A sad acoustic rock ballad track made with a few friends. I'm on main vocals and guitar. Hope you enjoy.

Lyrics:

Oh, why me?
Why visit in my dreams?

Why do words cut so deep?
Why am I so preoccupied
With the circumstances of my demise

This book, I read
sucked into what I see

Why do words cut so deep?
why am I so preoccupied
with the ifs and buts?
to blind realize

I shouldn't think about it
I shouldn't talk about it
I should stay in the moment
I don't know that I know it
I got a mind, why not show it?
This bridge is conflicted
not sure if I'm addicted
I got feeling in my brain
it makes me insane
poetry is so lame
with my words...

my words..
my words...

Why do I, show my insides?
My art has me preoccupied.
Why do I lie...

with my words?
with my words...

link to the song on BandLab:

https://www.bandlab.com/post/aae5c80a-dd02-ec11-b563-a04a5e796c42

Link to this song on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/JII3Yw2efbk

Marcus Kimball - Preoccupied (Demo)

The demo track to my review of the Jackson JS22 SC Monarkh (Coming Soon!) Hope you like it.

link to song on YouTube
https://youtu.be/6olf-2c1tzg

link to song on bandlab
https://www.bandlab.com/post/e6a1575d-384b-ec11-9820-e42aac7a5303

link tot he collaborator who added bass and drums
https://www.bandlab.com/71011ninjer

Overthrow Me (Monarkh Demo Track)

I've neglected my Soundcloud for too long, time to put some actual substance on here.

Lyrics:

oh, woah
oh, woah

Night falls around me
as day reaches an end
and darkness surrounds me
cause the light is not my friend

and I don't know again
why I'm all alone again
woe is me

my eyes are dry as stones again
and your lies have rung true again
if I'm alone in the night
then I'm alone with no right

Well, I'd cry if the tears came in
but I lost my tear ducts in the war

no no

no no

no no

no no

nothing is fine
and nothing will ever right this wrong
you accuse me as murderer
since I was found alone with the knife
but I was just the one who found your crime

alone in my cell again
all alone in my hell again
and I'll never see the sun again
so I'll run dry of melanin

and I'm all alone again
I'm locked up in my cell again
I'd cry if all the tears came in
but I lost my tear ducts in the war

P.O.DoubleYou. (Demo)

P.O.DoubleYou. (First Demo)

PIE stands for Partially Improvised Experiment, where each track of the DAW is recorded in roughly one take with no real direction in mind. Getting an engaging, listenable, and uniquely human sound with only single takes and post production is the goal.

P.I.E.

Slice Of P.I.E. (Partially Improvised Experiment)

Slice Of P.I.E. 2 (Cry Me a River)

If you don't know what Slice of Pie is, the idea is that I come up with a single riff on the fly and then improvise a full song and arrangement off of it, also improvising the layers on top.

This is the first slice of pie with vocals due to the improvisation factor. It is also the first with bass because I recently got a bass. The bass is the focal point.

The vibe I was going for was "Black Sabbath in space" and I think I accomplished that. I don't normally turn these into full songs but for this I plan to because I like it alot and want to perfect it.

Gear:

Squier Classic Vibe Jaguar Bass on P-bass neck pickup.
Crate GLX120 on rythym with doubler effect on.

1994 Peavey Predator SSS on neck sing coil.
Fender Mustang GT200 on custom high gain preset.

Fan into mic with autotune and bit crusher

P.I.E

Slice Of P.I.E. 3 (Space)

This is the fourth installment of Slice of PIE. The idea for these is that I come up with one riff on the fly, then improvise an entire arrangement around it, then add more completely improvised layers. This usually results in an avant garde or trippy sound, trying to get the most of of the single take improvised recordings. This is the first slice of pie with percussion, and also the first I spent more than 2 hours producing it. I was originally going for a purely Midwest emo sound but it gradually evolved into the shoegazey form you see before you.

Slice Of P.I.E. 4 (Time)

A demo of a song i drafted forever ago and decided to fully flesh out recently. find it on YT soon. its an acoustic run into some BandLab effects, some humming, and my voice.

Lyrics:

 I say let's go, no you don't ever know
my love evergreen has abandoned me
they say they're sorry but do they really mean it
the apology falls flat
*sigh*
I don't know of your intentions
but it's not to make an amends to me
you don't mean it
all the gossip and the breaking of the law
to achieve a picture perfect substandard of love
let's go and make a fool
and use love as an excuse for our greedy mistakes
could be worse
you never really meant it
when you apologized
you never really meant it when you said
our years would go by
and I loved you so
I never wanted to be left here
but that's how it's laid
You don't mean it
You never meant it that way
you never wanted to be
mine

Some Demos

Sorry

Sorry (Demo)

An old demo version of a song I made a while ago. its not my best but I figured I would post it anyway. Probably gonna redo this entire song later on. You can find this one my bandlab page or on my youtube channel "Marcus Kimballmusic". Hope you enjoy.

Marcus Kimball - First Thing (Raw Demo)

19 y/o Florida-based guitarist/bassist/rapper/singer/songwriter. Guitars/vocals/production for Empty Hallway. Follow me at Marcus Kimballmusic on YT. I ❤️ almost anything alternative music related. HMU if you wanna collab on a project or if you wanna just chat!



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