Here is (once again) something very different for me.

Preality

This song is about quitting alcohol and will be on my upcoming solo album, "Play Onwards"

Denatured vs. Nurture

Another one lost to the great computer failure of 2018. Without the ability to change this it was either post it as is or let it collect dust, so here we are.

Mood Ringleader

So here's another song that I lost the original of and can no longer edit. I had all sorts of ideas for this one and I may recreate it someday and put those into place but for now why not just post this here. Since the vocals aren't as clear as they were intended to be, here are the lyrics:

"We'll be wrecked by the train of the thought. I'll explain why it’s not bout the pain that coarse(s) through your limbs.
It’s the grasping at straws. It’s the crowd left in awe after spilling your guts. Hit the stage on a whim
So yell out like you gave it your all, like you’re made just to fall, like you’re nothing without your sins
I expect only stains once you're gone. Get it framed. write a song.. don’t forget it all starts with a pen.         

Now you check if you’re feeling the pulse. Kept it realer than most but your age is a blatant display.
You’ve lost touch with the youth. You were something reduced to a memory vague, writing withered and grey.
These poems are wasted cries for attention. Your bones will fade away without a mention. 
So we’re left without legend or tale, all attempts no avail, to live on through the songs that you made.


Try to accept that it’s done
you missed out on love
Better expectant than stunned
Give it up now


You’d sell your soul for them to cheer
But what’d be left for them to hear

It was fun while it lasted, the wonder and magic. At least let it linger and creep through soul. Try to hold recollections.. they’re files in collections they’re hidden and safe now where no one would know
When the time comes to wheeze your last breath, bursting free from your chest try to hit up that wonderful note. Cuz the time that you spent, you would waste it again, for one second of joy like you felt long ago."

Thee Hatricks

So even though I can't go back and edit these tracks I've been posting, I'm not sure I even would with this one. I specifically challenged myself to use one guitar track and one vocal track and while it's got it's flaws, I like it.

Here are the lyrics:

If the day shall come when you're no longer mine I pray
that my mind stays strong enough to recall these times...
both good and bad, both joyous and dark.
Relish the sadness, enable the heart. 
I cherish your smile, it imprints on my soul,
with each moment it's taking it's toll.

But please, please leave your light on tonight
Please conjure the will to fight

It's like each laugh destroys past shed tears
I...I cling to this raft in an ocean made simply of fear.
We'll stay afloat, buoyant and safe, destined for shore and enjoying the wave.
We'll survive these trials no matter time zones, or issues, or miles.

So please, please leave your light on tonight
Please conjure the will to fight.

Beauty cast like flares from stars dancing in perfect sync,
splendor admired from afar.
and I am blown away...
everlasting your glory remains ablaze

a blaze.

Chapped Ellipses

So I wrote a riff a couple years ago and that's all it was for a while until I turned it into the bass line for the chorus of this song. Sometimes we don't like the songs we make even though others do, I actually like this one quite a bit. 

Lyrics coming soon...

Few Sing Together

Here's a little diddy I wrote last year and here are the lyrics


I’ve been withering since birth
From the sludge I still emerge
Mediocrity pefected, an atrocity selected
The pain of same old same
I’m lame out of the game 
I pray for moments, 
all’s not hopeless and grope for notes infectious


Get a load of me
whining comfortably
Who the hell do I think I am?
I wring shit out then rinse repeat





Complain and simple,   
add pain to insult. An urge afflicts, resist the impulse.
Cut it out, a page it reads
you could fly but always flee
And I know I’m in there somewhere
Again convinced myself no one cares
IIt’s always been just me, lying through my teeth

If this. Persists. And I. Exist. Only. To float. Then I’ll take a rock and rope and swim in the mississipi but somehow still i wont go quickly. I guess it wasn’t meant to be. I’ll never best my destiny

and take my leave




Only know I’m living in the moment 
Even so it’s dull and I’m bored
Maybe this can be seen as an omen
There’s got to be something more

Boulder Knot

Exacties

Wrote this song a while ago and had an acoustic version posted for a while but this is how I always imagined it should sound (or pretty close anyway).

Ripside (remake)

Here's a song to listen to when you're feeling especially jaded about work

OptionAmbrose