This song is dedicated to my late cousin, who past away today (3/10) due to a battle with brain and lung infection. I meant to finish this song so that she could hear it, but I was a day late. May she RIP.

This song is about transforming any 'grace', in any form, to bring forth absolution from our promised salvation. We all desire to be born a new, but with sin and temptation, we can do nothing, but put our faith in something higher up.

Transforming Grace

This song is about the concept of adoration and wishing to be with the ones you love 
The lyrics include an edited extract of "Love the Theology part 2" A poem I wrote a few years ago. 
However for now there is no vocalists and I wrote the vocals with the flute
Somewhat inspired by One Direction's I Want, and a few previous projects.

Lyrics:
Beauty

My Life Is a beautiful legacy of thoughts 
Or so Mother Destiny and Father Time say
My perceptions are the chain of events that brought
These visions of you and I, every night and day 

For beauty comes in a bittersweet smile 
I wished I knew you longer than a while 
And my infatuation 
Creates this frustration 
Your timidness makes me fall for you
And I only want to be with you 

A pretty cute girl 
is living in my world
Hey eyes and her smile
Are just worthwhile
To make any guy 
Cry alone at night
She makes my head spin around

You are so beautiful 
One of a kind, yet suitable
Do you know that I chose you?
I'm so glad you made here it, cause I've found 

It's a blessing to be with someone just like you
But it's not the same I want "the one and only"
Whilst I may repress it, I always have thought of you
And it seems I can't hide my emotions from a "Beauty"

For Beauty is a goddess, she's fair and strong
She will try her best to sing her song
But if you get in her way
You will surely pay
Nothing else is better 
than the presence of Elisabeth

A pretty cute girl 
is living in my world
Hey eyes and her smile
Are just worthwhile
To make any guy 
Cry alone at night
She makes my head spin around

You are so beautiful 
One of a kind, you're suitable
Do you know that I chose you?
I'm so glad you made here it, cause I've found 

Hope! This is my chance 
To be your friend until the end
Help! I am mesmerized by your trance 
I've always liked you, I won't pretend

(clues hidden within the power of words)
(trace back feelings...these may sound absurd)

Said I, would do, anything for you,
as long as you stay with me, as long as you will stay true...
I shall not hurt you, and if ur unsure, let me assert you
that i love you ooh, i wanna be free too!

Please stay, stay on this world, 
stay, stay in my world, 
Hey, hey, you make my heart melt

Have I told you I want you
Have I told you I need you
show me that life aint no war
show me that life is beautiful 

Cause your gorgeous, not just on the outside
but on the inside too...

Act IIb) Beauty (The Theology of Love Part 2)

This song is about the fears in our lives and how it becomes a psychological barrier to our desires. This is also my second composition for the HSC. The english translation for the title is Final Fear which highlights the irony of the notion that there can ever be fears that leave the human mind. This song is somewhat inspired by My Chemical Romance and Avenged Sevenfold.

Finale Metus

Part 3 of Love the Theology
This song depicts about the desire and obviously adoration of another. 
This song is partially inspired by Muse's Blackout, Avenged Sevenfold's Sieze the Day and My Chemical Romance's Famous Last Words
This song has an excerpt from another song I wrote called "Intro: Change of Seasons"

Lyrics are based on my poem called The Theology of Love (Adoration) but were changed to suit the song.
Lyrics:
Acrostic Confessions

Love can be fearful and dreaded
intoxicating to the beating heart
such a simple way we're headed
discontinue or never be apart

Rampaging to others how much i want you
easy to run away from the truth
anxious is the heart of the heavy
love has taken control already

Looking back to the times we had fun
Innocent and childish we were in the sun
Liking our past, nervous of whats to come
easing away from the pain that would come

You always said that you liked my company
Over and over I said the same too
Under false declaration? Or is this love too true?

Insomnia lurks in the mind of the deep...
Insanity creates the pain to which i weep
So simple, yet so complex as it is
You and I, why cant we go further than the mist
Wanting for us, to never be apart
Neglecting this thought, your absence like a dart
to which its pin tip is what makes me die slow
acknowloding that one day, Ill let you go

youth and young life
original in all that it is
upsetting to my mind, 
for love is not beautifully bliss

tonight the wretched world dies, 
within my heart i solemnly cry
overlooking the fact, that it's all lies
wishing it would go away as i shut my eyes

Killing my kiss when you say you'll return
the emotions that you burn
nothing can make me ignore But i'm
wondering if you will come back for more

Hopeless romantic
I am just so frantic
Around you

Mixing are the thoughts in my brain
You are giving me love pain

Much is the joy that i have
a caricature is this loveless path
under the presence of a girl
haunting my dreams making me fall in swirls

Love is such a thing, How it makes pleasure and pain
but greatness can change everything
Vertigo strikes my mind
Essentially Im going insane 





Act IIc) Adoration (The Theology of Love Part 3)

This song is about the depressive moments you have when you over think about your love interest. It contrasts the love and hate you have for this one person/many people.

Lyrics?
Sometimes the emotions disappear after a while
and sometimes they return...
But are they of the same manner, same person? 
Who is to teach, and who is to learn?

And I may have loved you
But I was lost
And I may have hated you
But I was tossed aside

Upset and unreasoned
I became a trampled mess
So I moved on with the season
From friend I turned to pest

Trampled over my my rebellious emotions
No more coins to pay for my dept
So what of my weird and emo complexion
It was your charm that pull me and swept

The mesmerised heart that I had
The lobotomised part of the dead
The ostracised darts that I fed
The illusional memories in my head

Upset and unreasoned
I became a trampled mess
So I moved on with the season
From friend I turned to pest




Act IIIb) Despair

An attempt to write my first electro/dubstep/metal/rock music 
Inspired by Muse, Skrillex 
Enjoy
Ill upload the full version after finishing some tweaks and adding a minute or two onto it :)

Implosion (Demo)

This song is inspired by Muse's Supremacy, Dream Theatre's Finally Free, and other bits and pieces from other artists and songs.
This song also incorporates elements that feature in my other song that are within this set/album "Dreamscape: The Desires of the Lost" 
It explains the confusion towards an individual's emotions towards certain people. He loves them, at the same time he is torn by their differences.
I hope you guys enjoy it!

Act V. Finale - Simulcra.mp3

This song is about the rejection that an individual gets following their pursuit for love
And as a result the internal conflict that is fuelled by hatred grows. 
Probably a massive shout out for all those who have felt rejected and insecure, that perhaps we need darkness in our lives, before we are able to move on!

The poem/lyrics that goes alongside this song is below

Intro Riff
Verse 1
It's all about you, never, not me 
It's all about the person I'm trying to be 
There's not enough time to live 
And all that I am is expected to give

Verse 2
It's all the feelings I've felt for you
But hiding behind these walls, I can't get to who
I seemed to love, and you seemed to hate
I think we are going to a time too late

chorus1
there's sadness within me
I'm isolated too
and there's doubt; a false version of the damned truth 
What Am I, but a hopeless wreck
Screaming and writhing in my bed

This constant commotion is madness
I'm tired of thinking of regrets
What do i do?
With the perversion
of what's been said

Intro Riff3

Verse3
Smile in the world for a fool of all beasts
It only takes a while to notice the pool of disbelief
Struggle between what I won't regret and will
Because I want to hold her still like...

Verse 4
The way the dreamer did in his sleep
His ecstasy of purity would never weep;
Shout the way the sleeper did in his wake
The anger in him created feelings of fake

Chorus 2
What do you read? 
Are they all just words?
What do they mean?
Don't you know it hurts?

When a person says "I do,
Love your pretty presence"
And rejection is true
Hate becomes the core of his essence

Instrumental 

Chorus3
I have created my own pain
I have created my own shame
I have created anger and lust
I have created a futile must

Everywhere i go
I leave a track of snow
that melts and makes a mess
the troubles here are less
but it seems 
charades are just an entity
a parade of false destinies
holding me down

outro:
for seems is seemingly wrong
for right is seemingly writing my heart
cause I Doubt the truth from your mouth
Is this the reason we're falling south...




Act  IIIa: Despair


This song encompasses the idea that moving on would be the right thing to do (even though it doesnt). So the metal genre encompasses the rage that is associated with leaving a special someone. 

Lyrics will be up soon



Act IVa) Letting go (If you loved me)

The idea that one can change their interests in people as a result of the environment that's changing with us. The beginning of the album's track that gives a small taste of all the possible sounds you would hear in the album. 

Intro - Change Of Seasons

Heavily Influenced by My Chem's Welcome to the Black Parade, this song depicts of the emotions that begin as a result of repressed and desired feelings and thoughts. The dreams and memories that are forged create our identity, the identity that we share with those we love. It foreshadows the dream sequence that is Dreamscape, and explores an upbeat variety towards the experimental and emotion complex that is this album. 

Lyrics

Above me floating around
you cant here the sounds
she's making tonight

Her tears spread throughout the earth
Ive got a chance of rebirth
with her i'd make things right

As I look towards the sky, 
it reflects of my eye
I'd see you through thick and thin

I'll be your guardian angel
as my dreams become real
your heart I will win...

verse 1
an untapped memory ?
A vision from the past ?
Potential history ?
But something I can't unmask 

Am I dreaming again in peace
but The blood and tears in my bed
Say otherwise at least
And I dont want to be brain dead

So tell me the truth
cause i've only been true
And the only reason i try
is because i like you

chorus 1
and I don't want illusional remnants or premonitions 
To take me from this world 
For false hope is bad for my emotions 
when one thinks of girls 

verse 2
Vivid smoke and shrouded mist
apparitions of those ive missed
and this irrational fear
of doom is crashing in me ear

wake up one morning feeling lost 
Confused... is this the cost
Is this a tragedy? 
Is there no remedy 

Alone at night, I don't feel light
need to find the reality to my dreams
I waited painfully For night 
to silence the fear in me 

chorus 2
The passion and the horror
dreaded wishes and desires
an armore of steel within the warrior
as he emerges through the fires

This nightmare is going nowhere
Images stain the innocence
This nightmare is all I care
It has me broken against my fence

On the borderline to chaos and defeat
Should I worship Jinzo's feet
Between the lost  control in my mind
I see a flicker of silver, in the skies!

Destiny waits for time 
But time waits for no one 
So stranded in desperate Crimes 
Preparing for the holy one 



Stop with the dreams
It is torture with the utmost pleasure 
Rape! Stop twisting my kind
twisting my time

To be or not to be: is that the question 
Incorrect! That is practice 
For the more sophisticated 

Now listen! I want your attention 
But wait! What have I missed? 
No time for corrections: it's far too late 

For everywhere I go more hatred and discourse takes its toll 
And it seems like god is nothing more than a puppet for the mind control 
Regimes changing my self worth for a lifetime of punishment 
Waiting to be awoken, tested and frisked for judgement 

But besides these haunting presence
I would love to be in eternal sleep
And besides the vague essence
I would love to become the Dreamer!

I want to remember, release and relive 
I want to return to my slumber 
Of eternal grace within a sanctuary of tranquility 
But till then, Goodnight sister 
I shall meet you when time changes 
And time, is approaching a curve
This feeling is the... most strangest!
But there could be worse!


Act Ia Memory and Visions

This song is evidently about the missed opportunities in our lives.
A musical analysis of the song can demonstrate this and explore the tension we humans face with making the "right" and right choices.
The tension with the arpeggios and broken chords via suspended chord progressions and climaxing scales represent this notion of decision making. It provides us with a sense of how opportunity can come and go.  
I tried to add or change a few details to repeating rounds of musical parts to emphasise the transition between life stages, indicating that such phases can come and go at an instant, and the opportune moment will be missed if ignored. 
The shortness of the song also indicates this time lapse. 
Heavily inspired by Avenged Sevenfold's Save Me, this song sends a chilling and nostalgic yet saddening reminded to my future self and aims to prepare the conclusion of the song with utmost precision. 

Act V Opportune

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https://soundcloud.com/kalofthecode

Genre: Avant Garde, Rock, Neo Classical, Pop, Metal, Progressive, Rock Opera, Symphony, Orchestra, Dubstep
Members: Kenneth (Requiem) Phang (Piano, Drums and limited Guitar and bass, lyricist, composer)
  - Drummer - self taught, i love polyrhythms and beats that are easy to jam to as well as intricate techniques used to complement the song.
  - Secondary instrument - Piano, i dont mind mucking around on the piano, playing easy 4 chord songs to play along with people
  - Bass and guitar skills are very limited - i can only do chords and simple strumming, again just to have fun, but i hope to get better in these instruments 

Hometown: Sydney

Description	
~Home Made Compositions
~Mucking around with my basic understanding of the guitar and bass, as well as my advanced knowledge of piano and drums to create rock songs (I consider myself a try hard metal head... cause no matter how metal-like I want the song to become, it still feels pop-ish and if anything alternate/progressive. 
~Just mucking around and hoping to get the album out somehow... and form a band :) 

Current Location: Sydney

Artists We Also Like/Influences: 
Avenged Sevenfold, 
Breaking Benjamin
Dream Theater, 
Ed Sheeran 
Fun
Muse, 
Escape The Fate,
Falling In Reverse
Mcfly, 
Fall Out Boy, 
Patrick Stump, 
Coldplay, 
Metallica, 
Mr Bungle, 
My Chemical Romance
Panic! At the Disco, 
Pinkly Smooth, 
Queen, 
Rise Against, 
Tim Minchin

Interested in Rock Operas
- Repo the Genetic Opera
- Phantom of the Opera
- Mozart: Rock Opera
- Jesus Christ Superstar

Artist/Band Interests: 
Poetry 
Chess
Reading Books
Having fun with music
Tennis
Quidditch


I'm looking forward to form a band. I wouldn't mind forming acoustic groups to pop bands and most definitely hard rock/metal bands.
I am also trying to publish my stuff on youtube after my senior schooling.

Hopefully you guys enjoy my songs, I know I'm enjoying the diverse musicscape of Soundcloud
PS: If you know anyone who could publish my songs (with my consent) or know anyone who you think likes my music, please share! I hope to get my music to a wider audience

Requiem1309

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