Love the chord choice here man. Great haunting vocals

Hey bro, this sounds eerily close to Drawn To The Blood by Sufjan Stevens, the chords, the vocals, the melodies are super close, were you inspired by that song?

Miss Terious

Basically we're all the same
Gifted with a body and a brain
And a heart that beats us through all those ways
Through glorious nights and fatal days

Still there's something...mysterious

We have changed the world so much
In different ways we lost the touch
But we don't want to take the blame
There's no reason in this game
Basically...

Still there's something...mysterious

Working hard in all different ways
Winter, spring, summer and fall
All the time again and again
To deny who is to blame
Basically...

Still there's something...mysterious

Still there' something more above
A mysterious thing called love

Miss Terious

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Yell Welts Elfie Light

Written after the breakup of a friend's marriage, this is a musical portrait of someone going crazy. 

WATCH THE VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/jNGatMdU45M

AVAILABLE TO STREAM:
https://robertgray.hearnow.com/you-said-you-loved-me

MUSICIANS:
Robert Gray: vocals, guitars, bass
Troy Utz: harmony vocal
Laurent Cinus: violins (https://www.youtube.com/c/laurentcinus)
Lukas Dahle: drums

Mastered by Olav Christensen
Photo: Pexels.com (lisa_fotios)

You Said You Loved Me

DAWN..

Drums: David Lopez
All other instruments: Sam Reaver

Stock crash middle class 
Counterfeit crime of a century
Cutthroat don’t choke
Better him than you on the brink

Cool breeze charismatic
Grave robbing scam of a century
Drill baby thrill baby
Burning up an Anthropocene

It’s been a long time since I lost my mind in a symphony
It’s been a long time since I realized I couldn’t relate
I’ve been craning my neck trying to see if there’s a sign that was meant for me I said it’s been a long time since I lost my mind in a symphony

Bring it back

Pill-poppin priest talkin trash 
Through the crash of a century
Blind luck dumb fuck 
Jamming up the waves on my scene

Flip top shock jock 
Certified creep of a century
I see you don’t know how to read
But you write like you know what it means

It’s been a long time since I lost my mind in a symphony
It’s been a long time since I realized I couldn’t relate
I’ve been craning my neck trying to see if there’s a sign that was meant for me. I said it’s been a long time since I lost my mind in a symphony

Bring it back

Lost in a Symphony

This one is essentially a one-take guitar and vocal (well, this is technically take 2), plus a very very very simple slide guitar line and a harmony vocal.

It evolved out of me noodling a riff from an open-E tuning. I almost reverted to a standard, as I was struggling with the bridge, but I'm glad I persevered as I think the open tuning makes the guitar part sound a bit more interesting. I have to admit, the lyrics were a bit of an afterthought, and ended up being a case of choosing words that rhyme with 'bend' and retrofitting the other lines accordingly🤦

LYRICS:

We've been doing this ol' dance
So long, I swear
You say I'm an idiot
I say that's unfair
'Cause if you bend a little
I'll meet you halfway there

I’ve been pulling at this thread
And so have you
Baby, we’re unravelling
Like we always do
But if you mend a little
I’ll meet you halfway there

And I don’t even know the truth of it
Just know I hate to be apart
So when you ask me what’s the use of it
I point a finger to my heart

I’m planting out these seeds
On a sunny day
Gonna cover them with earth
Then hope and pray
And if you tend a little
I’ll meet you halfway there

Halfway There

Is anyone still out there?
Well hello there if you are taking some of your valuable time to read this! As the lyrics to this (probably)final song say, its been a long while……
The last time I checked into Soundcloud was maybe last December, wow…. 
I packed up for a holiday in Hawaii, ran the Honolulu Marathon, watched a volcano erupt, cast my dog’s ashes into a lava field and drank a tropical island's worth of cocktails while watching the sunset with my wife. And then returned a few weeks later decidedly unenthused about the Cat and my collaborator.
Gina had been making noises about returning to an on again / off again musical partner. That wasn’t unexpected and was actually a bit of a relief as I hadn’t been enjoying this for a while. Our last few songs had been tortuous to finish, including this one which was finally finished I think way back in October 2022.
Cat Came Back was always a lot like an arranged marriage - nothing at all in common but we kind of made it work 3 minutes at a time. But by late last year, it had become very hard work. And as you fellow Soundclouders know, outside of personal satisfaction, the rewards for all of that hard work are not very large. So, if the personal satisfaction is gone, there’s not a lot left to motivate oneself. 
In addition to that, there were a few rather large elephants in the room regarding my collaborator that I won't go into but nevertheless constantly weighed very heavily on my mind throughout our time together and I was finding these increasingly difficult to continue to ignore for the sake of making music together.
So anyway, when I returned a perhaps brief hiatus accidentally turned into this - silence for what, 7-8 months? Haven’t picked up an instrument in all that time and they currently sit in my garage gathering dust. Took up Chess, what a rabbit hole that is! Continued running. Listening as always to a lot of old jazz. Continued seemingly never ending renovations to my house. Spent a lot of time with my lifelong friend, William Styron’s Black Dog, as a matter of fact he's here sitting right by my side now. 
So what now? I sat down a few days back and listened to a few things that were unfinished as of late last year. Maybe its time to start again. Find a new collaborator or two? Anyone know anyone who might be a match?
In the meantime I’ll dip my toe in and check out what some of my favourite Soundclouders have been up to while I was away. I'm sure I've missed out on some really great stuff.

Minor Exotica (Turned To Black)

Experimental, electronic soundscape by Spasmodular and VCO (Vincent Carlton Overdrive). This composition was created from field recordings, shortwave radio noise, and multiple synthesizers. 
c) 2023

Salapärane Tunnel

In Vain

here is version with dreamy vocals:
https://soundcloud.com/lemonadelove/if-it-is-you-by-her-trusty-dream-tiger-ft-lemonade
:v

Tired Eyes

On The Same Planet

"All of us are in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars."

In Vain

Sean Woods

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