..:: THE INVOLVEMENT ::..
..:: Into The Outmosphere ::..

Can You Tell Me What A Victim Is?
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i hit the town on succubus street
down on my luck
stuck on repeat
i don’t know where
or how i want to be
i gave it all to you
with nothing left for me
how dumb could i possibly be
i saw what i wanted to see

i could be wrong
but i know i am right
so hear my song
its the way that i fight
you play your game
you don’t care if it’s right
and i’ll never be the same
its a sham, fuck it all
i woke up and see through it all
yea, i don’t give a fuck at all

you always take take take
until you burn it away
you know your fake fake fake
you always have it your way
how many times will i try
to see the truth is a lie
have fun in hell
i broke the spell
you were never a friend
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JOHN <> drums . guitar . vocals . lyrics . composition
RUBY <> lyrics . composition

mixing and mastering : johncruess@gmail.com

Into The Outmosphere

Can You Tell Me What A Victim Is?

Image from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Reference: Burton, T., Johnson, M., Abbate, A., August, J., Thompson, C., Pettler, P., Depp, J., ... Warner Home Video (Firm). (2006). Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video.

His Only Flower

Buy/Bandcamp

Through the Wall

Eternal Youth

Here's just a little something inbetween the bigger releases. I used Native Instruments Cremona Quartet for this one and I absolutely love it, highly recommend checking it out!
Anyways, stay safe and leave some love!

Midnight Dance

It Follows the Rain

The Books

Lyrics:

Do what you wanna do
I don't care about you
I don't care if you're mine
Throw me a line anytime
When will I care about you?
When will I care?
Do what you wanna do

This should be a rebel song
But I don't really care
Don't care for your rebellion
Don't care about my share
Don't care about your sympathies
Don't care for second looks
Don't care to cook a second meal
Don't care to cook the books

Do what you wanna do
I don't care about you
I don't care if you're mine
Throw me a line anytime
When will I care about you?
When will I care?
Do what you wanna do

Do what you wanna do
I don't care about you
I don't care if you're mine
Throw me a line anytime
When will I care about you?
When will I care?
Do what you wanna do

The Books

⭐ Free Download ⭐

New mix and additional vocals by Kris Bolin of The Bawl Slant @bawl-slant
check out his work here: https://on.soundcloud.com/B4n1U

A Holiday For The Underpaid - feat. Kris Bolin - Bawl Slant Mix

🏴‍☠️Awesome track I think . Kenna Rae has chopped Vox in here on a beat she also produced that in our opinion brought out one of my best voices . Thx . This is her instrumental called Babe . 🏴‍☠️

Kenna Rae -https://on.soundcloud.com/3ejzbbwMoST6tHiR7

XxxBlackPearlxxX (Prod.Kenna Rae)

day i die

This track is from the album Everyday. Check us out on Spotify.

We Will Miss You When You're Gone

From the live houses of the Jing to busking in tunnels (Granted, the 33.3% donation rate was based on the fact that he had removed his stifling white collar shirt and was dancing bare chested) in Singapore, Psychedelic Revolution (aka Psyche Rev) is a one man project that likes most things such as alt r&b and alt rock. Made it as a semi finalist in 'Song of the Year' competition in 2022 with his song 'Cassius.' Finalist in 2023 with 'We'll Go Down.' Finalist in 2024 with 'Sigh' and also taking semi finalist positions with 'Heartbeats & Inner Turmoil' and 'You Had Me'. Finalist in 2025 with 'Cold Cold Storm' and semi finalist with 'So Typical.' Tastes like Kung Pao Chicken. Looks like a cross between Brag Pitt and Heath Leather. Smells like team spirit. Feels like baby powder. Oh the music. Yeah, it sounds good. 


Don't respond to DM's on here so if you would like to get touched pls contact  via some other avenue. He does have a sun fetish though.

Daily Musing:

Nov: Funk
Dec: a cover. Demo version. But I will do a full length cover for once.
 I've been thinking that I want to do a 'How to Train Your Dragon' theme. I've really only seen the third one and the live action version (the recent) but they moved me. Multiple times. I was with my friends and I took off my 3D glasses. Started wiping my eyes. Look to the right and everyone else is just fine.
Which reminds me of when I was in the band in uni and my Indian friend/guitarist started teasing me about crying in Titanic. 
"I was 6! Motherfucker you cried in Lagaan!"
Then he started chasing me around. Cos' that's what guys do when they like each other. 
 Which I guess also says something about how the filmmakers handled No Time to Die. 
So maybe like medieval rnb. Worked for Seal.
The only low for this year has been working with the label. They are called Raw Doggy Records. I contacted them saying I know you guys do electronic but I don't. They did like my music. Were gonna release stuff. Then they heard the mix for 'Heartbeats' and wanted me to remix some songs. I said, "that costs money." Then, I changed my mind and still got that mixer to mix the old songs. 3 of em' and then the label said, "to be honest, we prefer the older mixes." They were taking 2 weeks to reply to my emails aaand not so much as a "sorry we made you pay all that money for...nothing." So I said, "to be honest, I prefer the new mixes" which is a polite way of saying "go fuck yourself." And, that was that. They seemed to have gotten the msg. If you check out the artists on their roster all I can say is, "it's not my cuppa tea" I prefer electronic music like Daft Punk/Kavinsky/Infected Mushroom etc. The good news is that I wasn't particularly down about it.
Regarding Bharat, he's really the first person who believed in me as a singer so I owe him that much (or quite a lot). It meant and still means a lot to me because i consider him the best guitarist I've heard. I've heard Fripp, Slash, Petrucci, Laiho, and attended a Hendrix tribute with Eric Johnson, Satriani, Vai etc. He only practised 4 hours a day after school by ear. I could do that for the rest of my life and get to 1/5 as good as him.  It began in Florence and there was this kid from Jersey called Alex who was a somewhat decent singer and a good pianist. He was better than me at the time at singing.  I give Bharat an A- as a band leader cos' he was very patient with Rauf, our friend and bassist who barely practised. With me, he was encouraging. So, I think they thought they could fit Alex and me in the band together. I had no problem with that. Now Alex had an interesting take on songwriting which was to bring pop into whatever genre. So if it was rock he liked Spin Doctors. Now, don't get me wrong, I like 'MMMbop' by Hanson every now and then but in a band, playing that type of stuff? No. Bharat and I were on the same page. He liked his metal, hard rock. So, Alex would sing whenever I sung. Or make noises cos' he was the better singer. Zero band etiquette but...I can see where he's coming from. Bharat did nothing about that which is where the A- comes in. So, I got fed up with Alex acting like a child and walked out of rehearsal. My goal was to find the nearest American for inspiration. This was when I was in NY. I ran into a marine near a bar after 30 secs. I said, "Look we're in a band and we wanna play hard rock but there's this kid that keeps singing whenever I sing..."
*inspirational moment right here*
"ah fuck it. what am I saying? I'm gonna go back in there and kick his ass...musically."
"Sounds good man."
"Thanks for serving the country!"
So that was what happened and I walked in there danced and sung. Alex got all red in the face. And, that was the last time we had band practise together. I actually wasn't that confident back then and it was the first time singing for a band. Now, I would say to Bharat,
"hey, can you tell your friend to stfu when I'm singing?"

As far as my middle school 'friends' go, well I'm really a huge fan of that guy one who went through his ex's phone, cried on a date, and then hacked her when she broke up with him. 
I'm also really a huge fan of the guy who kicked his ex.
I'm also a huge fan of the guy who got his head shoved down the toilet and claimed 'PTSD.' 
Soldiers who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan: Really? Would he like to go on tour with us?
I think he'd die of super PTSD before the plane takes flight so I can answer for him.
I heard some people wanted to donate some money and pay for my monthly mixing. And, I was very happy about it. I recently came into some money like how Starlight got insurance. The first thing that came into my mind was how I didn't have to take shit from my bosses anymore. You know, they say "不是说人是说事" (I'm critisizing what you did. Not you as a person) And, it's these same people that proceed to critisize you as a person after that. So, I no longer have to take that shit and I couldn't be happier. So, it's an A+ of a year. I'm still temping every Tuesday. Thankfully, the new school seems to be accomodating. What happened at the last school was...an obvious case of "management is restructuring"
The song...if you like it it's for you. I don't want to put pressure on anyone by saying it's for anyone.