Trying out harmony vocals plus a little bit of whammy bar from a new for me Ibanez (1995)
Burning My Roots Behind Me* – lyrics by Nicholas R Fuller

We had lots of memories
We had a lot of Joy 
We had some sadness 
As our love was the real McCoy

But you can’t take that with you
And that life is in the past
I can’t let that be my life
My life’s future mold is not yet cast.

On, Onwards I go
Every step on a new path I don’t know

Burning my Roots behind me
With every mile I walk
Burning my Roots behind me
Seeing which way the path does fork

Our lives together are over
The past is set in stone
But my horizon is far away
And I don’t want to be alone

On, Onwards I go
Every step on a new path I don’t know



Burning my Roots behind me
With every mile I walk
Burning my Roots behind me
Seeing which way the path does fork
Burning my Roots behind me
With every mile I walk
Burning my Roots behind me
I still want to fly as a hawk

On, Onwards I go
Every step on a new path I don’t know

Your love I’ll take with me
Everywhere I go 
I'll probably talk to you as a ghost
Through the highs and lows
On, Onwards I go
Every step on a new path I don’t know

Burning my Roots behind me
With every mile I walk
Burning my Roots behind me
Seeing which way the path does fork
Burning my Roots behind me
With every mile I walk
Burning my Roots behind me
I still want to fly as a hawk




*line from Laurie Lee’s as “As I walked Out One Mid-summer’s Morning

Burning My Roots

Lyrics:

If a picture is a
Thousand words
No matter how it
Hurts I got a million
Sometimes you
Dig yourself at
That pain
To get that feeling,
I never grow 
Old I am healing,
Born torn
Secondhand a
First child 
Thrifting memories
Never planned 
To get rich
On life,
But here is a penny to the 
Thoughts of
Afterlife
I never really rolled it up
Cigar bars
Premium I got my stuff
Gaining on my life and I 
Think I am addeding up
Used to think I had enough 
You would think I had it tough
The diamond made from rough
I never had to bluff
So here is for the truth 
Can you hear it one time 
When you really want it 
Baby grind
In the end of day 
You will be prime 
Poor thoughts I 
Was taught 
Commoditize  my struggle
I am bought 
Mortgage these loans
Momma pay day
For we can’t afford 
Things we through
Away 
Interest wed rather give it
To the top,
Thinking back on what 
We watch in a box
Escaping that rainy 
Day living life cast away
On my block I never
Stray.
Middle class to 
Lower class,
I am feeling that 
Real life,
So when my voice on
You can hear it on the mic
You ever get the feeling like
They don’t hear the struggle 
And
When it’s broadcast it’s muffled

If they shut us down 
I am going down in 
A box a product of my
Thoughts over environment
Mind over matter
Abused losers risen it
Cause all the nights 
I ain’t shit 
We was never number two
Cause we wasn’t someone to you x2


You got to make it out,
glass shattered,
Who sees 20-20
I seen tatthered,
Visions and hues 
To say,
Your blue isn’t green,
Got sad,
Made a machine,
That’s art,
They don’t hear me 
On beats
That’s heart I
Bring it from the chess
And play that
Game a grand 
Master my disaster 
Collage broken
Shards cut our skin
Blood in ink I pen
Lines like cash 
I walk it,
East side pride 
I talk it,
They try to write me
Off,
Even in a lemonade
Stand I would rather be
My own boss,
What’s it cost.
Lost world integrity,
You ass it’s 
What I said I would be,
Bled and sweat I breathe
Measured
What’s brevity
When I say it I do it,
This ain’t music 
Spoken word is
Bond,
Til I break I am on,
Holding it down,
Six feet up when I’m
In the ground,
Cause they could 
Never hold us 
Down.
I seen through the system,
Mos-ilium 
All I am seeing,
I am above it 
Like blowing clouds
In public 
High nice to meet you
Though I been low
I was never beat to 
Not think 
I would do better 
I made it cause I
Had to what’s weather ?

Julius Stallone - Mind Over Matter (Prod. Julius Stallone)

🎦 YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8jYeSDLdfIk 👈
Hi everyone! 🙌 This time we're moving from the lightness of Chiptune (https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/pink-chubby-creature) to something more reflective, something that concerns most of us, or at least those lucky (or unlucky) enough to live long enough to grow old. This song was inspired by a visit to a retirement home. Musically, it's kind of the spiritual child of our previous track "I lost her to a previous version of me" (https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/i-lost-her-to-a-previous).
👉"Now and Here" is a meditation on aging, presence, and how quickly everything slips through our fingers. It starts in the softness of awareness and builds into a cry for recognition, for meaning, for being seen while there’s still time. We’ve all met someone who used to shine and now barely gets noticed. Maybe we fear becoming that person ourselves.
No fancy tricks here. Just lyrics that hit close to home and a melody that carries them with honesty. It’s a piece for those who’ve ever looked back and wondered where the time went, or forward and felt a chill.
🎧Hope you enjoy it, and huge thanks to everyone who takes the time to listen. An even bigger thank you to those who come back to it, leave a comment, hit like or repost it. 
We love you all! 🫶
At the moment, this track is exclusively available on SoundCloud.
Released on May 2, 2025.
©2025 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

Life fades away,  
slow today.  
You're young,  
tomorrow you're old.  

Now and here, you're wild and free,  
time will steal what you can't see.  
One day strong, the next you're weak,  
fading like the words you speak.  

Now and here, you're shining bright,  
one day soon, you'll lose the fight.  
You’ll be old, they won’t care,  
screaming "Hey, I'm still right here!"

Now and here, you're standing tall,  
years will pass, you’re bound to fall.  
Once you ruled, now you fade,  
echoes lost in yesterday.  

Now and here, you're shining bright,  
one day soon, you'll lose the fight.  
You’ll be old, they won’t care,  
screaming "Hey, I'm still right here!"  
 
All your senses slipping slow,  
memories you used to know.  
Faces change, the past is gone,  
and the world just moves along.  

Now and here, you're young and strong,  
sing your song, it won’t last long.  
When you're old, they'll walk away,  
but your words remain to stay. 

But your words remain to stay.

Now and Here

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The latest single from Toronto's alternative electronic duo Deadhead Daisies

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In Tenebris

Beat by IOF - Country Alt Pop type song - rough mix

Hanging by a String

MUSICIANS
John Beckmann: all music, lyrics, and production
Tanner McGraw: vocals and backing vocals
Lawson Mars: backing vocals
Lux Astralis, New York: recording studio
Atomix LA: mastering

LYRICS
Will I find you there
with your golden hair
glistening in the breeze
I hope I find you there
In the sunlight
In the sun
in the sun
Will I find you there
Will I find you there
with your golden hair
I'd love to meet you there
By the sea
By the sea
Will you meet me there
By the sea
in the sunlight
in the sun

BY THE SEA

Take Me Back

Many the wonders I this day have seen:
The sun, when first he kist away the tears
That fill’d the eyes of morn;—the laurel’d peers
Who from the feathery gold of evening lean;—
The ocean with its vastness, its blue green,
Its ships, its rocks, its caves, its hopes, its fears,—
Its voice mysterious, which whoso hears
Must think on what will be, and what has been.
E’en now, dear George, while this for you I write,
Cynthia is from her silken curtains peeping
So scantly, that it seems her bridal night,
And she her half-discover’d revels keeping.
But what, without the social thought of thee,
Would be the wonders of the sky and sea?

John Keats

To My Brother George

Hiding from the outside 
Hiding from the outside
Keep it cool
I can’t keep it cool
Feel alright but deep inside I am back in middle school
Never knew
Oh I never knew 
I never knew
Passing through
No I’m just passing through
I am passing through 
I’ll go far…
I’ll piece myself together again
Curtains will open it’s the final act 
The cuts are all starting to feel like a jab 
Your eyes were closed when I tried to react
Overruled 
The decision incision’s overruled
I’ll survive without any rules 
Lied to you
I lied to you
I never told the truth 
Never knewww
No you never knew 
I thought that you had a clue and so
I’ll go far…
I’ll piece myself together again
Curtains will open it’s the final act 
The cuts are all starting to feel like a jab 
Your eyes were closed when I tried to react
Different rooms 
We are in different rooms
But the stars remain the same
Hiding from the outside 
Hiding from the outside

Hanging by a String

Matt James