Game of Bands
Round 227: Randomly Generated III
(Random band name, song title, & cover art)

Team 4
Music/Mix: artmouth
Lyrics: phyllicanderer 
Vocals: rinidaboss

Waking to Endings 
by The Epic Mysteries

Upon a magic ride,
The world appeared before our eyes
It flowered blue with me, and we
Met each day with heaven’s smile
But now it’s selfish spite
From reminiscing all this time
The adult mind, wishing
For simpler, happy times

Drowned in regret,
Don’t want to be where I tried to go
The path is alone
And I long for home
Search for the sun,
Among the specks of the dark sky
Eyes wide shut 
I’m what I’ve become

Every moment, sabotaging
Is this bleeding what is needed?

Need to wake up,
Let this end, begin again
When we’re old, the world is cold
So close the door
You think you’re happy,
With every next mistake
One day, the scales fall
And you wish it all away

Now I can’t abide,
The myth of me, I let it slide 
Decrepit one
Close my eyes and wish for home
Long to be young again,
So ignorant, so overdone
I howl at the moon
This foreign life, it’s not mine 

Is this the sentence, the ending?
Or has the nostalgia just begun?

Waking To Endings

Game of Bands
Round 228: No English

Team 6
Music/Mix: artmouth
Lyrics: vladimirdlc 
Vocals: kilazur

Malentendus
J'ai parfois l'impression que nous sommes perdus
Dans la traduction

Des mots sont une mur
Seulement pour baiser
Tu aimes les mûrs, baisser,
Veux tu fourrer?

Besoin de tête et
Besoin de pris
C’est de cette fois que j’ai (j’ai) t’ai appris

Des fois tu dis oui
Des fois tu dis non
Je pense qu’on doit fixer...
Ton moteur de tra-duction

Tes connexions 
Tu me disais
“Dieu aurait dû nous détester pour mélanger nos mots”
Mais toi-même dis que tu n'as foi en aucun dieu.

Besoin de tête et
Besoin de pris
C’est de cette fois que j’ai (j’ai) t’ai appris

Je suis perdu
Et inconnu
Je suis tranquil
Et distendu
Eau de toilette
Et clarinette

Besoin de tête et
Besoin de pris
C’est de cette fois que j’ai (j’ai) t’ai appris

Je suis perdu
Et inconnu
Je suis tranquil
Et distendu
Eau de toilette
Et clarinette

Malentendus

Game of Bands
Round 230: Halloween II
Team 6

Music: artmouth
Lyrics: garrett_cartoonist, artmouth, jestbubbles
Vocals: jestbubbles


To Dust 

In the pale moonlight you can’t see me
As I follow, shadows near
Calmly waiting, salivating 
Turn your fears to, something real

In the autumn winds, leaves are dying
As your time fades, so shall you
Turn your pulsing neck as I glimpse your soul
My dark corpse warms, my dead heart tolls


Invite me in
I want more than just your blood
Free me from sin
Stab a stake through my heart
Tear me apart
From demon to dust 

In the dawn of night I am stalking
Tasting victims, longing for you
As I roam these grounds to the ends of time
Only living, for the dying

Though immortal I welcome death
To be held by you, warmth upon my breast 
Unholy lie, forbidden bite
If I turn you, will you burn true?

All my ancestors and the names long passed
I disavow them, forsaken them at last
I just want to be the creature you dream of
Give up the bat wings, to become a dove

Invite me in
I want more than just your blood
Free me from sin
Stab a stake through my heart
Tear me apart
From demon to dust

To Dust

Game of Bands
Round 231: Random Emotion - Despair
Team 13

Music: artmouth
Lyrics: entertainpopulace
Vocals: countesskillalot

Flicker

Pounding like wardrums
Heart in mouth
Blood on hands
Pounding like wardrums
Among the frail and insincere

Lights flicker strangely here
Lights flicker
Stranger
I knew your name
Like moments spell out days

Time breathes
Slowly
Time breathes
Fragile
Air within our blood

Glass shatters in numb fingers
Stranger
Still
Statues in the corner cover their eyes and watch the fear rise
There is no glimpse of an afterlife

Lights flicker strangely here
I remember you said that once
Eons and seconds ago
Memories and faded echoes

Time breathes
Slowly
Time breathes
Fragile
Air within our blood

Time stops 
Here
Ice gripping frozen throats
Air within our blood

Game of Bands

Flicker

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Round 242: Last Night On Earth

Music: artmouth
Vocals: matneyx

Last Night On Earth Together

My nodding head keeps me up
You got the bed I got this chair
Raindrops race down the window
I wish we could be out there 

I'll tell a joke you know how it goes
I can't even get a smile 
No one visits anymore
Been that way for quite awhile 

Hold my hand if you hear me
Squeeze it tight because tonight 
Might be our last night on earth together 
Our last night on earth together

One-sided conversations
The beeping of machines
I love to hear your pretty voice
But now it's only in dreams 

I'm so damn sick of this room 
Come on let's go outside
I'll grab your coat and we'll go
Please just open your eyes

Hold my hand if you hear me
Squeeze it tight because tonight 
Might be our last night on earth together 
Our last night on earth together

Last Night On Earth Together

Game of Bands is Reddit's longest running songwriting competition. Working with a randomly assigned musician, lyricist, and singer, each team must create an original work with the theme provided. Teams are given two weeks to take a song from conception to completion to competition. Learn more at www.gameofbands.com.

Round 252: Secret Agent

Team 6

Music/Mix: Artmouth
Lyrics: Glory2Hypnotoad
Vocals: GarfieldShapedHotTub

Just Another Face

Just walk in like I belong here 
I got all my papers signed
A smile, a nod, some small talk
Then out of sight and out of mind

I've memorized your passwords
And I know all of your routines
I'm in every little dead spot
That your cameras can't see

Suddenly it's like we never met
Just another face you'll soon forget
Got the feeling something's out of place
I'm already half a world away

No gunfights, no explosions
Licensed to kill but not my style
I can cause you far more damage
With a briefcase and a smile

By the time you know what hit you
By the time you've lost it all
Got a new name on my passport
In some distant port of call

Suddenly it's like we never met
Just another face you'll soon forget
Got the feeling something's out of place
I'm already half a world away

I am anywhere
I am anyone
Far more dangerous
Than a loaded gun

Are you on my list?

Just Another Face

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Vutch
by Dear Crossing

A shadow crosses worlds, covers paths, curses your after 
Falling from the sky, thick as lie, piercing as laughter
Forcing you to fall, lose it all, present and dreams
Feeding on your hate alters your fate, still, pointless it seems

Not done yet
Ready to get the life the way I want it 
I will rise
Sever ties and I will drive myself away

Comes at night, is here through day
Mastered dreadful masquerade 
Confirms your fears, knows all of you 
How will you be pulling through?

Place no bets for he will be playing 
The game with your mind

Game with your mind 
Game with your mind 
Game with your mind

Always fight, never fright, never let go of your mind 
Hundred people like yourself, dusty trophies on the shelf 
Hindering your every move, forced to firmly disapprove 
Get yourself a thicker skin, don’t let the demon in

Close the damn door 
Close the damn door

A shadow crosses worlds, covers paths, curses your after 
Falling from the sky, thick as lie, piercing as laughter
Forcing you to fall, lose it all, present and dreams
Feeding on your hate alters your fate, still, pointless it seems

“Vutch” by Dear Crossing:
Katarzyna Żak (vocals)
東尼虎 (guitars / keys)
Nat Boda (drums / keys)

Produced and Mixed by Nat Boda
Recorded by Dear Crossing in Taipei, Taiwan 
Drums recorded at Line In Studio in Taipei, Taiwan
Bass guitar performed by 陳柏宏
Mastered by Neil Matharoo in New York, NY

Copyright 2023 Artmouth Media. All Rights Reserved.

Dear Crossing - Vutch

Round 275: Randomly Generated V
(Random band name, album/song title, & cover art)

Team 8
Music/Mix: Artmouth
Lyrics: Eldar
Vocals: @LindsayLallaMusic

Epiphanies at Tiffany’s - Blurry Spark

I know now what I must do
Show the others they can too
Dig deep inside their heart
Find their spark and never be apart

Listen everyone!
No, not to me, listen to your souls
You might not see it yet, but your spark is there
I have awakened mine, and you can do the same!

I've survived the crooked mountain
Traversed through abandoned depths
Drank from the crystal fountain
Ascended up the blurry steps
I come to you today
My spark is on display
Our destiny is clear
We will defeat the fear

We will keep going, we will fight
With our sparks returned we'll restore the light
We must face the fear, our future must be clear
Together we're stronger, we'll fear no longer

Today we shed our mortal shells
Fight until we reach our goal
We break out of this tyrant's hell
Tonight it's them that pays the toll

Remember every time you were hurt?
Recall when you had to pay their toll?
Let the light inside each and every one of you shine
Tonight, we break through, together, with me!

I'm coming for you, unnamed one
I'm the foretold blurred one
Your darkness will be broken
The people won't be forsaken
With so many souls by my side
With love and hope to aid the fight
We are the unbreakable tide
We will bring this world to light

Come forth Tiffany
Come and fall by my hand
You should have kept your fear close to heart
For now, I will take away your light

The final breath drawn tonight
Will be yours, taken by my light
I am stronger than you know
While you slept I continued to grow

We will keep going, we will fight
With our sparks returned we'll restore the light
We must face the fear, our future must be clear
Together we're stronger, we'll fear no longer

You may have escaped me today, but this isn't yet over, unnamed one
We won't give up until your fear is gone from every corner
This rebellion is just beginning!

Epiphanies At Tiffany's - Blurry Spark

Round 277: Lyrics - Vocals - Music
(sequential composition)

Team 1
Music/Mix: Artmouth
Lyrics: Allen Desman
Vocals: Jess Floam https://jestbu.bz/

Scam Likely

Hello?

She’s callin’
I’m fallin’
Gone all in

She’s callin’, callin’, callin’, callin’, callin
Longin’ to be by her side

Her pitches
I caught ‘em
Not spam if 
I want ‘em 
Told to me
By scam likely 

My honey
Is funny
Tries savin’
Me money
On a home loan I don’t own
Whoa

My phone rings
Angels sing
I’ll be waiting nightly
For my scam likely
Waiting nightly
For my scam likely

Shes callin’
I’m fallin’
Gone all in
Longin’ to be by her side
She’s callin’
And callin’
And callin’ me 
From all these places 
Wonder how her face is

Friends and family outline dangers
Say she’s just some lying stranger
I can change her rearrange her
Sewing every operator that she’s been
Into one skin, my ideal woman 

Now she's on my phone
I'm never alone, no
I’ll be waiting nightly
For my scam likely
Waiting nightly
For my scam likely

Shes callin’
I’m fallin’
Gone all in
Longin’ to be by her side
She’s callin’
And callin’
And callin’ me
From all these places 

Shes callin’
I’m fallin’
Gone all in
Longin’ to be by her side
She’s callin’
And callin’
And callin’ me
From all these places 
Wonder how her face is

She’s callin’, callin’, callin’, and callin’
Callin’, callin’, callin’, and callin’ me

Scam Likely

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