I haven't forgotten about music. In fact I've written a lot of songs over the past few years. But I've either been too busy or too lazy to make anything of them. Maybe I will soon.

Every Grace (Gods Or Architects)

Another song that's been lying around for a couple of years. I definitely want to try to make a proper recording of this one.

Heartwood

I'd probably rework the lyrics to this one if I was going to put it out properly, but I'm quite fond of it anyway.

Kowloon

There's not much to this one but I like it.

Play Witness

Skyloft - Grow Old, Die Young

It's that rarest of things: a Skyloft track that I actually put some amount of effort into. If only I'd put the effort into mixing it better.

Skyloft - Trailing The A Bao A Qu

A song that didn't make it onto the Songs in a Storm EP.
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I dreamt I was a kid again
In camouflage, digging holes in someone else’s yard
And no one knew that I was there
And every night, they’d fill the holes that I would dig again
And I was younger, I was younger, but I was old

I dreamt I was a kid again
I had no teeth, my body was much closer to the ground
And every time that I would speak      
A fly came out, they buzzed around in a halo over me
And I was younger, I was younger, but I was old

Age before beauty 
Life before death
The sheep run the world
While we sleep in our beds

I dreamt I was a kid again
In outer space, breathing through a tube fed from the earth
And the earth looked like my mother does
But spherical and spinning like a boomerang round the sun
And I was younger, I was younger, but I was old

I dreamt I was a kid again
In a summer dress, and shoes that crushed my toes into themselves
And when I took them off to dance
My feet where red, and I left bloody footprints in the grass
And I was younger, I was younger, but I was old

Age before beauty 
Life before death
The sheep run the world
While we sleep in our beds

The Shadow Cast - Dreamer In The Land Of Sheep

This is an old demo I made for a band I used to be in, it was never used and never going to be. But I kind of enjoyed listening to it while watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4xVEsXNP8

War Repeater

Proof that I'm alive and doing things (albeit quite slowly)

The Shadow Cast - Pointed, Like A Gun

An update for anyone who’s interested in my 3 years of radio silence:

Music has always been a side hobby for me. I’m mainly a writer of words, not sounds. Although I’ve still dipped my toes into noisy waters pretty often anything that you could actually call songwriting has been thin on the ground. I decided to plunge deeply into writing my first novel, and I started to get some interest from publishers, got myself set up with an editor, drafted and redrafted (and I’m still redrafting). On one very strange day I was even in the office of an agent who works for the same company that manages JK Rowling. I haven’t been able to dedicate much time to music because my creative energy has all been going into words. Whenever I have written music it’s usually been a half-arsed way to procrastinate from writing.

But in the past couple of weeks I’ve written about 15 songs, and I still have a load of older ones lying around that I want to record at some point. This is one of the new ones. I have an album in my head that it belongs on, but I’m not sure when it’ll come to exist.

I also decided to ditch the Shadow Cast name and just release everything as Skyloft because I like the name better, and who even needs genre consistency in 2020 anyway?
Hope everyone’s well & safe & sound etc.

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The stars won't be out again tonight
It's dark in space
The moon won't be out again tonight
It hides its face
The dogs won't be howling in the streets
They're all asleep
The tide won't be coming in tonight
And the wind will cease
The puddles won't be gathering the rain
That does not fall
The leaves won't be dripping in the lake
The boats are ashore
The keys won't be turning in the locks
The doors stay closed
The cows won't be grazing on the grass
The bulls will doze
The maps won't be unfolded tonight
The plans won't hatch
The windows won't be looking out tonight
They're only glass
The stars won't be out again tonight
It's dark in space
Your love won't return to you tonight
You'll have to wait

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