MrM

Thank you very much @BDANR! Yes, I love the Pearl as an entire album on its own but the starting track is really amazingly three dimentional and 'Mediterranean' somehow. Thanks again for reading. I hope you continue to enjoy the book.

Sometimes souls connect to each other through shared pain. A nice parallel in how Justin's intimate connection translated differently between the older brother and the younger.

Yet, standing still behind a door and never leaving makes the room you are in your eventual tomb. But, there are more ways to get through this door than by just 'walking' through it.

Yaaaaaaay

There is an opening in the soul Beaten out like a golden door Bought by pain and completed by love That becomes noble by war Fractious enemies that tear They compete against the opening Fighting to keep closed what should be wide This Fear and this conceit, live as constriction Which is death Withering they fry and freeze to Pull closed the golden door Sucking it shut and sealing it in pain A Nobility ransomed for safety The golden door hides within a For

My Sire. My Savior. ❤️💖💜

The Seashell: ~~~~~~~~~~ From the Brothertiger album 'Out of Touch' and 'The Pearl' by Brian Eno and Harold Bud. 1. The Pearl (The Cove) 2. Fall Apart (The Love Song of a Sea God) 3. Engulfed (Under the Wine Dark Sea) 4. A Stream With Bright Fish (Neptune and the Wonders of the Deep) 5. Upon Viridian Waters (The Rapture of Alexis) 6. Dark Eyed Sister (Aphrodite's Curse) 7. High Tide (To Lose and to Be Lost) 8. Beyond The Infinite (Eros' Counsel) 9. Lost In The Humming Air (Upon The Winds of Zephyrus) 10. Out Of Touch (Searching The Horizon) 11. Wake (Swept Out to Sea) 12. Drift (Guided by the Nereids) 13. Their Memories (Nerites and Alexis Touch Through Morpheus) 14. Jungle Floor (The Island of Pan) 15. Against The Sky (The Divine Discussion) 16. Grenada (Nerites' Choices) 17. Let Me See - Clannad (Alexis' Prayer) 18. Angel of the Sirens - Cinnamon Chasers (The Calling of the Seashell) 19. Locust Point (Alexis' Eyes Are Opened) 20. Still Return (The Blessings of Faith) 21. Song To The Siren - The Celtic Angels (The Sea and the Longing) Lyrics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Pearl (The Cove) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Fall Apart (The Love Song of a Sea God) --------------------------------------------------------- You, you came into this life To see what you could find You took me for a friend Afraid, I know you feel this way But I can’t seem to take Your mind away from it And I know that these things will fall apart I’m growing from the very start I finally see the place Where you and I will make our final mark Upon our interrupted hearts And finally a flame erupts inside: 'Wait! Don't Go!' And I feel the wave crashing down I hear that solitary sound And I feel the wave crashing down All around, you were always on my mind... (The Prince of the Sirens Sings) Go, see it to it’s end Make all your amends and tell me when it's over Fade into the silent light I feel it all the time But you don’t recognize this world I feel for you my Love 'I’m afraid of this world' Fall away from the night 'Hey! Don't Go!' And I feel the wave crashing down I hear that solitary sound And I feel the wave crashing down All around, you were always on my mind (X1) *** Engulfed (Under the Wine Dark Sea) --------------------------------------------------------- Satin shadow These eyes couldn’t capture Forgetting myself As the days are running faster Connecting the edge Of a life to another Sending the echoes Of an essence rediscovered Calling out again To the silence of the deep wood Looking at the world through a new light Following the fallen leaves That drift along the water I can hardly recognize What I am on the inside You could stay but I don’t care Enough for anything in this life These days I’m unaware of what Is really deep inside Faded, fallen I’m engulfed in emotion Your careless calling Is alive with devotion The sudden silence Deviates from the steady sound I’m flooded with defiance As the echo races all around Coming to the edge of the forest In the deep wood Looking at the world with a new light Following the voices That are drifting through the water I can hardly recognize What I am on the inside You could stay but I don’t care Enough for anything in this life These days I’m unaware of what Is really deep inside *** A Stream With Bright Fish (Poseidon and the Wonders of the Deep) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Upon Viridian Waters (The Rapture of Alexis) --------------------------------------------------------- We’ve gone so far beyond emotion In daylight Surrounded in my own mind Against the cold night *** Dark Eyed Sister (Aphrodite's Curse) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** High Tide (To Lose and To Be Lost) --------------------------------------------------------- You run through the forest Away from it all You soak in the current With your back to the wall You swim through the tides When the summer calls You follow the sounds of The waterfall I follow to the edge And I fall to the floor I swim in circles And I drift evermore It seems I can’t remember Who I was before I’m floating in an ocean That I can’t explore But I can hang on to the surface In flowing, oscillated time My lungs are filling up with water But I won’t sink to the void I climbed to the top Of the fiery wall I swallowed my emotions And embraced the fall Exploring through the silence Of the shadows call I’m swimming through the current And I feel it all But I can hang on to the surface In flowing, oscillated time My lungs are filling up with water But I won’t sink to the void *** Lost In The Humming Air (Upon The Winds of Zephyrus) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Beyond The Infinite (Eros' Counsel) --------------------------------------------------------- Sinking to the floor I found another life Waking to the color Fading I was rusted Unrecognized Molded to the others Making a connection To the other side Thought I found a lover Lost into ascension To my blinded eyes Calling for another 'Let go of your lying eyes Lying eyes Let go' Hanging on to someone That I recognized Bright beyond the colors Withered to the marrow I realized Nothing like the others Falling through the floor I came upon your eyes Thought I found a lover Searching evermore I demoralized Calling for another 'Let go of your lying eyes Your Lying Eyes Let go' (X) *** Out Of Touch (Searching The Horizon) --------------------------------------------------------- Midnight coming I’m farther away than I used to be Running down these city streets Where the future beckons to me We’ve got nothing Written down in our history Moving on two hearts agree But you can call on me On the horizon line I see the form reflecting in time In the blue-green light There’s a movement all around me I feel there’s something Coming on this sudden breeze Colors changing on the leaves The scene’s got nothing on me Drift from the softness Drawing out this strange disease Moving towards the deeper seas The future’s calling to me On the horizon line I see the form reflecting in time In the blue-green light There’s a movement all around me *** Wake (Swept Out To Sea) --------------------------------------------------------- Time and again I’m rushing to the end I could never really figure you out And when it comes to this I’d rather reminisce ‘Cause reality is wearing me down Open up your eyes to the sunlight Breaking the dawn When the night draws out And my hopes are gone This fire is still burning Right into my bones I don’t want to stick around this town anymore The wake you form is surrounding us The days are gone and we’re starting over The wake you form is surrounding us Drowning in the water Filling me up I open up my lungs To breath I have begun As I go between the night and the dawn I calibrate the sun And follow everyone To find I’m barely hanging on Open up your eyes to the summer night Silent and warm As the light endures like it did before These tides are still turning Right into the shore I don’t want to stick around this town anymore The wake you form is surrounding us The days are gone and we’re starting over The wake you form is surrounding us Drowning in the water Filling me up *** Drift (Guided by the Nereids) --------------------------------------------------------- Hallowed ghost So suddenly I find Wandering the night Growing shadows on the floor Falling through I have to look inside Reflected on my eyes There I see myself before Child in the dark Grows fond of all illumination Emanating from the city light Leading ever on Towards the outskirts of this city Where our pasts would reunite Our pasts would reunite I’m calling out But I’m too far gone to see you When the night falls I drift into the chasm below I know now That I am still no different From anything around me I still implore Following The footprints left behind Trailing through the times Where we’ve gone through once before She can open up my eyes To deeper seas Of distant memories That I’m dying to explore Child in the night Moves forward to a new direction Moving towards a new and distant light Leading ever on Towards the outskirts of this city Where our pasts would reunite Our pasts would reunite *** Their Memories (Nerites and Alexis Touch Through Morpheus) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Jungle Floor (The Island of Pan) --------------------------------------------------------- (as written in The Second Jungle Book...) One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And we run home again. In morning-hush, each rock and bush Stands hard, and high, and raw: Then give the Call: "Good rest to all That keep the Jungle Law!" The dew is dried that drenched our hide, Or washed about our way; And where we drank, the puddled bank Is crisping into clay. The traitor Dark gives up each mark Of stretched or hooded claw: Then hear the Call: "Good rest to all That keep the Jungle Law!" *** Against The Sky (The Divine Discussion) --------------------------------------------------------- Instrumental *** Grenada (Nerites' Choices) --------------------------------------------------------- Open up the doors into my mind Fill me up with colors So strong and refined Go into the place that we call A paradise Where everything around you and I Is alive Falling through the memories to explore I could not imagine what I was looking for You, you’re just a presence of something Before Never mind the sadness you’re bound to Adore All again there is nothing wrong I’m floating in the ocean for days Hoping to find myself again So I dive beneath the waves Show me down the path you know is right Now I’m just a traveler Who’s lost in the night I can’t tell the darkness Apart from the light Reaching for some substance With all of my might Running through the memories I explore Struggling to imagine what I was looking for Counting all the places where I stood Before Til I came upon you as I walked through The door All again there is nothing wrong I’m floating in the ocean for days Hoping to find myself again So I dive beneath the waves Save me, oh my will Save me, ever still Won’t you save me? Oh my will *** Let Me See - Clannad (Alexis' Prayer) --------------------------------------------------------- Let me see generation times Will we hear children singing rhymes? Sweet memories gone by, they're gone by Let me be wiser with my eyes Let me see my love by my side Let me see heaven Lonely years of searching the wilderness How this world can lead us all astray Don't let me cry over colourless pictures No more bitter winds No more troubled seas Just forgive me and let me see Let me see my love, let me see Let me see my love, let me see Let me see generation times Will we hear children singing rhymes? Sweet memories gone by, they're gone by Let me be wiser with my eyes Let me see my love by my side Let me see heaven Crossing the room, I recognize the child in me I'll close my eyes to release away all my fears We silence the rose to see it blossom back again Step by step we walk on Word by word we talk on Just forgive me and let me see Let me see generation times Will we hear children singing rhymes? Sweet memories gone by, they're gone by Let me be wiser with my eyes Let me see my love by my side Let me see heaven *** Angel of the Siren - The Cinnamon Chasers (The Calling of the Seashell) ___________________________________ Our dreams are old Our friends are gone And our story's been told Just, carry on A break in the clouds will guide us home You look like an angel of the sirens I, can't believe the wait has been so long I feel like I've been burning bridges to stay with you Friends and lovers have come and gone We have just stood here alone Although I'm pleased to be beside you I'm, lonelier than I have ever known And you look like an angel of the sirens I can't believe the wait has been so long (The endless calling of the Seashell) *** Locust Point – Brothertiger (Alexis’ Eyes are Opened) --------------------------------------------------------- Inside of my own mind I feel Him again I opened up my young eyes To the water's edge I climbed up to the branches To watch the flow I saw Him, I saw Him far below! So I reached out to the edge there I felt the flow I extended my own hand To gather more Then I felt the tremor, I felt it on the inside! I fell into the rubble Fell into the daylight But He took me back to the top And I found myself again! He took me back to the top And I found myself whole! I walked through the sun Toward a voice so far away In a silent wind It drifts upon the waves I reached out to the daylight That fell upon my face As I opened up my eyes To a familiar place! And He took me back to the top And I found myself again! He took me back to the top And I found myself whole! But he took me back to the top And I found myself again! He took me back to the top And I found myself whole! (X) *** Still Return (The First Blessing In Faith) --------------------------------------------------------- (Mysterious and Inspiring Interlude) The Song To The Siren - Celtic Angels (The Sea and the Longing) ___________________________________ Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile 'Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang Sail to me Sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am Here I am Waiting to hold you Did I dream you dreamed about me? Were you hare when I was fox? Now my foolish boat is leaning Broken lovelorn on your rocks, For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow: O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow" I am puzzled as the newborn child I am troubled at the tide: Should I stand amid the breakers? Should I lie with death my bride? Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you: Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you" ***

The 'Jeweler' better explain himself soon or he'll loose Justin entirely.

If it's a story showing what life was like before Harvey and how life shall be after when things are back to 'normal' then I'd say post it as a service to both Houston and Galveston. Texans are a tough breed and they only get stronger when shown a window into a better future. I was grateful to stories and TV Shows that showed what SoCal was and would be again after the wildfires that destroyed so much of our city back in 2003 and 07.

@Carlos Hazday, like Comsie, is a great author here in GA. He is also a mature man who loves greatly. I've learned a lot from him. When following our Com's stories you might enjoy Carlos' too. Love comes when the heart is free. This is what I'm learning. Lucky ones learn it early, but I think its the ones who learn it later in life that appreciate it that much more.

Sounds like my therapist. Hehehe!

Don't ever give up on love, Dmrman. Not even when you are 'dead' and the next world beckons. I'm a late bloomer too. I will find my Billy Chase some day. I really will.

The Dark Side is the true nature of the Force, Justin. Tell me your deepest secrets so that I might destroy you with them. Then you and only then will you rise to become the Dark Lord you were always meant to be!

Hehehe. You're channeling my teenagehood again, Comsie. Just like Brandon, my dad would always drag me into his projects so that I could 'learn somthin' Actually, I am glad for a lot of it. I can trim trees like a champ! Don't anybody ask me what Monday's about cause I don't know either!

Heavy breathing and a mask? I was totally hearing James Earl Jones' voice when Ruby spoke. 😝 Too fun!!

I'm reading Memnock the Devil by Anne Rice because it makes for good bathtub reading.

Sweetness, you might still consider a Facebook Business Page. You can set up a situation where what you post on twitter can show up on your Facebook page too. More banging for your bouncing, or whatever. Thanks for the update!

Jewelers cut and polish and polish and cut until the raw gem sparkles...in its agony. "Tell me what you hold most dear...so that I can take it from you" ~ Sith platitude

So absolutely dreamy! I want a Taryn now to play with. Such a pretty toy!

Many thanks, Grand Archwizard of the GAness! Yay! Now I can post all kinds of annoying things! Hehehehe!

Have you considered a Facebook business page? People that follow you there will get email bursts when you make announcements and then you can link to your libraries. They can also leave you posts and comments so you have ready feedback. A lot of highly successful authors use this. I've been considering it myself but I haven't the fanbase to support it yet. You most def do. You can also tie it to your Twitter account. Example: Anne Rice's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/annericefanpage/

What do you read when you take a long bubble bath then?

I think a chapter will be as long as it needs to be. If you read it to yourself and you find it getting tedious then you need to take out your scissors and start cutting unnecessary clutter. I wrote a 23,000 word chapter as a whole short story once and I found that I can read it from beginniing to end without stopping because I left enough hooks in it to keep the reader wanting more.

You can go read Billy's side of the dream here: https://www.gayauthors.org/story/comicality/thesecretlifeofbillychase/11

Marie is an angel! So is Jamie in his goofy way.