The episode, devoted to the planet Mars, begins with scientific and fictional speculation about the Red Planet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Edgar Rice Burroughs' science fiction books, and Percival Lowell's false vision of canals on Mars). It then moves to Robert Goddard's early experiments in rocket-building, inspired by reading science fiction, and the work by Mars probes, including the Viking, searching for life on Mars. The episode ends with the possibility of the terraforming and colonization of Mars and a Cosmos Update on the relevance of Mars' environment to Earth's and the possibility of a human mission to Mars.

I am skipping here - and possibly confusing some listeners - Parts 3 and 4, but they will be added!

Cosmos Part V - Blues For A Red Planet

CHARPENTE

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

yes I will be leaving, but I won’t get in my car
and drive away…

how many layers can you peel from my heart?
and yet still, I am standing here, holding you tight
my arms enfolding you as promises of all
the everything you ever dreamed, that could come true

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

now, as the sun sinks down behind a winter sky
you are snarling as a wildling,  all the snares you have laid,
flowers lying broken, all the bottles overturned
all the ashes spilling over, all the bridges that you burned, you burned, you burned...

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart
 (but something’s broken and I can’t bring it back)

yes I will be leaving, but I won’t get in my car
and drive away…
although it hurts so much, to stay

hard it is, so easy now to love you,
all the crazy things you do, the things you say,
hard it is so easy now to hold you in my heart

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Written made sung and played by Emma

hard it is so easy now...

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Photo by taRka+ https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum
low end fix 4/28/2023

Thru An Open Window

If you want me
Let me know 
I’ve been waiting for so long
Now I’m ready so go

If you need me, 
Make it show
I won’t be here for too long 
If it’s time for me to go

These days gon’ end sometime soon
You’ll see when loneliness comes over you

If you want me 
Won’t you say
I can’t stay here without you
I’ll be on my way

These days gon’ end sometime soon
You’ll see when loneliness comes over you

If you want me
Let me know 
I’ve been waiting for so long
Now I’m ready to go

I’ve been waiting for so long
Now I’m ready to go
I’m ready to go

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If you want me

Thinking about You

"night blue" - programmed & performed by joerxworx :-)
photo: Bruxelles by night, Alexandre Debiève, unsplash

night blue

Encountered

For the promptwriting it's not a challenge thread https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/post/topic=7279.0

Breakfast at noon

Sprinkling the breakfast
with bubbles, sparklingly fresh.
Bread & butter & what not,
am I coldreading you,
Or loosing the plot?
Baking bread, grinding beans,
slowly rising
From confusing dreams
Don't squeeze that orange
  all over the place!

Breakfast at noon
(Cereals, Continental, Vegan toast)

Pretty soon
we will be back in the room
but now's the moment
to chase away the gloom

Tea, my dear?
There is still time
For now and all tomorrows
This should be the line
That we don't want to cross
before breakfast is done.

Making bread, taking time

Gotta get back
to the breakfast
as soon as I can!

Zoom ba be day bye doom dai
dum a dum da boobe di bay

Picture https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-T-1950-165 Rijksmuseum publiek domein     Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande
1915.

Breakfast at noon

Indian Summer is about hot-and-cold loves, on-again-off-again romances, where the bright moments feel so good that you forget about the dark ones. The concept is based on the weather phenomena called "Indian summers," describing brief periods of unseasonable warmth.

Guitar and drums by Papa Adams, vocals and lyrics by Sarah Lettes, production by Sean Clarke and Sarah Lettes, art by Annabel Lee Sessoms

Heat wave
Meltin pavement
On the freeway
Runnin to your basement
These days
It don’t feel like it’s December

Felt warm
When you kissed me
Cold storm
Seemed to miss me
Now the sky’s torn
And my achy knees remember

Indian summer
Pretend it’s alright
Small patch of green
Surrounded in white
Forget that it’s dark
When we’re all caught up in light

Hot car
Cold molasses
Burn marks
On both our asses
Latent stars
Just waitin for our time in the sun

Sunset
Looks like sunrise
Cold sweat
Drips in my eyes
Cheap bet
Just waitin for our moment to come

Indian summer
Pretend it’s alright
Small patch of green
Surrounded in white
Forget that it’s dark
When we’re all caught up in light

Two steps forward
Three steps back, okay
One dark cloud
And all you see is shade
All is fair in love and war they say
Fair weather love in the winter will you stay?

Indian summer
Pretend it’s alright
Small patch of green
Surrounded in white
Forget that it’s dark
When we’re all caught up in light

Indian Summer - New Insomnia

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Love Will Tear Us Apart  ( COVER - Original by Joy Division )

William  ,    Alternative folk , creating original  emotive songs , love the authentic sound of an acoustic guitar with emotive lyrics. Soundcloud  is a joy to be able to find Artists i would have never know all creating and putting something out into the world for others to enjoy. My Influences would be the like of Paul Simon, Gregory Alan isakov, Luke sital-Singh . I sincerely appreciate  everyone who has listened  and followed  . Music for me is like a different world to enjoy and get lost in as we stumble around in this one.

A recent podcast I took part in ,  link below , on the craft on songwriting with Songsmith. 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/69X9eikVHisZtZZDD8EXQ9?si=vRjci__cQWu5q9iYie5kow