Name: Back Room by Al Gardner
Duration: 2 min 3 s
Description: Rock bass groove. Commentary on 2025 inauguration.

big boat theory

Here If You Need Me

From Songwriter Billy Shaw: "A Facebook post kickstarted the inspiration for this song. A friend posted that how thankful they were that they got to prepare one more Thanksgiving dinner with their loved one who was a terminal cancer patient. They said you never know if you will have one more holiday together. Immediately "one more smile, one more kiss, one more hold me just like this" came to me. 

I then hit a writer's block until a friend's parents were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. They were commissioning performances in honor of this. That's when "years turn to decades - 2, and 3, and 4" came to me, and I finished the song. 

I would love for a crossover artist or Christian artist to cover this song; I'm just looking for a song publisher who will produce this so that people everywhere can be touched. Thanks for taking a listen!

Forever Love (One More Smile)

A guy is smitten at first sight by the beauty of this girl he meets. Before they can get to know one another, they are forced to go about their lives. She Googles him and is underwhelmed. This song is him trying to regain her interest so they can discover each other's best qualities in person.

I'm actively looking for a publisher to match this song with an artist and professionally produce the song.

The AI Me

Just Wanna Be Your Girl X Luxurious Mix

@violetxx9

#VLM
I gave you one chance to make it alright
But you had plans to fuck up my night
Problems happen, but you're not gonna be one for me, for me
I gave you one chance to make it alright
But you had plans to fuck up my night
Problems happen, but you're not gonna be one for me, for me

You're so fucking miserable
You can't help but think the worlds against you
No you don't have a clue
I see you at the bottom of the ocean as you're calling me for help
Cause you can't help yourself

I gave you one chance to make it alright
But you had plans to fuck up my night
Problems happen, but you're not gonna be one for me, for me

Professional gas lighter, when you call me you're so sweet about it
And I was so blinded by love that I couldn't even try to fight it
Yeah I laid awake every night and day trynna figure out if you were gonna stay
But I knew you weren't, deep down I was hurt
By the lies, subtle cries, with everything you put me through

You're so fucking miserable
You can't help but think the worlds against you
No you don't have a clue
I see you at the bottom of the ocean as you're calling me for help
Cause you can't help yourself

sweet hello, sad farewell

ocean

APPLE MUSIC/SPOTIFY

ocean (prod. violet)

Reasons

REBEL HEART

Rock bass groove. Commentary on 2025 inauguration.

Back Room

In Search of Purpose
There is a moment, imperceptible and fleeting, when the soul realizes it has no direction. It is in that instant that the search begins. "In Search of Purpose" is not an answer, but a question that repeats itself, reflecting, dissolving, and returning—never fully disappearing.
The first notes are hesitant steps on a path veiled in uncertainty. Each sound lingers in the air, caught between the desire to move forward and the fear of finding nothing at all. The piano does not tell a story—it listens. It is the breath of possibility, the echo of something just beyond reach.
Beneath the melody, the bass moves like a silent river—at times tranquil, at times restless. The harmonies fracture, chase one another, searching but never quite touching. Every chord is a crossroad, every dissonance a doubt made flesh.
And then, a flash. A thought, perhaps an illusion. The melody lifts for a moment, as if it has grazed the edge of some hidden truth. But truth, as we know, is a reflection on water—one breath is enough to scatter it into a thousand ripples.
There is no resolution, because there cannot be. The search continues, an endless cycle of what we are and what, perhaps, we will never be.

Released on Piano Day 2025, In Search of Purpose is a deeply personal piece born from the quiet urge to understand.

Each note moves like a thought taking shape—sometimes clear, sometimes uncertain—gently flowing like waves under a quiet sky.
There’s no rush, no destination. Just a moment of presence, of listening.
The piano doesn’t tell a story—it reflects a feeling. A stillness, a question, a breath.
In Search of Purpose is for those moments when you don’t know where you’re going, but you still choose to keep walking.

In Search Of Purpose

In Search Of Purpose - Piano Day 2025

Multi-instrumentalist influenced by everything from Gershwin to Tyler the Creator. Honored to have a piece I wrote and arranged performed by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

Back Room

Al Gardner

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