Decided not to succumb to depression and used all my remaining energy to sit in front of the computer all morning finishing the rotten vocals for “You Can Only Smile” and “Live and Let Love” – which means the total singy-songs have reached five in the folder.

Singy-songs now completed:

Post Cultural Blues – a song about our current cultural situation
Idiotlogue – how the ideologues have risen against intelligence
HorrorShow – desperate people turning to conspiracy theories and the cult of the sovereign citizen
You Can Only Smile – a personal edict of mine, you can choose to adopt a cheerful persona or not…but you won’t survive in misery
Live and Let Love – let’s all be hippies and just get along, will ya? A palette cleanser after all the rot.

There are more lyrics and more songs to be knocked into shape. But do I make it a collection of wholly singy-songs or do I sprinkle some hard-arsed instrumentals in there? Or maybe some ambient soundscapey stuff to link the songs? Perhaps it’s even a concept album about the end of the world and our creators coming to reset the machine?

There’s so much completed stuff lurking in folders. But how to make it all stick together and make sense?

That’s the eternal question.

Possible album title: Old Man Yell at Cloud

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