Words by Tymn Waters

Tymn Waters is an accomplished musician, songwriter, author and architect. He’s lived in different countries and climates and finally ended up in the desert southwest, which has colored his writing and music. The sounds of the desert permeate both. He’s survived traveling Europe, Canada and the US in what Robby Takac (Goo Goo Dolls) still refers to as one of the best punk bands of the 1980’s-90’s, Tension, who participated in one of the European Live Aid Festivals. He’s published 3 books so far, Remnants of a Partial Mind; How did we get Here? and his third book Internal Inferno. The most astonishingly perceptive yet. His fourth book, working title Suspect! is nearing completion. He is known for his outstanding spoken word appearances, and is getting ready to launch his solo music project, Tymn Waters and The Hard Road; the music is available below. 

Book 1

Tymn Tension has high expectations of the world.

He wants a world where equality isn’t just a word, but a reality. Where power is questioned. Where life is more than consumerism. But what he really wants is a world where people examine what they see with a clear-eyed realism, stripped free of sentimentality or religion or accepted conventions. 100 street beat poems of real events in our lives noticed or ignored. 

Book 2

From the writer of "Remnants of a Partial Mind" comes a new collection of acerbic ruminations. Wrought and written in the midst of a global pandemic, Waters ponders the existential in a world that seems to be redefined by the hour. 



Book 3 -Internal Inferno

“Tymn  has a knack for sizing up the state of the world and/or the known universe at large, before breaking off a piece which he then proceeds to smash, bash, rearrange, repurpose, refocus into a clear impassioned plea for sanity."  Jim Waters, owner/producer/engineer (Waterworks Studio, Jon Spenser Blues Explosion, Sonic Youth, Richard Hell)

 “Tymn Waters books are so good I keep them on the table next to my bed…..”.  David Slutes, Entertainment Director, Club/Hotel Congress, Tucson, AZ.

“Tymn Waters is like Patti  Smith, Henry Rollins, Lenny Bruce and Gregory Corso all got together and had a kid.  Prepare to be pulled in  and challenged and entertained.”   Jennifer Herold (Producer Brave New Radio, Radio Asylm).

“These are so good, I want to hear them with music too…” Tre Giles (KCRW former Pub. Dir Borders and Book Soup)



Internal Inferno

 

These are the words of a prolific man

One who has left footprints and will create many more

A man who still burns, not surface fire, but coals that smolder

 purposeful.

These are words, hopeful, cautious, angry, and inciteful

Acquired knowledge one cannot help but

Ride the waves of…..

burned as collateral damage by the messages.

This is a sort of friendly fire, one that invites, incites, attacks and

Embraces those who enter. 

The heat is now different. 

A slower darker red, hotter and more thoughtful

Evolved from dancing, obvious flames of yellow orange and blue.

Not damaged goods, but battle scarred

Cynical optimism and observations of a life in progress

Building, creating an internal inferno that crackles with a

Skeptical hope.

Once a punk rock banshee, his soul is true

Still dancing on the tips of daggers

Spitting our epithets more gently,

observations that

Have an edge so sharp you can’t feel the cut

Till it bleeds.

Dancing in a different way,

feet now leave those footsteps deeper

And more permanent

Sexdrugsrockandroll morph into a monster much more powerful

Embracing the somewhat controlled blaze…..

 

I hope those who read or hear Internal Inferno will enjoy this journey as much as I have. 

 

Jennifer Chaos Herold, 2023


A full Website has now been launched where you may access books and music:

https://www.neondancerentertainment.com/


Interested in readings, store visits or ordering books 

Reach us at - tymn@tymnwaters.page