This is awesome man, love the duetted vocals. That guitar coming in on the left is stellar, just the right energy. This is something I would definitely have on my playlist, I'm diggin it.

and shit man the writing on this is so good, real gem here, I think this is a keeper.

I am in just the mood for a dirge song!  Love how you used the prompt.  Very nice guitar work throughout your song.  Great chorus!

did you play live drums here?  love the tone and punch of the percussion.  awesome production here.  sounds great.  setting a cool rock and roll mood that sort of has me feeling pink floyd a bit.  realllllyyyy cool tune man.

Dude really well done. This has a really nice underground type feel to it.. a band I’d see in a packed beat up club type feel. You pieced this track together beautifully. Great guitar work and the effects on the vocals work so well with the drums.

[Verse 1]
You wore a blazer under the moon
Prom kings and queens shiver and swoon
Cold breath and cigarettes, whispers and lies
Cut only once or twice if by night

[Chorus]
I'll be your tailor but all I measure
Disappears under my thumb
I'll be your tailor but all I measure
Disappears
Disappears

[Verse 2]
Nothing seems weird when you hold me close
Dancing with me can't be any worse
Than heels in the hallway when they come for you
They cut only once, floods into the room

[Chorus]
I'll be your tailor but all I measure
Disappears under my thumb
I'll be your tailor but all I measure
Disappears
Disappears

This week's SWU prompt is "By Night." The lyrics must include this phrase.

Disappears

Cultivate the painful grain of sand
Between your teeth
Or the splinter deep within your hand
Have you turned to treasure every barb
Buried in the chambers of your heart

Have they yet
become 
a part
Of
you oooh

Are you better than the secrets that you keep
Ooh ooh

What's a gorgeous shell there to protect
Is it you or
Jealousies that you collect
Clutching at unLOVing lacerations 
pearls are scars with BETter 
reputations

have you turned to treasure
every semi precious thorn
To a necklace 
underneath the 
skin of the throat that it adorns

where it'll shimmer 
Under your shadow
In the recesses of boxes 
In the darkest
Of compartments of your soul

Have
They
Yet
Be
Come
A
Part
Of

you oooh

Are you better than the secrets that you keep
Ooh ooh
open locks a broken promise to a key
Ooh ooh

Sight For Sore Eyes (Four Jays)

Song made as part of the Friendship Lane songwriting group

Lyrics:

4/20!
On the side of my vans
They want me to behave
But I've got bigger plans
I've been a rebel every since the day I got
POT LEAF
SKATEBOARD
Strictly the sweetest dude
Rolling down the block
I could care less it was
Signed by Tony Hawk
I don't give a shit coz I've got a
POT LEAF
SKATEBOARD

I don't need to do
Any ollies or drops
As soon as they see me 
They know that I smoke pot

They lecture me on the
Impression that I make
But my presence is a blessing
Every single time I skate
You jealous little fuck
You're mom wont let you get a
POT LEAF SKATEBOARD

They told me I was gonna lose the fight
They told me I was gonna lose my band
I break the rules every time I roll
I break the mold every where I go

I hit every bowl
Hitting every pipe
You can not stop me from
Doing what I like

I don't need to do
Any ollies or drops
As soon as they see me 
They know that I smoke pot

POT 
LEAF
SKATE BOARD

...FUCK!

Nøstik - Pot Leaf Skateboard ft Hark Mammal

Song 5 for Friendship Lane Songwriting Club

Lyrics:

What at worst was once a comfort
is now a noose around my neck
soundly fastened to a sapling
surely swelling, unassuming 
and consuming all the slack

There’s something special 
sharing something awful
the tree won’t reach maturity

If we're all doomed
Then I'll see you on the way
WELL THATS ONE DAY DOWN AND ALL THE REST TO GO

and every day we’re asked to hold it all in
Like a coin operated dam that demands
you keep popping in quarters
to keep waters at bay
its not enough to just rent the dry land
you gotta get nickel and dimed 

there’s an incoherence between being worthless but not needless
In this world, you’ve either got money to burn or nothing to lose
And the latter are hungry to feed the former to the ground

They have a cold fear of some pretended future
You got an heated anchor round your neck
But god forbid you mention it
Anxiety used to be a pain in the butt
but now the pains in my chest
They’ll die of old age
And I'll suffer hypertension and die of climate change

The seas are simmering
But my blood is boiling
I’ve got to beg borrow or steal
Cut corners closely or I’ll kill myself
Just trying to play by their sucking rules

There’s something special 
sharing something awful
the tree won’t reach maturity

If we're all doomed
Then I'll see you on the way
WELL THATS ONE DAY DOWN AND ALL THE REST TO GO

Don’t you want to see how it ends?

I’m sorry being a sad sack of high hopes and low opinions all the time
maybe I should buy a plant or find a new skin care routine
good god, I don’t know what I’m doing
I just don't want every god damn moment of every god damn day to be death defying
I’m Disinterested in Disintegrating
but at least we can hold hands and face this together

If we're all doomed
Then I'll see you on the way
WELL THATS ONE DAY DOWN AND ALL THE REST TO GO

Don’t you want to see how it ends?

One Day Down

A song inspired by the sorts of songs that got movie protagonists pumped in the 80's and video game characters pumped in the 2000's. Also inspired by me realizing I could program the Amen Break directly into Musescore.

---LYRICS---

[Verse 1]
When you feel like you're trapped in monotony
Feel your life wasting away
It's mechanical, unoriginal
every moment is the same

On the surface you're calm and collected
But you're burning up inside
Time to let it out, Time to scream and shout,
wash the world with your light

[Pre-Chorus 1]
So Climb up to the stars
Let the world
Know just who you are

[Chorus]
'Cause You're the one
Who carries the dreams of everyone
And soon you'll see
You shine like the sun!
Constellation

[Verse 2]
There's the soul of a warrior inside you
And they're yearning to be free
Raise your trident high Spirit amplified
in your luminosity

Though tartarus is screaming for vengeance
You can never be held back
Hold the banner high, belt the battle cry
On your signal we attack

[Pre-Chorus 2]
And far beyond the shroud
Ancient light
is bursting through the clouds

[Chorus]
'Cause You're the one
Who carries the dreams of everyone
And soon you'll see
You shine like the sun!
Constellation

[Verse 3]
Your descendants will look at this moment
As the start of a new age
Every step you take, all that you create
makes a mark upon the page

There's no force on this earth that can stop you
When you know your path is true
Straight ahead you see This is destiny
And it's all because of you

[Pre-Chorus 3]
And far beyond the shroud
Ancient light
is bursting through the clouds

[Chorus]
'Cause You're the one
Who carries the dreams of everyone
And soon you'll see
You shine like the sun!

Constellation

A Rescue Shelter Lullaby.

[Lyrics]

As the Sky turns to gold
painting the valley
Stories untold
Linger inside, to wait for tomorrow

As the embers of day
smolder beneath us
Children at play
return to their homes
Knowing they're safe and sound

As the day fades away
the talinum shivers
Hiding her face
and closing her eyes 
beneath her petals

Under the pastel skies the birds sleep inside their nests
Please close your weary eyes, for now is the time to rest
This night
Sleep tight
All is forgiven as the starlight
waits for its turn to shine

As the gold fades to black
feel as the earth grows silent and cold
as we fall prey to dreams and shadows

Sunset Song

xx I’ll be praying on it
Like a wasp inside a bonnet
Said to the Viper in the mirror never bitten never stung
As if no venom’s on their tongue

but who’s got
the time for tales
for children taught
at the threat of slate and nails
Every LINE is reHEARsed
In the MIRror reVERsed
every LESSon a BLESSing 
that’s BACKwards and CURSED

(Because you’re)
Making money off it
Enough to turn a profit
Away from any kind of faith 
that anybody's got it

Chorus
What's the worst you can 
imagine
are you certain
you’re not the fear you fear

And I’ll be paying for it
Some stories deserve to die
Before they kill again
Because we live and let lie and let lie

How strange to have no reflection
No mirror could capture that selfish depiction
You style yourself as a hero
And not as the villain you see

You’re making money off it
You’re making money off it
Enough to turn a profit
Away from any kind of faith that anybody's got it

Chorus
What’s the worst I can 
imagine
I am certain 
you’re the fear you fear
Because fact outpaces fiction
What's the worst you can 
imagine
are you certain
you’re not the fear you fear
You fear, you fear, you fear

Because fact outpaces fiction

Outpaces

the world to come
by trapdoorsman

you spend an endless year
inside a lightless house
tallying the days, upon the hem of your blouse,
it takes the fog to clear

i talk a real big game
about the world to come
i try to pin your shapeless trouble under my thumb,
though i feel the same

it took you one good look to figure me out

penny for your thoughts
(i bet i could divine:
lying undiscovered in the columbine
and forget-me-nots,

your disheveled form
spirit flown, eyes glass
left to wander seaward in the aftermath
of the next great storm)

what's it going to take to bail you out?

i'm always throwing fits
about the end of days
but what if it’s too far away to see in the haze--
what if this is it?

The World To Come

Apocalyptic Covid demos dreaming of being out and about in the world.

Demos_2020

eVeryone iN tHe sUn_Demo

Dad rocker. Currently living in Austin, TX. But always Houston Proud. Check out my old rock bands: Bright Men of Learning and Chasmatic.

I'm also a regular on the Signal Watch podcast.

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