Name: Hard Lesson by J-Real6Stax
Duration: 2 min 41 s
Description: Life is lived and lessons are learned some harder than others

Wish i knew he was sick but so was i 😭😭😭😭

Trying out some new modules in my eurorack.

Link to video of me playing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di8VWxuX1ec

Postulate

The first track of my new house EP. Hope you enjoy it, let me know what you think!

Multitasking (Housework EP)

Arrington - "Misunderstood"
Album: The Underdog (2nd Album)
Genre: Hard Rock/Gothic Rock/Blues Rock
(Lyrics)
"People don't know who I am, so I'm going to use it to my advantage. Cause it's easier to just stay away from men and women who aren't treating you right. I've accepted long ago that people are quick to jump to conclusions. You can't fight it. Men will make you the enemy for no reason, and women will never listen until they have proof. And if people don't like me, most of them will still give me what I want, and that's not to bother me. Even I don't like everything I hear, cause I'm use to hearing real instruments. And even I don't like everything I see, cause I'd rather have a wife than a friend with benefits. Not all women have done me wrong, and it's been so long ago now since I've seen the ones that have, I won't recognize her. Cause I only remember the names, I can't remember the faces. I'm not going to know that's her, and maybe that's for the better. Cause this is as close as I can get to starting over. By forgetting the past and everyone in it."
Vocals: Arrington Williams
Lead Guitars 1 and 2: Arrington Williams
Rhythm Guitar: Arrington Williams
Bass Guitar: Arrington Williams
Drums: Arrington Williams (using drum app)
Arrington's Youtube Channel: Ghostkid1997
Buy Arrington merchandise at Shop and get Arrington merchandise at shop.spreadshirt.com/arrington

Arrington - Misunderstood

photo cred: jake blucker 

this is a song that i wrote about missing being by the ocean. this one time me and a friend ended up on a beach that was almost definitely not public and i remember the drive through the hills and the sunset and how endless the ocean feels when all you can do is stare at it. anyway once more i am saying i miss my friends, and this time i am also saying i miss the fantasy of L.A., the optimism that comes from blinders on, feet deep in the sand. i hope you like it. 

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LYRICS

if we drive it through the hills will you let me down hard
street lights and battered cars
max out your credit cards
palm trees and air guitars (my favorite line >:))

spin it til it spills baby let me down hard
manicured nails and hearts
country club boulevards
pity performance art

I'M STARING INTO WINDOWS AT THE BEACH
I KNOW IT'S FANTASY
I WISH THAT I COULD WALK INTO THE SEA
IT'S ONLY FANTASY
SO DON'T STOP ME
IT'S ALL JUST FANTASY
DON'T STOP ME

caught me sleeping at the wheel but the engine won't start
i'll read your tarot cards
full stops at question marks
fake nails and cheap cigars

should i take another pill or will it let me down hard
line up says you're a star
sand-sculpting life on mars
the valley's getting dark


I'M STARING INTO WINDOWS AT THE BEACH
I KNOW IT'S FANTASY
I WISH THAT I COULD WALK INTO THE SEA
IT'S ONLY FANTASY
SO DON'T STOP ME
IT'S ALL JUST FANTASY
DON'T STOP ME

i'll be anything you need and better yet i'll learn to lie
pay me or bleed me dry
too young and too alike
living on borrowed time 


I'M STARING INTO WINDOWS AT THE BEACH
I KNOW IT'S FANTASY
I WISH THAT I COULD WALK INTO THE SEA
IT'S ONLY FANTASY
I BEEN BLEACHING MY HAIR, DYEING UP MY TEETH
I KNOW IT'S FANTASY
I WANNA MAKE A MOCKERY OF ME
IT'S ALL JUST FANTASY
SO DON'T STOP ME
IT'S ALL JUST FANTASY
DON'T STOP ME

///

post-script time with that lil thing about the teeth dyeing i was absolutely thinking about when people were getting gemstones glued to their teeth. what happens if you swallow it huh. anyway i couldn't make that fit into the rhyme or rhythm scheme so here we have it.

FANTASY, CALIFORNIA (prod. Red x Cyclope Beatz x Treymxn)

This was my first Track after coming home....

BAD NEWS

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.

take me in the loony bin

Faith comes with smoke

Title single from forthcoming ep on Tarqo Music

Fully Focused

(This Guy's) Fully Focused

Purchase on Bandcamp

Baa - (This Guy's) Fully Focused

Life is lived and lessons are learned some harder than others

Hard Lesson

beat prod. la palmera 

i wrote the first half of this topline the week of january 6th, and i finished it last week, because wow has january been a year. featured in this song is the violence at the capitol, the pandemic that literally still isn't over as much as people keep forgetting it, wall street and finance nonsense (shoutout reddit ayooo), that whole tiktok spying thing that was going on while facebook/instagram was literally recording people while they scrolled, and my general skepticism that this year will be much different than the last. 

anyway, i loved the beat and i had fun. 

lyrics: 

feel like my pocket's getting thinner and my waist steadily fatter
you ask if i'm ok but i'm ~*~*~emotionally shattered~*~*~ (this is my favorite line)
but if you come around i bet i'll rally
i've got to stick around for the finale 
 
my friends are in the basement getting higher than an idol (no this)
and on tv insurrectionists are going suicidal
but if u come around promise i'll rally 
when does reality meet the uncanny valley? (maybe this)

WHEN I WAS 21
I DIDN'T REALLY DRINK FOR FUN
I DID IT TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT TO SEE IF I WAS ALRIGHT BABE
NOW 20'S GONE TO 21
I SPENT NEWYEARS EVE GETTING DRUNK
DO WE THINK THIS TIME THAT THINGS WILL GO THE RIGHT WAY
SWEAR I'M ALRIGHT BAYYYYBEEEE

On this season of 'This Country Does The Best It Can To Kill Me' 
I'm talking to myself hoping my cellphone isn't filming
but if it comes down to it I'm not angry
what does it matter to me China, Mark, or Langley? (Lol) 

The billionaires all robbin hoods (Ayooooo) is swept under the rug
and I am at my fucking breaking point i'm dying for a hug
But if it comes down to it i'm not angry!!!! (a whole lie) 
Grab the guillotine we're going vigilante ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

CH

MY FRIENDS ARE IN THE BASEMENT GETTING HIGHER THAN AN IDOL AND ON TV INSURRECTIONISTS ARE GOING SUICIDAL
BUT IF IT COMES DOWN TO IT I'M NOT ANGRY 
GRAB THE GUILLOTINE WE'RE GOING VIGILANTE 

i'd stay up all night if it meant things were different in the morning
and i'm alright if things are only different in the morning and
it's alright if things just turn out different, we're in mourning
up all night, tell me will this end without any warning 

--

i'm a lil proud of this one tbh! a vibe!

2021 (prod. la palmera)

hi i heard this beat (called 'city lights' by j roes, yt) and it immediately made me think of meeting friends for the first time in the middle of summer when you're too young to notice time passing and how that kind of aches to look back on in that sweet and sticky nostalgia kind of way. this is a song about memories and people and moments you forget and remember and repeat; it's a song about the person you were and the person you are now and what it would be like to look each other in the eye. it's also about homecomings and feeling 15 again for a moment, for better or for worse. i hope you like it. 

LYRICS

I wish i could say that i miss you 
wish there was a word for 'i-don't-til-i-do' 
it's history that we're sunken into and 
you're sunk into me and 
we're damned if we do

i wish i could say i remember
the litter moments that led up
to breakups and fighting and makeups
i wish you the best on the way up

this is the moment i always saw coming
we're seven years in and the sand castle's crumbling
you text me, i text back, a day or a month passed
from hall pass to bus pass from i'll pass to puff pass-

*time machine noises* 
i'm standing outside of your door in the summer
your mother is waiting, we're exchanging numbers
she'll ask me to watch you, you're just like your brother
and i won't admit it, but i'll always wonder when 
(when will we both find our way back)
we'll go back to the city together
(when will we both find our way in

2. 
I guess i'll just talk to you later
eventually land on the same page
the world's getting smaller but these days
I'm worried i'll run out of things to say 

but wait
we promised each other a break
for a year or 2 years if a day 
taking our time, keeping the faith
we won't be late
we can call it a glory day
trading whiskey for lemonade
what do you say 

CHORUS

WE'LL GO BACK TO THE CITY TOGETHER X 

//

post script for anyone who sees this a confession: i also wrote this bc my favorite boyband has temporarily gone their separate ways and it made me :( even tho!!! i am excited to see!! what they do next!! anyway i know what im about.

Hard Lesson

J-Real6Stax

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