Steph Something and Thomas Diederich cover Glory Box by Portishead

Glory Box (Portishead Cover)

Now I lay me

Down to sleep

Through the window

I begin to seep

Slither through

The lawn

Glide just above

The idle pond


It’s the only place I can go in this life

To escape, but I’ve been found out tonight


I built my walls so strong

And high

So tell me how in the hell

Did you get inside


Feels like

I’ve been running from you

Since the dawn of time


How long have you

Kept this up

Haunting me and hunting me down

And why


Oh, stop peering into me with those awful eyes

And speak to me, goddamned you

SInce the Dawn of TIme

SS - Composition, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals
Timothy Reid - Bass, Drums, Mix/Master

Not the Wedge, Nor the Victor


Whatever resides in nowhere

Hunts me down for survival

What I would give not to care

Somebody somewhere could be anyone anywhere


Another forgotten bar conversation

Another forgotten promise behind bars

Another faceless face taken at face value

Don’t know how it’s done


The fire in your eyes is

Gone and your intentions are unclear

Do I offer you a light

Or will you snuff me out if I let you near


The ego so difficult to let go

It’s a heavy rock to throw

So it’s easier to carry


But then again I guess it is

When you don’t care enough to feel

Anything at all anymore


Another forgotten bar conversation

Another forgotten promise behind bars

Another faceless face taken at face value

Don’t know how it’s done


The fire in your eyes is

Gone and your intentions are unclear

Do I offer you a light

Or will you snuff me out if I let you near


And now you weaponize love

To lure then fill the monster


Another forgotten bar conversation

Another forgotten promise behind bars

Another faceless face taken at face value

Don’t know how it’s done


Feed to inflate

Making that shit filled well that you fell into

Much easier to tread

I am not the wedge nor am I the victor


Feed to inflate

Making that shit filled well that you fell into

Much easier to tread

I am not the wedge nor am I the victor


Another forgotten bar conversation

Another forgotten promise behind bars

Another faceless face taken at face value

Don’t know how it’s done

Not the Wedge, Nor the Victor

A State of Undress

HUMANS - SS & Matt Kaprelian, feat. Alex Zulaika

I can't say so long when it's been so long
Don't want anyone else because I know you

I can't say so long when it's been so long
Don't want anyone else because I know you

Hey, buster
What did we go and do

Can't push or pull don't want you to disappear
Tryin to want someone else but I can't when I've got you

Won't push or pull don't want you to disappear
Tryin to want someone else but I can't when I've got you

Hey, buster
What did we go and do

Hey, buster

It's been so long since we went and
Fucked everything totally up

I lost you and you lost me between the sheets
I lost you and you lost me between the sheets
I lost you and you lost me between the sheets
I lost you and you lost me between the sheets
I lost you and you lost me between the sheets
I lost you and you lost me between the sheets
I lost you and you lost me between the sheets
I lost you and you lost me
I lost you and you lost me
I lost you and you lost me
We left each other between the sheets

Hey, Buster (Between The Sheets)

SS w/ Timothy Reid, Bill Ray & Aaron Fay

Orphan

You walked out the door
Since then I've been running so hard
I've been running so hard

I've been running so hard
Running so hard

After you

They made me go to school
But I got through, opened those doors
And looked up at the sky
Opened my mouth wide and started
Screaming your name

Screaming your name
Screaming your name

Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Why can't you hear me

Where'd you go
Where did you go
And why did you leave me

© stephsomething

Orphan

SS & Matt Kaprelian

My Whole Wide World In Your Hands


I loved your hands strong and worked

When I was in them nothing could do me harm

But within those hands as vulnerable as I could be


Not for a second did I think they’d crush me


I put my faith into your palm

Lay my timid heart down in the other one

I was certain they were safe with you never fearing


What you were gonna do


Oh but those hands I loved would be the end of me


The moment they were yours you started to squeeze

Instant agony had me on my knees

You walked away never said a thing

Hands in tight fists still wrecking me


Found my heart on the side of an empty road

Deformed and covered in dirt and stone

But my conviction you clasp quietly

Choke until you hear nothing

I did no wrong I was terrified so I clawed and I


Screamed trying to breathe


Your head ached from the noise

My nails grazed your arm

You regarded my state of fear as a call to war

Released your grip smile on your face

Opened your mouth swallowed the trust I gave

Now you keep me caged

Within your darkness

Barred by your silence

My cell your void

The only way out by key

Should you speak I

Will be set free

My Whole Wide World In Your Hands

In Our Own Heads

SS - Guitars, Vocals, Chuck - Drums, Marc - Bass

Aneurysm (Nirvana Cover)

Event Horizon

Farewell, Disaster

Perseveration Population, By Proxy (Du Brae & Steph Something) 

Perseveration Population

Them

SS - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals
Brian Henry - Drums
Mark Alen Dooley - Bass, Synth

Time For Change

When you come to fires raging before you
Fanning the flames is the worst thing you can do
Just calm the storm inside, keep a clear mind
And your heart beating steady and slow, ready to take the heat as you know
The indifference raging from his body
Is reason enough to show him love
As the terrible display before you is
His own perception of who he is

It takes not a magical power, it won't be a simple fix
Love spreads just the same as hate
We've got to push the dominoes back the other way
And if it were to be that our color swore us enemies
Tell me, please, how is it true that if your heart were to fail you
Your body would work the same
With my heart pumping the blood through your veins

Walk into the mess of it
Walk with me into conflict
With open arms of forgiveness
You know how much they'll need it when they
See the wreckage of their war
See that we all die the same
See that we can all inflict pain and suffering

It's not our eyes filled with disgust
It's not the barrels of our guns
That will ever do a goddamn thing
To discontinue these reruns

Why does our gentleness fade and strip us down to ill will and hate
Some dehumanize, which lends to despise
While others fear as they recognize that human exists in the difference
So, the hate is then born from the terror of a possibility
That something different will grow

To tear down a wall that divides
Is to once again let our grace rise

© Stephanie Gilliard

Time For Change

Dreadnought

Rising

And falling

The walls

Oh they are closing in

She shrieks

And she growls

So loud

That I cannot even dream myself out

And the quiet before the storm

Then the hollering

And they run and run and run run and run

Everyone is scrambling

To her big big guns

They all want to play with her

Big big big big guns

She just wanted to be free

On the open sea

Never wished to be adorned with

Massive artillery

Oh but now she’s the envy of

Everyone

They all want to see

Her fire those

Big

Big

Big

Dreadnaught

HUMANS - SS & Matt Kaprelian (Featuring Alex Zulaika)

Easy

The rain
It stopped today
Isn't it strange

It's like waking up
Cause you've been given a second chance at life
Blue and green contrast into something so beautiful

And everything is so
Easy
It's
Easy

The sun
It thaws my
Frozen bones

And bathes me
In warm rays
In a cold, dark world

It's like waking up
After you've been given a second chance at life
Blue and green contrast into something so beautiful

And everything is so
Easy
So
Easy

Stay
Easy
For a while
Anyway

Easy

SS, Brian Henry, Kevin Renshaw

Speak ill of me
I don't mind
As long as I
Don't know

We can be
Perfect
We can pretend
We can be
Perfect
We can pretend until we believe it

We can be
Perfect baby
We can pretend
We can be
Perfect baby
We can pretend until we believe it

So speak ill of me
I don't mind
As long as I
Don't know

(I don't know)

We can be
Perfect
We can pretend
We can be
Perfect
We can pretend until we believe it

We can be
Perfect
We can pretend
We can be
Perfect baby
We can pretend until we believe it

We can
Be perfect
We can pretend
We can be
Perfect
We can pretend until we believe it

We can be
Perfect
We can pretend
We can be
Perfect baby
We can pretend until we believe it

Until we believe it


Perfect

PERFECT

Can't See For Looking

SS, Matt Kaprelian, Adam Cournoyer

Uuuh
Uuuh

She, she gonna step all over me
Just another body added to the pile
Self-made little girl
She building her social ladder

But it's beginning to rot and
It's starting to stink and
She is sinking into the flesh
Of her so-called friends

I am not
A means
To your
End

Uuuh

Oh well he just wanna be all up in me
Not one ounce of a gentleman to be found
Gonna ruin everything I guarantee
Why can't it just be enough to be my homie

I am not
A means
To your
End

Uuuh

Uuuh

SS & Matt Kaprelian

Be Still

You're here
But gone
Long before I
Ever get home
So I say
Goodbye
Once more

And I dive
Beyond the breaks
And I rest at the bottom
Of the grandest
Of the great
Because it's the closest
Thing to
That embrace

The one that
Hides away
The heaviness of the day
So I don't worry
The one
That takes the weight of my body away
So I won't be hurting
The one
That makes everything okay

And makes me feel
So good
Like I do
When you are here
And I
Get to be home

Baby
Why are you
Always gone
Can't you just be still
For a
Little while
For me

Be Still

SS & Matt Kaprelian

We Can Be Perfect

Speak
Ill of me
I don't mind
As long as
I don't know

We can be
Perfect
We can
Pretend
We can be perfect
Baby
We can pretend
Until we believe it

We can be
Perfect
We can pretend
We can be
Perfect baby
We can pretend until we believe it

So speak
Ill of me
I don't mind
As long as
I don't know

We can be
Perfect
We can
Pretend
We can be perfect
Baby
We can pretend
Until we believe it

We can be
Perfect
We can
Pretend
We can be perfect
Baby
We can pretend
Until we believe it

We can be
Perfect
We can
Pretend
We can be perfect
Baby
We can pretend
Until we believe it

We can be
Perfect
We can
Pretend
We can be perfect
Baby
We can pretend
Until we believe it

Believe it

We Can Be Perfect

You didn’t even try to just be
Why were you hellbent on us ending
You knew it would end
Before it ever began
So what was the point
Of any of it

I won’t fight
I’m not gonna cry
I’m not gonna feed the fear you’ve got hiding inside
I’m just gonna say

Said The Light To The Dark

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals
Pierre Corriveau - Bass
Mitch Brody - Lead Guitar
Marc H - Bass
Marl M - Production

Afraid to Leave

You're missing out
You're missing me
You long for something that's right in front of you
But you won't reach

Out and take
What I am offering
Why keep yourself
In a cage

Afraid to leave
Your misery

You say you're bored so you consume all there is
Until you're paranoid
And no longer want to live, but you get your head right
Only to fuck it all up again

You won't
Reach out and take
What I am offering
Why keep yourself in a cage

Afraid to leave
Your misery

Show yourself
Show yourself
Show yourself
Show yourself to me

Show yourself to me

Oh, you won't
Reach out and take
What I am offering
Why keep yourself in a cage

Afraid to leave
Your misery

© Stephanie Gilliard

Afraid To Leave

SS - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals
Matt Kaprelian - Bass, Production
Alex Ruiz - Drums

She is

The illusion that you think

You see, a reality

You feel she is more than an alliteration or a mirage

She’s a beggar's banquet

A psychotic episode

A plague of disproportions


A wormhole in your brain

Wired in your DNA

She is not an alternate reality

She’s like a cobra

About to strike

Circling the room


Raging on

Oh, she rages on and on and on


She lingers in your peripheral vision

Before you drop off to

Bone-breaking sleep

Seen but not seen

Real but not real

Like an annunciation of blinding light


Raging on

Oh, she rages on and on and on

On and on and on


As the space around you curves

And bends in quantum ambience

Forcing a new stage of

Madness upon you

As her features begin

To waver


And the poetry in her

Becomes like the music roaring in your ears


Raging on

And on

And on

And on

And on

And on

And on

Raging On

You Can

You can try
You can try
You can try
You can try
But you will never snuff me out

You can lie
You can lie
You can lie
You can lie
But you will never make me walk with doubt

It doesn't
Have to be
This difficult

You can judge
You can judge
You can judge
You can judge
But what you think of me is not my problem

You can say
You can say
You can say
You can say
But I know your words can only curse what allows them to

It doesn't
Have to be
This difficult

You can hate
You can hate
You can hate
But I will only ever feel love for you

You can hate
You can hate
You can hate
But I will only ever feel love for you

© Stephanie Gilliard

You Can

SS - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Vocals, Guitar
Chet Ray - Drums, Bass, Mix
Scott Kern - Lap Steel

Effete

Your disregard 
Keeps her on guard
And she can't believe
How long she's let this go on

Her defenses are
Defeated with one glance

And she knows she doesn't 

Stand a chance in hell


But, you keep her waiting

You keep her close yet so far

You keep her alone

You keep tearing at her



Winter is coming

And the cold is gonna make her cold

This is getting old


And she knows

You've got something buried deep inside 

Because you're not so far from grace 

That you're numb to what you hide


But, you keep her waiting

You keep her close yet so far

You keep her alone

You keep tearing at her


So make a move or watch her walk away for the last time

Make a move or watch her walk away for the last time


You keep her waiting

You keep her close yet so far

You keep her alone

You keep tearing at her

Effete

SS - Guitars, Vocals
Jochen - Bass, Production
Alex - Drums

Breakdown

I have something to say
But does it really matter
Ain't no one listening to anything
Except themselves anyway

So no it won't be overpopulation and
It's not even gonna be a nuclear invasion
It won't be worldwide starvation no
We do ourselves in from a breakdown
In communication

And the amount of words they use
To say nothing becomes tedious
Then when shit goes awry because they didn't listen
They're still pointing the finger and calling it your mess

It's not gonna be overpopulation
And it won't be a nuclear invasion
It won't even be from worldwide starvation
No we will do ourselves in from a breakdown
In communication

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

what

Breakdown

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals
Chris Simplson - All Other Instruments, Mix

The Umbra

The shadows won
The day is done
The odds have got us beat

Keep turning tricks
To get that fix
Whoring up and down the street

The umbra
The darkest part of the dark
The darkest thought
You didn’t want

And in the evening glow
To pass the
Time away

We chase shadows
Into the light
Until they’re merely shade

We were entangled
To see what we could see

But we ran out of space
While playing games
Of what might be

The umbra
The darkest part of the dark
The darkest thought
You didn’t want

But they follow you
Just the same
They follow you
Just the same

Oh they follow you
Just the same
Oh they follow you
Night and day

Keep turning pages over
Blaming all along the way
Sent to find a four-leaf clover
As it’s sure to fuck me over

The umbra
The darkest part of the dark
The darkest thought
You didn’t want

But they follow you
Just the same
They follow you
Just the same

© Stephanie Gilliard

The Umbra

SS - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitars
Alex Bevacqua - Drums, Bass

Tired of Singing

You nearly walk right through me
Well maybe baby
You shouldn't keep me
So goddamn clean

(I'm tired, tired, I'm tired of singin')

You nearly walk right through me
Well maybe baby
You shouldn't keep me
So goddamn clean

(I'm tired, tired, I'm tired of singin')

Can you tell me the reason
I never miss a beat yet you
Manage to forget
The whole goddamn song

(I'm tired, tired, I'm tired of singin')

You nearly walk right through me
Well maybe baby
You shouldn't keep me
So goddamn clean

© Stephanie Gilliard

Tired Of Singing

SS - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals
Ellen - Mix/Master

Your Muse

I break silently
You announce your burden as art
Applauded for being
Exactly what has me in such ruin

Perhaps you found your muse
In my suffering

A declaration of war was never made
Yet I find myself blindsided and
Beaten upon a battlefield that was
Once my trust

Perhaps you found your muse
In my suffering

You have perfected sustainability
Weaponized the masses without them even knowing
Anything at all

© Stephanie Gilliard

Your Muse

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