Name: YOU ARE by Klaas Versteeg
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: To the world you are just a girl, to me you are the world...... Real love never dies.

Really nice rock track. With a hint to Painted Black by the Rolling Stones.

“Messiah of Shrinking Shores” unfolds like a sorrowful parable — the story of a soul who gave everything, only to be abandoned by both Heaven and Earth. Written in poetic form years ago, the lyrics speak in third person, echoing the voice of someone who once carried the burdens of others, now discarded, worn down, and left with nothing but silence. “The ashtray of God” — a chilling metaphor for spiritual obsolescence — captures the depth of his disillusionment, culminating in the heartbreaking surrender: “Let me sink into the flood.”

This song gives voice to that universal moment when we feel used up, overlooked, and forgotten — when the world no longer sees us as valuable, only convenient. Hungarian vocalist Fati Urbán lends her angelic, haunting tone to these emotions, adding an ethereal fragility that elevates the pain into something strangely beautiful.

Though the song carries the atmosphere of gothic and doom influences, it never settles into one mood. Progressive metal elements weave through its structure — the intro and outro riffs pulse with complex time signatures, and the chorus rides on staccato rhythms that resist collapse. It's both a lament and a protest; a farewell and a final cry for meaning.

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MESSIAH OF SHRINKING SHORES

He clung with nails of wood so tight,
Scratching the fresco-black of night.
Obscured he wrote a gospel’s rhyme, 
Ashtray of God, clandestine grime.

All that he saw, all fails did stay,
No skyey dew would fall his way,
breathing desert dust-eating life,
rotten finger-flesh, he played a strife.

If he was saved, he tore his crown,
blood-stained tears fall, like storm pour down,
showing his fake gloriole,
he will baptize you, he will bury.

And as he climbed the western sky,
the stars within themselves did die,
"Embrace me now, and take my blood” 
said “Let me sink into the flood."

Horror Sacri

Messiah of Shrinking Shores

Elegy of Her Kiss

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir and make a pope tier list?

This has the second-most drafts of anything I've done (eight) behind William Tell Should've Known, recently with 12 drafts.

This Male Hypergamy Stuff Is Hard

Someone who looks

Bettina Busch - "Ich muss weg" is a catchy German pop schlager track with a fresh rock touch – all about breaking free from the daily grind and taking a well-deserved break. Uplifting, powerful, and impossible to forget – this song will stick in your head and make you want to pack your bags and escape!

Bettina Busch – „Ich muss weg“ ist ein eingängiger deutscher Pop-Schlager mit frischem Rock-Touch – es geht darum, dem Alltagstrott zu entfliehen und eine wohlverdiente Pause einzulegen. Erhebend, kraftvoll und unvergesslich – dieser Song bleibt im Kopf und weckt in Dir den Wunsch, Deine Koffer zu packen und zu entfliehen!

Ich muss weg

Kingdom Crumble

A movement of dark thematic themes that progresses to a heavy inspiring build up.

Towards the Light

Title: Hindsight
Genre:
Main Genres:
● Electronic Dance: 0.51

Sub Genres:
● Abstract IDM Leftfield: 0.30
● Electro: 0.27
● House: 0.27

Free Genres:
● Minimal Techno
● Tech House
● Lo-fi House
● Melodic Techno
● Microhouse

BPM: 100
Key: D major
Composer: Nash Marlow

Hindsight

Here we go again.
There are dark days in England.
The lady at the bus stops off her head.
Least that's what she said.
No rest for the wicked.

Ah! here we go.
With the painted flags of England.
The devil that is screaming in her brain.
She was never the same.
Needed a merger.

One for the live.
One for the sanity.
Into the crowd.
Into the slaughter house.
One for the road.
One more to take away.
In the fun house. 
Where you are blown away.

Dark days, they're stealing them from you.
Dark days, you'll never make it through.
Dark days, you can not get away.
Dark days, we're falling in the rain...

Let's have a drink.
There's nothing to look up to.
You can not save enough for rainy days.
No route of escape.
A fog of returning...

The lips are calming down.
Whilst the tattoos multiplying.
There's money to be spent here in the hay.
What for I can't say.
A sense of belonging?

The crowd are going wild.
The crowd are consuming.
The crowd are all so normal and so safe.
I feel out of place.
I do not belong here.

Regardless of love,
Regardless of empathy.
Godless and lithe.
Godly with vanity.
Regardless of time.
Regardless of anything.
Godless with pain.
God, will you let us be.

Dark days, they're stealing them from you.
Dark days, you'll never make it through.
Dark days, you can not get away.
Dark days, we're falling in the rain...
 

Dark Days

To the world you are just a girl, to me you are the world...... Real love never dies.

YOU ARE

I am a pro musician and multi-instrumentalist and singer. 
My main instrument is the tenor sax though. 
I was a member of a famous Dutch band, the Dizzy Man's Band. 
I played in big theatre shows and musicals and later on had a solo career as Nick McAlley.
 I still feel the urge to write and record my own music.  
 I thank you for taking the time to listen!  Especially if you're an old soul with a young heart.

YOU ARE

Klaas Versteeg

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