Fear

(not my frog, not my swamp)

lyrics
You're a sad little man with a mean little face
You got a real quiet girl 
Cause she’s put in her place
If look at her now she’s got real sad eyes
Maybe cause she knows who you got on the side

The sum of your will is an ego fracture
Hide behind the smile you manufacture
you write the words to create the news
one by one they lick your shoes

You’re an unkind man The never mind man
Kick off your morals, unwind man
Tell me what you find man

you're from LA but here you stay
you're closing your eyes but you don't pray
it's all to ignore what you won't say

Obrien you cryan 
don't rule the world but you tryan
are they for sale cause you're buying
but you wrote the book on defying

you faker /shot taker
they think you're a mover a shaker
you follow the girl just to break her
/ a shadow that falls on the maker

Got a hand in the pocket you pay to play
you making the rules on who gets to stay
but you're standing right there at each meeting
with a pasted on smile so fleeting

you're always right there on location
like a vulture of new innovation
and they look at you with admiration
you don't think they belong in your nation

you take credit/like you said it
you're laying them down and they spread it
revolution is dead cause you led it

You're a small man/with a fall man
think you're above the law man
secretly making the call man

AIEIAIO/tell me what the robots know
tell me are you all this slow
tell me now who runs this show
AIEIAIO

you're a stain on a block chain
Bet you   like you explain, badly
They admire you madly 
For no reason, got a new face every season

Pied piper cheap cipher 
with a clear refrain to incite her
what do we say to the swiper?
pied piper you viper

but you like to watch them bleed
sit right back get off on greed
patent it all and charge for need
and you laugh at them now and eat the seed

AIEIAIO/Tell me what the robots know
Are you ready time to go
did you think it wouldn't show/ 


your a sad little man with a red little/right hand
you worked so hard know the lay of the land
and all of the world will turn green for you
don't look at the help when they clean for you

you floating up high on your bed of hot air
you failed the part where they taught to share
digging a hole for your next trap
strangle them all with your boot strap

California transplant 
You’re here cause you can’t
handle your original city
you bought a new house it's so pretty

document share it
buy it and wear it
because you think they all care it
gives you delusions of merit

you faker /rule maker
they think you're a mover a shaker
weak little leech you're a taker

Obrien, you cryan 
don't rule the world but you tryan
are they for sale cause you buying
maybe we're sick of your lyan
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(dedicate this song to everyone that won't stop talking about bitcoin & venture capitalism as a moral system)
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NOTE: Wrote this song for funski's after attending one too many tech networking events. It's rough but I like it for the AIEIO line because it expresses my annoyance at AI in a creative context. 

Once upon a time some scientists recorded the call of an endling, the last bird of his species. They played the recording and the bird sang along, mistaking the song for the call of another.  It was a cruel trick to play on a bird, who must be long dead by now. 

It summarizes my thoughts on AI art. It adds noise that drowns out the art of humanity. And if it's good it's still bad. Imagine a song, something that speaks to you. For one moment, you feel less alone, touched by the knowledge that somewhere, someone, must have felt the same. 

But it's a lie. A machine's Frankensteinian output, stitched from the work of others. Algorithmically regurgitated into existence. 

Now you're just like that poor bird, fooled by a song, more alone than before.

Obrien is the dude from 1984 and I just thought it was funny to rhyme Obrien with crying (pronounced weirdly). 1984's versificator was a great prediction.

Pied Piper

boo hoo

Decided to make this pop song, I didn't spend too much time on it but I'm proud of it. It's definitely different from the style I want to go for, but I love Punk so I hope you enjoy this.

Adderall

Nirvana- In Bloom Cover

"Self-Theories" album out on the 23rd of November!

SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/selftheories

"Right to be Adored" by Plastic Barricades

Dan Kert - vocals, guitars, bass
Paul Love - drums, percussion, backing vocals

Recorded at Shed Studios, London, UK, in 2020.
Mixed by Paul Love in Paris, France
Mastering by Andy "Hippy" Baldwin at Metropolis Studios, London, UK

Produced by Plastic Barricades
www.plasticbarricades.eu

P L A S T I C    B A R R I C A D E S 

Right to be adored	

Let’s find the truth between the lines
The essence of these strangest times
When anyone can pose for stardom
Beneath the glitter there’s a void
Where jealous congregate to be annoyed
Together with the bored and lonesome

Everyone seems so much closer yet so far away
One by one, designing memories of all these days
When we stayed hopeful fighting for
Our global right to be adored

It’s hard to see between the lines
The truth is blurred by many warning signs
Reality is twisted
Obsessed with fame we build facades
And hide behind them while still playing god
Our influence is growing faster

Everyone seems so much closer yet so far away
One by one, designing memories of all these days
When we stayed hopeful fighting for
Our global right to be adored
 
It’s like living in an endless talent show
Emotions often overflow
C’mon and get it off your chest!
You are addicted like the rest!
So many friends, so little time!

We found the truth between the lines
Life can be hard when it is spent online
Together with the bored and lonesome

So let’s be real, let’s be ourselves
And stop pretending to be someone else
Together we can make a difference!

Everyone seems so much closer yet so far away
One by one, designing memories of all these days
When we stayed hopeful fighting for
Our global right to be adored

Self-Theories

Right to be Adored

BIOGRAPHY
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COSMIC ONION was the noisy lo-fi school band of Adam Cresswell who went on to form a number of other bands. SALOON (who released three albums, recorded 3 Peel Sessions and had 4 John Peel Festive 50 hits, including the 2002 number one), ARTHUR & MARTHA (who were an acclaimed electronica duo) and RODNEY CROMWELL his present act. He now also runs the record label Happy Robots.

COSMIC ONION were a musical band that merged punk, new wave and proto-Britpop making lo-fi music 4-track cassette music with the cheapest musical instruments (mostly borrowed), kids toys and found sounds from around the house. Influenced by Pixies, Joy Division, shoegaze and grunge they sounded, for the most part, like the worst of all worlds.  

Supermarket 2020 was Cresswell's first solo recording conceived as shopping-mall music for a supermarket in a distant nightmarish dystopian future.

Arms and Legs

COSMIC ONION Supermarket 2020

So i finished a full track, finished the vocals a few mins ago.
This is a pop punk track, catchy chorus. Done my best to try produce drums like travis but its pretty hard.
Let me know what you think, i'll be working on some more tracks over the next few weeks.

Maybe Nothing

In my head
Images of a girl who makes me feel such dread
Feels so good I won't let it go
She could be the only one who ever came close to seeing
My true self - the only one who I never got to tell

She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know
She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know

In my bed
I talk as if she's laying there next to me
But instead
There's an empty space where she should be
I could see my true self looking in the mirror back at me
..Is that what she could see?

She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know
She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know

That dread I know will kill me
I'm scared she won't believe me
Should I try again?

When I said I didn't think she was right for me
What I meant - I knew that she was wrong for me
But I still can't escape images in my head
It fills me up with dread

She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know
She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know
She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know
She's gone
I need to find out where it went wrong
Perhaps I'll never know

Written/produced by @MyFriendIce and @Snaps1

Mixed/mastered by @Snaps1

She's Gone

This song started as a way to practice programming drums, then lyric-writing, and after I got the ball rolling I challenged myself to finish it on the same day. 
thx 4 listening <3
There's a video playthrough on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URY23LXmEV8

My name is Seán Dalton. I play guitar in the metal band Infinite Illusion, and have a personal project called HERETICAL.

Instagram: @sean.ii_ // @heretical._
Contact: hereticalcontact@gmail.com

Infinite Illusion: biglink.to/InfiniteIllusion

LYRICS:

Misery, misery,
you're bleeding me dry
I can't see past this windscreen 
or in front of my eyes
The rain has never been heavier
do I pull the wheel?
You were always the one asking me
"do you feel alive?"

There's some days
I like it better in my head
better than being a loner, I bet I'm better off dead
Running rampant, I'm overflowing
Taking you up on your offer, no choking
I found a way to tie my hands

I'm chasing fragments of fleeting feelings
I'm bleeding just to feel alive,
has it all abandoned me?
I'm holding out to react in a manner suited to another life
If it's there I dare to dream

Taken, no hatred
Forgiveness is latent
I'm really feeling like I'm drowning in this insincerity
Forgive me, forget me, forgive me, forget

I'm just a little over
wasting my days 'cause I'm not sober
Haunted and waiting to help myself
Feared I can't take back my mental health, oh god

I'm chasing fragments of fleeting feelings
I'm bleeding just to feel alive,
has it all abandoned me?
I'm holding out to react in a manner suited to another life
If it's there I dare to dream
(Misery, misery,
you're bleeding me dry
I can't see past this windscreen 
or in front of my eyes
The rain has never been heavier
do I pull the wheel?
You were always the one asking me
"do you feel alive?")

I'm chasing fragments of fleeting feelings
I'm bleeding just to feel alive,
has it all abandoned me?
I'm holding out to react in a manner suited to another life
If it's there I dare to dream
(Misery, misery,
you're bleeding me dry
I can't see past this windscreen 
or in front of my eyes
The rain has never been heavier
do I pull the wheel?
You were always the one asking me
"do you feel alive?")

Misery, misery,

love u to death!

like & comment ⟫⟫ repost if you're feelin it<3

L Y R I C S:
I hope you really love Pinkerton
Cos', Jacquelynne, I’m feeling Blue
I didn’t think that I would sign again
But, girl, I’m really "Falling for You"

And maybe, baby, you are my "Butterfly"
Not the type that wants to get jarred up
And I get it girl, that you’re a socialite
So, for now I’ll shut down and shut up

She’s got her necklace
She’s got her ear rings
Little princess ought to own the place
Materialized and so far off from living

I don’t wanna be her accessory

And I know that she knows that I know
That she’s so far gone in her own
But I don’t wanna drive all the way home alone

Accessorize, accessorize, accessorize
Don’t break your neck under all that weight
I’ve always been down for the party type
But, damn, I think you staled my taste

I love you to death
And that’s something you don’t get
From your soul to outside of the suede of your dress

Remember that place
Where we knew it wouldn’t work
At Piranha’s on 3 Avenue North?

She’s got her necklace
She’s got her ear rings
Little princess ought to own the place
Materialized and so far off from living

I don’t wanna be her accessory

And I know that she knows that I know
That she’s so far gone in her own
But I don’t wanna drive all the way home alone

I’ll close my eyes and try think back
To every petty fight that stemmed from that
Look, I ain’t good at forgiving
But for you, I’m 10 folds

Jacquelynne, I want to know you when I get old

And I when shut my mouth, I swear I lost you
I should’ve said the things I was going through
Look I’m bad with gas lights and sorries too
I hope that life is good and your mom is too

Her Accessory

seán dalton | nice music :)

HERETICAL is an alternative music project based in Sydney, Australia.

also in Infinite Illusion

Misery, misery,

HERETICAL

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