Indie2024

Independent Singer Songwriter

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Coups de cœur étrangers 19

Disassociate

PHLoWoSoPHY

A Mind 🧠

There is no feeling like being handed your child for the first time.  There is no way I could put more love into a song than this.  Enjoy.

TINY HANDS

Right When Your Wrong

A desperate question buried in the ruins.
“What Do You See?” is heart-wrenching and beautiful, a final scream into the void; hoping someone, anyone, still sees the person beneath the pain.
Crafted by one of the most talented artists I know, it was a genuine honor just to sing this.

Listen to the full album on all platforms (April 18)

What Do U See?

**Lyrics**

I pray 
Pray for better days 
Pray for better things 
To the mother I pray 
Pray for better stakes 
Word of the day 
Tomorrow I’ll pray for a better today 

Hope X4 (ho-oo-ope)X4 
(As I) 
Hope (As I) 
Hope (As I)
Hope (As I)
Hope (As I)

PR4Y

I wrote this song on a day when I was just thinking about saying "screw it all" and just hop in the car and start driving down the Eastern Coastline.  A few stops along the way just to dip my feet into the ocean maybe.  Run through a storm or two while thinking about what it would be like to just dance in that storm.  Daydreaming about good things but just driving without a care.  Sounded like a great idea so I made it a song.

Brian Keefe - Single - Dancing With The Lightning

The Sadness in Your Eyes

... a climb out of old patterns and into something clearer.

Elevating

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Mariano Ballejos - Blackland (Hasan Ghazi Remix)

MUSICIANS
John Beckmann: all music, and production
Lux Astralis, New York: recording studio
Atomix LA: mastering

LYRICS
Come, they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A newborn King to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum.
So to honour Him, pa rum pum pum pum
When we come.

Little baby, pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum
That’s fit to give a King, pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum.
Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum
On my drum?

Mary nodded, pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for Him, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my best for Him, pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum.
Then He smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum,
Me and my drum
Me and my drum
Me and my drum
Me and my drum

LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

This is the prelude to my album 'kids', out Jan 30

I never loved the way I loved before

A song about anxiety, depression and loneliness.  

[Verse]

This tables damp...  Bleach and water.
Stopped for a Big Mac, fries and a Coke.
Dinner for one... eight and a quarter.
Then I'll walk, and have a smoke.

Anxiety, my partner in crime.
Every day, taken carefully.
A classic psycho paradigm.
Something's broken inside of me.


[Chorus]

Smiling, talking, that's not my thing.
A melancholy soul is a social sting.
Stuck in a thought quagmire.
With a head full of broken wires.


[Verse]

Like a sparrow without a host.
A tiny, lonely, innocent bird.
Alone, in a field on a broken post.
Only seen and never heard.

I don't smile, never lock eyes.
Keep lookin toward the ground.
Hide inside my fake disguise.
Panic attacks will cut you down.


[Chorus]

Smiling, talking, that's not my thing.
A melancholy soul is a social sting.
Stuck in a thought quagmire.
With a head full of broken wires.


[Bridge]

But, music is my happy place.
Every genre... a new highway.
Explore... then come back to base.
There's always hope for brighter days


[Chorus]

Because, smiling, talking, that's not my thing.
A melancholy soul is a social sting.
Stuck in a thought quagmire.
With a head full of broken wires.


[Chorus]

Smiling, talking, that's not my thing.
A melancholy soul is a social sting.
Stuck in a thought quagmire.
With a head full of broken wires.

Lyric by: Roger L. Smith
Vocals & Music by: Suno.ai

© Copyright Roger L. Smith & Ironically Insipid Records, 2025

Broken Wires

Broken Toy (prod. neverforever)

Tonight is about two people caught in a moment that feels impossible to escape. It follows the pull of desire, the tension of being drawn closer, and the loss of control that happens when distance disappears. Every touch, every breath, and every word spoken deepens the connection until the outside world no longer exists, only what happens between them tonight.

#tonight #pullmeclose #dontletmego #noescape #desire #connection #fallingdeeper #losecontrol #intensity #latenight #passion #heat #closer #ineedyou #moment

Tonight

Blurring lines between devotion, love and obsession

River Into You

Party Park

Roger is a musician, producer & composer living in West Michigan.

He self-produces original acoustic & electronic compositions which range from ambient and IDM to classical.  His influences span far and wide through traditional blues and jazz to more modern house and techno beats.  More often than not, his music has just a touch of beautiful sadness.

His music is perfect for soundtracks, video games & other sync projects.  Contact him for more details.