inrchild Stories

inRchild are from a magical place where the inner child in all of us live. It is a place which we shall call InnerChildLand. The fast paced, brutal, cutthroat competitive world we live in has diminished the power of the inner child in most people. Many of the Inner Childs have escaped to this magical land called InnerChildLand where they can live, play and be free to create. They can't talk, can only communicate by singing. The forces of reality have begun to creep into InnerChildLand and now many of its citizens have had to get day jobs. InRchild is a band that consists of citizens of InnerChildLand who have stories to tell. and messages for the people who lost their inner child. 

                                                                         Don't Cry Steven's Story

As heard on the Loveforce International Records Release: inRchild Don't Cry  QZEXX2001104

Steven broke down and cried. A sensative soul, he had to harden himself to being on his own at an early age. His father left him and  his mother when he was six. His mother tried to take care of herself and Steven the best that she could. She got a job at a local market.

Things were good for a while. Steven and his mom lived in a small one room apartment. Every morning, Steven went to school and his mom went to work. His mom was even able to save up $20,000 towards Steven’s college. During these years Steven’s inner child thrived within him.

When Steven turned 11 his mother got cancer. Within three months she had to quit her job. For the next eight months they lived on the money Steven’s mom had saved for his college. Steven took care of his mother during this time. He shopped and got his mother pain medicine. One day, when Steven was out shopping, his mother took her last breath and quietly passed away.

Steven came home to find her mother’s body. He called the coroner to have them pick up her mom’s body. Then he took the $1300 that remained in his college fund and bought a bus ticket for another town far away where he heard he had an Aunt. He called a cheap motel in that city,  posed as his mother and got a room for the week.

Steven walked the streets with nothing more than his aunt’s name asking everyone he met if they knew his aunt. He didn’t find anyone who did. One week passed. Then another. Then a third. Panicked, Steven asked more and more people. His panic grew with each negative response he got. Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore. Then he looked around and saw a group of homeless women. He wondered if he would become homeless himself. His money was running out and…he fell to her knees and began crying hysterically.

Steven’s inner child reached out from Innerchildland and sang him this special message to encourage him and tell him  that things would be okay. His message is in a song called “Don’t Cry” by inRchild.

Steven sat crying for what seemed like hours and hours. People just walked past him without any concern for him whatsoever. Yet despite his pain and anguish, Steven could hear a little voice in his head. It was singing a song about what he had been through telling him not to cry. Then Steven felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around to see a middle aged man.

“You know, son, I passed by quite a while ago and you were sitting here crying and I thought that someone would come by and pick you up, but now, I see you are still here. So why are you crying?” He said.

“Do you know Joan Spector?” Steven asked with a lilt in his voice.

“Yes I do.” Said the man. “She’s my Neighbor.” He continued.

 They tell their stories in song. You can here their Story Songs Here.

                                                                        Can't Blame The Girl,  Sam's Story    

As heard on the Loveforce International Records Release: Can't Blame The Girl by inRchild ISRC: QZEXX2001101

Sam is a man from a third-world nation. He grew up in extreme poverty. His mother struggled to make ends meet. He was lucky if he ate one meal every other day. As a result, Sam was very skinny and his growth was stunted.

When Sam was 11. His mother gave him $60 in his nation's currency (the equivalent of 85 cents in U.S. currency) and told him to go find a banana stretcher. Sam was gone all day because no one knew what a banana stretcher was or where to find one. He finally discovered that there was no such thing as a banana stretcher. Tired and hungry, Sam returned home only to find that his mother and two younger brothers moved away. All that remained of them was one of his younger brother's socks and a note that read, “Sam, you are a man now, handle it.” It became painfully obvious that his mother gave him whatever money she could and turned him out to the streets to fend for himself.

Sam never got an education. He got odd jobs helping people carry groceries in exchange for spare change or something to eat. A few years passed by. One day, Sam was walking down the street looking for someone carrying something heavy that he could help, when he saw a merchant trying to sell something to a tourist. The merchant had a lot of merchandise but no customers despite the fact that there were a lot of tourists around. Sam joined in on the conversation and easily convinced the tourist to buy the item. Then, Sam told the merchant that he wanted a job. He explained that the merchant he had very few sales despite the fact that the area was filled with rich tourists. The man hired Sam for a small amount of money paid at the end of each day.

Once Sam began working there, he realized that he would never be able to afford a place to live on what the merchant was paying him. So, he went to the merchant and made a new deal with him. He told the merchant he would work for him on commission. When the merchant told Sam he couldn’t afford to pay a commission, Sam replied that commission would cost the merchant nothing. The merchant scratched his head in confusion.

Sam explained that he taught himself the price of every item in the store. Sam told the merchant that his commission would be anything he was able to get the tourists to pay over and above what the merchant normally charged for that item. The merchant happily agreed.

The next day, Sam began charging a small amount over what the merchant charged on items. Sam knew he was a good storyteller and told  made-up stories about the items he was selling.  After a few days, Sam realized that people were coming to the shop and buying from him just to hear his stories. Realizing this, Sam began charging 2-3 times what the merchant normally charged for most items. Within two days, the merchant took price the tags off all of the items. Within 10 days, Sam had earned enough money to rent a nice, small, apartment. Sam loved his job. He worked hard but still managed to have fun.  

A few years passed. During this time Sam fell in love with a street girl. She was smart and always hustled to make money. Sam knew that he and she had a lot in common. They became boyfriend and girlfriend. Everything was going well for Sam. He had a good job, an apartment, lots of food to eat, decent clothing, and a girlfriend whom he loved very much. He was very happy. Then Tragedy struck. The Merchant dropped dead of a heart attack. His family sold the shop and all of its merchandise to a big chain of tourist shops. That big chain had its own salespeople. Sam lost his job.

Sam told his girlfriend to wait for him in his apartment while he went away to look for work. He heard there were plenty of jobs in a town far away.  Sam told his girlfriend to wait for him in his apartment. He told her that he would send for her when he found work.

Soon after arriving in the town far away, Sam found work as a salesman for a large, multi-national corporation. Within a month he rose to be the best salesman in the nation. The corporation sent him to another country far, far away to take over sales there. Sam never got around to sending for his girlfriend. When he finally did send her a letter asking her to come to him, the letter came back with the phrase “No Longer Living Here.” written on it.

Years passed and Sam became the best salesman in the corporation. He was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President In Charge of Sales. Instead of selling quantities of items the corporation made, he closed deals between the corporation and its suppliers, foreign business partners, and potential new business partners. Sam seemed to have it all. He had wealth, power, and prestige. Yet, Sam was unhappy. Somewhere along the way, he had lost his inner child. He often wondered what happened to that street girl he was so in love with.

Sam’s inner child left him long ago and went to InnerChildLand to find that street girl and win her back any way he could. After much searching, he found her. It seems that the street girl had lost her inner child too. She loved Sam, but not in a romantic way. She remembered how badly he hurt her heart when he abandoned her. They had feelings for each other,  but now Sam is left with a deep and special friendship instead of a romance. That’s okay though because at least she is in his life.

                                                          Covid 9Teen,  Billy's Experiences                  

as heard on the Loveforce International Records Release: Covid 9Teen  by inRchild  ISRC     QZEXX2001102

Covid 9Teen is a disease that hit InnerChildLand hard. Since most of the inhabitants of InnerChildLand are teenaged this pandemic hit a lot of the Teen Population. Billy was really happy when they closed the schools down. He thought he could run and play with his friends, hang out late and do the things they never had time to do while school was in session. He didn’t know that he wouldn’t be allowed to go to any of his friend’s houses and that they wouldn’t be allowed to come to his.

He is supposed to be continuing his classes online. The classes are nothing more than assignments posted online. He takes the classes on his cell phone. It’s really hard to look up information he needs to answer the questions on the assignments and then write them down on a piece of paper and then go back and copy them onto the online question and answer sheet. That Evan Lee Lovefire song told him his generation is the computerized generation and his teachers told him he could cut and paste the information but Billy doesn’t know how to do that. He only knows how to play video games, shoot Zombies and look up information in the one source that he knows everything is true in…Whackypedia.

He thought he could go to the movies but the theaters all closed down. He couldn’t go to any concerts either, live music venues were closed too. After a few months of watching TV, movies, and playing video games he was bored out of his mind. There are no new video games coming out except a childish one with a talking duck. It poops gold bars. It’s so stupid. He keeps in touch with his friends but they really had nothing to talk about because they weren’t doing anything but watching reruns on TV, re-watching the same movie, and playing the same video games he was. They were all bored out of their minds too.

Billy is really worried. His dad got fired due to Covid-9Teen. He just sits around and drinks all day. His mom spends most of her time on her knees praying for help. Billy is really worried because their family is running out of toilet paper and it doesn’t look like anyone is going to go to the market to buy more. Any day he expects to be grossed out by finding out that there is none left.

He wishes he could go and see his grandparents, they’ll know what to do but they live really far away and Billy isn’t allowed to go outside. He’s afraid to go there anyway because he was told he can’t see them as they might catch the disease from him and die. Billy doesn’t have the disease, or does he? No one knows because some people don’t have symptoms, and they can still give it to others.

Billy just got out of the bathroom Thank goodness there was still a bit of toilet paper. He saw a note on the kitchen table. It read

“We put on our flack jackets and helmets and armed ourselves with baseball bats. You got your wish son, we’re going shopping for groceries. see you in a few hours. Have the first aid kit ready just in case. Love, Mom & Dad.”

Billy just stared at the note wondering when this would all be over. He just wanted it to be normal again.

Oh Mother,     Reginald's Letter             

as heard on the Loveforce International Records Release: Oh Mother by inRchild  ISRC     QZEXX2001103

Reginald was feeling like he was drifting through life without a plan or a purpose. He woke up in the morning and didn’t feel like getting out of bed. He always felt drained, like he didn’t have any energy to do anything or motivation to inspire him to.

Reginald tried to think positive thoughts but his mind kept going back to traumatic things he had seen in his life. He couldn’t lift himself from the dark thoughts that kept filling his mind. Those thoughts seemed to be pulling him down into a state of being drained. Drained of energy, of the desire to do anything other than lay in bed and think or sleep.

He didn’t know how to tell his girlfriend Sandy how he was feeling. She was a free spirit, full of energy, always having fun. He felt like he was just dragging along messing up her good times. He knew that she was upset about how he was acting. He didn’t want to lose her as a girlfriend. He needed to tell her.

So he decided to write a letter to his parents. He would write the letter in song, as inRchild’s always sing their messages. Then he thought he would perform the message for her, with the hope that she would hear it and understand what he was going through. Then he hoped that she would decide to stay and help him work through his feelings.

Reginald sat in his room for a few days working on his letter. He tried to find just the right words and just the right chord progression to make his letter a powerful, moving statement. Sandy had called Reginald several times during that period but he never answered. She left voice messages each time. They seemed to get a little angrier as time progressed.

On the afternoon of the third day, Reginald completed the message. Satisfied with the outcome, he laid back in his bed and rested. In the back of his mind, he was wondering how he could call Sandy to meet with him. He decided to meet her at the park that afternoon. It was a bright, sunny day and Reginald thought the open spaces on a beautiful day might cheer him up enough to be able to sing the letter to Sandy.

He wondered what pretext he could use to call her up. Should he simply say he was calling her back. But then she would want to know where he had been and why he had not called her or returned her calls before this. He wondered if he should just call her up and ask her to meet him at the park as if nothing had happened. He realized Sandy would likely have the same questions for him. As he was going through these scenarios in his mind, his cell phone rang. It was Sandy!

Reginald’s thoughts were racing. He didn’t know what to tell her. He needed to tell her why he wasn’t responding to her calls. Should he lie and tell her he had to go to a funeral or something? Should he say that he had a slight cold? He answered his cell phone.

In the end, Reginald decided to tell Sandy the truth. He told her that he hadn’t been feeling well. He told her that he lacked energy. Sandy asked if he had been to the doctor. Reginald told her he had but the doctor told him he was depressed. Reginald told Sandy that he had written a letter to his parents to let them know how he was feeling. He said he wanted her to meet him in the park in an hour so he could go over it with her and get her input before he delivered it to his parents.

For the first time in days, Reginald hopped out of bed, took a shower, put on cologne got dressed, grabbed his guitar, and left the house. He made it to the park just before Sandy arrived. He sat on a park bench and began strumming.

Sandy was also anxious to get to the park to see Reginald. She knew he was going through something but he wouldn’t tell her about it. Sandy loved Reginald and didn’t want to lose him as a boyfriend. She greeted Reginald and smiled nervously. Reginald strummed the opening chords to his letter nervously.

“I needed to tell my parents how I was feeling and this is what I came up with.” He said then he began singing.

“Oh mother, sometimes I feel my life draining away,

Ebbing away just like the tide.

Oh father sometimes I feel my life drifting away

Fading away into the cold black night….”

Reginald’s voice was very low almost a whisper at first but as he continued singing his voice got stronger. Sandy just sat and listened. She was concerned at first because Reginald seemed to be in a very dark place. As Reginald began singing the second verse, Sandy realized that he was trying to lift his sad thoughts and move to replace them with hopeful thoughts. When he reached the last part of the song…

“Let the light that’s within me shine through this city

And illuminate every soul within its walls

Let a positive vision conquer superstition

And rise as a blessing to us all…”

Sandy realized that Reginald took his pain and his feelings and used them to create something that was beautiful. Sandy couldn’t even express how she felt in words, she could only coo joyfully. Then she grabbed Reginald and hugged him.

“Thank you.” Thank you for sharing this wonderful letter with me. I knew you were going through something, I just didn’t know how to tell you I knew, but I did.”

“You really think my letter was wonderful?” Reginald asked.

“It was masterfully told and from your heart, what could be more powerful than that?” Sandy replied.

Sandy and Reginald just sat on the park bench with their arms around each other for a while. Making plans for the weekend.