Second set of tracks which will be the basis of the second albums material, bit more of a schitzophrenic mix of genres than Dystopia

INCOGNITO

I don't want this to end
I want to start over again
This part of me won't mend
This message I meant to send
How are we
How are we
How are we going to pretend
That this is what was needed
The opposite was pleaded
That advice was not heeded
Now what
Now what
Now what do we do
What must be done

Come and Cover me
Cover
Cover
Cover me
Stay and be my
Be my
Be my
Be my lover
Let's discover
What it means
To be each other
To be another
Part of this geometry

Curled in an embrace
I don't want to face
Another day in this rat race
Get me
Get me
Get me outa here
I can't be near
All of this fear
My mind refuses to find
Another of its kind
And so I'm left behind
Hold on
Hold on
Hold on to me
Together we'll see
Where we should be

Come and Cover me
Cover
Cover
Cover me
Stay and be my
Be my
Be my
Be my lover
Let's discover
What it means
To be each other
To be another
Part of this geometry

Come and Cover me
Cover
Cover
Cover me
Stay and be my
Be my
Be my
Be my lover
Let's discover
What it means
To be each other
To be another
Part of this geometry

Over
Over
Over and out
If you have a megaphone
There's no need to shout
Do you know how a pirate hears
He listens through his buccaneers
Now is a good time to end
With a smile my friend

Cover Me

I  Call This Life

I see through a smashed up face
Theres no one to hate
No one to embrace, you call this fate, fate
You call this fate

I speak to you through broken lips
Theres no one to hear
No one to kiss, you call this fear, fear
You call this fear

Hey hey i call this life, life
Hey hey i call this life
You you i call you out, out
You i call you out
Hey i call this life, i call you out

I hear through a hole in my head
Theres no one to care
No one to listen, you call this fair, fair
You call this fair

Hey hey i call this life, life
Hey hey i call this life
You you i call you out, out
You i call you out
Hey i call this life, i call you out

Theres no one to hate
I call this life, life
No one to hear
I call this life, life
No one to care
I call this life, life
I call this life

I call this life

I call this life

I Call This Life

Nihilistic dystopian view of tech getting ahead of its creators and deciding to destroy it all

End Transmission

I'm not really a fan of describing what my songs meant as i was writing them, songs should be subjective and personal in my opinion. A song that you like, that touches you or evokes some feeling is yours and yours alone, what the lyrics mean to you may have nothing at all to do with my intention, and thats beautiful and perfect. I didnt write any of my songs to belong to me in meaning and intent, i wrote them to be shared and deciphered individually.
But i'll put the lyrics here for those that do like analysing my intention. :)

Lyrics

Oh these lonely days go by
Like the only cloud in the sky
Left to drift without a friend
Left alone til the bitter end
Lonely days come round again
More wait for me around the bend
Let me go from this lonely place
This loneliness I cannot face

Am I a spectre, a ghost
I walk unseen through the crowd
There's a demon within this host
I want to scream out loud
I stop and begin to speak
And they just turn away
Am I some kind of freak
Is this my slow decay

Oh these lonely days go by
Like the only cloud in the sky
Left to drift without a friend
Left alone til the bitter end
Lonely days come round again
More wait for me around the bend
Let me go from this lonely place
This loneliness I cannot face

Why do I remain unseen
Am I a butterflies dream
I'm told I must exist
I've not been missed
In the mirror I see a face
It's one I cannot place
And even that reflection
Is facing the other direction

Oh these lonely days go by
Like the only cloud in the sky
Left to drift without a friend
Left alone til the bitter end
Lonely days come round again
More wait for me around the bend
Let me go from this lonely place
This loneliness I cannot face

I've been waiting around
In the lost and found
But no one has come to collect me
I guess here I'll wait
To discover my fate
And see if this really is my destiny

Oh these lonely days go by
Like the only cloud in the sky
Left to drift without a friend
Left alone til the bitter end
Lonely days come round again
More wait for me around the bend
Let me go from this lonely place
This loneliness I cannot face

Dystopia

Loneliest Days Go By

LYRICS

Ahhhh yeahhh
The sun is in my face
My boots pound the dirt
This ain't no race
In a world full of hurt
So I'm takin' it easy
It's not hard to please me
Coz you know

I've been beaten down by life so many times
I've tried to find out the reason why
It's not like I've lived a life of crime
To be better each day I'll always try
Even so I've givin' up on winnin'
You know, on account of all my sinnin'

This is all I need
So life decreed
Ohhh this long road carries me home
And home is wherever I roam
Each step followed by the next
No need for me to ever rest
It's a hard road
A hard road to follow
But I'll stay on it
Until the sun comes up tomorrow

In case you haven't seen
I left a message
Just to say i'd already been
So hey I'm already gone
Yeah I left this place alone
I'm gonna find somewhere else to call my home
There's no other way to say this
I'm pretty sure I won't be missed

For now that place is the road
I don't mind carrying this load
Battle scarred and hard
Baked by the burning sun
Been buckled and marred
Into the distance I watch it run
The deserted highway is my home
And I'm happy to travel it alone
The stars at night are my only light
And our silent sentinel the moon
Roaming the rest of my life I just might
Which I think may come too soon

This is all I need
So life decreed
Ohhh this long road carries me home
And home is wherever I roam
Each step followed by the next
No need for me to ever rest
It's a hard road
A hard road to follow
But I'll stay on it
Until the sun comes up tomorrow..............woahhhh

I walk alone upon this road
A knapsack is my only load
I don't have a heavy heart
Or any of life's burdens to cart
The road and my feet
Every second meet
And remain friends
Until they meet again

This is all I need
So life decreed
Ohhh this long road carries me home
And home is wherever I roam
Each step followed by the next
No need for me to ever rest
It's a hard road
A hard road to follow
But I'll stay on it
Until the sun comes up tomorrow

Hard Road To Follow

Backstory to this track- was with my daughter driving somewhere and we were talking about addiction (id just finished rehab) and i mentioned how much chocolate id been eating since id finished rehab. I jokingly suggested id swapped one addiction for another, and the seed was sown for this song.
Itried to get a DMZ garage punk band feel to the track and got close i hope with reverb on the vocals in particular.

Lyrics

Sugar Is My Heroin

When I wake with that awful itch
I need to pay the sweetest bitch
I know what I need and I need it soon
So I rip through every single room

Hunting high and hunting low
A disaster zone everywhere I go
I need to find a bit more cash
So I steal from that hidden stash


Ohh it was meant to be
There for all the world to see
Sugar is my heroin baby

Its my only sin
Cant you see
Sugar is my heroin
I'll pay the fee
Once I begin
It wont end
Sugar is my heroin

Step aside as down the street I go
Headed to this place that I know
And I'll find that sweet patient bitch
Ready to scratch my sinful itch

Ohh she'll be waiting just for me
And she'll be happy guaranteed
At the end of the longest line
That I'm back
I swear

One last time

Its my only sin
Cant you see
Sugar is my heroin
I'll pay the fee
Once I begin
It wont end
Sugar is my heroin

Its my only sin
Cant you see
Sugar is my heroin
I'll pay the fee
Once I begin
It wont end
Sugar is my heroin

It wont ever end
Sugar is my heroin
Sugar is my heroin
Cant you see
Sugar is my heroin baby

Sugar Is My Heroin

Tongue in cheek swipe at people living their lives vicariously through Social Media and the Internet.

Lyrics

Gotta get outta here quick
And catch up with my clique
Haven't logged on all day
Life just got in the way
I've got my comments listed
So none of them get missed

Ohhhhhh yeahhhhhh

Gotta have that Social Media fix
Facebook, twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn
Tik Tok, Snapchat,, Pinterest, Instagram
Tumbler, Discord, WhatsApp, Messenger
What's new I really need to know
See how much my threads grow
Who's doing what, and who's not
And Who really wants what I've got

Our lives laid bare for all the world to see
An influencer is what id really like to be
And all from the comfort of my armchair
Organising all my comments, likes and shares

Come onnnñnn

Social media is my drug
I'm a social media thug
That's just the way I roll
Professional internet troll
Log in and check the clues
I'm on the hunt for fake news
Social media thug, it's a drug
Come.on friend, I'm the one
Social media thug, it's a drug
Post your thoughts it's fun

Yeah it is baby

Gotta have that Social Media fix
Facebook, twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn
Tik Tok, Snapchat,, Pinterest, Instagram
Tumbler, Discord, WhatsApp, Messenger
What's new I really need to know
See how much my threads grow
Who's doing what, and who's not
And who really wants what I've got

Social media thug, it's a drug
Come.on friend, I'm the one
Social media thug, it's a drug
Post your thoughts it's fun

Social media thug, it's a drug
Come.on friend, I'm the one
Social media thug, it's a drug
Post your thoughts it's fun

Incognito

Social Media Thug

Written in response to some of the Hysteria around the growth in AI tech and the threat to humanity creating super intelligence could give rise to when its pretty clear the most immediate threat to humanities survival is ourselves.

Lyrics

We are cogs in a vast machine
We are mere pawns in its scheme
For however long it's been
Our Hubris is our crime
Our broken eyes too blind to see
Our future lies on our knees
To fall to the tempting and the lies
Rise of the machine
Rise of the machine
We believe all the lies
Of the corporate machine

Who wrote the code
Who made the chips
Compiled the node
Summed the bits
Fuck the machine
Who built the board
Who had the dream
Who plugged the cord
Planned the scheme
Fuck the machine

Fuck the machine
It keeps us clean
And does what we need
Fuck the machine
It's not my dream
It's a product of our greed

The machine we fear is real
But is not circuits and steel
For now that its known
The machine is skin and bone
In our lust
We find that
The machine is us

Fuck the machine

Fuck the machine
It's really us
Fuck the machine
Who to trust
Fuck the machine
Can't you see
Fuck the machine
It's you and me

Fuck the machine
It's really us
Fuck the machine
Who to trust
Fuck the machine
Can't you see
Fuck the machine
It's you and me


Skin and Bone

Skin And Bone

I guess this is kinda an anti-war song. Started off i was just thinking about all the soldiers who'd died in foreign lands and never been repatriated home to be buried in the soil of their home. A bit grim so tried to fit the music to the mood to the lyrics.

Lyrics

Aaaaahhhhh here
Here amongst the dead and dying
Here with all the widows crying
Etched upon all their headstones
Romantic Poetry that bemoans
The truth of their short existence
Having not lasted the distance
Lies concocted for the shell
As if purgatory is better than hell
How
How can you tell

Blood
Ash
And dust
Medals
Turned to rust

Read the lines
Engraved in stone
See the grave markers
Standing all alone
Watch the grass grow
Watch it as they mow
Watch the flowers wilt and die
Watch grieving families cry
Here among the dead we stand
Bones and ash buried in the land
Etched in stones
Just our bones
In god we trust
If we must
Rest in peace
Until it's time
To renew the lease
Etched in stone
Home sweet home

Count these here having all the luck
Not those who forever are stuck
Over in countries where they landed
Their bodies lost and graves untended
No names or poems etched in stone
Just their corpses in fields all alone
They'll never
Be coming home

Blood
Ash
And dust
Medals
Turned to rust

Read the lines
Engraved in stone
See the grave markers
Standing all alone
Watch the grass grow
Watch it as they mow
Watch the flowers wilt and die
Watch grieving families cry
Here among the dead we stand
Bones and ash buried in the land
Etched in stones
Just our bones
In god we trust
If we must
Rest in peace
Until it's time
To renew the lease
Etched in stone
Home sweet home

Read the lines
Engraved in stone
See the grave markers
Standing all alone
Watch the grass grow
Watch it as they mow
Watch the flowers wilt and die
Watch grieving families cry
Here among the dead we stand
Bones and ash buried in the land
Etched in stones
Just our bones
In god we trust
If we must
Rest in peace
Until it's time
To renew the lease
Etched in stone
Home sweet home

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home (Etched in Stone)

I'm not really a fan of describing what my songs meant as i was writing them, songs should be subjective and personal in my opinion. A song that you like, that touches you or evokes some feeling is yours and yours alone, what the lyrics mean to you may have nothing at all to do with my intention, and thats beautiful and perfect. I didnt write any of my songs to belong to me in meaning and intent, i wrote them to be shared and deciphered individually.
But i'll put the lyrics here for those that do like analysing my intention. :)
Experimented with some word play and a more moody bassy sound. Song is meant to reflect living life without regret.

Lyrics

Ohhhhh woahhh
When the hands of time stand still
What does this entropy fill
Will chaos reign
Do we begin again
As the hands tick slowly in reverse
Living backwards is so perverse
Seeing yourself as you were
No past to which you can refer
When your reflection
Is facing
The other direction

Yeahhhhh
Reverse in lived life
Cord the cuts knife
Astray gone has all
Up surges waterfall
Certain not are things
Past the about sings
Tomorrow of fear brings
Life lived in reverse
Getting out of the hearse

Aaahhhhhh
Life lived in reverse
For lost youth we thirst
When winning is losing
And the future comes first
When there is no choosing
The road that we travel
When we begin to unravel
Life lived in reverse
A cosmic curse
Devoid of hope
We dangle the rope
Hooked over a beam
Only to remove our head from the noose
And set our descent to hell loose

Reverse in lived life
Cord the cuts knife
Astray gone has all
Up surges waterfall
Certain not are things
Past the about sings
Tomorrow of fear brings
Life lived in reverse
Getting out of the hearse

Ohhh Yeahhhhh
So now yesterday is cursed
To be more perverse
When tomorrow
Doesn't follow
Instead we are lead
To turn our head
And march back to where we started
No future to be bartered

Ohhhhh
Reverse in lived life
Cord the cuts knife
Astray gone has all
Up surges waterfall
Certain not are things
Past the about sings
Tomorrow of fear brings
Life lived in reverse
Getting out of the hearse

One thing though is certain
We have the hope of the final curtain
Being drawn when we reach our birth
And we leave this lonely earth
As we had begun
Screaming at the top of our lungs

Reverse In Life

CREDITS:
Mark Saunders © 2025
Album & other Art all created by Madeleine Saunders © 2025 (https://www.instagram.com/inkyb_aby)

A huge Thank You and so much gratitude I owe to my friend Matt Cahill of PRS Records for guidance, advice and all your time and expertise you gave me and for mastering some of the Tracks, thanks Bro.

Thanks to Christos Kouzinos for all your help with the drums, drum patterns and beats.

Thanks to Don Naley for all your much needed guidance and help with Guitar, Samples and Loops, Chord Progressions, Synthesizer and a load of other shit too numerous to mention.

Thanks Greg Hamlin (Legend) for bailing me out and providing vocals (both Lead and Backing) on a load of tracks as well as some Guitar stuff.

All of the The TAU Project tracks were created using a mixture of DAW’s and a multitude of Plugins (Reason, Audacity, Waveform, MeldaProduction, Cakewalk, Reaper, Voicemod, Overloud, Graillion, AVS Audio Converter, Surge XT and Vital) as well as real time electric guitar, drums, keyboard/synth, various royalty free samples and loops. Some AI was also used in the pre and post production and creation of these tracks, in particular with synthesizer and some sound layering.
Last but not least thank you to the Four Angels that provide me with Love, Support, Inspiration and Encouragement every single day, Lauren, Madeleine, Mackenzie and Ruby.

The Tau Project was really just a bit of fun to begin with but has wound up being a bit more than that, it’s also been very cathartic, and to be honest a hell of a long time in the making. Some of the lyrics to these tracks were written when I was in my late teen’s right up until present. 
There is a mixture of styles and genres so that it may seem a bit schizophrenic but it was deliberate. I was attempting to pay homage and respect to my musical influences throughout the years from the 70’s and 80’s NWOBHM, The Hair Metal years, Hard Rock and Rock influences, Punk, Hardcore, Nu Metal, Grunge, Blues and probably some other influences in there I’ve missed. Hopefully it isn’t too disheveled and crappy and seen for what it is.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have, and if not don’t complain to me I didn’t force you to listen.
ALL METAL ALL THE TIME UNTIL THE DAY I DIE