Some thing I thought of last night/this morning

Lyrics: (starts at 1:02)

The thoughts i have late at midnight
they don’t feel right 
they keep torturing me 
The oil burns deep through this night
It feels so bright 
yet it brings me to my knees 

wish I knew better way to live 
wish there was some way to convince myself to 
Take another step everyday 
embrace the fact that this is what I am these days

I feel the same each day 
can’t move to far away
The pain it stays the same
it kills in every way

Is this the life I must embrace
Or is there another way- another place (for me)
The weight of it all’s too much for me
I never was taught a way to deal with these (things that)
Rip me apart and bury me so far deep inside the ground

I feel the same each day 
can’t move to far away
The pain it stays the same
it kills in every way
every way…

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I will sing them when I get a chance

Midnight Oil

7th piece I've written for guitar and features nifty 7th chords. 

Additionally I went for a closer sound to how I used to write when I first started out in pursuing composition. 

So much so that at 2:08 I brought back a familiar theme for the first piano solo piece I wrote that pushed the 10 min mark. I miss performance a whole lot. Maybe I'll get to play that piece again one day. Or at the very least upload it here for those who don't know it. 

The Seventh

BADA MOTHER FUCKING BOOM. Holy shit this sounds SOOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER NOW. If you wanna hear the old version I'll gladly send it to you to compare but my god. I adore what I have done to really bring this track to life.
When I first wrote it I had one goal. Zero Hour was finished and it was time to start work on a continuation of the story. But what is really supposed to come next if the character went bat shit crazy and sewed together his own limbs to the things he adored so that they would be a part of him? I really don't know. But then I remembered the movie bolt. "ALIENS." OH SNAP. So yeah, "Look Towards the Sky" is like "Clad in Darkness" was to Zero Hour. Not the title track of the album, but the main juice of the story for sure.
The main thing about this album though is that it couldn't have a score(first anyway. I'll notate it later). I told myself, "Your sound will never develop and grow if you can't play anything yourself."
SOooooo I played every part to this song. On a keyboard though not the actual instruments featured. The drums I did do some editing so that they would be a bit more immersive. I listened to what some example drum beats sound like from various artists and went to town with what is now here.
I hope y'all give it a shot even if it is a little heavier than what you normally listen too. It's not THAT heavy to be honest but the idea is dark and scary and just weird.
If anyone is curious to know what could come from a session of jamming with me on instruments this is pretty much it.

----------Found the Lyrics----------

Look towards the sky
Tell me what you find
A crimson shroud floats away
and promises to come another day

So what lies beyond the stars? 
What's waiting for us so far? 

Circles of glorious light
spinning round and round
closing in on me
I can't break free

they are coming now
looking for you
they are searching now
Searching for you

People of the sky
Coming down from so high
Harvesting our kind
Picking out our brains 
From the skies bodies rain
What will they gain?

Planning a brutal attack now? 
or just wondering what we have now?

Floating now 
I'm soaring now
Not knowing if I will be found
Am I lost forever to them.
Will I ever come home?
Have I been left alone?
Alone with them? 

they are coming now
looking for you
they are searching now
Searching for you

People of the sky
Coming down from so high
Harvesting our kind
Picking out our brains 
From the skies bodies rain
What will they gain?

they are coming now
looking for you
they are searching now
Searching for you x2

People of the sky
Coming down from so high
Harvesting you and I
Picking out our brains 
From the skies our bodies will rain
What will they gain?

Spread open now
losing all life now
I feel them picking on me
Feasting on me… 


Look Towards The Sky (Remastered)

So! Here we are again continuing on "Another Nightmare"

This album is a kind of continuation of Zero Hour. It's about aliens and shit though. lol.

No lyrics for this one yet. I barely made the song today. 
Following the rules of this album I set forth for myself, I had to play everything on my keyboard but drums are free game to be edited however for the sake of a complete song. 

I imagine this song being about like... a dark turn in the story. Hence the name. It is pretty dark sounding. 

Anyhow, hope y'all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed playing it!

Descend

These Melodies

In the middle of bigger projects like bringing all of "MMM" to a newer sound, I tend to take breaks with other music. I hardly have a chance to write happier stuff these days. Sounds cliche, but I love it. 

The Start Of Something New

I was asked to write the music for my older sister's wedding. Imagine the different distinct sections being used for different parts of people walking up, like the officiant, groom, flower girl, bride etc. The use of the bum, bababa bum bum bum is to pay respects to the wedding march. 

Carol's Wedding Song

This is the latest in my long running story of a man with an illness. 

"Feelings Pt. 2" will tell the tale of his brother and the troubles he goes through within the worlds in his head.

Feelings Pt. 2

Cycled Love

Hopeful Nightmare

Lost

Next song to be featured in the sequel to Feelings.

Blinded

An ooollllddd song from a long time ago. Re-worked some parts to make it nicer to play in piano for a pal.

Feelings

Fixated (Piano Solo)

I've been working on the sequel to an album titled Feelings that I wrote back in high school. This is the newest addition to that sequel.

Frank A. Lopez