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03 Stuff And Nonsense (A Fairy Tale)
Hey m’lady what do you see?
I’m down on one knee
Am I brave enough?
I’d fight knights lately with you as my shield
You hold that appeal
That slowly reveals itself
As I deal with all the other…
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02 Perfect
See that girl over there brush her hair beside her bedroom mirror
For all the world she doesn’t show of know the glow within her
She shines inside
She powders down
And lines her eyes
It isn’t worth it, she’s nearly perfect…
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for choir, percussion, piano, hang drum and prisoners.
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A long time in the making but alaaaaaaaaaaassssss...............the Final Squirt as seen by Hojo on drums and BC guitar, Vocals
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Reg was out for a stroll in town and met Jed who was homeless sitting on the pavement with his hat out in front of him. Reg stopped to have a chat with him to see if he could help. Reg expected him to have a sad story but to his surprise he hadn…
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Lyrics:
Rain
Falls down on me
Falls down everywhere but you
I
I need to find a way
To drag you back to this decay
// It's a good thing you don't ask forgiveness
// Because I can't forgive this
// It's a good thing you don't beg forgiveness…
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From the Disney Interactive game "Nightmare Ned"
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Junkyard version of the song the Beatles made famous written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell.
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Guitarist TOm Livemore and myself shining our torches about.
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MEE - LOVING YOU NOMORE - TIME IS TICKIN2 MIXTAPE
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Reg was talking to Elvis last night and Elvis came out with something so simple and profound "you can't hide from the man inside" and this got Reg thinking....................
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Updated version this time recording done with my zoom mrs1608. On the rhythm guitar riff is my volume pedal acting as a feedback eliminator and for the wah-wah pedal effect I used my Jimi Hendrix pedal. Need more guitar cables and I'm set to having…
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Regs back is hurting as he reads the local paper and he notices an advert telling him that a Healer is in town so he decides to pay him a visit.........
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Reg was flying last night he was on a real high when he bumped into Debussy down in the cellar and they came up with this little beauty...................
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A collaboration with Bidoche Musique from [I think] Belgium. Pre-digital days, so thats collaboration by sending cassettes back and forth. How we used to live in the old days, kids !
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The Regs have decided to have another crack at this Reg classic we hope you will enjoy the new approach ..............
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This was more of an experiment that somehow worked it's way into a song.
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Minamisoma was a city in Japan that was destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami of 3/11/2011. The Angels of Minamisoma is a memorial piece for flute and vibraphone written in free tonality that is driven by melodic and harmonic tendencies that…
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A song for a very special friend, and I'm glad she loved it. I hope I can soon post some songs of her and me together here.
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About a place in the world that is very special.
But It would be just another bit of rock if it wasn't for the people I shared it with....
This one is called “Stoneâ€...
Peace
T
Vocal and Lyrics by Jim Higgins
we raced…
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Pictured about is my new 19 note per octave guitar which was used extensively for this piece. For more production information http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=800
The text is from an interview with a Japanese woman after the 3/11/2011 earthquake…
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small notes, on a windy,, palms in the desert day
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Sound of the Underground, Monty Adkins sample used.
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This is a motet I wrote for theory class slowed down by a factor of 12 and sung by 4 different choirs. A contribution to the ImprovFriday drone fest. And I made a video too.
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This is a video piece made for the ImprovFriday drone theme event which used my DIY 9 string canon, DIY electrified 8 string psaltery, viola bow, ebow, and fingers. The tuning in unknown – just something I did by ear.
Pictures, streamable video…
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Please vote for this remix@ http://bit.ly/gcdzMh
My interpretation of Daft Punk's famous "Derezzed" track from the "Tron Legacy" movie.
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This song is about all the Austin bands that tried to make a living with their original music in the Austin, TX area in 1991. Lots of Austin bands got their start playing at the Black Cat Club on 6th street in Austin playing for the door. This…
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Another DEMO that could be stretched into some heavier guitar work and drums.
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I decided to re-visit a song I wrote a few months earlier for the Faces of Humanity album/videos. It seemed to fit in extremely well with a lot of my current life and the album I've begun writing this month :) Enjoy!
Feel free to check out…
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This is just in it's DEMO stage if you don't mind rough. The lyrics just keep changing so often I don't know if this song will end up complete.
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This song started in the cellar as a bass line. I was able to produce it with the support and wisdom of all the folks at Songcrafters.org
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It still knocks me out babe
Every time i see your face
But you don't want me anymore
No, you just wanna be chased
So you say you're waiting
On a sign
So I'll just keep trying
Not to lose my mind.
She'll hold you then she'll let…
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you're stoned on sunday morning
as you wake up with a smile and there she was
her body overcomes your mind
her long black hair, her face,
just looking back
she whispers in and says wake up
the sweetness in her voice just strikes your…
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download full quality video (157 MB)
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/Dead_Sea.wmv
This is a guitar piece in classical style in 17 notes per octave using the 17 version of the phyrgian mode. In normal 12 equal tuning phyrgian mode starts on…
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A rough one to keep my account alive :-)
Just capturing some ideas with using my new Freeze and uPOG pedals.
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My composition Ediacaran Garden for classical guitar has been selected for performance by Kenji Haba in New York City June 26 2011 as part of the Fifteen Minutes of Fame with Kenji Haba Vox Novus series. A requirement was that the piece not…
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Today I got an email about a lyric contest and the title had to be I WONDER...so I wrote this!
I WONDER by James Michael Taylor
I wonder, I wonder out loud
Why I wander under a cloud
A cloud with it's rain
It's lightning and pain…
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This is the first time I picked up and tried to play a guitar that is in 88 cent equal temperament - the tuning does not contain an octave. Since this was the first time I made some mistakes. Nonetheless I think it sounds interesting.
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Too much whiskey can warp the thought in the mind and the desert is probably the best place for Reg when he feels like this........................
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Quid (Looking at Life) is one of three, very different versions of the same song featuring on Winter Jargon's 13 track debut album, 'The Aftermath'
The other version of Quid by Winter Jargon can be heard here: http://winterjargon.bandcamp.com…
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I wrote this one when the woman I was with started seeing someone else before we split up
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This is simple test of East-West symphonic choirs solo soprano voice and East-West Hollywood strings contra-bass. I feel its a bit reminiscent of Lord of the Rings - of course, your mileage may vary - it is a very simple and direct arrangement…
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"From the mid-1920s until the early 1970s thousands of Irish children officially in the care of the state were subjected to a double regime of sexual abuse and wageless slavery. Ireland's notorious industrial schools and orphanages all run by…
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Another song I recorded last year with the new kit.
This is a cold war relic (written just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall) which deals with the difficult issues of Paranoia, Hysteria, Alienation and the power of the Press. Get out…
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~Good things don't age. What about a man?~
I was a fan of easy listenings like Enoch Light, still love these sounds and light pleasure that they bring. Here so.
P.S. Night birds recorded in Berlin this April, silly whistling/theme is mine…
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here is my cover of a boy named bri's "some may say" from his 2011 RPM album. the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/boynamedbri/tracks/some-may-say
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Reg heard this one over on songcrafters and liked the tune it made him think of Elvis. so he promptly went and woke him up in the cellar as he was sleeping off the night before. He finally brought him round after a quick visit from Dr. Nick and…
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Reg has had a tough week and decided to get himself wiped clean so he has took to the drink. I had some help Vocally and with the music i must thank the Red wine....Thank you
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Originally on my [24-hour album](http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/playlists/24-hours-of-aargh) back in 2008, I've added an invisible rhythm section and remixed it.
I may do this with a few more old tracks I didn't quite get right first time round.
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12 string and loop station
- touch of post-processing
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Another minimalist synth exploration, instrumental draft at this stage only...vox and percussion to be added.
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Here is the solo dance version. It's rockin' pretty hard. I'm hoping to take this into a band setting at some point and get some brass involved, but for now...
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Another old one from back in the mid ninties.
Everyone that's ever written a song has written a song called Baby Blue. This is mine.
Lyrics
Baby Blue, Baby Blue
I love you, yes I do
I'll admit, I think about you
Baby I can't face…
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Song recorded back in the mid ninties. Everyone's written a song called Fallen Angel; this is mine...
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Lyrics:
I’ll stand above this cliff
And offer up my soul
Would there be an end to pain
To jump in to this hole
Could this be goodbye
If there’s a light below me
Will it set me free
Could I fly today
Is this my only option
Close…
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A song inspired by and dedicated to Pink Floyd.
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Newly recorded today (11th April), I wrote the song back in the early ninties, although I have added some stuff.
Song about being down, I guess...
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Georgia 2010, LG & Wayne having a bit of an acoustic jam session, while the family 7 friends were visiting....
Wayne - Vox & guitar
LG - 2nd guitar
Background noise - family & friends
LG
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This dark reggae tune has been hanging around in my "works in progress" folder for a while, but I was finally inspired to complete it when I borrowed a guitar from my friend Joe. Thanks, Joe!
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Slowed down the tempo took the distorted guitar out and added some distortion to the bass and took out some of the FX on the drum track. I played every track on this song on my keyboard. No loops just midi recording and quanitization of the midi…
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A Holdempok original song here to be included on the 'album' The Gregory James Band'
Holdempok - vox & guitar
LG - 2nd guitar
LG
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This is a piano improvisation that mixes Pianoteq in Werckmeister III tuning with Cakewalk’s True Piano in 12 equal. What results is a soft phased piano sound. This skirts right on the edge of what can be considered microtonal. Some may well…
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Written in 2010, St. John's.
Originally performed live by The Fast Years in St. John's.
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Written in 2010, St. John's.
Originally recorded by Pet Legs in St. John's.
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Written in 2008, St. John's.
Originally recorded and performed live by Exit Party in St. John's.
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Written in 2007, St. John's.
Originally performed live by Exit Party in St. John's.
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Written in 2007, St. John's.
Originally recorded with Grant King and performed live by Exit Party in St. John's.
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A simple piece of music looked at from 3 perspectives.
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Improvisation is what I love, finding out about things (when there is a little time).
I also post the video where I have used it in. Hedgehogs were here last year in our garden, and now they start coming back from hibernation. Uk, the hedgehog…
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Norm has been teaching a master's class in percussion and gave me (a lot!!) of guidance to try to add bass properly to this. I added 5 string bass, Fender Mustang and GR-20 sax to his excellent Tumbao track. We hope you enjoy it.
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There's times I wonder if your hair is still black and long, if your eyes are still brown, staring shyly at the ground... if your button nose still curves just so... if your eyes still squeeze closed when you laugh.
Sometimes I wonder if you…
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Reg just had to Reg this old classic up........
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Reg's mate came down the cellar last night complaining about the Government cut's and what they have done to him..........
ROAD TO NOWHERE
Are we really going nowhere
They said the cuts have to be made
They said we‘ve all got to pay…
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about Winter Nacht
each year for the past 4 RPM cycles,, i have known a friend or loved one who has passed away... throughout history winter has been a time when sickness and death creep a little stronger amongst us..... perhaps because of these…
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Lyrics and information can be found here if you are so inclined:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=696
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This song was conceived as a kind of prayer thanking the Almighty for having the wisdom of having me meet and marry such a wonderful woman. Colin Garvey added terrific vocals to take the song to an entirely higher level.
Thank you, Colin, and…
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This piece is a digital remaster of a track done on 4-track cassette back in 1987 for the Modern Clones album.
Christ Killers
Take me in and We defy!
We destroy all life
We have no respect
We destroy all life
We are the Christ killers…
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Radio Edit of I JUST HAD SEX by AKON AND LONELY ISLAND as heard on Nova in Australia, with a slight extended intro, you can speak up to the lyrics of the song :)
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Done by one of my clients, Tiago. This is a cover of the Bruno Mars song, "Just the Way You Are". Let me know your thoughts.
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Holdempok wrote this. We actually recorded this take here at work, in the lunch-room after hours...
Holdempok - Vox & acoustic guitar
LG - lead guitar
Chad - drums
LG
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Well I suppose we hadn't got to drinkin' yet, 'cause this.n here sounds pretty good!
Holdempok - Vox & acoustic guitar
LG - lead guitar
Chad - drums
LG
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A 7/8 improvisation on a set of 3 Bata drums, accented with afucha, tube shekere and cowbell.
The number 7 is a symbol for perfection or completeness: 7 colors in a rainbow, 7 musical notes in a scale, 7 days = a week, etc.
In Cuba, the…
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The Stones piled into the cellar last and Mick and Reg got exchanging ideas and they came up with this one . Sung by Reg with Keith playing the Cello and Mick on the piano but he had had a far bit to drink so.......................
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Actually, it won't play for me.... maybe that's a good thing.
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A mostly true story about a kid I knew growing up. It didn't end so good. That story is finished in Teenage Hurricane.
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Not really a "Fun in the sun" Beach song. More like a Beach at midnight.
Still, there is a pretty big Beach Boys influence here, I think. The backing vocals were staggered to sound like waves breaking on the beach. Not 100% sure it worked…
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I'm not the best singer. In fact, I'm probably a contender for the WORST singer. But I'm also a huge Beach Boys fan, so I will sometimes do ambitious vocal arrangements like this.
I didn't notice the chorus' resemblance to Ben Folds Five's…
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Well as you've come to know Reg wears his heart on his sleeve, the new woman who was going to be the one has gone. He's decided to go for a walk in the park to clear his head , he's sad oh! he is sad, sad, sad, .............
This one, i heard…
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Reg got Elvis last night to do a special request for LG, but as the TCB band was having the night off Reg and Elvis concocted this one.....................
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This song's been on the backburner for a while and I finally feel like I've officially "finished" it.
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Reg has been over to Songcrafters.org on the other side and found this little beauty a piece of music by Willi Wendon and he loved it so much he's put a vocal to it. Hope you like it Willie..........
IT'S A CRAZY WORLD
It’s a crazy world…
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Reg threw Norms 7th son in the Cellar tonight and it wasn't long before young Johny Cash had jumped all over it.................
Daddy didn’t love his 7th son
I was born when the storm really started rising
When the ships crashed the rocks…
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An experiment with different mic's to use when playing live
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This is a piece scored for flute, bassoon, cello, and double bass => if you want to gory details follow this link http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=644
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Recorded at Studio 67 with our veteran rocker and studio musician BC. Enjoy kids...........
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HAPPINESS IS FOR FOOLS
Happiness is for fools
Those who have no compassion
They turn away when they are needed
they are surely damned
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
How can we be happy in a world of suffering?
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Reg's little homage to Elizabeth Taylor who passed away today, the piano is a little dodgy and the lyrics and the singing in parts as i'm following my dodgy playing, it will have to be revisited but i thought i'd share anyway as i would forget…
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Everyone has had one of those special nights . . .
(The strings are not a sample.)
UPDATED AUDIO 1-20-12
LYRICS:
Sneak out and slip into the night
Shotgun we're going for a ride
Forget your curfew
Everything will be all right…
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Single-microphone recording of a rehearsal from March 23, 2011.
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Elvis is in the building and Elvis needs to let go tonight......................so he's got the TCB's together and let loose
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jim was getting moping about the cellar, he was bored, i mean he must have been down here in the cellar now for nearly 40 years...him and Louis used to rip the place up every night, something terrible. But lately he had been a bit down and not…
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Dioses:
Voy a confiar
En la remota esperanza
De abrirte a verdades
Tomadas de un sol arcano y sus hijos
(del sol y sus hijos)
Transita entre eras
Guiado por fuerzas distantes
Los ciclos le esperan, abre la puerta.
Abre tu mente y…
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"Luna":
Ir, nunca volver al viento sur...
Ni dejar marcas de arena o rastros.
Yo estaré bien en la marea.
Luna, guía mis pasos
encauzados por lágrimas de mar.
Ir, nunca volver al viento sur, perfecto y frío
Surcaré grises cuerpos…
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