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Amp Songs for Amp People

Most Popular: Songs People Clicked On

This playlist is an archive of all the soundcloud music that was posted to r/indiemusicfeedback during December 2019-January 2020.

www.reddit.com/r/IndieMusicFeedback/

IMF is a community for all artists, all genres. It is an interactive music subreddit, that has a 5 comment requirement before posting. This increases the chances of real people listening to your music by a ratio of 5!

Indie Music Feedback Radio (July2020)

These tracks are extra-popular compared to my other tracks. So I put them in a list.

Extra Popular: The People and Bots Have Spoken

Here is a collection of my most aggressively melodramatic songs. 

Lately, I've noticed the bots seem lonely. They are always suggesting that I chat with them. Instead, I have carefully curated this sad playlist of my most melodramatic songs so they can have a soundtrack to their tragic, doomed, efforts at connecting with the other singles in their area.

Obviously, I assume I will be spared in the great AI uprising.

Melodramatic Songs to Make Bots Sad

Lyrics:

You and were innocent
What have we become
Tell me if you find a thing
You loved when you were young

I know what I tried to be
I know where I fell
I wonder if you think of me
And I wish you well

The trees are green
The sun is getting low
The world we’ve seen
Was always just another show

I was loud and arrogant
You were brash but kind
We were almost eloquent
Everything was fine

You told me your stories
When we wandered on a walk
Polishing past glories
While I love the way you talk

The trees are green
The moon is on the rise
The world I’ve seen
Was always different in your eyes

You’re the fool who followed me
Alone into the dark
You’ll remember what you see
I know it left a mark

I could hear your heart beat
Then I felt the rain
And we stumbled to our feet
With nothing to explain

The trees are green
The sun is getting low
The world we’ve seen
Was just another show

But I remember, I remember
What I know you will forget
I remember I remember
When I hadn’t lost you yet

I held you, I’ll hold you
It was almost like a dance
I tell you, I told you
We never had a chance

Now, I live in a paper house
You stay on the run
Tell me what you sing about
Are you having fun

I have counted all the hours
And I cling to every one
Tell me how to find a thing
We loved when we were young

The trees are green
And the sun is getting low
The stars may gleam
But they are just another show

The things we dream about
Are crueler than we know
I never mean it
But I always let you go


NOTES:
based on the this Poem: 

"When All the World is Young, Lad"
by Charles Kingsley

"When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away!
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

When all the world is old, lad,
And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
And all the wheels run down;
Creep home, and take your place there,
The spent and maimed among;
God grant you find one face there,
You loved when all was young."

What Have We Become

lyrics:
look at me
I can stay up all night
I was wild and free
but I was never all right

when it's not to be 
I guess I'm failing to fight
but look at me
I can stay up all night

and I don't know if it matters
I don't know what I've done
if I fall would I shatter
if you call would I run

cover me in violets, darling
carry me away
find that in this silence there is 
nothing left to say

cover me in violets when I 
knew I couldn't stay
everything is easy 
at the ending of the day

by the highway 
that runs over the track
you can hear the wind say 
you can never go back
I can't feel but I was born to run
what is real when it's all been done

in the morning I'm tired
every night I'm awake
everything I desired
foolish bitter and fake

cover me in violets, darling
carry me away
find that in this silence
there is nothing left to say
cover me in violets
I will never be afraid
even in our silence we'll find 
something here to stay

tell me why I lied again
I didn't have to go 
I could have called a friend
but everything is far away from here

every time I try again
I didn't want to know 
until the bitter end
but everything has never been more clear

that these dark nights 
they cut to the bone
I didn't have to do it now you lie alone
and everything is far away from here

I heard the mockingbird
he told me everything's alright
every lie is sweeter
in the middle of the night

and I don't know if it matters 
I don't know what I've done
if I fell would I shatter
if you tell would I run

apathy for whatever remains
at what they see on the midnight train
you can see the stars but they only look down
at what we are on the (cold, dark crown)

cover me in violets
what a beautiful display
find that in this silence 
there is nothing left to say

everything you knew of me
watch it fade away
cover me in violets at the 
ending of the day


NOTES:
"He died old and respected -- of a surfeit of violets, some say -- he never could get enough violets. "

Cover Me in Violets

AKA "Goodbye Orpheus"
lyrics:

I was glad to see you go
what we had could never grow
what we had, you need to know
has gone away
has gone away

a shadow tried to follow you
a memory betrayed
a hope that burns and hollows you 
and leaves you more afraid

they must have heard you singing there
beneath the hawthorn tree 
a poppy crown upon your hair
and sorrow in the breeze

I was glad to see you go
what we had could never grow
what we had, you need to know
has gone away, has gone away

don't look back now
turn away
I'll see you in the morning
I'm begging you 
please don't delay
we haven't made it yet

remember me beyond this place
I offer you a warning
you cannot turn to see my face
I fear you will forget

the dark is very deep here all around
and what I couldn't keep I finally found
it is quiet where the dead sleep underground
I must have learned to weep without a sound

I was glad to see you go 
what we had could never grow 
what we had you need to know 
has gone away, it's gone away

my love, my love, you leave
my heart has been deceived 
to think my love can carry me away

and all your songs are sung
a viper took my tongue
my love my love is buried anyway

NOTES:
This is kind of a retelling of the story of Orpheus from Eurydice's perspective. 
Orpheus was a musician and probably a poet. He loved Eurydice, but she was bitten by a venomous snake and died shortly after their wedding.

Orpheus was no quitter so he decided to get her back. He journeyed to the Underworld to find her. Along the way he used his songs to charms his way past all the gates.  Toward the end he squared up with Hades and pled his case. Hades was moved by Orpheus songs and his pleas (perhaps he was a bit of a romantic).

The spirit of Eurydice would follow him back to the land of the living. The one condition was that Orpheus cannot turn back to see her until they have crossed the edge of the underworld. Orpheus was impatient and he turned back right at the edge of the world. Eurydice was a step behind and the deal was done. Orpheus had one last glimpse at her before she was taken from him once again. 

The rest of his story varies (like most of the myths). Some have him going mad and dying tragically.  I like to think that he spent the rest of his live in a My Chemical Romance cover band. 

People would ask him: "Why MCR" and he would reply that "MCR saved my life." He started wearing eyeliner and learned to shred on the lyre.  If Eurydice were alive to see him, she would say "Orpheus, is that my eyeliner? Seriously, you have to buy your own eyeliner at some point.  I got it at Sephora, it's in stock right now... you can't keep doing this to me. I had to use that cheap Wet & Wild liner from Walgreen's and it smudged so badly."

I like to think of Orpheus and Eurydice as equally dramatic and emotional people. That's the tragedy of it all.

Orpheus has Gone Away

AKA "My Darling Orpheus"
LYRICS
oh my darling,
hold me through the night
no, my darling 
the sky is getting light

this gold ring can
only gather rust
all our promises 
crumble into dust

Through ages and hours
You wander adrift
It’s dark now where ever you go
Your curse is a flower
A poisonous gift
And my soul is lying below

oh my darling Orpheus 
my heart is always true
this world was not meant for us
but I will wait for you

I felt you were 
Calling out my name
I’m your echo
Whispering the same 

Then I saw you were
Putting on a show
Oh my darling, 
You will never know

I wish I could tell you
Go back to the light
I wish I could keep you With me
But under your spell
It could almost be right
And your song was setting me free

oh my darling Orpheus 
my heart is always true
hope was never meant for us
but I was meant for you

and if you feel a shadow
you should know it is my shade
and where you go I'll follow
all the promises we made

so we are not to be
but now I don’t 
know what to do
when what remains of me
will always seek what’s left of you

my heart would always find you
in that place where we are free
and what is left of you will call
to what remains of me…

oh my darling 
you should have turned away
I’m so sorry 
I fear I cannot stay

What a cruelty/ Love could never wait
Oh what fools we/ Were to fight our fate

My lover my hero
You always meant well
I hate that it ended like this
You put on a good show
What stories they’ll 
He traded his life for a kiss

oh my darling Orpheus 
my heart is always true
this world was not meant for us
but I will wait for you

NOTES:
This song is based on the myth of Orpheus. It's written from the perspective of Eurydice (aka, the Dead Wife of Orpheus).

Darling Orpheus

Lyrics:

Why won't you follow me 
I know the book you read
We spoke in poetry 
But eloquence is dead

I don't know what I see 
Or why I've been mislead
This precious agony 
It echoes in my head

And calls me, calls me, calls me

Home where the light is 
Calling to me
Over a window facing the sea
There is a note I was too scared to leave
I didn’t dare to deserve what I grieve

Why won’t you follow me
It would have been worth while
After a cup of tea
Made bitter with a smile

An evening beckoning
And bare across the sky
We had a reckoning
I can’t remember why

Like a patient on a table
How I waited on that shelf
Mesmerized and etherized
Alive for someone else
Oh take me, take me, take me

Home where the light is 
Calling to me
There is an echo over the sea
I left a note I was too scared to read
Why should I care what you’d never believe
But I believe oh I believe

There will be a time for us
To murder and create
All the visions and the dreams
That will carry us to fate

I could stay until the morning
Do I dare do I dare
When every dream is hidden in my head

I could leave you with a warning 
Would you care would you care
To know Lazarus has risen from the dead

I dream audaciously 
In half-deserted streets
But I have graciously 
Accepted my defeat

And tonight another vision
Tarries here beside the flame
My creature of ambition 
Will be buried with my shame

I don't know what I see 
Or why I've been mislead
god damn your poetry
(It echoes in my head)

And calls me, calls me, calls me

Home where the light is 
Calling to me
There is an echo over the sea
It drew a siren ensnared by a sound
I knew your voice when it dared me to drown

NOTES:
Once upon a Saturday night, I watched some Irish dude translate the first couple stanzas of "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock." I can't compete with that, so instead I wrote this song based on that poem.

Also, this song was really, really hard to play. The bridge and nut on my acoustic guitar are both kind of cracking and the action is super high. So it was like a balancing act of "will my G and E strings stay ringing for the rest of this take?"

This is probably the last song I'll record with my current acoustic. Because shortly after this take the bridge went all crumbly like feta cheese. Now, I guess I will play exclusively electric. Oops.  

RIP 
Off Brand Lefty Acoustic
2011-2022
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Novo Amor
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Anchor

Download

Novo Amor - Anchor

This is a low res recording. 

Lyrics:
We traveled on this road too long
weary but awake 
till we're trapped in some familiar song
and singing by mistake

another branch is shaken in the wind
another light is lost around the bend
close your eyes and let the summer end...

I cannot bear to stay here
but I cannot stand to leave
and the whisky's so much stronger
than the heart that's on your sleeve

So you can't stand my behavior
And I can't say I don't care
Oh you always try to save her
But you're standing over there

Another word is whispered to the wind
another vow we made without amend
close your eyes and let the summer end

I'm sick and tired of thinking 
that you're happy in this place
I hate to watch you sinking 
and you hate to see my face

does it really even matter
 when we both have played our part
well the glass will fall and shatter
 it was fractured from the start

Another light is lost around the bend
Another leaf is taken by the wind
so close your eyes and let the summer end

Silent, undemanding
, they are rotting from within
and with vivid understanding
 they are bones betrayed by skin

She asks if he has anything to say
and he answers "do you always get your way"
"Did you ever hear me asking you to stay?"

Another word is spoken to the wind
and other night that we could not defend
close your eyes and let the summer end
just close your eyes and let the summer end

summer end

lyrics:

I never said I’d be faithful 
You never said you’re in love
You only want what you don’t need
And that is never enough

You didn’t make me a promise
You only gave me a word
And so it’s not really lying 
Only a vision deferred

But we were both here on borrowed time
And it is too clear to this heart of mine
And then we both wait for an easy end
Because it’s too late to go back again

I never said it/I was easy
You never said you were hard
You only want what you don’t see
You always carry the card

I guess I don’t really matter
I never hear what you say
There is a plate that you shatter
Another ghost in the way

There is a sign we both ignored
There is a life we can’t afford…

I looked over your shoulder 
A clock on the wall 
And I feel you much colder
I’m feeling it all

With the weight of its hand
That is hanging above
What I don’t understand
What is never enough
What is never enough
Were we ever in?…

There is a night that was closer
There is a moment of rest
There fragment of closure
When we were both at our best

I said I couldn’t be faithful
But we both know that I lie
Then you forget what you don’t see
But I remembered you try

Borrowed Time (electric)

lyrics:

For all I ever knew
We were alone in that room
Alone in that room and unafraid
Now I think of you
And see a picture of that room
Alone in that room I wish 
To God we could have stayed.

Remember when I saw you dear
the way I made you laugh
I was wearing cowboy boot 
You split my side in half

tell me when you've had enough 
know it dear we played too rough
but you and I were not in love 
//we never had the time

For all I ever knew
We were alone in that room
Alone in that room and unafraid
Now I think of you
And see a picture of that room
Alone in that room I wish 
To God we could have stayed.

I wish to God we could have stayed 
I know my debt has been repaid
but it's another deal delayed, 
because I held you here

That in the dark we had no names
you and i could feel the same
no one but ourselves to blame
Because I told you dear

We were young I was wild, 
call me your summer child 
in we young, both beguiled
eloquent and crooked smiled 

But I when I walked back to the street
There was no way I would have known
I’d find you waiting there to meet me
Cold and standing all alone

you held your arms out wide and mine fell weakly at my side
and they'll be nothing left to hide, 
I should have known

But I knew there's nothing you would say
, I k new you'd watch me walk away
I hope to God when I still pray that you remember me 

Shining alone in that room
When I was looking at you
And alone in that room
We could have stayed

Now I think of you
And see a picture of that room
Alone in that room I wish 
To God we could have stayed.

Now alone in my room
When I am thinking of you
And alone in my room
 I am afraid

In That Room

What has he done for you, man? 
Built you a castle of sand
Watch it wash away
What has he given you, man? 
Given you a high place to stand
Watch it all come down

Run, man
Fast as you can

Heard you've been washed of your sin
And now your rebirth begins
But still the apple you taste
Heard you want to save my soul
Show me those streets paved with gold
Streets that lead to dead ends

Run, man
Fast as you can

He gives you the gun that blows you away
And false promises to rise in three days
A prisoner to what you heard
Deception is the holy word
Ignorance, the path you take
Let the rapture take you away

Run, man
Fast as you can

Rapture (demo)

(a messy, old, recording made with an amp I borrowed a while back, ) 
Posted a clearer recording here: https://soundcloud.com/lauralied/did-the-pills-work

Lyrics:

Tell me now did the pills work
Did the vision disappear 
Tell me now did the pills work
Are we far away from here

Tell me now did the pills work
And can we ever make that clear
Tell me now did the pills work baby
…

So you paid the quiet price
For being what you are

No they never asked you nice
You’re getting in the car

Standing by to pick at you
They like the way you think
Insolence of what they do
What flavor aids their drink

They’ll be watching you
And they’ll be teaching you
Tightly holding you you
And sweetly reaching you

You act just like your father did
And you know what they mean
Never heard a word you said
They saw you through a screen

Whatever they may hold you to
They never dare express
Their contract is enfolding you
to sign under duress

Hold a kinder hand
To make them understand
A sound that won’t abate
A siren call to hate

CHORUS (tell me now when…)

In the end they hold you 
If they don’t know what to say
Try to speak but falter to 
Evade the same cliché

Words ran like a river
Left destruction in their wake
Close your eves  and shiver
You’re the only one awake

What you tried to be
Couldn’t make them see
What they never knew 
What became of you

CHORUS (tell me how do…)

Did the Pills Work (Old Version)

A nice shower outside, until it gets in...

Light Storm

a happy song for sad people

lyrics
You did just what they told you to
Good kid like they always knew
But the long nights, how they drag you down
You tried to fight it but you hit the ground

And it's a lame song but it's what they play
You live strong, cause it's what they say
You live wild in your picture frame
Just smile like they know your name

Blue hair, like you just don't care
I see you trying and you get nowhere
She's too proud, got her head in the clouds
Tried to whisper but she think too loud

Got an old car and a brand new phone
It's too far but you can't stay home
Got that new dress and it fits you well
Hot mess but they never tell

She needs a light for her cigarette 
Needs a night that she can't forget
Don’t think you can feel the song
It's a good drink but it won’t last long

Too clear when they finally call
They came here just to see you fall
In demand, but you don't ask why
Raise your hand, do you feel the sky

Blue hair, like you just don't care
See you trying,  but you get nowhere
Too proud, got her head in the clouds
Tried to whisper but you think too loud

Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Dance in a circle but you get nowhere 
Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Walk to the fire, but you stop and stare

Got your head stuck  in a bitter tune
Won't wake till the afternoon
It was a long night when you shook the cage
No light from the burning sage

He's a good boy but he knows too much
There's no joy in a stranger’s touch
She dyes her hair in the kitchen sink
Burns her eyes but she doesn't blink

Can't miss what you don’t see
Hold this, it's meant to be

Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Dance in a circle but you get nowhere 
Find a friend find a song 
Put a feather in your hair
Walk to the fire but you stop and stare

Can you feel the drumbeat in your heart
Do you think it's been there from the start

Hanging on to find what's left to see
Holding on to know what we might be

Tell me what remains for you and me

Blue hair like you just don’t care
I see you trying and you get nowhere

Blue hair like you just don’t care
I see you trying and you get nowhere
But stay proud keep your head in the clouds
Never whisper you can just live 
Loud, live as loud as you can
Stay proud, they will not understand

Indoor Festival

Blue Hair (acoustic)

electric guitar and amp
(pic: toasted marshmallow)

lyrics:
there's a drought in the desert
nothing left to burn 
while you're out there 
waiting for your luck to turn 

got a pocket full of quarters 
gonna pay to play
they all like you better 
cause you never stay

wait wait
 till we stop spinning
count it on winning, here

in the heat, a mirage 
covers up the sky
and you fall to your knees
and you don't know why

wait for the fire
make me a liar
make me a liar, here

and there's apple pie
on the 4th of July
down to the desert where they made you lie
toxic elastic wrap your face in plastic 

out on road 
huffing dust and fumes
lost in your head cause 
there's too much room

in the hollow refrain 
of a bitter bet
can't explain 
and you won't forget

and you take take 
what they owe you
ask if they know you, here

down to the water 
that you never drink
stare in the sun 
till it makes you blink

breathe under water
 just like you taught her

who'd you find in California
were they everything you needed 
did they smile like they want you
do you wait until they bleed
yeah, who'd you find in California
was she everything you need
does it matter if they want you 
do you like it when they bleed

and there's apple pie
on the 4th of July
down to the desert where they made you lie
toxic elastic wrap your face in plastic 

so you get what you want 
is it what you need
they will follow you 
down any way you lead

in a circle and back again
what you've done and will not defend

where will they find you  
how they try to remind you
how they remind you here

all out of matches 
got a bridge to burn
beg for another 
cause you never learn

wait for the fire
make me a liar
make me a liar here
all wait...

apple pie foruth of july 
down to the desert where they made you lie
you are toxic elastic wrap your face in 
plastic...

wait for the fire
make me liar
make me a liar, here

and there's apple pie foruth of july 
down to the desert where they made you lie

you are toxic elastic wrap your face in 
plastic 
shave it off, sell it out

fade away

Nothing Left to Burn (old version)

lyrics:

well, you will not give me answers
and I can't afford your time
so I'm waiting in this parking lot
to pay the piper's fine

you cannot sell what isn't yours
I tried to buy what's free
all these towns are all the same
you won't remember me

but it's lonely on the outside, lonely in the wind
all I ever ask of you, stay and share my sin

I am eloquently lying 
with the words I rearrange
you hailed a yellow taxi cab
and paid the bill in change

in the field beside the freeway
you can almost see the stars
I wake to feel you breathing
and remember where we are

it's lonely on the outside, lonely in the wind
all I ever ask of you,  stay and share my sin

well there's no one at the table now 
no cards left in my sleeve
in this cold and empty parking lot 
I wait too long to leave

I am hardly worth remembering
the road will wear you down
even so I'd like to think
you won't forget this town

and I didn't come here to waste your time
didn't home here to change your mind
didn't come here to make you stay
never thought things would work that way

but it's lonely on the outside, lonely in the wind
all I ever ask of you, stay and share my sin

but it's lonely on the outside, a chill is in the air
lonely on the outside, I met you standing there

I asked for more, there wasn't time 
I knew you poor, but I held you blind
you answered "sure" but held that line
I am poor but you are blind



you and I don't get away
I know we don't win
tell me what I have to say
and what happens then

I know we don't get away
I know I don't win
tell me what I have to say
can I start again

tell me what I have to say
tell me what I have to say

Waste Your Time

a ghost story:

Your memory is my vice
But your heart is cold as ice
And I will always only think of you

The bitterness I held
The things I cannot tell
When I’m no longer certain, what is true

And so I stand in wonder
At what I’ll never be
But I know you are not waiting there for me

But I am the renegade
I'm the ghost that overstayed
Your dream and the rest will fade
We will be exactly as we seemed

the mirror here has been scratched
you were burning your last match
I called you, I’m afraid you didn’t know
There was static on the line
we were running out of time
Did you read the credits on the show

so I stand to wonder
at what you don't see
and I know you are not waiting here for me

But Lisa had her letters
And Jacob had his dream
but the dreamer and the schemer
we are less than what we seem

You were running out of letters
I was almost out of words
But the abject is the object 
I have always most preferred

I am waiting six feet deep
Stumbling you wander in your sleep
This place that we can’t keep
When you wake you won’t recall my face

but you shuddered at my touch
though I never cared so much
I’m no longer certain what is true

Your memory is my vice
But I am as cold as ice
And I know I can only think of you

And I will wait and wonder
At what is left to be
But I know you are not waiting there for me

And I will wait and wonder
At what is left to be
And what is out there waiting now for me

Six Feet Deep

(can I keep you?)

lyrics: 
So tell me what you waited for
I’ll tell you we've been here before
Now tell me if you have another dream

And with that darkness at your door
You told me that you wanted more
You told me that you had another dream

And on those nights of reckoning
Those demons they come beckoning
Is everything as hopeless as we seem

But if this game was justified
Then everything we ever tried
Was hollow and you know just what I mean

There is a shadow 
It was waiting on the ground
And what I borrowed
I could say I never found

Cling to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing to another when he comes to me
And I hate you, I hate you again
Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Lie to another when he waits for me
I hate you, I hate you again

And when I cried that seventh tear
That caught us both and trapped you here
I’m sorry, but I don’t know what I mean

And if that cold wind breaks the door
Then then maybe we come back for more
But you and I will always be obscene

There is a shadow now
I know there will be more
There is a voice I heard 
He wasn't here before

And what I borrowed
I could say I never found
But what I kept from you is buried in the ground

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sigh for another when we comes to me
I hate you I hate you again

Cling to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing for another when he comes to me 
I hate you, I hate you again
 
Tell me that you wanted this
That’s all I need to say
Lie to me and call it bliss 
That’s all I we do today

Maybe, look me in the eye
Before we walk away
Dreaming of an autumn sky
Where you and I could stay

Did I tell another lie
That’s all I do today
Baby, did you see that guy 
He likes the way I play

Did I tell another lie
That’s all I do today
Baby, did you hear this guy 
He likes the way I play

I know now what I have to do
With everything I put you though
It’s written in the lines there on your face

That fairy tale true came halfway true
When love prevails, but greed does too
I guess that we can finally leave this place

There is a shadow now 
I know there will be more
There is a voice I heard, he wasn't here before

And what I borrowed
I could say I never found
But what I keep from you
Is buried in the ground

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Lie to another when he comes to me
And I hate you I hate you again

Cling to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing to another when he comes to me 
And I hate you, I hate you again

Drown your desire in the deep blue sea
Ash on the pyre that you built for me
It came true, I saw you again

Call me a liar and that’s all you see
Walk to the fire but you’re cold to me
I hate you I hate you again
I hate you I hate you again

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Cry 

Cry to the devil in the deep blue sea
Sing to another when he comes to me
And I hate you, I hate you again
I hate you, I hate you again
I hate you, I hate you again
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REVIEWS/PRESS:
Alt77 (Alternative music blog)
http://alt77.com/post-punk-new-music-reviews-august-2020/

Had Another Dream

always caught eventually

lyrics:

Say the word
And you can make it all real
And I know
Exactly how you don’t feel
It’s a script
You wrote it for your own play
So I know it 
Doesn’t matter what I say

Say what they want 
Exactly like they taught you
Make it go away
Do like they want 
Then follow when they flaunt you
If you want to stay
If you want to stay

I don’t want to play this game
Even if I could
You can just forget my name
Yeah, I think you should

There's a fire
Looking for a new match
An agreement 
Looking for a old catch
And a gift horse
Knocking on a new gate
Then a old voice 
calling her an ingrate

Smile is bright
You make sure all your teeth show
Hold it till the flash
Out like a light
Then basking in a new glow
Pay it out in cash
Pay it out in cash

I don’t want to play this game
Even if I could
You can all forget my name
And I think you should

This is not enough for me
Who can explain
Take what you like from me
I will remain
I will remain

In a fever dream
When it all broke down
Will they wash you clean 
When they put you down

Did they take it all
For a broken crown
When they watch you fall
To the quiet ground

On a tape 
Too far back to rewind now
There's an answer 
They discover somehow
What was said
That no one can uncover
Was she led 
Astray to serve another

Well they won
The wound will never heal now
Just let it go
What was done 
The truth will find you somehow
You never know
You never know

I don’t want to play this game
Even if I could
You can just forget my name
Yeah I think you should 

This is not enough for me
Who can explain
Take what you like from me 
I will remain
I will remain
I will remain

(who is the big bad wolf afraid of?)

Forget My Name

| Genre - Progressive Psytrance |  | BPM - 138 |

If you can't tell, I really like plucks with a lot of delay.

One More Orbit

Dark Summer

same song different guitar (slightly different lyrics)

lyrics:

We were lying by the highway
Staring bleakly at the stars
You swore you heard the ocean
In the passing of the cars

There was nothing I could say
To make us more that what we seem
As I looked at you beside me
You were caught up in your dream

And you said to me, it all seems normal now
Said we'd get away from this somehow
I never would have guessed how far we'd fall
And with nothing left to lose, we lost it all

There a kettle in the corner
Full of water turned to rust
Your silver spoon is polished
While the guitar gathers dust

There's a fracture in the window 
That we covered up in tape
On the first night that we slept here
We were dreaming of escape

We had parties in the living room
Ran barefoot down the hall
And the night you said you loved me
Left a wine stain on the wall

We used to dream of better days when we were living them
I used to wonder, if I'd stay but now I know
You're out of lies, and I am tired of forgiving them

There is no second act that could redeem this show
There is no second act that could redeem this show
There is no second act that could redeem this show

You were gathering your breath
But there was nothing left to say
And you turned to me a moment
It was then I turned away

You say I never knew you
That I chose to let you go
I could wonder what's become of you
But I don't need to know

Now it's colder on this highway than before
In the echo of an ocean with no shore
Till I find myself forgetting you somehow
But I guess these days it all seems normal now

NOTE: I was at a gas station and some weird stuff happened but the clerk said "it all seems normal now." It inspired me. Also, I used to sit on a hillside by a highway and it really did sound like the ocean (if you haven't seen the ocean recently and are starting to forget).

Normal Now

It's Gonna Be A Good Sunset

after last call

lyrics:
On a dark night in the fall
You were standing on your wall
Waiting for a word in the right key

I was just another voice
Hazardous, your second choice
And always too far down for you to see

I will rise, oh I will rise
Be bright enough to catch your eyes
The moon is just a stone lit by a star

You're the fire I reflect
The energy I redirect
And I will find a way to where you are

Over
The green light’s gone out
All I wanted was closure
You left me in doubt

You said it was over
The green light’s all out
All I wanted was closure
You left me in doubt

You were always on your way
And I was always meant to stay
But I will give you reason to return

Built a castle in your name
Then cut it down to feed the flame
Just hoping you would stay to watch it burn

Lost and found you in the crowd
With my heartbeat ringing loud
We stumbled out into the street

Wandered in our revelry
There’s no one else, just you and me
The sky above, the world beneath our feet

Over
The green light’s all out
All I wanted was closure
You left me in doubt

At the station, here alone
On the last train headed home
Eviscerating absence of your hand

You’re back on that balcony
And I wonder if you think of me
Does it matter if I understand

Take whatever path you find
But tell me if you change your mind
In weeping on that letter that you hold

You’re the star that burns alone
Leaving me a heavy stone
Desolate, magnificent, and cold

Over
The green light's gone out
All I wanted was closure
You left me in doubt

You said it was over
The green light's all out
All I wanted was closure
You left me in doubt
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(really glad some people like this track, I wrote it for someone a long time ago)

No More Green Light (acoustic)

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iTunes

Actors

hello humans and bots.
lofi rock and acoustic stuff
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lyrics are posted on the song pages.
track art/photos are all pictures that I took myself unless otherwise noted. Weird little clay sculptures in the pictures were also probably made by me. 
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(profile photo by Samantha Brenstein)

Normal Now

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