In troubling times we are told to have faith. This is deep deep wisdom becaues without faith we are lost. Whatever you imagine the power of human belief to be it is powerful. How many times has your life come down to a do or die situation .... no money and rent due ......and at the last minute you somehow pull through. I have had many of these and it taught me the importance of having faith in tomorrow.
Have a little faith faith in tomorrow
Without a dime to my name and no one loved her to blame I see it all my rise and fall I'm putting all my faith in tomorrow
Out on the street where you live with no potential nothing to give I realize it's all inside I'm putting all my faith in tomorrow
no need to cry anymore Faith in tomorrow no need to lie anymore Faith and tomorrow
I always had it here I always had it here
so nothing works so you say all right you're right once again these yesterday's destroyed my face I'm putting all my faith in tomorrow
no need to stand in the street and cry your name I have it here right now I had it all along
This is a really old song of mine I decided to redo for the "Daydreams" Cd. Oddly enough the message still seemed as fresh as the day I wrote it. I'm still involved in the constant struggle to thrive, survive, prosper and create. Mostly the balance is impossible. You have to focus and to make it these days you have to constantly change your focus. Focus on making money until the rent is paid and then focus on recording a new song until the rent is due again.. Everything is right within reach and yet still passing so quick you can't grab it. Maybe I could run.
Check out the entire new CD on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbQnVfQNCQY&list=PLGqCGGqu89iRptey3TkRyh4Vz0Frfty9J
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5d8Lad4sc59EQUfdCXt78W
or go directly to Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Daydreams-Goldmines-Heroes-Abraham-Cloud/dp/B07GCBMRJD?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffsb-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B07GCBMRJD
and spend some cash.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bf6Xwx-v9Q
Friday Dec 2 Will see the release of , "Behind The Palace Walls" 13 songs by Abraham Cloud. An introspective journey about the nature of power in social structure.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkNt2hDhQgM
Right off of the classic CD "Another Successful Breakfast" here's the "ode to the auto-mo."
It is one of those blessings we hardly think about in LA, but how wonderful it is to actually have a car. And who better than Abraham Cloud to brag about it. It sounds 80's and it sounds Car's-ish but it also sounds Folky and Psychedelic and yes even therapeutic (especially on headphones.)
I've been counting what you've been missing
Yesterday it was a hundred and forty-six
Shows and movies, late-night beauties,
Drive-thru food and swap-meets in the sticks
I know you all so well
I understand just what you're going through
I'm going through it too.....
but I have a car
and I can drive
Far from sorrow and money borrowed
Half-a-tank and I can start my life again
Roam the high-road, miss the high-note
Sixties rock'n'roll at a hundred and five
I know it all so well
I understand just what its going through
I'm going through it too.....
but I have a car
and I can drive
I hope someday you understand
The key to life fits right inside your hand
But its up to you to decide
Whether to walk or to drive
And I'll be comin' by at eight if you change your mind
I have a car
(Could it be Jimmy Carr, the famous English Tax Guy he's talking about ? )
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKLevdPk9c0
Here is the beauty of home recording at its best. Raw, unfiltered, relaxed and creative. This is the original home demo for one of Abraham Cloud's most popular songs "Let's Make Love(on the floor of the liquor store)" It is swampy and breezy but still gutteral and sleazy. You can dance the sub-bohemian curl to it and love the whiskey sunshine as well. Can you admit to wanting to go at it on a public floor or has civilization taken your birthright away ?
Sounds a bit like Weezer, if Yoko hired them for an art opening and a drunken Mark Knoppler took the mike doing a really bad John Lennon imitation. Could you hand me the remote ?
Floor Of The Liquor Store
Muscular legs stompin' out the boulevard
Muscular face and lips about a mile large
Pluckin' out a leaf from a tree
as she passes by
I touch greenery a lot when I walk
she's a lot like me
LET'S MAKE LOVE
ON THE FLOOR
OF THE LIQUOR STORE
IN BETWEEN THE PINBALL,
ICE CREAM,
MAGAZINES AND
CUSTOMERS
LET'S MAKE LOVE
After a while on a street called Vine
There she is again
standin' in a check-out line
She's buyin' my brand
(and that's generic)
With a store-bought tan
(but I'm not allergic)
Looks at me as if to say,
"Love is just a beer away."
(Love is just a beer away)
LET'S MAKE LOVE
ON THE FLOOR
OF THE LIQUOR STORE
IN BETWEEN THE PINBALL,
ICE CREAM,
MAGAZINES AND
CUSTOMERS
LET'S MAKE LOVE
go to the window.
We could buy a twelve-pack
and take it to the laundro-mat
But why waste all our precious cash
Gettin' ourselves good'n'trashed ?
let's make love.....
LET'S MAKE LOVE
ON THE FLOOR
OF THE LIQUOR STORE
IN BETWEEN THE PINBALL,
ICE CREAM,
MAGAZINES AND
CUSTOMERS
LET'S MAKE LOVE
You can buy this song on the "Freshly Broken Glass" CD or stream it at any popular babbling brook. You may even be able to steal it many a pancake grandma who uses it a Bingo Background Music and be very happy if you did.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL_PUZnwQXQ
Art , Commerce, Sex, Talent and Drugs all meet up on Main Street every night. At least they used to. When I knew Maggie she was burning bright. Even though she'd traveled an awful lot of really dark roads, she still knew how to hold it together and have fun with the hand she had been dealt. Maggie is America. Simple , young and free. Ready to do whatever it takes to get to the next level. To feel the next thrill. To bag the biggest fish or built the biggest boat. But many times people don't consume what they sell. And you could say Maggie had problems with intimacy. Even though she supposedly sold intimacy on a daily basis. She was good at acting. Dancing for her dinner. But maybe it was the job, or her childhood or the inconsistencies in the entire socio-economic system, but something had robbed her of the ability to have simple , natural fun.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOONe_FPtS8
The first song released off the new CD is called "Same Boat" and is pretty much a wild drinking song about the end of the world. Or a bunch of friends on a night out. Or someone just complaining how things haven't really worked out recently. You can check out the entire new Abraham Cloud release " Daydreams of Goldmines and Heroes," here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbQnVfQNCQY&list=PLGqCGGqu89iRptey3TkRyh4Vz0Frfty9J
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6QufQb2CjM
Pulled out the demo of an older song I had done on my Ensoniq Sequencer. Added some computer generated voices and percussion and began to smile.
Had to relive the lyrics. It's kind of an examination of childhood trauma and its effect on personality development. Add that to an odd thought of mine about robots getting acne. Add in some self-actualizing AI and cigarettes and you have a small , but award winning movie. I hope to soon be walking the red carpet in strange countries and being the toast of oddball oligarchs on obstensiously offensive massive yachts.
You can find this sone on my new album, "Additional Fish," which is available almost anywhere you could buy a mattras.
Why are all these people tryin' to
drive me crazy.
Can't they see I've seen my share of insanity?
I Just wanna sit here very calm an peacefully.
Smoke my cigarette and check out the scenery.
I'm just tryin' to get over.
I'm just tryin' to get over.
Over a very bad case of TEENAGE ACNE.
It takes a 12-pack of beer just to look in the mirror.
Who told all these men to come and work on my street
When its six in the morning an i haven't been to sleep ?
What if i did the same to them and followed them home,
Sat outside their windows playing radios real loud.
I'm just tryin' to get over.
I'm just tryin' to get over.
Over a very bad case of TEENAGE ACNE.
No one here ever made it clear.
No one told me that looks mean everything.
Look at all the comedy my life has become.
I work like an immigrant and dress like a bum.
Something must've happened in those formative years.
A government experiment using really cheap beer.
Many images were generated by GPT-4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhwT-8yg8MI
Sometimes it feels like
Everything and Everyone
is wrong.
I've got to get away
Try and find a place
where I belong.
I'll go Flying Over You.
Clip from the song, "Flying Over You"
Youtube https://youtu.be/OHX3lZl5ma0
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/1jvxDGey0bW7S9NfXD3dku?si=3c5f5f8213da446d
SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/abraham-cloud/flying-over-you?si=956bdcf1a04e4bfcb825d79ae6b4f139
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew5BnRWIdQs
We've all had that person come in and clean up our space for $10 dollars and then wind up turning our very world around. It's a pretty universal occurrence. Leave it to Abraham Cloud to recognize this primal ape-like behavioral template and turn it into a road map for finding and maintaining true janitorial love.
It's a little bit Lou (as in Reed) and a little Bowie (Diamond Dogs, Heroes) The attitude of being unworthy of the self-less love of the hired help has no history at all in rock or pop so we must deem it original. This is off of the stellar, "Freshly Broken Glass" album and should be owned by anyone who still has a reason to climb the stairs up to the starry starry roof.
When you came to me
My house was filthy
I gave you ten bucks
to clean it up
When you left that day
my mind was filthy
Filled with things
like love and trust
You're killing me
With Your Kindness
You're breaking my back
With all your help
Can't you see
I really don't deserve it
I've never been this close before
I've never been
so scared
and you'd be better off
with almost anybody else
you'd be better off
standing in the street
and flagging down a passing car
You're stealing the time
I used to spend thinking
You're thinking so loud
I have to shut up
Is this how June
conceived Beaver Cleaver
Or is this how psycho-killers
start out ?
You're killing me
With Your Kindness
You're breaking my back
With all your help
Can't you see
I really don't deserve it
I've never been this close before
I've never been
so scared
and you'd be better off
with almost anybody else
you'd be better off
standing in the street
and flagging down a passing car
I can't compete with the average man
Walking down a city street
He knows what he wants
ANd goes for it everyday.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q02pgqmMRD8