Limelight

This is a cautionary tale about how certain guys and girls seem flashy and attractive but they have that their views and pack their powder with no substance in the rest of the body

Bottle Rocket

This is an ode to confidence and the humorous and often confusing dance we experience with our significant other

Catch You Later

A chill electronic sound about love and struggling with overcoming self doubt about past failures embracing your current relationships even if the past still haunts you

HAUNT ME DOWN

This is a reflection of both the internal battle that we all face and how it externalize is to pit brother against brother and sister against sister even if you have good intentions you get caught up in it. The visual is inspired by the Civil War in the United States a long time ago and the “Mystic chords of memory is a reference to one of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speeches about remembering the blood in the sacrifice

Mystic Chords of Memory

This song tells the story of many generations of suffering, sacrifice, and planting seeds in hopes of future harvests.

Born Beneath the Plow

I wrote this funky comedy song about a mysterious delivery to a wedding. It’s just a fun song where a simple job goes wrong. This will possibly become part one of two or more.

Dead Drop Box

I wrote these lyrics in hopes of representing a scathing criticism of  powerful people and politicians without being mean spirited. I want to express the confusing but dynamic nature of English wordplay. Writing poetry is like fencing or boxing. You have you guards up looking for a weakness and then you strike with combos

Cannons and Deminers

I wrote this song to reflect the vocation of our mind into this duality that always tells us we need to take away or add and never be static. I personally wrestle with this idea of contentment verse momentum and how to accomplish something meaningful which always brings me back to what is meaning and who is the creator of meaning. With the David statue it is carved out from a block so it is addition by subtraction and with the primordial soup in the primordial numbers there is this intrinsic nature of the universe almost like a language but what is it saying? Is life just a meaningless accident or is it a love letter ? We have the weapons both good and bad and our choice what to do with them.

Primeordial Numbers

A song about that feeling of disconnection with reality and the temptation to renter the atmosphere to engage in the chaos but you know you want to just float about the fray, the pressure, and the pain. You just want to rest, but you know that there is work to be done and they underestimate you so you have the advantage.

Helium

I wrote this song in a vain but sincere attempt to explain our concept of grasping with good and evil ,determinism and free will, and how we see sticky webs of sin and chaos. Yet we still walk into them knowingly at times.  However we shouldn’t fear or despair of the physical world because it has so much potential. Everything that we loose or bind in this realm has a butterfly effect to others and that is reflected both in science and in many religious and philosophical world views.

Spin Cycle

The evil we sow in this life is not always reaped and brought to fruition. Justice is coming for wicked men and women in this life or the next. Let’s do our best to make it both.

OUTER DARKNESS

If knowledge is power then is power knowledge. I think we all know that’s not true. So can knowledge be power?

ENTROPY

This song is about adaptation and realizing that while you may share the same pop culture, sports, and music interests with someone there comes a time when you have to stand up and define yourself to step out and create your own future. If you don’t like how a culture or government around you defines reality you have to evolve. To stop reproducing their lies. I know this is not a luxury everyone has but it is something to strive for. We are all human but we have grown numb through arrogance and meaningless pleasure and have looked the other way from people’s suffering. As an American I want to return to our identity as protector of freedom and not isolationist or enforcer of freedom. In my mind Ukraine is a perfect example of carrying the mantle of the freedom of our forefathers and mothers who bled and died to carve freedom from the beasts of this world. All of the pop culture references in this song are just fun examples of how we distract ourselves with anything in order to ignore others.

DRONE

This is a song about judging others and always believing you’re the top of the moral food chain. About always reading the world from the perspective that you are the infallible protagonist and not digesting any divergent opinions. It’s about the stories we tell ourselves and the nature of others in order to rationalize our behavior without getting to know people outside of our comfort zone and our strata.

MADE BY MONSTERS

This is a contemplative piece face on the theme of the Wizard of Oz. It continues with my common themes of searching for identity but also deals with grappling of responsibility for society ills and how we change few things that it’s always someone else’s responsibility but this “Dorothy” in her Ruby slippers is finally confronting some of these sins even though it is changing her. It remains to be seen if that is for the better.

Click Click Boots

This is an exploration of the fear that locks us in and when we lose the pressure that keeps us secure that vacuum disappears and the air goes out of the situation and we have to re-orient ourselves in order to breathe again in uncomfortable situations and this is about the existential struggle of deciding Whether we will be in the mindset of thinking we are going to the dark side of the moon or we will forge a new light and new path.

FEARLOCK

A celebration, a warning, a wandering word looking for a place to rest.

SIREN SONG

This is a story about someone who is aging and looking back considering all the tough decisions they made, and if it was worth it,if all the struggle and risk taking was worth it.

PROOF OF PAIN

GHOST LOTUS

Like moths to the flame we all chase the endgame.

NICE GUYS

This song is about pushing through the hard stuff—when life’s messy, unfair, feeling hopeless. It flips the idea that strength is about being on top; instead, it shows how real power is born from the dirt, from pain, from sticking it out in the valleys. It’s about getting knocked down, getting back up, and helping others do the same.

NIGHT CRAWLER

The silent shifters have escaped velocity , their dark domain, and are on a mission to deafen the sounds of the universe so they might sleep in peace.

FREQUENCY

A story about a person remembering a difficult time in life and how they just barely survived but they are resilient and ready for the next challenge.

A world of danger and beauty. When the mountains call the hive divers answer to scale the cliffs for the potent hellfire honey.

Hive Diver

A treatise and condemnation of evil men and women who send their youth to die to protect their own pride and power

POKE THE BEAR

A call to reach out and connect with people’s humanity instead of exposing our worst nature and eating ourselves down to the bone. Dust to Dust. Jesus weeps because we are worth weeping for. All of us

JESUS WEEPS

Could this clarion call be any more clear? Yeah man the carrion are here. Translated that means it’s time to fear the vultures are here :)

VULTURE

I hate to break it to you none of this is real. It’s not a binary choice. You create the mold

Get Rizzed or Die Tryin’

No one’s living with the safety on. The sins of the father way heavy on this song

ALL CAP

This is a nuanced look at the nature of power. At how the powerful leaders of all countries often lead with denial(lies) to show a mask or hide in the shadows because they fear showing weakness.

MIDNIGHT OIL

He’s tired of being a useful dummy and is ready for his big break in the industry. He is … CRASH DUMMY 411

Crash Code

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I’m a dad, a husband, and a farmer. From Washington State, USA

Peter Schmid

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