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Adaeda

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ADAEDA

In my thus far pathetic efforts to learn to play guitar, I came across a series of guitar chords, A, D, A, E, D and A, that form a basic blues guitar riff.

To me, it sounded like a woman's name, Adaeda, and naturally, as it was inspired by a riff, she has the blues.

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Fortuitous For Two Of Us

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Fortuitous For Two Of Us

FORTUITOUS FOR TWO OF US

Inspired by just another play on words...similar to "...'til ravens wane." and "'...til rAveNswAn," "Forlorn for Lauren" or "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya."

I like finding words you can almost lay over each other and in a twisted and muffled way, they sound the same.

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Please Show Me Your Wings

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Please Show Me Your Wings

PLEASE SHOW ME YOUR WINGS

Two thought threads were sewn together to come up with this one. First, the concept of someone being "saved" by another, thus assuming the other to be an angel, then longing for proof.

The second thread, the cable downing Hell's elevator, manned by none other than Dante Alighieri.

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Birden the Albatross

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Birden the Albatross

Birden the albatross carries peoples' problems in a sack on his back. The load is heavy and he needs some help.

He tries to enlist help from many other birds he encounters, including a carrier pigeon and a carrion crow, but none will help him carry.

Finally, he receives a message from a man who wants his problem back. The man realized he needs to take responsibility for it, consequently lightening Birden's load.

(Akin to an Aesop's Fable)

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Yin’s Dark And Scary Story

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Yin’s Dark And Scary Story

Yin, a baby black bear, is afraid of the dark because he cannot see himself.

Hear how he is saved from his nightmare by a black maned knight mare as told by the black and white hare who witnessed it there…

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Tryin’ To Shake The Devil Outta Me

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Tryin’ To Shake The Devil Outta Me

I’ve got no fight in me left

My song began with a “Trouble” Clef

But now it ends here with this rope…

Here with this rope around my neck

Not even a rope can save me

The story of my life

Is old noose now

No, not even a rope can save me

Unless…

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But A Fool’s Bonfire

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But A Fool’s Bonfire

Auntie Fay

What in the world are you burning

Auntie Fay

Your action’s beyond disconcerting

To start your fire

Said you had gotten free wood

Not the wood for free

As assumed understood

Not the wood for free

But in fact, it’s free wood

From the Liberty Tree

And you’re up to no good

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Wake Up Sleeping Bear

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Wake Up Sleeping Bear

Wake up sleeping bear

Wake up

Under masks that they wear

But they are the virus

Trying to divide

The U.S. from all of us

Wake up sleeping bear

Wake up

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I Fall For You

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I Fall For You

Like telling the leaves

To hold on to Fall

To spare them from

The fire and rake

Why bother telling them at all

Compelled to take their leap of faith

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Even My Horse Knows I’m To Blame

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Even My Horse Knows I’m To Blame

I’m just waiting

For the lightning to strike

Hear the clap of thunder

And I just might

Ride my horse into the rain

Like a banshee, scream

I’d call out your name

But you would not hear

Think I know

No, I know

I fear

You had waited

For the lightning to strike

Heard the clap of thunder

Rode your horse into the rain

You rode away

You made your way

Far, far away

So you could not hear me call your name

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Free Freedom From Its Chains

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Free Freedom From Its Chains

…When all that’s right

Turned upside-down

A smile upright

Becomes a frown

Don’t like it great?

Vote for the clown

But you’ll have to remind him

Why he’s around

Don’t ask him why

He can’t explain

Why insanity reigns…

Why freedom’s in chains

Tonight I saw

Freedom in chains…

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Open Your Umbrellas

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Open Your Umbrellas

Open your umbrellas

On your tables

And in your drinks

Don’t dry dock your boats

Because only a boat

In water sinks

That’s not the way to think

The time to die

Is at the end of life

Don’t die before you’re dead

Go out now

And live your life

In a world outside your head

Live your life

Don’t waste your time

Until I’m dead

I’m living mine

The good

The bad

That living brings

Much better than

A life that’s full of nothings

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Dance On Shadow Queen

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Dance On Shadow Queen

Your love

Your love’s a surface

Time can’t deface

Your love’s so big

Fills outer space

Your love’s a love

Time can’t replace

When you’re gone

It’s the blues

Takes the world

To fill your shoes

A world of colors

Such beautiful hues

But you’re back in my world

And that’s wonderful news

Dance on shadow queen

Dance on

Dance on my shadow queen

Dance on

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Not My Mona Lisa

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Not My Mona Lisa

…But when my novel, she comes out

You can buy it with a Visa

So it’s not my Mona Lisa

No, it’s not my Mona Lisa

But it’s fine

‘Cause it’s mine

All that work

And all that time

Completed work

Came from my mind

Now put to paper

That’s how I made her…

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Thoughts On Thinking

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Thoughts On Thinking

Brilliance

Resulting in Renaissance

To think in safety

Progress’s response

Above your head

Wear a cap with a sconce

Trimmed with gutters and downspouts

To safely dispatch

The hot wax

Which prior

Only your head there to catch

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