For my wife Tammy. When you know you know. Wedding in the Bahamas, May 20, 2022.

© 2020 Alejandro R Gimenez. All Rights Reserved.

One of my songs with it's melody attached. This is test recording of how the melody for the lyrics sounds before final tweaks and final recording. ©2018 Alejandro Gimenez.

© 2015, 2019 Alejandro Raul Gimenez. New recording of Shooting Star.

Written, performed and dedicated to the memory of my mother. Her stage name in Cuba was Magda Camori. This was inspired by her stories describing and showing me a few steps of Spanish "folkloric" dances she would perform in Cuba. Te extraño todo los dias. © 2019 Alejandro R. Gimenez.

Technical: Zoom H1N digital recording. Yamaha Montage 8 keyboard -loaned to me for this and other recordings at the time. Written and performed by Alex Gimenez.

The good times, hard times, bad times, and everything in between... and the times to come.... all in music. Dedicated to the three of us as brothers, but to Ralph most of all (in the center). Rest in Peace. © 2018 Alejandro R. Gimenez

The song grieves at first ...but then.... you get your wings. I tried to capture every feeling. Rest in peace Ralph. © 2018 Alejandro R. Gimenez

© 2018 Alejandro Raul Gimenez. All Rights Reserved.

Note: This piece is written for two pianos. What you're hearing is the first piano which by itself is a great song. With piano number two punched, coming soon, you hear the full piece.

What are we gonna do now?

Now that we know that life

ain't some romantic play.

You live your life

thinking things like love are true.

But then one day,

It just cuts your heart in two.

What are you gonna do now?

Now that yaknow that life

Ain't some romantic play?

That we feel their heart

Beating in our arms at night

And that we can't let go

And walk off into the night

Even when,

When you tried to make them stop

You cried yourself to sleep

With your eyes closed

In the dark

There are some things

That you just can't win against

No matter how much you love,

No matter how much try, to make it real for them

What am I gonna do now?

Now that I know that life

Ain't some romantic play?

When waking up should be

another day of love and life

But you spend another day

another empty day without them till the night

What I am gonna do now?

Now that I know that life

Ain't some romantic play?

To the places you never forget. What the sound of peace and wonder is like at sunrise and sunset on Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island. Composed while visiting Amelia Island.

© 2018 Alejandro Raul Gimenez. All Rights Reserved.

Note: This piece is written for two pianos. What you're hearing is the first piano which by itself is a great song. With piano number two punched, coming soon, you hear the full piece.

What are we gonna do now?

Now that we know that life

ain't some romantic play.

You live your life

thinking all these things are true.

But then one day,

It just cuts your heart in two.

What are we gonna do now?

Now that we know that life

Ain't some romantic play?

That we feel their heart

Beating in our arms at night

And that we can't let go

And walk off into the night

Even when,

When you tried to make them stop

You cried yourself to sleep

With your eyes closed

In the dark

There are some things

That you just can't win against

No matter how much you love,

No matter how much try, to make it real for them

What are you gonna do now?

Now that you know that life

Ain't some romantic play?

When waking up should be

another day of love and life

But you spend another day

another empty day without them till the night

What I am gonna do now?

Now that I know that life

Ain't some romantic play?

The piece is written in the key of C#