I wrote this song between the mid 90's and early 2000's. It took me a while to really perfect the lyrics. My lyric writing was pretty bad pre-1997 so luckily I kept working on it. Lyrics were inspired by a camping trip.

From our 2021 RPM album "Imaginary Islands" Written by Marc Poirier

From our 2021 RPM album "Imaginary Islands" Written by Marc Poirier

From our 2021 RPM album "Imaginary Islands" Written by Marc Poirier

From our 2021 RPM album "Imaginary Islands" Written by Damian Lethbridge

From our 2021 RPM album "Imaginary Islands" Written by Damian Lethbridge

From our 2021 RPM album Imaginary Islands Written by Damian Lethbridge

And I am. And she is. It took me three tries to get this right. The first try was awful, the second mediocre, the third acceptable.

unfinished little idea

thinking about chords primarily. export MIDI. synthesize audio from MIDI using Magenta's "Multi-instrument Music Synthesis with Spectrogram Diffusion"

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Marc Poirier

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Damian Lethbridge & Danielle Poirier

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Marc Poirier

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Damian Lethbridge, Danielle Poirier & Marc Poirier

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Damian Lethbridge

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Marc Poirier

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Marc Poirier

From our 2020 RPM album Written by Damian Lethbridge

ON CHRISTMAS DAY So glad that you are here with me On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day On Christmas Day And here's to those so far away On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day So far away Long may they stay warm in our hearts Even…

I had no idea that there even *was* a problem. Four-track recording, 12/2/22. 1/9

It was like someone tapping me on the shoulder, filling my head with dawning wonder. Then it was like being hit with a bag of hammers in outer space. Four-track recording, 12/2/22. 2/9

Something is definitely happening, or not happening. I don't know what it is, and I'm getting pretty tired of it, and I want it to stop. Or start. Two-track recording, 12/2/22. 4/9

This situation is really fucked up. This song should be deadly silence, but I can't even get *that* right. I like this anyway. If not the silence of my mouth, then the meditation of my heart. Two-track recording, 12/2/22. 5/9

When an acquaintance becomes a heartache and a heartache becomes a friend. So far, so good. The clouds are just clouds. Four-track recording, 12/3/22. 6/9

In Which Our Hero Realizes That It's Not A Thing But Everything. The title is taken from a line in "The Third Man." First rule is, "The laws of opportunity." Second rule is, "Be nice to possibility." Third rule is, "Don't talk to probability…

Oh, I forgot about you. I don't know about you. Newly seen and approached cautiously. Unlike the second half of this album, which is old hat and uses anything but restraint. Two-track recording, 12-4-22. 8/9

Hexicism, vexicism, and asexuality. Repeat. Eight-track recording, 12-4-22 9/9

voice, synthesis, and a big chunk of Vaisvil's "Mushrooms in Asphalt" https://alonetone.com/vaisvil/tracks/mushrooms-in-asphalt