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Punch it Up!
02:14
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Punch it Up! - February 1, 2021
Here goes nothing!
By nothing, I mean something
By something, I mean everything
Anything goes
Ears and eyes, I know
I sense the feeling, here we go
CHORUS:
Gonna break it down
Going to punch it up
Let it roll around
Until we've had enough
Then rewind and we'll play it all again
Metronomic
Go Supersonic!
Honey, drop the beat
The basis for this melody is to chase
away the melancholy
Goodness Gracious Golly! I believe!
Bang! Boom! Hiss!
Clang! Jump! Bliss!
Press play/record, we can't miss!
It winds me up, aligns me right
Calibrate it until it seems alright
Maybe I am biased or over-biased but I think it sounds just fine.
Tell them, “We're alright!”
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Adeline v2.0 (Regrets and Misdirection) - February 1, 2021
Adeline, I am contemplating life
Adeline, points of space and time
Dry rosé on a sweet summer evening
Poetry on my tongue
Decades have come, Decades have gone
It has been a long time... Coming.
A few short trips around the sun
But if I could do it all over again
CHORUS:
I would have brought a map
I would have brought a compass
Would have brought a knapsack filled with supplies
'Cause took a wrong turn... back in the nineties
I got lost in the middle of the aughts
But tonight I've bought into the moment
I suppose ought to forget
Adeline, I am contemplating life
Adeline, points of space and time
All the regrets and misdirection
Bitterness on my lips
Friends will come and friends will go
It has been a long while... Since I've seen you
Revolve, rotate, the vastness of space
But if I could do it all over again...
All the regrets and misdirection
Accept the continuum of space and time
Adeline
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3. |
Old Mixtape
03:10
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Old Mixtape – February 9, 2021
Hey Yeah... I know it's been a time
Still got chevy, You want to go for a drive?
For old times' sake? Maybe new romance?
I quit drinking but I still dance
Just like we used to, all those years ago
CHORUS:
Yeah, I'm a little rough around the edges
And rusty on my romantic lines
But I can still dance all night
And I'll hold your hand if you hold mine
I still have that old mixtape
That you made me on our first date
Cassette player still works just fine
This pick up truck, it's like it'll never die
Some things never change, but some things do
So... What time should I pick you up?
I know I may be pushing my luck
Asking for one more chance again
To forgive all my previous sins
Even a stubborn man like me can change
Hey yeah, I know it's been a time
Would you sit next to me and go for a drive?
Slide straight to the middle seat
Please stay right next to me.
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4. |
Precious Sanity
02:27
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Precious Sanity –February 9, 2021
Oh precious sanity
Won't you come back to me?
Calloused fingers on strings
Muscle memory
Melodies writing
Themselves again
CHORUS:
What are the origins?
Where did is it originate?
You'd think I'd know what I was doing
But I rarely do
Inspiration come to me
Limitations be damned
Damned if I do
Damned if I don't
Pen to paper, paper to pen
Ink stains on my hands
Meditate on the task at hand
No thoughts in my head
I've reached nirvana, I surely have
Blank slate, final state
Then back to reality
More practice, I must need
Waiting on the day, to get some clarity
I wait and wait and wait... and then wait and wait and wait
A patient man's game, a game for the sane
Oh my precious sanity
Won't you come back to me?
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5. |
Favorite Imperfections
01:46
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Favorite Imperfections – February 23, 2021
I may never sing in perfect pitch
May never snap quite to the grid
Might never have a radio hit
But if I did...
It'd be a little loose
Might be a little pitchy
Just like it was back in the sixties
When they hit it hard
They made it swing for us
Or push the tempo in the chorus
I put the classic records on
I hear all the things that went wrong
Those imperfections are my favorite parts
Love to hear...
When it gets a little loose
Might get a little pitchy
Like the 70s, 60s, 50s
Might have a little crackle
Might have a little hiss
Not quantized with perfect pitch
It ends up a little loose
Might get a little pitchy
Those imperfections make it feel real to me.
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6. |
Plastic Cups of Whiskey
02:46
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Plastic Cups of Whiskey
Plastic Cups of Whiskey – February 2021
Plastic cups of whiskey
Cheers to the ending of a year
Forgot to buy the champagne, stemware is packed away my dear
But there wasn't much to celebrate this year
CHORUS:
Thought life would be different in the future
Like I was promised as a child
Technology, promised to make our lives easy
Instead of connect, managed to drive us all apart
Shake another drink in the tumbler
As you rattle off a string of random thoughts
Time square looks so different, but it's not just NYC
So does Main St and the grocery store
Could I whisk you away?
In another lifetime, perhaps I could've
Pandemic in full-effect! Travel? Just a past relic
And we can't just get up and leave
I thought life would be different in the future
Like I was promised as a child...
But I'd trade the thought of flying cars
To chat and drink at our corner bar
Forget any thought of jet packs
To have our boring old lives back
Last glass of whiskey my dear.....
Cheers to living in spite of all our fears
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7. |
Short Days Seem So Long
02:46
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Short Days Seem So Long – February 5, 2021
It was a cold day in a small Midwestern town
Wind chill was five below
Still went outside to shovel the drive
Because it's just something we have to do
CHORUS:
The days of my youth, I'd stay out all day in the snow but...
The older I get, the more I understand, what it means to feel it in your bones
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Early morning only darkness to be found
Frost on the windows again
Creak and moan, chilled to the bone
Better put an extra layer on
Eventually, the sun will come around
With her warm rays upon my face
How I long for the springtime thaw
Surround myself with new life
I am dreaming of the thaw
These short days seem so long
Just another cold day in a small Midwestern town
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8. |
Luxuries & Finery
03:02
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Luxuries & Finery – February 9, 2021
She walked into an office right off of music row
Eyes wide and dreams in tow
30,000 dollars for that couch?
That's a nicely tailored suit she thought
Cost more than any car I've ever bought
CHORUS:
Gold Records on the wall is what she sees
Luxuries and finery
Finds its way in the industry
But not always for the one that's on the stage
Open mics and songwriters in the round
Never a shortage, talent always abounds
Wish this green room had a couch
Whiskey on the rocks, she drinks
Clears her throat and any doubt she thinks
She scrolls through celebrity news
Reports on little everything that they do
Surrounded on a couch in VIP
In a club or on the street
The future? Is this what I want to be?
Cult of celebrity
Luxurious finery
Maybe it's not for me
But she'll sing for you...
And you'll feel safe
In your tiny little house
On your secondhand couch
In a neighborhood far away from music row.
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9. |
Metaphors & Allegories
03:27
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Metaphors & Allegories – February 20, 2021
"Is there any wisdom you have for me...
For dealing with these thoughts of grief?"
You said, “Every window is just a door to a thief.”
"You can lock all of your doors
Swallow your only key
No matter what you do, they're going to get in"
CHORUS:
I said, “I don't really know what that all means?”
I appreciate your metaphors and allegories
But I'm not sure they make as much sense as you think?
But maybe they do?
Advice a wise man once told me
Well, technically it was a wise woman
She said, “you sleep in the bed that you make.”
"So, make sure your corners are tight
And have a pillow you like
And make sure to wash your sheets regularly."
"Sometimes you need to figure out
Appropriate machinery to push them out
A bulldozer or front-loader for your mind
Once upon a time, a long time ago
I sought truth and all I know
You can catch a glimpse in rhymes and parables"
Even when you are not really sure what they mean
You can find some truth in similes, metaphors and allegories
Yeah, I guess that makes some sense to me?
I mean, maybe it's true.
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10. |
Art House Film
02:28
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Art House Film
How many years has it been?
I saw you in my dreams again.
You look like you hadn't aged a day.
You were wearing your favorite shirt
By now it should be old and faded
But in my dream, still vivid and bright
It is like time stands still
Like you were captured on film
With a date in the corner but remain timeless
In my dream, you never speak
Still I wait for you to tell me something
But every time you open your mouth, I awake
I'm not really sure what it all means
3am, staring at the ceiling
Eyes close, zoom out for an aerial shot
What is this movie?
What is the plot?
Let's move the story-line along
Am I the only one with lines?
Why am I screaming all the time?
Feels like an art house film, so avant-garde
You enter stage right
The same place you always stand
You open your mouth and I awake.
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11. |
A Song for the Afterlife
02:23
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A Song for the Afterlife – February 2, 2021
A song for you? Could I write?
I'd like to write a song for you, but I can't.
Just too much to put on my plate
Too many roadblocks in the way
Too much heartache, too much hurt
Can't dredge these feelings up again
Death has a way of holding on
To the living with her talons tight.
When I see you in the afterlife
Sing with me one more song
You'd say, “Songwriting can be cathartic...
For those that never feel like they belong”
Melodies come from the beyond.
With words and pictures clinging on.
For the heartbroken, for the depressed
Ah, the ones that I've known best
“My people, my people.” You'd say
If you were still here with us today
A song for you for the afterlife?
A song for you? I would like to write.
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12. |
Melt into the Ether
01:41
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Melt into the Ether – Feb 26, 2021
If I die before I wake...
You could take anything you want because I'd be dead
If I don't see another day...
You can give all these songs away to my friends
Everyone gets their number called
When we're gone, we're gone
Float into the great beyond
Or melt into the ether, become one
Don't cry for me...
Just say good-bye...
Just say good-bye or sing along.
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Fauxbow (Instrumental)
02:55
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Dan Vaillancourt Midland, Michigan
Michigan-based singer-songwriter Dan Vaillancourt has performed nearly a thousand concerts in 40 states, has been heard on
the radio in all 50 states and many other things that sound impressive, but his friends will tell you that he is a dork.
"...Truly one of the eclectic original and iconic wordsmiths writing songs today." - Bob Gottlieb, Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange
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