Dog - Single by Turbo-Laser 
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/dog-single/1748515550

Video at https://youtu.be/pOL6a-dC6FI?si=Bf3kHPIWbqdZM8e2
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This is a song about depression and survival. 

When I wrote it I still had another 25 years of surviving it ahead of me. But I'd made a decision years before, when I was 14, that no matter how bad it got it would always get better, sooner or later. And it always did, at least for a while. And knowing that somehow made it just a little bit easier to smile.


[This is a new mix. Drums by John Bennetts have been added and everything else has been changed, at least a little.]

Verse 1:
It’s more than a song
But less than a dream
I know what I say
Is not what I mean
Pretending my words
Aren’t meant to deceive
I’m playing with doubt
I want to believe

I know that it’s hard
To explain why I’m here
I complain though I know
There is nothing to fear
But the fear and the doubt
That wind through my mind
Are inventions of mine
That help pass the time

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 2:
I’m more than a child
But less than a man
I know where I’ve been
But not who I am
I'll say that I'm strong
I'll tell you I’m free
But none of that's true
I just want it to be

Once I entered a room
I pulled down the shade
I turned out the lights
I wanted to fade
But I noticed the wall
Right there looking at me
Pretending to be blind
I really wanted to see

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 3:
It all seemed to happen
A while ago
At a time I was lost
I just didn’t know
That doubting was simply
A game that I had
It gave me a reason
For feeling this bad

There are times there are changes
My memory moves
Preaching the patterns
I’ve worn into grooves
Repeating mistakes
I made in my youth
Learning the lines
And calling them truth
I can’t help but change
Can't help but survive
I might drown in doubt
But I'll still be alive

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Easy to Smile

•Watch the Video•

Easy To Smile

תצייר לי בחול

Just arrived at the address,
A voice said, “wait I’m wearing a dress.”
I smoked a cig while I waited,
When an old woman soon came out.


With a suitcase by her side,
A face that hid her sadness inside.
She closed the door to the past,
"Bye, my home," were her last words cast.


Drive me through the city lights,
Show me where my heart felt bright.
The neighborhood where I used to live,
Where my daughter was conceived.



She spoke of places she once knew,
Of her love and what she had viewed.
We traveled through her history,
That I will keep in my memory.



In the dark, she shared her past,
How quickly her life had passed.
In the taxi, the time stood still,
As I drove, her dreams were fulfilled.


Drive me through the city lights,
Show me where my heart felt bright.
The neighborhood where I used to live,
Where my daughter was conceived.

Drive me through the city lights,
Show me where my heart felt bright.
The neighborhood where I used to live,
Where my daughter was conceived.


Once at the hospice, her end was near,
In her mind, everything was clearer.
This would be her last night,
Her eyes closed with morning light.


Drive me through the city lights,
Show me where my heart felt bright.
The neighborhood where I used to live,
Where my daughter was conceived.


Drive me through the city lights,
Show me where my heart felt bright.
The neighborhood where I used to live,
Where my daughter was conceived.

DYKMN

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Hope you enjoy the Disco remix of my track Tonight

Tonight (Disco Mix)

Late night thoughts have me questioning life, chasing meaning, and wondering what's next.

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Theory wise, it goes Bm7 then A7 and some extended notes. Which points to either D or Bm. I decided to go to B and then A and then G and then A. All major chords. B and Bm are similar. Then, from A, to Em which is not too big of a change cos’ they both have E for the ‘well go down parts’. Then G and then back to Bm for ‘heartbeats.’. Again, both G and Bm share B so that works. Then finally, from A to A7. A7 points to Dm so that’s how the chorus begins. Chorus also has a Bb and then C which points to the key of F. Before going from G to Am which goes to Am. Then the whole process starts again except at the end we go to Bm. So 3 keys in a single chorus/outro which is pretty cool. 
The poppier elements in the prechorus are not exactly a musical direction but more of what I improvised in the moment. 
I’m extremely satisfied with the mix and will be working more with this guy in the future. 
Lyrics:
She’s my reason. She’s my reason.
Can I get an amen for the cause that ties me down before my knees get weak
And pulls me round the clock or so to speak to dry your tears in times of desperate need.
It’s not enough to celebrate or pray for all this extra weight, in fevered times or so it seems, living, living for a dream.  (It’s improvised. I don’t know what I’m on about)
We’ll go down. We’ll go down.
Heartbeats and inner turmoil..
Black and blue just like the earths soil (reference to NIN’s piggy I guess. Also my 2 fave colors. Altho black is the absence of color)
Now ya see why I just can’t breathe.   (The only other person I know that finds it this hard to breathe is Adam Levine)
Guess it was always meant to be

Chorus:
Pull me down, let me suffer
Till I breathe right out again
All these things that mattered before. Don’t matter anymore.
And I ain’t bitter. I ain’t blind. You were always on my mind.
Roads that mattered before, don’t matter anymore.
Hearts that litter lonely streets. You never meant that much to me.
At all. At all.  (The ‘you’ doesn’t really refer to a romantic interest in particular. I wanted something powerful and something that could stir up some emotions. It’s probably…a guy. For your purposes, you might as well [insert person here] if you feel like singing along. 

Verse:
Not unlike the waves that tear. In your auburn sunburnt hair.
And all these times you give to me. You left in agony.
This is where we stand. This is where they die.
Here we’ll make a stand. This is where they’ll die. (300 reference. You know I think I’ve been fighting Persians longer than the Spartans ever did. That’s 4 songs which reference Sparta. That’s more than 72 hours it took to make which is roughly how long the Spartans fought the Persians for)

Outro:
In time, you’ll find, it’s all we need, in our minds. In time.



Heartbeats & Inner Turmoil

Chorus
Bill, bill, bill, bill, bills,
Everything I do, everyday na bills,
Bills on the table, everyday na spending,
Bills on my neck, everytime expenses,
Bills under...

(Repeat Chorus 2x)

Verse
Bills, bills, bills, bills, bills,
Billing on my head, expenses on my brain,
It is moving like a virus, everyday things,
Bills, bills, bills, bills, bills on the table.

The phone keeps ringing every time,
Stress in the air, but the water rises,
Stacking up the papers, but it’s never enough,
Bills under...

Chorus (till fade)
Bill, bill, bill, bill, bills,
Everything I do, everyday na bills,
Bills on the table, everyday na spending,
Bills on my neck, every time  expenses,
Bills under...

🙌🏿



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Hi everybody.
 I like music and now I try making my own with the new available technologies.

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