Here is the second crack at Future/Past. This shows some production directions I'd like to take, though the mix is far from complete. Thanks to Kevin Stennes for this awesome bass line too!

Future Past - stage two

There Was a Tree

Remember - Take 1

A song written in collaboration with participants of JusticeCAMP 2014 in Edmonton.

Lyrics ...


We are dust, we are dust
And to dust we shall return

Through ambition and through toil
We drew cities from the soil
And we put the trees to shame
In our holy human name

Now the trees are bleeding out
sacred silence is so loud
and in the end all we have learned
is homesick hunger to return

We are dust, we are dust
And to dust we shall return

From the earth we wrung out oil
and our profit is a noose
but our noose is always loyal
through neglect and through abuse

We are dust, we are dust
And to dust we shall return

The ancient scroll ulnrolled
A story we've been told
We were all formed from earth
We are all gardeners 

But now six hours in a van
to see scars upon the land
To see mountain the mountains shine
just three short days of time

(a man a ways out there on the land beats a drum
and I've got burning urge
to run into there and join him
ask him what he's playing
and why
and especially for whom
smelling of sage and woodsmoke
I watch the jingle, jangle flash
sending out myriad sparks of light
into the gathering dark)

oh there's never enough time
oh medicine lake
oh a healing place

We are dust, we are dust
And to dust we shall return

We are dust, we are dust
And to dust we shall return


(this land is a graveyard,
this land is a womb)


We Are Dust (2014 - 09 - 11)

A demo of a new song - 'Sweetest Wisdom'

Lyrics ...

She’s as cheap as an idea
She’s as quiet as a sigh
She’s got pockets full of questions
but not one of they are ‘why?’
She a memory of a miracle
that’s faded into life
she’s as faithful as a trouble
but she’ll never be my wife

And I’ve chased her down the corridors
and ancient cobbled streets
and I’ve clicked for her through fiberoptic
megabytes and beeps
But all the while my eyes were straining out towards the sky
when wisdom, sweetest wisdom lay awake beneath my feet

your courage is commendable
you're young and strong as steel
your heart has remained open boy
you’ve taught it how to feel
but all this running to the fire
forgot you how to kneel
you’re head’s too full of knowing 
to know anything so real

And I’ve wasted every currency
to purchase just one slice
I’ve tasted every salt and sweet
from fire and on ice
but even when my stomach couldn’t hold another bite
it growled away for wisdom, sweetest wisdom in my life

There’s terror in her vacancy
she moved out long ago
she far too old for GPS so none of us can know
that ancient star directing, tell me where am I to go
Wisdom, sweetest wisdom. I don’t know.
You’re here within the breath between my ‘I… don’t… know'..

Sweetest Wisdom (2014 - 09 - 23)

Asheville

We Don't Even Fight Anymore - Von Bieker feat. TAYLR -

So I Did

Dumb Hope

Broken Down

Beauty Bright is the first release from Von Bieker's upcoming EP, Where The Love Comes Easy. Cover art by Borys Tarasenko (https://borystarasenko.com).

All instruments and vocals performed by Dave Von Bieker and digital magic, except; 
Bass: Tim LaRiviere
Background Vocals: Lora Jol and Marcie Rohr

Lyrics

Oh my Lord, 
You cast such long, long shadows
Strike a chord
from some old song that we both know
I’ll lay down
and sing along with my eyes closed
cos’ the light’s too bright sometimes
Light can make you blind

All the flowers we collected started wilting, drying out
All the colours will be faded by the morning
if we don’t stop to keep the beauty bright

Your strong hand
can feel like an anchor
Hold me down
but know that I cannot breathe underwater
Life’s too good
to want to trade this one in for another
Would you pry my fingers loose?
Could you pry my fingers loose?

All the flowers we dug up, they started wilting, drying out
All the colours will be faded by the morning
if we don’t stop to keep the beauty bright
All the flowers we collected started wilting, drying out
All the colours will be faded by the morning
if we don’t stop to keep the beauty bright

Where The Love Comes Easy

Beauty Bright (Single)

Beauty Bright

I play indie folk to haunt your heart with small stories and big questions. Mostly.

Von Bieker

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