CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Simon Safhalter
Cover art by Simon Safhalter

LYRICS
Standing against my next creation
Words are so rare
Feeling again this suffocation wearing the air
Condemnation

Paralyzed behind my eyelids
Words are slain and gone

Dreams are down and dead
I wish to never feel the quiet empty world inside my head
I wish to leave
Driving me insane
I wish to scream and cause a riot
Make the words and phrases rain
I wish to make
Learn from my mistakes

Let me explain the state of play 
My cortex strives in vain
My mind does not obey 
The only way I see the ending is to bite and meet the pain
The only way I see the ending is to
Trial and error with hush as my terror
The light in the tunnel is slipping away
The ever sage and wiser say tomorrow is another day
I see the tip but tell that to the right side of my brain

Paralyzed behind my eyelids
Dreams of bane look drawn, surrendered
All I ever asked the right side is to talk to me

Dreams are down and dead
I wish to never feel the quiet empty world inside my head
I wish to leave
Driving me insane
I wish to scream and cause a riot
Make the words and phrases rain
I wish to make

Never-ending
Holding on to
Losing grip
Retry again
My time is bending
Not surrendering
Wish I knew and learned from my mistakes

Wish I knew and learned 
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
I knew and learned from my mistakes

Wish I knew and learned from my mistakes
Wish I knew and learned from my mistakes

Mistakes

CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Simon Safhalter
Cover art by Simon Safhalter

LYRICS
You keep showing up everywhere I look
Hoping I'll approach your shiny bait and bite the hook
Time is slowing down knowing I will have to fight
Knowing you'll be throwing everything to your delight

Happiness you promise
Promising you're honest

Your thoughts were never mine
Your words have lost their shine
The cure does not exist
Or your face will meet my

Stop telling me what I need
Your thoughts were never mine
Stop selling the same old thing
Your words have lost their shine
Stop selling me empty hopes
The cure does not exist
Quit yelling, it's not my dream
Your face will meet my

Oh, I'm sorry if I'm a bit hesitant
But you come across as a cheap arrogant
I've a precedent with this sentiment
Your words have lost their resonance

Even though I've been walking this same road before
It's still hard for me to steer away
I'm not sure where to run, where to hide or to make a detour
Just keep pushing, I'll promise you there'll be a war

But I will admit you're good at what you do
I'm not afraid of telling that to you
Just wish was something that I knew

Stop telling me what I need
Your thoughts were never mine
Stop selling the same old thing
Your words have lost their shine
Stop selling me empty hopes
The cure does not exist
Quit yelling, it's not my dream
Your face will meet my

Stop telling me what I need
Stop selling the same old thing
Stop selling me empty hopes
Quit yelling, it's not my
Or your face will meet my fist

Your face will meet my fist
Alright listen

Happiness you promise
Promising you're honest
You're the one who profits
Promising you're
Or your face will meet my

Stop telling me what I need
Your thoughts were never mine
Stop selling the same old thing
Your words have lost their shine
Stop selling me empty hopes
The cure does not exist
Quit yelling, it's not my
Or your face will meet my fist

Not My Dream

CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Simon Safhalter
Cover art by Mateja Safhalter

LYRICS
All black or white when we reunite
Trouble is on the menu deep into the night
No grey or middle
Each question is a riddle
Struggle to connect cause we just lost our rhythm

Rip every thought and opinion
Telling me why you're so brilliant
Why you’re worth a million
Every word is showing that our hate is growing 
Carry out a crime every time and all that without knowing

Instantly ready to show my ace in the hole when the time is right
You want to keep on going? Be my guest
We only talk to find out who's the best

Come with me
I think we both need to wander
Away and free where it's just you and me

Me
You and me

Falling behind
Crossed another line
Sharing our thoughts but they never align
All past recorded
The loudest rewarded
Story of a story with all facts all contorted

Caught on a lie
I do agree that some crimes are best left behind but
Why does every tiny detail need to lead to some unrest
Blurring all this lines and placing bets on this insane roulette

Instantly ready to throw my hat in the ring when the time is right
Everything is just another Rorschach test
I think we're hiding something to confess

Come with me
I think we both need to wander
Away and free where it's just you and me

Tell honestly
Is this you somewhere under?
Let's find a place where we don't disagree

You and me don’t disagree
You and me

Stand by, this time my throat is dry, I'll try
Don't cry, I see a blue sky, head high
Stand by, this time my throat is dry, I'll try
Don't cry, I see a blue sky, head high

Come away
Let’s find a place where it's just you and me
You and me
You and me
You and me
You and me

You and Me

CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Simon Safhalter

LYRICS
Dreaming to run away
Telling myself now or never
Caught in my old cliche

Day after day I've begin to fade away
Lose all reflection
Searching for a shade
My racing thoughts are always around

Chained down
I found the reason to my euphoria
This time I'm certain
Try to make my own utopia
Running away just before they hurt us
Make or break now

Changes are underway
Plan my escape
Run from losing games I don't want to play

Suddenly thoughts start to wander in
Demeaning all the pressure buried deep inside
Tonight is my chance to run, disappear

Chained down
I found the reason to my euphoria
This time I'm certain
Try to make my own utopia
Running away just before they hurt us
Make or break

I found a reason 
Giving away
Not just something to dream on
My stand to lean on
Starting today I will drop this curtain
Make or break
Now run

Come tomorrow will dreamers like me feel out of place?
My own shade fades away
One small impression
Promise that I made
Today my chain is gone
Comes the sun

Is gone
Chain is gone
Comes the sun

Chain is gone
Comes the sun

Make or Break

Make Or Break

Standing against my next creation
Words are so rare
Feeling again this suffocation wearing the air
Condemnation

Paralyzed behind my eyelids
Words are slain and gone

Dreams are down and dead
I wish to never feel the quiet empty world inside my head
I wish to leave
Driving me insane
I wish to scream and cause a riot
Make the words and phrases rain
I wish to make
Learn from my mistakes

Let me explain the state of play 
My cortex strives in vain
My mind does not obey 
The only way I see the ending is to bite and meet the pain
The only way I see the ending is to
Trial and error with hush as my terror
The light in the tunnel is slipping away
The ever sage and wiser say tomorrow is another day
I see the tip but tell that to the right side of my brain

Paralyzed behind my eyelids
Dreams of bane look drawn, surrendered
All I ever asked the right side is to talk to me

Dreams are down and dead
I wish to never feel the quiet empty world inside my head
I wish to leave
Driving me insane
I wish to scream and cause a riot
Make the words and phrases rain
I wish to make

Never-ending
Holding on to
Losing grip
Retry again
My time is bending
Not surrendering
Wish I knew and learned from my mistakes

Wish I knew and learned 
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
I knew and learned from my mistakes

More Mistakes

You and me
You and me

All black or white when we reunite
Trouble is on the menu deep into the night
No grey or middle
Each question is a riddle
Struggle to connect cause we just lost our rhythm

Rip every thought and opinion
Telling me why you're so brilliant
Why you’re worth a million
Every word is showing that our hate is growing 
Carry out a crime every time and all that without knowing

Instantly ready to show my ace in the hole when the time is right
You want to keep on going? Be my guest
We only talk to find out who's the best

Come with me
I think we both need to wander
Away and free where it's just you and me

Me
You and me

Falling behind
Crossed another line
Sharing our thoughts but they never align
All past recorded
The loudest rewarded
Story of a story with all facts all contorted

Caught on a lie
I do agree that some crimes are best left behind but
Why does every tiny detail need to lead to some unrest
Blurring all this lines and placing bets on this insane roulette

Instantly ready to throw my hat in the ring when the time is right
Everything is just another Rorschach test
I think we're hiding something to confess

Come with me
I think we both need to wander
Away and free where it's just you and me

Tell honestly
Is this you somewhere under?
Let's find a place where we don't disagree

Stand by, this time my throat is dry, I'll try
Don't cry, I see a blue sky, head high
Stand by, this time my throat is dry, I'll try
Don't cry, I see a blue sky, head high

Come away
Let’s find a place where it's just you and me

Me And You

Standing wilfully behind it
Something you cannot rewind
And I can't just try, see how I find it
Like or not, stuck on the spot

Down below me seeing one way only
Only now will make a leap of faith towards your hand
One way only
Only closing slowly
Looking down below I see no stairs to where I stand

Down below me seeing one way only 
Only now

What exactly am I missing?
What exactly am I wishing?
Down below me seeing one way only 
Only now will make a leap towards your hand
Can I hide if I don't want it?
Will I find my way beyond it?

Down below me seeing one way only
Only now will make a leap of faith towards your hand
One way only
Only closing slowly
Looking down below I see no stairs to where I stand

One Way Only

For the many ones who play one level deeper than the rest
For the many more of their true self will start to manifest

Escapes come in many shapes
We should all take a break
Break or make, make or break
When your sanity is at stake
Many ways to mix the chemicals
Some OK and some polemical
Disconnect and accept
Then expect a side effect

Falling rocks
Cover up
Pick me up to a place nobody knows
I'll just stay round the clock
Coming up
Rolling up
Now the other side looks more dull and grey

Still with walls and boundaries it feels like there's more freedom
Dropping the futile pleasantries because you will not need them
Altering mentality
Alternate reality
Open world tops real world and be aware it's not just me
How do you know your other side is different than mine
How can you check that there is truly nothing left behind
What if told you you're just another human in a Truman
Or would you rather sleep and feel much better if you knew none

Falling rocks
Cover up
Pick me up to a place nobody knows
I'll just stay round the clock
Coming up
Rolling up
Now the other side looks more dull and grey

Now again I'll be over twenty and are there any who pave the way
For the many ones who play
For the many more who stay
Still I like to play
Now again I'm going all the way
For the many ones who play
For the many more who stay

Falling rocks
Cover up
Pick me up to a place nobody knows
I'll just stay round the clock
Coming up
Rolling up
Now the other side looks more dull and grey

Escapes

Out of Time

Cover art by Zach Smithson (www.behance.net/zachsmithson)

Where Do The Legends Retire?

Cover art by Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Ripple Effect

Requiem

Stella 31

Battle Trance

Lunar Tear

Full Sail To Libertalia

A project where I used one of my soundtracks and audio stems from a video game to create a story inspired by the Dragon Ball battles.

Character voices and effects: Audio files from the video game Dragon Ball FighterZ
Soundtrack: Simon Safhalter - Showdown

Dragon Ball Super: Showdown

Neon

Trust Fall

CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Simon Safhalter
Cover art by Claudia Matosa

LYRICS
I'm sleeping unaware
Dark shadows everywhere
It's creeping in the air
My nightmare of despair

Then I wait unknowing
Finally stars falling

Breathe in and disappear
Forgotten, lost somewhere
Today with my blank stare
Tomorrow change awaits

Then I wait unknowing
Finally stars falling
Lights glowing peacefully
It's not too late, home's calling

I'm not staying, sinking in this quicksand
Nobody will set me free

Lights glowing peacefully
It's not too late, home's calling

I'm not staying, sinking in this quicksand
Nobody will set me free
Chase the shining star, leaving this wasteland
Following, hoping to flee

Chase the shining star
Chase the shining star
Chase the shining star
I'm not staying here

Chase the shining star
Chase the shining star
Chase the shining star
I'm not staying

Following, hoping to stay awake 
And I'm here right on the edge of falling back to sleep

Chase The Shining Star

CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Simon Safhalter
Cover art by Simon Safhalter

LYRICS
Tonight we'll break the rules once more
To win this fight and take control
We must resist and not lose hope
We will persist and climb the slope

Tonight we stand in firing line
Until their numbers will decline
A dream we chased for all these years

I'm asking you to
Asking you

Stay another night or face the consequence
Start a violent fight or we will never win

Now we wait for a brand new day
We'll never let go
Today's the day
Cause tomorrow never comes for us

Tonight we're here to sacrifice
Ready to pay the price
To roll the dice and not think twice

Tonight It'll be their own demise
Turn off their shining light and build a modern paradise

Tonight there will be blood and tears
Focus your eyes and ears
Set up your gear and hide your fears

Tonight we fight for what we think is right despite the pain and fright
Tonight we fight until we see daylight, until our fire will ignite
Until our brain cannot sustain a trauma making us insane
Tomorrow rain will wash our pain and we will learn to walk again

Stay another night or face the consequence
Start a violent fight or we will never win
Run towards the light and let the war begin, again
Stay another night to crawl beneath their skin

Is this the righteous side I'm on?
When conquered foes are down and gone
When victory brings forth a new dawn
Is this the dark side and I just a pawn?

Is this the righteous side I'm on?
When conquered foes are down and gone
Has winning lost its meaning?
Demeaning our battles won

Now we wait for a brand new day
We'll never let go
Today's the day
Cause tomorrow never
We'll fight forever

Tonight we’re here
Tonight we’re not going away

Stay Another Night

CREDITS
Music and lyrics by Simon Safhalter
Cover art by Simon Safhalter

LYRICS
Staring at the mirror
Seeing strangers stare at me
Polar types confronting
Some will talk and some will think

Transient control
Each with different goal
Consequences deeply felt by all

The blanks are here to stay
They never fill and always seem uncanny
Lost memories lie buried far away
My heavy chain pulls down my brain
Already I'm losing control

Same host, different purpose
All with origins unknown

Fragments of my mind
Piecing them together
Trusting that the memories will make sense

Instances of conflict
Followed by denial
Ending on a deal with price unknown

The blanks are here to stay
They never fill and always seem uncanny
Lost memories lie buried far away
My heavy chain pulls down my brain
Already I'm losing control

Forever in underworld
Recovering on the floor
Will ever get any better?
Should I care what I've become?
Lost, atrophied at the core
Whenever in any reverie
Reality

Whenever in any reverie
Reality gets darker
Endless night raises over
Kills the light 
Compromise my crowded mind

Crowded Mind

My name is Simon and I'm a singer, songwriter and producer. I create my own original music inspired by pop, punk, rock, j-rock, electronic, anime music, video game and film music.

Some popular artists that inspire me are bands like Twenty One Pilots, Incubus, Muse, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Bring Me The Horizon, Finch.
I'm a big fan of Anime and draw inspiration from many Japanese bands and artists like SID and Toru Kitajima.
I love playing video games where I get inspired from composers like Nobuo Uematsu and Keiichi Okabe.
I also enjoy film composers like Hans Zimmer.

I upload all my music on Spotify and music videos to YouTube and various social media. See the channel header or below for links.
I hope you enjoy my music and feel free to message me any time.

Simon Safhalter

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