This is one of my 'lounge series' acoustic thingies.  A simple one-take song/story for voice and piano.

Listen

Listen, I want to tell you, I respect you, I admire you
Listen, I want to open up, enfold you with my heart
You’re looking closed up, I’m feeling shut down, is there no place we can meet?
I’ve lost the shape now, words have vanished, think I’m talking in my sleep

And you’re not even listening, no you never even heard
Now you drown me out, shut me down, I’m bewildered and I’m hurt

Listen, I want to tell you, what’s the point in carrying on?
Listen, I’m giving up now, just can’t take this pain of losing
You’re looking closed up, I’m feeling shut down, is there no place we can meet?
I’ve lost the shape now, words have vanished, think I’m crying in my sleep

And you’re not even listening, no you never even heard
Now you drown me out, shut me down, I’m bewildered and I’m hurt

Listen, I need to tell you, how I love you deep inside
Listen, goddamn you listen, it’s no use, you run and hide
Been building walls up so long now, you’ve walled yourself away
If I come too close, you’re cornered and you toss my love away

Then I notice that you’re crying, in a small and subtle way
But there’s no way in to hold you, so I have to walk away
And I realise your pain now, the parts of me you heard
had to drown me out, had to knock me down, you couldn’t bear my words

And it’s all over now, the phone keeps ringing
and there’s really nothing left for us to say
it’s all over now, I watch you as you turn and walk away

Listen...

A past lover keeps showing up in my dreams and reminding me of my failures.
From my new LP " Low Profile". My best tracks from 2023. Thanks for listening!

Lyrics:
I get my melancholy straight from the IV drip
A Xanax, a red eyed flight on the sky ship
That's when you appeared
I'd been gorging myself on 
Televised violence
It's like synconized swimming
You were grinning while the plane was rapidly descending
(You smiled all the way down)
The atmosphere was colorless
Odorless
Void of all surface and all texture
I'm reveling in my psychosis
You reminded me I never finished my
Junkyard magnum opus
You still show up in my dreams

We were entering into 
An impressionist painted landscape
With a language that we just didn't understand
You reminded me that I'm a big believer
In blindly believing
And I need to start drinking in
A little bit more in what I'm seeing
We're like suburban dadaist
Coming in, out of the rain
My mind was racing
Like those 808 beats
There all the same
Well, that's the way the Goddamn wheel rolls
You headed off into the night
You never told me to change the angle of the light
You still show up in my dreams

"You never even had it even when you had it your hands,"
You've got to bring it right down
To where the sideways ends in the light
I'm digging down deep
I'm digging down slow
I'm striking oil 
Or the fires down below
You still show up in my dreams

You Still Show Up In My Dreams

Come Home

The English saying "We're all going to Hell in a hand-cart" just about describes my mood when I wrote "Descent". It was one of those weeks in northern hemisphere Spring 2024 when there was absolutely no good news coming in from anywhere on the planet.

I trust that things will get better!

Descent

lyrics:
Since we started, we had a long way from home
now never departed, we have to stand tall
Never let it down, no threat from the wind
rain or thunder nor from any evil seed

Always i wonder, what's next on the line
this daily life plunders whatever vital that shines 

i keep on dreamin' aiming high
but this weird feeling shutters my mind

but if i'm keeping all worries behind
i should remain believin', relentless will for life to find

fightin' for no reason, ain't gonna give me peace of mind
feeding my ego, had lost so much precious time

Now it's the right time, to think what's next
healing this heart and let the mind to rest
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(p) & (c), Shock the Algorithm 2024.

Since We Started

My Own Light 150 BPM

Written and recorded to 8 track tape then mixed straight onto cd around 2009.

The drum percussion sound, because I didnt have a kit back then, was created by using crusty old paint brushes on a textured vinyl album cover. If I recall, it was the Eagles greatest hits. Where theres a will, theres a way.......

Silence And The Dark

Midnight Dance 
[Verse]
City lights glow in the night
Taxi cab ready for the flight
Hop inside buckle up tight
Take me somewhere feels so right

[Verse 2]
Driver grins takes the wheel
Music pumping let's make a deal
Got no coins only vibes to feel
In this ride it's all surreal

Chorus]
Sexy taxi no no no no no
Through the streets we go go go go go
Feel the rhythm flow flow flow flow flow
In the city glow glow glow glow glow

[Verse 3]
Windows down breeze in my hair
Turning corners without a care
People stare but I don't mind
In this ride leave it all behind

Bridge]
Sun comes up night fades away
But our ride keeps making waves
Memories that forever stay
On this trip I'll never stray

[Chorus]
Sexy taxi no no no no no
Through the streets we go go go go go
Feel the rhythm flow flow flow flow flow
In the city glow glow glow glow glow

Sexi Taxi Dance 💥

Careful What You Wish For _Darling_

I normally dont post tinny sounding songs but the A.I is having a hard time upsampling it. old one for DRG

[Verse]
Way A A A yo vo vo vo
Pickaxe swinging to the flow
Oi you lad set the Mini-nuke low
Guns blazing let the chaos grow

[Chorus]
Rock and Stone we bellow loud
Digging deep beneath the shroud
Treasure calls through dirt and bone
We fight we fight for Rock and Stone

[Verse 2]
Glyphid horde they claw they scream
High Command's got a twisted dream
Gore and guts just a daily theme
Riches buried beneath the gleam

[Prechorus]
High Command they don’t care
We get what’s ours if we dare

[Chorus]
Rock and Stone we bellow loud
Digging deep beneath the shroud
Treasure calls through dirt and bone
We fight we fight for Rock and Stone

[Bridge]
Down the shaft where shadows breathe
Pickaxe strikes where secrets seethe
Machines hum the Glyphids swarm
Through the storm we keep our form

Fight for Rock and Stone.mp3

The Chronos Divide

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!
https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-cosmos