Sheesshhhhh got me in my feels in batteries plus bulbs 

sounded poignant! can definitely hear your influences in this!

BARBWIRE GARDEN (Carrie: Bass Guitar / Flores: drums & keys  /
 Myrh: vocals / Scotty: vox, guitar, xylophone, keys ) Special thanks to Flores for the amazing beat and Myrh for upping the ante with magical vocal stylings! 

yes, friends, the world Has been set afire of late. as the prophet once sayeth: "strange days indeed!"

. in march of 2020, the Secret Caves took a pause, a planned "brief hiatus" that then extended on as things got more and more....  you know. you were there. I saw you there.

BUT in august Carrie and Scott ventured back into Room 8... driven by the need to keep going, to try and make Something happen...  thus, masked and staring across the room at one another, they started making some noise. 

and so! between august and... well, yesterday, C & S have been working up music sketches and ideas down at room 8... some of the songs reflecting on the wolves at the door, others drifting into fantasy worlds full of monsters and sinister revelation, and then also the usual doom gloomy love affairs that one might expect from these two ne'er-do-wells.  using drum bits begged and borrowed from a few friends and allies (including, on several tracks, Cave member Peder!), and then playing some drums themselves along the way (the credo being "whatever gets it done"), Carrie and Scott found themselves with a growing arsenal of demos...   but what to do? here was a large stack of songs with bass guitar and vocals. for awhile, they despaired. what shall we do with all this unfinished songs?

suddenly, various and sundry pals stepped up, instruments leaning over their shoulders as they came whistling down the lane, a veritable rogue's gallery of 15 collaborators who helped finish 'em up, remotely adding keyboards, guitars, synth, lap steel, and yes, even saxophone (some might say Especially saxophone!). it's basically a party and you are invited. step right up, chum o' mine!  we are excited to share these 24 new songs with whoever deigns to listen!  deign, won't you? "Plague City Demos: songs by Carrie & Scott" will be released on our bandcamp page on June 12, with choice cuts also being shared here on Soundcloud.  

album cover images created in collaboration with and photographed  by Flatchestedmama. find more of her work at www.flatchestedmama.com

a preview of our video for this song features on this month's Surrey Muse Live Stream, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6EowlMLmho
the video was made by our pal Timbertoe, who also collaborates on another song that'll be on the album! check out his musics here: https://soundcloud.com/timbertoe

now Annie’s been fiending
in the tunnel of love
she don’t wanna see you no more
dancing all night
with the junkie priest yeah
spinning across his trashed up floor

and the widows with their haunted hearts
to sing to your desire
they tend their barbwire gardens where
no one mentioned that the world was on fire

now Bertram’s going 
subterranean
no he doesn’t got a choice.  — NO MORE
spitting up pills 
through the latest manias
wonders 
can you hear his voice. -NO MORE!

and the widows with their hungry eyes
have come here for to feast
they lay their paltry weapons down
want one more night at least

and i don’t need this love
i don’t need this love
but i’ve got nowhere to go

… and down i go, down i go
laying in the path of a hungry world
down i go
i don’t need this love

now Bev couldn’t even
bring her piano
had to leave everything behind
she’d been moving on out
through the neon graveyards
weaving through the bump and grind — NO MORE

and the widows with their haunted hearts
they chew through their desires
they call out to the ghosts they’ve claimed
and swing them from the wires

and i don’t need this love
i don’t need this love
but i’ve got nowhere to go 

and down i go, down i go
laying the path of a hungry world
and down i go
crushed by my own
laying in the path of a hungry world
i don’t need this love
i don’t need this love

(c) 2021 by Secret Caves Productions

Carrie & Scott -- Barbwire Garden  featuring Myrh (album details & video link inside!)

A metaphorical look at deception - when you look into the dark eyes of the clown do you see good or evil, a friend or foe? People are not all they seem to be. A look into the 2 sides of the human psyche against circus/carousel type of backing music - the darkness that lurks in the lightness.

Dark Eyes of the Clown

Dark Eyes Of The Clown

© Joe Liberty 2021. All right reserved.

The first verse is about my own early employment experience. Second an interpretation of business as usual. Third frustration in the acceptance of the status quo. The chorus on what influences the decisions we make.

ForLoveOrMoney

The scene starts with the ones that toil in the field
their sweat is the lube used to grease the wheel
the spoils returned make the big man rich
but the ones in the field are left diggin’ in the ditch

One way or another
with a wink of an eye
when alls said an done
and we all know why
push comes to shove
time to make up your mind
will it be 
for love or money
love or money

Hey not so fast, you can hear the big man say
their paid a decent wage and their free to go their way
But it’s just enough to see them through to work another day 
It’s a steal of a deal coming straight out of your pay

One way or another
and it ani’t no lie
when alls said an done
enough to make you cry
push comes to shove
time to make up your mind
will it be 
for love or money
love or money

¯\_(ツ)_/¯  yeah ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  solo

ooh-ooh-ahh-ah
ooh-ooh-ahh-ah

Damn the indifference, damn the apathy
damn us all accepting its the way its gotta to be
How much longer till we end this malady
and the walls come tumbling down

One way or another
with a wink of an eye
when alls said an done
and we all know why
push comes to shove
time to make up your mind
will it be 
for love or money
love or money
love or money

ooh-ooh-ahh-ah
ooh-ooh-ahh-ah

ForLoveOrMoney

sorry i missed your birthday

New EP (final track)

amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/mcmlxx

Music, lyrics, mixing, production: Verulium
Vocals: Amanda

Lyrics:

I’m a veteran  of the psychic war
Never before have I been so happy on the sidelines
Far away
I’ve found a place to stay
I’ve found a place to stay

And when I look back now
There is no cure
For the cruel existence we endured
We endured

I’m a veteran of the psychic war
Never before have I been so happy on the sidelines
Far away
I’ve found a place that I can stay
On Neptune 17
Hiding from the all seeing machine
It tracks you, it drags you down
I’m lost, can I be found?
I’m lost, I don’t want to be found

And when I look back now
There is no cure
For the cruel existence we endured
We endured

And now times have changed
This space machine will help me make it to the end
To the end

I’m a veteran of the psychic war
Never before have I been so happy on the sidelines
Far away
I’ve found a place that I can stay
On Neptune 17
Hiding from the all seeing machine
It tracks you, it drags you down
I’m lost, can I be found?
I’m lost, I don’t want to be found

MCMLXX

Psychic War

Performed, written and produced by JLC
Copyright 2022

I cannot wait to meet this man,
this man who changed my life
With humble heart I'll shake his hand,
and tears of joy I'll cry
You healed my heart and
freed my mind and
never charged a dime (for your time)
Your words were keys that locked away
a place I had to step inside

(Chorus)
And the more I think of you,
the more I try
and all you've done for me, 
the more I try
to be just like
you were...

I cannot wait to see this man,
this man who never judged
Nor took the credit he deserved
the day he plunged
into a lake of loss
a great mistake was often made
by a greater man
by even greater men (chorus) 

With idol thoughts
With idol thoughts...

Lyrics by Jonas L. Cockson

"Idol Thoughts"

https://truethorns.bandcamp.com/album/realms

Released October 19, 2022

Nathan Pizano - vocals, guitar, bass, synths, programming, artwork

Composed, Arranged, and Produced by Nathan Pizano

Bait

RealFake O.M.T. Feat. Lil baby loc

I've seen the warning sign's
so often that I'm blind
The words have lost there ring
sound hollow like a lie
I  hear see speak no evil
it's my business what I do
I love the feeling of surprise
when the bottom drop's and I fall through

This world is full of poser's
phonies with pedigrees
slick parasites that manipulate you with your own dream's
Bad thing's happen to good people
they happen to us all
we have to take our lumps and learn to tumble when we fall

What I say is what I think
that don't make it what it is
I'm not trying to tell anyone how to live
But if you don't try , you'll never know
The joy of success
or see just how bad things can go

Like vivid fiction spilling from my dream's
Lacking the wisdom to sort out some things
seduced by flights of fancy, Distracted from my goals
Long on desire ,short on control

You've been re thinking everything hung up in your head
Placing new weight to words that wasn't there when they were said
when the trust is gone it's time to run
Because the trust has been replaced with a gun 
 

Warning Sign's

This song is the full version of another my song, "mijinko". Please find it on SoundCloud and try to compare the two songs!

Keywords: peaceful, relaxed, cute, mc-909, 138BPM, progressive, original, sequencer

Mijinko

Bacon Industries - Morse Code

Some inspirations are; Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Neil Young, Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon), Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Win Butler (Arcade Fire), Morrissey (The Smiths), and Anthony Green (Circa Survive)

sorry i missed your birthday

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