The Cinderlands Portrait Gallery is a reflection of where many find themselves, in this world and many variations of it...   It is a message of understanding and sympathy. Hope for better times after hardship.

The Cinderlands Portrait Gallery

The Hum & The Harmony

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Here I am
Open the curtain.
Let go 
Even the things
For which you are certain.
It’s the heart you will find
Adoration of mine.
The empirical presence
This incessant blessing
Transmuting my vision
To the appearance of grace.
The holy Mother 
Begins to fill the space
The vortex of the past
Returns at last
Gently nudging
Something that will not last.
But a whispering to the note
Of an eternal quote
Consciousness is free
Moving through me.
Showing me the heart
Eternally knowing
Right there and showing
It is always going
Free like the wind blowing.
What seems to have
A beginning
Moves without an ending.
The circle of atonement
Moves from
Moment to moment
Let the love free
It will be
Found inside me.

The Curtain

🔻 Song Insight

"Redemption In Shadows" is a raw meditation on betrayal, emotional decay, and the fragile line between healing and collapse. It unfolds like a whispered confession from the ruins—where memory isn’t just haunting, but poisonous. The song lives in the tension between silence and eruption. Each verse spirals inward before collapsing into stark, echo-laced refrains. This isn’t about forgiveness; it’s about naming the wound so it stops festering. For anyone who’s ever survived the gaslight, the overdose, or the slow erosion of truth, this track is your mirror.


🔻 Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You wrap me
inside out
tethered fear
battle torn
spilled and worn

[Verse 2]
Forsaken now
tokens of blood I shed
leaving whispers
trails in your dredge

[Chorus]
Earth pulled beneath my feet
What began in love ends in grief
I lay here bare
A history I keep

[Verse 3]
Dark night clouds
A world left undone
Thunder rolls
Forever alone

[Bridge]
Eyes alight
Forsaken and drowned
Clipped closed, broken
A voice never spoken

[Verse 4]
Redemption in shadows
Past a place not embraced
No trace of love or guilt
With nothing felt

[Chorus 2]
Slow motion life
Tracking your lies
A history never owned
Your truth: a darkness
It's death you postpone

[Outro]
No grave could hold your shame

🔻 Personal Reflection

There was a time when I thought love could survive anything. That if I just stayed long enough, quieted myself enough, maybe they'd come back to the version of them I first met. But instead, I watched myself unravel. "Redemption In Shadows" came from a place of clarity that only arrives after the collapse—when you finally see how much of yourself you gave up trying to keep the peace.

Writing this wasn’t catharsis. It was documentation. A forensic memory of the lies I swallowed and the parts of me that died in silence. The dredge is real—the emotional sludge left behind when someone poisons your sense of self. And still, I kept chasing closure from someone who had already left emotionally years before they physically disappeared.

This track is me refusing to let that kind of erasure happen again. It doesn’t forgive, but it reclaims.

🔻 4Me2BeFree

At 4Me2BeFree, we don’t write songs to fix things. We write them to witness them. "Redemption In Shadows" is a sonic autopsy of emotional abandonment. It’s jagged, unstable, and intentionally unpolished—because that’s how grief feels. Our work exists in that cinematic tension where the story doesn’t wrap up cleanly, but still leaves a mark. This track is part of our ongoing mission: to turn lived experience into layered soundscapes that reflect real pain, survival, and eventual reclamation.

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Redemption In Shadows

Walked in with a hole in my chest
Whiskey prayers and a thousand regrets
Sat down where the shadows won’t talk
And let the silence pour with every shot

I swore I was done with the fight
Wounds too deep for another night
But then she lit up the corner of the room
Like a hymn rising under a blood-red moon

What kind of war is love again?
Where hearts break just to learn to bend
She looked like peace but felt like flames
Now I’m drawing lines in my own name
Is this the battle or the plan?
Am I the soldier or the man?
I don’t know how it all began
But I’m signing up for your love plan

Her eyes held more than the wine
Stories folded in the space of time
She smiled and I forgot her name
’Cause all I saw was my soul rearranged

Maybe I’m foolish, maybe I’m blind
But maybe the war ends this time
If love’s a fight I’ve lost before
Maybe she’s what I was fighting for

What kind of war is love again?
Where hearts break just to learn to bend
She looked like peace but felt like flames
Now I’m drawing lines in my own name
Is this the battle or the plan?
Am I the soldier or the man?
I don’t know how it all began
But I’m signing up for your love plan

So pour another round for the dead and the damned
I’ll raise my glass to the ones who understand
If love is war, then take my hand
Let’s lose together in this love plan

Love plan

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Stiletto Smile (A Fine Line) - Extended Mix

スラッグマン (Surraguman) is a song I wrote about a character I created for my Amorphite Universe. Slugman is strange, otherworldly, and caught between being a savior and an outsider. The lyrics blur Japanese and English, reflecting his alien nature and the distorted world he inhabits.

The track itself is minimalist and atmospheric, pulling from dream pop, trip-hop, R&B, post-punk, and chillstep. It feels both dark and hypnotic, with reverb-heavy vocals that echo like they’re coming from another dimension.

スラッグマン (Surraguman)

BUTTERFLYS

"If it didn’t matter, it wouldn’t hurt. Pain is the gift of knowing you’re alive."

4Me2BeFree is more than music—it’s my story, my scars, and my survival. Every song is a piece of me, a raw melody of love, heartbreak, and resilience. I blend AI-generated vocals and instruments with real emotions, turning my experiences—especially from an LGBTQ+ perspective—into something that speaks to anyone who's ever felt lost, broken, or just searching for something real.

Breakup songs? Yeah, they hit different. Music carries us through the worst of it, and every generation finds their own anthems of love, loss, and getting back up. Heartache doesn’t care about age, gender, or where you come from—music connects us all.

I make music because I’ve been there. The pain, the anger, the hope—it's all in these songs. If something here hits home for you, let it. If you feel something, let me know. That’s the connection that keeps this alive.

Redemption In Shadows

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