Here's an original song I wrote…check out the video of this recording on my YouTube! www.youtube.com/peytonmcmahonmusic
Hope to get a full arrangement of this down sometime in the near future.

Gotta Get Out (original)

Release Date: 10/26/23
Written by Peyton McMahon
Produced by Barry Fowler & Peyton McMahon
Mixed by Daniel Chae
Mastered by Théo Quayle

Lyrics:
It's kinda funny how you always think you're fine
Living on your own
You think that you'll always have the time
To find your way home

But freedom isn't kind, it doesn't keep you warm
It slowly twists the knife, I wish that I could find

Someone I would die for, bring me back to life
Someone who will catch me, help me through the night
'Cause these days, the world it feels so small
With no one with me through it all
And I need that

I'm tired of waking up with no one else around
Going solo to the party gets me down
And my friends, they're all slowly peeling off to better halves
And I'm still alone, is anyone out there?

Someone I would die for, bring me back to life
Someone who will catch me, help me through the night
'Cause these days, the world it feels so small
With no one with me through it all

Tell me it's just overthinking when the panic starts to set in
Tell me it's just overthinking now
Tell me it's just overthinking whent he panic starts to set in
Tell me it's just overthinking now

Someone I would die for, bring me back to life
Someone who will catch me, help me through the night
'Cause these days, the world it feels so small
With no one with me through it all
Through it all
And I need that

Someone

Release Date: March 14, 2023
Written By: Peyton McMahon
Produced By: Barry Fowler & Peyton McMahon
Mixed By: Daniel Chae
Mastered By: Théo Quayle

These days, lately I've been living in a haze
Everybody's walking, but I stay
Hoping they come back around one day

I stay, frozen in the fear to make a move
But I've outgrown the life I fell into
I'm sitting at the crossroads and I don't know what to do

They say, 'things will work themselves out', so I wait
Like someone's gonna come show me the way
But there's nobody home and I can't stay

All my best days are moving further in the past
And is there anything left waiting for me ahead?
It's like I missed the plane I was meant to leave on
And it left me stranded

A few years ago
I was almost there, I was almost there
Where did it all go?
I'm still standing here
Waiting for an elevator door to open and it's never gonna come
I'm still here anticipating as I feel the fire fading
And the cold sets in

These days, lately I've been living in a haze
Everybody's walking, but I stay
Hoping they come back around one day

These Days

Release Date: May 31, 2024
Written By: Peyton McMahon
Produced By: Jack Riley
Mastered By: Théo Quayle

Lyrics:
I dream of taking to the skies
And trying on a different life
I tell myself I'll go the distance if I'm asked
But I can only run with an escape hatch

I'm watching people pass me as the voice is creeping in,
Saying "You would never make it in the end"
"Who knows what's even out there", "stay safe here on the ground"
But deep down in my soul I really know

That the fear of the unknown
It's making me fall short of what I could be
And it's the places I don't go
Where everyone I know is waiting there for me
Someday I'll finally see
I'm my own worst enemy

I decorate these prison walls
Pretend I'm happy with it all
Familiarity is comfortable, they say
At least until your world it turns to grey

I'm watching people pass me as the voice is creeping in
But deep down in my soul I really know

That the fear of the unknown
It's making me fall short of what I could be
And it's the places I don't go
Where everyone I know is waiting there for me
Someday I'll finally see
I'm my own worst enemy

And I don't know why
I run away from what I can't deny
I don't know why
I stay in all the places I can hide
My inner child, he's screaming louder each and every day
I can't keep pushing down
These monsters that I'm running from, I kinda hope they take me to the ground

The fear of the unknown
It's making me fall short of what I could be
And it's the places I don't go
Where everyone I know is waiting there for me
Someday I'll finally see
I'm my own worst enemy

Someday I'll finally see
I'm my own worst enemy

Fear of the Unknown

IN THAT WORLD

Written by: Peyton McMahon
Produced by: Jack Riley
Mixed by: Jack Riley
Mastered by: Théo Quayle

Lyrics:
I'm surrounded by a million faces
They mean well but they don't understand
They fill the time but they don't fill the space and
Those who can, they don't know who I am

I watch them through a screen
I'm with them in dreams
But when I wake up, it's like I haven't slept for days
I'm outside looking in
Where do I begin?
One foot inside the door before it ends

What I'd give
Oh if I could live
In that world

What I'd give
Oh if I could live
In that world

The world where everybody speaks my language
Heroes turn to friends and take me in
The cure to stop my never ending languish
Let my colors show that died within

But I'm outside looking in
Where do I begin?
One foot inside the door before it ends

What I'd give
Oh if I could live
In that world
What I'd give
Oh if I could live
In that world

It's like I'm locked out of the party
Cause they don't know that I'm one of them
I'm banging on the doors 
And yelling "someone come and let me in"
The kick is getting louder
And the reaper is a doubter
I feel him closing in

What I'd give
Oh if I could live
In that world
What I'd give
Oh if I could live
In that world

In That World

MEMORY OUT OF ME

Written by: Peyton McMahon, Matt Hall, David Schaeman
Produced by: David Schaeman
Mixed by: Aidan Thillman
Mastered by: Théo Quayle

Lyrics:
Verse 1:
I'm sitting in the corner as it's sinking in
You hesitate
To look into my eyes like it's some kind of sin

Pre-Chorus
How'd we even get here?
It's getting hard to hold
While you're letting go
I'm living out my worst fear
How'd you get so cold?
Leaving me alone

Chorus:
Don't make a memory out of me
Don't make a memory out of me
Oh baby please
Don't say I'm easy to forget
I'll never find myself
I'm begging please

It's gonna kill me slow
I'll be running from a ghost
I'll never beat

Cause if you take my heart and leave
I can't take your memory out of me
Can't take your memory, take your memory out of me

Verse 2:
I'll be climbing up the walls and crawling out my skin
Trying to fill the space that only you fit in
I still don't know

Pre-Chorus:
How'd we even get here?
It's getting hard to hold
While you're letting go
I'm living out my worst fear
How'd you get so cold?
Leaving me alone

Chorus:
Don't make a memory out of me
Don't make a memory out of me
Oh baby please
Don't say I'm easy to forget
I'll never find myself
I'm begging please

It's gonna kill me slow
I'll be running from a ghost
I'll never beat

Cause if you take my heart and leave
I can't take your memory out of me
Can't take your memory, take your memory out of me

Bridge:
Can't take the pain, can't take your name out of my head
Can't change the hurt, can't change the words that you said

Chorus:
Don't make a memory out of me
Don't make a memory out of me
Oh baby please
Don't say I'm easy to forget
I'll never find myself
I'm begging please

It's gonna kill me slow
I'll be running from a ghost
I'll never beat

Cause if you take my heart and leave
I can't take your memory out of me
Can't take your memory, take your memory out of me

Memory Out of Me

GOTTA LEAVE

Written by: Peyton McMahon, Caleb Dee
Produced by: Caleb Dee
Mastered by: Théo Quayle

Lyrics:
Another stormed out summer Tuesday
Par the course for Baton Rouge and
Here's the rain to cancel all my plans again

So I'll close the blinds and pretend
I'm up high somewhere in Brooklyn
City lights and storied lives down underneath

How long does make believe
Give me some kind of peace?

Til I gotta leave
These over trodden streets
They're tethered into me
But never set me free

Til I gotta go
This place I call home
It's all I've ever known
But grown a little old

Don't get me wrong I love this place it's
Where I'm born and bred and raised but
Oh these days I'm feeling more than just the heat

Yeah I love running round the lakes in fall
And tailgating for football games
But now I see I'm stuck here on repeat

It's all collecting dust
Cages covered in rust

So I gotta leave
These over trodden streets
They're tethered into me
But never set me free

So I gotta go
From the place I call home
It's all I've ever known
But grown a little old

Maybe one day I will make it back in town
I'll finally be on solid ground
I'll see the forest for the trees
But if I never leave, I'll never really know
Just how much more my soul could grow
And how the story should be told

So I gotta leave
These over trodden streets
They're tethered into me
But never set me free

So I gotta go
From the place I call home
It's all I've ever known
But grown a little old

Peyton McMahon

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