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my most spun track on Spotify from my former days as The Reflectors. Written in 2008. Released in 2009 on my record Goodbye Monday Blue.
It’s all still true lol.
https://thereflectors.bandcamp.com/track/long-road-ahead
we got a long road ahead
settle down. settle back. settle in.
don’t you know that we’re gonna have to work until we’re dead?…
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Words Of Release [off Goodbye Monday Blue (2009) and Reflected.10×10 (2012)] catalyzes a tuna salad niçoise in the latest episode of #TorradaTorrada‘s #TorradaFresh with Luanda Gazoni. The YouTube description has Luanda giving my work a wonderful shout-out, too, and the feeling’s mutual. Amo from Brooklyn to Brazil, Luanda!
:^D
…Published on Feb 24, 2015
Minha Versão da Salada Niçoise #TorradaFreshInscreva-se no canal: http://goo.gl/oDyF5s
A short film out of Spain opens with the lead character listening to Long Road Ahead [Goodbye Monday Blue (2009) and Reflected.10×10 (2012)] on headphones. Such an xclnt integration of my track into a scene.
…Cortometraje “Billete de ida”, realizado durante el Curso de Cine para Jóvenes El Volander 2013-2014.
Long Road Ahead [off Goodbye Monday Blue (2009) and Reflected.10×10 (2012)] soundtracks a Bellais family adventure down the Chilean Carretera Austral highway. Fitting and wonderful.
La belle Carretera Austral!
Musique: “Long road ahead” par Westy Reflector
westyreflector.net
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The Bellais family from France is traveling around the world in a converted old fire truck for 2-years.…
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Published on Jul 14, 2014
Trofeo ABARTH 500 | tappa Mugello Circuit | 12.07.2014 | riprese: fabio D’Arco | editing: www.labvideo.it | musiche: CC Westy Reflector – “Words Of Release”Trofeo Abarth 500 | stage Mugello Circuit | 07.12.2014 | shooting: fabio D’Arco | editing: www.labvideo.it | music: CC Westy Reflector – “Words Of Release”
My wife, Cat, is an xclnt, award-winning film & tv costume designer, and my front row seat to her work is electrifying and teeming with inspiration. That said, her job takes her away from me, sometimes quite distant, for very long stretches.
When she filmed Kill Bill in 2002, she shuttled between Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beijing for 8 months, came home to NYC for 1 week and then went to Mexico and LA for 3 more months.…
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My track Words Of Release soundtracks an extreme ride down Uganda’s White Nile River. Awesome that a song about peace makes such sense against raging waters. Wonderful cinematography. My track starts approximately 01:50.
Uganda’s politics around self-expression and gender are not aligned with mine (understatement), but you rarely have control over where your music is placed (just ask Chrissy Hynde about Rush Limbaugh’s daily use of My City Was Gone).…
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11 January 2010
Cement From the Goodbye Monday Blue sessions. |
have you seen what they do to innocence now?
…There’s always something somewhere that interrupts your business
Gets in the way of your success
There’s always something somewhere that splits the electorate in two
Renders each half ridiculousBurn your pile of magazines
Destroy the dial on your radio
Turn your back on that television
See stars in your mind
See the stars in your mindThere’s always something somewhere that catches you on tape
everyone is someone else’s celebrity
Feel free to feel famous when you’re down-
town at the end of the worldYou are free to fly…free to deny gravity……stretch time………
There’s always something somewhere that interrupts your business
Gets in the way of your success
Never let anyone anytime tell you that you’re worthless
Dream of love, take back your time!
A harvest-moony reflection, written in November 1993 and left alone until 2007, when the band got into a rainy day mode and dusted it off.
b-side of the Words Of Release single off Goodbye Monday Blue.
on top of a cement sidewalk — under a cloudless sky
you and i had our first embrace — before our first goodbyethen i drove along the freeway — away from the city
saw the skyline in my mirror –- could’ve sworn you were looking at mei don’t want to know anymore
i don’t need to know anymore
Because i know you’re still there
i just know that you’re still thereso now i’m flyin over this memory — on a hazy afternoon
you have to know that i am watching — you have to know i made it through
Don’t. Break. Down.
b-side of goodbye monday blue
thereflectors.bandcamp.com/track/goodbye-monday-blue
Wishing this time was just in dreams
But it’s one more triangle scheme
You, me and all the distance between…Sending all those letters home
from the front line like a movie star in the sky
but now you’re wasted like a sequel going nowhere
lie after lie after lie’cause it’ll be on my head if you break down
you don’t break down
so don’t break downthe dreams the faith we have in each other
through made up war
closing doors
decades every daythere’s a fixed amount of luck in the world
to wish it different would break all the rules
still sun shines
you worked hard to make something happen
never say you are not made for this world
just watch out, if you wake up in a messed up mission
because before you know it…all of a sudden everything falls
away from youenjoy power while it lasts
tastes change, lovers fly so fast
but all you need is one good last
long time agoall of a sudden everything falls
into grace when you least expect it
even when it all just falls away
all around youall of a sudden everything stalls
at the moment of execution
all of a sudden the white phone rings
and it’s for youdo me a favor -> say you’re in grace
say you’re in graceeverything falls
Some people can turn their conscience on and off
like Ray Davies’ Yo-Yo.
Not me. You?
…we got a long road ahead
settle down. settle back. settle in.
don’t you know we’re gonna have to work until we’re dead?
we’ve got such a long road aheadfull of naked feelings
illumination
you know all those things you just can’t teachThere you go again
laughing at real life
I guess that’s the way things will always beit’s been a long slow descent
energy lost.
have you ever been really really far away
from your lover for a really really long time?
…I know you’re lonely
I’m waiting here for you
Baby, nothing changes
When you feel like I doSo now you’re far away
You got a job to do
So, baby don’t get desperate
Don’t be blueI see that exit sign
The one you take tonight
The one you take to know you’re homeSo many freeway signs
An exit for every life
Remember there’s one can take you homeOther people
They don’t have a clue
They drive on by
Like they doI see that exit sign
The one you take tonight
The one you take to know you’re homeSo many freeway signs
An exit for every life
Remember there’s one can take you homeWhere’s the love in a freeway sign
That’s got nothing to do with your life?
written and recorded in a 72 hour flurry.
have you ever had to re-write a memory?
No one told me about what happened
To you for a couple of years
Had to rewrite all the good times
Had to rewire ½ the gearsGoodbye Monday Blue
Goodbye I did love you
You had nothing left to lose
Save goodbye monday blueIt takes all your will
To draw with your eyes closed
And it takes all the energy
To recreate this worldGoodbye Monday Blue
Goodbye I did love you
You had nothing left to lose
Save goodbye monday blue
07.02.2008 1:15a
©2008 Sock Drawer Studios…
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this song was written in 2000, back when you could live in the future.
call it a love song to a pub song.
find me an after-hours London club
one where the taps don’t close up
from 11 o’clock until the sun comes up
‘cause I got 2 friends, baby, who just won’t shut upcognac & polyester are best friends to me
and neither of ‘em thinks the lesser to be
the fabric & the drink of high society
sounds like best friends to meit’s all the fault of this woman faulting out of her dress
close enough to spill, but not to confess
my brood & I, we just gotta laugh at all this decadence
times are not good, until you live them to excesseverybody’s drenched
seconds get stretched
the least likely combination
is never that far fetchedcognac & polyester are best friends to me
and neither of ‘em thinks the lesser to be
the fabric & the drink of high society
sounds like best friends to metwo me
mmm. mmm. mmm.
…I don’t ever want to get like that
How’d you ever come to get like that?
I swore I’d never want to get like that againKicked out of the house and shown the door
Forgotten twice by the side of the road
2 nights coatless
in the bitterbitter coldI don’t ever want to get like that
How’d you ever come to get like that?
up then down then down then
I had it all then I had nothing
just like Job traded to hell from heavenWouldn’t you know it I was done in
by just one careless hand
Simply screwed up one little thing
got handed my hatAnd now I got nothing but love
to get us out of here
I got nothing but love
so there’s nothing to fearAfter a few lost jobs I had a few lost evenings
I felt betrayed by some pretty good feelingsFortune just kept turning the corner
She kept turning away her head
She kept turning me into a shadow
under that empty hatSo now I got nothing but love
to get us out of here
I got nothing but love
so there’s nothing to fearThere is nothing to fear
We have nothing to fear
There is nothing to fear
When there’s nothing left but loveWhen there’s nothing left
Nothing but love
I’ve got nothing left to give but loveThere is nothing to fear (when there’s nothing but love)
03.06.2008 3:32pm; 9:20pm; 12:50am
03.07.2008 11:44am; 04.05.2008 10:50am
Written in 2002. Finally recorded correctly in the key of B.
I know you’re in my mind
I hear you if I sleep
Lying awake in the dark I feel you deepInvisible girl – don’t get lost in your
backgroundI’m gonna dream ‘til I know you’re mine
I’m gonna dream ‘til I run out of time
I’m gonna dream unfinished songs
I’m gonna dream on and on and onI know you’re in the room
Your body rise and fall
Interrupting all the light dancing on the other wallInvisible girl – don’t fade into the
backgroundI’m gonna dream ‘til I know you’re mine
I’m gonna dream ‘til I run out of time
I’m gonna dream unfinished songs
I’m gonna dream on and on and on