Hollow Heart

Bad Romance - Single

Bad Romance

Bad Romance (Metalcore Cover)

Here’s an acoustic cover I did a few months back of Across the Universe by: The Beatles! The last verse & chorus are sung by Blake Carroll!!

Across the Universe (Acoustic Cover) ft. Blake Carroll

This cover was recorded live as a single take

Space Oddity (Live Acoustic Cover)

This cover was recorded live in 1 single take

Iris (Live Acoustic Cover)

Creep Jam (Shoegaze Cover)

Ripped Pants (Jam Cover)

Dreams (Demo)

The Confessions of a Porn Addict

Metalcore Song Intro

Vocals & Guitar: Matt Stretz
Drums: Blake Carroll

In Bloom (Jam Cover)

Jazz Fart

Alone on Christmas

what does this mean?

why does everything remind me of her?

why does everything remind me of her? (demo)

rose coloured glasses are one hell of a drug

rose coloured glasses are one hell of a drug (demo)

Impulse Machine Jam @ The Park

[verse]
What have I done
My sacrifice was for nothing
Those sacred years have now gone up in flames
I relinquish my trust
In what is to come
Cause only fools have faith & I’d rather be in the ground

You burned my trust every chance you got
Did you ever care or was I just an obstacle 

You are salt in my wounds

You are a snake in the grass
And your bite is toxic
You have injected your venom
But I refuse play dead

I’m so tired of you

[chorus]
For all these years that have past
Can we return from the ash
Do your embers still glow
Or are your feelings no more
What have we done
Where can I run
From these feelings I hide that eat me up from inside

[breakdown]
Rip out the stitches in my heart
Pour your salt into my wounds
Is this your sick love games? 
Watching me suffer on your hook

You killed my heart in cold blood
When you stabbed your knife in my chest
You fucking never loved me
Just end my suffering

[chorus]
For all these years that have past
Can we return from the ash
Do your embers still glow
Or are your feelings no more
What have we done
Where can I run
From these feelings I hide that eat me up from inside

Just let me go in peace

Survivor’s Guilt (Demo)

All Jams were recorded live on 3-31-25 with Blake Carroll on drums, Christian Treadwell on guitar, Gabriel Carroll on vocals,  & Matt Stretz on bass.

3-31-25 Title Fight Jam

3-31-25 Metalcore Jam

3-31-25 Melodic Jam

3-31-25 Rock Jam

I had dream about this song so I recorded at as soon as I woke up

Space Between Our Eyes (One Take Cover)

Kryptonite (Demo)

This song was written in collaboration with Jeremiah Moorefield
Instruments by: Jeremiah Moorefield
Lyrics & vocals by: Feelings Like Fire

[verse 1]
Does the ocean mourn the ships lost in its waves
How many sailors perished in her freezing waters
Does she lose any sleep for those men lost at sea
Or were those souls sent to the void for nothing

[refrain]
When all hope is lost, it sinks in a storm like every ship before

[verse 2]
You never cared, your actions said as much
How many times must I pour out my heart
For you to see, I’m not the man I once was
But a shell of who I want to be

[chorus]
And now my ship is sinking and I must learn to swim on my own
Treading water gets harder when you’re lost with no where to go

[outro]
So do I drown? Or will you rescue me?
Did you write me off or are you still looking?
My ship is on the ocean floor
Where it ever remains like those you sank before

ever loving//still hands (demo)

This song was written in collaboration with Gabe Belton

Lyrics:
The scars from the past never heal
This hole in my chest is all too real
After years of your shit I finally said goodbye
The ship has sailed, don’t want you in my life

Those memories were so bitter sweet
I’ve never felt so alive & so incomplete
What were your intentions with my heart
How could you love me then rip it apart

There’s nothing you can do to prove
I hate who I am when I’m with you
There’s nothing you can say
That can change the past & erase all the pain
You can cry, you can plead,
Now I finally see
We weren’t right for each other
We weren’t meant to be
I hope you know what you did wrong
This time, I’m really gone

You were so quick to walk out that door
Left me dying & bleeding on the floor
Like a cigarette I burned for you 
You lit me up just for one time use

You took that piece of my heart
Put it with the others in the dark
A collection of pain, taken in vain
Pointed your finger like I was to blame

There’s nothing you can do to prove
I hate who I am when I’m with you
There’s nothing you can say
To change the past & erase all my pain
You can cry, you can plead,
Now I finally see
We weren’t right for each other
We weren’t meant to be
I hope you know what you did wrong
This time, I’m really gone

And I will never forget how you looked in my face while I wept
And I won’t ever go back to that place where we first met
And I can’t say that I miss you, I know that I’ve said it a thousand times
And I have finally healed from all of the scars in my heart & my mind

There’s nothing you could do to prove
I hated myself when I was with you
There’s nothing you could say
To change the past or erase my pain
You can cry, you can plead,
Now I’m finally free
We weren’t right for each other
We weren’t meant to be
I hope you know what you did wrong
This time, I’m moving on

Really Gone (demo)

MCR VIBE (demo)

[Verse 1]
They say that good things never last
But now I'm haunted, constantly reminded of my past
If I had the chance, I would turn (back) the tides of time
But I can't so I'll drown in the meantime

[Verse 2]
What more could you want from me?
Slit my wrists and make me bleed
Shatter the glass that divides us
Tear my flesh from the bone and send me home

[CHORUS]
For a moment, I’ll say it
Take a chance, I'm breaking now
Hold my breath I can't take it
Because there's no turning back now
I'm cursed to this Earth like a ghost in the night
Passing in and out, hidden out of sight

[Verse 3]
Now the time has come, to fill the tomb
So tear out my heart and let hated bloom
As you lower me into the ground
Will everything lost finally be found?

[Verse 4]
Bury me so fucking deep
That I can never leave, and have eternal sleep
Return me to the earth
So I can end this curse and go home

[Chorus]
For a moment, I’ll say it
Take a chance, I'm breaking now
Hold my breath I can't take it
Because there's no turning back now
I'm cursed to this Earth like a ghost in the night
Passing in and out, hidden out of sight

Ghost in the Night (Demo)

I exist was originally written as a project for French class in high school.
I Exist Lyrics:
As the father of modern Philosophy
I am a genius as you’re about to see
I helped influence algebraic geometry
have you even heard about me

I lost my daughter when she was five
Passed away cause her fever was high
It was hard living in France
I went thought of emotions

As a kid of '96
They took me to school and taught me French
I am quite the logical man
I think therefore I am
X2

The 1600s were a simpler time
Life is hard cause my mother died
Lived with my grandma during school
I studied law cause my dad wanted me to

As a kid of '96
They took me to school and taught me French
I am quite the logical man
I think therefore I am
X2

I Exist (10th Anniversary Version)

Everything was originally written by my first band, The Jacetz
Lyrics by: Kyle Jackowski

Everything (10th Anniversary Version)

This intro was written & produced by Caleb Foster, Blake Carroll, Matt Stretz, & Matt Miller

Feelings Like Fire Intro

Something Religious (demo)

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