a spooky demo i wrote for halloween & for week 1 of the songwriting challenge! this week's prompt was to use the word "haunt" (and variations of that word) as a lyric. just recorded this on my phone in the garageband app and drenched it in reverb & echoooo :) it was fun to make!

lyrics:

verse 1
so you’ve come to me
haunted by your dreams
delirious with demons 
you say you want to let go
free yourself from your own soul
well i’ll help you let it all go

chorus
and when the day is done
will you like who you’ve become?
and when the day is done
will you like who you’ve become?

na na na na na na na na na na
 
verse 2
you cast a dirty spell
and now you’re stuck inside your hell
of flesh and bones, your mortal tomb 
oh, i’ll help you let it all go

chorus
and when the day is done
will you like what you’ve become?
and when the day is done
will you like what you’ve become?

bridge 
(ooooooooooos & spooky sounds)

chorus
and when the day is done
will you like who you’ve become?
and when the day is done
will you like who you’ve become?

necromancer

week 2 of the songwriting challenge! prompt was to use the word ~pretend~

lyrics:
whisk me away 
to starry skies and fireflies
i'll climb aboard the wooden ship
to neverland, oh take my hand 

and i'll never come home again
i won't be alone again

peter and wendy
let's keep pretending
let's keep pretending (pretending)                             
i want to keep dreaming, 
let my mind keep reeling
don't write the ending
don't write the ending

glitter my cheeks with fairy dust
my sparkling smile stretches for miles
a lost boy is better than
a girl stuck in muck, shit outta luck

i'll never come home again
i won't be alone again

peter and wendy
let's keep pretending
let's keep pretending (pretending)
i want to keep dreaming, 
let my mind keep reeling
don't write the ending
don't write the ending

i’ll never come home again
i won't alone be again

let's keep pretending 
don't write the ending 
don't write the ending 
don't write the ending 
don't write the...

Don't Write the Ending

week  3 of songwriting challenge! prompt this week was to the words “slippery slope” as a lyric, try a new songwriting method (which meant writing lyrics first before the melody for me) and to use alliteration in the lyrics :)

lyrics:

At bottom of the bottle, there's a key
To the ocean calling out to me
The slippery slope, a siren’s song
The sweetest wail, a beckon call 
The salt, the slime, the stormy sea
Gave me everything, everything

mmm 
so saccharine, 
so sweet
the River Lethe,
i drink

battered knees, bruised bones, 
blackouts, blueberry scones
bleary eyes and blurry ink,
i poured down 
the bathroom sink

mmm

so saccharine,
so sweet
the River Lethe
i drink

so saccharine, 
so sweet
the River Lethe,
i drink

At bottom of the bottle, there's a key
To the ocean calling out to me
The slippery slope, a siren's song
The sweetest wail, a beckon call
The salt, the slime, the stormy sea
Gave me everything, oh everything

mmmm

so saccharine, 
so sweet
the River Lethe,
i drink

so saccharine, 
so sweet
the River Lethe,
i drink

saccharine
saccharine
the River Lethe
i drink

saccharine

songwriting challenge week #4 — prompt was “do not write in first person”!


lyrics:
the map maker, a gracious one
not woman or man, simply just someone
they sit at their desk in the candlelight
charting the moments of their life
with gratitude
the longitude and latitude of delight 

doodles from school years and story time
diaries in high school to pass the time
studies in college, then left to decide
to chart the seas 
or to sail the skies 

leather bound books and with tattered pages
adventures that survived the dark ages
paper creased and crinkled like smile lines
memories etched in each wrinkle in time
time is fed
life will end

the roadmap of their hands, the finger lakes 
soaked their pruned fingertips in summer's wake
hands that pressed flowers from springtime's blooms
the petals taped to letters they sent in June

a birthday card from their dear mother
pasted inside the journal's front cover
her words inked in pristine writing
didn't think it'd be the last one, darling
the memory stings when they read it, 
grieving and mourning

leather bound books and with tattered pages
adventures that survived the dark ages
paper creased and crinkled like smile lines
memories etched in each wrinkle in time
time is fed
life will end
time is fed
life will end
time is fed
life will end

songwriting group

the map maker

week#5 of songwriting challenge! this weeks prompt was to open to a random page of a book and write a song based on the first paragraph. 

my random quote was from the book “All the Bright Places” by Jennifer Niven:
“He quotes an ancient Vedic hymn: ‘May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul…’” “‘Or go to the waters if it suits thee there,’” Finch finishes. 
My dad’s eyebrows shoot up toward his hairline, and I can see him trying to figure this kid out.”

i found it to be pretty difficult to piece together, but here's what we got lol. 

Lyrics:
The sun,  
She wakes in the morning light
She kisses my cheeks and shakes my feet
The covers off, we dance barefoot
On the wooden floor

The wind
Is a slinking fox
Whispy and whiskered
He picks all the locks
The voice of my shadows stretching behind
He whispers to me, my ghosts and my lies

The river
A dizzying thing
Delirious with waves, aching with haze       
Take a sip to feel its warmth down your throat 
Slip in its waters like a mink coat 
Bloodied and beauty like a lipstick stain
You won’t remember even why you came

The sun shines down, a halo of light 
The wind at my back, The river at my sides
I could swim within its waters 
Or sink like a dime 

The ghosts whisper and the river calls
But the sun is the one who I love most of all
We twirl in the kitchen and laugh in the night
Her eyes sparkle in day 
And shimmer in the moonlight

The sun shines down, a halo of light 
The wind at my back, The river at my sides
I could swim within its waters 
Or sink like a dime 
But I choose time  
But I choose time

the sun, the wind, the wave

Beat I created for Suzannah Belle's CollegeTown Records artistry trailer. CollegeTown Records is Student-Run Music Production Company at Ithaca College designed to promote ICCU (IC and Cornell University) student performers with original music. As an artist, songwriter, and music producer, I not only write, perform and produce my own music, but also create write, produce, and make beats for other artists in the company. 

Link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzVX-9PlBQ4

ICA Beats

Suzannah [Prod. Kyra Skye]

Beat I created for my artistry trailer for CollegeTown Records! Link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deG-7fgjqeA

Skye [Prod. Kyra Skye]

Audio produced for Rilya's CollegeTown Records artistry trailer.
CollegeTown Records is Student-Run Music Production Company at Ithaca College designed to promote ICCU (IC and Cornell University) student performers with original music. As an artist, songwriter, and music producer, I not only write, perform and produce my own music, but also create write, produce, and make beats for other artists in the company.

Link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgoH95vLSKc

Rilya [Prod. Kyra Skye]

Summer Nights - EP

Dancing in the Rain

for the love of writing and writing classes!!! <3 

Lyrics:
Verse 1:
Each story starts begins a with word
And each day we write more 
And fill so many pages
Long tables and white boards
We delved into ourselves
Dusted off the shelf
Found what's been inside ourselves

Verse 2:
Then we went all digital 
Stuck in our houses
And childhood homes
Had to find something deep within our bones
To keep it together
But still we're here together

Chorus:
These moments we share with each other
These memories we write with one another
With pens in our hand 
We'll write and we'll stand with each other
With one another


Verse 3: 
It's not always easy to share
What goes on inside our own heads
Our brains can get so hazy
But you still shared it with the world
Wrote it on the pages
Opened up the cages

Verse 4: 
I feel it too
Thank you for sharing, it helps me open up too
We opened what was inside 
And we found that we don't
Don't have to hide

Chorus (2x)
These moments we share with each other
These memories we write with one another
With pens in our hand 
We'll write and we'll stand with 
each other
With one another

Outro: 
Together
We'll journey onto our next adventure
This end is simply just another
beginning
Hearts beating 
Keep going
Every ending
is a new beginning

Chorus (2x)
These moments we share with each other
These moments we write with one another
With pens in our hand 
We'll write and we'll stand with each other
With one another

These Moments We Share

a place for doodles & demos :)

Website: www.kyraskye.com

skye walker