Shilo DeLay (Solo Sketches) episodes:

• March 18, 2026And So Must You

  Verse: Am, Bm7/Am7, Cmaj

  CH: Gmaj, Fmaj11, E/Bm7, Am7

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  I’m proud of this place

  but not too proud to say so

  Weaving one moment

  From many in the past

  -

  Regenerating memory

  Forgive yourself the truth

  Plurality of view

  ain’t the same as a lie

  -

  (G7, F)

  There ain’t no sick days

  Paving the ancient road

  You do what you need to

  And the devil may care

  Pointed down a river

  Branching out of view

  Each stream delivers

  An ocean that’s always

  You (G7, F)

  But don’t you get too used to being you

  Cause the world will change,

  and so must you

  (G7, F)

  Rousseau wrote opera

  But they paid him for philosophy

  Hume sent a bad jacket

  Jean-Jacques turned to the ferns

  -

  And Leonardo

  And Thomas Young too

  They were spanning the chasm

  Just doing what they had to

  Do

  (Chorus)

  …and so must you

  ...more

  

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• February 12, 2026Oceanus

  Oceanus

  Verse: E/G#m7, F#m7 (at 11th, 9th fret)

  Crossover: G#m, F#m (at 4th, 2nd fret)

  CH: Emaj, F#m, Emaj, F#m/AMaj7

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  Your daughter’s safe

  We escaped the Rogue Valley

  The potential pleases us

  Same as you, alone in one room

  Yet we’ve no numbers in sight

  And you’re burnt by time’s bright light

  The Beach Boys are cycling

  On our rental’s record deck

  You roll your rock, wind your clock

  And dreamlessly sleepwalk

  We hear your broadcast loud and clear

  Disappointment year by year

  In each of your children

  A river threatens to run dry

  Can you really not hear them?

  & You’re not getting any younger

  So many breathe what you have blown

  All your baby really needed was a boost

  And she ain’t never getting used

  To you looking right past her

  With eyes of white plaster

  In Anelektra

  A cure I can promise you that, sir

  Can you really not see her?

  It’s just so hard to believe (listen to her)

  (instru CH)

  ...more

  

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• December 15, 2025Glue

  GLUE

  Riff is seated on 5th string between 6 & 8 frets. Moves to power chords which bounce along down 6th string

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  INTRO: keyboard (B, A, G, A/B)

  Keep on orienting to the goal

  It’s just that versus the implack-able black hole

  I was a feather before. make me a burning sword

  I can do better for sure. I can live up to my word

  Blue jay perched upon that yellow-brown crown

  Sees what’s up here is always quite a long, long way down

  I hear violin now i hear my own vows sound

  I’m transfigured. I’ll feed myself to a crowd

  BRIDGE instru: Emaj, F, G, F/G // G, F, Emaj

  ...more

  

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• November 24, 2025Settling for Less

  Green Pilot Light (Settling for Less)

  Capo on 2

  V: Amaj, G, F, G / Am, G, F, G

  CH: C, B, Am

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  Fire up my green pilot light

  The spiral staircase heats up tonite

  We’ll weave a better version of our best

  And there’s no way in hell we’ll be caught settling for less

  When the stars all seem to misdirect

  We’ll climb on through, repair & protect

  So come you who’d put us to the test

  There’s no prize ‘neath your skies that will see us settling for less

  We won’t be settling for less

  There’s an old king suspicious of his kind

  There’s a shadow that steals little sips of his light

  All he needed was hope for some real progress

  But he’s stuck setting traps to catch us settling for less

  We won’t be settling for less

  Now it’s one future versus the past

  And we’re standing naked on a new middle path

  If the world is really just a big game of chess

  Here’s to ‘perpetual’ and we won’t be settling for less

  We won’t be settling for less

  ...more

  

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• November 01, 2025Settling For Less

  Capo on 2

  V: Amaj, G, F, G / Am, G, F, G

  CH: C, B, Am

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  Fire up my green pilot light

  The spiral staircase heats up tonite

  We’ll weave a better version of our best

  And there’s no way in hell we’ll be caught settling for less

  When the stars all seem to misdirect

  We’ll climb on through, repair & protect

  So come you who’d put us to the test

  There’s no prize ‘neath your skies that will see us settling for less

  We won’t be settling for less

  There’s an old king suspicious of his kind

  There’s a shadow that steals little sips of his light

  All he needed was hope for some real progress

  But he’s stuck setting traps to catch us settling for less

  We won’t be settling for less

  Now it’s one future versus the past

  And we’re standing naked on a new middle path

  If the world is really just a big game of chess

  Here’s to ‘perpetual’ and we won’t be settling for less

  We won’t be settling for less

  ...more

  

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• August 23, 2025Fountain of Youth (feat. Doug Lee, RDL+)

  Fountain of Youth

  D// D, C/G // F, Em, F, G // D

  Every day with you’s a fountain of youth

  In every single way, in all that you do

  Every day is a fountain of youth

  You know it’s true, you know, you know, you

  know, you do

  –

  And I saw you coming at early dawn

  I’d know you anywhere, in any crowd, I’d never move on

  And all that you gave me was what wasn’t gone

  It’s ain’t so much your grace, as your way to face what’s coming on

  Every day with you’s a fountain of youth

  In every way, in all that you say, in all that

  you do

  Every single day’s a fountain of youth

  It’s in your aim, it’s in your pain, it’s a prayer to truth

  (instru CH)

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  And now that you’ve landed, the cedars all ring and

  Freedom ain’t for sale, but the kingdom remains in view

  And I see you’re not planning pyramids

  But the work that you do is as old as it is new

  –

  Every day with you’s a fountain of youth

  In every way, in all that you say, in all that

  you do

  All of my days now, a fountain of youth

  It’s in your name, it’s in your fame, it’s a prayer to renew

  Integrating the narrow roads..

  –

  ...more

  

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• July 30, 2025Alignment

  V: B, G, F#m, G

  CH: D (Bar on 5th)...F#m, G

  *power chords unless otherwise noted

  (2x intro)

  Distracted and unfriendly

  In the city streets Afraid

  You can’t change them You’re a stranger

  And some people won’t rearrange, they’re

  Disappearing into the prol feed

  All jacked up on dirty fuel

  why find the alignment?

  (2 x verse instru)

  What has been happening

  With you my friend?

  The things you say The things you don’t

  As i’m fumbling for my light

  They said don’t read the comments

  I read the comments

  And they read just about right

  I spy the alignment

  (bridge: Amaj, G // Fmaj, Emaj):

  (2 x instru)

  Unchain from the pain

  relax the your soul

  Release the resentment

  Don’t let it get a hold

  Do these trees feel a purpose?

  When will the stars notice their dust?

  I got ideas; will you see ‘em?

  There’s freckles on the morning sun

  Labels lie, but i see you need one

  & I’m dying to up and become

  I’ll find some alignment

  (3x, end on B)

  ...more

  

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• March 11, 2025Liminality

  Liminality

  Capo 2

  CH: bar7+, bar9+, 9m, 5maj

  (piano: Db7, Ab7, Ebm, Bmaj)

  V: 4m, 2maj || Emaj, 2maj, Amaj, Amaj+

  (piano: Bb, Ab || Gb, Ab, B, B)

  In creatine dreams I’ve seen the puckering seams

  Of Artificialand’s dark commandments

  But i’m sleeping unsound with these clocks swirling around

  And the 3 am angel invaders

  Sing ‘better anger than fear' as the decision draws near

  The great reversal’s nothing like rehearsals

  You’re gonna find your way through that fray

  To that great sunset at the end of your day

  Your life will be the cost, whichever way you walk

  By creating or re-selling things unchanged

  Your referent pain points back to a golden mean

  Where the hunger persists despite abundances

  We are judged by what we give to all that which outlives

  While the slanted Earth laughs us into dirt

  But you’re gonna…

  Medusa me through the eye of a needle or two

  Till sight returns to the blind spot in my mind

  With head, heart, and luck, I have mined the veins i’ve struck

  Never meant to make it hard on the aging guard

  They gave me a fast life and a satisfied demise

  No, android prisoners really are not miracles

  ...more

  

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• November 03, 2024Election Week

  Election Week by Shilo DeLay (Solo Sketches)

  ...more

  

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• November 03, 2024Top Down

  Top Down

  Capo 2

  V: Am, Em, G?, Fmaj// Emaj…Fmaj

  (piano: Bm, A, Gmaj// F#maj…Gmaj)

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  CH: Cmaj, Gmaj, Fmaj, [Am - Emaj]... riff thing

  (piano: Dmaj, Amaj, Gmaj, [Bm - F#maj] … riff thing: B, E, Gmaj…Amaj)

  (When i was a boy)

  I was thinking of next year

  Now I’m fighting just to get back to here

  Tried not to put my faith in disease

  & all i want now is to make it back to the beach

  -

  (There’s always the danger)

  Where was I supposed to be?

  All these people, depending on me

  My god, I’m stinking with fear

  Here come winter again & how many next years?

  -

  I need to put the top down

  I gotta let it go

  And even as I’ve found out

  How to let the wind blow; i gotta let it blow

  -

  (The burning forest)

  Contradictory rules

  “A representative will be with you soon

  Please hold” - and coral’s crying

  The work on my plate - is stupefying

  -

  CH

  -

  BRIDGE: F#, D, Emaj, F#/Emaj…D…A, Emaj

  (piano: G#, E, G#/F#maj…E…B, F#maj)

  My, my universe

  The curse of time & the cosmic traverse

  Lies, lies & scent of success

  The whimper of slaves & the weight upon my

  Chest

  INSTR BR….end on D

  ...more

  

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