I'm Already Home | Original

This is my first attempt at four part harmony. I learned from a YouTube video lesson so it was pretty easy to record over. 

Swing Low Sweet Chariot [Four Part Harmony]

oh tomorrow i must go
i must follow that road
to the end

i will pass many forks,
twists and turns
just to find my friends

and through the set of many suns
behind countless horizons
i will find my end

through all these long years
i've found that time disappears
when you're walking

i know this journey's far from over
still so far to go
i keep walking

and when i dream i dream of living
a simple life
there's just no stopping

this train continues on
ejecting steam 
until the dawn

and then keeps going

so just keep shoveling coal
the hungry engine needs some more
we can't keep waiting

and when i dream i dream of living
a simple life
there's just no stopping

I’ll have a rest until the dawn
these battered bones they can’t go on
if I don’t breathe

we’ll watch the stars and sing some songs
and feel alive, but come the dawn
I must keep going
	
so
i'll set sail across many seas
ride the waves and the breeze
where they take me

i'll take flight over the countryside
cause up there i'll see far and wide
down below

and i'll walk uncharted land for countless miles
it'll be hard going for a while
but i'll push on, i'll push on, i'll push on

through tornadoes, storms, and hurricanes
through blizzards cold and sunny days
i'll find what i've been seeking
all this time

past deserts wide and oceans deep
over rolling hills and mountains steep
I’ll find my end

and through it all i'll be alone
i must find it on my own
it won't be easy
i know

i'll make some friends along the way
and many memories we'll make
but i will leave them in the end

cause when it's done we're all alone
we're taken out the way we're born
again

i've accepted now
that either way
no matter how much time it takes

i can't stay
i can't stay
i can't stay

i must go
i must go
i must go

under the glow of many moons
and the heat of many suns
I’ll find my end

Find My End | Original

Retrospect | Original

An ephemeral cover of an ephemeral song. Originally by The Helio Sequence. 

Shed Your Love [Cover]

The Trapeze Swinger [Cover]

A cover of a simple Bright Eyes diddy from back in the day. 

First Day Of My Life [Cover]

Original track. Lyrics:

Spend money to feel good to feel bad
One ticket to Friday on a meal plan
Holy father of the ordinary
Sunset gathers cult of mother Mary

Sun kissed models living in the underground
Wounded mongrels feeding on the fungi
don’t mind me, i can be a fun guy
sorry for the pun, i can’t help it, i’m a pun guy

desperate losers looking for a guru
tell me what i wanna hear, and i don’t wanna hear the truth
being chill, making jokes, being affable, but still
i’m imitating characters i saw in films

maybe i try too hard
i probably do
and i’m not helping anyone
maybe i should just stop

trying
better off giving up than trying

quit your job and invest in your hobbies
like running from security for loitering in lobbies

hopping fences, playing tag near the interstate
what doesn’t kill you now gives you cancer later anyway

flight’s delayed but i like airports anyway
nothing like a liminal space to eliminate 

fear of growing up and the traces of my fading grace
maybe if i move around enough i will find a place

where my people at
tell me i’m not alone
now i’m giving up cause i’m prone to

trying
better off giving up than trying

i’m kind of a drip like the leak in my ceiling
grinning and bearing this weakness i’m feeling
rehearsing conversation in the cab to a party
but i’m not fooling anyone, and i’m not having any fun at all

losing touch with your friends, only holding on by weak glue
what do you call a friend that you don’t speak to
a relic of the past, an artifact that speaks to
versions of a past you that faded out the last few years

And I digress
You see through me
And I confess
I’ve been faking it

Trying

This is a short instrumental piece I recorded, layering multiple recordings of minimalistic guitar and a basic echoey filter. This piece was inspired overall by the concept of the Haiku - a minimalistic, layered poem that reflects aspects of the environment and nature. This is what I wanted to convey through an acoustic instrumental, which I hope I did effectively. In the background are the sounds from outside my window recorded over a minute on a rainy day. 

Old Pond [Original Acoustic Instrumental]

A cover of The Postal Service's awesome song "Such Great Heights". I was tempted to play a cover of the Iron & Wine version, which I love, but I've already heard a hundred covers of that online and wanted to try something new and closer to the original. Hope you like it. 

Asher Kaye

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