ASCAP Registration #: 928994941 Remember when it was all in the family?Let’s take a look back at what used to beGimme a beat… I recall the sounds of Led Zeppelin, highSongs that lifted us up unto the very skyWe were young and free, with no need to ask whyThose were the days When labels didn’t matter, we just felt aliveMen and women stood united, side by sideWe looked up to leaders who inspired our prideThose were the days Change, it came, with it, a new stridePeople helping others was our noble guideWe worked together and were on the same sideThose…were…the…days! […]
Track Title: I Thought I Had
ASCAP Registration #: 928613845 Your laugh was like sunshine, warmed me from withinOh how I wish your sunshine were in my life again‘Once upon a time’ turned so quickly into ‘the end’A book, long left behind, I thought I had a friend Memories now linger, shadows in my mindThe echoes of our laughter, a bond I cannot findSecrets told on whispers both on and offlineI thought I had a friend, but now I’m left behind I hope you live every day without a single thought of meI hope you love and laugh often and are feeling peacefullyI hope you never […]
Track title: Realness (not serving tea)
I’m not here to sugarcoat truthThis life is realness and every day is proofI won’t pretend to be someone’s best idealGoals for myself are set, they gonna have to deal Not after fakes, no facade, that ain’t my callEvery day, taking back my power so I stand tallNo more time for pretending, so no more gamesGetting on with being me, a being with no shame This is all the realness, I’m not serving teaNot after some idealness, I’m just serving meA work of art in progress, evolving just like youEvery day in every way, authenticity shining through No more trying […]
Title track: Demagogue In A Toupee
In the halls of power, a clown takes the stageA would-be king, naught but ego and rageHe spoke of greatness, but brought only shameHe is dividing us, with his hate-filled game Donald J Trump, a man unfit to leadConvictions piling up, worst kind of a bad seedA danger to democracy, a threat each and every dayWe need a leader, not a demagogue in a toupee He lied about his scandals, about his payoffs, tooAbout the wall, about the debt, about what he would doHe used his power to enrich himself and friendsWhile leaving the people behind, he has no defense […]
Title track: Just Because
When life gets loud and the world gets wornI find my peace by living as I’m bornFree from fear, free from doubt’s dark stainI take control, no apologies in vain I dance to my own drumbeat’s refrainLiving life without apology, it keeps me saneIn the driver’s seat, what no one else can claimI find my sweet retreat and love and kindness reign Cannot say I had much of a helping handSo I like to help, when and just because I canNo expectations, no reward or fameJust the joy of giving, in my heart’s name I dance to my own drumbeat’s […]
Track Title: Don’t Participate!
Politicians, they spin and they swayStill waiting for change to come our waySince ’60s dreams, the divide’s grown wideTwo parties, same script, no care inside Campaign funds flow like a river’s tideRe-election’s priority, never on our sideLobby dollars traded, stocks bought and soldThe people’s needs forgotten, and it’s getting old Class war rages on, it’s not about the goldA fight for fairness, for the future to be toldWe’re destroying our biome, our home, our fateWe need to take a stand, don’t participate! Both sides talk, but little gets doneThe status quo’s protected, the people are undoneEnvironmental warnings ignored or delayedThe […]
Title track: Fake (Family)
ASCAP Registration #: 928388433 Mom’s gone, her legacy in vainFoster child, left out in the rainNotice read, no mention of my nameErased from history, a shame to claim She called me daughter, but now I’m just a lineIn a list of names, without a signLeft out of mourning, as if I’m a crimeThe foster child’s pain, in a rhyme that’s mine She called me “daughter” with prideWas no coattail for me to just rideSo now it is recanted?I’ll take it in my strideNever had family but they so backslide Now they’ve set it truly into ink:“…foster children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren”No […]
Title Track: Chains
Democracy’s in chains, power plays the gameCorporations call the shots, they have no shameThe people, silenced, while special interests reignWe’re witnessing history, as our rights go up in flames Fast-paced fury fuels our fightFor freedom, justice, and what’s rightWe won’t back down, we won’t give inLet freedom echo, and make the system right again The disabled are ignored, the L B Q T I A + are shamedNeurodivergent minds are marginalized, and B L I P O C blamed;Denied their rights, their dignity, and their place in this landWe stand complicit by silence, democracy is dying by our hand Fast-paced […]
Old Stream Intro/Themesong
Earlier this year, I started a new stream only to discover that the weekly stay wifi couldn’t handle it. Spent a day making this intro for it, but now it’s just another marker in the field. Archiving here for “posterity” and the occasional social media reference (I have many skills, sure wish someone would hire me for any of them).
Track title: Worn
ASCAP registration #: 926945387 Fifty-nine years, life on me has wornInternal skies gray as an empty dawnKids abandon me, they’ve got their own waysLeft to suffer my rest of days Broken heart and a deeply weary soulTook every hit, so they might have controlSacrificed shamelessly so they could be wholeShamelessly sacrificed, left upon life’s shoal Left me behind without them to claim Gave them all but they deny my name Never had family, a life-long refrainNever belonging, always an endless strainEven from my children, no warmth to claimThe story unfolding, no one ever sustains I used to move, like rays […]