(Lindholm | Sharbaugh)
Marc T. Rowe [ n/a ]: acoustic and electric guitars
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, synthesizers and sequencer programming, drums and drum machine programming, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. 1990 to July 19, 2013.
Remastered ca. November 3, 2022.
sm14 [the "Zone V-HI" master] [24WAV].

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An extended, unmastered, instrumental version of this song -- with three parts -- can be heard here:

https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/the-temptation-trilogy

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"A VERY special thank you to Erik Lindholm [ n/a ], whom I wrote this song with back in 1990: appreciate you letting me spin my own version."

~ Michael

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here
held tightly to her side
light so easy to see
the needs
that I possess inside
gain possession of me

caught on fire
a sudden fire baby
so alive with flames
and there seems like no tomorrow
tomorrow to this game

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feels so cool in your skin
it's like neon in your veins
it knows no compassion
it knows no grace
so Lord forgive me
Lord understand
the power of temptation's hand

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strange
sometimes it seems so strange
at times I cannot fight
and though I'm not
bruised or defeated
I'm bleeding from my soul

temptation's lie
burns like fire baby
a never-ending flame
though I say prayers for tomorrow
tomorrow's just the same

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feels so cool in your skin
it's like neon in your veins
it knows no compassion
it knows no grace
so Lord forgive me
Lord understand
the power of temptation's hand

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Temptation

Apple Music download

"Temptation [Part I]" (ca. 1990) (the 'Zone V-HI' master [2022])

(黎明~短編)のフルサイズです。
This is the full-length version of (Reimei-Short Stories).

江戸時代の天保期を題材にしています。
The subject is the Tenpo period of the Edo period.

また、YouTubeMusicやSpotifyなどに完全版をアップロードしています。
The full version has also been uploaded to YouTubeMusic, Spotify, etc.

黎明

'you can('t) change' with Scratch Kelly 

Scratch: beat, synths, backing vocals, production, art
Scotty: guitars, lyrics, vocals 

I can't even blame you, girl,
after I've learned about your world.
Fucked up, but, still, that is that.
I have given all of me,
and sometimes I did believe
that we'd create a habitat. 

But then tonight happened again,
and I've lost my love, and best friend. 

It didn't need to escalate,
then you wanted to stay out 'late',
drink some more, and party hard.
Then when it was time to leave,
you spoke shit I'd rather disbelieve, 
and now I have to leave. It's hard.

Because when you're straight, you are great.
But, I keep making the same mistake
of forgiving you. Now, it's too late.
My heart is torn, but, so is fate. 

You can('t) change.

you can('t) change (with Scratch Kelly)

"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever." - Rumi

A piano improvisation for Mr. Harris. 😊 Loved you then...Love you now...Always will. ❤️

Always Will

Written by James Geer

I’ll take a B in spelling
I’ll take a B in math
I’ll take a B in Affection
I’ll take a B in wrath

I’ll take a B in working
I’ll take a B in health
I’ll take a B in living
That’s how I’d grade myself

I’ll take a B in caring
I’ll take a B in love
I’ll take a B in giving
These fit me like a glove

I’ll take a B

👿☠💀🩸⚒😱⁂©All Rights Reserved 08-2025
©Lyricist, Mixer, Mastering, Pro License & Creator: Lady ElectroTrek
***

TITLE: TERROR LURKING NON-STOP
_________________________________________________________________
LYRICS:

(Verse 1)
Fire in the night but by spirits that disregard the light. Wickedness knows no bounds & no one respects each other's boundaries. A world of terror now abounds.
(Verse 2)
We can't find refuge...Everyone was driven to become unhinged. A game by those whose minds were seeds of Apollyon from birth. What's next when everyone has lost their worth?
(Chorus)
Damned & doomed. It was all a set up for inconceivable gloom. No room to groom what has forsaken knowledge of rights.
Toxic mentality that comes from the privileged let their money cover their sins. The innocent don't win. The blood-stained curse remains. If no one has feelings anymore, who will be sane?
(Outro)
Damned if you, do, & condemned if you don't; there's no room to breathe on a planet of no one who can speak truth. There's no time to capitulate, when everyone turns reprobate.

Humankind 'Bled' On Each Other Until All Became Unhinged

Terror Lurking Non-Stop

true ramblin'

NB_111

on quiet arrival

Made in August 2025

Video; https://youtu.be/4nQXqMd0q4o

Colours Of Nature

POP | SPACEROCK | VAPORTRAP | TRIP-HOP
AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Since 1985, Philadelphia-born Michael has composed and released hundreds of audio recordings, and published dozens of [erotic] poems.

His 'sonic-sojourn' began suddenly when he was just a teen -- feet splashing rhythmically through puddles leftover by a seaside rainstorm. Having just parted ways with the then-love-of-his-life, Michael composed his first ballad [and first song] ever -- "Tina." He rushed to his beach-side home to record his visceral 'awakening' on a tiny micro-cassette recorder, and vowed -- from that day on -- to create art for the rest of his life.

He began zealously amassing used music equipment, and had built a modest home recording studio by age seventeen, all the while crafting simple pop, ambient, and experimental works that HE had wanted to listen to -- that HE had wanted to hear, affectionately emulating the works of his then-idols, Duran Duran and Brian Eno.

Now, decades later, he has relocated to a small village outside Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to voraciously attend to his dream as a young, heartbroken boy -- to create and release music that he, himself, wants to hear.

Although no longer sequestered to pop and ambient musics, Michael's signature sound has merged the two, having integrated the R&B, hiphop, and psychedelia he has grown to love as a older gent -- having absorbed the edgy rhythms and dreamy soul of the southern United States (Atlanta and Miami).

Michael still puts forth ample amounts af ambient musics, but his recent 'sound' hovers elsewhere -- somewhere amidst the genres of vaportrap, spacerock, and trip-hop.

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the INFLUENCES : Duran Duran, The Weeknd, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol + Steve Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, This Mortal Coil, Air, Naked Eyes, Tears for Fears, Alice in Chains, John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, The Chameleons [UK], Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, ABBA, The Bee Gees, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, and Joe Meek.

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"Temptation [Part I]" (ca. 1990) (the 'Zone V-HI' master [2022])

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