about Israel massacring Gaza people and til that tragic 7 October 2023 
from victims they became executioners

[Verse]

In the cradle of dust where the cries collide

Walls of rubble whisper

No place to hide

The sky’s a thief

Stealing breath from below

Innocence buried where the olive trees grow

[Chorus]

From shadows to ashes

The line disappears

Yesterday's victims now weapon their fears

History’s a cycle of blood and despair

From shadows to ashes

Does anyone care?

[Verse 2]

A date etched in sorrow

The clocks turned to pain

October’s cold breath

A memory stained

A child held a stone

Now a man holds the flame

Justice twists into vengeance

They’re never the same

[Bridge]

Do we count the bodies or count the years?

Do we drown in the blood or drown in tears?

What’s the weight of a soul when the scales are bent?

What’s the cost of a life when mercy’s spent?

[Chorus]

From shadows to ashes

The line disappears

Yesterday's victims now weapon their fears

History’s a cycle of blood and despair

From shadows to ashes

Does anyone care?

[Outro]

The echoes don’t fade

They only repeat

The sand turns red under trembling feet

The cycle spins faster

The wounds never close

From shadows to ashes

This is how it goes

From Shadows to Ashes

A song for the girl you can never quite reach but still can't forget

Ever On My Mind

[Verse 1]
We met at the corner, heartbeat after Nine,
Post lights glow up; love at first sight.
First date, green light, racing through the lane,
Laughing at nothing, both a little insane.
But somewhere down the avenue, yellow lights come up
You hesitate, I overthink, we both move slow.
Red at the crosswalk, now we’re standing still,
Lost in the quiet, frozen against our will.

[Pre-Chorus]
Every love’s got a rhythm,
Every heart’s got a sign,
We’re all just hoping for the signal,
Not another warning line.

[Chorus]
Red means wait, green means go, 
Yellow means ,don’t let me go slow.
In this city of stops and starts,
We’re just traffic lights for each other’s hearts.
Sometimes we’re speeding, sometimes we stall,
Sometimes we’re both not moving at all.
Green means yes, red means goodbye,
Yellow means ,give us one more try.

[Verse 2]
Horn sounds in the distance, people pass us by,
We talk in headlights, but we never say why.
Crosswalk love story, midnight turns to dawn,
I want to run to you, but the light’s never on.
Brake lights in your eyes, shadows in mine,
Lost at an intersection, running out of time.
We chase the green, but there’s always a sign,
Love’s just a detour, waiting in line.

[Bridge]
Flash of a taxi, rain on the street,
Wipers like memories, can’t hit repeat.
Waiting for the moment, the light to turn bright,
Wishing on a dream, loving through the night.

[Chorus]
Red means wait, green means go,
Yellow means don’t let me go slow.
Big city dreaming, little town fights,
Every love is made of traffic lights.

[Outro]
So let’s take the journey, no matter the sign,
If we get a red, we’ll just wait in line.
If it’s green, let’s fly, let the city know
With you by my side,
I’m ready to go.

Traffic Lights

A Sequel To Thunder Fire

Check out Angel on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/vq7hFzWadWSI0fNBKr

Rise Through the Static

Damn 
Ok
Ugh yeah 
Fuck it
Let's go

If it's true
And if it's really you
Oh, what we could do

Yup
Pardon my French, pardon my manners
Pardon me for the good or bad
But you just look like the real thing
The realest thing I never had
Tear out the page
Take a mental note
Rip out my heart and make a song
The needle plays
The reel to reel
Like it's my favorite Billie song
But it's gone
The beat skips
And I can't believe it
The price of payin' dues
If only love was true

If it's true
And if it's really you
Oh, what we could do
If it's true
And if it's really you
Oh, what we could do

Yeah
Forgive my impatience, pardon my ways
Sorry I feel this way
It's like I wish I had you
Or I wish I had you
The kind of dream I always had
Tear out the page
Take a mental note
Rip out my heart and make a song
But it's gone
The beat skips
And I can't believe it
The price of payin' dues
If only love was true

If it's true
And if it's really you
Oh, what we could do
If it's true
And if it's really you
Oh, what we could do

If it was real, it's wonderful
But I don't know if I can trust
Gotta feel in my soul
Yeah, you know the way that we do
It's always for us, yeah
If it was real, it's wonderful
But I don't know if I can trust
Gotta feel in my soul
Yeah, you know the way that we do
It's always for us, yeah
Mm, mm, mm, mm

It could be beautiful
But I don't know if I can trust you
Mm, mm
Dunno if I can trust you

Yeah

Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, girl, are you the one?
(You the one, you the one, you the one)
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, girl, are you the one?
(You the one, you the one, you the one)
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, girl, are you the one?
(You the one, you the one, you the one)

When you walk into the room, everybody stop
But when you walkin' out the room, everybody follow you
No one better in the spot, baby, it's a lot
Every guy is tryna get with you
And
They say love is just a game
But I don't think the same, oh no
It could be beautiful, if it's true
And if you're into that, baby, let me know
Ugh yeah
 
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, girl, are you the one?
(You the one, you the one, you the one)
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, girl, are you the one?
(You the one, you the one, you the one)
Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, girl, are you the one?

If it's true
And if it's really you
Oh, what we could do
If it's true
And if it's really you
Oh, what we could do
Yeah



If It's True

Piano inspired, Soft soul ballad sadness emotional 
Lyrics and version by Sas 


[Verse]

I wake up early
 before the sun
struggle to sleep
Chasing my shadows ( my shadows )
No one sees me [how can they?]
My hands to my face 
Hiding behind them
giving all I got
But they just take, take. 
Some ,
They just leave [sigh]

[Chorus]

Unappreciated 
that's my name
Pour my soul 
but it's all the same [same]
Every thought, every breath I breathe [sigh] [sigh]
It's for everyone else,
but no one sees me.
The real (ME)

[Verse 2]

I hold the weight of every word said
Quietly breaking 
under pride
I mend their hearts 
But who's gonna fix my broken one

[Prechorus]

Can't do right no matter how I try [I do try]
They never notice ,
what they say.

[Chorus]

Unappreciated 
that's my name
Pour my soul ,
but it's all in vain.
Every thought, 
every breath I breathe
It's for them, but no one sees me [me, me]

[Bridge]

The walls of this room echo my song
They listen better 
than people I've known 
and know.
In my lyrics I find my home [ my solace]
Maybe the silence is my only friend.
At least it stays until the end.

Unappreciated, 
That’s my name.

Can’t do no right, 
so now ,
I choose [yes I choose]
to not open my mouth. [sigh]
[sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

( Just shut the fuck up )

Unappreciated ( The Soul Piano Sas Mix)

(Verse 1)

There’s a sadness with no meaning,
No reason I can name.
There’s an emptiness that waits for fill,
For more words and phrases to tame.

(Chorus)
Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel the spark,
A reason to light the softer parts.
Even the stillness has things to teach—
A turn of phrase or a part of speech.

(Verse 2)
I don't know who I am fooling,
I’m not being lazy, not sighing or deep—
I’m not sure that what I am writing
Is something that I want to keep.

(Chorus)
Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel the spark,
A reason to light the softer parts.
Even the stillness has things to teach—
A turn of phrase, a part of speech.

(Verse 3)
Should I want someone to see?
Do they want to see more of me?
This stillness wraps too tight for me—
It’s strangling the voice I used to be.

(Bridge)
I am falling, and I’m not fine.
Just slipping past the warning signs.
Not hurt enough to call it sprained—
And too much numb to feel the pain.

(Chorus)
Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel the spark,
A reason to light the softer parts.
Even the stillness has things to teach—
A turn of phrase or a part of speech.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel the spark,
A reason to light the softer parts.
Even the stillness has things to teach—
A turn of phrase or a part of speech.

Is it in my head or under my nose?
I need to think, try to compose.
I'll land a worded beauty—
And write the perfect prose.

There’s still so much waiting to be exposed.

***** Description *****

Blank Paper is a quiet confession, sung in a voice that is warm, weary, and searching. It drifts like smoke around the edges of thought, capturing the ache of a writer staring into silence, waiting for words that refuse to arrive. The verses move with gentle honesty, admitting doubt, fatigue, and the stranglehold of stillness, while the chorus holds onto a fragile hope—that perhaps tomorrow, inspiration will return.

Musically, it belongs to the intimate world of a Norah Jones–style ballad—soft, close, unadorned, the kind of song that feels like it’s being whispered across a kitchen table at midnight. There’s no grand flourish, only the tender persistence of someone who has carried words their whole life, now wrestling with their absence.

The cover reflects this essence: a wavering, glowing page, out of focus, not yet written on—symbolizing both the emptiness and the potential.

At its heart, Blank Paper is less about despair than about vulnerability. It is the sound of being suspended between silence and expression, knowing that even the struggle to write is its own kind of truth.

Blank Paper

When we first started writing songs together we thought we’d keep it simple but found the allure of a full band sound too tempting to ignore. This song, about the destructive patterns we get locked into, is us fulfilling that original intention - just acoustic guitar, violin and vocals. The riff that underpins the song could have gone another way….that’ll be the next release.

Sugar Trail

A rock version I've been working on. I hope you like it!

Lyrics © Señor Barends

In the dark of night I drifted far away,
A bright star showed me the way.
Walls of want, they cracked, they bled, 
Now the little lord of self is dead.

The Eye of All is open wide, 
No shell, no wall, I’m falling inside. 
From dust to dawn, no mask, no lie, 
The cosmic heart can never die.

The weave unravels, I break the seam, 
I’m caught between the code and dream. 
Blood flowin’, a pulsing beat, 
I rode the waves, I took the heat.

Sage on the corner, shaman in flight, 
Visions ignite in the dead of night. 
Breath of the real, truth in the drum, 
Rumblin’ of the street, feelings gone numb.

The Eye of All is open wide, 
No shell, no wall, I’m falling inside. 
From dust to flame, no mask, no lie, 
The cosmic heart can never die.

No anchor, no harbor, no weight, no chain, 
Awareness blooms in the pouring rain. 
Stillness roars like a war inside, 
I stare it down, nothing left to hide.

Warrior stance, no flinch, no rule, 
Breaking illusions, burning the school. 
Fear released, craving deceased, 
I feast on the silence, I move in peace.

"No self, no name, 
All sparks ignite from the same flame." 
Drums collapse, the snare in half-time, 
Truth bends bars in a crooked rhyme.

Control’s a script they sell in glass, 
Every throne’s a trick, a fading mask. 
Power’s a shadow that slips the hand, 
Sand through the fingers, no place to stand.

Symbols crack, the sun don’t shine, 
Truth in the gutter, it spits through grime. 
Eyes unblinded, I pierce disguise, 
No limits to what the mind supplies.

Every chain they draw is smoke and thread, 
You wake, you cut, the lie drops dead. 
No idols left, no script to trust, 
The mighty sword turned to rust.

Silence louder than any gun, 
Stillness strikes like a loaded drum. 
Noise evaporates, mind goes clear, 
I see the weave, each thread right here.

Breath is weapon, breath is key, 
Unfold the cipher, dissolve the "me." 
Stone-faced calm, I refuse to bend, 
This quiet blaze is the final end.

The Eye of All is open wide, 
No shell, no wall, I’m falling inside. 
From dust to flame, no mask, no lie, 
The cosmic heart can never die.

Fingers of bone scratch symbols in sand, 
Foretelling the beginning of the end.
Glass in the street reflecting no face, 
Just sparks dissolving without a trace.

The Eye of All (Rock Version)

This is the 4th track for Rocktober. 

I had the plan to make a medieval ballad about a trucker and his wife and kids at home.

I wrote and wrote and had 6 verses.
When recording, it became a very long ballad. Really, really long.

I got distracted and started with a beat after the last verse. And another beat. A sound. It became fantastic 😆
So, tomorrow's track (5th) will be the remix of this ballad.

I kept 3 verses and perhaps the lyrics are going nowhere, but at least I have something for day 4 🤭

04 Ballad of the road and the hearth

[Verse]
You's a liar, a conniver
Said you need space, said, "Let me breathe"
But you just need space to let me leave
Said I need more space to spread my wings
It's time to detach

[Verse]
I tried to give you time
To help me make up my mind
I tried to give you the benefit of doubt
But my time is up, I have to get out
I gave you my love and you let me down
I'm no longer around

[Chorus]
(Space)
Space, give you your space
I'm out of place, you won't see my face
I need my space
I can't feel my face
I'm out of place, you won't see my face

[Verse]
Tired of giving my all 
(To a person who won't change)
I won't stick around
(For a woman who won't stay)
I put in the work
(For a person who won't pay)
That's why I got to give you 
Your way aye
Said I'm better off 
In a different time and place
Got to make it work, 
Put the work into myself
Give it all to God, 
Put my feelings on the shelf
But I still wish you well
So I'ma give you...

Chorus]
(Space)
Space, give you your space
I'm out of place, you won't see my face
I need my space
I can't feel my face
I'm out of place, you won't see my face

[Bridge]
I was afraid I'd lost interest
But it's all good
'Cause you showed your true colors
I understood
But was it really true love?
Was it something we both wanted?
Was nothing like I thought it'd be
So I'm giving my self
Time to breath

[Chorus]
So oh oh
Space, give you your space
I'm out of place, you won't see my face
I need my space
I can't feel my face
I'm out of place, you won't see my face

[Outro]
Girl you know
We been here for so long
How you still the same? No
And if I told you once
Then I told you a million times
And I ran out of patience
Gave you time to change
And so I'm giving you space, and
Cause I'm tired of this, 
I'm out of place, you won't see my face
I need my space
I'm out of place, you won't see my face
I can't feel my face
I'm out of place, you won't see my face

Space

It's my passion to make quality songs using all resources available to me. As a music enthusiast I'm interested in many different genres. 

My music production process is a blend of traditional songwriting and cutting-edge AI. 

It all starts with the human touch: I craft the lyrics and song structures myself, sometimes accompanied by music I recorded or composed.

From these foundational elements, I then bring the songs to life using synthetic voices and musicians. 

A key aspect of my creative flow is "jamming" with what I call "personas", distinct AI voices and styles that offer consistent character and sound. 

My roots in music stretch back to the 1970s, when I was a drummer boy in the local harmony. 

The 1990s marked a pivotal moment with the advent of MIDI, opening up new avenues for instrumental composition. 

The early 2000s saw me dive deep into Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), and during that time, I also picked up the guitar. 

Since 2024, integrating AI into my workflow has been a transformative experience. 

It has unlocked unprecedented creative possibilities, providing access to a vast array of virtuoso vocalists and instruments, from intricate acoustic guitar arrangements to full orchestras.

The Eye of All (Rock Version)

Señor Barends

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