I’ll bet you can’t even say the title without snickering. Just go get your silliest socks and skip off snickering into the sunset. You know you want to.


Skipping in Silly Socks

😅😆


[Verse]
Ain't it funny how this love is?
How you want it
How you need it
But you know that you can't have it?
Then you're hopin' and you're wishin'
That you're trippin' on a mission
Till you see that it's your vision

[Pre-Chorus]
And you live it
And you breathe it
And it's all in your head
So much it makes you wish you were dead
It's all in your mind
You try to run
But there's nowhere to hide

[Chorus]
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
My love is a joke
I just wanna laugh
I see her almost every day
That's what makes it bad
But if I didn't see her
Man
That'd make me sad
So I'll just go on with it until the end
And until then
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
(I'm in love with a girl I could never have)

[Verse]
It hurts like a hammer
To see her with another
But I don't have the heart to tell her how I feel
I'm scared that it might change the way she looks at me
But I don't wanna live with a love that ain't real
I'm feeling all this pressure
It's like I'm trapped inside a treasure
So what's better: to open or to steal?
I want to live without it
But I can't go a day without it
And that's why I wrote this song for you to hear

[Pre-Chorus]
And I live it
And I breathe it
It's all in my head
And I don't know what I did to deserve to be on the other side of her world
I tried to run
But there's nowhere to hide

[Chorus]
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
My love is a joke
I just wanna laugh
I see her almost every day
That's what makes it bad
But if I didn't see her
Man
That'd make me sad
So I'll just go on with it until the end
And until then
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
(I'm in love with a girl I could never have)

[Bridge]
And I'll try to convince myself that
I don't care
That it's nothing to me
But if I didn't care
Then why am I
Sitting here writing this song right now?

[Reprise]
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
My love is a joke
I just wanna laugh
I see her almost every day
That's what makes it bad
But if I didn't see her
Man
That'd make me sad
So I'll just go on with it until the end
And until then
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
Said I 
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
(I'm in love with a girl I could never have)
Never have


[Outro]
I'm in love with a girl I could never have
I see her almost every day
That's what makes it bad
But if I didn't see her
That'd make me sad
So I'll just go on with it until the end
Until the end
(Until the end)




I'm in love with a girl I could never have (Live)

After the Goldrush (Neil Young cover).wav

My Electric Memory

The Old Haunts

(Music begins: upright bass walking slow and warm; brushed drums in an easy shuffle; a lazy electric guitar chord blooms and fades. A violin sighs once, then settles into the background.)


---

Verse 1

Same streetlight flickers outside the flat,
Same black cab hums where the pavement’s cracked.
Window fogs where I used to cry,
Now I just watch the buses glide by.

Camden smells like smoke and rain,
Every bar still knows my name.
But the girl who wore that crown of noise—
She learned to trade the ache for poise.


---

Pre-Chorus

The jukebox spins a record slow,
The kind I played too loud before.
I hum along, but this time low—
Don’t need the pain to love it more.


---

Chorus

The old haunts don’t haunt me anymore,
They’re just stories I lived once before.
I walk past ghosts with an easy grin,
Raise my glass to who I’ve been.
The old haunts don’t haunt me anymore.


---

Verse 2

Passed the café where you called me “wild,”
Now the waitress says, “You look so mild.”
Funny how peace can change your face—
Turns the running into grace.

Graffiti fades on the record shop wall,
But I still see us, twenty and small.
We thought love was a war to win—
Now I know it’s a place to begin.


---

Pre-Chorus

The rain taps soft on my coat tonight,
A rhythm steady, clean, and right.
The city hums, a familiar chord—
But I don’t tremble anymore.


---

Chorus

The old haunts don’t haunt me anymore,
They’re just stories I lived once before.
I walk past ghosts with an easy grin,
Raise my glass to who I’ve been.
The old haunts don’t haunt me anymore.


---

Bridge

I thought healing was a song that ends,
But it plays again in different friends.
Every laugh, every scar, every missed refrain—
They’re the notes that taught me how to stay.

(The strings swell softly; the bass keeps walking steady, like footsteps on wet pavement.)


---

Final Chorus

The old haunts don’t haunt me anymore,
They’re postcards from a life I wore.
I bless the tears, I bless the floor—
Of every bar that kept me sure.
The old haunts don’t haunt me anymore.


---

Outro

(Music fades to just bass and guitar.)
The jukebox hums, the streetlight glows,
I take the long way home—
And the city finally feels
like mine.

(A final brushed snare and upright bass note linger; the reverb carries her breath into silence.)


The Old Haunts

the kindness that I need

I posted the original track on SC many years ago. 
But just for fun I decided to post this alternative short electronic version 
Lyrics by Demelia Denton
Vocals and music Torbjørn
OCEAN'S EDGE

Receding waves
And dampened sand
Footsteps gone
No longer found

Walk upon
The Ocean's edge
Crashing, creeping
Waves intend

To wash away
And grind the sand
All Castles built
But waves rebound

Gone the Sun sting
Heat of day
Children on
The beach that played
Quiet now
As darkness creeps
Sinking sunset
Ocean meets

Sultry, still...
Soon breeze will cool
Absorbed by waves
Sand, Ocean mills

All the Castles
Washed away
Not a sign
Of children's play

Come the dawn
Another day
Artistic Castles
Eyes will gaze

Ocean`s Egde (lyrics Demelia Denton)

good Live .wav

Half A Man

(FR) Robot Spleen explore un paradoxe émotionnel : et si un robot pouvait ressentir du vague à l’âme ?
La composition navigue entretextures électroniques veloutées et rythmique minimaliste, comme un cœur qui bat à contretemps.
Elle évoque une romance post-humaine, un spleen élégant, presque raffiné, où la froideur des circuits n’empêche pas la tendresse du timbre.
Idéal pour accompagner un coucher de soleil sur une planète déshumanisée.
(EN ) “Robot Spleen” explores an emotional paradox: what if a robot could feel melancholy?
The composition drifts between velvety electronic textures, and minimalist rhythms — like a heart beating out of sync.
It evokes a post-human romance, an elegant, almost refined kind of melancholy, where the coldness of circuits doesn’t prevent the tenderness of tone.
Perfect for watching the sunset on a dehumanized planet.

Robot Spleen

The Magick covering  the Marillion track from Jun 1985. Originally produced by Chris Kimsey.  
Produced here at request by Kit.   

Lavender

(FR) Biographie 
Entre ombre et lumière, souffle et silence.
Explorateur sonore aux racines multiples, je compose des fragments d’univers,
des pièces expérimentales portées par une voix non lexicale, sans discours, mais jamais sans émotion. Chaque titre est une énigme ouverte.
Je ne cherche pas la norme, mais l’écho intérieur, l’émotion à partager.
Écouter, c’est traverser. Composer, c’est traduire l’inconnu.

Cette très belle citation de Michel-Ange résume ma façon de penser :
« J’ai vu un ange dans le marbre et j’ai seulement ciselé jusqu’à l’en libérer. »

(EN) Biography
Between shadow and light, breath and silence.
A sound explorer with many roots, I compose fragments of universes — experimental pieces carried by a non-lexical voice, without words yet never without emotion. Each track is an open enigma.
I do not seek the norm, but the inner echo — the emotion to be shared.
To listen is to cross through. To compose is to translate the unknown.

This beautiful quote by Michelangelo captures my way of thinking:
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

Robot Spleen

ATERION