i was there. and i was listening.

©2022 Alpha Juno LLC + jd torian *** Not near minimal enough, but I am back posting after a few years!

©2022 Alpha Juno LLC + jd torian I reversed the one verse, but the prompt is in there! *** How does it end when we fly out the window? Feeling much better but it’s all looking worse. All just depends on how he says it goes. Felling better start over again.

©2022 Alpha Juno LLC + JD Torian A new one for the @inbloom song game! #circlegame21

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©2021 jd torian Verse 1: Talking with your eyes closed Nothing to do 5 + dime come around No new news Come up with your own scene Call what you want Leaving while it’s still on Nothing it’s not Prechorus 1: Yo Yo Yo Chorus 1: Hey Love Breath in Come on Breathe out Verse 1(2): Talking with your eyes closed Nothing to do 5 + dime come around No new news Prechorus 2: Yo Yo Yo Chorus 2: Hey Love Breat...

©2021 JD Torian #op1

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©2021 jd torian 122bpm // f#

©2021 JD Torian #circlegame7 making the most out of 4 bars

©2021 JD Torian SWU SummerFall 2021 -------------------------------- Verse 1: Alone Doesn’t understand The way things are The way they begin Interested Imagination Sidebar everything The way they began Chorus 1: Oh no, oh no It couldn’t happen to me Oh no, oh no It couldn’t happen to me Verse 2: Delayed Reverb’ed And chorused I am my own man I said It once All I have to say: I am my own man Chorus...

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©2021 JD Torian + Alpha Juno Records #circlegame3

©2021 jd torian live w/ Robyn Huston

©2021 jd torian Song #1 in the Circle Game for InBloom #circlegame1 #circlegame

Side 1/4 practice for 5/15

©2021 JD Torian Verse 1: Getting up early Stray dog’ged And to-do’ed Talking on the phone Hey, how are you? The photograph creeps They’re coming too PreChorus 1: I don’t know what to say I don’t know what to do I don’t know where in the world I am with you Verse 2: Business card sleeping On the freeway Been so long I don’t know what to say Have nice life Have a nice day PreChorus 2: I don’t know w...

©2021 JD Torian SWU Winter 2021, song #1 (prompt Colorado Springs) I tired to capture the most depressing moments of the 80's in a song. Like album 3 from the Cure, this one was going to get made. Had to get it out. Been thinking about the verse chords forever. I'm making a new record, and the idea is to use these verse snippets between sections of the album as bumpers as it's a bit of ear worm. I...

©2021 JD Torian / Alpha Juno Records More on this 478th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Collage of Collages (The Assignment: Make a collage that will become part of a larger collage.) — at: https://disquiet.com/0478/ The project is a collaboration with the radio show Kopfkino, initiated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. More on Kopfkino at: https://cba.fro.at/series/kopfkino More on the Disquiet J...

©2021 JD Torian Hard Worn Verse 1: Another hard one Maybe sneak it by As a one-and-done I thought you were finished Left it undone Big time surprises will do Simple remedy Gets you in the End If you have one Willing to bend On such a long night Hours of hours on end Pre Chorus 1: Some things are hard-worn You love a surprise So: you got one Just open your eyes To what’s in front of you The work is...

©2020 JD Torian Verse: A thousand million creatures All come out to meet you The next time you close your eyes again No matter what you need to They bugs are going to eat you Waiting for this business to end Dirty not clean Upside-down in dreams A quiet to loved to be seen I can’t handle stairs Of all the houses out there That think that (gibberish) Chorus: If it all goes wrong Don’t let them off...

©2020 JD Torian Verse 1: What a heart Such a day Just time to be alive What to do now Is there something to say? A conceit From beyond Cast your own heart My Faith, my lord Chorus 1: Last night Late is the problem Early’s so easy Last night Late is the problem Early’s easy Verse 2: It’ll go Big heart Almost over Couldn’t get it done Right before the start The big O Out of the way Easy message sent...

©2020 JD Torian -- Verse 1: It works until we’re done shooting Stances premature obsession About everything every way Frequently buying whatever I think Completely have all that I need Chorus 1: Still it goes on and on On and on Verse 2: Effort show up and then it dies Stars are coming Control judders at it again Put the pen down Favorite things seem so real My notebook is at it again Chorus 2: St...

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©2020 JD Torian Verse 1: Some times I feel like Rolling along Standing in the window Just looking on Somebody push’em Baby your turn Send me a mama’ She’s been gone too long Gone to long Chorus: Move along Wont you try harder Just Move along … Verse 2: Put it down A little while at work Give it up Until feels like it hurts Get so gone it Can’t be much worse Love something too much Unplug the world...