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I am sun in your shadow
I am shade in the harshest light
I am wind underneath your sail
I am courage that never fails
I am music. Do you hear me ?
I am faith and devotion
I am balm to your hue and cry
I am harbor when tempest tossed
I am vision when all is lost
I am music. Do you hear me ?
I am shore to your ocean
I am star to your lonely sky
I am flesh in your darkest dream
I am forest and forest stream.
I am music. Do you hear me ?
Music and Lyrics ©Copyright 2015 Peter Tutak
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BROKEN ANIMALS
05:30
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Pretty birdie left to die inside a cage
Pretty birdie doesn’t stand a chance of sympathy
Bloody pitbull led to live a life of rage
Never hopes to ever feel the hand of sympathy
Captured orca, entertainment for the masses
Starving horses pulling cannons for a war machine
Mutilated tiger, mutilated bear, mutilated rhino
Fueling man’s virility
Mother lion shot to satisfy a trophy
Elephants are butchered just to take their ivory
Cocker spaniel left to fry inside an auto
Rabbits blinded serving human vanity
Puppy mills and kitten farms alike
Mete no pardon in a profit-minded industry
Both are fed to pythons, both fed to snakes
Fueling, rekindling a base and ancient savagery
Where is the justice for the creature at bay ?
Who grants them mercy at the end of the day ?
Where is the comfort for the soul of the wild ?
Who is the savage ? Who is the beast ?
Feather fin or fur it doesn’t make a difference
All are battered by a rising tide of apathy
Competition for a space upon the planet
Puts the planet in a heightened state of jeopardy
If an intellect is guided by its conscience
If a civil mind is metered by its sanity
Surely there would be a place where every creature
Feels the care of what we call ‘humanity’
Who forged the irons for a world so defiled ?
Where is the comfort for the soul of the wild ?
Where is the justice for the creature at bay ?
Who is the savage ? Who is the beast ?
Music and Lyrics ©2017 Peter Tutak. All Rights Reserved.
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QUIET AS A SUNDAY
05:24
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DOGPATCH AFTER DARK
05:33
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HOUSE IN THE MIRROR
06:46
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House in the mirror, house that I never called ‘home’
House in the mirror, place where I found myself alone
Set on the hillside, looking at sky never blue
Set with a garden, scented by flowers I never grew
Cheap little fireplace, trussed in a Christmas display
Sweet little love songs never again to see the day
Home for the hopeful, rooms where we planned out our life
House in the mirror, house where I’d land high and dry
Caught in the spotlight, everyone asking what went wrong
Deer in the headlights, deaf to the warning and horn
Sold on a future, bound in a dream not to fly
House in the mirror, house where that dream came to die.
Words and Music Copyright©2018 by Peter Tutak. All Rights Reserved.
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PROCESSION
05:13
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ACCEPT THIS LIGHT
02:53
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Accept this light, Creator.
Accept this sound, my Lord.
Accept this prayer surrendered to You
All I once was, earthbound and vain,
shackled, selfish, weak, and lost
all I have been, returned to dust
But this heart,
This soul,
This love I return to You.
Words and Music Copyright ©2022 by Peter Tutak. All Rights Reserved.
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LOST SEA DREAMER
05:02
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Cast away, I’m a cork afloat
Left to fend in a leaky boat
Wave on wave, whitecap and wind
My company, the albatross, the circling fin
Clouds of silk in a brilliant sky
Choking salt in a tortured sigh
None but this eternal sea
My bane and buoy, my melody
A distant isle
A verdant lea
A raincloud crowning its peak
This fickle swell
Denying me
The rescue I seek
I watch it pass
In slow parade
To rest beyond the horizon
My hope denied
This endless ride
Becomes a pallet to die on
Words and Music are Copyright ©2021 by Peter Tutak. All Rights Reserved.
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ORTYGIA
08:59
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QRN Seattle, Washington
My name is Peter Tutak. I'm originally from Jersey City NJ, and now live in Seattle, WA. I studied bass and classical composition at the university level in New Jersey and Chicago, and I've been a bassist for over 50 years. I write and record my own progressive rock music, in the 1970s/80s style of the progressive rock genre, incorporating influences from classical music, world music, and jazz. ... more
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