Original Lyrics:
Holding something that should never have been here
As the ghosts watch over us, swimming in fear
Is there a place where the rivers flow
Where the skies are clear and real trees can grow
A place where the ghosts cease to be
Is there a place where we can roam
A place to our one true home
It’s not a world where no one can be free
The swallows leave earlier now
The glaciers weep their silent vow
The ghosts of the past dancing in the dreams Chasing the future of our faded dreams. (Mate, you’re 16. You haven’t even started your dreams)
These thermal ghosts, made from our extremes
A new age begins, from the last one that died

I think they were good lyrics. They paint a pollution filled world and offer a Utopian one.
Counterargument:
Rocket: You didn't want to make things perfect. You just hated things the way they are.

So I asked Jasper if he wanted to collab and he said yes. I sent him ‘Say It Again’ saying it would be nice to get the drums done on them by next month. He sends me Thermal Ghosts with the lyrics, and tells me he’s going for ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ and I get it done  in a day. He asks me if I like the instrumental and ‘yeah.’ It’s not the most mind-blowing prod but it has a pretty good groove. He sends me a minute of the song so I sing 1 minute worth of lyrics. He wants me to loop it so that it goes longer. I ask him for a favor saying could he please loop his own song. So he copies and pastes the parts so you can hear a gap in the recording. So I then improvise and finish it in 4 minutes. 
He has now traveled from Australia to WAB for a field trip. So he was one of the kids with black hair and a fringe cut.
By this time, he still hasn’t done anything with Say It Again so I send him Veni Vidi Vici and say, “it’s OK if you can’t get the drums to me, I’ll just use programmed drums.” Meaning- You’re probably too lazy to get to it. For production, to fill in the gap I produced the whole thing again with programmed drums/guitars and figured out his …3 chord song. Not even a dom7 for the 5th degree? No. It’s a 3 major chord song. The most complex thing it has going for it are the drums which has the 2nd kick syncopated. There’s also 2 layers of bells going on. I also added simple bass and backing vocals. Yes, it makes my hairs stand up. The acoustic section in ‘You Had Me’ also did but the mixers ruined it but that’s mostly on me for choosing those guys again. For this one, the mixer sent me a version which I thought had the drums too loud and the vocals didn’t make my hairs stand up but sounded like perfection. So on the 2nd revision, I asked to have 20% of the reverb/effects removed and it worked. 
The irony is that the environment is the last thing I care about. I care about people first. I’m sort of with George Carlin. My take is that with a perfect environment and assholes running around there’s no point. Also, let’s just say Earth dies. Bigger picture wise, the universe will do just fine. The bigger environment-the universe lives on. Nonetheless, I did put my heart into someone else’s beliefs as you can hear. It has also reignite my interest in writing good lyrics cos’ if he hadn’t written good lines I wouldn’t have emoted.  There are also environmentalists who give a damn about human beings as much as the environment like Spiderman and I can respect that. 

Thermal Ghosts

So I finished prod for So Typical and spent 30 minutes on this shortened stripped down of When You Believe. Begun writing my retro soul song which already sounds 2x better than last time. If I do it right it should make hairs stand up again.

When You Believe (demo)

Happy b-day Abi.  His fave director is Stanely Kubrick. I asked him to rec me a film last year and he said “Happiness with Philip Seymour Hofman.” I thought it was creative and funny and sad. He has higher moral standards than me. Found his gf perverted.  I would have called it kinky. I was going to tell him to lower his standards but if someone said, “maybe you should cheat”to me I’d say “no” cos a)your gf is supposed to be one of your best friends and b)it’s disrespectful. If I treat one of my best friends with disrespect how can I treat my friends well?  So I think Abi should do Abi. Other than that Abi sent me a pic and I told him he looked a bit like Rami Malek. He wasn’t too fond of that but Rami Malek isn’t bad looking and Abi looks 16.

I thought the whole song was A Dorian but it’s actually A dorian b2 alternating with A dorian for the verses.  I came up with the riff and wanted to make it more complex so I used the same strumming technique for ‘Can’t Stop.’ First time I used hand clicks for a song and also first time I’ve kept an entire song all modal. Thought the vocal phrasing was quite ZZ Ward for the verse and I wanted to  make it more hard rock sounding like Soundgarden. So the verses sound quite ZZ Garden or Soundward (Squidward). The bass in the verses is playing a simplified version of the bass line in ‘Come Together.’ I do like the vocal phrasing for ‘yet in the mix I found joy’ for the chorus. First time I’m doing that much falsetto for lead which is inspired by QOTSA. Some counter melodies for the beginning of verse 2. Fave use of counter melody is probably the 2nd half of ‘Emotion Sickness’ from Silverchair. I added some congas and wanted the same rhythm as the percussion from ‘Roots Bloody Roots’ but I decided to keep things simple and accent the 2 vocal syllables.. Then, the last chorus I was going to copy paste my piano parts but accidentally copy pasted my lead guitar over and that improved the groove.

Lyrics: Written by SGOR. Some guy on reddit. Lost contact. If it sounds like it was written an angsty teen that’s cos’ it was written by an angsty teen. Terrific message about finding empathy. Not sure about how death fits into all this.  ‘There can be miracles when you believe’ is cheesy on paper but I don’t think it’s cheesy when you hear it. ‘If you squeeze my lizard I’ll put my snake on you’ is ridiculous on paper but badass when you hear it. Depends on vocal tone, phrasing, delivery, and melody.

Stranded on a desert planet, lost in my own curse,
As if I caused a cataclysm, but all I did was change.
I was Found in the mud, like a coin in ruin's dust,
Polished up, made to fake, like I hadn't seen the rust.
Hear a beating heart in the darkness,
I've been lost, I've been found, I've wandered so long,
I found myself in you, but in the end, it wasn't me I found.

Ride with me through the storms of life, (it was fly with me originally and I am not singing that)
Let our hopes shine bright,  (it was light shine bright originally)
Like we've been struck by lightning, 
Revealed 
As something in the night.
I came to life when loss became real,
Felt pain and sympathy,
Yet in that mix, I found joy, found a way to be.
Am I cursed? I'll never know, but I'll embrace it all,
Life is its own limit, 
perfection in its sprawl.
The final goodbye, the chill of death, it comes for us all,

Running through the lost ruins of an apocalypse. (I wanted to give some more sensory elements to a song that was very much ‘in its feelings. So I matched the idea of a cataclysm. Took about 10 secs to type out)
Found myself with spears and arrows and feeling generous
Smeared my face in mud, like an Indian warchief
I’ve been dead, I’ve come to life, I’ve wandered so long
I found myself in you, but in the end it wasn’t me that I found



Ride With Me

Accents & Impressions

I don’t know if I’ve actually heard electrofunk before. I thought it was funk with electronic characteristics but it’s actually electronic music with funk characteristics. This uses my city pop beat that I studied online (down to what color were the accents). So I guess it could be electro disco.
I think it’s minor bebop on the lead for the intro. Standard chord progression with superimposition with the effects. Half of them from Logic worked. We have the 1st instance of ‘cowbell’ in a song of mine.  The reappearance of pair triads for synth in chorus as well as slap bass. Then, in a blink and you’ll miss moment my signature sound! Hendrix has the E7#9 and some producers shout their name at the beginning of songs. So I could technically play a E7#9 and shout my name. Double the signature sound. No, what I did was 3 scratches-note-2 scratches-note -1 scratch-note. Tada. I call it the ‘countdown’. It’s probably been done before but I wanna make it my own thing (by repeating it more times in other songs). Then, a horn section  just superimposes itself over the same chord progression. It’s the first time I’ve successfully made a legato run on a horn section sound good. In time for the upcoming Bond theme.  I came up with it the same way as the string section for Cold Cold Storm. It appeared in my head and I took out my phone and went ‘and the strings shall go like dum dum dum’. So typical part came when I was sitting at Annies and they were playing some lounge. It reminded me a bit of ‘So Beautiful’ by Pete Murray. So I wrote the rest of it in a singer-songwriter style on my guitar and changed the vocal phrasing to make it less Pete Murray. Then, I came up with the rest of the chorus and asked myself what did it sound like later. 'well it’s only natural' is very similar to ‘will you still love me when’. Lana Del Rey is one of my sisters’ fave artists (or was). The last chorus is def danceable. Last revision I would ask the mixer to do is to increase the volume for backing parts for ‘in human form.’ 

I do remember singing it to someone and changing the lyrics to ‘I Will still love you when’.  It is both too easy and too hard. Too easy cos’ “I got a good (heart) memory remember?” “Threats heard Jer but not nearly as bad as semen in your wanton soup.” True story.  The last page of Fight Club it’s real waiters saying, “Margaret Thatcher has eaten my cum twice.”
Please tell everyone what you really think of waiters and black people. Btw, since you’re so righteous I’m gonna help you out here. At which point you might doubt why I would want to help you but believe me. Keep your mouth shut and don’t answer the question. No really, I’m trying to help you. I know how much you care about your hygiene. In fact it might be the only thing you care about. And, you were just born like this. So getting screwed over when you go eat take out and you do eat take out a lot wouldn’t change your opinion on waiters. 
Waiters all over the world: what was it?
Not telling you. You wouldn’t be offended if a person with below average IQ walked in and said, “waiters sucked” so just treat her like the village idiot she is. 
Also too easy in that I could just conjure up all of your childhood trauma that was done by daddy. 
Too hard in the sense that she’s already dead inside. That is a direct quote. 
*begins standup*
Now  if we were the last 2 human beings on earth I wouldn’t do it with you. Why? Just imagine those aliens in their spaceships laughing their asses off at me going, “and that is the moment that idiot stuck his dick back in and doomed the human race to extinction. Note the look of sheer self disgust on his face. Thus, beginning a new species known as homo narcissus.” I am a man of my word but ‘friends’ take the piss out of each other all the time!




So Typical

Best Part of You (Part 1 Snippet)

Apologies for not delivering the full song but I switched mixers after hearing the first and 2nd mix from the usual guy and really, being at a loss for words as to what to say to improve the mix. So, I found a new guy and at least he made the verses sound good. I think I will shelve this one until later when I find a better mixer. The good news is that there was a mixer who described the gist of the song rather well and I would work with him except that I had already paid money to this second guy so I’ll be working with him for the Bond theme. I think the problem with the mixes I was getting is that the drums were too sharp (loud) and that was actually lessening my groove. Since my new theory is that groove is drums+interplay with another instrument (s), if you blow up the drums (which is what most of modern mixing seems to be about) you can’t hear the other instrument as much. Therefore, lessening the groove. A mixer should be able to find the balance.  Yes, that is headphone bleed you’re hearing and not purposeful psychedelia. That’s on me. 


Best Part of You (Part 2 Snippet)

This Part of You (Part 2 snippet)


First time in harmonic minor. Begins with the classic theme and superimposed chords on the 3rd and 5th on your right speaker. I had to give the mixer (unlimited revisions) some degree of freedom. I would have done it 1 sweep to the left  and 1 right. For each section some theory use. So 1st verse, the violins are playing lydian b3 cos’ the vocals sounded empty on it’s own and I wanted some ‘out of the box’ stuff. The chorus ends on D7 which is an outside chord. That was a chord I accidentally hit on guitar and when it returns to Eminmaj7 it’s a deceptive cadence. Double harmonic minor and whole tone on 3rd degree for the trumpets. The ‘through the gaps part’ I did on 5th improv. Wasn’t happy with the chorus I had written and just improvised over the chorus on Logic. That’ s some of my best flow. 2nd verse I did counterpoint for Bond motif. 2nd chorus, the first line you hear was taken from my original improv. It sounded more fitting as the start of a chorus. I had to write an extra violin line for the chorus to keep it aligned with my ‘every chorus line has different orchestration’ philosophy. The bridge has the drums in mostly half time as well as beginning in the key of G. First time I placed a secondary dominant in the middle of a phase cos’ usually I put it at the end. Then, a chromatic chord sequence. Last chorus I complete my strings cos’ I had violins 1/ 2 and I thought I’d finish it off with violas and cellos. It is polyphonic cos I prefer it when composers write lines that don’t match vocal melody.

I take each part of me apart
Like you didn’t feel me
Like the air was distilled by our heart and I don’t
Show a tell because my mind is withered down
Break a sweat because pieces don’t make a sound
The lies we keep lie razor deep like stains on last nights bed sheets
Could we ever leave this life behind my eyes don’t deceive me but my heart is blind

Every bullet has our nations name on it.
In the name of the crown, with the sound of it. ( to keep it accurate cos’ the queen is dead)
I have loved you for who you are and even if you didn’t know I’d always love you. (Kind of a letter to Vesper)
I have always been so sure of this, from the moment I saw you, I knew that I would kiss you.
And even though we fell through the gaps and everything 
Always made me sure that I would be amiss.  

Somebody won’t do it if I wouldn’t do it for your lies 

Every little bit of malice that we detest
Every little bit of sadness in our breath 
Shakes the foundations of what we build to its chest
Am I not a reader of obituaries  (Skyfall reference)
Am I not the protector of sanctuaries 
I’ll lift this orphaned past into a future of service to war (accurate to Bond’s orphan upbringing)

I’d drain the rivers dry just to taste something clean
I know that you will love me.  (Yes a proper Bond pick up line)

Yes, the most accurate Bond lyrics to date. Even pays homage to the bad old Bond films misogyny by saying ‘bitch.’ 
I really like Skyfall/Casino Royale.  I did ‘meet’ Daniel on Broadway when I was at NYU. Walk passed him and should have asked  ‘what was M16 doing on Broadway?’ but in NY the cool tradition is ‘leave celebrities alone’. I think he was good and some people point out the blonde hair but he looks more like a thug than previous Bonds which is closer to Fleming’s idea. People criticise Dr. Christmas Jones for not looking like a nuclear scientist but Pierce looks more like a model than a spy. Not that I know what spies look like. I wanted to criticise the writers for sticking Vesper in every Craig film.  I was watching No Time To Die with my sister in the cinema I was thinking, “Vesper…again?”.  I finally found out she sacrificed her life for him so to mope for all of his films is fine. I did not like the ending which I thought ripped off ‘Hero’ with Jet Li except they replaced  arrows with missiles. I noticed Daniel does swim well. Then, he did the Belvedere commercial and that kind of ruined a little of his Bond image for me. 


Vesper Lynd

This is the one  I wrote last year and this is the outro. It uses the same cool theory from 'Imperfect for You' by Ariana Grande. There's no name for it but it's a flattened chord.

Untitled trap soul instrumental outro demo

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'. 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:

I think if you’re gonna be a higher level IELTS teacher I’d first be able to be pronounce the alphabet or maybe count from 1 to 10 with native pronunciation. Failing that, you’re no better than a kindergarten or pre school teacher. So that makes you an ‘English’ teacher. Secondly, if you notice PDA among your students the incorrect way to go about it is to slap their hands and give them a look of disgust. This could get you fired in in more decent schools. What school of teaching is this from? The school of thugs?
The Government: nah we don’t take people who can’t run fast enough from the cops.

“They need to be taught how to think.” Which roughly translates to ‘your child is an idiot’ and also ‘I have not done enough research on the IELTS test.’ They can just say how they feel about everything and still get a good grade. 

Which makes you an ‘English Teacher’. Well, if you’re looking for a better occupation I suggest ‘comedian’. They should just put a camera on you and have you walk around using your ‘methods’ and call it ‘satire.’ Trust me, it’ll be a big hit. You have also managed to make all 3 of my family members laugh at the same time with that lie you told during the first WeChat meeting. That’s 3 demographics. Both genders. All ages. 




September: Trap Soul Song I've been shelving
October: I think I'm gonna do a chill hop/jazz hop thing with Coltrane changes. Done a instrumental before but never done a vocal jazz hop thing.

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