Jojo blue - Inhuman white of nature (VCV rack - 2022)

Sort of an undemocratic approach to saving democracy, don't you think?
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For this one, I rounded up my fantasy band, the Famous Texas Men Of Note, to perform at the imaginary Seven Sisters Dance Hall, some 40 miles west of Austin, in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.  The crowd wasn’t huge that night, but it was plenty raucous.  Needless to say, we brought the house down.  We always do.

LYRICS
Finally bagged the prize,
Event commemorated with a photograph,
A delightful list of crimes,
Got ‘em prancin’ with the lawyers down the primrose path,
The scribes down in the court,
Breathlessly report,
With a glee they can’t contain,

Oh they’re giddy….

Giddy like the rats that swarm the sewage slag,
Giddy like the vultures, feasting on the rotted culture,
That has spawned them from its womb,
And they tell us all how grateful we should be,
Cause they’re doing it to save democracy.
 
Yeah all fortitude & grit,
Our protectors wouldn’t quit,
On this noble quest,
There would be no rest,
Staged sudden raids, drew dossiers,
Tried Russian links, threw kitchen sinks,
To cage the dreaded pest,
Damn the proper form,
They’ve snared Le Bete Orange,
Slam the gavel, bring the charge,

And now they’re giddy…..

Giddy like the buzzards circling o’er their prey,
Giddy like the varmints, chewing on the hated target,
While the judges hold him still,
Giddy like the frantic hawks, flailing with their shrilly squawks,
The fear they just can’t kill,
Damn the coming storm,
Now they’ve booked Le Bete Orange,
Slam the gavel, bring the charge,
Hey, the law may be applied unequally,
But it’s the only way to save democracy.

I beg you Lovely Lady, turn your head away,
Away from the shame, away from the pain,
America, America, how did we let it get this far?
We are your sons, what have we done?
What have we done……….

Ah but giddy doesn’t last, when the vengeance & the wrath,
Shred the piers that bear the load,
No it won’t be so hysterical, when even Heaven’s miracle,
Can’t keep our father’s code, 

Oh but decision day is nigh, & the beast is still alive,
And far too many still believe…..

So arrest the Monster!...show it on TV,
Silence him & anyone who won’t concede,
There’s no time for constitutionality,
When the mission is to save democracy.

Giddy (now with lyrics)

Poem “Dillard Sissman” from the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Thanks for recital from LibriVox.org read by Linda Leu

The buzzards wheel slowly
In wide circles, in a sky
Faintly hazed as from dust from the road.
And a wind sweeps through the pasture where I lie
Beating the grass into long waves.

My kite is above the wind,
Though now and then it wobbles,
Like a man shaking his shoulders;
And the tail streams out momentarily,
Then sinks to rest.

And the buzzards wheel and wheel,
Sweeping the zenith with wide circles
Above my kite. And the hills sleep.
And a farm house, white as snow,
Peeps from green trees - far away.

And I watch my kite,
For the thin moon will kindle herself ere long,
Then she will swing like a pendulum dial
To the tail of my kite.
A spurt of flame like a water-dragon
Dazzles my eyes -
I am shaken as a banner!

Kite

© 2016-2025 All Rights Reserved Bud Merritt & floyd jane
Janice Merritt: lead vocal
floyd jane: lyric and harmony vocal
Peter Fulham: guitar solos and fills
Bud Merritt: lyric, mix, mastering & photo

It may seem distant but the right track is out there ... somewhere.

The Right Track
too long in this town, too long in shadow
roads lead out, where do they go?
this might be someone's idea of good old days
not mine i'm parting ways

Chorus

i'm leaving
some might think on a wing and a prayer
but there's got to be peace
between here and somewhere
sun on my face, wind at my back
i'm finally... on the right track

day by day, time gets shorter
while my bucket list just runs over
some things age well like a fine old wine
but a spirit chained
will die in time (so...)

Chorus

Bridge

friends say slow down don't go
but what the hell could they know
i got boots older than most of them
and I ain't leaving on a whim

Chorus

The Right Track

Let the music take you in and drive to another dimension

Fall

Wake Me Up
by Valhjim

In a world drifting further from what it once was, “Wake Me Up” walks the line between dream, disillusion, and madness. Ambient textures, saxophone laments, and whispered memories give way to raw imagery and quiet rage. This song is a journey through the fragments of a fading world, not a perfect one, but a world where freedom and individual rights were extant—a world that now more than ever aches to come back.

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Wake Me Up
Valhjim

On a solitary street a lamppost
casts its yellow light
there's no one there just 
shadows drifting by

and as you walk along
the cobbles down below
you hear somebody's voice
calling in the night

you try to wake up from the dream
but the world has turned to dust
and no one understands
how things could be so wrong

Ah, wake me up,
bring me back the world
I used to know

She keeps the door ajar
to feel connected to the world
outside but down the hall

there is no light and the moon 
has gone away

walkers on the street outside
a crazy clown is sitting in the chair

and all his acolytes
are pissing on the floor

Ah, wake me up,
bring me back the world
I used to know

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Valhjim: vocals, guitars, synthersizers, samplers.
Martin Miers: drums.

© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Wake Me Up — Short Version

https://youtu.be/x4NSd5nddCI?feature=shared
Prayers for your comfort, William Shatner! Thank you for your sprit for life! 
🥇♾🌟🙏🏼🖖🏼

⁂©All Rights Reserved 08-2025
©Lyricist, Mixer, Mastering, Creator & Pro License: Lady ElectroTrek
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TITLE: ETERNAL CAPTAIN KIRK
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LYRICS: 

(Verse 1)
Stars stretch wide a cosmic sea
Time bends but he won't flee
Galaxies whisper his name in the void

(Pre-chorus)
Bold strides on uncharted ground
Where silence hums and hope is found

(Chorus)
Eternal Captain Kirk
Through the stars he'll work
No end no fade
In the cosmos he's made
Eternal Captain Kirk

(Verse 2)
Warp trails burn like comet fire
His voice commands his empire
Logic bends but his heart won't break

(Bridge)
Planets spin to his decree
He charts the course of destiny
The best of all the generations
A legend without limitations

(Chorus)
Eternal Captain Kirk
Through the stars he'll work
No end no fade
In the cosmos he's made
Eternal Captain Kirk

In Fond Dedication To William Shatner

Eternal Captain Kirk

bring out yer dead - dark grimy beat - 8-24 demo

Music that I put together for my song Illusion, I really enjoyed it and wanted to share it. :) 

Illusion Beat

Feels Like a Game

let her out (demo night 2)

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.