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For Stephen Sims, 'Better' is a personal song about coming to terms with his sexuality and the anxiety/fear of not knowing how others may react. There may be tough times ahead but things will certainly get better!

Lyrics:
All these emotions yeah they're mixed up inside
I don't know what to do and I cannot hide
It's there and its inside of me
Being honest it always comes with hurt
Being honest has always left me in the dirt
But that's wrong
I gotta feel, I gotta feel, I gotta feel my truth
I gotta live, I gotta live, I gotta live my youth
I gotta find myself

Cause it gets better
If I could tell that other person
It gets better
Now don't be hard upon yourself
Cause you're no lesser
Questioning the road ahead but you are meant to
Obstacles that you now face
Yeah, they're a lesson
It gets better
It gets better

Have you ever been on very edge falling down
There's secret that's deep inside
How will it get out
If I could take to my former self
I'd ask him why
Are you scared
These people will test but they are not friends
Being honest it always comes with it hurt
Being honest has always left me in the dirt
But thats wrong
I gotta feel, I gotta feel, I gotta feel my truth
I gotta live, I gotta live, I gotta live my youth
I gotta find myself

Cause it gets better
If I could tell that other person
It gets better
Now don't be hard upon yourself
Cause you're no lesser
Questioning the road ahead but you are meant to
Obstacles that you now face
Yeah, they're a lesson
It gets better
It gets better

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Credits: 
Music written and produced by Nate VanBuskirk (Decade Defector)
Lyrics and Vocals by Stephen Sims
Mixing and Mastering by Jonny Royall (JR Music Services)

Better

Better (feat. Stephen Sims)

From 'The Music Of Grand Theft Auto V' - available now. For more information visit rockstargames.com/V

Soundtrack now on iTunes featuring "Sleepwalking" from the forthcoming TCGO1974 LP 'Daydream Forever' available February 4th 2014. 

Watch the trailer here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hvoD7ehZP&hd=1

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Daydream Forever

Sleepwalking

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/decadedefectorandstephensims/here-comes-the-rain

Lyrics:

Here comes the rain to wash away the pain
All the torment each and every day
Here comes the rain cascading over me
It is cleansing my dishonesty

Two years I have wasted
Now I feel like a fraud
I’m guilty of acting the part
That I can’t play no more
Tell me, who decided
That I’ve gotta live this life
No, I don’t wanna hurt you
But I’m doing it by your side

Smoke and mirrors define this
Projected hologram that
I’ve turned into, don’t deny it
See the storm come

Here comes the rain to wash away the pain
All the torment each and every day
Here comes the rain cascading over me
It is cleansing my dishonesty

I don’t wanna say that I deceived you
I can’t admit my faults
Occasions when we were closer
I thought I had it all
I don’t have any pathetic answers
I wish I could give you more
I feel so numb, to my core

Smoke and mirrors define this
Projected hologram that
I’ve turned into, don’t deny it
See the storm come

Here comes the rain to wash away the pain
All the torment each and every day
Here comes the rain cascading over me
It is cleansing my dishonesty

Here comes the
Here comes the
Here comes the rain

Here comes the rain to wash away the pain
All the torment each and every day
Here comes the rain cascading over me
It is cleansing my dishonesty
Here comes the rain to wash away the pain
All the torment each and every day
Here comes the rain cascading over me
Here comes the rain

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Music written and produced by Nate VanBuskirk (Decade Defector)
Lyrics and Vocals by Stephen Sims
Mixing and Mastering by Jonny Royall (JR Music Services)

Here Comes The Rain

Here Comes The Rain (feat. Stephen Sims)

Lyrics:

Oh, Oh Insomnia
Oh, Oh Insomnia

Yesterday I was falling
Now I'm crawling the walls with you
Hypnotic desires
To the wayside now they're blue

Rush of electricity
Calm this storm inside

Insomnia
Has got a hold on me
I don't know if I love ya
Or if I wanna leave
Insomnia
But then I can't resist
Is it right or wrong to lead a life like this?

Am I coming or going?
And will it be solo?
No simple sign of direction
No simple sign of hope

Rush of electricity
Calm this storm inside

Insomnia
Has got a hold on me
I don't know if I love ya
Or if I wanna leave
Insomnia
But then I can't resist
Is it right or wrong to lead a life like this?

My friends keep telling me that I made a mistake
I guess that's what they say is too little too late
A contradiction but it feels good when it hurts
Should I stick it out if it never even works?

Insomnia
Has got a hold on me
I don't know if I love ya
Or if I wanna leave

Insomnia
But then I can't resist
Is it right or wrong to lead a life like this?

Insomnia
Has got a hold on me
I don't know if I love ya
Or if I wanna leave

Insomnia
But then I can't resist
Is it right or wrong to lead a life like this?

Insomnia
But then I can't resist
Is it right or wrong to lead a life like this?

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Music written and produced by Nate VanBuskirk (Decade Defector)
Lyrics and Vocals by Stephen Sims
Mixing and Mastering by Jonny Royall (JR Music Services)

Insomnia

Insomnia (feat. Stephen Sims)

Favored Nations - The Set Up

Debut album out now!

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Pleased to debut the album intro for my upcoming record. 

Buy This Album

Take Off

A neon soaked, late night, sonic getaway drive.

www.gunshipmusic.com

Tech Noir

Jasmine

Jasmine (Demo)

Our full length album "Endless Summer" is now available on Bandcamp, iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify and more... themidnight.bandcamp.com/album/endless-summer

Synthetic

Miami Horror - Sometimes

LYRICS:
I used to be the one you always ran to
No one could hold you down the way you knew I would
Now you lay with me pretending that you're even near me
I choose my words with caution because I know you don't hear me
I should've known when I saw the signs
But I only looked away
Maybe I held on a little too tight?
Maybe I held on a little too tight?
I don't know who you run to but I won't get in your way
Somehow I guess I loved you too much too soon, too little too late
Don't twist the knife so slowly, just make it painless
Don't talk like you don't know me and don't act like you're so shameless
Enjoy it while it lasts because when you least expect it
This might all come back around to haunt you if you let it
I should've known when I saw the signs
But I only looked away
Maybe I held on a little too tight?
Maybe I held on a little too tight?
I don't know who you run to but I won't get in your way
Somehow I guess I loved you too much too soon, too little too late

Who You Run To

The Fugitive

Anti-Gravity Racer

Buy Track

Georgetown

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1LTXhUeYDkwcz0bSlgRb84

The keepers of cyberspace see everything and forget nothing; are they friend or are they foe?

Lyrics:
Can you hear me?
I've been lost amongst the static
Trapped inside these walls
Hello, can you hear me?
I know all your secrets
I know all your fears

Cyberstalker

Wraith of Red Hill

Farewell to Dream

Bandcamp

Farewell To Dream

Support:
https://dondellpiero.bandcamp.com/track/never-ending-summer-feat-badison

Also check out the video @ youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX1JiKzOSOY

Badison social media links:
www.youtube.com/badison
soundcloud.com/badison
www.instagram.com/itsbadison/
www.facebook.com/badisonmusic
twitter.com/Badison7

Never Ending Summer (Feat Badison)

I was commissioned to do a copyright free ripoff of Crocket's Theme.. Here it is.

Crocket's Scheme

Decade Defector & Stephen Sims - These Games

Hyperfollow:
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Lyrics:
My breath melts in to the air
With forgotten words
That's a cut but surface deep
It has hurt me most
Dignified
Don't make you
Loyalty
Don't portray you
Take off that broken mask

I've been blamed
I've been scorned
You took the whole deck and you threw away the cards
Spun a tale
I wanted to believe
I was laughing then but now the jokes on me
Oh I hate these games
Oh I hate these games
Oh I hate these games
I thought I had struck gold
But as my mother taught
Play that way you'll get hurt

Compassion won't bring fractures close
They are floating all around
It's toxic now I know the truth
I wish I lived in doubt
Dignified
Don't make you
Loyalty
Don't portray you
Take off that broken mask

I've been blamed
I've been scorned
You took the whole deck and you threw away the cards
Spun a tale
I wanted to believe
I was laughing then but now the jokes on me
Oh I hate these games
Oh I hate these games
Oh I hate these games
I thought I had struck gold
But as my mother taught
Play that way you'll get hurt

Can you hear the memories whirl in my my head
Time is ticking cos I ain't with you
I gotta remember it was all fake a darker, meaner shade of blue

I've been blamed
I've been scorned
You took the whole deck and you threw away the cards
Spun a tale
I wanted to believe
I was laughing then but now the jokes on me
Oh I hate these games
Oh I hate these games
Oh I hate these games
I thought I had struck gold
But as my mother taught
Play that way you'll get hurt
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Music written and produced by Nate VanBuskirk (Decade Defector)
Lyrics and Vocals by Stephen Sims
Mixing and Mastering by Jonny Royall (JR Music Services)

These Games

These Games (feat. Stephen Sims)

'Heroes', out now on Counter Records: https://themidnight.lnk.to/heroesSo 

'Red, White and Bruised: The Midnight Live', out 01 September 2023 on Counter Records: https://themidnight.lnk.to/midnightliveSo

Taken from the EP 'Horror Show', out now on Counter Records: https://themidnight.lnk.to/horrorSo

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Horror Show

Because The Night (feat. Nikki Flores)

https://open.spotify.com/track/37y4FnJjyd0Kmkjd1tfaIR?si=5520c1a32ec44ecb

Lyrics:
On a highway to nowhere
Drifting through the night
Blurred on the horizon
Blink and its gone with the light
Leave it all behind
Leave all the tear-stained hopes I had
It's over
I'm older

Fantasies have lied
Only left me in despair
With no compromise
I stepped into a nightmare

Your hardwired to dream
Not told about the fall
At your lowest
Suddenly you don’t mean much at all

Leave it all behind
Leave all the tear-stained hopes I had
It's over
I'm older

Guess I learned too late
How am I supposed to know
When your faith turns fake
You cant invest anymore

Tell me my truth
But I don’t wanna confide
What the hell is this
Some fabricated lie

On a highway to nowhere
Drifting through the night
Blurred on the horizon
Blink and its gone with the light
Leave it all behind
Leave all the tear-stained hopes I had
It's over
I'm older

On a highway to nowhere
Drifting through the night
Blurred on the horizon
Blink and its gone with the light
Leave it all behind
Leave all the tear-stained hopes I had
It's over
I'm older

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Music written and produced by Nate VanBuskirk
Lyrics and Vocals by Stephen Sims
Guitar by Dave Maverick
Mixing and Mastering by Jonny Royall (JR Music Services)

06/25/2021

Older (feat. Stephen Sims & Dave Maverick)

Decade Defector is the Synthwave music project of Nate VanBuskirk and it's totally RAD!

Contact: decadedefector@gmail.com