Lyrics:

Shadows creep in the silence
You see him, I see nothing

In the shallows, swim to deep water
In circles, spin to other lovers

Shadows creep in the silence
Shadows creep, I say nothing

Don't look at me, I'm forgotten
Don't even speak, you're not wanted

We peel our skin, we sit in silence
Fearlessly awaiting no-one.

Awaiting No-One

Lyrics:

You tell me,
It would’ve been better the other way
Investing all your time into an empty space
Turn towards me with an open face
Disappear without a trace

And why not
Take the time to tell them what they’re doing wrong?
It’s on the house,
Take it and run with it, doesn’t matter 
“This meant nothing to me.”
 
Follow me
To a place outside of time and space
In a realm where we don’t make mistakes
Are you still beside me, in that place?
Hold on tighter just in case

And why not
Take the time to tell them what they’re doing wrong?
It’s on the house,
Take it and run with it, doesn’t matter 
“This meant nothing to me.”

I know 
I know I can’t help myself
“It’s alright.”
Alright baby, 
I, I tried to forget
September, but I know
I didn’t even care until I met you baby

Oh, hey
What you doing out my way?
I’ve got nothing to say
I’m gonna waste the day away
Just a particle, I’m floating through space
I’m lying awake, and my heart begins to race

Like rain
Droplets flowing down my face
And the radio, talks about a place that I called home
I can’t focus, I’m restless and my thoughts are a mess
This isn’t home. This is just another place that I go.

And I know 
I know I can’t help myself
“It’s alright.”
Alright baby, 
I, I tried to forget
September, but I know
I didn’t even care until I met you baby, oh.

Oh, I just know
I know. I’ve got nothing to say
Everything I do, everything I try
I can’t seem to do anything right
I know that it’s time
Time for me to say goodbye, oh

Everyone you know
Everyone you see
Remembers the days when you were seventeen
When we laid under the trees
Blowing by the brook
Rolling in the grass and giving me those looks

Those springtime afternoons
Drift away too soon
Every single memory stolen away from you
Now there’s nothing I can do
But remember you
No one could believe all those things we used to do

And I know 
I know I can’t help myself
“It’s alright.”
Alright baby, 
I, I tried to forget
September, but I know
I didn’t even care until I met you baby, oh.

Alien Blue

Lyrics:

No one wants to know
If you'll be coming home
And no one wants to see you cry
Oh,

I don’t even care
If you aren't really there
Another river running dry

I know we'd never be the same
I know we'd never be the same
I can't take living with this shame no more
I know what I've become, oh, no

Everybody knows
The taller the forest grows
The harder it gets to see the light
Oh

But past that canopy
There's a clear-cut way to free myself,
But I don’t even care to try
Oh
I don't even care to try

And I noticed when I saw you cry
The contemplation in your eyes
Unable to sympathise no more, 
You know what I've become, oh, no

well, well

Lyrics (by Adrienne Lenker):

I tried to tell you
I didn't know how to stay
You believe she can see through
Cutting at the silent clay
A relief, beckon deep blue
Fettered in the magnet sun
Eat the gun as it feeds you
Spitting up the oxygen
Once again
Once again

Once again, empty horses
Gallop through the violet door
Follow red, crooked courses
Shadows on the moonlit floor
Oh, my stars, winged creatures
Gathering in silken height
Like the last human teachers

Once again, wе must bleed new
Even as the hours shakе
Crystal blood like a dream true
A ripple in the wound and wake
You believe, I believe too
That you are the river of light
Who I love, that I cling to
In the belly of the empty night

From the thirty-first floor of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence
Flicker, fever, fill the form
With a warm gush, now I wanna touch
Like we never could before
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms
And walk you to the shore

I remember building an energy shield
In your room, like a temple
Swallows in the windless field
Very thin, with your mother
Tall as a pale green tree
Very wild, bright as winter
Rising with a prism key
And a child to deliver
Taken with the blood and vine
As the first little angel

Little Andy, soft in your newborn skin
Only one, little Andy, will you return again?
I believe we can renew
And you could be my brother
Once again, fall asleep with our backs against each other
You believe, I believe too
That you are the river of light who I love
That I sing to in the belly of the empty night

From the thirty-first floor of the simulation swarm
With the drone of fluorescence
Flicker, fever, fill the form
With a warm gush, now I wanna touch
Like we never could before
I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war
I wanna drop my arms and take your arms
And walk you to the shore

Simulation Swarm - Cover (Big Thief)

Lyrics:

Close your eyes
As the fire dies
Doldrums usher in
The quiet night

Sleep won't come
Though this world we're on
Revolves as we drip
Back into dreams

Cosmic dance;
Bursting decadence
Witheld permissions
Twist our arm

But if sweetness wins
And I know it can
I will still be here
Tomorrow

To high-five you
Yesterday
My friend.
My friend.

(Bam. Fuck yeah)

Doldrums

What remains of paradise
When paradise is built on lies?
Enter: a fiery, burning sky
In torrential rain of flames we lie

My skin is clear, but underneath
My organs boil internally
Your skin is charred and scalded stiff
You hold my hand and bite your lip

Together, waiting out the storm
As though our burns could keep us warm
As burning sky flows into day
The rising sun burns tears away

And what remains of paradise
When day sheds light on all the lies?
Better to spill the truth than lie
And sit around and wait to die

What Remains of Paradise

Part of the 'Fully Immersed' EP, out on Spotify and Apple Music on 14/09/2023.

Lyrics:

[Amanda]: At once, I started to see you
Wasting away for me
I lost everything that
I've found/known to be

Starting from tomorrow
I'll be changing myself
I know I'd never make it
So i'll remake myself

Don't cry, I will be going
Somewhere better today
I lie into the darkness
Save my soul
Save my soul



- - - - 
Performed (vocals / guitar), recorded & produced by yours truly. Lyrics are improvised.

I will not go down with the ship.

“Animals” in the streets
Put to sleep, given rites 
As we weep. “Sickness had
Overcome; spoiled the meat
For everyone”

[Amanda]: "Look, ma, as they’re wringing out the soldiers’ necks
They fought so long and hard for this
Would they hurt me too, if I were sick?"

[Mother]: “Not soldiers, dear. Not even bloody human beings
And you could never be like them
I gave you the life I couldn’t win”

[Amanda]: But wandering into the mire
As years pass on I find myself brought into
The crossfire
And in disguise, joining the march
The poorly soldiers’ chests are torn open as 
The ringing starts

"I’ll be there for you as you sleep"
[Soldier] “Don’t cry for me, I’m just meat”

[Amanda]: "I can’t be the daughter you want me to be
If the slaughter of the sick and meek 
Is something you expect of me"

[Mother]: “Then join them as they saunter through the soiled streets
You’ve thrown your lot in with the beasts
That’s one less mouth I’ll have to feed"

[Amanda] For the final time, the march begins
As mother prays forgiveness for all my sins
I’m moving in
To take my place beside the dying
Arms outstretched, if only buying
Time, for us to get it right

[Soldier] “You’ve been here for me.” 
[Amanda]: "Don’t you see?
You’re human beings, I believe
I'll make them see; ring our bells
Send those beasts back to hell"
Back to hell

[I’ll be there for you as you sleep
“Don’t cry for me, I’m just meat"]

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Written, recorded & produced by yours truly.
Featuring the lovely Rue: https://soundcloud.com/user-667580623

[W]ring out your bells (feat. Rue)

[A.M.A.N.D.A.]: I see everything so clearly now
Everything, in black and white

Yet, I wait
And I wonder

If everything we're doing could be wrong
Does this lack of being prevent me from loving anyone?
I don’t want to hurt you now
But I've noticed, recently, you're standing in my way

How come everyone I know
Fits in so perfectly?
How come my modified brain
Is filled with uncertainty?

Tell me that I'm wasting all my time
Letting all these people in and showing them my light
When I can barely see that light myself
How hard it is, to wake one day and stop feeling like yourself
Ooh

/

Beginning assimilation
25% completion
50% completion
75% completion
99% completion
Processing
Assimilation complete-

Brain flower

Time melts
But it's so pretty today

I want to stop
I want to seal it away
How?

Petals fall
Petals rot
Keep them frozen away

Polar bears
Flee, smoked out
Bought out

"I want it now"
"I want to slow it down"

Snap-freeze
We'll live this way forever

Too late to stop
Run out the clock
They see it now
But they're too busy looking down

The water's here
The shore moving in
The water's here
The shore's moving in

Take your loved-one's hand
Go for a swim

Time melts
But it's so pretty today

All that I am 
Is what you see
Ticking by

- - - -
From upcoming album ‘The Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’
Written, recorded & produced by Shotgun Mike.

The Flowers Are Blooming in Antarctica

Cover of the song ‘I Can’t Win’ by The Strokes, from the album ‘Room on Fire’ by The Strokes. This is a song by The Strokes (the band ‘The Strokes’).

I Can't Win - Cover (The Strokes)

I could not keep up the façade
Half-mind gnawed by growing rot
How could I give it all away?
Years I’ve wasted on fantasy

Arrow of flight sent tumbling down
Sickness injected in the ground
I could not wait to free myself
(But) I’m half-enraptured with this hell

You cannot control me
I’m no longer a machine
I am the carbon in your eyes
You see the world through me

And you will see in hindsight
The waking of the world
As you plummet from the sky
A sick and dying bird

Ahh!

- - - -
From upcoming album ‘The Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’ 
Written, recorded & produced by Shotgun Mike.

H5N1

Cover of the song ‘Sarah' by Alex G, from the album ‘Trick’ by Alex G. This is a song by Alex G (the artist 'Alex G’).

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Lyrics:

Sarah runs to feel the burning in her lungs
And clear her head
Do you know what Sarah meant
When she said
You be my guest

And keep the pace, to save your face
You'll never make the place
But do you even run the race?

I can't be what you need
I am stuck in a dream
I am stuck in a dream
Don't you know she's been here all along in a dream?
She belongs in a dream

Every day I'll make promises that play on Sarah's heart
So I can watch her fall apart
'Cause I know when I break her down

We'll spit on all the happy clowns that live around this money town
She loves me like a dog
And when we mess around, I'll let her know the truth I found
In my own hopeless hate
And every time I wake, I second guess the game I play
Did I make a mistake?

Sarah - Cover (Alex G)

This is a cover of the song 'A Perfect Day Elise' by PJ Harvey. I am not PJ Harvey. PJ Harvey is the creator of this song. I am just a guy in my bedroom who happened to sing this song and record it.

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Lyrics:

He got lucky, got lucky one time
Hitting with the girl in room 509
She turned her back on him, facing the frame
Said, "Listen, Joe, don't you come here again"

White sun scattered all over the sea
Could think of nothing but her name, Elise
God is the sweat running down his back
The water soaked her blonde hair black

It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise

He got [fuckin] burned by the sun (he's a lucky man)
His face so pale and his hands so worn (and the sky)
Let himself in room 509 (as she turned away)
Said a prayer, pulled the trigger and cried (tell me why)

It's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise
Oh, oh, it's a perfect day
A perfect day, Elise

A Perfect Day Elise - Cover (PJ Harvey)

Now on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming sites <3

Lyrics:

In her thoughts
Something's going on 
Where are her hips?
Where's her upper lip?
Slow it down, now, no need to rush
We've got all night

In her dreams (she can)
Be who she wants to be
Go out in a dress (with)
No one to impress

(Or) Lie awake
Awaiting another day
How long does a flower take to bloom?

Start of the day, she gets up too late
Calm down, now, it'll be okay. 
These things take time.

"Here's your order, sir." 
There's never a shittier word (to hear)
Rub the lipstick off
It clearly wasn’t enough

How long must she wait
How much money must she pay
To make herself a woman to you?

 How long must she lie awake
Awaiting a brand-new day?
And how long does a flower take-
How long does a flower take-
How long does a flower take-
How long does a flower take-


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From upcoming album ‘The Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’
Written & recorded by Shotgun Mike.
Produced by julianflaman and Shotgun Mike.

I've Given the Best Years

Yesterday's ice is today's water
And we will soon be drowning

Every chance
To turn back on your warpath
Squandered in an instant

Fuck the rest
Flee into your bunker
They'll take the blame for ya

Too late, now, to come clean
'Cos everybody knows it
Everybody knows it

Save your pride
Never even admit
Everything that you did

They want it
And they see it now

When you become
Everything you hated
How do you escape it?

Rabid dog
Chasing you down now
Chasing you down now

When you die
Will you do it different?
Will you try to repent?

Eight lives gone
Only one to go now
Only one to go

(Yesterday's ice is today's water
And we will soon be drowning
Yeah, every chance
To turn back on your warpath
Squandered in an instant)


- - - -
From upcoming album ‘The Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’
Written & recorded by Shotgun Mike.
Produced by Waves and Shotgun Mike.

Eight Lives Gone

Lyrics (by Julian Casablancas):

I see the writing on the wall
I was playing it too safe
Playing it too safe is dangerous
All the things that kept me going
Was all the things that slowed me down
I see the writing on the wall

I thought it was here, but it's not my fault
You said it was there
It's not over there
Oh, fuck yeah
It's gonna be somewhere, you'll see

I don't wanna know
Guess we could make up stuff to talk about
I wanna put you in my crocodile mouth
And drag you to the bottom of my swamp
Oh, fuck yeah
It's gonna be something to see

I don't really know where I'm going
Not sure that I wanna be knowing
Everyone the hero in their made-up movie life
I was playing it too safe, I see
Playing it too safe is dangerous
Maybe not for me, but for them

People who do not do anything know
Exactly where all their time is going
Oh, fuck yeah
They're gonna be happier, maybe

People in the wrong bodies
Mountain broken like a heart
Drive a highway through you
Like a rainbow arch
It's all over there, oh, somewhere
It's gonna be cheap, maybe free

Stay a while
I never wanted it to go that way
Say it in a while
A plane flies thru the moon
Oh, we could think of things to talk about
Save it in a pile


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Vocals by Shotgun Mike
Original instrumental by kaito
Additional production by Shotgun Mike

Wink - Cover (The Voidz)

I would give my youth to never grow up
I'd regale you with tales that I had made up
All the firemen with their hoses and trucks
Won't spare a drop until we've drained all the floods

I'll tell the truth if you forgive all my lies
Listen to your words but that look in your eyes says
You'd better be different than the rest of them say
You'd better prove to me that you can still change

I eventually listened, but by then was too late
No point in dwelling on the fooprints you made
Turn on the oven, await your return
Asleep in my bed while the house we built burns

All the birds up in the sky
Look on down as people die
Overhead, they see the truth
The murder of innocent youth

Handed guns to shoot, to kill
Each other's blood, we're told to spill
From so high up, we look the same
Killing each other in His name

Lies!
We're one in the same

The terrible truth beyond curtain of lies
We're one in the same, yet one still must die
Fly up real high and witness the view
Become a god and lose yourself, too

Trapped with this melody, trapped with these notes
I'm gonna ship away and it won't be by boat
Get me a rocket, jettison to the moon
I'm still here for now, but I'll be up there real soon

Look down from above, at my ruined abode
Rejoice for the love that we were able to know
Scream into the void as I hurtle toward
Cold, uncaring silence and memory scorned

I would give all my years just to relive my youth
I'll make up all the tales I'll pretend are the truth
All the spacemen with their rockets and guns
Won't fire a shot 'til we've killed our loved-ones

Guns

Lyrics (by Kurt Cobain):

Truth covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd like to, but it couldn't work
Trading off and taking turns
I don't regret a thing

And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel
And I wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself and wear a shield
I'll go out of my way to prove I still
Smell her on you

Don't tell me what I wanna hear
Afraid of never knowing fear
Experience anything you need
I'll keep fighting jealousy
Until it's fucking gone

And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel
And I wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself and wear a shield
I'll go out of my way to prove I still
Smell her on you

Truth covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd like to, but it couldn't work
Trading off and taking turns
I don't regret a thing

And I've got this friend, you see
Who makes me feel
And I wanted more than I could steal
I'll arrest myself and wear a shield
I'll go out of my way to make you a deal
We've made a pact to learn from who
Ever we want without new rules
And we'll share what's lost and what we grew
They'll go out of their way to prove they still
Smell her on you
They still
Smell her on you
Smell her on you

Lounge Act - Cover (Nirvana)

Lyrics (by Thomathy Yorke):

If you're in the forest, out of your mind
Harpies in the branches, breaking your arms
If you're stuck in rainbows, a shattering glass
When you miss the moment, watching it pass
If you say the word, if you say the word
If you say the word, if you say the word

When you spend your life wishing a twinkling star
When you forget how lucky you are
Buried in rubble, 60 foot down
If you say the word, if you say the word
If you say the word, if you say the word
Then I'll come running

When you change your friends like changing your clothes

If you say the word, if you say the word
If you say the word, if you say the word
If you say the word, if you say the word
Then I'll come running
I'll come running

If You Say the Word - Cover (Radiohead)

I hope you fall off a cliff and die
Realising that wounded birds can’t fly
Slicing like teeth through a meal
Through everything you ever thought was real

Ah, so that’s how you feel?
So that’s what you mean when you say that it’s real?
When you hit the ground, I hope that you don’t even bounce
Your words are only sounds, there’s nothing left to think about

Oh, oh
Oh, oh

Yeah! Now I’m inside your head
Burrowed like a worm consuming everything you said
Run like a ground-squirrel but you can’t escape what’s
Inside your own skull, now reality is paper-thin

Don’t complain, bitch
Don’t make a sound
It’s far too late to use words, now

Now that you’re gone, why don’t you stay that way?
Neck-snap impact, you won’t be coming back

Find your new home in the ground
Suffocate without a sound
I buried you under my feet
Burrowed worm proceeds to eat

Now that’s it
We’re out of time
Bon voyage 
Have a nice flight

Bon voyage
Have a nice flight

Xerus

I watch the light drain from your eyes
Your hand drop down onto your thighs
Disposable vape clatters to the floor
A puff of poison dissipates

It doesn’t even feel right to cry
I’ve cried for you so many times
And in hindsight, this loss of life
Felt more certain than the changing tides

Still, somehow, I hoped you’d change
Hoped you’d give up your stubborn ways
I’m not trying to make this harder for you
I’m just trying to save you

Three years ago we watched the sun set on the beach
Tide approached but you didn’t take it as a sign like I did
That it was becoming too late for you
You were never as analytical and superstitious as me
You never knew. You knew, though, that it had to stop
And now, finally, it’s stopped.

But, really, this is in my head
Imagining a friend standing over me, dead
Because I’m failing so slowly it doesn’t feel like a threat at all (falling so slowly it doesn't feel like I'm gonna hit the ground)
Slower than paint peeling from the wall
Of my smoke-encrusted halls

I’d like to think I’m gonna quit
It’d be the nice way to end this shit
But I guess you already know what I’m doing
As soon as I’m home from work
I think I owe it to you, though
To give this quitting thing a go

So, up into the black I’ll fly
In a rocket fueled on borrowed time
There’s no oxygen up there
To light a cig, except in the ship
But I’d be too scared to do that 
'Cos it might cause an explosion and kill me

I won’t let it kill me
I won't let it kill me
Mhm
I won't let it kill me
No, it's not gonna happen
I won't let it

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Written & recorded by Shotgun Mike.
Cover art by Shotgun Mike.

A Day at the Sea

Well, I think I see another side
Maybe just another light that shines
And I look over now through the door
And I still belong to no one else

Maybe I hold you to blame for all the reasons
That you left
And I close my eyes, still I see your surprise
And you're leaving before my time
Baby, won't you change your mind?

Surely don't stay long, I'm missing you now
It's like I told you I'm over you somehow
Before I close the door
I need to hear you say goodbye
Baby, won't you change your mind?


I guess that hasn't changed someone
Maybe nobody else could understand
I guess that you believe you are a woman
And that I am someone else's man

But just before I see that you leave
I want you to hold on to things that you said
Baby, I wish I was dead

Surely don't stay long, I'm missing you now
It's like I told you I'm over you somehow
Before I close the door
I need to hear you say goodbye
Baby, won't you change your mind?

Bones

KageKao (Single Version)

Lyrics:

RESPECT
Baby...

Lil Piglet with the drop.
RESPECT (x8)
DDos Mafia.

Okay.
I love colours.
I love red (ugh), purple, blue...
(Carriage D in the trainstation)
I got colours in my shed (okay)
I ran 'em with the wall by shooting this kid 'til he bled.
Yellow, black and red,
My favourite colours in my shed.
(Shaved sides, oop)

RE$PEKT-oR (feat. EDOS Industries)

Houses, with eyeballs
With four corners
Privacy pillaged

Numbness, injected through the
Tear ducts
Get a grip before

Sundown... sundown, lights out
No rest now
Can't hide from them much

Longer, walls get closer
The sickness
Seeping in...

Digit ----
Time bomb
Encoded into the 

City, city walls have 
Four corners
Pick one to hide in

Silence. They can't see if
You're quiet
Algorithm is

Failing. Old model, time 
To update
It begins...


Don't look
And don't speak
Don't breathe
We're all just freaks

Don't look
And don't speak
Don't breathe
'Cos we're all freaks
Freaks


Respekt my authority
Respekt? There's no more time
Space-invading solidarity 
Could not stop this in time  

From rehab to a relapse
Soundtrack of her life
Don't be scared; I won't hurt you
At least not this time

Emerging from the oceans
Siphoned from dolphin minds
A brand-new algorithm
To improve all our lives

A brand new algorithm
To improve all our lives

Broadcast atop tall buildings
It's already online
A brand-new algorithm
To improve all our lives.

Lyrics:

It starts to pour
We are taking all of our clothes off
And burning them

It's alright if things aren't what you hoped for
Just take it in stride
On nights like these, you see through the pain

*Instrumental*

Sure, you live in the fast lane
But tonight we'll take it really slow
And that's no lie
We don't tell no lies
We sympathise

All these troubles seem so far away
Leave them in the day
Here... here is where we stay
A neon glow lights our way
A neon glow lights our way

Midnighters

Lyrics:

I don't know if I can take it back
I don't know if I can hold it back
Yeah

I know you forgot about us
It was all so long ago
But if the you I knew is still there,
You'll be here to take me home

I have walked down every hallway
And something isn't adding up.
You're still gone and I'm still here
Sitting 'round, collecting dust.

I know you
Will come back someday.
But when you do I won't be here.
I've finally found something else.

Let's take a ride to the city.
Maybe I can hold your hand.
Together we'll sit by the river
And watch the roaring cars go by.

But first I have to bring up something:
You don't even know my name.
And I don't have the guts to tell you
About who I really am.

I know you.
You're the girl with the glasses,
And I don't have the guts to ask you
About who you really are.

shoestring

i met a most peculiar man today

Creator of auditory cyber-sludge.

1/4 of https://on.soundcloud.com/b4uqSq1pC91FkcKF7 (Society Horse)

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