Music by Jeremy Styron and Jeff Thies
Lyrics by Jeremy Styron

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Lyrics:

Waiting on some crowded train, no remembrances,
No one to blame for all the ways that I have
Fallen down the dimlit path of
Wasted days and second chances, spinning out, your golden glances
I can’t recall the moment when it all dissipated
Visions of your car receding into the fog, our ghosts are leaving
With a life to build with hooks and wire
All on fire

We’re on the way discovering
On the way, recovering
On the way rediscovering how
To find ourselves

Waiting by the frozen tracks, waiting for you to call to me
Nothing but the barren spaces, all the silences
Retreating from my memory, your golden glances
No words repeated, none were needed to say it all
All on fire

We’re on the way discovering
On the way, recovering
On the way rediscovering how
To find ourselves
We’re on the way, just discovering
On the way recovering
On the way, rediscovering how
To find our place

Let us see things in reverse
For we are alive, and we are flowing on the outside
Letting all things run their course
For we are alive, and we are naked on the inside

Copyright 2022

In Reverse

"Part the Waves" is my first studio song, and it is now available on streaming.

This is a big deal for me because I was the recipient of a double lung transplant more than five years ago, but before that, I had all-but stopped playing or writing music because of my health. This passion, that I had enjoyed since I was in high school, was slowly taken away from me through my late 20s and 30s. But after the surgery and with renewed health, I was able to pick it up again. Even though I was more or less recovered by the time I wrote this song in July 2019 and was free to explore the world fully again - and my partner and I have done that in spades - there is rarely a whole lot of certainty surrounding organ transplants, and a lot can go wrong. I've been fortunate, but this song is about living with that uncertainty. I hope you like it. 

Jeff Thies and I will be re-recording "Part the Waves" as part of our new band project Someday, Someway. And we have a bunch of other songs that I'm excited for folks to hear. Stay tuned. 

Lyrics:

So many times I feel so alive
With the sun on my skin
And so many times I dream I’m skinned alive
Inside my head
What will it take to pin me down
What will it take to take me, take me down
What will it take to keep me down
Keep me, keep me down

Swallow it down
Follow me down
Swallow it down and breathe …

I could tell from the moment
The starlight path in your eyes
Summer winds bring me back to your mind

So many times the world’s a blur
And I’m ablaze and burning out (burning out)
And so many times the echoes sound
And I’m afraid, I’m afraid (I’m afraid)
What will it take to drown my soul
And eat away at all those yesterdays (yesterdays)
And what will it take to part the waves
Part the waves and fall away (fall away)

Swallow it down
Without a sound
Swallow it down and breathe …

I could tell from the moment
The starlight path in your eyes
Rushing winds bring me back again
Back to your mind

Credits:

Recorded by Mike Fioriglio at Philadelphia Music Studios
Produced by Mike Fioriglio and Jeremy Styron
Mixed and mastered by Zach Brown
Guitars and lead vocals by Jeremy Styron
Bass by Mike Fioriglio
Drums by Zach Brown
Background vocals and organ by Bridget Apicello

Copyright 2022 Jeremy Styron

Part The Waves

This song is about love and isolation during the pandemic.

Lyrics:

The blooming of the bluebells
The beating of our hearts
More than we could ever tell
Since we’ve been apart
The spring it shines we come alive
And feel it more inside
Awakenings and petal dreams
Deep and purified, deep and purified

The sweetest sound of solitude
The sun’s my oldest friend
The king of life till the curtain call
And I will find you in the end
I will find you in the end

The cruelest month has come and gone
May is finally here
Open up and come inside
I’ll wipe away your tears
We'll be sad another time
When the blooms disappear
Waking from a distant dream
When you reappear
When you reappear

The sweetest sound of solitude
The sun’s my oldest friend
The king of life till the curtain call
And I will find you in the end
I will find you in the end

Copyright 2023 Jeremy Styron

In The End

My version of The National's song, "Terrible Love."

Terrible Love (The National Cover)

Lyrics:

Tears fall down like still-born stars
And I can't go back
I can't get back
Tears fall down like still-born stars
And I can't go back
I can't get back

Apropos of nothing (I've been apart)
Apropos of nothing (Right from the start)
Apropos of nothing (I've been apart)
Apropos of nothing

Field of green, rolling stream
Wander the world
Alive and free
Recover the day
Recover the day
And just let it all, let it all
Let it all, let it all
Let it all, letting it all
Pass away

Credits: 

Words and music by Jeremy Styron
Produced by Jeremy Styron and Jeff Thies
Vocals, guitar, bass: Jeremy Styron
Drums: Jeff Thies

The Lighthouse Demos

The Lighthouse Demos - Pass Away

Credits:

Words and music by Jeremy Styron
Produced by Jeremy Styron and Jeff Thies
Vocals, guitar, bass: Jeremy Styron
Drums, synth: Jeff Thies

Lyrics:

The lighthouse holds soft repose in the wintertime
Take heart, my dear, the day is almost here
Our lives go by, you’re on my mind when the flowers die
They take a piece of you when they go
If I could move earth and time just to be alive
You’d be the first, you’d be the first
I know it’s time to say goodbye to the good times
I know, I know, I know, I know, oh, oh, oh 

The picture holds the fading glow of a lifetime
Live unfolding on the wall
Our lives go by, we were side by side, on the inside
I’ll take a piece of you when I go, oh, oh, oh

We are falling to pieces
We are coming apart at the seams
We are falling to pieces
We are coming together again

Stay awhile, stem the tide of the darklight
Look into my eyes, my graying eyes
Sit with me, a symphony of the good life all around, oh, oh, oh

To be the one 

We are falling to piece
We are coming apart at the seams
We are falling to pieces
We are coming together again

The Lighthouse Demos - The Lighthouse

She's an ocean
And I'm the shore
Lapping up my lover
Still wanting more
I'm the midnight
She's Saturn's star
Longing for her lover
In her ancient heart

All alone in the world
Souls apart at the start
I want you with me now
So you can ...
Show me the beauty of life
Show me the beauty of night
Of night ...

She's a willow tree
Shaking in the breeze
Falling all around my head
Still warming me
In the shadowlands we forge a path
Burned in time
Buried low and born again
In my lover's mind

Copyright 2020 Jeremy Styron

She's an Ocean (Demo)

The blooming of the bluebells
The beating of our hearts
More than we could ever tell
Since we've been apart
The spring it shines, we come alive
And feel it more inside
Awakenings and petal dreams
Deep and purified

The sweetest sound of solitude
The sun's my oldest friend
The king of life till the curtain call
I will find you in the end
In the end

The cruelest month has come and gone
May is finally here
Open up and come inside
I'll wipe away your tears
We'll be sad another time
When the blooms disappear
Waking from a distant dream
When you reappear

Copyright 2020 Jeremy Styron

In The End (Piano Version, Demo)

Philadelphia-based songwriter and musician.