Submission to the Reddit's Game of Bands, Round 113: Once Upon a Time in the West
Won best song and best lyrics.

Music by /u/pdlourenco
Lyrics by /u/Diegoflg2 https://soundcloud.com/user-364112444
Vocals by /u/bandpuppy

Guest appearances by Clint Eastwood, Pedro, Paco, Pablo & Escobar (voiced by /u/bandpuppy)

Original lyrics:
Mis sueños son esclavos de mi libertad
aquella condenada por la ambición
de un pueblo que en armas se levantó
y de mi patria México se separó.

Ahora que estoy lejos y miro atras,
quisiera regresar a mi lugar natal,
Oh Texas pronto volveré.

Existen recuerdos tan profundos
que nada ni nadie los borrará
aquellas planicies, cumbres rocosas
donde yo solía estar

Y ahora yo solo pienso en volver 
a aquel lugar lejano donde yo reí y amé
Oh mi Texas mi amor

Y ahora yo solo pienso en volver 
a aquel lugar lejano donde yo reí y amé
Oh mi Texas mi amor

No puedo estar lejos de ti
Tu tienes un lugar en mi corazón

No puedo estar lejos de ti
Te extraño oh Texas

Y ahora yo solo pienso en volver 
a aquel lugar lejano donde yo reí y amé
Oh mi Texas mi amor


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English version (loosely translated by /u/pdlourenco)

My dreams are slaves of my freedom
that was condemned by the ambition
of a people which raised arms
and from my homeland Mexico parted

Now that I am away and look back,
I wanted to return to my native land,
Oh Texas, I'll be back soon

There are memories so deep
that nothing or no one will erase them
those plains, rocky summits
where I used to be

And now I only think about returning
to that place far away where I laughed and loved
Oh my Texas my love

I can't be far from you
You have a place in my heart
I can't be far from you
I miss you oh Texas

And now I only think about returning
to that place far away where I laughed and loved
Oh my Texas my love

Fado de una pátria perdida - feat. Diegoflg2 and bandpuppy

Game Of Bands Round 127, Team 7

Vocals - akiadagreat
Lyrics - egotyst
Music - seescottrock

Night Lite

Vocals by @tobiasn
Lyrics by Skerry1

Verse 1
Youre back again for more
Fill your sails with my confessions 
Leave me stranded on the shore

My friends say I'm a fool
And lately I hear ringing
From the bells upon my shoes

Chorus
I'll play my part
Heal your broken wing
Cut the bandage from my heart
And watch you fly and then
Leave me a new scar
Over and over and over again

Verse 2
I'm a sucker for the pain
Soak up your mixed up signals
A puppet hugging rain

Tie hope around my strings
Your midnight red wine kisses
That don't mean anything

Chorus
I'll play my part
Heal your broken wing
Cut the bandage from my heart
And watch you fly and then
Leave me a new scar
Over and over and over again

Verse 3
You chewed me to the bone
Devoured my obsessions
Til what I felt was gone

Now I'm just another guy
Who you'll say just used you up
You can paint me in that light

Chorus
I'll play my part
Heal my broken wing
Sew stitches in my heart
Watch me fly away and then
I can be your scar
Over and over and over again

My Part

Song created for round 139 of r/gameofbands: Frogs

Music by /u/Slorany
Lyrics by /u/Mathgeek007
Vocals by /u/pdlourenco (https://soundcloud.com/pdlourenco)

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Lyrics: 

Nice to meet ya, my name is Gerald.
I live on a lilypad just off the edge of the Michigan
I spend most of my day toiling for my family
Catching flies and other bugs to keep their bellies full
It's a tedious life without much fun day-to-day
But if it means my wife and tadpoles are happy
Then I guess a life of mediocrity is good enough for me
Don't be fooled, I'm satisfied - I just wish there was more.

I live
Alone
In my
Abode
I just
don't know
so I just
I cry
Alone
for what
don't know
they see
me cry
i can't
know why
i want
to fly
reach up
and touch
the sky
break free
and run
away
and not
turn back

sit upon my lilypad
staring right up at the clouds
ponder my reality
see the me who isn't me
dream away the dark sorrow
hopping for a tomorrow
where i am who i have dreamed
inside i yell and i scream
let me break from this prison
run from this indecision
i claim that i am happy

and yet
i see
a world
sans me
may be
more free
it hurts
i cry
can't i
just die
drown out
sorrow
no to-
morrow
i'll say
goodbye
run off
explore
maybe
life is
worth it
living
is not
that bad
at least
i hope

So you might have noticed by now that things aren't going very well for me.
So I'm going to leave and wander the world. I want to see something, experience life.
I can't live trapped at home on my lily, I need to breathe, and find something worth finding.
So I'm gonna hop away, leave my family and past behind, and only then can I truly live.

Ribbit
Ribbit
Ready
Hit it
Jump out
Leaping
Hopping
Hoping
Restart
Anew
A fresh
New life
A world
For me
To see
Explore
I care
It's new
So cool
I feel
Alive
Begin
Alone
I guess
There might
Be hope

Incredible...
Inspiring...
Untouched...
Beautiful...
It's there...
I can see it...
It's indescribable...
This is my future...
I can finally breathe...
This is worth fighting for...

And so, I venture off towards the mountains. Seeing nature outside of my world is breathtaking.
A weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is the best decision I've ever made
I turn around and see a foreign figure - something large, something fast. It's new and confusing.
What... is this magnificent beast?

A Tired Frog

Music - /u/ExternalInfluence 
Vocals - /u/_Consummate_Vs_
Lyrics - /u/Slorany

Lyrics:

I built a machine that can do anything  
Made it in my image cause I look amazing

But I'm not the best engineer and I think  
I may have botched the waste-processing

Noooo, oh noooo!  
There's a... crack  
It was such a nice hypothesis  
Now it's gone to feces

I thought it was going to be super tight  
But what a bummer, my design was shite  
I had assumed it was perfect  
But the surface was hiding many defects

A machine for mass production  
The output causing mass infection  
I had no way to treat it (eat it)  
I had to flush it (flush it)

I's wibbly-wobbly, but it's not a time machine  
It is soft, it is mush, it is without a sheen

How will I ever  
Sell my invention?  
Am I doomed?  
Am I doomed to fail?

Noooo, oh noooo!  
There's a... crack  
Such a nice hypothesis  
Now it's all gone to feces

In an astounding turn of events  
A stroke of luck ended my torment  
Investors are buying my machine  
My sugars-to-ideas engine

I'll finally be able to pay rent  
I can stop living in my mum's basement  
Pay attention to my hygiene  
And once and for all leave this IT routine

The Machine

Weekly Song Challenge, week 14: Unobscure Covers

Original by Bob Dylan

Drums and mixing by Domantas Bezaras, https://soundcloud.com/bezaras
Bass and backing vocals by Scott Gardeski, https://soundcloud.com/sjgardeski
Guitars by Pedro Lourenço, https://soundcloud.com/pdlourenco
Lead vocals by Cory "MD" Walker, https://soundcloud.com/sadcolibri

Blowing In The Wind (Bob Dylan cover)

music - /u/ExternalInfluence
lyrics - /u/vladimirdlc
vocals - /u/pdlourenco

Lyrics:

I could hold the cup you hold
and the love you pour I’ll talk
break your sugar bones and crisp
sweep your sweat, 

take your filth, take your disease
as as noting nothing, nowhere,
world is home, make me home.

You hold your stars high
is not nowhere I would not climb

You’re to serve the Lord
that’s what ma ma said, no long ago,
and I’d break my meager figs
while touching your fingertips

Do you know? There is also rain in Verdun.

Is a mask or your true self
I don’t even know that you know
I’d think is a complex
puzzle to be solved.

Your Sweet

Lyrics:

I met a woman down in New Orleans
She showed things I thought were make believe
She had black hair, black nails, a black dress and black soul
But she put a white hot spell on me

I met her one night in her black magic shop
I quickly learned this was no tourist stop
Among the candles and the charms I saw her looking at me
And when my eyes met hers I could not break free

She showed me things I thought could not exist
An alternate world from when we first kissed
The dead were walking the shadows were talking 
Black magic woman she set me free

She spoke a name I had not heard before
But when she said it I could choose no more
She made me walk with her to the graveyard
She said a chant and then she gave me a drink

The physical world, it started to mist
I saw an alternate world from when we first kissed
The dead were dancing the shadows were glancing
Black magic woman she set me free

She showed me things I thought could not exist
An alternate world from when we first kissed
The dead were jumping my head was thumping
Black magic woman she set me free

Goblins and ghouls and zombies and spirits
Circled us as we danced in the moonlight
She kissed me and my soul left my body
The further I rose, the louder she laughed
I almost succumbed and gave in to her magic
But somehow I realized that this was not right
I snapped to my senses and sought out my body
She shrieked as she saw me, and all the ghouls chased me
But I moved to fast and I made it back
As soon as I did, this world disappeared
I heard the ghouls yell as they reached out to grab me 
I twisted around, to get away
I spun around and looked at the sorceress
She pulled out a doll that looked just like me
The last thing I saw was the scowl on her face

I woke up thinking it was all a dream
And it was time to leave new Orleans 
But when I got back home and I laid down to bed
I found myself back in the world of the dead 

She showed me things I thought could not exist
An alternate world from when we first kissed
The dead were reaching the shadows were leeching 
Black magic woman won't you set me free

Black Magic Woman

music: @pdlourenco
vocals: jamthelows
lyrics: @the-specific-ocean

Wake up late the same as every night.
Eyes heavy in the warm salt light, tonight.
I spot a chance, I want to make you mine.
I'll chase her up on the business line.

Long story, need to tell it quick.
Fingers tapping out a steady beat.
Get a message back, said "Hey, I'd like to meet"

Confidence covered with the K.L.S.
Runs like a dream when it's put to the test.
But here I'm sweating as I walk through the door.
Looks like she's brought along a few more.

One sugar 
Two coffee

Toes twitching on the carpet
Get my hands back on the wheel
The right moves at the right time

Nerves (w/pdlourenco and jamthelows)

Screen Stares Black
for Game of Bands round 152 - Sad Songs

Music: @the-specific-ocean
Lyrics @entertainpopulace01011010
Vocals @alan-jakeson

The water upon dry ground
A spreading smear of hollow thought
As the water trickles by

The passing time dressed in grey
As light follows the striking stain
And water passes by

Caressing calls echo home
Urgency of longer hold
This daylight dream is filled with mindlessly digging holes

A screen stares black as an eager soul
A screen stares back as an eager hole
A screen stares black as a wanting soul
A screen stares as water passes by

A screen stares black as a wanting soul
So uninviting, away from home
This screen stares back as a sordid hole
To pour a life into and hope
The screen stares back as an eager soul
With bedroom eyes and shattered walls
The screen stares, as water takes its hold

The water upon dry ground
A spreading smear of hollow thought
As the water trickles by

Screen Stares Black

GoB Round 209 - Look Back On 2020 

lyrics: desertsprinkle
vocals: certaindoomawaits

Explaining to myself I'm not the man that I once was
Lying to myself just like everyone else does
Our heroes never answer, turn their capes in for a bribe
As we watch the days go by we see the truth among the lies

Where can we go from here?
Call it the worst fucking year
Where can we go from here?

As the rich whores serve more evil, all across their metal floors
And the nation splits itself across the lines of rich & poor
The pot of gold they promised was a lie right from the start
You can take it all away but you cannot replace our hearts

The highclass citizens look down from atop their lofty air
Our lesser plane of existence don't mean much from way up there
Forty six more ways to tell you we are hella poor
It's all come crashing down, don't think I can take much more

We don't know what to do in life, we don't know where we are
I'm fairly sure this shitty year will leave a massive scar
Try to take a breath but it weighs a thousand tons
My consciousness is fleeting and my heart is nearly done

Is this really life? Do I exist? Am I real?
I'm sick of my psychiatrists telling me how to feel
This year has taken such a toll, I don't know what I'm paying for
I feel like I might fold and crash right through heavens door.

The highclass citizens look down from atop their lofty air
Our lesser plane of existence don't mean much from way up there
Forty six more ways to tell you we are hella poor
It's all come crashing down, don't think I can take much more

Where can we go from here?
Call it the worst fucking year
Where do we go from here?

Optimism

The musical wanderings and experiments of a portuguese robotics grad student with a penchant for long and windy instrumentals :)

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