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The winter of our fresh content?


A single-handed keyboard improvisation for orchestral synthesizer from several years ago.

OK… yeah, bad pun. Maybe not even immediately recognizable in its intent. Sue me.

But here it is, the turning of another season and this blog’s fresh new decade that started with the autumnal equinox is now three months in and… not much new content to show… exactly.

But I did complete the infrastructure overhaul of the site, getting all the posts tagged properly with subjects and song titles and laboriously going through all the play links, converting the motley collection of playing systems to (almost) all use the same, straightforward in-page player.

And… well… I have been playing a lot. And working to try to bring my undisciplined and tonally meandering voice under better control. It might seem odd, playing catch-up on the singing front after showing no regard for niceties like pitch and technique for decades, but I am a creature of whim — and more than a little whimsy. And a dash of quixotic abandon when it comes to impossible quests. I mean, I know I ain’t never gonna be Nat Cole.

More soon… no, really.

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A Thousand Lies

Nine days from now, on the 2015 Autumnal Equinox, Wednesday, September 23, A Year of Songs will be 10 years old.

After over 400 posts that included 300 songs — that were downloaded over a half million times from Archive.org — I admit, I had let the pace slack. OK, I put a landing page randomizer on it so people would see something different every time they visited and pretended that was close enough for blogland.

But, of course… the caged bird must sing. If you can call it singing…

I’ve Got a Thousand Lies 
(originally, Bridge to Nowhere)

I’ve got a thousand lies
I can’t wait to tell you
I’ve got a bridge to nowhere
I know I could sell you
I’ve got a real nice dream
as phony as hell
you know it’s all a
part of the game

I know the rules
I’m making them up
anything that works
just to stay on top
I don’t care who
else takes the drop
’cause it’s all a
part of the game

tell a lie often enough
people forget
where the truth leaves off
but usually the truth —
it’s just not enough
besides it’s all a part of the game

I’ve got a reason
for all that I do
life’s got a meaning
I’ll explain it to you
it’s all about me
it’s not about you and
it’s all a part of the game

2008-09-19
©2008, TK Major

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