Official lyric video for 'Many Moons Ago'
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SONG INSPIRATION
As the final song on the album "Last Man on Moon", "Many Moons Ago" serves as the closing piece to the tale.  It sums up the journey that began when I ventured off to make the leap of faith driving across country to pursue music in Los Angeles to where I am now.  Almost in a blink of an eye, all these moons have passed, yet I remain, wondering, what could have been and where will I go.


LYRICS
Many moons ago
I left my hometown
Many moons ago
To find my own sound
That boy is long gone
You wouldn't recognize the man
I have become
With many moons at hand

Only Father Time can tell
What's in Mother Nature's spell
Only Father Time can share
Who will Mother Nature spare
I remember hoping for a miracle
Please come back to me

Many moons ago
I was on my path
Many moons ago
Without turning back
Then came the hurricane
It all seemed to go black
When I came to
Many moons had passed

Only Father Time can tell
What's in Mother Nature's spell
Only Father Time can share
Who will Mother Nature spare
I remember hoping for a miracle
Please come back to me
Come back to me
Come back to me
Come back to me

Many moons ago
I could pretend
Many moons ago
To hold your hand again
When I look up at the stars
I wonder if they know how
My story will end
Many moons from now

Last Man on Moon

Many Moons Ago

Official lyric video for the song 'Forever'
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LYRICS

DNA don't lie but it doesn't tell the soul
We were the same till you flew from the Goldilocks Zone
There are moments I catch a twinkle in my eye
That's how I know somewhere in there you're still alive

But you were gone, gone, gone
Before I could say goodbye
And all I have are memories
To fill in the voids of time

Forever I'll look up to
(I'll look up to you)
Forever you'll be my hero
(Hero)

Where did you go?
You left without leaving a note
I try to find you somewhere between here and smoke
You are so brave in the face of all that's unknown
But now I'm so scared
I lost the only way to find home

But you were gone, gone, gone
Before I could say goodbye
And all I have are memories
To fill in the voids of time

Forever I'll look up to
(I'll look up to you)
Forever you'll be my hero
(Hero)

Forever

LYRICS
Days turn to years overnight 
(Overnight)
How do I know if I'm living them right? 
(Am I living them right?)

If I spend my days and my years looking back
(Looking back)
I know I'll never find myself moving on
(Moving on)

I have complicated
The simplest of emotions
Reached every corner of my mind
Future staring at my back

When I blink my
Days turn to years overnight
How do I
How do I know if I'm living them right?
If I spend my
Days and my years looking back
I know I'll
Never find myself moving on

I won't
I know
I must learn
To let go
Let go

Tomorrow's coming soon
I hope the Sun will great me
As I long to be at peace
And move on where I can
Tomorrow's coming soon
Will it make me happy?
As I hope to make you proud
I only want to make you proud

Days Turn to Years Part II

Days Turn To Years Part II

Official lyric video for 'Nostalgia Cement'
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I'm definitely one for nostalgia, so much so that it often blocks my ability to live in the present.  I habitually dwell on the past to an excess that acts like I'm stuck in cement.  

LYRICS
Awake till three
Watching the tele
Feet feel like jelly
Without hands running through my hair
I can't dismember
Now from last November
How I cannot repeat
Syndications in my stare
I do not dare

Oh how I wonder why
It all came to an end
The best years of my life
I cannot pretend
So real I can feel
I swear I smell your scent
You never left my mind
Nostalgia cement
Nostalgia cement

I want to grab it
Grab it like a habit
Habit till I have it
These frozen memories I bare
And they don't share
With now or never
Yes you bet they're clever
And they decide the moons and the air
Its so unfair

Oh how I wonder why
It all came to an end
The best years of my life
I cannot pretend
So real I can feel
I swear I smell your scent
You never left my mind
Nostalgia cement
Nostalgia cement

Nostalgia Cement

SONG INSPIRATION
An endless pursuit of acceptance and appeal.  Trying to break through those clouds to have the sun shine upon me.

LYRICS
Please audience rate me a satisfactory
I'm not blind enough to see
Sometimes I wish I was made in a factory
So I could love like a machine
Time moves like a robot 
And I know I'm less than free

Voices of choices
Everybody's spitting out poisons
I just want to rejoice this
But I find it so hard to find
Voices of choices
All I hear is white noises
My brain has no map that I can exploit
And my heart always tries to rhyme

Come on sunshine
Come on sunshine
Shine a little light from me
So I can find
So I can find
What it is I'm looking for
Come on sunshine

Some people seem to float around happily
I think too much to be
But to be too much means I am such
Give me a break Socrates
Time moves like a robot 
And I know I'm less than free

Voices of choices
Everybody's spitting out poisons
I just want to rejoice this
But I find it so hard to find
Voices of choices
All I hear is white noises
My brain has no map that I can exploit
And my heart always tries to rhyme

Come on sunshine
Come on sunshine
Shine a little light from me
So I can find
So I can find
What it is I'm looking for
Come on sunshine

Come on Sunshine

Come On Sunshine

LYRICS
You can tune my out
Mute every word I say
You can write me off
You're okay to push me away

It pulls my strings apart
How you're okay leaving me in the dark

So much easier for you
Than it is for me
Why is it easier for you
When we don't speak
You erase me

You have stopped my heart
Tattooed from the start
Like a frustrated piece of art
You're tearing me apart

Act like our memories seize to exist
Yet I carry them on my wrist

So much easier for you
Than it is for me
Why is it easier for you
When we don't speak
You erase me

You Erase Me

SONG INSPIRATION
'Dance with Me' lives inside internal strife.  The relentless push and pull.  Once one of those laws of motion break the plain, they take off.  In my life, an occurrence like this, lead me to make an unconscious and uncontrollable decision that took me down a path which resulted in me abandoning music.

LYRICS
I've been away for so long
I don't remember if these hands are mine
I've been wondering how long
The silence will bite my tongue
I've been away for so long
Where did my name originate from?
It started with a run
At night time
And you on my mind
Why couldn't it pass?
Now I'm always looking back
And digging for clues
Oh how I might of missed a few
All that I built 
Abandoned overnight for you
What a stupid thing to do

Dance with me, dance with me
Dance with me, dance with me
Dance with me, dance with me
My steps are fragile don't you
Play with me, play with me
My World will crumble if you
Crush on me, crush on me
I tend to stumble don't you
Toy with me, toy with me
And watch me unwind

Was it a dream
Maybe a seed
Someone planted in my mind
To sabotage me from myself
On my own dime
Committed a heinous crime
Throw away my greatest love
Without a care in my blood
I should've known, I should've said
You have no place in my head
The more I fought
The greater it grew
The more I became stuck on you
And before I knew it
I ran right through it
Shattering all that mattered
Staggering to a pattern
Scattered, bruised and battered 

Dance with me, dance with me
My steps are fragile don't you
Play with me, play with me
My World will crumble if you
Crush on me, crush on me
I tend to stumble don't you
Toy with me, toy with me
And watch me unwind

Me unwind
Me unwind
And watch me unwind
Me unwind
Me unwind
And watch me unwind
Me unwind
Me unwind
And watch me unwind
Me unwind
Me unwind
And watch me unwind
Unwind
Unwind
Unwind

Dance with Me

Dance With Me

Official lyric video for the song 'Can't Stop My Crawl'
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"Can't Stop My Crawl" is about being lost in disappointment, who you are now deceiving who you hoped to be.  However, despite those disappointing results, you keep crawling back to it over and over again.  Stylistically, the song pays homage to my desert rock roots.

LYRICS
Night is darkest when I'm awake
Radio play my mistakes
Got that feeling I adopted somewhere
Between Venice and Heaven's Gate
All that's left are fractions of me
Denominated by memories
If my younger self saw me like this
He would think this is some kind of trick

My levels fall
Its in my blood after all
Can't stop my crawl

Got a feeling I don't exist
Without pen, paper and a stereo twist
Could it be that I have become
The very thing that makes me sick
Commandeer on my own ship
No one's left but middle aged me
I forgot how to steer and I fear
I'm drifted out to sea

My levels fall
Its in my blood after all
Can't stop my crawl

Can't Stop My Crawl

Official lyric video for the song 'Caveman'
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The main riff to and concept behind "Caveman" has been in my back pocket for over 10 years.  It finally found a home in my album, "Last Man on Moon".  In being my most transparent and honest release to date, "Caveman" is about stripping down everything to your core and starting again from scratch.  Like an onion, we have all of these layers upon layers of who we are and what we believe, and outer shells keep being engulfed by new ones over and over and over again until we get to a point where we have no idea who we are and how we got here.  "Caveman" is inspired by returning to nothing but basic instincts and needs.  Knowing what we know now, perhaps we can better build that onion by choice rather than being forced to.

LYRICS

I've worn this tie
My whole damn life
Even when I was a baby
And its not by choice
Cause I don't have a voice
In a world built on maybes

Lets start all over again
All over again
Kill the lights
Leave behind the sleepless nights
All over again
Do the Caveman

I want to hunt
Where life and death confront
Be face to face with my soul
And I want to pray
In my own way
Not what you force down my throat

Lets start all over again
All over again
Kill the lights
Leave behind the sleepless nights
All over again
Do the Caveman

Caveman

SONG INSPIRATION

The guitar melody for "Days Turn to Years Part I" was inspired by Marco Beltrami's "3:10 to Yuma" theme song. The content of the song however was originally inspired by Steve Job's sudden passing. He had dedicated his life to his work and had an immeasurable impact but by accounts of those around him when he was drifting away it seemed he had lots of regrets. "Days Turn to Years Part I" reflects on how quickly our time flashes before our eyes. It often leaves me wondering if I'm spending it right.

LYRICS

Once my memories
Grab their things and leave me
Will you remember me?
Did I make you proud?

No we don't have a lot of time
No we don't have a lot of time

Days turn to years overnight
How do I know if I'm living them right?

Once the oxygen
Empties out completely
Will I be afraid?
Will I be alone?

No we don't have a lot of time
No we don't have a lot of time

Days turn to years overnight
How do I know if I'm living them right?

Days Turn To Years Part I

Official lyric video for the song 'Good Enough'
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"Good Enough" is about being less than so.  We live in a society where we always feel like we have to strive to be the best and it often leads to judgement and disappointment.  "Good Enough" is a tough, dry pill of realization that I'll never be what I dreamed I would be.  I'm older now, past my prime, and that's all there is to it.

LYRICS

I play until I bleed
My voice box ripping out of me
My graveyard of broken dreams
Drifts alone in the galaxy

But I'm older now, older now
And there's not much left to go around
I never found my sound

If no one ever hears me
Does it mean I never existed?

Silence

Silence in my eyes
Wonder why I'm less than good enough
Keeps me up at night screaming, "Why am I not good enough?"
All my memories grew up to be nobody
And it makes me feel
Like I'm never gonna be good enough

I do it all to please
But I come up short to satisfy
So much so that it seems
My soul moved on and kept the key

Its colder now, colder now
Cause I have no heat to keep me warm
Keep me from myself

The worst kind of pressure
Is always being measured

Silence

Silence in my eyes
Wonder why I'm less than good enough
Keeps me up at night screaming, "Why am I not good enough?"
All my memories grew up to be nobody
And it makes me feel
Like I'm never gonna be good enough

Never high enough
Never low enough
Now I'm not young enough
No longer have the stuff
I'm horrible at bluffing
Can't fake my making
The only thing I had mistaken
Is what I had for the taking
My skin is breaking
My bones are shaking
I'm just another poor boy
With dreams of smoke

Silence in my eyes
Wonder why I'm less than good enough
Keeps me up at night screaming, "Why am I not good enough?"
All my memories grew up to be nobody
And it makes me feel
Like I'm never gonna be good enough

Never gonna be good enough
Never gonna be good enough
Why am I not good enough
I just want to be

Good Enough

LYRICS
I have you
You have me
But Pretty Owl's got family
I'll come for you
Wait for me
Cause my mind's on the hierarchy 

My sweet Pine Leaf
Is climbing up a tree
She's climbing up a tree
Cause of me

Now I morn for eternity
What have I done?
How selfish of me
I'll never be the same
For the rest of my life
Cause the image of you
Is tattooed in my mind

My sweet Pine Leaf
Is crawling through a tree
She's crawling through a tree
Cause of me

My sweet Pine Leaf
Is falling from a tree
She's falling from a tree
My sweet Pine Leaf
Is falling from a tree
She's falling from a tree
She's falling from a tree
Cause of me
Cause of me
Cause of me
Cause of me

My sweet Pine Leaf
Is hanging from a tree
She's hanging from a tree
My sweet Pine Leaf
Is hanging from a tree
She's hanging from a tree
She's hanging from a tree
Cause of me
Me

Pine Leaf

Official lyric video for the song 'Black Swans & Pirate Songs'
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The underlying theme in the album "Black Swans & Pirate Songs" belongs to, "Last Man on Moon", is disorientation. Not to steal the thunder from Jack Sparrow, but "Black Swans & Pirate Songs" is me approaching world's end, having no idea what lies ahead of me. Lost in the vastness and unknown, its unpredictable like a black swan event. The pirate influence is also an ode to my childhood. I had a great imagination and would always dress up as a pirate as a kid. I had huge aspirations of adventure and significance but somehow along the way I lost my direction. Or did I just grow up?

LYRICS

Yo ho ho
Hey hey
Yo ho ho
Hey hey

Lost in the ocean
My broken compass keeps me
Lost in the ocean
Now the angry clouds roll my way
They roll my way

Black swans and pirate songs
Could this be the end
Oh my God I can't hold on
This must be the end
My love
I'll be with you above

Yo ho ho
Hey hey
Yo ho ho
Hey hey

Lost in the ocean
Are the stories that I tell
Lost in the ocean
I only hope they find you well
I hope they find you well

Black swans and pirate songs
Could this be the end
Oh my God I can't hold on
This must be the end
My love
I'll be with you above

Yo ho ho
Hey hey
Yo ho ho
Hey hey

Black swans and pirate songs

Black swans and pirate songs
Could this be the end
Oh my God I can't hold on
This must be the end
My love
I'll be with you above

Yo ho ho
Hey hey
Yo ho ho
Hey hey

Black Swans And Pirate Songs

Go with the Flow

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Derek Jordan is a product of the Steel City whose introspective rock music delves heavily within the evergoing battle of self expectations and social judgement.  Stylistically, Jordan’s material displays shades of grandson, Nine Inch Nails and Barns Courtney.  His latest release, due out October 9, 2020, is an ambitious 18-song album, titled “Last Man on Moon”.  Now in his mid-30s, the synopsis of the album is a reflection upon life’s crossroads.  In a time of individuality, Jordan finds himself immersed in anonymity.  Reaching a period of his life where he once envisioned with absolute certainty would have been filled with pouring his soul onstage for millions around the World, that planet has left him.  Left him standing on a desolate terrain, wondering, “Where did it all go?”  Perhaps the most frightening aspect of it all, he’s become a statistic.  One of the countless, just like him, who thought they were different.

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans” - John Lennon

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