This is a (mostly) acoustic, stripped down version of a song I plan to include on a forthcoming album, with more production. I wrote it about feeling helpless to save a broken situation that I had a hand in destroying, despite my best intentions.

Adripht - Enough (Acoustic)

This is another old cassette find circa ~2000 or so. I would have been between 13-15 likely when I recorded this.

Lyrics:

It's night again, I'm so alive.
There's warmth out there, and rain inside.
I see the ways you talk to me,
I see the ways you smile at me.

Be strong, be wise.
Hold me down.
I'll compromise.
I have rewound.
So lack the fun, but love me still.
My time is done, do what you will.

My eyes are real, but don't see a thing.
I've time to heal, and time to sing.
And I'll be waiting around for you.
And I'll be waiting alone for you.

Comprimisery

These tracks are from Tungsten Carbide's first and only EP, entitled "We Support Orange Juice in the Eye", released in 2003 and distributed locally.

Lyrics:
Thursday morning ends the story of you,
things are lost, sometimes I want to
cry all day and cry all night,
I feel you next to me
I fight the pain I feel inside my head,
thinking of you lying in bed,
you're by yourself, beneath the sheets,
nobody there to watch you sleep.

(Prechorus)
Now I whisper this so softly
Times I shiver, times I bleed

(Chorus)
But time will comfort me,
but I'm afraid of velocity
and I know you are free,
yet I don't bring myself to believe it.
Things are incomplete,
yet you'll always be here with me
'cause time will comfort me,
but I'm afraid of velocity

Thursday morning ends the story of you
I know now that none of that's true
too much there, too much inside;
you cannot go, you haven't died.
The pain I feel inside my head
is nothing, I have no regrets.
You taught to love, to smile and see.
There will always be a part of you in me.

(Prechorus)
(Chorus)

We Support Orange Juice in the Eye

Tungsten Carbide — Velocity

I recently found these songs on an old cassette tape. They were recorded 22 years ago, when I was only 13. They are from my first band Dysfunction, which was later renamed to Equinox. They're VERY rough. Enjoy!

The Clear Starry Night Named Phil

I Can Hear My Insides

Equinox - Burn

Equinox - To The Bullet

A little ditty I recorded while my voice was all but destroyed from being sick. No effects (except a bit of reverb). I may never be able to get this low again. Apologies for the cheesy lyrics. (Get used to that from me).

Lyrics:
Why are we always sad? Why are we always sad?
Crying all the time? Heads down all the time?
We need to learn to live in harmony.
We are all one, we are a family.
Why are we always mad? Why are we always mad?
Fighting all the time? Killing all the time?
We need to learn to live in harmony.
We are all one, we are a family.
We need to learn to look inside ourselves.
We have each other, and nobody else.
So why are we always sad? Why are we always sad?
Crying all the time? Heads down all the time?

Why Are We Always Sad?

Another demo track! Song - "Hold On"

Lyrics:
All of these days in so many ways remind me
that death isn’t far away
and all of these days in so many ways remind me
our bodies are born to decay

But every day and all of the days behind me
connect to a higher place
and every moment, every memory inside me
seems to wash away
It’s not easy

When we were young, we could fly
Now we’re older and we know better than to try
And though our minds have faded some,
we burn on restlessly just trying to hold on to all we’ve done
Hold on

Hold On

This track is about change, isolation, loneliness, and feelings of loss.

Lyrics:
I know things are changing at an ever-faster rate
I know the world is becoming a sad and lonely place
I know how things are, That's why I'm leaving home (x2)
It's too much, it's too much, it's too much (x2)

I lost everything that night, woke up to a foreign light (x2)
And though we said we'd always stay
We never knew it'd be this way
How could we have ever known what we now do?
And if I die before I wake, throw my ashes in the lake
so that I'll forever be where I met you

Everything I know, everything I say now is for you
Everything I own belongs to you
All I want to do, babe, is be there for you
All I want to say is I love you
It's too much, it's too much, it's too much.

Leaving Home

Hi friends. I have tracks herein which are mostly very lo-fi, experimental, and demo tracks. Most of the time I don't even like this stuff, so you probably won't either. But here it is! For the softboi masochists in all of us.

Adripht

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