Tag: original song

• own all the throes of your listlessness

  I have a new song called “Chrysalis.” Here’s the “studio” recording on Soundcloud:

  And here’s a video of me trying to sing it at you:

  Enjoy! It won’t kill you.

  April 30, 2025

  music, original song

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• Phrases as frenetic as a moth’s flight

  “Irregular Heart”

  An original song, written and performed by me, Paul.

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  Lyrics:

  Nearsight unseen
  Our vitals had been phoned in
  When you chose me and I chose you

  Tonight it seems
  I’m down to my last moment
  Before this dream
  Resolves into a dew

  Negotiating terms in our parlay
  You’ve taken all my crimes into account
  I strain my ears in hopes I’ll hear you say
  You’ll measure out our days by keeping count
  By the beat of my irregular heart

  A swarm of souls
  But you stand out like a statue
  It’s hard to spot the cracks within the stone

  The storm, it swells
  But I’m too small to catch you
  And now you lie in pieces there alone

  But I am here to make it all okay
  Your fragments I will bring in from the cold
  And when you’re reassembled, will you stay?
  You’re not the same, at least now you are whole
  With my irregular heart

  The time signature is wrong
  Maestro breaks his baton
  Phrases as frenetic as a moth’s flight

  The pattern’s hard to see
  But soft, and listen patiently
  To a love so true
  That you
  Could set your watch by

  You caught me flinch
  When you were standing right here
  The kind of clue you prayed you’d never see

  You took an inch
  But I offered you a light-year
  You’ll be damned before you let me in that deep

  I know you don’t want me to get this way
  But I sense your affections moving on
  I must believe this love is still in play
  It’s your heartbeat that makes this sound a song
  With my irregular heart

  February 12, 2022

  music, original song, songwriting, video

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