
Its venom released, the cameras don’t see it.
No word out of place, alone in this space, how could we be royals?

Just as Princess Margaret tried 
to find a place to ride.                                                               Put out on parade, she could not be saved
Her dog days are through
She danced in the night
Then gave in to the fight  
So when you play the Queen
I'll be the Princess Margaret for you 

The royal blue, this tainted luxury. 
Just like the fear, I keep inside of me. 
We’ll keep our distance, just like the monarchy.                                                                      
When you play the Queen, I'll be the Princess Margaret for you

Here comes the Prince, you know the one ‘cross the ocean.
Changing his name, he found future and fame, then something to do.

And like the soon to be King, he’s been waiting forever.
It’s really too much, this brief human touch, he gives me and you.


Princess Margaret tried,
To find a place to hide.
The royal parade, she could not be saved,
Her dog days are through.
She danced in the night.
Then gave in to the fight.
So when you play the Queen, 
I'll be the Princess Margaret for you.

That jewel you crave, our crown of destiny.
These games we play, you’ve got to ride with me.
Wave to the crowds, cause they can't really see,
How you play the Queen and I play the Princess Margaret for you.
You play the Queen and I'll be the Princess Margaret for you. 




Princess Margaret

Looking Back (Lord Huron cover)

as right as rain

Great Crossroads

New album coming soon, called Transcontinental Tracks: Central Pacific. Stay tuned! I am now out of space on here, so I'll be removing all official releases that can be found on other streaming services such as spotify, apple music, etc, and soundcloud will be exclusively home to demos and b-sides that will otherwise not be published elsewhere. If you want to keep listening to the Between Suns tracks, they can be found on my bandcamp or spotify or anywhere else you might listen to music. 
Cover photo by Nan Young Lee

I write songs about things I care about!

Where the Noise Still Hums a Tune (For Ennio)

Joel Martin from Toledo