Ben Schillaci: Recent Episodes
Ben Schillaci
An exploration of the symbiotic relationship between men and women with a lil' bit a twang ya know?
A big fat question mark on reality, what we believe to be true and how we believe the world to operate. In order to figure out what's actually fact and what's fiction, you must open your mind to the possibility of it being a little silly or borderline utter non-sense.This could be that or about this one time someone told me about their cousin meeting Obama. Or maybe I just made that all up too! Who knows!
(Lyrics)
I'm not in your cult, I'm in my own, it's called reap what you've sewn, into your dreams and sculpt out future long lost
Timelines from far away have helped me and they could help you to
see what? I can't be sure. Did you look everywhere?
I've checked every place, I've looked through every space, and checked every place, oh there you are! Covering your face
I'm not, part of that plan, it's just not, who I am, in your dreams I sculpt out future long lost
Timelines, from far away so help me to help you to see
Timelines from far away have told me to tell you that
Timelines from far away have shown me, I can't see you.
The Great Regret is how you feel when you recognize a compromise of a core value or a very wisely placed boundary. It's denial, it's loss of the ability to tell the difference between reality and illusion. It's the need to shake people awake who are dead set on shutting down and shutting out the unpleasant aspects of the world within themselves.
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Quick-sand-man Mr. Flailing-around-while-I-hold-your-hand Slow-steam-ma'am rise above command. Whose life is this anyway?
Is this your story? Judgement's your job? At least the religious leave that up to god.
I thought you saw me as an equal. After all, your sugar is fair trade. Below the surface
a diabetic sweats with hades hand-in-hand uh-huh a coke in hand and free lies on-demand so help me understand
is this your story? Judgement's your job? At least the religious leave that up to god.
"I'm so altruistic," a mask falls to decay, "in a million years, who cares!? I won't be here." In the eyes of a hypocrite, it's all justified, the overdose, the suicides, were worth it.
If you manage to save one life, while destroying millions more, is that a success? or a genocide?
A dissonant devil plays while everyone obeys.
For Miri. Thank you for being one of Lindsey's best roommates. And for each and everyone of us, in the name of freedom to choose to be who we are today and to accept each other as such. lyrics: I wonder about Tom the rat, Where's he at in his track suit all velvet and black? In this great wide web of consciousness, conscious chairs in which you sit, in all those minds that I mess with, that I mess with, that I won't, I won't mess with
I wonder about Frank the cat, white orange, no sign of black, is that just the way that Frank likes to dress? Does he discriminate in his prowess? in his prowess, in his prowess, in his prowess.
He's got a dirtstache sharper than thumbtacks, penny whistle legs for when you played him back- all the tapes hissing worse than the geese, we're at the poetry slam, Jen's lisp written down I can't help but laugh, I can't help but laugh.
To be the youngest mast in a marina of laugh-lines, to be a shady patch in the field at lunch-time.
The lost pigmentation of my imagination
-Is flying first class and soon will be back blowing penny whistle legs, skating the cul-de-sac, so my old tapes are hissing worse than the geese, we're at the poetry slam, Jen's lisp loud and proud, I can't help but laugh, I can't help but laugh.
This is a demo from a future instrumental hip-hop release. At the moment 2 other tracks I'm developing this month are available to listen to in their sprout form at reikishare.bandcamp.com/garden-of-smiles :) Become a member and you'll receive all of my back catalog plus updates in the form of demos as they're being developed sent straight to your phone. Alternatively you can anticipate the release of these in their fully fleshed form on this and other platforms :)
This is a recording from Jan 2016 of a song that was intended to be completed for my record 'A Big Download.' Why I opted out of it being considered for the project I can't really clearly say. It may have been the ambitious spaciousness of the track, that it needed a band to be supported in a live setting or just the sheer volume of music I was creating at that time. I hope you enjoy this musical time capsule from my time spent between Peterborough and Hamilton, the creakiness of the floors and the wonder that still permeates.
Songwriter: Benjamin Schillaci
Producer/Arranger: Walker Grimshaw
Engineering/Additional Mixing: Benjamin Schillaci
Backing Vocalists (In Order of Appearance:) Lindsey Westdorp, Shawn Durant, Jade Chittock and Walker Grimshaw
An instrumental soundscape! Support the project at: https://reikishare.bandcamp.com/track/viewfound
Close your eyes, open your ears and enjoy!
Lyrics:
No one can find fault in following your heart, place two double A's in their backs and then hit restart.
The only real hate speech, is speech that wont let others speak even then you have the right just don't expect me to listen
out of ear shot and out of sight at one time people enjoyed their privacy.