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https://soundcloud.com/roark-3

finally was completed, at my usual leisure in all things ;p a performance over 6 months in waiting, a day of preparing & all on the last day of our venue’s hosting of this laid-back fare 

Requiem of Last Mohican (raw home iphone)

~ took some time to see if a damaged arm & a couple month layoff from playing or singing, would result in something i am happy with… mission accomplished ;p

Oh Darlin’ (Beatles’ cover) … w/ a good mate years removed, back in town & some hash in a chance encounter - fairly alright for a one-time attempt..

Halogen (raw new-home root version)

Aurora / Shadow Of Us (raw new-home recording)
©2012

Those Days Are Gone (bedtime for the lil’ ones version)

Those days are gone

You wear the cross
I wear the bed
You think inside
& I think instead
All of your cracks
That’ve you buried well
I’ll overlook
Whenever you fell……..

But I wasn’t the same
& I knew I fell
The same weight you felt
Beginning a swell

We never held
Either of us close
Making this followthrough
Feel nothing more..

& hamper your head
I’ve never slept
You the math I barely
Made correct
You in one direction
I in another
I never gave a hint until another..

You wear the cross 
I wear the bed
You wear the rosebush
& I am the hand
©2012 

~ the uniqueness of los angeles over new york is to me how one side quietly aspires for a re-branding of its hubris in the model of celebratory tradition as exhibited by the export of something as tantamount as the fashions of the Duchess, while the other re-imagines itself as being so on its own as a removal of that connection it too exhibits similarities with its own past traditions exported over as well through history…

Empire of Tea (Live) May 23rd Last Temptation, Kensington Market, Toronto

Empire of Tea (new take)
©2011

~ returning to this for some variance 

Sweet Melody

~ second song ever wrote what feels a few passages ago… decided last day off for a while, this was part of the chill zone…

I want to sing empty
& walk up happy
In the arms of an angel a sweet friend said to me

& wherever I remember
Where we were I cheer
Forever I saw her, in my soft dream

Sweet Melody
When in turn mirrored
Sweet Melody

Make it okay
Another word of advice
& I’ll pass on ahead now
I can get out each day
& make who I am to everyone who shows no reason or mind
Forget your hearts when dining..

Isn’t it a funny place I want to know
Make me an intention
Rattle invention 
Make me believe all burned heaven
Still rings cheer
I’m alone this year
I’m alone to the waiting
I want to know
When we’re done, for the secrecy of

Sweet melody…
© 2011

Images…

I woke up screaming my head from the dreaming
It kept me scared in the light of the morning
We were all friends I thought except my dreams we’re not
We’re too apart and…

Into my sleep I sent all of my demons’ hands
They took away all my sentiments
Throughout the day my eyes accepting this carbon light
It’s just lies and…

My images spin around you
Our innocence surrounds you from…

If I’m still standing does this count as dreaming
You test your fortune while I look around you
My emotions are settling after the sequencing
Bloodshot my eyes are opening this hour

After the day has past my poet back at last
Into my dreams a nightmare’s next to best
To shake away anything you might have seen through me
All my fears & dreams the images keep spinning…

Around you
Our images spin around you 
Spinning around you…
©2012 

~ part sample of a rendering of “Mexico” from Incubus, done for a bday gift…

there is a walking a rippling a cadence to the eye that gathers every bit of nature that it sees
so little wish it has for standing closed in one spot
every time a breath moves it further out
putting together little puzzles in pictures the memories do seam
©2012 

missed you
running past my right
we are country roads
we are seeing hills
the Big Blue light
behind the cloud light
your ripped flag
bearing itself in pieces
in the foreground of a mountain
©2012 

Human Universe

I sit back when you’re in my light
I try not to fight
I watch you walk the line
It’s not broken this heart of mine 

You’re not a machine
But you’re acting out of reach… 

Human Universe
Human you need us 

So troubles me to wake
I ask my eyes escape
What have you to leave
If I create no relief

You are not machines
But too far out of reach… 

Human Universe
Human you need us

You ask me to stay
I beg you go away
I swear I won’t lie
Unless you start to cry
©2012