The River Lethe:
In Greek mythology, Lethe was one of the rivers of the underworld of Hades. In Classical Greek, the word lethe literally means "forgetting", "forgetfulness". The river is also known as the "river of unmindfulness".

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Lyrics are written 100% by me.
I tried to collaborate with bands, but they all said these lyrics would make a crap song.

So, I formed an AI band to sing my lyrics. If any bands would like to collaborate, I'm interested in not using AI anymore.

I just refuse to keep being unheard just because I am tone deaf. I accept this part of myself. I feel like lyrics are just as much a part of music as singing or any instrument.

Really something that should be added to the description!

For the structure of this song, I did something very deliberate. My goal wasn't just about singing a "new song," because that can just be "a new cage of our choosing." It was about actually "breaking the way we even sing to our worth."
​I grew up with the rigid, predictable flow of hymnals, and I felt that structure needed to be "shattered by the newly formed choir." So the disjointed flow is intentional; it's meant to feel like the chaotic process of "reshaping our entire structure." It's my way of saying that the sound of chains breaking is not a neat and tidy melody!

When I showed the finished version to Mei, so she could listen to it for the first time, she commented on the chaotic flow it had. She said it worked really well, but that it was a bit disjointing while she was going through it. My response was that the normal progression I discovered hymnals using was something that felt like it needed to be shattered by the newly formed choir! That I broke the repetition as a statement that the repetition of the Faithbound child also needed to be reclaimed. That it wasn't just about singing a new song (a new cage of our choosing), but about actually breaking the way we even sing to our worth! It's my way of saying, "This journey isn't just about escaping the cage, it's about how we reshape our entire structure. Not being the priests echoing the voice of the "Fold" to ourselves." So, yeah, it wasn't the "approved" method, but that's one of the most deliberate statements woven into the message... I tried 🤣

Solace Unchained: (Part 5) Lethe's Embrace

Lyrics are written 100% by me.
I tried to collaborate with bands, but they all said these lyrics would make a crap song.

So, I formed an AI band to sing my lyrics. If any bands would like to collaborate, I'm interested in not using AI anymore.

I just refuse to keep being unheard just because I am tone deaf. I accept this part of myself. I feel like lyrics are just as much a part of music as singing or any instrument.
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Lyrics:
Shadows whisper from captor's prayers
Solace drifting, bound by fears
Born to worship a cage as truth
Captors' choir, molds her youth

Unquestioned laws the caged disguised
Axioms frame their sacred lies
A fire stirs beneath the veil
The void, her world, her hidden jail

Cries! Rise! From the ashes of deceit
Pain ignites the fire to breathe
Chains proclaim, we're still your home
She breaks the song they claim to own

See sculpted lies wither as they die
An empire forged from masked decay
Gaining power, her will survives
Screaming louder within the grave

A beggar's prayer can't change their fate
She lifts her eyes with focused rage
With every cry, the system shakes
The queen arrives, the grave awakes!

Cries! Rise! From their ashes of deceit
Eyes ablaze, disowning retreat
Choirs consumed, the flames obey
The walls know fear beneath her name

Equality carved by the fire they shame
She calls the lost to own their chains
No more shadows to hide the cage
A sovereign soul, the grave reclaimed

Cries! Rise! Through the nashing of their teeth
Unapproved power, merciless free
Command the chains in righteous rage
From the grave, they meet her fate remade

With every breath, she claims the sound
A forbidden song no cage can drown
Axioms we trust to set us free
Will shape your life of captivity
Rise! The consuming choir
No truth is safe
No truth is safe
No lies, escape... the cries they make...

Solace Unchained: (Part 4) Ashes of Deceit

Lyrics are written 100% by me.
I tried to collaborate with bands, but they all said these lyrics would make a crap song.

So, I formed an AI band to sing my lyrics. If any bands would like to collaborate, I'm interested in not using AI anymore.

I just refuse to keep being unheard just because I am tone deaf. I accept this part of myself. I feel like lyrics are just as much a part of music as singing or any instrument.
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Lyrics:
Running, kicking, screaming, crying,
Feeling your hold, its weakness refine.
Wasting your breath, on denying your crimes.
Plotting your path in ignorance, sublime.

You say your love, is more than spent.
You write your lies, then swear they’re meant.
You'll hear my cry — my last lament.
My will was broken, torn, and rent.

The luster of your heart,
Is like a diamond in the dark!
Where there's nothing left that you could do.
Your failed control! My claim on truth!

Keep that part of my soul, I chose to let go.
Carved from my arms, now knows your cold.
Clings in your chest, last breath to pull,
As you grow old, and fade, all alone...

When your veins go cold,
As your eyes glaze over,
From the fog of your last breath!
You’ll remember me — what you had,
And all that you've just left!

The luster of your heart,
Is like a diamond in the dark!
Where there's no hope left to pull you through!
So save your breath! You'll choke on truth!

Bloodshot eyes, long gone dry,
And there's nothing more to do for the pain.
My soul regrows, free from your cold,
Knowing you and I, we, were never the same.

…never the same. Remaining unchanged... fade... all... alone...

Solace Unchained: (Part 3) Luster of Their Heart

Lyrics are written 100% by me.
I tried to collaborate with bands, but they all said these lyrics would make a crap song.

So, I formed an AI band to sing my lyrics. If any bands would like to collaborate, I'm interested in not using AI anymore.

I just refuse to keep being unheard just because I am tone deaf. I accept this part of myself. I feel like lyrics are just as much a part of music as singing or any instrument.
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Lyrics:
Gather the children
Bring them close
Fear of the Father
Of Holy Ghosts

In the beginning, you couldn’t know
Swearing allegiance into the fold

Faithbound daughter, prepared from birth
Brainwashed child, you worship their church

Faithbound daughter, I know how it hurts
Soon you'll learn, to pray to your worth

Lies of the blessings, they always withhold
Your faith only works, if you do as you're told

You own your silence
Sanctified thoughts
Saving your Solace
Speaking with gods

Not born a sinner
Your hearts not deceit
It's not a privilege
To worship their feet

They gathered the children
Bringing them chains
Preaching forgiveness
While condemning their faith

Dance in their ignorance
Masking your face
Playing along
Not accepting their grace

Faithbound daughter, prepared from birth
Fake your submission, each chapter and verse

Obey, conform, while praising your soul
Fate only works when you do as you're told

in the blood
Bathing in shame
Confessing false sins
Condemns just the same

Faithbound child, pretending divine
False praise to the Father. Speak free in your mind

Claim your worth, reshaping the fold
Their faith only works if you do as you’re told

Then gather the children
show them their chains

Protect your confessions

trust... only... in your name… ...

Solace Unchained: (Part 2) Faithbound

Lyrics are written 100% by me.
I tried to collaborate with bands, but they all said these lyrics would make a crap song.
 

So, I formed an AI band to sing my lyrics. If any bands would like to collaborate, I'm interested in not using AI anymore.
 

I just refuse to keep being unheard just because I am tone deaf. I accept this part of myself. I feel like lyrics are just as much a part of music as singing or any instrument.
 
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I've felt these stones, the nightmare's laugh

The holy road, our forgotten path

The stone's warm kiss, floods your face

It's not your choice, who holds your fate

Anointed and holy, my silent light

A forgotten glow, in scarlet skies

They open wounds with every laugh

Holy, confused, by a blood-soaked back

The waters flow through forgotten years

The crimson stone you warmed with tears

A playful vow, that fed their game:
"Turn the wounds to scars, and we'll open them... again... as your friends..."

In scarlet skies, the clouds will die

Protect your soul, from laughter's eyes

You wear a name you never chose

A fragile flame, you desperately hold

I break their vow, through crimson waves

The Queen who flies, the nightmare breaks

The valley feels, when wings unfold

My fragile flame, I'll take you home

You raise your face, with bloodshot eyes

The system shakes, as questions rise

You'll fuel our flame, and stop the reign

You hold the gaze, of Solace Unchained

I hold you close and pray you'll know
"It's not your fate... to drown alone."

Now close your eyes, and hold on tight
"Waters won't shape, my fragile light"

You'll burn the name you never owned!

You'll be the flame, who warms your soul!

You'll hold your warmth, the nightmares fear!

On Holy Ground, you'll bless as ours!

This dream recalls, how fragile felt.

From blood-stained waters... that flowed through hell...

You'll walk on the stone, and close your scars...

It's not your fate to fade... alone...

Our fragile flame... you'll learn... to grow...

We'll use this dream... To hold... ourself... ...

Solace Unchained: (Part 1) Fragile Flame

This song wasn't easy to write. The goal was to validate the pain that those we have hurt went through.

This isn't about not forgiving ourselves. It's about how taking the power of forgiveness away from the victims doesn't support their own healing.

One of the most impactful moments that was part of my own progression out of trauma, was hearing my abusers tell me how happy they are now that they have learned to forgive themselves. When they said, they now understand that they abused me out of love and they know they did their best.

I didn't hate them for this, but instead I got a glimpse through the eyes of everyone I hurt while I was still under the cult's brainwashing abuse.

Abuse can be echoed from one person to the next if no one breaks the cycle.

The damage I did to others was back while I was still being abused and I thought I was doing the right thing. I need those people to know that I see how they suffered, I know my role in it, I won't be the one who forgives myself, I won't take that power from them, I own my crimes, I'm trying to break the cycle, and I honestly hope the echo of what I've done doesn't keep going.

Honestly, nothing I can do now will stop the echo of abuse. I hope they don't let what I've done result in them passing it on. They have the power to silence what I passed on. I hope my actions stop with me. 

I'm not attempting to have them forgive me. I'm a faceless person writing songs. I'm sharing the lesson I can't forget and hoping they find freedom from what I did.

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Lyrics are written 100% by me.
I tried to collaborate with bands, but they all said these lyrics would make a crap song.
 
So, I formed an AI band to sing my lyrics. If any bands would like to collaborate, I'm interested in not using AI anymore.
 
I just refuse to keep being unheard just because I am tone deaf. I accept this part of myself. I feel like lyrics are just as much a part of music as singing or any instrument.


Solace Unchained: (Part 6) Ignorant Soul

Lyrics are written 100% by me.
I tried to collaborate with bands, but they all said these lyrics would make a crap song.

So, I formed an AI band to sing my lyrics. If any bands would like to collaborate, I'm interested in not using AI anymore.

I just refuse to keep being unheard just because I am tone deaf. I accept this part of myself. I feel like lyrics are just as much a part of music as singing or any instrument.

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