Another crappy mix from yours truly.

Music: /u/allouttaupvotes
Lyrics: /u/phyllicanderer
Vocals: /u/kilazur ('tis me)

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Found myself in this crumbling place
Hell is raging all around
Mud and guts upon my face
No way I’m dying in this far away place

I hear her cry, reaching out for me
Feel it in my heart, it sings
Step by step, I’m walking on and out
Home is where I’ll head

Whispers of the dead,
Chilling my soul, I’m back in the role
Back in the romance I was fed,
I strip away the fable and clear my head

Sipping rum in Montego Bay,
An age apart from where I’ve been
From khaki to a suit, I went my way
To here in paradise, for the rest of days 

I hear her cry, reaching out for me
Feel it in my heart, it sings
Step by step, I’m walking on and out
Home is where I’ll head

One step at a time, on the yellow brick road
From living for glory, to living for life
Surrounded by love, came back from the fire,
My love and my home, our miracle child,
In family, peace, and love, my only desire

I hear it call, beckoning for me
Feel it in my heart, it sings
Every step I walked it moved me on
Home is where I rest my head
Been to war, been with family
I’ve lived and loved and found my peace
Been a thousand places, seen so many faces
And loved the world that wanted me dead

Home

Home Is Where I’ll Head

Music: /u/niceattorney
Lyrics: /u/scottpontiac
Vocals: yours truly, /u/kilazur

Backstory - The Concert, a 1664 Painting by Johannes Vermeer, was stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston. Massachusetts, USA, and still  remains missing.  It is currently the world's most valuable missing painting, valued at over $250 Million (probably more due to its infamy).  A reward still stands for $10 Million for its safe return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_%28Vermeer%29#/media/File:Vermeer_The_concert.JPG

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LYRICS:

It was 1664 
A depiction of harmony
High class instructor
A singer and prodigy

It was 1990
2 thieves as policemen
Guards tied up tightly
The case still proceeds on

An instructor plays lute with 2 girls
Practicing for the cotillion
The most valuable stolen art in the world
Worth over $250 million

A singer, a player, a teacher
Innocence in the foreground
In the back something deeper
Sex and sky, meanings confound

The robbers posing as good guys
First-timer, a rocker - the sentries;
Tricksters, they, took the prize
Bypassing safeguards to entry

And now the painting is taken
The Concert, done by Vermeer
A daring and profitable break-in
Mistakes now abundantly clear

On the rear wall the likely guess
as far as most can tell
are Baburen's The Procuress 
and Wooded Landscape, by Ruisdael.

But who has taken The Concert
Who's the burglar and his partner
Many theories have been heard
about Isabella Stewart Gardner
 
Mysteries of paintings 
Whole world pines to reclaim
But rescue chances are fading
And what's  left are empty frames.

The Concert

Game Of Bands 166 - Retrofuturism
Music by @yxcofficial
Lyrics by @Vladimirdlc

Another shitty vocals editing/mixing by yours truly, but I think I'm getting better.

Lyrics:

There was a time 
that I believed in the end of tomorrow
with flying cars, in a snap there will be you and me
the saucers go, at the edge of tele-scopes
and we blend along, fill the skylines with plasma and electrodes
 
Bring me some food
Ro-bo-ti-na
water it up, bring more pills now
These holograms, they are too real
Like on TV
all the time

A bomb exploded
with information
I felt its music
better don’t let go
“they have our minds
they have our minds
they have our minds
the Humans”
what a pretty sight
the AI’s playing theater again

Finding the past
at your side love
your saucer eyes
found a time-zone
why not to go? 
it’s too crowded
lasers everywhere
better off to space! (Robotina?)
 
There was a time
that I believed in the end of tomorrow
but now, but now, but now
going home I believe is only in you ( but now believe in only you )

Where's My Flying Car?

Track created for Game Of Band's 156th round, themed "Animals".

Music: /u/wachtos
Lyrics: /u/aplos9
Vocals: /u/kilazur

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofbands/

R156

Wasteland Safari

Track created for Game Of Band's 155th round, themed "Vocals First II".

Music: /u/take_the_cue
Lyrics: /u/Scottpontiac
Vocals: /u/kilazur

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofbands/

R154

The Thinker

Music/mix: u/ExternalInfluence
Lyrics: u/Glory2Hypnotoad
Vocals: u/kilazur

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We sent the signal
And little did we know
That the same stars we gaze upon
Gazed back in fear at us below

Not understanding
What others knew too well
Out there the greatest threat to life
Is now and always life itself

Turn away from the lights
Don’t look up at the sky
The fear of the dark 
Is what keeps us alive

They heard the message
Among the distant spheres
Now their armada’s taking off
An end to come in future years

No hope for peace left
Such is our universe
Too distant and too alien
No chance to trust each other’s words

Turn away from the lights
Don’t look up at the sky
The fear of the dark 
Is what keeps us alive

In all these legion worlds so vast
Yet still too small 
To ever fit us all
There are those stay out of sight
And the sad plight
Of those who shone too bright

Dark Forest

Music: u/__zenon
Lyrics: u/coolCharizard
Vocals: u/kilazur

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Beneath the surface,
I feel you getting closer, 

Sweeping sands aside as you progress,

It seems your pulse betrays you
as I take my long-awaited ragged breath

Sandstone walls,
discussions long forgotten, 
frozen in time.
dancing plasma casts the torchlight,
mocking our locked-away lives

Skulls of science, 
Wrappings of rage,
Take my pain from me,
And Let me escape

Hounds for heads,
Precious metals pressed upon my grave
Devices far beyond your comprehension
decided to forsake my final days

Buried Alive, 
beneath the tombs beyond time
Throbbing, pulsing, realign,
among your precursor's vast eternal veins

Out here, where nothing matters,
Where this world, is just a number on a page,
You find that all the answers lie beneath you
In tombs of long forgotten, 
trans-human brains

The time has come for us to rise,
A vessel suited to our needs arrives
You lean upon the crucial coded wall
Sarcophogi now open wide and nano-cells can recombine
I rise
I rise
I rise!

Buried Alive, 
beneath the tombs beyond time
Throbbing, pulsing, realign,
As I reclaim my destined rite

My future’s back, and now you’re trapped
I must repair what should’ve never been done
The final act of a zero-sum hack,
That will finally send me back

Home.

Tombs Beyond Time

Horseshoes and Show Windows

Music by /u/phortwent
Lyrics by /u/gamegeek1995
Vocals by /u/kilazur

0:18
“The mind commands the body, and it obeys”
 
0:23
Wails of sun-desire 
Burning through the days
Sending dreams of haze

0:34
Dust of aeons, ages dead
Burning through the days
The Sleeper will wake

0:46 
In thoughts unspoken
Hidden, power lies
Reality,
Construct of your-

0:57
Witches of the sand 
Prophet of the land
I understand

1:09
Fear is the mind-killer
An empire dies

1:20
For the price of spice

1:54
A wall against the raging storm
Look not where we dare 
A journey predestined forlorn
Lone sands boundless and bare

2:18
“The mind commands the body, and it obeys”
“The Sleeper will wake”
“Fear is the mind-killer”
“Witches of the sand”

2:51
A wall against the raging storm
Look not where we dare 
A journey predestined forlorn
Lone sands boundless and bare

3:14
The mind commands the body, and it obeys
The Sleeper will wake
An empire fades to dust
For the price of spice

3:37
A wall against the raging storm
Look not where we dare 
A journey predestined forlorn
Lone sands boundless and bare

Igneous Oceans

Awaken

This year 
rollecoastered off
with its up and downs 
and loop the loops 

But we've come together 
We made it thru harsh weather
And we've come out strong 
Hand in hand. hope is all 
we need to get along
Carbon emissions, at an all time low
Oil companies took a tragic blow
Gave Mother Earth a great big hug
And worked to create a bluer ocean
We now got legalized shrooms
So me and Mario can vroom vroom vroom
Now working from home and we're staying fit
Knocked at Google's door, please let us in
We should take five more often
It seems that we learned a lot this year

But not everything has been quite so rosy
We lost a great deal of amazing people
To Covid, Cancer and accidental happenings
Knelt for the fallen and the unjustly taken 
We now fight for them
Bc black lives truly do matter
We all bleed the same color
We all cry for our mothers
In times of need we hold our holy brothers
We fight not for us but for
The young kid who hopes
Lost in his dream of a better and safer world

Kilazur