Surge

Elemental Sleep

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

I Feel Empty Inside

Bahama.

As the wind blows through the trees.
As the silence starts to break.
As the dawn is facing forward.
Passing time, prepared to wait.
While a crow is looking over.
As you're making your mistakes.
You hide your face.
Hide your face.

If tomorrow wasn't certain.
Would you still behave this way?
As there is no way of knowing.
Could you live on in disgrace?
As the current representative of the dead who lost their way.
You hide your face.
Better hide your face.

Can the sunshine ever touch upon.
The darkness at the heart.
Will the ancestors forgive you for your
mistakes at the start.
As the crows begin to circle.
All their eyes fixed in one place.
Better hide your face.
Hide your face.

Bahama.

When you're running down the white lines.
When you can not see the stars.
When you can not stop them watching.
When you can not fall apart.
Oh, should there be a knocking.
On the window in the morn.
You have been warned.
Better get things done.

Bahama.

And should you go a-walking in the trees.
Be careful not to show them any fear.
And it might be a crow at your window.
The Dead have nothing to teach us, so let it go.
Just let it go.


Bahama (Reprise)

The Webs we Weave

I had a lot of fun playing guitar and drums on this one.  This song tells the story of someone finally coming out of the dark, realizing that things have changed, not holding onto the past, and now that person is moving on to have their best life.  It's a hard driving rock song with a strong message.

Ghosted:  What A Long Estranged Trip It’s Been

Out of the Dark

Original composition….Alejandro Gonzalez M.

Won't

Copyright 2025 Drop Stereo. All songs written, created, performed, recorded by Timothy Anderson.

Verse 1
We built our strength from what remained,
out of moments left unnamed.
Every fault became a sign,
a map between your heart and mine.
Now the cracks just catch the light,
turning wrong into something right.
In the quiet, I can see,
you were always home to me.

Pre-Chorus
We don’t need to start again,
we just learn where we began.

Chorus
We are monuments we mend,
stone by stone until the end.
Every line tells where we’ve been,
every flaw lets daylight in.
We are monuments we mend,
stronger now than we pretend.
Every echo turns to sound —
we’re still standing ground.

Verse 2
There’s a calm beneath the strain,
where forgiveness learned your name.
Every scar that used to ache
taught us what we couldn’t fake.
Even silence found its part,
etching warmth into the dark.
You remind me what it means
to keep believing in the seen.

Pre-Chorus
We don’t need to start again,
we just learn where we began.

Chorus
We are monuments we mend,
stone by stone until the end.
Every line tells where we’ve been,
every flaw lets daylight in.
We are monuments we mend,
stronger now than we pretend.
Every echo turns to sound —
we’re still standing ground.

Bridge (Instrumental / Spoken tone)
If the past still breathes in me,
it’s a rhythm we can free.
Not a chain, not a cost —
just the proof of what we’ve lost
and found again.

Final Chorus / Outro
We are monuments we mend,
made of love that will extend.
Every fracture turned to grace,
in the warmth of your embrace.
We are monuments we mend —
and this is not the end.

Monuments We Mend

This ADVENTURE will continue... Welcome aboard!

Impossible Tomorrow (UA)

So crushing times deliver this anthem for retrospect and deliverance from the darkness

starting over

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