The Real Me by Markus Nylund
Wrote this song about all the craziness of the modern world. As men and women we are all put into boxes/labels and play our roles in the marketplace of ideas, relationships, jobs and communities. It can be easy to get lost in it all, not really knowing who we are or what is real. Some navigate these things better than others but human life is long. Hard and tough might help you initially but it might also make you blind and impenetrable to deeper truths in the long game. I try to see through the shells/masks including my own. We are all sensitive, hurt children wanting love from a violent sun. Who are you underneath it all, beyond the personality and trauma? I sing for him/her. The essence of you. I am your eternal friend and my songs are your inter-national anthems.
THANK YOU
♥️
MN
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And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Kahlil Gibran
(The Prophet)
#theprophet #kahlilgibran #bipolarbear
As Good As It Gets by Markus Nylund
This is for you Dario!
@slavenross
#indiefolk #indiefolkmusic #asgoodasitgets #markusnylund #indierock #alternativerock
Sometimes we feel anger and love. And it is okay. Life will teach you what you need to learn and you might fail.
#weallfalldown #liketoysoldiers #goldenboy #goldilocks #indierockmusic
#giveeverything but #nevergiveup
#leonardcohen #cover #markusnylund #poetryandmusic
Recorded this at home in November, 2019
#tomwaits #coversong #bluevalentines #bluesjazz #markusnylund
December 2019.
Up north at cousin’s cabin. Started to find comfort and solace in the openD/openG tunings on a cheap nylon string guitar i got from sweden the previous month.
I was also communicating more and more with this girl I had known since she was 10 but now had become a very beautiful young woman. I knew i had to cut my hair and beard if i wanted to make progress on those two fronts: the open tunings and the woman.
I also felt obliged to go see her father (who was a good friend of mine) to get his blessings on pursuing her daughter romantically.
Things were getting intense.
I began to wonder what she was thinking/feeling and wrote poetry and songs i would send her, to express this erotic yearning to be close to her. Uncertain with anxiety if she felt the same way. Full of desire and rapture when she told me she did. Overcome by my own lust and temptation when she encouraged me to not stop even though i warned her of what might happen if we kept going.
Was I the hunter or the hunted? Or perhaps we are always both in matters of the heart.
“Lonewolf Lullabies”
was born.
#playingguitar #opentunings #wickedgame #infatuation #lustlove #beautyandthebeast
This is the kind of stuff I was thinking about in December 2019. Always struggled with social media and facing my own ineptitudes as a recording artist and songwriter. But i keep coming back for more. I am extremely curious about failure and hungry for success of some kind, any kind. Or maybe i am the most successful artist in the history of humanity and you are all too cool for school. God knows. Now excuse me while i go back under for another dive into the depths. What a life. MN #selfdoubt #selfsabotage #successmindset #stuggle #failureispartofsuccess #songwriter #learningtheropes #socialmedia #recordingartist
When i turned 15 i decided to take EVERYTHING that was wrong with me and go on stage with it. Look at me everyone, admire my brokenness. West side story for 90s kids.
Nobody cared
Next, they said
Even Simon Cowell went silent. This kids got something he secretly thought.
After 24 years and zero hits, still doing it.
Why? I dont know why.
I didnt choose this path.
It chose me.
Cant stop
Have tried
Might die trying
#insecurity #failure #brokenparts #vikingpoet #laulujakitara #bloodyhell #singerofsongs #failedsongwriter #futuremillionaire #eatyourheartout #whitemanreggae #myobsession #yousuck #gohome #getajob
It was nice to have my own place. Had almost been living here now for one year which was a long time for someone always travelling. Did i miss travel? Not really.
In fact I like it less and less (as i write this now, almost 3 years later). It is an important phase to go through. To see the world, to open your heartmindeye to experience and form your own opinions about the places you visit and the people you meet.
And to understand what its like to be away from what you consider home. And to see that humans are kinda the same wherever you go. Same problems. Same desires. Same dreams. Same needs. Humans being humans.
Travellers know things others never will.
What is home? This is a question you will only begin to understand once you are away for more than 6 months.
My home is Lappeenranta, Finland.
And i like it here.
#lappeenranta #finland #eteläkarjala #southkarelia #homesweethome #traveltheworld #welcomehome
#dontknowwhatyougottillitsgone #worldcitizen #humanbeings
#creativity #identity #business #products #ideas #history #society #wealth #abundance #freedom #selfdoubt #lowerself #higherself #mirrormind
What a crazy year that turned out to be. But i cherish every moment life brings, good or bad. There is no sweet without sour. Sometimes i forget. MN
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WINTER WAR
Started the year of well
Thinking about my life
And how to make things right
Everything i done so far
I learned, i loved, i lost
But it all brought me to you
Hold me now
In this holy sound
Take me as far aways as you can
Help me understand
How turn this light
Hiding in our hearts
Turn it into something wild
Wild child of the night
I wanna go where
The soft snow falls
Make love in the moonlight
Howl and shiver
Longed for like summer
After a winter war
This must be
What Bolano meant by
Wonder in a lovers moon
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#originalsong #winter2020 #acousticmusic #indiefolk #markusnylund #winterwar #vikingblues
#bobbyjean #springsteen #coversong #markusnylund #motelroom #wildthings #walkingintherain #radioplaying #hearmesingthissong #justtosay #imissyoubaby #goodluck #goodbye #rocknroll #greatsongs