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Mark of Can

Posted on 09.30.24 under Uncategorized

Lost in a time beyond memory
Long before the documentary
Called back to the world we left behind
Back to the prison of our minds

Please feel this again
Again

It’s all a mystery

Help us erase the Mark of Cain
Primal sin is an endless chain
The lust for more driving us insane
Turning pleasure into pain

It’s all a mystery

Revise the stories of our lives
Tales of shame and emotional strife
Ten thousand years seems like yesterday
Ten thousand demons we must slay

Please feel this again
Again

It’s all a mystery

We can’t erase the Mark of Cain
Pushed from the start to insane
Run the race to hell in pain
Help us break these heavy chains

It’s all a mystery

released September 30, 2024
Written, Performed, Recorded: Malcolm Wong
Alto, Tenor, Baritone Sax: Frank Southecorvo

Photo and photo collage: Malcolm Wong

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Remembering Gloria Lee Wong

Posted on 08.25.24 under Uncategorized

At the Martha’s Vineyard Campground Tabernacle in Massachusetts, Dustin Wong re-created this song from scratch, building layers of atmosphere on his pedals. For years, my mother wanted Dustin to play on Martha’s Vineyard. It took her passing to make it happen…

I’m Malcolm, the oldest of Gloria’s five children and the father of Dustin, her first grandchild. I was known as Stephen when our family first starting going to the Campground in the 60s. At that time, my mother was identified and self-identified as Mrs. Backman Wong.

After my father passed on in 1995, she sold the family hom and built a house in Vineyard Haven, moving permanently and year-round to Martha’s Vineyard. She started a second life as Gloria Violet Lee Wong, widening her horizons. Part of the process was assisted by traveling. She embedded and engaged meaningfully with the people she met.

In her later years, she traveled with companions and even had plans to visit with us on Maui in March of this year with Uncle Rob. Just two years ago she went on a road trip with Dustin, driving down from Vancouver to San Diego, dropping in on friends and relatives, just the two of them.

Her 90th birthday was celebrated in the Bay Area. She travel there with someone that I hadn’t heard about before, so the usual questions were asked: How had they met? How long had she known her? What did she do? Her age, etc. G’ma Gloria said: “Oh, she’s old,” and when a 90 year old says a person is old, well the next obvious and natural question is, “How old?” The answer: “She’s retired. She’s younger than you!”

That was Gloria Wong, telling it like it is and keeping it real.

The Hunter’s Gaze

Posted on 06.24.24 under Uncategorized

Always
Mesmerize

Stare at the mirror
Your
Warped vision seems
even clearer

Show me your scars
Your
Psycho-wounds
make quaint memoirs

Oohhh, mesmerize

By the hunter’s gaze
The victims pay
to escape the maze
And the hunter’s gaze

Stick to your guns
You know
That truth
Speaks best in tongues

Can you enjoy
the show
When it all comes down
Well destroyed

Oohhh, mesmerize
By the hunter’s gaze
The victims pay
to escape the maze
And the hunter’s gaze

credits

released June 23, 2024
Written, performed, recorded by Malcolm Wong
Sax Stylings by Jason Gay
Beauty by AI

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These Loops

Posted on 05.15.24 under Uncategorized

Who put you on that pedestal
painted it gold
bought what you sold
When you look me in the eye
Is it true love
That you’re thinking of

Why
My mind plays these loops
I’m holding on to you, but you’re slipping away
But there’s no substitute
Why
Can’t find the reason why
You tricked me, you tricked me

Why
My mind plays these loops
I’m holding on to you, but you’re slipping away
But there’s no substitute
Why
Can’t find the reason why
Am I dreaming

Who put that thought in your head
Bewitched you fell
Under that spell
Helpless you did what was said
Bought what was sold
Posed as a centerfold

Why
My mind plays these loops
I’m holding on to you, but you’re slipping away
But there’s no substitute
Why
Can’t find the reason why
You tricked me

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released May 5, 2024
Written, performed, recorded: Malcolm Wong
Sax Stylings: Jason Gay
Collage: Malcolm Wong

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How I feel

Posted on 05.05.24 under Uncategorized

Listen

Closer

Yeah

She walks across
the rainbow bridge between
Time lost forever and infinity
He can’t forget
This chronic feverish dream
Her face has haunted him through virginity

How I feel
It’s hard to conceal
This dream’s so surreal

To her he seems to
be so naive
Look past your mirror
To his heart you’ve never seen
To him she seems so
far out of reach
Her wounded child defends her
Like a knight to her queen

How I feel
It’s hard to conceal
This dream’s so surreal

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released May 5, 2024
Written, performed, recorded: Malcolm Wong
Sax Stylings: Jason Gay
Collage: Malcolm Wong

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