Lyrics

If you ask what cycle
I just can't say
Just know it's been turning
With all gas no brakes

But this time, this time my shoes sink deeper
And the ground will crack with every footfall
The sun hanging overhead stifling
And slowing my path forward
Drifting in circles
Tightening, the cycle accelerates with blinding speed
Obscuring the oasis I seek endlessly

CIRCLE CIRCLE
IT ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE
EVERY STEP STRAIGHT
AS WE ROTATE TIME'S ARROW

CIRCLE CIRCLE
IT ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE
DO NOT TEMPT FATE
AS WE SPIRAL IN SHADOW

CIRCLE CIRCLE
IT ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE
EVERY STEP STRAIGHT
AS WE ROTATE TIME'S ARROW

CIRCLE CIRCLE
THE WORK SLEEP DIE CIRCLE
DECAYING IN VAIN
FOR YOUR MASTER'S FALSE IDOL

Seek the water as the last of your life drains away
As you're stuck retreading this path again and again and again
As the shriveling silencing glare pierces your skin
Accelerating the straight line towards the inside
But never approaching the well as we drown
As we just wish to leave
As we just wish to leave

Please.... I just want to leave...

Circles

Title track of my upcoming solo album.

LYRICS
I've found the one I've sought
She's all I'd ever want
I'd give up anything
Just for her touch
She tried to stretch my heart
Her soul crushed by countless scars
Although it may hurt to see
I must fight on

You may lie
You may cheat
You may feed
Your disease

But I won't
Give up now
I still feel
My brainless vow

I'll hold on through the storm
Fight for what I will mourn
Strive to destroy myself
For this false truth
She tried to stretch my heart
Her soul crushed by countless scars
Although it may hurt to see
I must fight on

I know I should leave for my sake
But I've grown attached to heartache

Stretch Heart (DEMO)

Improvisation on piano in an attempt to generate a set of themes. I'm likely going to rearrange this and put it on the next album.

Toil Improvisation

The album is fast approaching. I decided I might as well show a sample of the mastered audio from a section I enjoy quite a bite.

© Alex Roumanidakis 2017

In The Hall (Teaser 2)

LYRICS

Try and fail to leave yourself 
Lust and greed both lead to hell 
Reach for power beyond your grasp 
Left behind are the shells of man 

The sands of time beyond our eyes 
Draining fast despite our cries 
The end of life, the start of time 
Watched with the endless mind 
Betray your skin, the rest is sin 
Transcend the limits of your kin 
Forget your name, live in vain 
The lessons catch us all again 

Flee your life 
Chains grow tight 

Fame, fortune, friends, or name 
Balance them and watch them slain 
One for all, one for naught 
One for one, all shall fall 

Fall 

I'm falling down, there is no ground 
Will I land or will I crash 
Forget about leaving without 
Bringing hell to those you knew 

Fall 
Fall 
Fall 
Fall 
Fall 
Fall 
Fall 
Fall 

Run from all you ever knew 
Though all roads lead to truth 
You still want to play this game 
To escape your name and your fate 

There's no hiding 
Or disguising 
Sanctifying 
Abstractizing 
Righteous dying 
You're now blinding 
Agrandizing 
Absence Binding 

The sands of time beyond our eyes 
Draining fast despite our cries 
The end of life, the start of time 
Watched with the endless mind 
Betray your skin, the rest is sin 
Transcend the limits of your kin 
Forget your name, live in vain 
Everything will end in pain 
Lessons catch us all again 

Now you know your life is sold 
Your efforts broken by the cold 
Innocence has left our Earth 
Chained up by your own birth 
And on you'll strive to make a life 
With what is left to build and buy 
Forward we fall 
Time ends all 

Time ends all
credits
released November 28, 2017 
Vocals/Instruments/Composition/Programming - Alex Roumanidakis 
Mixing/Mastering - Aaron Rhoades
license
all rights reserved

The Sands Of Time

LYRICS
Sleep sound in your sickness
Cease being the witness
If you wake don't fret
Your dreams aren't dead

Sleep on my lost lover
Please think it all over
When you wake remember
The dreams that I've lost 

Vocals/Instruments/Composition/Programming - Alex Roumanidakis 
Mixing/Mastering - Aaron Rhoades

all rights reserved

Stretch Heart

Sleep

This is my entry to Serj Tankian & Creative Armenia's 7 Note Challenge. Was a lot of fun to put together and I got to try a couple new things with this track.

Alternative RockMetalProgProgmetalProgressive

Rise

By button, slide, knob, or lever
To boost, remove, enhance, or stagger
The subtle, gross, and layered madness
To control is the curse to force the action

Purchase on bandcamp
https://alexroumanidakis.bandcamp.com/track/control

Control

I write mostly progressive metal and rock, contact me if interested in a collaboration.