01 - Teeth

Best That I Knew How was included in the shortlist for the ROCK/INDIE category of the 2022 Australian Songwriting Contest. 

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Best That I Knew How was re-mixed and re-mastered June 2023.

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Verse 1:
We started talking about nothing at all
We shared a bit of something and I started to fall
A little bit in love I guess I answered a call
Made her more than a friend

So we got married in a rush of youth
Feeling so free, playing fast and loose
I always meant well you know that's the truth
But I stuffed it up in the end

Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it's simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I'd known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I'd like to think that whatever I did, I did the best that I knew how

Verse 2:
We brought you home your mum and me
You entered our house turned two into three
So I went to work thought my job was to be
Bringing home big buckets of security

Who knew back then what a father should be
Who knew what a little boy or girl might need
I learned too late what I needed to see
More than anything you needed more of me.

Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it's simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I'd known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I'd like to think that whatever I did, I did the best that I knew how

Bridge:
That's not to say that I didn't try
That's all I ever did and that's no lie
If I didn't live up to the standards I had
I never thought that I was doing all that bad
The only life I've known has been in my own skin
I've never been the man I wish I'd been

Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it's simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I'd known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I'd like to think that whatever I did, I did the best that I knew how

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This is another take on the song previously released as The Best. The Best was reworked as a ballad and worked well.  This version is my attempt to reproduce the sort of song that I was thinking of when I wrote it.

Best That I Knew How

A song for revolution inside ourselves. It was a very great pleasure to work on this even tough i will never be satisfied with the energy this message deserves  in the song but i cant have every talent ofcorse therefore i shout out for collaboration on this ^^

spotify link:

 https://open.spotify.com/track/02MQQVzAtoN6CddZxh3Xkw?si=f037f0a298764126

ive got so many questions on my mind
where are our childrens futur heading now
religious and politicians keep saying lies
this world s heading towards harder times

Exploitations leads to zombinations
dont let them get you into confusion
make your researchs and comparations
change yourself first and then maybe a nation
all these buisnesses corporations
dodge if you can they re only temptations
try and study your informations
answers will fool you beware of your questions

Jah Rastafaraiiii Jah Rastafaraiiiiii x2

My brothers and sisters, we dont have much time
enough its enough, we cant pay no fine
authority, military! you have crosse the line
people are tired and we re gonna stand up now

think in frequencies and vibrations
you are energy and the soution
dont you run away from revelations
you will face the day of tribulations
there is a narrow way up to zion
dont you go astray change your actions
and im seeing awake the population
they cant brake your faith not even my song!

Jah Rastafaraiiiii Jah Rastafaraiiiiiii

Zombination

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Zombination (MrBeatsPH production)

Written & produced by Reindeer Flotilla
Co-produced by Nic Johns
Mixed & mastered by Nic Johns
Drums by Dylan Ryan
Bass, synths & percussion by Nic Johns

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And Yet It Moves

Nobody I Was

I'm here to top it off
Momentum dropping off
Some nerve to write me off
But my drive will define it
You try to shut me down
Keep buried in the ground 
But my mind is confineless

Pains a motivation
Away from comforting touch
Some days will always be tough
There's way to get out this rut
To get out this rut

I want and I need
I want it all
Yeah, I need it all
I want and I need
I want it all
Yeah, I need it all

*burp*

Make me the underdog
Bet on the higher one
No even close to done
Cause' the fire's still rising
I'm coming from behind
Get you by surprise
No sense in wasting time
Cause the fires still rising



Tough Love

First recorded in September 2023.
From the album More Sponges.

It's a song about being a bit of a loner.

This new version was mixed and mastered by
Woods Studio Norway Mixing and Mastering 
www.soundcloud.com/woods_studio 

LYRICS

When I was young, 
Could not read the signs.
Could not see behind eyes.
Need to hear things.
What was left for me?

Out on the road.
people let go.
It's not that they know,
Anything you don't.
Wisdom in jest, you see.

Oh! "When I was a child".
"Where I came from".
Yeah? You're responsible, too.

Just a word before I go.
All you people are dead to me.

Mind: Follow me.
We'll stare at these stars.
That's a planet, it's Mars.
Not that you care.
Can't avoid destiny.

Home is a place.
Where you collect things.
To place inside tins.
Until you lose them.
For all eternity.

Oh, "when I was a child".
I put that away.
Girl, you should do too.

There's just you and your own.
All you people are dead to me.

Oh, "when I was a child".
Forget that one. Boy.
Not important to you.

Just a word in your ear.
All you people are dead to me.

A look from out.
The side of an eye.
A moment to spy.
Whats behind them.
However, fleeting.

A silent dig.
Inside of the mind.
Beside enemy's lines.
Nothing to bind them.
Yes, I'll be leaving.

Oh, "when I was a child".
I thought as such.
I was naught but a fool.

 I discovered, too late.
Mostly.
People, they are dead to me.

Oh, "When I was a child,"
"Where I came from"
Yeah? You're responsible, too.

Just a word before I go.
Oooh...
All you people are dead to me.





All You People Are Dead To Me [2024 Remaster]

RE-EVOLUTION

old school drum-alternative rock-chillvibe-rap vocal

LIGHTS OFF  (DEZZ  Vocals&lyrics EEL Guitars&ats)

We can lick all our wounds clean
Ignore all the things we don't mean
Because we don't bother with blood in the water

Cut all the branches bare
Weave the thorns into your hair
Because we don't bother with blood in the water

We know
Weeds grow faster in the heat
Go slow
We know we're faster on our feet

You know we're not that crazy
We know what this is, baby
Times so slow-ow
When we know-ow
It's just the world that's hazy
It's just you and me now baby
Let it go-go
As we grow-ow

Let's just lose the scores
I'll claim my ghosts if you do yours
Don't sweat the small stuff, 'cause it's all small stuff

I'll open my chest more wide
Enough room for you to climb inside
Don't sweat the small stuff, 'cause it's all small stuff

We know
Weeds grow faster in the heat
Go slow
We know we're faster on our feet

You know we're not that crazy
We know what this is, baby
Times so slow-ow
When we know-ow
It's just the world that's hazy
It's just you and me now baby
Let it go-go
As we grow-ow

Blood in the Water

This track written by Nick is a love song but by no means typical.

Heaven Tonight

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams.





All You People Are Dead To Me [2024 Remaster]

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