Lyrics:
We weren't even trying
It happened so quickly
You've got to relax
And please take it easy

Its history of a kind
With all the pictures
its just life,
but it doesn't make it easier

Its starting to feel like the world is closing in
Its starting to feel like we are coming to the end

To put on a brave face 
To pretend your happy
I'm not even jealous
and I don't want pity

Recreation of youth 
is expected
Our world is burning
Is it the right choice

Its starting to feel like the world is closing in 
Its starting to feel like we are coming to the end

Its starting to feel like the world is closing in 
Its starting to feel like we are coming to the end of time

released July 1st 2022

Guitars/Bass/Drum programming and vocals by Ronan McManus
Mixed and Recorded by Perry Blake
Mastered by Chris O'Brien
Cover Photo by Ronan McManus

Doing My Own Research

Climate

Lyrics:
First steps down the rabbit hole
Digging deeper into my soul
Trying to make it seem justified 
Late nights spent going deeper inside

Trying to backtrack through my mind
It all happened at the speed of light
I want to believe what I've read is true
The great awakening, the great taboo

First steps down the rabbit hole
Digging deeper into my soul
Social media seems so contrived
Youtube comments just hate revived

More mad theories than I can handle
On and on like the Bermuda triangle
Its all in and time consuming
It kind of feels like the great undoing

First steps down the rabbit hole
I'm digging deeper I'm digging down
I'm not sure what I will find

First steps down the rabbit hole
I'm digging deeper I'm digging down
I'm not sure what I will find
A rumour inside my mind

Release Date: 1st July 2022

Guitars/Bass/Drum programming and vocals by Ronan McManus
Mixed and Recorded by Perry Blake
Mastered by Chris O'Brien
Cover Photo by Ronan McManus

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Rabbit Hole

Lyrics:
Spent a long time trying to 
understand who I am
Followed all the crowds
Followed all the trends

Overthinking everything you do
Like aspiring actors about to make their debut

The mind was constantly confused like going to war
Like a lot of the youth that's been and gone before

You don't have a past that you can be defined by
A future full of hopes to be explored
Youthful exuberance, innocence of youth

Its something to marvel,
Its not something you choose

Oh its great to be young
Oh its great to be young

Its great to be young
to feel free
to explore
to do as you please

Its great to be young
to feel free
its only the beginning 
a new me

Oh its great to be young
Oh its great to be young

Release Date: 1st July 2022

Guitars/Bass/Drum programming and vocals by Ronan McManus
Additional Vocals by Clare McManus
Mixed and Recorded by Perry Blake
Mastered by Chris O'Brien
Cover Photo by Ronan McManus

Forgotten|Soldier ©

Reaction

Lyrics:
Here we are trying to make it work
We got the deposit and we picked our home
There's nothing you can do about it
There's nothing you can do

When the system favours those abroad
The coporate elite and those with second homes
There's nothing you can do about it
There's nothing you can do

You can try to change it all
But there's nothing you can do this time

When all you want is a little support
A government to believe, a government to trust
There's nothing you can do about it
There's nothing you can do

We are sick of all the soundbites
The broken promises, the constant lies
There's nothing you can do about it
There's nothing you can do

We must sit around and watch our future fade away before our eyes
Before our eyes
Watch our future fade away before our eyes
There's nothing you can do about it even if we try
We are no longer in control, we've just got to roll the dice

Release Date: 1st July 2022

Guitars/Bass/Drum programming and vocals by Ronan McManus
Mixed and Recorded by Perry Blake
Mastered by Chris O'Brien
Cover Photo by Ronan McManus

Forgotten|Soldier ©

TNYCDI

n this track I'm trying to depict what I feel is a society that is more than happy to sit on the sidelines and stay in their own lane when it comes to fighting against social injustices. There isn't a huge willingness to put our heads above the parapet and often those than do try to enact change are frowned upon for doing so.

This song was written in the summer of 2024. I recorded and mixed it in my own studio in Manorhamilton Co. Leitrim.

It was mastered under the astute and watchful eye of Graham Murphy

Forgotten|Soldier 2025 ©
lyrics
When life is all about staying within firmly within the lines
And we are all just a sympton,
an indication of our time
When protests are seen as evil a disruption of our lives
a constant sense of nothingness
Just a like tourist in disguise

They wear Gym & Coffee like its an status and not a style
When everything looks the same but we are told its by design.
And If we manifest it hard enough
We can make it come to live
A man-made escape
From the constant daily grind

We long for a community
A place where minds collide
No more computer algorithms
Where our choice can be denied
When everyone's live experience
Look very same
A gentrification
In everything but name

Hold up
We've got to look inside
This future
Its one that we can write
Hold up
We've got to look inside
Our future
We must Decide
credits
released April 25, 2025
Recorded and mixed by Ronan McManus
Mastered by Graham Murphy @The Production Suite
Album artwork photo by Bradley Stafford

Forgotten Soldier - Act Of Nothingness

This is the title track from Forgotten|Soldiers upcoming Man on a Bridge E.P which is set to be released later this year.

Lyrics:
As I drove along
I saw you on the bridge
You looked so forlorn
Your face etched in fear

As you stood up there
Your eyes filled with tears
How has it come to this?
Life or death it’s a mystery

Should I stop and help
Or just continue on
What use am I?
But I could talk him down

I have the radio on
With the latest news
About the man on the Bridge
But no trace I found

released June 23, 2017

Music Performed / Recorded / Mixed By Ronan McManus
Vocals by Cian Rock
Mastered by Michal Bugajski
Cover Artwork by Clare Connolly

Man On A Bridge

This is the 2nd track to be released from Forgotten|Soldiers upcoming Man on a Bridge E.P which is set to be released later this month.

Single available for purchasing, downloading or streaming from:
https://soundcloud.com/forgotten-soldier/test-fire
https://forgottensoldier.bandcamp.com/track/test-fire

Fro more info about Forgotten|Soldier check out: https://www.facebook.com/forgottensoldier.artist/

Video directed & produced by Anthony Barry

Audio Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Ronan McManus.
Mastered by MIchal Bugajski.

Test Fire

Solo composer and musician based in the Northwest of Ireland - genres include ambient, post rock, post-punk, gothic and nu-wave. 

For more info about Forgotten|Soldier check out: 
https://www.facebook.com/forgottensoldier.artist/

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