This arrangement of Hear! Here! pays homage to Swoon by The Chemical Brothers.

Listen to Hear! Here! by Richard Charles Stevens (Swoon Suite)

Here is where sincerely I remain
Here is where I nearly died
The day that night became
Here is where I clearly tried
To place my creeping fears aside
Replacing tears the years had dried
With redefined embrace
(Live the dream)
.
The one place
I feel safe
To be
Make haste to be
Break dates to be
Is here where I can taste defeat
Replenish what it takes from me
No aching need to take the knee
Release the chains detaining me
Amazingly at ease
Appeased to feel their heaving weight on me
These demons need not wait on me
To face the fate awaiting me
Survived the night before
What’s more
I did so meditatively
Here is where I chase the dreams
That nearly got away from me
Intercept the data stream
Replace the beams
Make space to breathe
The one place
I feel safe
To be myself
And unashamedly
With graceful ease
I seize the day here tastefully
(Live the dream)
.
With graceful ease
I seize the day here tastefully
(Live the dream)
With graceful ease
I seize the day here tastefully
.
(fade in)
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
Feels divine
.
Feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
Feels divine
.
Feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
Live the dream
(Feel divine)
.
Live the dream
(Feel divine)
.
Live the dream
(Feel divine)
.
Live the dream
(Feel divine)
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
These demons need not wait on me
To face the fate awaiting me
Survived the night before
What’s more
I did so meditatively
Here is where I chase the dreams
That nearly got away from me
Intercept the data stream
Replace the beams
Make space to breathe
.
(Make space)
Make space to breathe
(Make space)
Make space to breathe
(Make space)
Make space to breathe
Make space to breathe
Make space to breathe
.
The one place
I feel safe
To be myself
And unashamedly
With graceful ease
I seize the day here tastefully
With graceful ease
I seize the day here tastefully
With graceful ease
I seize the day here tastefully
(Live the dream)
.
Darkness falls
Its shawl
It comforts
Taking pause from cruel abundance
Racing forth
To stall the thunder
Coursed to tear my thoughts asunder
.
Darkness falls
Its shawl
It comforts
Taking pause from cruel abundance
Racing forth
To stall the thunder
Coursed to tear my thoughts asunder
.
I wonder
Need I fall
At all
When shadows plead to heed the call
Proceed to bleed beneath the veil
To seek belong beyond the pale
.
I wonder
Need I fall
At all
When shadows plead to heed the call
Proceed to bleed beneath the veil
To seek belong beyond the pale
.
Here is where sincerely I remain
Here is where I nearly died
The day that night became
Here is where I clearly tried
To place my creeping fears aside
Replacing tears the years had dried
With redefined embrace
(Live the dream)
.
Redefined embrace
Redefined embrace
Redefining
Redefining
Redefine embrace
.
Redefining
Redefining
Redefine embrace
(Live the dream)
.
My lips
No longer pale
Exhale
The final breath
Of death’s assail
My eyes
Attest
The height depth width and breadth
Of every sense prevailing
Trailing vines incline to twine
Hereby define a spine benign
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
(Live the dream)
.
Here is where belief is not mistaken for conceit
By my approximation
Six degrees from separation
In relation to creation
Free of civic obligation
An exhibit of prevailing theme
And keen determination
.
Here is where sky high I fly to reach my destination
Not a dry eye when I’m seen
My delight to live the dream
Eyes alight and shining bright
To be the me I wish to be
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
No mystery
Consistently
Resistant to the bitter seeds of doubt
I weeded out when speaking out about their trickery
Devout to cause
Without remorse
On sleeve
This heart be proudly worn
Its beat profound
All reason sound
To live out loud
For one
Befitting all
.
(Live the dream)
Live the dream
(Live the dream)
Live the dream
(Live the dream)
Live the dream
(Live the dream)
Live the dream
.
For all the thrills and chills
With quill fulfilled to spill
It feels divine
.
Here is where sincerely I remain
Where I bleed
Every colour and shade
Night and day
The same way
Guilt and shame
Have no place
In a mind redesigned
With blind faith
To abstain from the pain of still life
For still life moves at pace
All the same
Thus it is here
Whereby sincerely I remain
Getting high on delight that you came
You came
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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© Copyright: Rivers of Grue The Chemical Brothers

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This arrangement of Daredevil Dataflow pays homage to Rabid Dogs by Phrenetic.

Listen to Daredevil Dataflow by Richard Charles Stevens (Rabid Suite)

Running diagnostics
There’s a ghost in the machine
Only we can stop this
Or else hosts
Will be relieved
Stealing our uniqueness
Keeping us at incompleteness
There’s a demon in the sequence
There’s a reason we recede
.
Media narrative
Leads us astray
Holds us firmly in place
While we squirm in its wake
Big Tech then censors
Each feeling deemed senseless
Deleting our sentences
Timing line break
.
With Pharma on hand
We feel calm
As they brand us
With numbers
To numb us to contraband smiles
All the while
Defiling thoughts
Behind the wheel
The driving force
Of all the curt hurts burdening awhile
.

Cancel culture
Panders to the vultures in our midst
Should we not heed their ultimatum
We will not be missed
Ultimately there exists no place for a sustained debate
Everything is scripted
Gives no shits as to which fate awaits

.
Friendships take up too much space
Within such fickle database
The only thing prolific are statistics calculation based
.

Love is fluid

Hate is bile

.

Love runs through it

Hate defiles

.

Love is fluid

Hate is bile

.

Let’s run through it

Break disguise

.

Love runs through it

Hate defiles

.

Let’s run through it

Break disguise

.
Corrupting the files
They deem surplus
Our purpose is merely a version
For further conversion
Deferred of uniqueness
They keep us in cages
Where self-flagellation
Equates congratulation
As we waste away to cater to their paper-thin perversions
Unaware the glare of debonair dictators
.

Corrupting the files
They deem surplus
Our purpose is merely a version
For further conversion
Deferred of uniqueness
They keep us in cages
Where self-flagellation
Equates congratulation
As we waste away to cater to their paper-thin perversions
Unaware the glare of debonair dictators
.

Haters
Dictators

Haters
Dictators

Haters
Dictators
.

Haters
Dictators

Haters
Dictators

Haters
Dictators
.

Running diagnostics
There’s a ghost in the machine
Only we can stop this
Or else hosts
Will be relieved
Stealing our uniqueness
Keeping us at incompleteness
There’s a demon in the sequence
There’s a reason we recede
.
The nature of the beast
Relates to ways they keep us leashed
Days then change briskly into weeks
While we play misty on repeat
They lie
They undermine
They cheat
Design a ghost in the machine
Which maybe could be why we seem so eager to recede
To some place safe we dare narrate the theme
Some place safe we dare narrate the theme

Maybe this is why we seem so eager to recede
To some place safe we dare narrate the theme
.

Love is fluid

Hate is bile

.

Let’s run through it

Break disguise

.

The vision they attest is really no less than outlandish

For they brandish weapons some way from pristine

Lengths they will traverse to hurt are needlessly obscene

Indeed they’re every bit as heedless as they seem

.

Needling each seedling unto the point of bleed

Draining veins

Anointing joints with chloroform and bleach

Joining every dot

To further populate their reach

Blotting each horizon with disease

.

Winning isn’t everything

Indeed it’s barely anything

When victory admits defeat to beaten victims perishing

.

Running diagnostics
There’s a ghost in the machine
Only we can stop this
Or else hosts
Will be relieved
Stealing our uniqueness
Keeping us at incompleteness
There’s a demon in the sequence
There’s a reason we recede
.

Maybe this is why we seem so eager to recede
To some place safe we dare narrate the theme
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of A Song For Now pays homage to Up All Night by Josh B.

Listen to A Song For Now by Richard Charles Stevens (Up All Night Suite)

Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.
Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.

Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.
Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you
.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you

.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you
.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you
.
Nothing can cease what we started
Clearly
Sincerely
No fear too severe to adhere to
For clear view is ours to revere
As we steer through these waters uncharted

.

Nothing can cease what we started
Clearly
Sincerely
No fear too severe to adhere to
For clear view is ours to revere
As we steer through these waters uncharted
(Let’s start this)
.
Turning the pages
We breezed through each read through
Returned to the one place deemed safe to retreat to
Praised the foundations we laid from day one
As we came to renewed and paraded in bloom
.
Dearly departed
Each worst fear we guarded
Reversed gear to perch near our hurts and discarded
Hardly came through pain parading as too devastating to shake less we made a late breakthrough
.
Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.

Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.

Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.

Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.
Nothing can e’er come between us

.
For our names are engraved in the fair bust of Venus

.
Trusting our guts
As we lust for the thrust

.
Of the one true love just
With a glut of uniqueness
.
No sequence to memorise
Demons to terrorise
Weakness to emphasise
Here where forever lies
Cleary
Sincerely
No fear too severe to adhere to
For clear view is ours to revere
.

Still remained true
When the danger plain grew
For we’d staked claim on great fame
To grace the same view
Too innate was our faith to delay when engaging appeared favoured way to keep deepest flame blazing
.
You’re exclusive
Conducive to soothing a soul
Which to you owes its glow
And renew don’t you know
Open hearts blooming
Resuming to beat
To a tune so approving
It’s blooming unique
.
You’re unique
A one-off
There’s no other quite like you
My one and only dominator
Unopposed
Exonerated any blame you ever faced
For shame you bear no heavy weight
And no impair can relegate
My fervour to delight you
.

You’re unique
A one-off
There’s no other quite like you
My one and only dominator
Unopposed
Exonerated any blame you ever faced
For shame you bear no heavy weight
And no impair can relegate
My fervour to delight you
.
No impair can relegate
My fervour to delight you
.

No impair can relegate
My fervour to delight you
.
By a long stretch
The most fetching
No question
Found you arresting
Way prior to mention
All we required
One divine intervention
To favour invite of suggestion
To do more than face life
March forth and embrace life
With you in my corner
I’m all about daylight
Then when the night falls
Without fright
Lend applause
To the dreams we proceed through
To scale heights
.

Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.
Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour

.

Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour
.
Our song for the now
Of belonging together
Powering on
To forever endeavour

.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you
.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you

.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you
.

My stylus
Your grooves
Our vinyl for two
I’m high as a kite on this lifetime with you
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Abide pays homage to Untitled by Fantastic Max.

Listen to Abide by Richard Charles Stevens (To The Max Suite)

piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
.

there was a time
when the words came so easy
to hide them
would seem like a crime
had come over queer
ever veering to queasy
yet still i felt keen to abide
(we abide)
.
tied between rock
and a hard place
i stopped
to about face
embrace bitter chill
life felt disfigured
belittled was i
as the light in my eyes died
and frittered my will
still i kept moving
disproving the theory
that clearly was looting
my cheer
disputing the years
in my rear view
no clear view alluded to
muted my tears
.

piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
.

piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
(we abide)
.
here in my safe place
endeared a display case
within which sedate pace adhered
i shifted with great haste
to vacate my late phase
and placate the sum of my fears

.
to succumb to my fate
felt unsung of the faith
which narrated my dreams as a child
forgiven for fading
i lived for the day
when the mystical river ran wild
(we abide)
.
there was a time
i felt exiled
the textile of every projectile far flung
still stood erectile
for all the dysfunction
compunction was nary now wrung

.
words came so easy
when bleeding repeatedly
demons were creeping in
near to defeating me
even the most shallow stream
seemed too deep to me
still i was seen to abide
.
hiding and seeking
reminded of being a child
long denied of safe keeping
regained my stride
in the deep dead of night
and felt childlike when vibrantly leaping
.
high rise
my wide eyes
off-kilter skies tilted
wildflowers climbing
where once they had wilted
jilted at altar
my course had been altered
yet still i careened to the light

.
words came so easy
when falling asleep
as my dreams reconvened at full flight
.
to hide them
would seem like a crime
thus deny them
the wings to sing sweetly at height
time and again
when the pains became violent
i aimed to abide them and write

.
piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
.

piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
(we abide)
.
here at the river side
vibrant
revivified
words come so easy
when frequently improvised
piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
(we abide)
.

high rise
my wide eyes
off-kilter skies tilted
wildflowers climbing
where once they had wilted
jilted at altar
my course had been altered
yet still i careened to the light

.

piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
(we abide)
.
piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide
(we abide)
.
piquant the view to a brave new world
dignified grace by the way we abide

.

we abide

we abide

we abide

do please abide
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Get Inspired pays homage to Stand By 4 Fast Beats by 3rd Rail.

Listen to Get Inspired by Richard Charles Stevens (Stand By Suite)

Imagine a door

Now

Walk through it

Dream an ideal

Go pursue it

View it through eyes

Crystal clear as blue skies

Spare a thought

For the child

Who outgrew it

.

Do it or else you might rue it

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.

Do it or else you might rue it

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.

You can do it

Just need to push through it

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.

You can do it

Just need to push through it

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.

You can do it

Just need to push through it

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.

You can do it

Just need to push through it

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.
You can do it
Just need to be fluid
.

You can do it

Just need to push through it

Pay no heed to the voice in your head

Which suggests that you blew it

You can do it

Just need to be fluid

(Do it)

.

The blueprint is yours

And the tool kit secured

Talk the talk

Walk the walk

Maybe alter your course

Spare a thought for your dream

And default to its theme

Be the only one keen to pursue it

(Do it)

.

The blueprint is yours

And the tool kit secured

Talk the talk

Walk the walk

Maybe alter your course

Spare a thought for your dream

And default to its theme

Be the only one keen to pursue it

(Do it)

.

Sooner or later

You’ll be the free trader

Rewarded for enduring labour

Your potential is greater than that out of favour

And it’s in your nature to play the curator

Faith is one catch you should never release

Some way more than accessory piece

It may be cruelly shaken

Unduly mistaken

But truly it beams when securely awakened

.

Sooner or later

You’ll travel full circle

Unravel the truth

Life has been mere rehearsal

No reason to wait for the curtain to fall

When the encore is yours to compose

With determination

You will earn ovation

Providing you know how to close

Through each trial and error

You learned to box clever

Now sever the ties that hang tight from the end of your tether

.

Altogether

Tether

(Do it)

.

Sooner or later

With grace and endeavour

You’ll find the dignation to never to say never

Changes to weather are par for the course

When for better or worse

You endorse no fraught thought whatsoever

(Altogether)

(Tether)

.

Changes to weather are par for the course

When for better or worse

You endorse no fraught thought

.

Pull up a stool or go ride on a zephyr

The choice is your own

To go hard or go home

Better yet do them both and together

.

Learn to seep through the cracks

Take the industry back

Seek each pain

Paint it black

And punch through it

The future is yours

And the tool kit secured

Talk the talk

Walk the walk

Take the nautical course

Spare a tear for these seas

And default to the deep

Be forevermore seen to sail through it

.
You can do it

Just need to be fluid

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.

You can do it

Just need to be fluid

Run to the sun

Become fluid

.

Playfully proceed

Make haste to shade beneath the tree most spacious

Taste its weeping sap

Enrapture

Feel unchained

Unchaste

Salacious

Be flirtatious

Turning pages

Lick your finger

Let it linger

Play dead ringer

Be courageous

Break the stasis

Take it places

.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Good For Something pays homage to Dominator (Beltram Mix) by Human Resource.

Listen to Good For Something by Richard Charles Stevens (Domination Suite)

Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.
Should you go by the name of Sharon
Then prepare for your bowel to promptly slacken
.
Not that I am planning to release unruly Kraken
So much shit to say so what say we kick off with a fraction
.
Maybe grab that TENA Lady
This could be a gusher
Father Time got old and cold war raged in Mother Russia
Suddenly a mouse appeared
This rodent like no other
(Lionheart)
Bagged herself a friend to no end
Snagged more than a brother
.
Lionheart
.
Not much I can say that doesn’t translate to I love ya
So much that I break out in a stutter-stutter-stutter-stutter
Make me piss my pants
No guarantee that I’ll recover
Not afraid of sewage since you moved me to the gutter
Let me make this plain you are a shameless insane nutter
No shame in your game as you’re the bread that led the butter
If you were a race horse I could not resist a flutter
And should that seem too stalky
You can always close the shutter

.

You’ll do nothing of the sort of course
With not a thought lent to remorse
Brave of heart with language coarse
Slave to each fantastic thought
Play the game with magnum force
Never one time mapping course
.
Cracking knuckles
Stacking heckles
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.
Cracking knuckles
Stacking heckles
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.
There’s a runaway train on the way through your brain
Writhe again
.
Writhing and thriving like snakes on a plane
Sky diving
Rising to prize each horizon
With all the mischief
You can feast your keen eyes on

(To understand and to express)
To understand and to express
One winning smile with lips undressed
To understand and to express
One winning smile with lips undressed
(Writhe again)
.
Cracking knuckles
Stacking heckles
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
(Writhe again)
.
Knew that something good was gonna happen
(Knew that something good was gonna happen)
Knew that something good was gonna happen
.
Writhe again
.
You make the whole world better just by smiling through each pain
If I never had of met cha would’ve never been the same
You’re an inspiration in a myriad of ways
Constant motivation and a cavalcade of praise
Life would lack a stack without your heckles
Just know I’ve got your back
And that’s that Freckles

Just know I’ve got your back
And that’s that Freckles
.
Knew that something good was gonna happen
Plymouth Fury Red the chosen colour of your wagon
One winner zero losers and I say this shit with passion
Glory hallelujah to ya
Thanks for all the Valium
.
Cracking knuckles
Stacking heckles
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.

Make me piss my pants
No guarantee that I’ll recover
Not afraid of sewage since you moved me to the gutter
Let me make this plain you are a shameless insane nutter
No shame in your game as you’re the bread that led the butter
If you were a race horse I could not resist a flutter
And should that seem too stalky
You can always close the shutter

.

You’ll do nothing of the sort of course
With not a thought lent to remorse
Brave of heart with language coarse
Slave to each fantastic thought
Play the game with magnum force
Never one time mapping course
.
Cracking knuckles
Stacking heckles
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.
Play the game with magnum force
Never one time mapping course
.
Cracking knuckles
Stacking heckles
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.

Cracking knuckles
Stacking heckles
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.
Place your bets
I’m backing Freckles
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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© Copyright: Rivers of Grue Human Resource Joey Beltram Shadow Spark Publishing

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This arrangement of Rift Dash pays homage to Trip To The Moon Part 2 by Acen. Closing art is by Matt Edwards.

Listen to Rift Dash by Richard Charles Stevens (Moon Tripper Suite)

Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.

Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.

Caught in two minds
Thoughts erratic
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.

Caught in two minds
Thoughts erratic
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.

I find it bleeding tragic
That we disbelieve in magic
For we call ourselves awake
Yet are too hazed to break the habit
Facing facts
Our reins fall slack
While hopes and dreams are seen retracting
Open seas are closing beaches
Only foreseen shark attacks
.
Half full glasses
Prone to leaking
Glancing masts
On paths receding
Guarded hearts that came too far
To be so heartlessly defeated
Mastery too hard to reach
When shafted hard by disbelief
In mystery for history consistently disbarred by grief
.

Holding cards so close to chest
Known open paths lead no place blessed
For stoney faces show no grace
In loads of ways are left bereft
Undressed caress unquestionably
Less we reassess the need to follow such an unappealing recipe
.

Disaster artists disregard the charm
For ways to raise alarm
Causing greater harm while falling
All remaining paths distorting

.

Causing greater harm while falling
All remaining paths distorting

.

Trading places with stasis
The pace can amaze us
In ways too arcane for the dazed and confused
Racing to wide open spaces
With chasing pack facing facts far too abrasive to soothe
Moving may seem like a doomed expedition
Less we remove all excess inhibition

.

Have to let it gather
For the best abracadabras
Are the kind inclined to reaching out to grab us by the knackers

.

Caught in two minds
Thoughts erratic
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.

Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.

Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.

Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.

Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.
Have to believe in the Avé Maria to see her

.
Not with our eyes
For she’s shy in that way
Search what’s inside
And you might find her gaze
Therefore delight in the most divine ways
Sacred line of sight rightly appraised
.
Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.

Outstretch delusion
Without stress
Devout to the one truth about to be proven
Castles in skies
Are one glance from our eyes
When we dance in the arms of illusion

.

Have to believe in the Avé Maria to see her

.

Have to believe in the Avé Maria to see her

.

Caught in two minds
Thoughts erratic
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.

Caught in two minds
Thoughts erratic
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.
Alter course to source all sorts of magic

.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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Stop The Clocks has been published in All of Me Vol. V, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Untitled by Turbo Sound.

Listen to Stop The Clocks by Richard Charles Stevens (Turbosound Suite)

make a date with destiny anew

.

reconnect the child inside of you
resumed from way back in the day
for memories may serve
yet have a disconcerting tendency to fade
we seldom see dependency unless we think sequentially
and venture back to childhoods in our wake
take a trip down mazy lanes to reacquaint faint reveries
present them slack to cut back on the chains
.
remembrance for some equates to pain we feel best placed lest we forget
for others there exists a hiding place where we delight in retrospect
regardless of the reminiscence kept
and ammunition left
conditions met request a recognition test imperative
we take each trip down every mazy lane to graze at greater gain
relating understanding where it’s relative
.
ownership is everything
when only in our minds
for our true selves lack showmanship
when peeking through the blinds
holding close our poker chips
our faces wear the lies
we tell ourselves when certain harms are wired
.
should we aspire to overcome
then we must travel through
get blind drunk then sober up
and realign each view
life soon sees us overrun
with oh so much ado
yet nothing quite as paramount
as taking care of you

.

stop the clocks
hold your breath
drop the airs and the graces
take every book you ever read
and tear out empty pages
dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with destiny anew
.

stop the clocks
hold your breath
tap each vein
and renovate it
take every fraying wire inside your head
and then replace it
dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with destiny anew

.
without such fundamental self pursuit
we make a thousand points with precious few we feel adroit to prove
the true blue hearts we tend to guard from menu cards aloof
while weathered engines fail to start anew

.
the flowers in our bones can only bloom with light and air
there seems no sense in feeling when ill-tempered to declare
appearances can be deceiving
leading to extensive dealings
yet revealing little but despair
.
for every dying ember
there’s a long doused flame to be reclaimed
a joy translating every pain
a smile remaining tucked away
eventually to ebb away
potentially be led astray
under such tremendous strain
we’re headed straight to senseless pain

.
relentless as it pens us in to devastate potential gain
with no great lengths extended to explaining its extended stay
.
a memory can soon become erased
lest we remember
and make a date with love not hate
retouching fate to destiny anew
retouching fate to destiny anew
retouching fate to destiny anew
.

a memory can soon become erased
lest we remember
and make a date with love not hate
retouching fate to destiny anew
retouching fate to destiny anew

.

stop the clocks
hold your breath
drop the airs and the graces
take every book you ever read
and tear out empty pages
dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with destiny anew
.

stop the clocks
hold your breath
drop the airs and the graces
take every book you ever read
and tear out empty pages
dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with destiny anew
.

stop the clocks
hold your breath
tap each vein
and renovate it
take every fraying wire inside your head
and then replace it
dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with destiny anew

.

dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with love not hate
retouching fate to destiny anew
.
dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with love not hate
retouching fate to destiny anew
.
dare challenge the view that nothing truly ever changes
and make a date with love not hate
retouching fate to destiny anew
.

stop the clocks

.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Face The Music pays homage to Crying At The Discoteque by Alcazar. Featured art is by Karol Bąk.

Listen to Face The Music by Richard Charles Stevens (Crying At The Discoteque Suite)

(Fearless hearts)
Face the music
.
(Fearless hearts)
Face the music
.
(Fearless hearts)
Face the music
.
We all have a voice
And it’s our choice to use it shrewdly crudely prove it mute it lose it or refute it
.
We all have a voice
And it’s our choice to use it shrewdly crudely prove it mute it lose it or refute it
(Face the music)
.
In dead of night
With sight impaired
Despairing eyes invite the scares
Our thrones dispose of rightful heirs
Bones exposed to frightful tears
Spiteful glares burn bright like flares
Hereby declared no vital air
For all of our recited prayers
We barely leave a mark
The only tears our bodies shed are cheerless in depart
Less we roll back years to seek the beats of fearless hearts
.
Face the music
(Fearless hearts)
Face the music
.
We all have a voice
And it’s our choice to use it shrewdly crudely prove it mute it lose it or refute it
.
We all have a voice
And it’s our choice to use it shrewdly crudely prove it mute it lose it or refute it
.
(Fearless hearts)
(Fearless hearts)
.
Some of us bid to rejoice in our gift
While others are swift to abuse it
Blaming the acoustics
For abusive slurs producing hurts
While too inert to turn and face the music
Some of us are muted
With no breath left to dispute it
Losing light and air
Declared no respite therapeutic
Unaware of crest flight
For we dare not stray the wreck site
Care to shed light on the shadows deepest rooted
.
Face the music
Face the music
.
We all have a voice
And it’s our choice to use it shrewdly crudely prove it mute it lose it or refute it
.
We all have a voice
And it’s our choice to use it shrewdly crudely prove it mute it lose it or refute it
(Face the music)
.
Fearless
Fearless
Fearless
Fearless hearts
.
Fearless
Fearless
Fearless
Fearless hearts
Hearts
Hearts
Hearts
Hearts
.
We all have scars
From seasons passed
The ones we guard
From grievous harm
Secrets kept of speechless psalm
And seldom ever called to arms
Calling cards to healing balm
Peeling bark
Revealing marks
Are charmed to be disarmed
Of no alarm remarked
And feeling calm
.
Face the music
(Fearless hearts)
.
We all have a voice
And the choice is our own to go for broke when choke holds grope and open branches as they pass us
Soak in light and air
Declared of respite therapeutic
Learn to turn face and embrace the music
.
Chance our arms and dance our dances
Claim and fame our inner artists
Seek out nature through catharsis
Speak in favour
Waiver harshness
Walk away from wreck sites
Remain gracious in our crest flight
When the dead of night affects sight
And our sweaty palms are clenched tight
Shine the headlights
At the height of senses
Drop defences
Find our voices
Cry them breathless
Bleed to sow a seed infectious
.
Shine the headlights
At the height of senses
Drop defences
Find our voices
Cry them breathless
Bleed to sow a seed infectious
.
Burn our beds
Turn heads and face the music
.
Burn our beds
Turn heads and face the music
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Dreamer Song pays homage to Misty Roads by SizzleBird. Featured art is by A. Andrew Gonzalez.

Listen to Dreamer Song by Richard Charles Stevens (Misty Roads Suite)

We believe it’s easier to fly
We believe it’s easier to fly
We believe it’s easier to fly
Easier to fly
Easier to fly
.
I stride with purpose
Virtuous and strive for title courteous
Know of how to heal midst the reveal of primal hurts in us
Pertinent to growth
With the assertiveness of oath
That with the sturdiness of oak
I shall define
The dreamer’s dream foreseen through eagle’s eye
For I believe
It’s easier to fly
The dreamer’s dream foreseen through eagle’s eye
For I believe
It’s easier to fly
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
With my head in the clouds
And the aided tread of elevated grounds
That once lost and all at odds now calls the shots and is found wanting for no profiting surround
For there exist riches profound
In sounding out all ships aground
In faith that they might pivot round
And crown unique horizon
Proudly as the ancient river rises
Bountiful of most prestigious prizes
.
I believe it’s easier to fly
I believe it’s easier to fly
I believe it’s easier to fly
Easier to fly
.
A voice
For the voiceless
Rejoicing through art
My choice is to bleed as this feeds deepest parts
As a seed
I may recede
Once flowers breathe the air of chance
But I will be nearby for the last dance
For I would sooner die than see denied a heart’s advance
I would sooner die than see denied a heart’s advance
.
I believe it’s easier to fly
Easier to fly
I believe it’s easier to fly
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
I’m a dreamer
Starry eyed
One man safari guide
A lionheart
With tribal scars
And steadfast for my pride
.
With my hand on my chest
I am best placed to beat
Preconditioned retreat
Which commissions defeat
Permission to proceed need not explicitly concede
Should we heed inner vision gleaned from each fatigue
Seen as beaten
We redeem the strength to fame ascension as we venture forth with depth of sight esteemed
I would sooner die than see a dreamer’s dream undreamt when shared adventures set so reverent a scene
.
We believe it’s easier to fly
We believe it’s easier to fly
Easier to fly
Easier to fly
Fly
Fly
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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