Name: Always a Step Behind by Solive Raye
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: A melancholic pop-rock/emo track about unspoken feelings, hesitation, and watching someone slip away because courage always arrives too late. Soft drums, emotional guitars, and intimate vocals paint a picture of unrequited love and the quiet ache of missed words. It’s vulnerable, fragile, and painfully human, a song about being present but never noticed.

A melancholic pop-rock/emo track about unspoken feelings, hesitation, and watching someone slip away because courage always arrives too late. Soft drums, emotional guitars, and intimate vocals paint a picture of unrequited love and the quiet ache of missed words. It’s vulnerable, fragile, and painfully human, a song about being present but never noticed.

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Wanderlust Pulse

Solive Raye is the sound of solitude given form, quiet thoughts turned into raw, melodic truths. An engineer and lifelong observer, Solive Raye writes for those who feel alone in crowded rooms, where silence speaks louder than words.


Blending dark, atmospheric tones with flickers of hope, his music lives in the in-between: not quite despair, not quite light, but something honest.


Raised in movement, from football fields to refereeing lines, he now wanders more internal landscapes, shaping every lyric with the precision of an outsider looking in.


Solive Raye doesn’t shout. He resonates.

Always a Step Behind

Solive Raye

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