// BEGIN enqueue_block_aio_script function enqueue_block_aio_script() { wp_enqueue_script('block-aio', get_template_directory_uri() . '/block-aio.js', [], null, true); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_block_aio_script'); // END enqueue_block_aio_script https://www.antsinmyteeth.com Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:12:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Wasted Ones: Bicycle Eaters Style https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/wasted-ones-bicycle-eaters-style/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:09:03 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=239 […] ]]> Chimera https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/chimera/ Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:59:44 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=224 […] ]]> Devil Everywhere That I Been https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/devil-everywhere-that-i-been/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:24:18 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=202 […] ]]> Curse of Vienna https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/curse-of-vienna/ Thu, 28 May 2015 00:41:33 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=188 DSCI0329This is an old recording I just re-discovered of the first full song I wrote with the ukulele. It is so strange and wonderful to hear the night sounds in the background. That mixture is specific to the back patio of the old Holland House. It makes me feel like home in a way that is so special.

The song itself is about meeting special people in special places and then leaving them there. I think any regular traveler with a heart full for romance will get what I’m talking about.

 

Curse of Vienna

LYRICS

 

You, you got

You, you got,

you got me tied between

Old inclinations and simple pride

I need 24, 24, 24, more hours with you

 

In the slow roasting hell of this

Building block city

I’ll pretend that it’s not dying

if I can keep sitting

In a yellow, yellow, yellow, white chariot with you

 

And I don’t wanna

Don’t wanna hold

Don’t wanna hold you

To it

But the pumping’s been off in my heart since you blew it

And next time or sometime is no time when time’s not with you

 

You, you got

And I don’t want to

 

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Three Seconds https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/three-seconds/ Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:23:47 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=182 eyetree

I gave myself about thirty minutes to write song about three seconds worth of thought yesterday as a challenge for back porch art night. This little guy probably needs to be arranged differently, but it was fun to write something on a deadline and without the usual style I like to write in.

This photo is unrelated to the song, but I’m pretty in love with it right now.

I think my mood is shifting back into silly songs mode, so some more ditties like this old gal might be what’s next. It’s spring!!

 

LYRICS

Three Seconds

 

I’m hoping

 

A lot heart is good for prodigals

But this is not the time for tales to tell your children

Your weight feels as though it needs my comfort

I have none to give, I am among the comets

 

I’m hoping

 

Staring straight, I should be tiring quickly

I have to stay as though my heart is simple

A vine, it crawls between my toes and fingers

It keeps me warm and gives me an erasure

 

I’m hoping

 

What do I want? You don’t know what you’re doing

In my mind, the winds of rest and sailing

Have stopped all my crooked thoughts from thawing

I’m upside-down and I am hardly moving

 

I’m hoping

 

Don’t know what I did right

I hold my breath, and close my eyes

Keep real still

 

 

 

 

 

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Clementina https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/clementina/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:36:21 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=178 […] ]]> Holiday in Mogadishu https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/holiday-in-mogadishu/ Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:51:58 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=169 […] ]]> Here I’ll Stay https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/here-ill-stay/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:25:25 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=176 […] ]]> Her Belly is a Cold Hearth https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/her-belly-is-a-cold-hearth/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:23:56 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=173 […] ]]> Bully of the Open Sea https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/bully-of-the-open-sea/ https://www.antsinmyteeth.com/bully-of-the-open-sea/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2015 02:38:05 +0000 http://www.antsinmyteeth.com/?p=61 10678742_10100266059327112_5216889011006633049_n

I think dogs are super cool and have depth beyond our assumptions. Which, I guess, explains why this is not the first song I have written with a canine muse. Is that weird? Maaaybe.

Last November, a lovely friend of mine gave me the fantastic present of peaceful escapism. As a thank you for her kindness, I wrote her a song inspired by her doggie and sent her this little recording with the ukulele chords so she could play along at home (uke people attract uke people I think) for the pup.

This recording has a whistle solo that really shows off my total lack of talent in that particular area, so I’m really excited to share.

 

 

Bully of the Open Sea

 

Daringly she tests the water

Wondering if she outta seize the day

And sail free

 

Adventure’s name starts calling softly

And slowly swells to a cacophony

“Come to me”

 

Her paws lift slowly from the sand

She flies through dreams of other lands

 

Harriet

She tends the winds and waves ferociously

The wisened bully of the open sea

Conscript to none, captain of all

 

Harriet

Do not be caught fool by her peaceful pace

Her stocky stance belies a leopard’s grace

Of heart and soul, if not of paw

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