Cranked in the Lab - vol.5

Grim (Remastered) - The 39th Floor EP

When Three Or More Are Gathered. . .

special thanks to my friend N.o.b.S this was fun 
more of his music @https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer

Pushing Daisies - N.o.b.S

A collaboration with Reedy - quite a different style from the norm - for us and him! Had a blast working on this one. Check out Reedy's other work here: https://soundcloud.com/user-716607695

LYRICS:

Running on fumes from the empty promises
You leave a trail of wounded from your bullshit policies
We're all subject to a strip-search warrant, identity probe
we got our blood type, colour, indemnity sold
into a government profile in a public upload to the cloud
We're gonna take it down
We're gonna take it down

Super sized French fries
Two-for-one mind control,
You're on a leash
Fear drenched gummy bears
offer up conspiracy and disbelief

Call in the team for a good-old dressing down
Blowing off steam with the peasants in the town
We're all meeting for a witch hunt shaming
and a throwing of stones
Behind the lynch mob clamour you'll be rolling the bones
You picked a hitchhike lover who can pay off your loans with her blood
We're gonna take it down
No, ain't gonna take it now

Take It Down - feat. Reedy

Think Hard

Electric guitar is absent --- Bass and Acoustic lead the way .
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I wish you were the one that could
Bring up the sun, instead
You bring out the dark and soot
Am I good enough for you? Am I good enough for you?
Put on a front, I hide
What's killing me most inside
Oh, I stay to myself, "I'm fine"
Is what I'd say to you, am I good enough for you?

Say that you'll be mine
Well you lied, well you lied
I tend to stay aside
While you try to be some kind

You were the one that would
Bring up the sun, instead
You bring out the dark and soot
Am I good enough for you? Am I good enough for you?

Say that you'll be mine
Well you lied, well you lied
I tend to stay aside
While you try to be some kind

All done, it's out there
And everything inside is just alright
Far from complete here
That's okay, I'm still alive, I fight
I fight

You were the one that could
Bring up the sun, instead
Oh, I stay to myself, "I'm fine"
Is what I'd say to you, am I good enough for you?

Some Kind

lyrics-

i spend most nights wandering in my head
and losing sleep to the memories that i had
i need to learn to let go
i need to find a new home

my days are filled with dreams of places i'd rather be
where the sky is clear, and there's just the wind to hear

i need to learn to let go
i need to find a new home
where the sky is clear
and there's just the wind to hear

i knew i was old enough to love you
and that truth will haunt me everyday
i wasted all of my time with you
and that's life i mas as well erase

i knew i was old enough to love you
and that truth will haunt me everyday
i wasted all of my time with you
and that's life i mas as well erase

my life was so invested in you
and that fact will haunt me everyday
i wasted so much of my life with you
and that's life that'll never be replaced

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Rock Island

Stream!

to Live is to Wander

Mixed By Steve Fisk
Mastered by Jack Endino.
Fist single off the  Mallrats Record, only at https://shorediverecords.bandcamp.com/album/mallrats?fbclid=IwAR3yaPsCBQXFaxOhc6owsD5rQUe2Njv8ymWC7_ObX5kCwamsPhj6_m8ooSA
Music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLJzWe3i6vg

That summer girl.

Thanks to my friends Hans Kath and Robert for the opportunity to work on this, God Bless 

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Lyrics:

Breathe and reshape, be not afraid
Underneath the pines, breathe and reshape
Oceans wide, a sign!

Like the seasons blazing we paint the sky
Our spirits unify

Underneath the pines, breathe and reshape
Oceans wide, a sign!

Like the seasons blazing we paint the sky
Our spirits unify, a symphony of greens
Chase your wildest dreams
We paint the sky
We unify

Unify

Like the seasons blazing we paint the sky
Our spirits unify a symphony of greens
Chase your wildest dreams
We paint the sky
We unify

Unify

We Unify!

Unify - Haleen / Robert Grigg & Combstead

Many thanks to Michael Dellman for his patience on this track so happy he reached out to me from the other side of this world and ask me to write lyrics to his music.

From The Ground Up - Dellmania / Flipside Mantra

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
“Mysterium Tremendum”

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Music and Lyrics by:
Daphne Ang
Andrea Papi

Performed by:
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
Daphne Ang (Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Orchestra)
Andrea Papi (Vocals, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar)

Recorded and Produced by TCOMAS Studio
Mixed and Mastered by Ergosphere Studios

© 2024 The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
℗ 2024 The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara

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Mysterium Tremendum

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I Won't be a Ghost

Email chimes, her paper rejected,
Doubt whispers, on path selected.
"Am I good enough?" her heart oppressed,
By impostor's syndrome, her confidence suppressed.

In the echoes of doubt, she finds her voice,
Rising strong, she makes her choice.
In the echoes of doubt, she stands firm,
With every fall, she lives, she learns.

Letters slide, tenure denied, dreams now dejected,
Futures blurred, on roads once projected.
"Have I done enough?" his spirit contested,
By impostor's syndrome, his hopes oppressed.

In the echoes of doubt, he finds his voice,
Rising strong, he makes his choice.
In the echoes of doubt, he stands firm,
With every fall, he lives, he learns.

Surrounded by brilliance, in the academic sea,
"Are they better than us?" whispers insecurity.
Each publication, each award they secure,
Deepens the doubt we try to endure.

In the echoes of doubt, we find our voice,
Rising strong, we make our choice.
In the echoes of doubt, we stand firm,
With every fall, we live, we learn.

"Do I really deserve to be here?"
"How did I get this far?"
"Am I good enough?"
"Am I smart enough?"
"Am I brave enough?"
"How long can I keep this up?"
"Why do I feel like a fraud?"

You're not alone, we've all been there,
Plagued by doubts, consumed by fear.
Welcome to the club, where we all belong,
You are good enough, you are strong.

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Written during a time of personal reflection, "Echoes of Doubt" is more than just a melody—it's a journey from self-doubt to self-discovery. We all have those moments of questioning our worth, our achievements, and our place in the world. This song is for everyone who's ever felt like they weren't enough, and a celebration of the strength it takes to rise above these feelings.

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Echoes of Doubt

Pittsburgh Slim and Mars Kestrel are the Nunchuks

rearranged

Even today, modern politicians are educated by what's been dubbed a "manual of statecraft", penned by the so-called Father of Modern Political Philosophy and Political Science, the 16th century Venetian, Niccolò Machiavelli. 

In Machiavelli's book, The Prince, they are taught that no matter how evil the means that they employ are, to achieve victory, the ends will justify those means. Then as the victors, all they have to do is to rewrite the history, to present themselves as the good guys. 

I'm very grateful to Mark Combstead for providing such great rock music for this poem. You can find him here: https://soundcloud.com/markcombs-928282858

Words:

Last night, I dreamed of Machiavelli,
 Who, it seems, hasn’t learned much since the days of the Medici. 
 His pretext of seizing power for the ‘good of God’,
 Was straight out of the playbook of Cesar Borgia....
 So it seemed from my talk with poor, deluded Niccolo.
 
 Looking into my eyes and holding my hands
 He plied me with cunning plots and plans,
 Dripping in evil criminality, and base intent
 To create chaos for the existing world order
 No means was too foul, not even murder.
 
 The end will justify the means, my dear,
 Don’t worry your pretty head. 
 He said. 
 I wasn’t buying it, though, 
And so I said:	
 
 All around us in the world today that we see,
 Has been caused by those with such a strategy.
 The end doesn’t justify the means, at all.
 It is the means themselves which create the evil
 Of famine, pollution and perpetual war,
 Driven by madness, greed and holy preachings;
 This is the end created by your teachings. 
 We now have nation pitted against nation,
 Because the way, the means, IS the destination.
 

Words and vocals by Annie Dieu-Le-Veut
© Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, April 2024 

Music by Combstead
© Mark Combstead, April 2024 

Cover Art by by pizarro2021 at DeviantArt.

Machiavelli

Sweet Talk

D sides

Slow Motion

90's Inspire rock and roll direct from Metro Detroit.

Dive on in, who said life was always colorfast.
Cut and run you've been out done by another broke iconoclast........
Broken down iconoclast.

And if you decide it's worth the strain of one my try, then wash away the dirty days, I'll be standing by.
One more plan that we design falls apart one more time, so find a way to better days.......I'll be standing by.

Try holding something new that's running out of time.
Another fear, one more lie, another rock we just can't hide behind.

And if you decide it's worth the strain of one my try, then wash away the dirty days, I'll be standing by.
One more plan that we design falls apart one more time, so find a way to better days.......I'll be standing by.

Cause we walk away from better days. We're holding up, because we're standing by.

Standing By

Stand By

Sally Won't You Come - Combstead & Robert Grigg

Apophenia

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