Been working on this one for the past month since end march. Some melodies, I record and they get forgotten in my library of voice notes, but this one stuck with me. Haven't really put in so much effort into recording for a single track before, but here is "Safe Grounds" and it's about leaving whats comfortable, and not settling for the easy way and the "right" way as society presents it.

Hope you guys enjoy this one! :D

Lyrics:
Lie here in pastures green
Revel in the make believe
Large spaces can be misleading once
you settle in, its harder to set out

Keep busy, got an excuse
To hide the fear, nothing to lose
But thats just robbing of your own self
Comfort decomposes to "could-have"s

So we pack our camps
Extinguish the fire
Hit the high road, take a chance
Look around, do a double take
There is nothing much at stake

Open arms but with no reason to stay
Sure they've got a spread at lunch
But dinner serves a bowl of regrets
coupled with a glass of iced-cold vain wondering

It like… 
Warriors are not looking for peace
Neither fishes searching for land
Oh what’s in your sight?
Do you still have some fight?
What would you do to hold through the night

Because…          
The wide roads lead to a desolate place
Comfort acts like slow venom in veins
It puts the hopes to rest
Not in an instant that it takes to infest
But in an instant it has taken your best   

Boots strapped, laces connect
Forsake your laden backpack
Folktales are only potent if you believe
Bars on this cage aren’t so stiff

So we pack our camps
Extinguish the fire
Hit the high road, take a chance 
Look around, do a double take
There is nothing much at stake

Open arms but with no reason to stay
Sure you’re snuggled up at dusk
But in morning you’re still in the same spot
Digging a hole one shovel too deep 

Seems like the safe grounds they cradle, (your dreams away)
We were made for the struggle
It’s with blood and the rubble (and when in pieces we are)
That we’re found beyond the stumble

Safe Grounds

Spent the last 3 - 4 weeks working on this song. This song is based on a post that I posted on instagram a few months back that talks about how we can often live our lives living for another moment and never really living the one we're given. I have been a victim of that, always living for some other moment, letting the current ones pass my by.

I hope you guys can relate to this song! Enjoy!

Lyrics:

We’re here but we’re somewhere else
Vicariously playing the scenes
Of a place that our fancy sells
Walking and breathing a dream 
Moments slip us like a spell
While we live in the castles that we’ve created up in the air

Some folks lose out to disease
Others are robbed by mishaps
Time’s thread burns without cease
Parts we’re rushing we’re not getting back
Don’t wait till you’re amongst deceased
To realise that you’ve spent your life fanning embers, rushing the times.

We’re kicking and screaming
Just to get there
We reckon the gold’s at the end of the bow
Well slow down and step back
The road up isn’t so bad
We’ll get our chance to live for gold.

Take in the here and now
Today will only live in itself
Find spark in the worn and dull
Speed has a way of blurring things out
But you’ll find when you slow it down
The journey is more than a backdrop that sets the stage for the end

Now we live it in the current
Because fleeting are the moments

Doesn’t matter when we get there
We’ll play the cards in our own hand

Slow Down

Wrote this song last year (2015) in November. Have never written a "love song" before, but this is the first I guess. Forgive the lack of quality for this track. 

This one is about how love makes NO SENSE. Someone can come into your life and sweep away "cities" of concepts and ideals you've built. 

Lyrics:
We can make all our plans
Enough to build a city 10 times over
but she’ll just tear them apart
Like it didn’t even matter from the start

But it’s a beautiful catastrophe
Oh what she’s doing to me
So I let go, and I stand and watch
as she’s brings her gentle calamity

But it’s funny how I’m alright
How I’m destroyed but in that I found the one thing I like.
(It’s you)

Never thought I’d be here
This unfamiliar place of being abandoned
How In a second I chose
Oh in a heartbeat I surrendered my grand ideals

But it’s a beautiful catastrophe
Oh what she’s doing to me
So I let go, and I stand and watch
as she’s brings her gentle calamity

But it’s funny how I’m alright
How I’m destroyed but in that I found the one thing I like.
(It’s you)

Love’s like a hurricane
It wipes off what I know is sane
And I can’t read- I don’t know it’s game

But I’ve got one thing I’m really sure of
This feeling that I have can’t really shake off
I’ll take her wreckage over any other treasure 
It’s worth more than gold
(I’ll take this pain over any other pleasure
To have her and to hold)

It's You (Beautiful Catastrophe)

Wrote this at the start of 2014 originally for the proposed Untie//Unite 2, which we decided not to do in the end (Because there wasn't really a need for it), and so I'm posting this here. Hope you guys like it! :D

Lyrics:

Give my heart a little flame,
Let me shine a little brighter.
Cuz what this cold and dark world needs,
Is a steady fire.

Darkness is subdued in rays,
Of even the littlest brightness
So shall wield my torch,
And reveal what use to be hidden

Cause my glow to be as bright as day,
Like the sun's unending passion
But like the moon you help me remain
an impersonation

Fireworks and flashy flares
They last but for a moment,
But all I'll ask to be 
Is that burning durable constant.

Pierce through the darkest night,
Because a city on a hill cannot hide,
Outshine my pride
Fade out my selfish desires
And as I burn, melt away the wax of 'Me',
till all I see is You,
till all I shine is You.

Only from a tiny spark
It began a forest fire
Spreading through the ecosystem
Of a life without a purpose

My only source of hope you’ll always be
Now I’ll affect what I can see
Bringing colour to the dull and grey
Around me restoring meaning

Little Flame - Jarrold

Decided to consolidate some of the thoughts I have had over the past 3 weeks in Nepal and the worries of life into this song. (20/04/17)

Lyrics:
Standing on a square again
The square says “one” my friend,
Took a U-turn somewhere,
Or did I make a fall

Somebody once said to me
If it doesn’t look like what
It is supposed to be
Then it isn’t the end of your story

But what am I suppose to believe now?
Is this good faith or sheer naivety?
Will it hit me when I’m 83?
By then would it even matter?
Would it even matter to me?

Lasting,
How much of what we do is lasting
Will what we do even outlast our lives
Outlast our time? 
Worth it,
Is what we do even worth it?
Does it outweigh the strength that we put?
The time that it took?
Oh is it everlasting?

History has filled up its space
Space of only the greats
Even then most names they fade
Forgotten to their going age

Beyond our waking years,
The sun will still run its gears
Could it be the lasting way
Is through the one who lights the days

Is It Everlasting?

Haven't posted something for almost 2 years, and yesterday while helping a youth with a song for a project in church, my passion for writing sparked. 16/06/2019

Lyrics
We used to let our heads float up
Into the fluffiest clouds
Our eyes could see beyond the end
Where castles in skies began

Our eyes would light up just like a kid's
Wide-eyed wonder
We saw the charm in anything
Every journey, an adventure

We drew a line to make sure that
We won't be one of them
Saw them all in monochrome, in black and white, in spaces tight
Through our Technicolor-ed lens

But they say that number gets to you
I want to call they're bluff
But I feel it too
Dissonnance between my head, and what I do
What do I do?
What can I do?

Hand me a whistle
Call for a timeout
I don't wanna grow old
Without you

One of Them

Never quite the template for
The head over heels, the love at first sight
When I saw you, never thought
I'd be on a knee, asking for your future

but, Love somehow will find its way,
we're one of many kinds I'd say,
Let's bring our journey to the next , here's my proposition

Diana, come and spend your days with me
Whether on a beach or city faraway,
Forever night and day, we'll be together
Diana, say you wanna take my name
Write our story when you say you will be mine,
Our lives will intertwine, and we'll never look behind

Get a place not far away
A park and a view, a 4-room maybe
Evening sweats on sofa chairs
And Nala a spot, right by the tele   

My heart has finally found a place
In you my love will rest it's case
Let's bring our journey to the next , here's my proposition

Diana, come and spend your days with me
Whether on a beach or city faraway,
Forever night and day, we'll be together
Diana, say you wanna take my name
Write our story when you say you will be mine,
Our lives will intertwine, and we'll never look behind

Diana

Writing about humanity, milestones, struggles, and hope, hoping that it may bring reconciliation to, or identification for someone else. 

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