A LITTLE BIT OF NEWS! The details are all in the video. It’s about my proposed next project: A new music album. Plus I play the proposed title track of the album, “Blood in the Dew”, in the video just to set the scene. I hope you will resonate with it. Just click on the video below the lyrics. Here are the lyrics first:

The flowers on the powder keg
have dried up undreamed;
while the buds on the jasmine
are not what they seemed.
At one time a kindness
opened all slammed-shut doors,
but now one dead clown’s grimace
controls countless wars.

I’m tired and I’m jaded
but that’s nothing new,
and each blessed morning
There’s blood in the dew.
I look out my window
and I hear a bird sing.
There’s nothing in this world
to which I can cling.

Then you find yourself smiling
’cause you’ve naught left to lose,
and you walk on a tightrope
as they tighten the screws.
Their aim is to break you
so you’ll fall right in line.
But your weapon of choice is
to let your love shine.

[Refrain]
So much has been spoiled
So much sweetness has now gone
and this world’s shown its true colours.
“How long, O Lord, how long?”

I walked in a forest —
the thickest I’d seen;
and there in a clearing
(the deepest I’d been),
I found something hiding,
it was battered and blue;
but was full of resilience.
Then I said, “Who are you?”

“<<My name is T-R-U-
T-H — a cliché.
For few want to meet me
or to hear what I say.
So I’ve come to this forest
where I can only be found
by those who will love me:
They’re the true underground.

If you go from this forest
and recount what you’ve seen,
they will scorn you then kill you:
That mendacious machine”>>.
So I went from the forest
and I told what I saw,
and I’ll fight to the last breath
in this spiritual war.

[Refrain]
So much has been spoiled
So much sweetness has now gone
and this world’s shown its true colours.
“How long, O Lord, how long?”

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