RONDA LARUE
Soul Arts Music Studio
ORIGINAL SONGS LISTENING CATALOGUE
SoulArts Studio — Music
A growing body of original songs arising from personal memory, psychological inquiry, and the wider cultural moment.
The works below move across different musical and emotional landscapes.
Each may be heard here in full. Lyrics and backstory available where a piece may be of interest for adapted edit and/or publishing rights.
Song Sections
PORTRAITS & PASSAGES
Songs that accompany moments of crossing — aging, love, endings, beginnings, and the recognitions that change how life is lived.
Still Got the Fire (70th Birthday Commission)
Threshold · Sassy Celebration
A fast rock-swing anthem telling the truth about vitality that deepens with time — commissioned for an elder birthday with a big, sassy groove.
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Legends of the YMCA (Commissioned Honoring Ceremony)
Threshold · Swing Celebration
An upbeat western swing line-dance song honoring a YMCA class celebrating fifty years together with its leader.
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What Held (Gifted Commission)
Threshold · Maturity
A Country Ballad about an older man honoring his life path, having left the family ranch yet realizing the values he carries with him.
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"All In!" (Anniversary Gift)
Threshold · Celebration
A sexy, swaggering blend of bluesy pop-rock, funky guitar, playful piano, and a deep, gravelly male vocal. Irresistibly danceable, flirtatious, and full of grown-up chemistry.
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After the Thunder (Reflections - Early Losses and Later Loves)
Essence · Embodied Love
A love duet reflecting early fiery loves and losses, and the kindling of elder love held in a softened flame of the heart.
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A Quiet Vow (Single Mother Raising 2 Boys)
Threshold Love · Female Wisdom
A classic soprano solo reflecting self-recognition after raising children alone and discovering what was being sought within.
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ALLEGORY & SATIRE
Playful and theatrical songs that use humor, exaggeration, and archetypal characters to reveal familiar patterns of human behavior.
Zen Take (Hymn Retake: What a Friend We Have in (Jesus -->Patience)
Allegorical · Playful
A buoyant, theatrically playful song riffing on call-and-response choral music with Queen-scale humor, Zen patience, and lift.
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I Just Got Rid of My Parents (Why Do I Feel 14 Again)
Allegorical · Comic Operetta
A comic-allegorical song revealing how family imprinting outlives time through playful satire.
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SOCIAL COMMENTARY & WITNESS SONGS
Songs that respond to the wider human story — cultural tensions, collective illusions, and the truths societies struggle to face.
Earth Sings the Blues
(Earth Tell'n It Like It Is)
Witness · Wry Blues
A sassy-blues sung by Earth — weary, clear-eyed, and still standing — telling the truth without flinching.
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Earth for Good
(Renee Nicole Good)
Witness · Elemental
A song spoken as Earth — carrying grief, resistance, and continuity that goes beyond human power, control, or consequence.
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Three Hidden Boards (Misused Power & Trauma)
Witness · Storytelling
A narrative moving between present-day news feed and a teenage classroom where power first crossed a line — and how truth sometimes waits decades to be named.
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We Walk Together (Eyes Wide Open)
Witness · Monks Walk for Peace
Honoring the Venerable Monks WALK FOR PEACE and for each and every being who shares this peaceful commitment.
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(gifted free play & share with credits)
MYSTERY & INQUIRY
Songs, spoken word and instrumental works reflecting interior life, meditation, poetic realizations
Spinning on a Prayer (Poetic Reflections)
Meditative · Emergence
A poetic meditation on soulful recognition
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The Whole Current (Embodied Wisdom)
Witness · Storytelling
Soulful, rhythmic indie folk-rock. Earthy, expansive, and quietly ecstatic.
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FOR CURATORS & EDITORS
Many of these songs are offered publicly as complete works and are available for editorial consideration, broadcast, and curated listening contexts.
For editorial, licensing, commissioning and broadcast inquiries:
> Why This Body of SoulArts Work > Creative Process & AI Disclosures
FOR PRIVATE COMMISSIONS & LIFE HONORING GIFTS
I find lyric with music to be one of the most potent sources of inner shift, healing, and self-integration. For more about this life work and ways of engaging with the SoulArt Studio or with my lifework, please feel free to REACH OUT
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