Barbara Ann (Beach Boys Cover)

This rendition is dedicated to my friend Cody Ali, who never fails to let me use his headphones and shares a common love for Yeezus.

Power (Kanye West Cover)

Recored this cover on 8|9|2015 at 2:08pm in my bedroom in one take before I went to eat gyros...The gyro made me very sick. 

Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley Cover)

I wrote this song in 2014 while staring at a painting my friend made. 

Maritza's Art Music

I'm On Fire (cover)

baby
Please don’t think 
I’m being Lazy
When I lay all here 
In my crazies 
And I burn 
Yeah I Burn For You

Maybe 
Maybe one Day you can
Save me
With all of your
Grace thats amazing
And I’ll turn 
And I’ll say to you

Let’s take some time
Cause reason won’t 
Ever stop and drop
Us a line 
There’s no better season
To climb into bed
And do all the things that
We said

crave

i met a woman once and she told me a story:

“do you know that love kills”

“no, I didn’t know that.” 

“not in a bad way, I guess, like suicide”

“I’m having trouble seeing how that is not a bad way”

“Death to self”

“I’m sorry, I’m really not following”

“It’s like a switch. Every day before him, I would wake up and think to myself ‘what do I want to do today? What do I want to see today? Where do I want to go?’ And then you meet this guy and you fall, and you have nothing but this gravitational sensation. And you wake up thinking ‘what do we want to do today? What do we want to see today? Where do we want to go?’ 

“That sounds really beautiful.”

“It is for a while.”

“A while is still better than never.” 

“The thing is one of you can stay in free-fall, while the other person can stop believing physics, suspend themselves, and then walk away.” 

“What do you then?”

“You pretend.”

“How”

“You make believe. That he has no control over you, that he’s not the first and last thought while you are awake, he is not the center of the dreams while you sleep. You pretend you don’t have dreams anymore. You pretend that as you go about your day, you don’t see him in coffee cups, and hear him in songs, or feel him in fragrances.” 

“How long do you that for?”

“Forever. And sometimes they’ll make quick deposits back into your life. And You’ll factory reset. And you will forget everything you were pretending against. And it’ll be day one.” 

“That sounds really terrifying.”

“It is. But it has also been the most worthiest thing I have lived for.”

2016demosMastered

Factory Reset

Most Alive when my guitar is out of tune
and my voice is off key.

RAJ