These are tunes that I wrote for Riot Games' "Summoner Showdown 5" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElSXd6x3IKk )

Summoner Showdown 5

Songs I Wrote

Lost Tapes and New Machines

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All songs written by David Bowick
Recorded*, Produced and Mixed by David Bowick
Mastering by Hans Dekline at Sound Bites Dog
Lead vocals, guitar, mandolin, violin, banjo, dobro – David Bowick
Guitars, background vocals – Nate Hertweck, Jeff Cleveland
Dobro, Lap Steel – Matt Bradford
Drums on 3,4,7,9 – Alan Combies
Drums on 1,2,6,10 – Christopher Allis
Piano/Organ – Marshall Thompson
Bass on 3,4,7,9 – Douglas Freyre
Bass on 1,2,6,10 – David Bowick
*Drums on tracks 3,4,7,9 recorded by Jim Doyle at Doyle Sound Studio

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Holding The Sun

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Songwriter, DJ and vocalist supreme Aruna is back in full force with her next solo single, "Reason To Believe." The LA-based artist will make her Enhanced Music debut on August 19 and already "Reason To Believe" is shaping up to be one of summer's most memorable vocal smashes, with premieres on A State of Trance #623 and Group Therapy with Above & Beyond #037. 

"I wanted to step outside of the box and create new lyrical patterns and melodies that I hadn't employed before," says Aruna. "That's why I co-wrote this track with someone new to EDM." 

She partnered with fellow Los Angeles musician, David Bowick of the band Alder, and says that working with someone outside of the tight-knit dance music scene brought a fresh perspective to her songwriting. The lyrics speak of spiraling downwards after loss and heartbreak but Aruna's vocals convey innocence and hope. Producer and composer Steve Kaetzel brought a score of sparkling piano melodies, wobbling, glitchy bass and soothing trance chimes wrapped with intricate vocal editing to make the track fit for at-home, easy listening or havoc-wreaking on the dance floor. 


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Back To Buffalo

Right about the time the streetlight came on
parked on the lawn threw away the keys

1987 fender’s busted, engine rusted
Tires down on their knees

Getting stared down by a blank wall
Another nightfall falling down around me

Lately it’s all the same old story

Gotta get away
So sick of standing still
Leaving here to say
Gonna find another thrill
To blow me away
Trade in a memory
For everything that you’ll never be

Everybody's hot in California 
I gotta warn ya you're never gonna want to leave

‘Cause all the stars got a scar to show you
After a drink or two, tucked up their sleeve

Everybody’s not what everybody says
Get into my bed and outta my dreams

Lately it’s all the same old story

Gotta get away
So sick of standing still
Leaving here to say
Gonna find another thrill
To blow me away
Trade in a memory
for everything that you’ll never be

You’ll never be the enemy, 
It never meant that much to me
Here is now and then is how
The first and last have come to pass

Getting stared down, by a blank wall
Another nightfall falling down around me

Gotta get away
So sick of standing still
Leaving here to say
Gonna find another thrill
To blow me away
Trade in a memory
For everything that you’ll never be


Lately

Ludacris - "Move Bitch" PARODY - "Move Grinch" (clean)

All songs written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by David Bowick
Mastered by Hans Dekline at Sound Bites Dog
Additional vocals on “Finally Found You” by Vanessa Parr
Additional vocals on “The Way Back Home” and “On The Other Side” by Trey Broussard
Additional vocals on “Meet Tomorrow” by Lindsey Bullen and Trey Broussard
Additional vocals on “27 Days” by Lucas Carpente

The Weight Of Us

Finally Found You

Hard with a capital H
This road you’re headed down
Dotted with lines of blockades
No other way around

I don’t know if you can even love yourself
but if you can then you best get started

Jump the barricade 
Jump the barricade
Jump the barricade 
Never looking back

Hop right over the fence
Each step could do you in
Not a tin can broken and bent
You’re ready to begin

I don’t know if you can even love yourself
but if you can then you best get started

Jump the barricade 
Jump the barricade
Jump the barricade 
Never looking back

Let it go, leave it all behind
Let it go, leave it all behind
Let it go, leave it all behind
Let it go, leave it all behind

Jump the barricade 
Jump the barricade
Jump the barricade 
Never looking back


Originally written 11/28/2018

Jump The Barricade

Time never plays along
Too fast or slow but always wrong
Days like weeks or weeks like days
I didn’t really know slow til you went away

Please come home
Please come home
Saying I miss you, and maybe I love you
Doesn’t say it well enough
So won’t you just
Please come home

You’re not so far that I can’t feel you
But it’s not the touch I need
This voice I have screams your name
Though it’s more like a whisper in the rain

Please come home
Please come home
Saying I miss you, and maybe I love you
Doesn’t say it well enough
So won’t you just
Please come home

Written Jul 11, 2011

Please Come Home

I think I’m finally ready to admit defeat
Drop all my armor down to my feet
and raise this white flag up high in the air

Call off the search, ‘cause I’m settled down
No disappearing, no more runnin’ ‘round
I’ll be on the other end of every call I swear
If I believed in god would he answer my prayer

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes

Is that all it takes to fill these clothes?
Hollywood hills of highs to the lonely lows
No vacancy for the in-betweens

Did you think that I would ever find my place
After living my whole life while being chased
by all their sorrows and all their hopes and dreams
Piece by piece I’ll patch up these seams

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes

How can you be yourself when you’re someone else?
How can you fold your hand if no one’s dealt?
It might be time to cash in and go home.
The war almost over, with no ash on your toes

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes

The hardest thing to be
is what everybody wants you to be
But in the shade of my sunny life 
I’ve seen the loneliness of
Living as the shadow of a lie 
In everybody’s eyes


Originally written: Mar 4, 2015

Shadow of a Lie

Does life feel like a silent film?
Try to write it down with no ink in the quill?
You know no one will ever know
The marker snaps and you blend right in
A quiet voice with a roar within
And you know no one will ever know

I recall when I grew up until I was let down
That every year can mean a tearful trip to your hometown
Dig more holes in the ground 
Somehow that sets us free

Do you live your life like an acrobat?
Reach for the sky but fear the mat
And you know they’re here for the show
The tigers roar and you start to slip
A gasp in the crowd as you lose you grip
But you know, it’s for the show

I recall the time when I found strength should make you weak
Taking on the dew of dawn ‘til your dam starts to leak
and drips into the creek and rides it out for weeks
til it finds it’s way to the sea

Life is quiet like an avalanche
Tears through bark and brick and branch
but you know, it’s only snow
Through the chill sun thaws it still 
seeds that spread all along the hill
you know that they will grow

I recall a time when I was so lost that I found
A magic spell I cast out loud to a man up in the clouds
but all I got was doubt (so what’s it all about)
like drowning in a drought
my heart conceded to not believe.

Originally written 2/29/2016

Silent Film

We all know California’s gonna sink
but we could all use the drink
Topless cars and sunset cliffs
Fame so close you can get a whiff

The lies of Sunset Boulevard
the black cards and names in stars
Drive far enough down south
You can see the look of doubt

You can tell all your friends back home
Whose numbers are in your phone

You never dance on the ceiling
You never had a reason 
Better Late Than Never
Winter’s a wasted season
The fire smells of treason
Better Late Than Never

What matters most happens least
crumpled papers always find a crease
Like the ride at the county fair
You only live with desperate prayer

You wait until your next check clears
Oh thank God for my career

Written on Feb 23, 2016

You never dance on the ceiling
You never had a reason 
Better Late Than Never
Winter’s a wasted season
The fire smells of treason
Better Late Than Never

The lost and found found more than it’s ever lost
How many lost or found picking up a cross
Dizzied up in a dizzy daze
If you’re made of gold, what do you weigh?

You never dance on the ceiling
You never had a reason 
Better Late Than Never
Winter’s a wasted season
The fire smells of treason
Better Late Than Never

Originally written 2/23/2016

Better Late Than Never

Either Or

Empty out your pockets
Set aside what you need
What is yours and what is not?
Can you even tell between

Sift through the days where you know where you start
List all the ways that you’re tearing apart
Throw the rest not  you away
Give yourself a fresh heart

Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone
Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone

Not a bird stuck in a cage
No one’s gone and clipped your wings
Still you’re trapped by who you’re not
The songs they want that you don’t sing

Sift through the days where you know where you start
List all the ways that you’re tearing apart
Throw the rest not you away
Give yourself a fresh heart

Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone
Everything to Everyone
You can’t be Everything to Everyone

Originally written 8/6/2019

E2E (feat. Arison Cain)

I got my toes in the mud, my heart in a sling
I can’t say what tomorrow will bring
But I know 
It will be better

I’ve seen the shadows of the lights of fame
Put on your gloves and get in the game
I know it will be better

Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope

When the sun comes up but you’re feeling down
In a caffeine cup your day will drown
I know it will be better

Wake up from sleep yelling out for help
Like your favorite book dusty on a shelf
I know it will be better  

Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope

All my ghosts are waiting right behind the door
Counting up the points, boys tell me what’s the score?

Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope
Bound to find some hope at the end of the rope

Written Oct 19, 2016

End of the Rope

Let me in, oh warden of my heart
You’re full to the brim, but I’ve been practicing my part
It floats on the wind tied to an angel’s feet
That one day I will meet and thank for you

	Again for the first time
	I stop at every step
	To unhook my baited breath
	New grapes on an old vine
	I’m tied to who I am
	But I’m better with your bends

I recall when you weren’t here at all
My engine stalled, like the south without its drawl
Like a charm with no luck, flowing through its veins
A tattoo without the pain, but I want the truth 

	Again for the first time
	I stop at every step
	To unhook my baited breath
	New grapes on an old vine
	I’m tied to who I am
	But I’m better with your bends


Amazing Grace never came my way
In its place, I could make the case
That old song had it wrong, the Lord could never save
Instead you said be brave and I found my way
	
	Again for the first time
	I stop at every step
	To unhook my baited breath
	New grapes on an old vine
	I’m tied to who I am
	But I’m better with your bends


Written Oct 28, 2015

Again

Woke up to the dark side
A wrong mind in my head
Where all I thought was light
Was heavier instead

Taken to the edges
Time, it lies behind
Where I feel like turning left, and
When I’ll do this right, but

I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today

Fighting sleep and losing heat
Life and death align
Words hit worse and change the beat
Where’s the winner’s prize?

A gift that keeps on giving
When you only wanted one
Life it keeps on living
Until your giving’s done

I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today

Cover all that’s in my head
Send the sun right back to bed
Here’s a place to be alone
Leave me be here you can go

I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today
I don’t want to wake up today

Written Jan 13, 2019

Don't Want To Wake Up

Sona's Lament

Summoner's Battle

Summoners Battle

Dinosaur Tooth - Don't You Think Someone Should Take You Home

Dinosaur Tooth - Calling For Days

Dinosaur Tooth - I Just Got An Itch

Dinosaur Tooth - Just The Thing

Dinosaur Tooth - Empty Bottles

Dinosaur Tooth - The Sameboat Rocks

Dinosaur Tooth - One More Stop

Dinosaur Tooth - Before Day Two

Dinosaur Tooth - Bitefrost

She swears like a sailor, but she swears that she’s mine
Gets me revved like an engine made in ‘69
She’s the wind in my hair she’s the arm on my chair on Sunday
I don’t need no signs to you in my one track mind

The doctors all said it was a heart attack
I said you don’t understand my girl just loves me like that
I start to flat line when our hearts align their beating
I don’t need no signs to you in my one track mind

If I feel lost it means she’s gone away
Like having dancers but no music at the New York ballet
Whatever it costs I’ve got to make her stay
Not a coming and a going like an L.A. valet

Don’t have to go when opportunity knocks
When what it’s selling rubs away like chalk
The woman I fell for is ringing that bell to find her
and I don’t need no signs to you in my one track mind

One Track Mind

Woke up this morning and I didn’t know my name
I looked hard in the mirror but didn’t recognize my face
My clothes didn’t seem to fit
My job they say I quit
Is there anybody out there that can tell me who I am?

I heard the screeching sirens of an ambulance howl by
A hundred people falling asleep as they’re flying through the sky
Families heading to church
Like pigeons from their perch
Is there anybody out there that can tell me who I am?

I’m moving in a straight line but can’t see where I’ve been
I shaved my face this morning, but there’s stubble on my chin
I think I’ve met the Lord himself but I still won’t say “Amen”
I don’t know if I’ve done it before, but I’ll do it all again

Everyone around me is slowly moving on
But fast enough to make me feel like they’re already gone
Love and life and loneliness
All part of being blessed
Is there anybody out there that can tell me who I am?

I’m moving in a straight line but can’t say where I’ve been
I shaved my face this morning, but there’s stubble on my chin
I know I’ve got a story but couldn’t write it down in pen
I don’t know if I’ve done it before, but I’d do it all again

Trade toys for houses, a big one would be nice
If I’ll ever have one’s in the rolling of the dice
Some land to freely roam  
Have some kids and call it home
Is there anybody out there that can tell me who I am?

I’m moving in a straight line but can’t see where I’ve been
I shaved my face this morning, but there’s stubble on my chin
I think I’ve found success but I couldn’t tell you when
I don’t know if I’ve done it before, but I’d do it all again
I don’t know if I’ve done it before, but I’m ready to begin

Do It All Again

Uptown all the lucky gettin’ down
I found all the streets they drive around
Try to stay away with a setting sun
But they come back ‘round when they’re out of fun

‘Cross town the lights are blinding in the night
Outside all they see at night is light
How I’d love to see beyond my heart
‘Cause between these walls all I can see is dark

Try to save my soul turn it into gold
But the preacher man says I don’t have a chance in hell
Try to save my soul turn it into gold
But there’s gotta be something in me that they don’t know

Next door lives a man with no regrets
He’s lied and tipped the scales without a sweat
but he sold his soul so long ago
Lives his life like a knife is on his throat

Try to save my soul turn it into gold
But the preacher man says I don’t have a chance in hell
Try to save my soul turn it into gold
But there’s gotta be something in me that they don’t know

Save My Soul

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Colder In Columbus

Nostalgia comes around when 
The next fears are bounding through your door
(to beg for more)
Tiptoe around yourself like 
Bits of broken glass on the floor 
(What’d ya do that for?)

Don’t ever say it’s enough 
Until you’re holding the sun

Love finds a way to me then Always a way to leave me be 
(So don’t ever leave)
Well guarded hearts and minds 
Tend to end up wanting to be free 
(don’t you agree)

Don’t ever say it’s enough 
Until you’re holding the sun

Can’t stop when times are tough
“Ok” won’t be enough
If in dreams you can fly
Don’t take less than the sky
	
Don’t ever say it’s enough 
Until you’re holding the sun

Lost yourself along the way just to find yourself at the end of the day
Cleaning up the mess you left to fate.

Everything so momentary until you’re in the cemetery
Wishing that you’d thrown that last hail mary.

When you stop looking for a sign
You never know what you’re gonna find

You’ll find who you are on Lincoln Blvd.
Though the light is far from a Sunset full of stars
In a dusty corner of lonely little bar
Right there on Lincoln Blvd.

Soldier grab up your canteen and march along the war machine
There’s no room for any in between

California’s dry with drought, my jury’s always hanging out
I am plagued with no small amount of doubt

When you stop looking for a sign
You never know what you’re gonna find

You’ll find who you are on Lincoln Blvd.
Though the light is far from a Sunset full of stars
In a dusty corner of lonely little bar
Right there on Lincoln Blvd.

Sometimes I don’t want to go
But deep down I always know 
It’s a home, when home’s not home
Sometimes it keeps you going strong
Sometimes you wonder what the hell went wrong
But there’s a magic in the tragic last song

You’ll find who you are on Lincoln Blvd.
Though the light is far from a Sunset full of stars
In a dusty corner of lonely little bar
Right there on Lincoln Blvd.

Lincoln Blvd.

There There

Talking In Your Sleep

Denver based Music Producer and solo artist.

David Bowick

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