My band The Fancy Pears has released a couple of new songs recently, one titled San Berdu and the other First March, Then Charge. We’re working on an album to be released next year, new keyboard/synth player and all š
Iāve been working a lot with my band The Fancy Pears so I havenāt had the opportunity to organize myself into magical thoughts of penned realization BUT we released our first album āLivinā On a Pearā this past Saturday. Weāve been working on it for almost a year, learning how to mix it ourselves before finishing it up. The album is set to be available for streaming on Spotify in a week or so but in the meantime, weāve posted it on our website: www.thefancypears.com
Tanis
This song is loosely based on the Pacific Northwest Stories Podcast series ‘Tanis.’ Tim and I binged listened to the Podcast when we first found out about it and as it consumed our thoughts, we succumbed to its magic and came up with the melody and lyrics.Ā
Somewhere, in the atomic ocean
Floating in a sideways motion
The fisherman had lost his bet
His story, told across the land
Spinning, some new age logic
Stolen from ancient knowledge
Seventeen upon his head
The bookman finally met his match
Holy, you know I feel so holy
If only, the sky would hold me
Arms outstretched and smiling proud
The gambler fell straight to the ground
Beauty, you know Iāve seen true beauty
Flowing right straight through me
The runner cried and shook his head
Iāll never see that place again
Sunsweat
I wrote the lyrics and the melody to this during my first winter in Wisconsin. Most of the story is true other than me dreaming about it being hot; perhaps it was all a mirage.Ā
I was sitting on the front porch today
Feeling alone and kind of lame
Sunsweat dripped down my face
Cold sheen on the waterās glass
A clown on a bike, passed me by
With two others riding behind
A barking dog chased them all
They were there and then they werenāt
Do you feel the sun today?
Am I going crazy?
I stumbled coming out the door
And scraped my face along the earth
Light blinds, something burns my eyes
Sunsweat and blood trickle down
Field of Hearts
The lyrics for this song were based off of a piece I wrote several years ago. The Fancy Pears filmed it at a haunted house in Madison, Wisconsin.Ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFuZ9c5bCJ4Ā
I could feel the cracks
Like I was a thin piece of glass
Fragile fingers enclose the frame
Bright eyes follow through the pane
In the field of hearts
There is a queen above us all
Shading the light with her advertised wisdom
In the field of hearts
There is a queen standing tall
She assumed the battle won
With all her fiends around us
Led by the wordsmith in a hat
Guided by thoughts that drive us mad
White rabbit whiskers lead the path
Counting time as it turns back
In the field of hearts
There is a queen above us all
Shading the light with her advertised wisdom
In the field of hearts
There is a queen standing tall
She assumed the battle won
With all her fiends around us
Off with her head, singing
Off with her head
To lay above our bed
Off with her head
Off with her head, singing
Off with her head
To lay above our bed
Off with her head
As Told by the Owl
We live in a fucked up society.
Bluebird across the water
Come and play with me
Let me have one song to sing
Underneath your tree
Old red tail hawk flew by
Shadow in the leaves
A belly hunting to satisfy
Hovering over me
In the graylight of the hour
Will you follow me?
A devilās waiting for you here
To take you in your sleep
Go on and donāt look back
Cry away your fears
The wind will keep your feathers dry
All throughout the years
Up above the treetops
Here you sit with me
The darkness keeps us closer
The stars within our reach
Look up now little one
Pay no mind to me
The moon will greet your spirit home
Follow the light to see
Shine on
I am grateful for inspiration ā¤
My band released a video yesterday for our song ‘Field of Hearts.’ This was such a fun experience, we recorded all of it at Olin Park in Madison, Wisconsin. I learned a lot about videography and editing, including how awkward it is to be on camera…hellooooo close-ups!! But overall, I am so proud to have been apart of this project and I’m grateful for all of the help we received in making it possible.
The inspiration behind the story might be interesting to some of my long-term WordPress friends, we loosely based the idea fromĀ a piece I wrote and published on here March 31, 2013: Muse Writer – The Queen of Hearts
Looking back now, I posted thisĀ three years prior to the day that The Fancy Pears played our first show at the High Noon Saloon in Madison and almost four years prior from the present. Crazy how everything seems to come full circle!
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Ride along with me and my band The Fancy Pears through the streets of downtown Madison in a Union Cab van. we are officially taxi troubadours šš¶
Decisions, decisions
Another day for questions
Because others demand responses
As to, do you:
Want to become successful
OR
Follow your passions?
Like itās that simple
Or, that only one option
Determines the outcome
Of what is destined
And who Iām meant to be
Sacrifices, compromises
Another day for keeping silent
Told my future could* be bright
As in, if I:
Give up self to the Business
VS
Continue as a ācreativeā
Like no one artistic has
Ever been effective in
Any type of leadershipā¦ever
Must yield to remain in position
To thrive as one of the corporation
I am grateful for music ā¤
It pours
in and out of consciousness
As I float in the world
of imagination
Where hearts beat
as one in the collective
Accumulating experience of
feelings to differentiate
Determination brings thoughts
closer to the surface
Where they trail out of mouth
and into the heavens
and weāre free
to do what we want
when we want to do it
Knowing only self and what
I have witnessed
Trying to relate with that
knowledge and gain
some understanding
Of what it means to be
HUMAN
All of this in one
form of interaction of
opening soul up to
Anyone searchingā¦?
Active listeners who
appreciate the intensity
Of another without
the employment of taking
each gift and knowingly unwrapping
Choosing to discard rather
than salvage it
and weāre free
to do what we want
when we want to do it
Just a simple task of
mind Over matter
I am grateful for The Fancy Pears ā¤
My band The Fancy Pears has a few social media accounts that you can follow if you want. We’ve been playing a lot of shows lately, as well as working on new music at home. It’s been a whirlwind of an adventure but I’m pretty stoked about it. We found out this morning that they are playing our song Sunsweat on the local radio station! Happy Saturday everyone ā¤
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