This is the first song I have ever recorded. It's a soft tune that really was just a fun project do mess around with. It involves a guitar, cajon, shaker and sound effects made with my own mouth. It has a very deep and emotional feel and was created in a time of great emotional change in my life. It's just a demo and has a few mistakes and level issues but it's purely just on here for people to listen to and enjoy. 

'Heart' performed by Shane Cox
Recorded by Matt Cooper
Copyright © - Shane Cox 2015

Heart (Demo)

This is the second Demo and boy is it a demo. We recorded this in about half an hour after spending a long time in limbo with ideas, we eventually struck gold with this but ran out of time. I’ve got big plans for this one. Massive drums, heavy guitars and strong vocals. But all in due time. It’s purely a demo that I have uploaded for a certain someone to listen to whilst I am away. :P 

Hope (Demo)

'Up From Here' is a track about reaching the lowest of valley's and the journey one takes to get out of it. It's never a journey taken alone and it's never as bad as we think it was at the time. Looking back on such journey's makes us think different, see different and be different. Is it really that bad?

Soul Detox

Up From Here

Breathe out is about the struggle of watching someone you love pass on from this earth. The Wrestle between not wanting them to leave you, but also wanting the best for them and letting them pass on to a better place. I wrote this song for my Grandma, she was such a pillar in our family and it was so painful to watch her breath those last breaths. My final moment with her on this earth was spent by her bedside in a dark hospital late on week night. She was barely breathing and I remember saying to her gently that it's ok if she wants to take her last breath, That I loved her so much and didn't want her to go nor did I want to walk away knowing I'd never see her again. After such a confusing and painful time, I stood up and gave her a final kiss on the cheek. It was the hardest thing I've ever done, and there will be be more songs about that moment and that beautiful woman. You can count on that.

Breathe Out

Slowly was written just before I finalized the last track for the album. As I was drawing to a close, I just wasn't sure about this one track that sat at number 5 on the album. It wasn't ready and I felt there was something inside of me that needed to get out and take it's place. So I basically wrote a song about it. How long it took me to make this album and the journey it took me on. But also about how in life, we all are slowly plotting along getting better at what we do and making the most of the time we get. Well atleast I hope so anyway. I love this song and I hope you do as well. 

Whatever you're do in this life don't give up. Keep smiling, encourage those around you. Give, give and give again. This life is too short to horde up meaningless things for ourselves. Love others above yourself, and let go of any and every offense. It's just not worth it.

Slowly

This song was one of the first ones I recorded in my home studio set up. It was written in a time of distress and deep depression. It's about the lowest valley I ever reached in my life which was isolated, dark, lonely and destructive in it's nature. I reached a point where everything in this world was pointless and worthless in my eyes. I saw opportunity as expectation and the people left who reached out I rejected. I couldn't change my perspective or climb out of the deep pit I had sunken into. My last resort, was an emotional one at the least. I cried out in desperation and agony to God, "take me or make me'. If I was to remain on this earth I would devote myself to never sinking into such a hole ever again. If I stood up off my knee's I would believe his word when it says "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". I would thrust myself into the dreamers direction and chase a life and person that was unforeseeable in my current circumstance.

I got out of that hole. I started to forgive and let go. I saw the world and other people differently. I believed I was worth so much more than the voices in my head were screaming at me. I quoted scripture, I prayed with authority and deceleration, I started to find this joy inside of me that silenced the deep dark atmosphere in my life. Although my circumstance never changed, I was changing. 

I now stand a completely different person. I have a bounce in my step. I laugh more than I complain. I love to meet people and spend time with others. I believe I have a gift and a purpose on this planet. My heart is increasing daily and that hole is now full. 

Depression is such a deceptive attacker. For me the worst way I dealt with it was letting guilt control me. "I'm not depressed. I'm ok. I have nothing to complain about compared to them! I'm not worth the trouble. Grow up Shane, get over it and yourself" This is what bound me and even others who could've helped me actually bound me more into this line of thinking by speaking these things out over me. It wasn't until I reached that point of utter desperation inside of myself that I did a full 180 in the very direction this depression did not want me to go. 

I know, without a shadow of a doubt that God saved me. I do believe the words I read and I do believe that presence I feel. I have seen first hand how the power of God restores and transforms the impossible.

Free Me

This song is all about the struggle in letting people know you need help. Sometimes the biggest captor of depression is our guilt. "I shouldn't feel like this, I shouldn't be like this. You should be stronger, you have nothing to feel depressed about" You get the picture. 

It's important to let those who love you know about your deep holes. Unattended depression can end tragically and the help you so desperately long for is so often surrounding us in those we love. 

Take the plunge. You'll never look back.

Let You Know

Seasons come and go, people love and grieve, lovers love and leave but the world keeps on spinning.

Origin - Single

Origin

My real name is Shane Cox. I am a drummer at heart but have an intense passion for music of every kind. You may know me as the drummer from Indiago, the crazy youth leader from C3 Adelaide Hills, the local drum teacher in your school or maybe you are still trying to work out how you found this page. 

Whatever it may be, I'd love if you checked out the music on this page. You may be surprised at the style, genre or sound that I create by my self, but know that it is true to my heart. I've always written songs on my own about things I go through. Whether it be a good day or maybe a bad one, the lyrics are real. The sound is mine. So take it for what it is, just a guy doing what he loves. I hope it inspires you, speaks to you, challenges you, supports you, comforts you and hopefully at the least, makes you dance. :) 

Thank you for your support. :D ♥

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