Windows Of White Light

Sails

you've got palms in your eyes
the closer it comes to rights
for sale my faith ain't worth a dime
and i've lost it all to time
to buy all the boxes and the booze
to sell all the crosses and the used
to dilettantes like you and me

so it dawns on me
i'll sleep through the tides again

oh lord, take me down, some surprise
a sad arrest that i see through your lies
i'm tilting at windmills
set the sails to paradise
oh lord, i'm around, hear me now
waste away what's taken from me anyhow

i believed in you once
when all i knew was the love of home
or a love unconditional
the only divine i've ever known
i spend my time selling all these lies
born of the words of a love gone by

so it dawns on me
i'll sleep through the tides again

oh lord, take me down, some surprise
a sad arrest that i see through the lies
i'm tilting at windmills
set the sails to paradise
oh lord, i'm around, hear me now
waste away what's taken from me anyhow

all i want to say now
all i want to say how
all i want to go down
is it everything i dreamed of?

Sails

COME A LITTLE CLOSER - submission for song-exploder-x-splice

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Come A Little Closer

Passionfruit (Drake Cover)

SPARTA by QUAN BAY

My friends are all over the world
my day lights up your hurt
Winter covers the ground at my feet
Summer burns the grass underneath you

Different time zones split lives
Working on through these late nights
And you’d never complain
Staying in on summer lights
Smoking in the dark under moonlight

And through the dark you stayed
Talked about the old days
You know it swept over like i was there again
Who knows how we slipped away
Where did all those days go
Playing football in the monsoon rain

And i know you lost the girl of your dreams
I know she sailed off to the wrong side of the sea

Now we got responsibilities
here trying to make some money
The year’s coming up closer than ever
It’s closer than ever
Those days are far behind us now

Different time zones split lives
Working on through these late nights
you’re alone again
Staying in on summer lights
Smoking in the dark under moonlight 

And through the dark you stayed
Stuck in the old days
You know it swept over like you were there again 
Who knows how we slipped away
I miss those afternoons
Playing football with you in the monsoon rains

And i know you lost the girl of your dreams
I know she sailed off to the wrong side of the sea

I don’t wanna close my eyes
Us kids be having kids
Laying back
 staring at the purple sky
Don’t wanna rest, don't wanna die 
Do you remember the time
When we fell in love
Do you remember the time
When we first met

Sparta (2018 Demo)

METROMANIA 
from Stay Like This Forever

what did you tell me 
that i need the money
the papers are dying
the winds are failing
well it’s divinity you said
my dreams lie in
the mind’s infinity
well i came to america
on an aluminium night
with no idea of the world
and a metronomic heart
draw a million lines
and draw a few more
and i don’t think i can
write another line of code

and i hear it in my dreams
i hear it in the lights
i hear it in the screens
that are staring at my back
the cowardice of it all
will end up doing me in
it’s hard enough to walk
without my heart caving in
and it’s time now 
the time to tell myself
kill the voices in my head
kill the voices in my head
kill the voices in my head
cure the voice in my head

stay like this forever
 
and you know that it all falls down
in the end
in a little twist and turn
five years left
and you know that dreams burn down
in the end
i don’t need to tell you
you got to live for yourself

stay like this forever

Metromania

We wrote this EP during the lockdown, 2020. We saw many of us stay at home, some lose jobs, others move out of Canada, and still others lose loved ones to COVID. We wrote these songs as patterns to help live out our days in isolation, as well as to empathize with and memorialize the times we were living through. We hope you enjoy the record.

Quan Bay