Jason Rubero

Christmas Eve… A time to reflect on good things. Peaceful things. Meaningful things. After almost three years away from writing music, I’m back.

Here’s a song of rebirth… Houston, the muse has landed.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ✨🎁✨

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Ghost Notes - Single by Jason Rubero | Spotify Jason Rubero · single · 2025 · 1 songs

I’m thrilled to be presenting this, my favorite album of all time, on Sunday. It’s an absolute privilege to have such a great venue for active listening… Stylus Wine and Vinyl Bar 🎧

night vibe 🤍🖤

An absolutely classic performance. I was lucky to be at this gig…. or should I say ‘at this GUITAR FREAKOUT’?

The Dream Syndicate - John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live on KEXP) http://KEXP.ORG presents The Dream Syndicate performing "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" live from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge. Recorded August 31, 2014. Audio ...

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A Boat Made Of Ocean A piece of psychedelic chamber electronica from the 2021 album 'Looking For The Bright Lights'

PLANETARIUM (2023)

Why do canaries sing / In the darkest mine?
Even when no light is due / At any time?
I know why
And so do you

Even in the black / Down in the darkest shade
Their jaws are never slack / How do they serenade?
I know how
And so do you

Your touch feels like sunshine on my soul
Puts the planets on my wall
Someone special

Why do canaries sing / In the darkest mine?
Even when things are so fu**ed up / Most of the time?
Even in the bitter black / Or in the sharpest shade
How do they sing their songs / But never pull the blade?
I know how
And so do you

Your smile / Like music
Your smile / Is like music to me

Your touch feels just like sunshine on my soul
Puts the stars up on my wall
Someone special

Planetarium by Ondoezik (J. Rubero) From the album Ondoezik.2: The Sharpest Shade

FEEL (2001)

You probably think I'm crazy
But I must admit I'm intrigued
I'm much too tired for sleeping
But I'm awake enough to dream

And it seems I'm always called back
To double pure

And we don't want to think
We don't want to feel
Believe all we touch is all that's real
We don't want to need
Don't want to be freed
Think our backs will break
If we bend our knee
We just want to laugh,
Must dam up the tears
Turn decades to months
And months into years

It isn't faith that makes me nervous
But religion engineered by man
Folding God like oragami
Until he fits so neatly in our hand

And we don't want to think
We don't want to feel
Believe all we touch is all that's real
We don't want to need
Don't want to be freed
Think our backs will break
If we bend our knee
We just want to laugh,
Must dam up the tears
Turn decades to months
And months into years

If I want to think
If I want to feel
Would you call me fake?
Could I still be real?
Not afraid to love
Not afraid to cry
I'm not afraid to sing
And what if I
Was caring?
And sharing?
And love?

Feel From the album Skyhouse & Scarlet - 2001

ACTIVE JOY (2010)

Another day is over
Leeched and bleeding on the morrow
Do you realize?
Another year is over
Iced and barren, it's time frozen
Do you realize?

Bittersweet and providential
I'm holding on to active joy
Clutching beyond what has been given
Let it go
Let it go

Another moment leaving
Drained and distant, still receding
Do you realize?
Another memory fading
Far off now but still we're chasing
Do you realize?

Time, a speeding round in slowest motion
Muzzle flash is all I seem to know
Grasping for dry land amidst the ocean
Let it go
Let it go

Another month is waning
Ebb and flow are knives in waiting
Do you realize?
Another rusting resolution
Piled in the corner of no solutions
Do you realize?

Time's the fire in which we're burning
But can we glow amidst the flames?
With the sorrow that cannot be touched
Comes a joy that cannot be named

Yesterday is disappearing
Yet, I am tethered to its smoke
Reach for the clarity that time is smearing
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go

Active Joy From the album The Furious Bliss - 2010

Your light
It radiates
But the shadows are so long
I never thought
That the bleeding would go on

I am here
I am here
I’ve been here
I’ve always been here
Reaching forward

No
No styptic sweep
Of the minute hand
The hour glass
It only filled
With the quickest sand

I am here
I am here
I’ve been here
I’ve always been here
Reaching forward

I gave you everything
But I couldn’t give you my life

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Apology Jason Rubero · Ondoezik.2: The Sharpest Shade · Song · 2023

I woke up in a painting of sound
Pressed between the canvas and the ground
The artist speaks
And the mountains are God's teeth

Science is a drug
We shoot it with greed
We want what we want
But not what we need
And nature speaks: "I choke on everything you are"

We try to climb out of this hole
Out of this trouble
You use a ladder, but I prefer a shovel
I've got a hole in my heart
And it's just about your size

Like a flashing light, I see you up ahead
But by the time that I arrive
You're behind me instead
Flying into a dream
Fly into a rage

Am I inside or out?
Is this freedom or a cage?
Are you hiding there in clouded woods
Cloaked by greying rain?
Piece by piece
Day by day
Hour by hour

Sometime in this modern vine
All the mod cons start to entwine
Wires grasp and uproot trees
Tripping mother nature til she falls to her knees
And starts to bleed...

I make paper friends in one hand
Hold a match in the other
It's a kind of hidden talent
But it's the opposite I'd rather
Yes, you know it's true...

Love is minor
Sad jazz chords so blue
I'm afraid not to try
The things I'm afraid to do
I'm sure that you
Understand

On Saturn I am star

Paper Friends From the album The New Bright Children - 2012