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I finally got my trumpet out, after 35 years of it being stashed away ... another draft from RPM2012 ... enjoy ... lyrics below:
When I was just shy of 17
The days were short, the nights were kings
We stayed awake to sing a song
We never thought…
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One more instrumental before I move on to the vocals...
I came up with this riff one hazy night when I was 19. I'm in my 30s now, and rather more sober, but I still like playing this. It felt good to finally flesh it out.
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hehehee, wrote this with a high fever, and Tim of Letter 17 was gracious enough to sing it for me. My house plants being psycho and eating each other. I SAID I had a high fever =D Dawna~
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This song is a collaborative piece from 2007...
The music was written and recorded by Won Trick Pony, which he then sent to me, for lyrics... I recorded the vocal tracks and mixed it down, and 'Hang Lucid' was born...
It's all about the dreams…
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The fourth of fifteen songs completed for RPM/FAWM. The obligatory swing ballad. Are swinging ballads obligatory? This song is one of two in this year's batch that has an alto saxophone part. 100 years ago I went to music school as a sax player…
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Lyrics:
Here's a dance that even you can do,
Cos you don't have to move more than your wrist.
It so simple that it requires
Even less coordination than the twist.
You can squirm about all you want,
Or you can stand real still, just like…
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A sad song detailing the longing for a lost love.
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Another downtempo piece describing the seductive games between two manipulative lovers!
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An 80's inspired dance piece that's enough to make a disco ball explode...or something.
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A song meant for playing when you happen to be sitting on a polar bear rug by a lit fire or any situation similar.
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My failed attempt at a pop song that turned into an acoustic funfest.
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Another RPM2012 preview ... this one is a bit of on the "poppy/jazzy" side (well, at least this that's as far as I dare venture ...), enjoy ... lyrics:
Sit tight, upright
As darkness overtakes the light
Your back against the wall
And as you…
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NOT MINE!!!
Sound effect from IT version of
Commandos II - Men of Courage
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NOT MINE!!!
Sound effect from IT version of
Commandos II - Men of Courage
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NOT MINE!!!
Sound effect from IT version of
Commandos II - Men of Courage
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NOT MINE!!!
Sound effect from IT version of
Commandos II - Men of Courage
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I was pretty bored, waiting to find a party, no one was texting, so I covered some watsky.
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This popped off the top of my head the first time I plugged my guitar into my iPad. I wasn't trying to write anything, it just sort of happened.
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A shameless rip off of the three guitar solo The Beatles did on "In the End". Yeah, I admit it.
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Composing these lines--
Electrical pulses fire.
Creativity!
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Happily enslaved
Or free but miserable--
Which one would you choose?
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Sometimes my mail
Stacks up for days and days and
Email? The same.
(Technically not a haiku if you pronounce "mail" as one syllable. Oh well.)
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Rhyme: difficult when
Writing a three-line poem.
Make ev'ry word count.
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Rhyme: difficult when
Writing a three-line poem.
Make ev'ry word count.
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Syllables has too
Many syllables to make
Really good haiku.
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Track 1 of "Cutting Edge Nonsense" My 4th RPM CHALLENGE CD
An upbeat piece that's a cross world beat and a touch of house.
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Track 2 of "Cutting Edge Nonsense".
We start off with a nice house and dub beat,a little ambient.Keep that beat going..
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Track 3 of "Cutting Edge Nonsense"
So,what are you saying in your sleep? Me..I have no idea!
A mix of deep bass,some hip hop beats and just strange voice(not mine!).
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Track 4 of "Cutting Edge Nonsense"
Alas..the title cut.That deep bass rumble you first hear? That would be a Tibetan Singing Bowl.I wanted a tribal feeling for this piece.
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They without honor
Rule iron-fisted, never
Earning our respect.
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Opportunity.
Why do so many windows
Remain unopen?
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Memory creates
A world from possible pasts.
Soon it's gone again.
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New swallow's lessons:
"Before you learn how to crawl,
you must learn to fly."
I learned after writing this that swallows DO actually crawl around in the nest before they take the plunge. Oh well. You learn something new every day.
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First day of April:
I have played so many tricks.
Who is the fool now?
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Pungent aroma,
Skunk versus car, skunk loses.
Mommy won't come home.
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Raking on Sunday:
Leaves observe no one's Sabbath;
Neither, then, shall I.
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Re-recording of an old song I'd originally written for an even older band, Buckle. I think Buckle's been done now for almost eighteen years, so it may be safe to dust this off now and expose it to light again.
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The 15th and final song written for RPM and FAWM. Fittingly the lyric is about the end of the process... even though there was still a ton left to do when I came up with it. I guess I was feeling optimistic, which is seriously unusual for me.
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"O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good:
for his mercy endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so" Psalm 107:1-2
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The homophobic Reverend was embroiled in a homosexual sex and crystal meth scandal in 2006. This was my rally song for him. I was hoping he would preach on why it is not bad to be gay. INstead he went and got reprogrammed.
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A friend told me about this experience. I cannot name names but he insisted it was a true story. The "Phil" mentioned is not retired Senator from Texas "Phil Graham," I don't care what he says, he was not there: the evidence is conclusive.
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After a brief hiatus out in the weeds, I found myself back on my own course, but what to do if the force knocks me off my horse and breaks the resolve of my frame to sustain?
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A true story from a rough week. The window into the soul of a man really does run through the contents of his stomach.
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I grew up in Redding, California. That part of Northern California is more like Alabama than it is San Francisco. Hence, it could be called "Calibama."
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Whenever I am at a loss for words and I'm just not sure what to say, I think about how control is an illusion and I say "Ya-ta-hey."
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Only the people with problems call after the decent have gone to sleep...
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A story about a good-natured woman and a bunch of recent parolees from the state prison in Vacaville, California, on a Greyhound bus.
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I spend a night there once, I was dizzy with Hadrian's Blues.
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The story of a house of ill-repute that met a very bad end.
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Big Brother is watching... Time to get paranoid.
Rough live studio demo.
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A cautionary tale about falling back into addiction.
Rough live studio demo.
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When you finally realise that that lifelong friend isn't really a friend at all and it's time to say 'goodbye'.
Rough live studio demo.
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Standing outside, looking in. Keeping people at arm's length until you're sure of their intentions.
Rough live studio demo.
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#7 for this years rpm, the album name is of the same name,, small watercolor piano moments, with the occasional vocal such as this
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Just a simple Blues, I'm not a harp player, but I did the best I could, puffed me out !!! Oh yeh don't tell my mate Dave. He plays the harp on all my songs & he'll have guts for garters if he finds out !!!
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My groping hand shoved
Away once more from delight:
Supple joys denied.
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Sunlight streaming down.
Gentle breeze disturbs new leaves.
Spring's awakenings.
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Antidisestab-
lishmentarism:
too many sylla-
(bles?)
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"Warren, line three, please."
Annoying public address.
(He's a busy man.)
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Unstoppable thief,
Never aware of our needs,
Time flows on and on.
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Got to get going!
Only ninety days remain
To pen forty more.
(I'd reached the halfway mark for eighty haiku; I must have written this sometime in November 2011.)
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Tied up, fourteen-all.
Coiled tight, yet poised, until
He hears, "Ready . . . fence!"
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Complete innocence,
My Kindergarten mind-state.
Why are kids so mean?
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Believe in something,
But not what they dream about;
Their dreams are evil.
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Too bad I don't know how to play an actual violin.
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Written in 2002; played to death 2003-4; retired in 2005. Feels good to bring this one back from the dead.
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gentle flowing guitar synth,acoustic guitar instrumental
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Maybe it's intuition
But some things you just don't question
Like in your eyes
I see my future in an instant
And there it goes
I think I've found my best friend
I know that it might sound more than a little crazy
But I believe
I knew I loved…
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I was planning on doing a theme-based rpm this year on outer space, but didn't manage to get all the rpm songs to fit. I've been reading a lot of Stanislaw Lem - probably my favorite science fiction author - and dedicate this to him. His books…
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This one has a pretty silly lyric - it's about making up a place called “Wendouree Lane”, then later meeting someone who actually lives on Wendouree Lane and discovering that it actually does exist.
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A last minute inclusion to my RPM 2012 album, after deciding to ditch a song and replace it with a better one. It was written in a hurry.
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Big cheesy pop song. Simple lyric, simple tune.
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The tune is recycled from a song I wrote in the early 90s. All new lyrics.
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My friend Vyv requested I write a song about penguins, so here it is. (well, it doesn't say much about penguins - but it does mention them!)
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A song about how hard it is to write words for a song.
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I pretty much just made this one up as I went along. Bird noises by the Superb Fairy Wrens in our garden.
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A song I wrote for my sister and I to sing. Possibly the best song I have written. She's so good! :)
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