Star Hearts

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Killer Show 
music: John Henderson and Steph Something
lyrics: Steph Something
Vocals: Steph Something
Guitars: John Henderson
Bass: Chris Branch
Drums: Chris Bouchard. 
Mixing and Mastering: John Henderson. 
music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4WmUeb-SeE

Killer Show

Composition:. 
music: John Henderson and Steph Something. 
lyrics: Alex O'Brien. 
Recording:. 
vocals: Steph Something. 
guitars: John Henderson. 
Bass: Chris Branch. 
Drums: Brian Henry.

Steaming Streets

Du Brae, SS, Carlos Barrios, John Henderson, and Brian Henry

I Dont Feel Right

HereBeDragons

stephsomething

LetchaDrums

Maxdeago

Wasted

Cursed

Aftermath

Time To Leave (ft SS)

Cursed (ft SS)

Wawa - Instrumental
Steph Something - Vocal melody, lyrics, vox
Max Deago - Lead Guitar

The Tempest

Woke with the radio arguing with my veins
Poured last night's promises down the sink and watched them drown
Slid my sins into my pockets like loose change
But not enough for a cab or forgiveness
Worked a smile into the corner of my face
Held the world together for a moment
Then it peeled away

I dig with my bare hands
Nails full of time, lungs full of dust
If I ever reach daylight
I’ll tell it the truth
I was the tempest nobody checked for
And I stormed anyway

You said weekend like a promise
I took it like a dare
Leaned too close and burned my palms on someone else's fire
Now I trace the outlines of names I used to keep
They’re thin as the smoke of a cigarette and gone before I can say them
But I kept the good parts pinned beneath my ribs
I did

I dig with my bare hands
Nails full of time, lungs full of dust
If I ever reach daylight
I’ll tell it the truth
I was the tempest no one checked for
And I stormed anyway

I practice apologies in bathroom mirrors 
Watch the sink fill with rehearsals 
Watch my eyes leaving themselves

I dig with my bare hands
Nails full of time, lungs full of dust
If I ever reach daylight
I’ll tell it the truth
I was the tempest no one checked for
And I stormed away


The Tempest

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals
Jochen Fleischmann - Drums, Bass, Production

I Defend It

Between each breath
Where the soul’s spine bends
I keep myself in silence
Not to stay hidden
But to know who to allow in 
Because peace is not passive 
It’s an act of architecture 
Every boundary is a beam 
Every no, a brick that keeps the weather out
They call me distant, sometimes difficult 
But I am just learning the sound of my own echo 
In a room I finally built myself

No performance required nor desired
I cherish it
I defend it
I keep it guarded because
I built it from everything I refuse to lose

They won’t take from me
The thinnest slice of peace
The thought where I get back to who I am
The world disguises sledgehammers with compliments
They try to take it with flattery
With guilt
Or the slow erosion of constant explaining
Their goal is that I exploit myself
So they may sell it back to me
But I will protect it
The part of me unedited
The thought not meant to be communicated

No performance required nor desired
I cherish it
I defend it
I keep it guarded because
I built it from everything I refuse to lose

The silence sighed by stillness
The heartbeat of my authentic rhythm
And when the noise finally eats its own tail
And the world quiets just enough
I’ll hear it breathing in me
My original language
I keep it guarded because
I built it from everything I refuse to lose

© Stephanie Gilliard


I Defend It

rock, metal, progressive rock, Indie rock, electronic, dance, indie electronic, funk, new wave, ambient rock/metal/electronic... fuck it... 
all the things music 
by Stephanie Gilliard