Pretty old demo. Mostly a live recording one take with some harmonies added after the fact. Recorded by Marcus Wade. First song I ever wrote.

saudades de você (old acoustic demo version)

Intro to my EP "Mysticism." This song is sort of about the way I felt at a really dark ass time in my life. 

Lyrics
"Darker days, screen brightness is high,
 I felt it burning my retina
I spent the summer looking down an iron sight 
Spitting up blood in the comfort of my room 
Fool, I never tool pride
Fool, I felt pain the whole time
Fool, You made your mistake 
Fool, Relieve yourself of hate 
You Fool... oh oh 
You fool ...
You fool.. oh oh 
You fool oh oh....."

The Fool

First full band track on my EP "Mysticism." 
This song is about being unhappy with certain aspects of your life and having insomnia. 

Lyrics 
Verse 1: 
"The sun comes up, I'm still filled with sin
I haven't gone to sleep yet
Believe me, I've tried everything 
I've taken a sip and inhaled from this glass 

Verse 2:
The ghost of the past, is probably haunting me
Intentions of preventing, the regeneration, 
Of dying cells, the ones inside of me, throb like the memories keeping me awake

Chorus: 
I feel like this is all the suns fault 
Give me back the moon, I don't want. 
Everything is timed, I don't mind. 
Running a little late sometimes..

Bridge: 
Oh oh oooh 
The Sun comes up, Oh oh oh oh 

Chorus: 
I feel like this is all the suns fault 
Give me back the moon, I don't want. 
Everything is timed, I don't mind. 
Running a little late sometimes..

Pre/Post Chorus:
But I'm so tired I just want...
A little rest for my eyes and soul 
Because the work day is so long 
Is there any time for me?

Chorus: 
I feel like this is all the suns.. fault 
Give me back the moon, I don't want. 
Everything is timed, I don't mind. 
Running a little late sometimes..

Pre/Post Chorus:
But I'm so tired I just want...
A little rest for my eyes and soul 
Because the work day is so long 
Is there any time for me?"

Mysticism

The Sun

This is the third and title track from my EP "Mysticism."
This is basically grunge mixed with other shit. 
A song about sleepwalking through life and calling out those that try to find mysticism in their lives where there isn’t any but also criticizing myself for hoping there is. Themes of feeling powerless.

Lyrics:
Verse 1:
"Breakthroughs, on late nights
Take two, a little more than 5
Hate me, if it makes you feel alright
Smoke filled rooms, whatever's, the cost to become
Dreamer, will you wake me from my sleep?

Chorus: 
Give me space, to rest my head,
For the years, that I slept-walked, knowing nothing, oh?
Was I wrong? Oh in thinking I lost anything at all
Post Chorus:
(I lost myself along the way, in search of you)
(I lost myself along the way) 
Oh oh, oh oh....

Verse 2: 
Hours, spent feeding you
Powdered wig, it rests on your head
But so do, the sins of your peers
Cocaine blues, whatever's lost to become
Sleeper will you zap me back to bed?

Chorus: 
Give me space, to rest my head,
For the years, that I slept-walked, knowing nothing, oh?
Was I wrong?! Oh in thinking I lost anything at all

Post Chorus/Outro:
(I lost myself along the way, in search of you)
(I looked so long.. the way.... in search of you..)

Some ooh's and ah's...."

This is the 4th track from my EP "Mysticism." 
This is a self critical love song about always saying the wrong shit and hating yourself. This is one of personal favorites on this album and it came to me very easily. 

Verse: 
"Thoughts that run through my head
Give me a break, on the in between 
I say so many things, why?.. I don't know many things

Pre Chorus: 
Oh just take your hand put in mine
 I don't know

Chorus: 
Just give me the sings, I'm so lost without, lost without high
Just give me the signs, I'm so lost without, lost without, I

Verse 2: 
I take so many things, wrong 
Oh especially, 
When I have so many things in my head,
Why so many things?

Pre Chorus: 
Oh just take your hand, put it in mine ( Oh oh oh) 
Oh just take my hand put it in yours, so in love

Chorus: 
Just give me the signs, I'm so lost without, lost without a high/hi
Just give me the signs, I'm so lost without, lost without high

Bridge/Verse:
When I open up my mouth, I put a cigarette, out in my eye
I'm no stranger to the things that make me who I am
Oh just take my plans there not for me, not for me, (oh oh oh)
So just take my hand put it in yours, so in love 

Chorus:
Just give me the signs, I'm so lost without, so lost without a high
Just give me the signs, I'm so lost without, lost without a high

Outro/Pre:
So just take your hand, while I put my foot in my mouth
For the second time. for the hundredth time, for the thousandth time; So in love..."

Things

Heres a pretty raw track. It's the 5th song on my EP "Mysticism." 
It's all about going through shit and living somewhere for a long time. I don’t know if anyone fucks with Naruto? 

(This is kind of live. Besides one instrument everything was in one take not even to a metronome). 

Lyrics:

"I saw a flower
It grew from the road
I need the power 
To tell you no 
I knew that town 
Like the back of my hand 
Just like that girl 
She'd haunt me in my dreams
I need the power, to sail away 
I need the power, to never look back again 
I need the power, to forgive and forget 
Look at me now- barely a man
I miss the sour-  taste on my lips
What am I now? Just a witness... oh oh..."

Dattebayo (raw acoustic)

Single for my EP "Mysticism."
 I wrote this a long time ago when I was reading a lot about boats. 

Lyrics:
"Searching, I'll never find, I'll never find you. 
I will look until my eyes fall out 
A thousand years and I'm still intact 
I will float forever 

Far away, open arms calm before the storm 
Catch my break awake during my sleep 
Cigarettes, fire in our eyes 
No one can count what I've lost 

I scrubbed the details from my brain 
For years I tried, to wash away the pain 
That memory of you is all that I have left 
I hope that we can forgive and forget 
(Some things are better-left unsaid) [2nd time] 

Cast away, on a ship bound to crash 
Jagged rocks they're fucking up my life 
I forgot why I'm at sea 
Fighting trying to hold my breath 

Who...? All I know... all I know..."

Saudade

This isn't really a song. Or a reprise for that matter. It was originally on the tail of my song "The Sun" but decided it would be a good interlude instead. I just used to make songs like this a lot when I first started out. If you actually read these then I love you and I want you know I don’t have a favorite color anymore. Maybe it’s pink?? Also this is the 7th track on my EP "Mysticism."

Reprise (interlude)

This is the 8th and final track of my debut EP "Mysticism." I think it’s my favorite. 
Here's a song about reflection and unanswered desires. Also drinking really late at night with people you will one day miss. And possibly never see again. 

Lyrics:

Verse 1: 
"I've walked away, from things, that made me feel 
I revert back to the person I once was
We walked into that night with no inhibition
An empty jug we drank from a source of provender 

Verse 2: 
Look into, the bottom of this empty glass 
Hold back your hair and the lingering scent of petrichor
Safe from the cold, body warmth, thought to portend 
Holding hands, embracing lips, instead was not 

{Instrumental bridge/Pre-Chorus}

Chrorus: 
You poured your guts to the chime of leaves,
And in that moment I realized there's nothing left for, you, or me
You took my hand and made me believe,
Just to have that faith ripped up and destroyed right before my eyes-
All I needed was a drink, instead I got the, entire fucking sea, between the two of us 

Verse 3: 
Bring back the nights long awaited, 
Bring back the fights we never got to finish 
I wonder if our questions ever got answered-
No..probably not- 
Were we headed in the right direction?? Oh oh oh ooohh....

{Instrumental bridge Pre-Chorus}

Chorus/Outro: 

You poured your guts to the chime of leaves,
And in that moment I realized there's nothing left for, you, or me
You took my hand and made me believe,
Just to have that faith ripped up and destroyed right before my eyes-

All I needed was a drink, instead I got the, entire fucking sea, between the two of us..."

Trade Winds

My newest single. I wrote this with Nicolas Jorgensen-Guitars/Arrangement. Jesse Diaz- Bass. Isaac Mylander- drums. Me on Vocals/ Lyrics/Arrangement. Produced and mixed by Nicolas Jorgensen and Mastered by James Meder. 
Available on all streaming platforms.

The Pilgrimage

Here is one of two winter songs I finished writing and recording this year. It was a lot of work, specially doing some of it via the internet due to Covid and just the state of the world in general. Hope you like these tracks and vibe with me.


Published by Forgettable Records.

Voices

This is the second of two sad winter tracks. This song is childhood. I hope you vibe with it.

Why Do We Trust

Multi instrumentalist/ Singer Songwriter from California. 
Sing and play guitar for my solo project. I also play drums for a band called Pleasure Nature. 
All music available on every streaming platform everywhere. Links on page.

Edward Selph

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