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The band Steam Powered Giraffe's space opera album!

Join the robots on a cosmic adventure as they journey into space with this two hour long 2-disc space opera featuring new age, rock, pop, and folk genres, all on 28 tracks!

Check out the Vice Quadrant Companion Timeline!
A timeline made by the band that helps tell the story of The Vice Quadrant along with the album!: http://steampoweredgiraffe.com/index.php/vqtimeline/

The Vice Quadrant

Fire Fire

Ferryman By Shayfer James and Willy Wood

Element One: Water

Winter Hymn

Element Three: Air

Make a Wish

Summoning

Reverie

Headed Home

Of all the colors that shine in the sky
Truly you are a favorite of mine
As the sunsets, sets deep in your eyes
I see reflections of something divine 

If I could be all that you wanted
I’d give you love, love, love as deep as the ocean 
And if I could be all that you needed 
I’d give you love, my love as deep as the sea

I will not fall without you babe
No I won’t fall back, if you’re not there 
I will not fall without you babe
No I won’t fall back, if you’re not there

If I could be all that you wanted
I’d give you love, love, love as deep as the ocean 
And if I could be all that you needed 
I’d give you love, my love as deep as the sea

As deep as the sea 
As deep as the sea 

I feel you falling, falling from the sky
I see no fear, no fear in your eyes
You know that I’ll catch you 
You know that I will
Love you forever 
Forever until…

If I could be all that you wanted
I’d give you love, love, love as deep as the ocean 
And if I could be all that you needed 
I’d give you love, my love as deep as the sea

As deep as the sea
As deep as the sea

I feel you falling, falling from the sky
I see no fear, no fear in your eyes
You know that I’ll catch you 
You know that I will
Love you forever 
Forever until…

Forever Until

Sucker Punched
TimothyMichaelMusic
08 SEP 2025

V1.
Oh, man of God
Come join the fight
You can’t play it safe
If you want meaning in your life
Do you think that Jesus promised
To make all your dreams come true?
He said He’d be there in your corner
Fighting the good fight with you

Chorus
I can do hard things.
I was born for this.
Open war is cast upon us
A life of purpose requires risk
The line between good and evil
Cuts through the heart of every man
I’ll stand and fight against it
So I’m not sucker punched again

V2.
Good vibes can’t be the focus
Nor approval though good deeds
I can’t life hack my way to Heaven
If I make it all about me.
It’s focused faithful acts of intention
Not random acts of kindness
I’m gonna fight my way to Heaven
When we leave this world behind us

Chorus
I can do hard things.
I was born for this.
Open war is cast upon us
A life of purpose requires risk
The line between good and evil
Cuts through the heart of every man
I’ll stand and fight against it
So I’m not sucker punched again


Bridge
Righteousness, peace and joy
Only come when you bend the knee
Go all in with Jesus
And the fight will set you free

Chorus
I can do hard things.
I was born for this.
Open war is cast upon us
A life of purpose requires risk
The line between good and evil
Cuts through the heart of every man
I’ll stand and fight against it
So I’m not sucker punched again

So I’m not sucker punched again





Sucker Punched (Cover)

Love in Retrograde

For anyone who's ever woken up next to someone they've known for years and thought "who are you today?"—and stayed anyway.

This one's about the love that survives not because you're consistent, but because you keep choosing each other through the changes. When your partner says "you're not who I fell for," and you realize—yeah, and neither are you, and that's not failure, that's growth.

We're not fixed stars. We're planets. Multiple versions of ourselves orbiting at different speeds—your emotional self racing ahead while your thinking catches up, feeling like contradiction when it's really just integration. And sometimes your future self overtakes your past self, and it looks like you're moving backward when you're actually just moving fast.

This is for the couples in their late twenties and early thirties navigating that strange territory where you're both becoming people you haven't met yet, and you have to decide: do we call this broken, or do we call this beautiful?

Astronomical concept inspired by retrograde motion—that phenomenon where planets appear to move backward because they're actually overtaking each other at different orbital speeds. Turns out, it's a perfect metaphor for how we grow, how we change, and how we love through all of it.

Spare acoustic, honest piano, warm bass. Late-night confession energy. For kitchen tables and 2am conversations and choosing complexity over simplicity.
If this resonates, you're not alone in your retrograde.

🌙 Multiple moons, one gravitational pull.

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Love in Retrograde

Violet

Mr. Malum

Puppet Loosely Strung

Shayfer James has built a creative world entirely his own—where poetic lyricism collides with cinematic arrangements, where darkness waltzes with whimsy, where rebellion and vulnerability share the same breath. His work explores the dual forces of isolation and belonging, of longing and defiance, all delivered with theatrical flair and unmistakable swagger that both welcomes and unsettles.

Reverie

Shayfer James

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