Mayday Parade-Sorry,Not Sorry

Streetlight Gospel is a faith-filled rock album that tells the story of redemption in real life — not in pews or perfect places, but under flickering streetlights where Jesus shows up in your mess. With gritty guitars, powerful vocals, and testimony-laced lyrics, Kenny Suarez delivers raw, unfiltered worship for those who know grace doesn’t come clean — it comes with scars, sweat, and the fire of transformation.

Blame the Light

Squandered Days

This was another song I wrote during those same emotionally turbulent high school years in the mid-1980s. If "Breakin' My Heart" was about the immediate shock of betrayal, "Shattered Illusions" dug deeper into the aftermath - that hollow feeling when you realize everything you believed about someone was built on lies.

The opening line "Midnight shadows, a phone that won't ring" perfectly captured those sleepless nights, waiting for someone who was never going to call. I remember writing that verse thinking about how naive I'd been, how I'd "built castles on empty words." The metaphor felt so real to me then - all those promises and dreams just crumbling down.

What I'm proud of in this song is the pre-chorus structure. Adding that extra emotional build before hitting the chorus made the impact stronger. "Shattering my world" felt like the perfect phrase to describe how completely someone could destroy your sense of reality when you're seventeen and think you know everything about love.

The bridge represents growth - moving from victim to survivor. "I'm done with your lies, done with the pain" shows that progression from hurt to empowerment that I was learning to navigate as a teenager. The outro ties it all together with "Your love was fiction, but I'll rise from this fall" - probably the most mature line I wrote at that age.

Like my other lyrics from that time, this sat dormant for decades until AI technology gave me the opportunity to finally hear these words with music. There's something magical about bringing teenage angst full circle with today's creative tools. The song now has that dramatic, emotional sound that matches the intensity I felt when I first wrote these words.

Shattered Illusions

Straight To DVD II: Past, Present, and Future Hearts

Outlines (feat. Josh Franceschi) [Live]

The Reckless and the Brave (Live)

The Irony of Choking on a Lifesaver (Live)

Kids In The Dark (Live)

Waves

Matches In The Ocean

Waves (Acoustic Sessions)

All The Same (Once A Liar, Always A Liar) (Acoustic)

Love and Loathing

The Turnaround

Everyone's Talking!
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The Irony of Choking on a Lifesaver (Live)

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