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21 Dec 2014
2015, lyrics, poprock, protest, Returning Home a Stranger, song

once familiar way to go
twice the time away to know
that i was never goin’ back again

maybe
i built a wall and lost it
i built a bridge and crossed it
i built a life that’s happenin’

and i know where you are
and where you been
and where you’re not willing to go

maybe i’m just not fakin’ it
maybe there’s no mistakin’ it
maybe it’s not me back again

na, na, na, na, na, na

yet one more believin’ it
takin’ my chance; i’m leavin’ it
gettin’ the hell outta hell, friend

singin’ the song — i’m makin’ it
waking the world — i’m shakin’ it
lovin’ the beginning of the end

and i know here i am
and there i’ve been
and where it’s a long, slow death to go

looks like i’m goin’ anywhere
my success, my somewhere
looks like not lookin’ back again

na, na, na, na, na, na

who is it that said, “this too shall pass”
how did i see through the broken glass

why to be so lost, so blind to see
how was it so long, to believe in me

hard to believe it’s gotta be
those who would love don’t gotta see
that a departure gets you home

i remember everything
pick up the phone it’s gonna ring
karma will tell you where to go

and i know who i am
who i’ve been
with and who i can’t run from

this isn’t life’s great mystery
this is a personal history
this isn’t me who’s back again

na, na, na, na, na, na

8. show and tell

18 Dec 2014

I love this song because it’s so entirely honest and revealing. As of now, I could not be anymore honest and, well, intimately personal about my reasons for making music again. This song equates my natural talent for music with something divine–as you hear in the lyrics and production, I sing the joyful promise of melody and “I swear to brunt a lyrical salvation,” while achieving a kind of enlightenment or liberation as a result of my honest approach to myself and who I am.

You can hear the childhood influences of the Catholic Church here, literally, with even the final musical section using a chord combination used commonly by church cathedral bells during a celebration or right of passage. This was all intentional, yet happened rather organically, and reveals my almost spiritual passion for and relationship to all things musical.

At the same time, I attempt to promise a continued path of personal growth, as I “remind myself it’s time to shelf the world as it is to me.” It’s time for me to move on. It’s time for me to forgive myself and the world and make music again.

And I love this song because at its heart, it uses few words to express a declaration, confirmation, resolution, and promise.

If you want to know what my music and I am about right now, listen to this and read the lyrics. It is really where my heart and head are at, at this time, as I crawl my way out from the darkness of silence and into my own voice and spiritual warmth of musical bliss. 🙂

i can’t breath

5 Dec 2014
China

i can’t breath.

:)rickymay

if you’re a famous athlete, you can beat and kill her

1 Dec 2014
China

When I began the GSU campus chapter of AI, our core campaign was women’s rights. I chose that because I believe our species must reconsider its devalued opinion of the female if we are to survive.
Here’s a new stupid: let’s send a strong message to the young, aspiring athletes that gendercide is ok.

:)rickymay

rip rocky

24 Nov 2014
China

I have the unfortunate honour to announce to my readers and the creepy weirdos secretly scanning this website that my pet slug Rocky has passed.  He is believed to have passed as he was born into my household: by complete accident and without provocation.  Rocky arrived in a head of lettuce, and daily he brought his unique brand of slow-moving joy to the lives of all who knew him or greeted him when making coffee with the kettle next to his home on the kitchen counter.  I’m sad, but I hope you’re in a better place, Rock; you deserve that.

:)rickymay

7. sunday afternoon

18 Nov 2014

This showcases a slightly soulful sound that I’ve grown up with and enjoyed. In the future I’m sure I will be developing this sound and making it more of something my own.

It was made with my working-class sister in mind and a friend of mine’s preference for getting high to relax–hence the background “ahhhhhhh”. The idea behind the song is that the singer works hard for a living and when it’s time for time off, he/she tells his/her boss that, “you’re losing me for a while,” to make a declaration of self-gratification, “to make someone else smile.”

At Home

16 Nov 2014
2015, folk, lyrics, mature-themed, poprock, protest, Returning Home a Stranger, song

i am a product of our economic whey
and i am not here of my choice

i worked 13 hours on my 13th birthday
without a song without a voice

i am a product of my willingness to learn
and i have trusted no one good

they lock the door before i lay down and i earn
the money, as i’m taught i should

it seems some intent to have a
child in this world is bent on
little more than my effort to sing

choose to make a new-born you and
do what yesterday would do
without a second thought to anything
at home

i am a product of my parents’ ignorance
a sibling to an unknown more

i’d know to read or write if given half a chance
i steal what i need–nothing more

i am a product of my culture’s history
and here i’m better to be dead

without a living parent there’s no worth to me
“it’s just a girl,” is all that’s said

if your good intent to have a
child in this world is bent on
tradition or divine anything

think before you make a you and
do not what the neighbors do
without a second thought to anything
at home

there’s no one behind the curtain
whose not in a world of hurtin’
any given day

do we look for status, blessing,
or are we just window-dressing
when we turn away

from the children desperately
in need of the love we could be
sharing with them

at home

i am a product of a god and of a war
i am a child without a home

no time for heaven on earth when settling a score
nowhere to run, nowhere to roam

there isn’t water but i find new friends each day
they disappear as easily

i lost my leg while in that field as i play
that’s just the way it is to be
at home

Show And Tell

15 Nov 2014
2015, ballad, lyrics, Returning Home a Stranger, song

in this song i have to show
all the love that i have in me
and the rains fall down
no more to drown
the sullen me

in the chorus there should be
no mistake about how i feel
and the wind is wild
this broken child
is history
yeah

some way somehow
right here right now
a melody as promise

and do i swear
to brunt and bear
a lyrical salvation

in this song i want to show
all the love that i have in me
and the sun shines down
to light this frown
of melancholy

in the chorus there must be
every single opportunity
to remind myself it’s time to shelf
the world as it is
to me

i got gas

29 Oct 2014
China

go to bank + add credit to card + insert card to charge-up = toasty warm apatment all winter long.

image

And the god of warmth:

image

:)rickymay

world bank plea for ebola volunteers

28 Oct 2014
China

World Bank plea for Ebola volunteers http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29798555

I think World Bank President Jim Yong Kim should volunteer. 
Put your big money where your big mouth is, banker.

:)rickymay

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