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Dust
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A song of loss...
Released: 09-Feb-2026
Category: Alternative
Application: Logic Pro
File type: mp3
File size: 8.4 Mb
Plays: 18
Downloads: 0
Weekly plays: 3
Weekly downloads: 0
License: No derivative works allowed
Lyrics
I won’t say goodbye
No one will see
tears in my eye

I’m not trying to be strong
cause there’s a part of me
that can’t go on

Wear the dark clouds like a cloak
alabaster mask hides
what’s deep inside

Look away into the sky
while the things we love
fade to dust
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A rewarding slow burn with real emotional resonance 👍
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23 days ago
admin
Great work, Joseph. This would be really effective as a soundtrack in a movie. It establishes a melancholy mood very quickly and definitively. And you achieved a really lush, enveloping sound.
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23 days ago
artist
this resonates with me deeply. i've lost many family and friends, and every one is un... un something. yet, time moves forward, and increasingly leaves me behind. you have captured exactly what this phase of life has been like for me. the end really grabbed me.
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22 days ago
Wow - great at soliciting feelings of wonder. The beginning guitar sounds so lonely. Far away and surreal vocal is hauntingly good. The soundscape is quite all around you as you listen. Enjoyed.
22 days ago
artist
That's a really beautiful song ... Bravo.
21 days ago
artist
@Amateurhour @Dr_J @SmokeyVW @MikeHuntingford @Dyl 
Thank y'all for the listens and comments. I wasn't actually planning to post this tune anywhere. Strap in, 'cause the "why" is going to take a minute...
I originally wrote the lyrics in early January. My Mom had just entered hospice care and a long-time friend and co-founder of my current band had just had open heart surgery and his recovery was not looking good. He passed shortly after and to deal, I sat down and finished the bulk of what you heard. My area was then crippled by an ice storm, which we're still recovering from - I just got power back yesterday after 17 days. (Final mix was by candle light using earbuds.)
During the ice storm, my Mom passed away - warm and safe in her home after a life of 94 wonderful years - and my head space has not been that great for the past few weeks.
But time heals, etc. Sort of. And after letting it sit for a couple of weeks, I revisited the song and decided maybe I would post it, because  - at least in my mind - the meaning of the song had changed. It's about loss. Fundamental, gut-wrenching loss. But not in an "Oh, woe is me" way. Life's been rough for a bit (2026 has really sucked so far), but - as they say - that's life. You gotta go on living.
I've got more songs coming, and they're not exactly happy - wait til you hear my RPM project. But this is how I work through things - words and music.
Again, thanks for the listens and kind words. They're very much appreciated.
Latest song: Dust
21 days ago
artist
Glad I checked in. Takes its time - time well spent. At some point something we all have to accept.
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21 days ago
artist
@jgurner 
Been there/felt that too many times in this life. This piece well captures that hollowed out feeling in the face of great personal loss.
Thank you also for the back story bro....
(Amazing how music can help us process our grief...)
👍👍👍
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20 days ago
artist
Beautiful atmospheric song.  Very dreamy.  Your voice is floydish
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@Bowman @Wyndsok @TrebleFace 
Very much appreciate y'all taking a listen and commenting. I make music, for the most part, for an audience of one - myself - but I'm always gratified when someone else finds something in one of my songs they can enjoy.
Thanks!
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15 days ago
artist
@jgurner 
Me too Joseph. I write and record just for the sheer joy of it! That other folks sometimes like one or more of my tunes is just icing on the cake, to say nothing of a bit of a surprise!
Keep 'em coming old friend...
👍👍👍
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14 days ago
artist
Very sad &beautiful at the same time. Made me feel very emotional.
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7 days ago
artist
I lost my mother a year ago at 93. This song really touched me. I really like the repeated guitar strum behind the theme. The flight of violins is very expressive and gives meaning to the finale
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