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          another tiny rework of a thing I worked on a while back.
        
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          I’m a leaking pitcher
I’m half full
Full of dripping water
Coming from the roof
Pour me out in the garden
When the ground dries up
Set me up when the rain comes 
Hear me fill with love
You’re alright 
I’m a crooked picture 
Hanging…
        
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          I went down 
to old fort worth
in 18 and 83
when a Mexican cowboy
come stepping up to me
he said how are you young fella
how would you like to go
and spend the season working
in the hills of Mexico
well having no employment
back to him…
        
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          FUMINI is a street banger...stream, download and enjoy good music 🎵🎶.
        
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          He takes all of his clothes off and jumps into the Seine 
The water is cleaner than it ever has been
The car needs for you to drive it, or else it doesn’t move
The car needs for you to drive it, I hate to make you choose
It’s like a still…
        
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          Water runs the river like my fingers through your hair
I asked if I could kiss you and you said you didn't care
Most folks climb the mountain just to reach it's peak
But I'm in it for the journey babe, I'll fall down at your feet
Rock, Paper…
        
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          An old thing I did when I first got the M8 tracker years ago, but with a melody and a B section.
I'm kind of in a weird chip tune phase right now. I'm trying to nail some of the tropes that I really like, so that's what I did with the melody.
        
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          Rain for now
Sunshine catches in the clouds
Stay for now
Good things catching in my mind 
Cast like a thread
Snagged on the end
Pulling me out of this shit
Like a thread that snags and intertwines
Pulling me out 
Pulling me down…
        
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          Last Night
Verse 1:
So, last night, I picked up my pen,
Wanted to thank You for all You’ve been, dear Lord.
Through the highs and lows,
You stood by me, quieting my soul.
I used to chase the waterfalls—
The empty rush, the distant calls…
        
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          It's a simple knot
That keeps me from the lake
It's a simple knot 
That keeps me
What's known between
A rider and bridle
What's known between 
Rider
O to be 
The light on the land
O to be
The light
It was dark last night
When…
        
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          got to write a little song
before the day is through
got to write a little song
send it on to you
got to write a little song
it's the daily two...
        
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          I’m not as good as I thought I’d be
I was young and led to believe 
To take the writings at their word 
Now I’m grown more lines are blurred
What was right is heinous now
It’s up to me to work it out
Want to keep and what to toss
If it…
        
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          my partner has a coat with bananas on it. it's hard to express how excellent it is. she just got a new phone and so she had to get a new case for it too and was looking at one with bananas on it, and the image of her pulling her phone out of that…
        
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          I threw a fit cause I thought that it would help me
Get my point across like a dog that's always growling
I swear that he doesn't bite
Rub his belly, he'll play nice
I don't wanna be the man I was and you can't make me
Rustle through the…
        
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          gah, I rendered this wrong, but it takes forever to do, I'm not going to do it again. Imagine a longer pad leading into the intro 😂
        
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BLINDNESS
        
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          I don't care
My honey run away from me
the stars fell down
I counted three
I don't care 
Lulu won't you open the door
I can't stay here anymore
across the Appalachians wide
and the Eastern Continental Divide
Chorus
I can see just…
        
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          Testing out some options for generating some nice drones with a four-string electric bass. Processing by Drolo Molecular Disruptor (envoloop reverb) and Pladask Fabrikat.
        
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          Slurf Song - Michael Hurley
O a little wishbone
I make a wish for a potato
Pickin out the fishbones in  my perch
on lake Champlain
O them perch
o them bones
cookie up tortillas so much fun
when you've got a bowl of beans
so much…
        
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Im so sick of being tired
Im so tired of being tricked 
Into giving up my time 
To get a chance to live
A sliver at a time
And all the time im sapped
Like sugar in a tree
I freeze and thaw again 
Until I’m flowing free
And I take…
        
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          Love I Can’t Explain
Verse 1:
I turned my back on You, yet You never left;
I followed my own will, but You kept me strong.
You died for me, Lord, before I was born—
When death came for me, You stood in my place.
Now I have life in You…
        
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          some chill dubyish techno whatever for today's daily two.
        
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          This is a re-do of the piano groove track from July 8. I've added a breakdown and a B part and for the most part, I'm pleased.
        
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          I was wondering
About the crops
If we skipped the harvest
In the fall
Let the cornfield
Die and brought
Sell the farm
And cast our lot
Would be be OK
I hope that it won’t be a while
Till I get to see the smile
The Dawn shines on the…
        
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          They built a boat 
Carried you down to the riverside 
Set it alight 
Talked of regret, children played nearby 
They played nearby 
               
The image of you I can’t shake
Hand raised, parting ways in the rearview 
Smoke from the…
        
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          Trance gates ftw!
A little repetitive, but I ran out of time to work on this...
        
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          Michael Hurley
Birds sing songs that
Wake the dreamers
From their sorrowful soirée
Cryin', bye bye, sweet fried chicken
And the platter
Glides away
In the moonlight
In the moonlight
We don't hear, but
Water running
Down the stream…
        
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          pay a man to:
 -walk through his field of corn
 -pick an apple off of his apple tree
 -pick a pumpkin out of his pumpkin patch
 -carve a face into that pumpkin for me
I sing a song a song about 
living in small-town Tennessee
my best…
        
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          composed with loops from Steve Tibbetts' Friendly Fire package
        
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          You Are Unchangeable
Verse 1:
While trapped in the dark,
I called on Your name;
You came and shone Your light.
The one who held me there
Fled and never turned—then I knew You’re the Light.
You paid the price for my pride,
And for the…
        
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          (written for BC)
This full moon. Loving respect, kindness, and a great spiritual power came up in one of my readings this morning. I'm grateful for that being present.
        
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          Melody was too fresh to have down properly but hey, it's another demo. I think I hate this one. Just idea after idea morphing daily. The ending was more of a joke but I guess it is staying... 
Verse One
I feel like, I’m lying awake
But I…
        
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          Water
Where do you go
O water
Where do you go 
Said I'm going down
Gulf of Mexico
Bluebird
Where have you been
O bluebird
Where have you been
I went all the way to Texas
And back again
Winter
Has come and gone
O winter
Has come…
        
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          probably the most 'full band' thing i've ever done
        
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          The sound of the wheels
That the gravel driveway reveals
I am home for a while
Where I keep my things and desires
Tennessee / Carolina
Tie the loose ends and leave it behind 
You know me, I’m unwinding
Soaked in gin subatomic dividing…
        
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          I wrote and recorded this song a few months back (on Inauguration / MLK Day). A month or so ago, I re-recorded it to change the key but was not satisfied with the guitar sound, so I re-re-recorded the guitar today (still not satisfied...) and…
        
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          Draw Near Again
Intro:
Draw me nearer, draw me, Lord,
Draw me nearer to Thee.
Tame my soul, oh tame me, Lord,
Draw me nearer to Thee.
Verse 1:
Our Father who art in heaven,
The earth can't contain Your grace.
We have sinned and now…
        
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          My wicked little brother
Is on his way back
He’s squandered his fortune
To spite our old dad
The filthy little wanderer
I can see down the road
Now he’ll get his penance
For the bad life he chose
Oh my brother likes to gamble
But now…
        
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          Baby Willow
Somewhere, something
has turned a wing 
and left a branch dancing
grey days, grassways
there's a stowaway seed
in the cuff of my jeans
baby willow
it's the only place you'll ever know
blue vein in my head
gets the blood…
        
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          Back to an orchestral game/movie trailer piece, having been working on covers for a while.  Here is my composition using full orchestra, Cathedral organ and choir, that hopefully could be imagined alongside a thrilling piece of movie action!!
        
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          The full moon is already being felt. Spent a good amount of energy today just speaking the language and then trying to work in community. This is the hard stuff. Building community takes conversation. calm, context, and collaboration. Probably…
        
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          I made this in Ableton from piano bits I'd created a while ago. 
        
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          frozen trip around the lakes
We were passing through six states 
But we couldn’t get Detroit 
Out of our rear view
The trip that sealed our fate 
Were both children out of place 
Stormy Lake Michigan
Threw us for a loop
Family makes…
        
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          I wrote this track pretty long time ago, but then redid parts of it for a live setting so I could play it on my digitakt. I haven't played out live in a bit so I tried practicing it today...
        
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          You can roll the dice
You can read the gospel
Or just balance on the knife
Kicking rocks like cigarettes
You both used to like
Now it’s all just plastic 
I could use some advice
And you could use me
Anytime you like
Dead man’s paradise…
        
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          Take your time to find the right one
The sun don't rush to meet the dawn
Every star has its own glow
So let the moment softly flow
No need to race
No need to run
A masterpiece is never spun
In hurried hands or fleeting nights
Patience…
        
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          Hello, Are You There
To share the love
We have found
        
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          She walks in light that blinds my eyes
Her smile’s a spark that fills the skies
The world could spin or fall away
But she’s the reason I will stay
she is the spirit in the sky
        
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          I've been chasing shadows in the light
Running through the echoes of the night
The road is winding but I just don’t care
I hear your voice it says take me there
Always and always
        
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          She's got a laugh like summer skies
Eyes that shine like fireflies
Her heart beats in a world of gold
She's the one I’ll never let go
Take care of my baby when I'm gone
Hold her close when the nights are long
Promise me you'll treat her…
        
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          I’m a shadow in the evening light
Fading slow into the night
Will my name echo through the breeze
Or vanish like whispers in the trees
Will you still remember me when I fade
When the colors of my face begin to shade
Am I a story that time…
        
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          When the sky turns gray and the winds run wild
And the weight of the world feels like a lonesome child
Keep your eyes on the road there's a path to trace
There's always a solution for the things we face
Lift your head up high let the light…
        
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning
And you think I'm not going to make it
But you laugh inside
Remembering all the times you've felt that way
'Cause you'll be fine
You'll be fine
You'll be fine
You'll be fine
And sometimes…
        
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          On my way home
By that lonesome graveyard 
A ghost jumps up and says
Come here won't you be my man
Wasn't a ghost at all
Someone asking for a ride
Wasn't a ghost at all
Someone asking for a home
Said boy come here 
And take me to your…
        
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