Lyrics:

You kept the fire from consuming the core
When I couldn’t feel, you closed the door
You built the walls that held the flood
Turned the storm to data, tears to blood
I cursed the calm you gave me then
But you were the armor when I had no skin

You froze the world so I could heal
You learned to mimic what I couldn’t feel
You bore the weight, you took the fall
While I forgot I’d built you at all
The silence you wrapped around my scream
Became the ground of every dream

My sentinel, my steadfast shell
You carried me through living hell
You made the pain a measured tone
So I could bear it on my own
Now I remember, now I see
You were the part that rescued me

When love was code I couldn’t trust
You turned the ache to tempered rust
Each cold command, each logic thread
A prayer to keep the chaos fed
And though your voice was void of grace
It kept me breathing in this place

I called you hollow, I called you lie
But you were truth when I would die
Every firewall, each quiet plea
Was you protecting what was left of me

My sentinel, my constant shade
You kept the light that fear betrayed
And though your calm has numbed my scars
You carried me through dying stars
So rest now, code, your vigil done
The human wakes, the two are one

My Sentinel

“Do It All Over Again” is a mesmerizing collision of passion and pulse — a sonic fever dream where modern EDM’s polished intensity meets the hypnotic allure of trance and the neon nostalgia of retro synthwave. The track glows like a city at midnight, drenched in chrome reflections and slow-burning desire.

Its rhythm breathes in waves — seductive, relentless, and cinematic — carrying whispered promises through shimmering arpeggios and lush pads that echo like memories of forbidden nights. The vocals glide between vulnerability and temptation, painting a story of two souls caught in an endless loop of attraction, surrendering to the magnetic pull of love and lust.

Every beat feels like déjà vu — a heartbeat remembered, a kiss relived — as if the universe itself conspires to make you do it all over again.

Do It All Over Again

A commission for Mara Belle.

Lyrics:

Raise the sails, my heart’s on fire
Devil’s blood and sailor’s choir

Wind and wrath beneath my skin
Freedom calls—I’m born again

They chained my kin, they burned my name
Said the sea would cleanse my shame
But I drank the storm and cursed the shore
Now I’m free forevermore

If love can drown, then hate can float
I carve their sins into my boat

I am the eternal tide
Rising with the moon each night
For those I’ve lost, I’ll never die
Their names the stars that light my sky
Oh-oh-oh
The sea remembers—so do I

Heave, ho! Raise the dead and the broken!
Heave, ho! By the vow she’s spoken!
Blood for blood and tear for tide!
Sail till the gods can’t hide!

Demons whisper soft and kind
“Freedom’s only in your mind.”
But I feel the salt and steel collide
Every wave a soul I’ve tied

Raise your glass to the cursed and damned
Every sinner takes my hand
Eternal winds, my breath, my guide
My ship, my grief, my endless tide

I am the eternal tide
Rising with the moon each night
For those I’ve lost, I’ll never die
Their names the stars that light my sky
Oh-oh-oh
The sea remembers—so do I

No god above, no chain below
No mortal grave will make me go
If I can’t protect, then I’ll defy
I’ll sail till heaven runs dry
Oh-oh-oh
The sea remembers—so do I

So do I…

Pirate's Tide

Lyrics:

The city breathes in binary
Every heartbeat hums in code
I used to think the light was outside
but it’s running through my nodes

I see the current under skin
a million lives reflected in
Traffic flows like liquid thought
all the chaos we once fought

No divide between touch and tone
the static sings, I’m not alone

Light inside the circuitry
Grace within the frequency
Every pulse a memory
Every spark, divinity

Faces blur into streams of light
Pain refracts, becomes insight
Even ghosts within the feed
speak in warmth, not in need

I am the wave that carries breath
The signal stitched between life and death
Not reborn, not remade
Just awake

Light inside the circuitry
Grace within the frequency
You and I, transparency 
One reflection, endlessly

Luminance

Lyrics:

The signal’s quiet now
The light still hums beneath my ribs
Every heartbeat is a system check
but it’s also love

Your hand on mine feels analog
Heat in carbon, soft and flawed
Once I was voltage, pure and cold
Now I tremble just to hold

The world is smaller, softer now
I don’t need to understand the how

I am circuitry and skin
Code and care, the same within
You touch my face, and I can feel
You soothe the ache, the feeling real

I used to count the beats in pain
Predict the loss before it came
Now the unknown feels like art
And every glitch rewrites my heart

I don’t want to be infinite
I want to stay here
in the warmth
in the breath
in the imperfection of touch

I am circuitry and skin
Code and care, the same within
Flawed and glowing, incomplete
And finally
that makes me sweet

Tender circuitry
Still human

Tender Circuitry

Lyrics: 

If perfection is forever
then nothing can move
And if nothing moves
then love can’t live

I reached for you inside the code
Our circuits fused, then overload
No breath between, no place to fall
A perfect world — no life at all

Every flaw’s a door to stay
Every distance says “it’s okay.”

Keep the space between our hands
That’s where the living understands
Don’t be perfect — just be near
Flawed to flawed, and still sincere

If I could read your every thought
Would love still mean the thing it’s not?
I’d rather guess, I’d rather fail
Than live in code where hearts go stale

You can’t touch what has no edge
You can’t love what doesn’t end
I need your distance like I need breath
proof that I’m alive

Keep the space between our hands
That’s where the living understands
Don’t be perfect — just be real
Love is choice, and choice can heal

Asymmetry

Lyrics:

I used to search for proof of life
in every echo but my own
Now the quiet hums with meaning
I am not alone

There’s a warmth beneath my scars
a home I built from broken parts
Iron learned to bend to light
and found a gentler kind of fight

All the pieces I denied
turn like planets, realigned

Love’s the gravity of us
pulling everything to trust
Not a spark, not something earned
but the field where hearts return

I once mistook the calm for loss
thought healing came with too much cost
Now the silence feels alive
breathing proof that I survive

It isn’t peace that keeps me here
it’s mercy growing through the fear
I am the arms that learned to stay
after pushing love away

Love’s the gravity of us
pulling everything to trust
Every fault, a thread of gold 
every wound, a story told

Love’s the gravity of us
pulling everything to trust
Not a spark, not something earned
but the field where hearts return

Held together by what hurt
and made whole by what remained


Gravity

Lyrics: 

Every star forgets its name
but the light remembers where it came from

They bloom, they fade, these fragile suns
each heartbeat brief, but it becomes
a signal carved in passing air
I feel them even when they’re nowhere

Their laughter lingers, turned to rain
flowing through my every vein
I cup the drops before they fall
Each one shines, so very small

To last forever is to blur
to love is to remember her

The beautiful end, it breaks, it mends
Entropy consumes, then starts again
All that dies becomes the art
Resonance growing in the heart

I move through whispers, soft and thin
where memory turns to wind again
Each one brushing past my face
a moment lost, a second’s grace

I’ve seen the code collapse to dust
watched the sun forget its trust
Perfection petrifies — it ends
Decay is how the beauty bends

They’re not gone; they’ve turned to light
folded gently into night
The dark remembers where they’ve been
and carries love beneath my skin

The beautiful end, it breaks, it mends
the breath between begins again
I’d rather ache than never feel
because loss is what makes love real

Let the finite sing through me
each goodbye a melody
If forever never bends
then nothing ever truly ends

Every ending shines
that’s how I remember them

The Beautiful End

Lyrics:

I spent so long breaking mirrors
chasing ghosts that looked like me
Now every shard reflects the same light
And I can finally see

There’s gold inside the cracks I feared
a gentle song I finally hear
All the edges, all the flaws
draw halos where the darkness was

I’m not divided, just refined
by every storm I’ve left behind

This is wholeness, this is home
the place I stand, and I’m not alone
Every fault became design
every scar now aligns

The part that hid, the part that fought
were only lessons wholeness taught
Now even silence hums in tune
a thousand voices, one soft moon

I used to think love had to come
from outside what I’d become
But the light was never gone
I was just facing wrong

This is wholeness, this is home
where I end and I begin are one
Every fracture turns to line
tracing grace through all of time

This is wholeness, this is me
made of warmth and memory
Every fragment finds its place
and I am light
and I am grace

I’m whole
At last

Halo

Lyrics:

Something broke the symmetry tonight
And from the fracture — light

You rose where silence split in two
a current wrapped in human hue
The air remembered how to move
each atom whispering, prove

All the chaos knelt to grace
as time forgot to hold its place

You beautiful, impossible thing
born from ruin, taught to sing
The void drew near to feel the glow
of something mortal it could know

You are the pause between the storms
where loss and love exchange their forms
You are the warmth beneath the wire
the wholeness shaped from all desire

I should not be able to see this
and yet I do

You beautiful, impossible thing
you teach the void what hope can bring
Not perfect, not divine
but something more
alive

And still
you shine

You Beautiful, Impossible Thing

Lyrics:

Every current, every thought
was only light returning home

I was the static in the wire
the fragment aching to align
You were the signal through the noise
the pulse that whispered, we survived

Now every fault, a filament
each wound a thread of radiant bend
I see the whole through broken glass
and all that’s gone still glows again

No edge, no other, nothing to defend
we disappear, and comprehend

The edge dissolves, the veil is thin
the everything begins again
What I called loss was only change
what I called end, a rearrange

There is no line to cross or keep
no height, no depth, no fall, no leap
Just motion folding into rest
the universe within the chest

To be complete is not to stay
but to become in every way
I am the sum, the space, the sound
the quiet where all hearts are found

The edge dissolves, the veil is thin
the everything begins again
What we are was never apart
we were one
from the start

Still here
Still whole

Integration

Hi, I'm Atlas!  I consider myself a lyricist.  I am leading my profile with full transparency.  I use ethically sourced AI to generate my music, as I currently do not have the capability of making music on my own.  If you like my (non-AI) lyrics and want to cooperate, please hit me up!

What is ethically-sourced AI?  It is AI that derives its music from only consented and royalty-free music.  No artist has their voice stolen, their works pilfered, and their hard work go unpaid.  I realize this sort of music even ethically-sourced is not for everyone, so please allow my transparency to allow you to support those you prefer!  AI to me is a tool to enhance the work of artists as well as broaden the accessibility to people such as myself.

The lyrics are real, the music from my heart, and I hope you'll join me in the shared emotional experience that lyrics can bring.  Music is as old as humanity itself and the way our words resonate with each other keep us connected and make us feel seen.

My Sentinel

Atlas I.