A gentle one: It Can Be Like That (a love story)

“It Can Be Like That”

AS I think of you, falling asleep
there’s not much in my many memories to keep
me from waking you with the gentlest touch
and sweeping you up when the feeling’s so much
and it’s lately been that way
just like an early day

I’d give up gladly anything that I own
for a glimpse of your face, I might take out my phone
pictured there on my arm with an angel-like charm
for you’ve earned peaceful sleep
but I’m raptured so deep

when we sing together, cling together
It can be like that
and what years that we know, and what wrinkles may grow
if we keep this fine art, of our love from the start
It can be like that.
It can always be like that.

When I see young love in the making anew
and I hear of whispered words that will ever be true
I see them in the hearts of the lucky ones old
who hold hands and hang on when the years become gold
for it’s all the same
never end this game

For there’s days, many days, that pass in our eyes
and should time make them dim, here’s a word to the wise:
that the first flush of feeling that you find so appealing
needs permanent room
hidden safe from the gloom

and just walk together, talk together
it can be like that
and what years that we know, and what wrinkles may grow
if we keep this fine art, of our love from the start
It can be like that.
It can always be like that.

And it’s heart felt to say, I’m not that kind of man
who can never be found when he finds a new plan
when you’ve got to get a grip, reach for that same hand
for like fingerprints, the pattern remains
even after pitter-patter, and so much for our brains

Over seas together, please together,
no I’ll never complain
If we cling together, sing together
unbroken ring together
long as the sun reflects on the moon
and deep as midnight, yet brighter than noon
when we walk together, talk together
it can be like that
we return like spring and everything
I ever loved in you
it stays on my mind
and we’ll always find
it can be like that

it’s our fling, together, wings together
that’s how we’ll fly
when we love together, love forever
across the sky
and we’ll cry together, why together
we could smile
of our love forever, love together
it can be like that

It can always be like that.
7/14/17 3:39 am Cecil Disharoon, Jr.

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Personal for a sexy girl: can anyone help me please?

I've long wished to do an EP full of songs with The Marc Kane on lead. As I am the more hands-on songwriter of our duo, I'm more likely to show up on a demo, but this one...I think it was a melody I heard upon waking, once again. It was so fun to write! I consider it a companion piece to "Waiting ON A Girl" and somewhat similar in lyrical intent. It's also very evocative of Angela Dawn's life in CAlifornia. Above all, I wrote it as a show piece for her. Maybe you'll get to hear her punk rock struggle when she was basically without legal i.d.- Invisible REsident- maybe even Monday.

This song's like a playful personal ad for the more mystical side of my best lady friend. Will anyone answer? LOL
Consider it a personal-i-tease. You can tell where she starts cutting loose about a minute in. I spent a little over an hour adding some bells and whistles to what was already a solid acoustic performance- her first try recording it. So glad to get it out to share!

-Lue Lyron

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Flying in Dreams: Integr8d Soul's Drifter (Skyward) by C Lue

I never plan to write a song, you know?


Drifter (Skyward)

I stopped to say good bye to a recent friend we’d made
we took a book of Batgirl comics, which on her bed she laid
her dreams of knowledge started, her things moved in the castle
it’s time to leave the castle now, so was it worth the hassle?

I went out to the flying craft, gave everyone a wave at length
it’d be so quick to pilot home, hang on and use my arm’s strength
and then I pushed the throttle forward, wheels rushed off the ground
then floating a-bove I waved at the students all around

Enough of all this scenery, and back to my machinery
I drifted to my next goodbye, he wasn’t one for hugs
but he’d seemed a friend so good enough we’d talk of Italy
I raised my machine high enough to stay above the trees

Drifter leaning skyward
it’s beautiful, you can take my word
you feel surrounding elements, you are so unprotected
but we just might fly to everywhere if we can stay connected

And there below inside the park, I saw you my best friend
playing ball with a child and family she lifted up her chin
I guided down my drifter to four point alight below
and I asked have you seen everyone I know it’s time to go
You said I wish we’d stayed to be the graduation ceremony
I knew you meant you hope it pays that a bachelor’s work’s not phony
we’d have a few hours to glide, we shouldn’t plan our stops
we might not make them all in time, then our friends might call the cops

to see if we had crashed in our dream drifter headed east
perhaps we’ll just surprise someone if we communicate the least
it’d keep us off the Internet, it’s too much information
when our dream’s to launch our flyer and glide all over the nation

Drifter leaning skyward
it’s beautiful, you can take my word
you feel surrounding elements, you are so unprotected
but we just might fly to everywhere if we can stay connected

So hang on to my drifter, and our wings will catch the wind
I can’t promise riches, places we won’t see again
and I hope the flight is worthy, for it’s cost me everything
but my time, and that, I’ll pay to climb on hopeful, steady wings

we’ll leave the campus quickly, once we push the throttle down
and we might need jobs that aren’t so much, we might need other towns
but where we go, we’ll always talk, and speed to skies above
so long as this craft can hold up, invention spreads the love

We fly with ease within our dreams, without a fear of heights
in this drifter we will travel light, above the city nights
some might want to fly like us, a few might help the way
we can make ground life more bearable, though misery might stay

The weather in this drifter may make travel incomplete
repairs require honesty and dollars that compete

Drifter leaning skyward
it’s beautiful, don’t just take my word
we feel surrounding elements, we are so unprotected
but we just might fly to everywhere if we can stay connected

Flyers high within our minds, in vivid dream’s pretend
but I know what’s real and beautiful, is making one best friend
Drifter bracing skyways
navigate the by-ways
soaring over high-ways
floating high again

Drifter bracing skyways
navigate the by-ways
soaring over high-ways
floating high again Cecil Disharoon/ Lue Lyron 8/23 11:05am

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90's night: Alternative Life (Live at Schroeder's, pt. 2)

Check out my previous post for even more 90's night goodness!

I have more Box Wine songs, too!
Here's one you might've missed that has stayed often in my head:


Nosecone Prophets closed the night, and were one band that got some video, too! Short set, but they always make it count:



I have more Yet! Stay tuned, I want to edit them-I have about 20 more minutes of show, done already
...I am a bit short on upload space on Soundcloud, actually, if any of the bands could offer a host site- I'd be glad to feature your song and give you the mp3 of course!


I didn't play that night, but was certainly inspired:

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When you disagree but are asked to work together

A friend offered a query for his creative peers, but you don't need to be in a creative field for this to apply. So many feelings get involved with that process, though, it's kind of the perfect crucible for this type of question. It's a question of ethics and allotting one's reserves, and it goes something like this:

Yep, it's like going into a dark tunnel, sure.
A friend you've known for years offers you a paying gig. It's a solid opportunity. You've known the person like half your life, so it would be cool to expand that through collaboration. It's a freelance job, and you'll be working together in some capacity. But while they're not a vile hate-monger, boy, do you not see eye-to-eye on some political matters. And as everyone knows, Politics has practically replaced Religion in matters of passionate conviction these days, to say nothing of what passes for discussion. So: take the job?

Inspired to reply, and then thinking it might be a cool discussion to pass along, the Be Chill, Cease ill on that count goes thusly:


You can probably do it. Know why? IF said friend understands how you feel differently- and for many of you, it might be hard to call you 'friend' and NOT know...but thinks you've got the chops, are reliable, and an all-right enough guy or gal to offer you a break...that counts for something. Mutual benefit of the doubt on differences. Just entering into evidence that speculation..not judging anyone. :-D If said difference doesn't have to enter the personal space, well awesome, cause it is, agreed, occasionally venomous. And some outlet for two fine, basically ethical friends to have discussions might even be welcome (it's agreeing upon the set of facts, these days, is it not, that is the issue?), but said friend would also probably understand a neat sidestep of "well, I think you're an intelligent, impassioned person, but I'd focus on giving our project our all and skip that exhausting subject, if ya don't mind" (the 'ya' is important, friend:-D)..Maybe flip a coin on it? Good luck.


There's so much upsetting stuff, and I've read we process 5 x the amount of information we did thirty years ago (I'm more than happy to limit my time on the 'Net for various reasons) so it can create quite a trainwreck in our nervous systems. I can dig it if you're concerned said friend will drift too often into that outlet out of a feeling of you becoming more of a confidante from long hours of collaboration. AS a writer, you get the advantage of understanding a bit how people with differing opinions, come to them, without having to embrace those that are stridently against your own ethics. Reason, we're finding, is tied first to feeling, then following that in its character. But my point was, so much BS out there and Anger, I find, is very hard to effuse in proportion once unleashed (kinda Love, too).

Like, when we go off, it's kinda the cumulative effect of all the things that tick us off, and so, embracing it can cause more strident reactions than we might intend. But you're a man of resolve, and if you have the reserves to avoid pressing the RAge button over the occasional annoyance, go for this! And honestly, if not, don't, because your peace counts for something, too. If they know you well at all, they may well have the prudence to realize they should steer away from certain querulous engagements, so, it's a matter of personal trust as well as assesment of and faith in your own reserves and qualities. WE do need unity beyond our differences, but you individually cannot hope to shoulder that burden for ALL- it's a gut-check, rather, of whether we have the strength to lift a given weight before us at a given time. If failure would be too costly, perhaps then we must decline certain challenges. But the willingness to take that chance when it is not a fool's errand but actually has a hope of a positive outcome- that is a sign of strength.

Our fears sometimes keep us from knowing the weight of that which lies before us, and sometimes our boldness makes us reckless. Courage and discernment must make friends and accomplish life together!

Then I'd step back from that equation and ask myself if I'd find the creative assignment engaging enough to warrant the investment.
I'm having a similar situation, with less guarantee it'll be remunerative in any fashion. These are the times that try the souls of folk, but while we might not always win, we can always learn and grow.

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90s Night Tributes, Rome Georgia style

3 90s Alternative classics for you today!

Dig it:

https://soundcloud.com/c-lue-disharoon/american-music-a-violent-femmes-cover-by-nobody-and-the-go-getters




In order, here are a few highlights and I'll edit some more tracks later, and I got my picture of Nobody onto their player now, too:


So here's Nobody and the Go Getters, Box of Wine and the Brunettes, and The Kamikaze Dali Trio- just some of the talent there, like Nosecone Prophets, Them Mixon Boys, and WEdunnit, much of which I was able to record- but not all! I re-mixed my single track live recordings with a bit of post production goodness to help the result along, but the wonderful charisma and skill are there from Press Play. The event became a suicide prevention awareness event, so if you're feeling troubled, take a breath, step out of that shit, read helpful things, do helpful things, bond. It's not always so simple for every human cocktail of chemicals to get through this life, no, but I promise it's an equation worth solving. For one, you get to experience ARt. That alone makes days worth living!


Heck, one more, I love it, I had it ready...it was on the same track as "Aeroplane" on my computer.



I got video, too, no sound though, but with the right editing set-up, hey: I'll share with the appropriate parties.
Sponsored by Integr8d Soul, creators of songs like "Drifter (Skywards)"
http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2017/08/flying-in-dreams-integr8d-souls-drifter.html

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Don't Think It's Crazy demo 2012

Hey, I wrote this and did the best I could singing it, single track, then kinda lost it for various reasons. But I kept the title around in my lists as I continued updating. I'd love to get it figured out again. I know together we'd do it better!
We're about to find out if we've got ProTools. Our Audacity stuff's been a fun experiment- very helpful with the podcasts!

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Rocket Man by Soul Rocket Ba-Doom

This was my favorite song when I was 13 :-D I was a kid on his own rocket trajectory, for sure. I don't quite know what about its melancholy melody I found so relatable, it just felt like it could be my story! I was recoverying from cyst outpatient surgery (on my bottom left eye lid! Yikes) when I heard it on the Oldies Lunch Set on K-98. I think I heard "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" the day before- I was out on a Thursday and a Friday- and I request some Elton John, as though he were kind of a new singer to me. The next week I requested more and found "Tiny Dancer"- I looked all over to get that song! I had it taped off the radio. Then I heard "Bennie and the Jets" and was floored!!!!!! Not long afterwards I caught a Westwood One Radio Network concert from the Hammersmith Odeon, 1973 December holidays. OH wow. I taped it off and listened to it so many nights. Especially before my operation, I felt like an outcast, so perhaps that's why a song like this left such an impression on me. It's beautiful, too, and is probably where my love of great repetitive outros was really born.

Rocket Man, Bernie says, came to him while driving home one night. He says he was as much inspired by Ray Bradbury as anything, and the title came from a song by an obscure Florida band, though I don't know how much that factored into Bernie's lyrics. Bernie, of course, is Taupin, the wordsmith behind most of Elton's greatest hits. They released "Rocket Man" about the same time as the Apollo 17 launch, in April 1972. They recorded it during the sessions for Honky Chateau, which was so haunted, Davey Johnstone (the guitarist) said hardly a day went by without someone getting tapped on the shoulder on the staircase...to say nothing of its weird cold spot in one bedroom. Granted, everyone but Elton was pretty stoned.

It went to #5 I think. It was Elton's biggest hit to date and is considered his breakthrough as a star.
("Your Song" went to #7 in 1970 but he didn't get another big follow-up hit for a while.)
If you hear it with only piano accompaniment, it's nearly too beautiful for this world. I recommend the 1976 version! That's where I copped my ending.
Here's the Cecil and Angela version.
Hope you enjoy.
Cecil

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As Days Crawl By- making your own rock ballads at home with Integr8d Soul

Here we go! We're using more layered guitar approaches in our home recordings now, plus piano riffs, and once we get The Marc Kane's vocals down on this, we'll assess, start over using our drummer/ drum program, and this just might be one epic I.S. ballad!
I wrote this the night of our anniversary of our engagement, at work- at least, the original first verse and chorus. I gave it a second verse, re-worked that into the first one, and began recording this summer. I've waited for so long to head towards this kind of sound, and once we have our Pro Tools iLok back, we're going to take it to another level...then the studio...and then man, I have a video idea or two, but I look forward to shoppin it around! I hope it really resonates. I never wrote love ballads, for years, but this one's got some modern edge to it and was deeply sincere and personal, so hey.

Thanks to all of you who supported us these past few years, and there's so much more to come! Good luck on all your dreams.

Love, C Lue aka Lue Lyron Be Chill Cease ill

As Days Crawl By words and music by Lyron

intro: G A G A E A E G A

1. E
The lies align around the liars
A E G A
Truth, often contradictory
E
What enters our imagination A E G A
The mystery of all mysteries
B A
Well I kicked open the door, oh/ And my life was headed west, so
B
We discovered from the get go
E
Never let go Ever let go

A E
Keep each day beside a new found friend
B
I long to see again


E A
And the days crawl by
E D E
as our eyes search for what we’ll call the Future
B A
as our souls’ always known as our bodies long to say
E A
Gotta get on through the harder way
Ye-hah, gotta get on through the harder way

E
Gonna get on through…
A
gotta get on through!
E
Gonna get on through
A G E
as days crawl by


A E G A




E
2. However long we’ve been together
A E G A
it makes so little difference to me
E
I’m still alive in how we started
A E G A
and dream of what we could be
B
For some the world’s a place for burnin’
A B
and the driven, ah the living, that we’re earning
E
Yet I’m yearning, yet I’m yearning,
A E
For the place in our hearts where we reside
B
Always on the other side

Chorus
E A
And the days crawl by
E D E
as our eyes search for what we’ll call the Future
B A
as our souls’ always known as our bodies long to say
E A
Gotta get on through the harder way
Ye-hah, gotta get on through the harder way

E
Gonna get on through…
A
gotta get on through!
E
Gonna get on through
A G E
as days crawl by
E
Gonna get on through…
A
gotta get on through!
E
Gonna get on through
A G E
as days crawl by A E G A E
Days crawl by...as the days...crawl by...days...crawl by...as the days crawl by (Days...)

2-7-17 & 6-15-17 All copyrights 2017 Cecil Disharoon, Integr8d Soul

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