after not being on soundcloud for a good while now, it's nice to hear another one of your lovely tunes here :)

@carvinstone: Many thanks for listening and for the positive comment.

this is good!...very well done harmonies!..

many brilliant moments on this one-vocals and melodies=cool!

A pretty clumsy reference to autism of course. Please may I encourage you to check out this UK charity organisation which helps families with autistic kids: http://www.daisychainproject.co.uk/

Lyrics:

Waking in the morning to a blank slate
Issuing the first demand of the brand new day
We fail you, sometimes you will hurt yourself
A world of wonder separates us now

We can give a light so green
But you want to turn it crimson
You can see a light so green
Turn to red

Leaving is so easy when we guide you home
But this still pulls you down

We can give a light so green
But you want to turn it crimson
We can give a light so green
But you want to turn it crimson

Sometimes we shine
Sometimes the colours seem to fade away
Sometimes we fail we fail
Sometimes the colours seem to fade
Sometimes the colours seem to fade away

We can give a light so green
But you want to turn it crimson
We can give a light so green
But you want to turn it crimson


Spectral

I laid my shadow in the creek
It crawled out slick, began to speak
Said, “You’ve burned more names than graves could hold”
Then laughed and coughed up marigolds
The cactus bowed its blistered spine
The sky turned brass and tasted brine
A sunbeam slithered down my throat
And sang in tongues my lies once wrote

Don’t let the sun steal my sins
They’re carved in wax and wire and skin
Let the heat forget the shape I wore
Let the wind rewrite the metaphor

I kissed a scar that bled like rain
I lapped it up to taste my pain
Fallen men sang a hymn of rust
While angels coughed in desert dust
The sheriff sold his badge for skin
The priest just drew his sermons thin
The air was full with names unsaid
And every cactus bloomed with dread

Don’t let the sun steal my sins
It don’t know where the truth begins
I lit the sky with phantom flame
And laughed when echoes said my name

I dreamed in noise, in buzz and bloom
I found my guilt in motel rooms
The road rewinds where I once fell
The sun don’t judge — it just excels

My hat grew horns, my boots turned glass
I danced with gods of smoke and brass
The stars all blinked in Morse and moaned
“You’re not alone, but you’re unknown”
The morning cracked my crooked grin
I smiled like mirrors stitched in skin
And left my voice in ash and gin
Where silence ends and lies begin

Don’t let the sun steal my sins
They’re tuned to dusk and locked within
Let me blur, let me descend
I’ll haunt the edge and never mend

Don’t Let The Sun Steal My Sins

Play-listed on BBC6 Music (“Carjacked Onesie” & “Brave Jamel”) & BBC Tees (>15 songs).

Most of my tracks are free to download. Please leave me any comment or criticism you want - these mean a lot to me as its the only way for me to improve.

Thanks for taking the time to listen and I wish you all the very best in your own music creation and listening. Please get in touch if you would like any track as a wav or mp3 backing track (without vocals etc).

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