Vocals and arrangement is super well done!

Magnifique piste 🔥🔥👏👏😉😊😍💕😎🙋👍

This song is my way of riding through the darker highways of my past and present—the parts of me that carry scars, secrets, and regrets I don’t always let the world see. It’s about the weight we carry when pain turns inward, when mistakes follow us like shadows, and when we feel like redemption is always just out of reach. 

The line “hurt people hurt people” became the heart of this song. I borrowed it directly from Melissa Etheridge’s powerful documentary I’m Not Broken and her song “A Burning Woman.” When Melissa sang those words for the women she met and captured their stories with such compassion, it cut straight into me. It was like she gave language to something I’d always known but never had the courage to admit out loud—that I’ve been both the one hurt and the one doing the hurting. 

Watching I’m Not Broken was an emotional punch. I laughed, I cried, and I saw myself in those women—broken, self-medicating, sometimes reckless, sometimes just trying to survive. In my younger years, I could have easily ended up where they did, and Melissa’s message of compassion and healing reminded me that broken doesn’t have to mean lost. 

So this song isn’t just about pain—it’s about honesty. It’s about facing the ghosts that ride beside you, owning the mistakes carved into your skin, and still searching for some kind of mercy down the road. It’s my confession, but also my reminder that we’re all fragile, we’re all human, and music has the power to shine a light even on the darkest highway.


LYRICS: 

[Verse 1]
I got ashes in my pocket, gasoline in my veins
Running from a memory I can’t outrun or explain
The night is heavy silence, the sky is painted low
And every mile behind me still whispers what I owe 

[Pre-Chorus]
Hurt people, hurt people, I’ve been both in my time
Cut my hands on the edges of my own crooked lines 

[Chorus]
I’d rather crash and burn than fade out slow
Carrying the weight of things I’ll never show
Father forgive me, for the secrets I keep
Mother, don’t cry when I sink too deep
Hurt people, hurt people—that’s all I know
On this shadow highway where the black crows go 

[Verse 2]
I’ve got a bottle full of thunder, and a fistful of pain
The ghosts ride beside me, calling out my name
Every wrong turn’s a marker carved into my skin
I keep losing the battle I was never meant to win 

[Pre-Chorus]
Hurt people, hurt people, I’ve been both in my time
Cut my hands on the edges of my own crooked lines 

[Chorus]
I’d rather crash and burn than fade out slow
Carrying the weight of things I’ll never show
Father forgive me, for the secrets I keep
Mother, don’t cry when I sink too deep
Hurt people, hurt people—that’s all I know
On this shadow highway where the black crows go 

[Verse 3]
It’s pretty when you’re fearless, it’s bitter when you’re old
The truth is just a fever you can’t ever hold
Am I closer to redemption, or just further gone?
The road keeps on rolling, but I can’t ride it long 

[Bridge]
The signs blur together, the nights turn to rust
I’m a sinner on the run, and I’ve broken what I trust
But somewhere in the distance, maybe mercy will glow
Till then I ride haunted by the shadow of a crow 

[Chorus X2]
I’d rather crash and burn than fade out slow
Carrying the weight of things I’ll never show
Father forgive me, for the secrets I keep
Mother, don’t cry when I sink too deep
Hurt people, hurt people—that’s all I know
On this shadow highway where the black crows go 

[Outro]
So if I vanish in the night, don’t follow me down
I was born for the silence, not a hero’s crown
Hurt people, hurt people, and that’s how it ends
With a crow at my shoulder and no chance to mend

Shadow Highway

This song is about being trapped between memory and release — the impossible weight of carrying every mistake, loss, and truth that time refuses to wash away. It’s me confronting the ghosts I’ve built inside myself, knowing they anchor me as much as they drown me. The song moves through grief, guilt, and the desperate hope for redemption, even when freedom feels like betrayal to the past. Every verse is a mirror of endurance and self-punishment — a soul chained to what it can’t forget, still reaching for light through the cracks.


LYRICS: 

​[Verse 1]
​The cold light bleeds through a fragile frame,
Another midnight whispers out your name.
This heavy silence holds the truth I keep,
A buried promise while the whole world sleeps.
I walk these halls where the echo remains,
Of whispered damage in the driving rains.
The pages turn, but the ending's still the same,
And every future portrait is consumed by flame. 

​[Pre-Chorus]
​[Drums become heavier, tempo pushes forward. Vocals rise in intensity]
I've tried to tear the binding from the page,
To break the cycle on this lonely stage.
But the weight is crushing, the truth too near,
And the price of freedom is a boundless fear. 

​[Chorus]
Go on and scream my burden to the void!
Let every empty hope I had be destroyed!
I am the anchor holding down the past,
A shadow burning, built to never last!
Oh, the memory, you're the vessel and the grave!
A place where the soul comes, but nothing is saved! 

​[Verse 2]
​They say a spirit can only linger on,
If the single, fatal thread is never drawn.
Well, I am that thread, fraying in the grime,
A prisoner sentenced to unending time.
I search the darkness for a flickering spark,
A single reason to get out of the dark.
But the shadow I embrace is all I find,
Leaving every fragile future far behind. 

​[Bridge]
Don't tell me silence is a kind of peace...
I can hear the rot inside me, it will never cease!
A thousand voices screaming that I belong,
To the fault lines where I knew I did the wrong!
The only key to sever the chain is to forget who you are!
But the memory's the only beacon I can see in the dark! 

​[Verse 3]
​The glass is cold where I pressed my hand against the pane,
And nothing waits outside but endless rain.
The cost of letting go is more than I can pay,
So I'll stand here frozen 'til the final day.
The light I seek is just the fading trace,
Of every moment I can't replace.
I made my choice to wear this heavy crown,
And this is where the walls come crashing down. 

​[Chorus]
Go on and scream my burden to the void!
Let every empty hope I had be destroyed!
I am the anchor holding down the past,
A shadow burning, built to never last!
Oh, the memory, you're the vessel and the grave!
A place where the soul comes, but nothing is saved! 

​[Outro]
...Nothing is saved.

The Anchor's Hold

Spécial thanks to HEMANIFEZT for his acappella ....

 Lyrics

 you forgot what love is Yeah,
 yeah, you forgot what love is
 Yeah, yeah, you forgot what love is Yeah,
 yeah, you forgot what love is 
 What the happiness that it brings You don't understand your life or what it 
 sings Guess you can hear it in the atmosphere (
 But you forgot the love is inside You don't understand right now 
 I'm here to provide Some people just don't understand 
 But why? 
 They don't understand what love is Yeah, they don't know what love is
 Why I had you, yeah, holding in my arms This is real right now, I'll hold you like 
  a charm Oh, yeah, I knew the world 
 Right now, it's getting kind of worse But guess what? 
 I'm the one to step up first I guess the love that I have right now 
 It ain't no curse We a perfect match 
 But you don't understand none of that Yeah, I think you forgot what love is
 You forgot what love is Yeah, yeah, you forgot what love is 
 Yeah, yeah, you forgot what love is Yeah, yeah, you forgot what love is 
 Yeah, yeah, you forgot what love is You don't know, you never will 
 I guess you don't know how I really feel My emotions inside right now 
 I'm telling you right now I'm trying to stay alive 
 But it seems like it's harder for me to try I'm trying to get my whole point across 
 But it seems like right now your thoughts is tossed 
 But I was wondering why you so lost Why he do you like that? 
 I guess the love was not in him But the love inside of me 
 Just to let you know I still breathe And everyday I know how it could be 
 Right now we going for the victory And the victory is right now 
 Me and you together for history Yeah, for centuries 
 You forgot what love is Yeah, yeah, I think you forgot what love is 
 Yeah, yeah, I think you did Yeah, I think you did 
 You forgot what love is It's the love that I'm giving 
 And I hope you receive it Man, you forgot what love is 
 To all the females out there Yeah, you forgot what love is

FORGOT WHAT LOVE IS. 🌺.🎧. Feat HEMANIFEZT

I can't help it ... Kocosaur's tunes are sooo well suited for remixes and extensions, here is my version of her https://soundcloud.com/kocosaur/heartfelt ... in full summer mood I guess. 

heartfelt

Lydia's theme

Electronic dance music inspired by Celtic dreamscapes

Epilogue of The Novel

MEMORY 2.0

Composer : Karl Heimgartner Dat :Oktober / 21 / 2025/ © Copyright
Artist: Carlito Home 
Genre: Lo-FI – Hip Hop 
Single: 2025
Instrumental: Karl Heimgartner 
Title:Sunlight in the Fog
Track:12

My workstation with: Presonus Studio One 5 Professional and LANDR Cromatic Studio

Mixing: Christine Sampson : Mastering: Alessandro Giordano by MTM Mastering True Music Productions/Es
Thank you for the cooperation, Freddie and Team MTM Mastering True Music Productions.

karl-heinz-heimgartner.jimdosite.com/




Sunlight in the Fog

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