Name: Ambition is Your Friend by Shapes Like People
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: ‘Ambition Is Your Friend’ is the fourth single to be taken from the upcoming twelve track album ‘Ticking Haze’ landing in March 2025. It was a firm favourite at a recent Bandcamp listening party - jangling guitars likened to R.E.M at their catchiest, soaring layered vocals, and lyrics that encourage ambition as a quality we can all chase if we choose to.

Another beautiful song - the album will be amazing 👌

Turning Point

Cold house and no one in
Even though you're here
Joined as one,living alone
Is something to fear

Your words don't mean a lot
When your actions show the lie
You show what you are not
So I'm wishing you goodbye

Remember what we used to be
So close,so tight
Hard to imagine where we are
It don't seem right

So I'm wishing you goodbye

Wishing You Goodbye

A dark but glorious tale of the emotional dangers of seeking new love too soon.

LYRICS

You should see the lights this evening
But you won’t know what I mean
I’m not stopping at the crossroad
Signals my side they all on green
Getting over you was so hard
Maybe it’s all a little soon
City moves in tighter spaces
This is what I gotta do

I’m wasting my time
If I can’t get you
Out of my mind

I’m here to dance with a beautiful stranger
Here to dance in a beautiful world
I’m here to dance with a beautiful stranger
Here to dance in beautiful world

Hear the sound get in closer
Fantasies are kicking in
Bass is up and shaking the body
Join the crowd’s adrenaline

And these are the signs
That I will get you
Out of my mind

I’m here to dance with a beautiful stranger
Here to dance in a beautiful world
I’m here to dance with a beautiful stranger
Here to dance in a beautiful world

I’m here to dance with a beautiful stranger 
Here to dance in a beautiful world
I'm well aware of the emotional danger
Here’s to dance in a beautiful world


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Beautiful Stranger (Beautiful World)

‘Ambition Is Your Friend’ is the fourth single to be taken from the upcoming twelve track album ‘Ticking Haze’ landing in March 2025. It was a firm favourite at a recent Bandcamp listening party - jangling guitars likened to R.E.M at their catchiest, soaring layered vocals, and lyrics that encourage ambition as a quality we can all chase if we choose to.

Ambition is Your Friend

This track takes you back to the vintage sounds of 90s New York house music—something you’d be fortunate to unearth while digging through the crates at A-1 Record Shop in the East Village.
Oozing with soulful energy, Your Luv features chopped-up vocals, crackling playback, and a punchy bassline complemented by hypnotic, off-kilter pads, giving it an authentic underground vibe. It’s a nod to the real old-school sounds of King Street, Strictly Rhythm, Nervous Records, and evoking images of a packed, sweaty basement club.
Your Luv carries a timeless quality while still feeling fresh in 2025. This collaboration stands out as a love letter to the oldskool house music scene.
Oldskool deep house with the energy to pack the dancefloor. 

Kilogram & KIDPLUGG - Your Luv (Radio Edit)

Show Some Emotion  (Joan Armatrading Cover)

Gutter Priestess

Trash Classic

words and music K.Gennery
Image not my own

Through these eyes I have seen 62 years of joy and misery
Found my true love lost many loved ones to time
If I had my life again I wonder what could possibly be changed
Though I do believe in whats meant to be quite often will be
This paths been laid for me

Inside out upside down back to front turned around
Its never straight forward its designed that way
From the darkest of nights can follow the brightest of days
Its the ying and the yang good and the bad
A toss of a coin which side shall it land
of course I know its the same for everyone

Through these same old weary eyes laughter lines that cannot be disguised
I spend my spare days writing songs instead of a diary
This paths been laid for me

 Inside out upside down back to front turned around
Its never straight forward its designed that way
From the darkest of nights can follow the brightest of days
Its the yin and the yan good and the bad
A toss of a coin which side shall it land
of course I know its the same for everyone

Through these eyes I have seen 62 years of joy and misery
Found my true love lost many loved ones to time
Found my true love lost many loved ones to time

Eyes

[EDIT: Slightly updated mix based on Spintunes judges' feedback.]

This is my entry for Round 3 of the "Spintunes" contest! The prompt/challenge was to "write and record a song that makes prominent and creative use of motivic development - a technique for creating extended melodies through repetition and variation of a short, memorable melodic fragment called a motive".

LYRICS

Waking up in purgatory
Isn’t where I thought I’d be
Aftertaste of argument
No that isn’t what I meant

And you do this every time
Just for a reaction
Yeah, you do this every time
Is it part of the attraction

Maybe you’ll go to prove that I need you
Maybe you’ll stay when I don’t believe you
Maybe you’re sweet, maybe you’re scary
Push me away only to tell me
Oh, don’t you want me anymore

What’s my motivation here
On a scale of one to fear
Weighing up the evidence
Isn’t making any sense

And it kills me every time
My heart on the pavement
Yeah it kills me every time
How you claim it’s an accident

Maybe you’ll go to prove that I need you
Maybe you’ll stay when I don’t believe you
Maybe you’re sweet, maybe you’re scary
Push me away only to tell me
Oh, don’t you want me anymore
Oh, don’t you want me anymore

I love it when you change
I love it when you change your
I love it when you change
I love it when you change your mind

Another day in purgatory
I guess that’s how it’s going to be
Our record’s playing on repeat
It’s never sounded so sweet

Maybe you’ll go to prove that I need you
Maybe you’ll stay when I don’t believe you
Maybe you’re sweet, maybe you’re scary
Push me away only to tell me
Oh, don’t you want me anymore
Oh, don’t you want me anymore

Don't You Want Me Anymore

LYRICS

Attends attends s'il te plaît attends
J'hésite encore
Oui je t'aime et tu le sais bien
Mais je ne sais pourquoi j'hésite encore

Trop longtemps j'ai été libre
Trop longtemps j'ai été sans amour
Mais là je veux essayer encore
Et pourtant

Attends attends s'il te plaît attends
J'hésite encore
Oui je t'aime et tu le sais bien
Mais je ne sais pourquoi j'hésite encore

Tu sais bien ce que je veux
Toi aussi je le sais bien
Si on se quitte ça va être difficile
Pourtant

Attends attends s'il te plaît attends
J'hésite encore
Oui je t'aime et tu le sais bien
Mais je ne sais pourquoi j'hésite encore

Pourquoi je suis comme ça
J'hésite j'hésite j'hésite encore
Pourtant

Ambition is Your Friend

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