Week 14 for the Song-a-Week Challenge.
Theme: Spoken Word

This week is something very different from what I normally do.  Don't know why but I really wanted to get into some electronic elements; originally it was going to be a mesh of acoustic and electronic but that just wasn't working out.  Not my usual sound at all, but the theme supported it well.

Lyrics:
The forest greets me with chirps and hums
I feel obliged to listen to its rhythms
Close my eyes and I'm back in the server room

Cords snaking their way across the floor
I'm not entirely sure where I am anymore
The vines back there were better bundled than this

(Chorus)
I, I'm looking for an answer
That I can't find
Never a next time
And I, I'm searching for a feeling
But I've grown blind
Never a next time

The knobs here cannot be dialed
The weather cannot be carefully regulated
Maintenance is at the mercy of whatever state I am in

Grass crunched below my heavy feet
Shattering bulbs and crushing circuits
More fuel to the growing fire of a life that hardly fits

(Chorus)

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Never Next Time

Lost And Found

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The Long Wait

written for r/songaweek 2022 - week 30 (Theme: i-VII-VI-V)

Ivory Keys


Born into nothing, you had a hunger
And something to prove to the people who looked down at you.
Shocking and bolder than a chip on your shoulder,
You harbored resentments, and reckonings overdue.

Setting the guns up, and only when you were sure 
You shot a cannonball across their bow.
But you’re out for blood, and the fear’s not enough -
The debt will be paid by a thousand cuts

And as the plan is laid,
Their bed is made
but yours is too

The weight of your anger is sinking you
Will you let it pull you down?
You are caught in the knots of the pain you have wrought
Give it up or you will drown

You crafted your future from the wrecks of your enemies
And you tried to make reveries from the music you wrote.
But the ivory keys of that resonant instrument 
tell stories of suffering under every cursed note 

And the plan was laid,
Their bed was made
But yours is too

The weight of your actions is sinking you
And it keeps pulling you down.
You are caught in the knots of the pain you have wrought
And it’s coming to take you now

Ivory Keys

In a vision, I am the heir.
One body outside
Cut down the middle.
Now great darkness
Shall be buried.

Between you and me,
Your descendants have heard
Your affliction.
Every hand against me
Who sees it?

Hand Against

All Night Long

written for r/songaweek 2022 - week 32 (Theme: Reverb)
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Street Serenity

Turned off my phone
I set it down
put on my coat
and headed out

somewhere you won't find me

forgot just how
my footsteps sound
on the blessed dirt
stray plastic bags

I can't be hurt
a windswept stone
breathe slowly out
I carry home

somewhere you won't find me

Street Serenity

Week 48 for the Song-a-Week Challenge.
Theme: Lies

Originally I didn't think I would have time to flush this out.  Once I started recording I got really into it, so apparently it was more of a motivational issue than a time one.  Either way, I'm happy with how it turned out.  This time around the lyrics are both personal and pure fiction.  A little from both I suppose.

Lyrics:
I’ve made mistakes
I can’t erase
At least I’m not a liar
Well at least I’m not a liar

You can’t go back
Nobody can
So why’d you make a stand
Why did you have to make a stand

(Chorus)
There of all places
Where I can’t concede that
I want to follow
But we know it won’t last
Buried deep down
With a shattered pact
Your truth is twisted
And I hope you get it back

Mighta made mistakes
You can’t erase
Don’t have to be a liar
You didn’t have to be a liar

You can’t go back
Nobody can
Now I know where you stand
Now I know where you really stand

(Chorus)
I hope you get it back

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You Can't Go Back

I make indie/alternative music under the moniker FALS3.  Check out my Bandcamp for more proper releases.  This Soundcloud page is for "not quite finished" work, as part of the Song-A-Week challenge on Reddit.

Never Next Time

FALS3-A-Week

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