Author: Willi Brown

  • So This Is (The Future)

    So This Is (The Future)

    The door opens onto the highway
    which lay there missin the moon
    like a ribbon without a present
    or a string without a balloon

    This morning offers no schedule
    coffee doesn’t mind getting cold
    a bag full of nothing thinks lonely is something
    and that nothing… is getting old

    * So this is the future
    where the past wears a digital mask
    and all my answers don’t seem that important anymore
    and my questions don’t need to be asked

    The war isn’t fought in the papers
    and blood doesn’t run down the wires
    and the piles of limbs they don’t get to him
    because our president is a liar

    * So this is the future
    where the past wear’s a digital mask
    and all my answers don’t seem that important anymore
    and my questions don’t need to be asked

    Chords

    Verse
    D7 C7 G7
    D7 C7 G7
    D7 C7 G7
    C7 A7
    (maybe)
    Chorus
    G F C
    G F C
    G F C
    F A

    Recording Notes

    Probably 2005. In Venice Beach, California. Apartment on Pacific across from the Post Office.
    This might have been recorded on a Sony Mini-Disc with a Sony Stereo Mic. I don’t know what guitar I was playing in those days… Acoustic something.

  • Mystery Sound #108

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    Outside my window
    I hear mysteriously
    a small chirp-like sound
    repetitive and device-like.
    My first thought is danger!
    (These are fraught times.)
    Is it a gas leak? Or a tree branch cracking off?
    Or an electrical transformer
    on the pole across the street
    about to explode?
    So I open the blinds
    cautiously and… nothing.
    The scene outside is placid.
    The tree quietly intact.
    The transformer hangs, solid.
    The air, clear, smells like fall.
    Across the sky I see
    different kinds of birds
    flying in various directions,
    or landing, or merely
    hopping about pecking the ground.
    I see bees buzz
    bouncing among the blossoms…
    The sound is gone.
    But the mystery seems to have expanded
    beyond me and even my environment,
    expanded to the point
    of no point.

     

  • What You Left Behind

    Words and Music by Willi Brown

    Some people think they know ya / or they got a film to show ya
    While I pretend intelligence is bliss
    But there’s blood that you’ve paid / Stone commitments that you’ve made
    They cannot be stolen by an outlaw kiss

    And what you’ve left behind / could be put out of your mind
    Because it isn’t happening right now
    What’s been put out of your mind,What’s been put out of your mind is your soul now
    It’s all… you’ve left behind

    And the weight of present past seems to be breaking your back
    But something else has put a fire in your eyes
    And the weightless little girl who once floated around the world
    Is holding on to dear life as time flies

    And what’s been put out of your mind / may be on the front of your mind
    Even when it’s not happening anymore

    What you’ve left behind / circles back around in time
    Like it never ended for you anyhow
    What you left behind never ended for you anyhow

    Beautiful Blond Sandy Beach Sunlight Behind

  • Carbon Blowhole (for Porter Ranch)

    Carbon Blowhole (for Porter Ranch)

    i found this song from 2015, and was planning to backdate the post, but apparently METHANE is STILL LEAKING at ALISO CANYON.

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  • High Abstraction

    High Abstraction

    High Abstraction
    By Willi Brown Ⓒ 2017

    * something dull wants out / some notion unprofound
    wants equal air time / or to be written down
    it’s no high abstraction / no scene poetic
    no heart transmission / just mundane magic

    outside my house now those / crazy street people passin’
    rucksacks and bottles and cigarettes (always the cigarettes)
    i hide with my possessions behind locked doors and blinds
    severely un happy / it’s all dead to me (it’s all dead to me)

    * something dull wants out / some notion unprofound
    wants equal air time / or to be written down
    it’s no high abstraction / no scene poetic
    no heart transmission / just mundane magic

    there’s a woman at a distance / who laughs with me
    smiling with Joy / and feeling free (feeling free)
    convinced of my darkness / i long to turn away
    join the street passing / not making things worse (… worse)

    * something dull wants out … just mundane magic

  • Hallway

    Words and Music by Willi Brown
    Featured on: Scenic Route by Willi Brown

    I can hear you speak in a voice like mine in the darkness the distance
    I can hear you speak a very thin line through yourself about me

    **We lose what we know to know again
    We can always move, we can always wait / It makes no difference

    We can bury the groove, we can cover fate / It makes no difference

    **We lose what we know to know again
    I can hear you speak a very thin line in the darkness about me
    I can hear you speak covering up the things we’ve done tonight together

    **We lose what we know to know again

  • Bandcamp Hoh!

    ScenicRoute_CD_Cover_Redux_700x700My record, “Scenic Route”, is now available as my first offering on Bandcamp! Still sounding fresh and funky and like I might’ve once been a few kinds of drugstore cowboy, this collection of a dozen SONGS is sure to please your inner hustler!

    Sporting a new cover image – includes lyrics and a little snarky note about each track. Scenic Route Hoh!

  • big bang

    big bang

    OM – the ancient howl
    thunder beat – heat
    clang and dumb, the time sound
    hot persistent beneath
    the tiny murmurs of secret heads
    shuffling past with small concern
    of the immediate preceding
    succeeding
    moments
    yes, the little now
    so stack them up
    yes, pause and rise up
    and consider all this
    smallness multiplied
    and you can’t, can you?
    it’ll overwhelm you, won’t it?
    the immense hope and regret
    expanding ever outward…
    is the big bang

    april 2003
    Las Vegas probably poolside…

  • One For The Dead

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    though my chest rises with breath and my head nods on my neck these fingers typing here will one day feed the earth though now in my room with the sunlight streaming onto my right foot i can see hear and touch the space it really won’t be long until i am space and some other singer laments us you and i who have died but haven’t left space there are bodies and there are beings and today i am both
  • News Flash

    Please check out my new Willi Brown site on bandcamp where you can buy Scenic Route.

    News, as it happens!