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I am a butterfly but not a monarch
I’m meat sliced thin and looking stark
On the granite, part of a meal unfinished
Swept off the counter and Into the garbage
I’m sorry, that was dark
I’m just a victim of pathetic fallacy
I’m partial…
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We go dey alright is an afro beat song to encourage all hustlers.. enjoy
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Instrumental track from yesterday, with lyrics and vocals made today:
Modern Fool
What modern fool doesn’t understand the game of love?
And what about the push and shove you’re guilty of?
That dares not speak its crime?
What modern…
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I talked to big game
when I said I’d go to the show
now I’m me on the day
forgot how it feels to be alone
I’m not moving on my own
I’m no man I’m a millstone
at the bottom of the river i’d flow with upriver of all the live I could…
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Whole lotta change happening right now in my sphere. I'm taking stock in myself and remembering how far we've come in only seven months.
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to be the new single for my band damasutra..this is a WIP..
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Sky keeps getting darker, the heat keeps rising too
Sky keeps getting darker, the heat keeps rising too
The dog hides neath the back porch
I think he knows a thing or two
There’s rain come from the ocean in the hills of Tennessee
There…
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Mahogany dust, and grass in my lungs
I pull myself to a higher run
I’m chock full of maple
I bring to the table
A penchant to be so high strung
What a friend for to have
I’m not dead. I’m just sad.
If you’re talking to me
And you see…
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This song was created specifically as musical accompaniment for a hoofer (tap dancer), or in Boston speak, a "hoofa"
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Written and recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in July 2025
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Strung out from the high road
Strung out from the pavement
Listening to the echoes
Of what my lover's saying
East of Oklahoma
West of Arizona
South of Colorado
And a thousand miles from nowhere
I'm on the struggle bus
Spend my mornings…
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I don’t feel great
I left my take
at the front desk
I did not intend
For the evening to turn out like it did
For me to feel like a new type of idiot
I can’t go back cause I’m already on a plane
Even if I did, what could I say?
I…
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I learned to whistle
I learned to walk
I made it rustle
I saw a fox
I walked through thistle
I slept on moss
There was no water
That I couldn’t cross
I made a skiffle
I drowned a rock
I did not blunder
I didn’t talk…
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(written for BC)
Kazalmelan kozoskôgan ta kezeldami
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(written for BC)
I'm in the midst of the third move this year. This has been a journey. I'm pleasantly surprised at the horizon ahead.
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Trying out some old-new outboard gear with my Portastudio. Considering this a fun equipment test.
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O the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird
and she warbles when she flies
she never hollers cuckoo
til the fourth day of July
Gonna build me a log cabin
on a mountain so high
so I can see the cuckoo
when she goes on by
I've played cards in…
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tried out a mic it turns out I don't really like
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She can’t skate but she’s got a skateboard - go figure
Down goes the Berlin Wall up goes the middle finger
And she can read minds she can stand in long lines she’s no beginner
And she can see time go a-passing her by it’s so linear
She…
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That’s All I Ask
Chorus:
I can’t trade Your presence for silver or gold—
No treasure on Earth can carry my soul.
Let me praise You as long as I breathe—
That’s all I ask, that’s all I need.
Take the world, but never this flame, O Holy…
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Walking Down the Line - Bob Dylan
Well I'm walking down the line
My feet will be a flying
to tell you bout my troubled mind
I got a heavy headed gal
She ain't a feeling well
When she's better only time will tell
Well my money comes…
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another tiny rework of a thing I worked on a while back.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trance gates ftw!
A little repetitive, but I ran out of time to work on this...
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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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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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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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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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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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Learn to Stall
1
So your water is cold
You’re probably hiding something
So if I ask you to stay - just go
You’re the gift that keeps on taking
2
Why are you asking me?
What do I know?
Everyone was young once
But nobody knows it…
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Accidental synthwave. I hated this at first, but it's not bad. I kind of feel like this is me, in the 80s, driving home from work along palm tree lined high way. I had a bad day writing fortran for my job and I'm burnt out.
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Who will break this ice
sleepwalking through the pines
Said I won’t tell you twice
100 million times
You can’t pay the price
We’ll never get the bill
You don’t need to atone
And though it’s such a thrill
To heave the first stone…
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it's fuzz and it's delay but it's more folk + 90s alt rock
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A cover of Working Hands by Tom Eisenbraun from his 2014 album "Radio Ghost"
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I saw jack-in-the-pulpit and I knew I belonged
And I felt every sermon and I held every song
O The trees creaked and shifted as they turned and dropped their leaves
And I pulled an empty bottle and I held it to the breeze.
Oh this one life…
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I saw jack-in-the-pulpit and I knew I belonged
And I felt every sermon and I held every song
O The trees creaked and shifted as they turned and dropped their leaves
And I pulled an empty bottle and I held it to the breeze.
Oh this one life…
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One Newport left in the pack
I know that we ain't coming back
Waving goodbye to my friends
Beginnings can feel like the end
Thrusters go off underneath
Vibrations under my feet
Can't help but think of that thrill
Card in my spokes as…
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Went to Bellow Falls today and hiked around a bit. It was beautiful and grounding.
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This is yesterday's track, back to the original melody with cross-picked guitar added (oy! that was tough). I see the template for a proper song now, and over the coming days I'll add to this and I hope to end up with something...
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Maybe I’m someone
Or maybe I’m not
A tree falls in the forest
And the roots start to rot
And my lady she loves me
Whether I like it or not
I’ve got all that I need
I’ve got all that I’ve got
It’s too early for peaches
And it’s too late…
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a little break beat from my digitone. This is turning into "learn the digitone" month.
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EMPTINESS
It seems to be very difficult for people to be critical of the culture in which they are enmeshed within. There are all sorts of mechanisms that dominant cultures use to further socialize and entrench us:
patriotism /// nationalism…
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You were so clever
You had us all in your hands
We’re seeing thru you
You never had any plans
It could have been better
You never gave us the chance
You’re being untrue
But baby it’s all in the dance
What’s wrong with that
Im…
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I took a wav file of a UDIO creation and uploaded it into ChatGPT and used the following prompts
please rearrange this wav file with 3 second length markov chains and provide the output. In addition randomly reverse the 3 second sections…
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Mountain Song
Went to the city from Arkansas
I wanted to be everything that I saw
Don't you believe the nice things you hear
People in the city'd lick the fat from your beard
Red red river where nobody goes
So full of iron it's like…
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I wrote this a week or so ago, and decided to give it a proper "mix" I guess? I'm not great at mixing quite yet, so this is just trying to add some ear candy and make it sound as good as I can!
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I'm grateful for balance. Yarrow showed up today in a field and I was reminded of the balance I have to continue to strive for.
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Worries Never Win
Verse 1:
Worries have never solved
The things that ache my heart.
Pacing the midnight floors,
Only pulled me apart.
Tried to fix it all alone—
But I was sinking fast.
Then I heard a still, small voice:
“Child, this…
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Last of the five-day experiment in intervals. Again, my friend Ebow was acting persnickety, as is its wont (I'm sure I have nothing to do with it), and the result includes some abrasive string rattling. I like the melody of the original recording…
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