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Songs of May 2021

Down & Out

Babe
Everybody talks so loud
Fighting over time
drowning each other out
Bombs like tears are falling now
I guess we’re not so far from where we started
How I wonder
Is it me or is it you?
Who needs this more
Who’s making do
Babe
Babe
Things keep falling right outside
And the fear it grips and chokes me from inside
Pull on your arms like a frightened child
Though I know you’re just as terrified
Babe
Are we in love?
Or is it the drugs, babe?
Still never feels quite enough
Babe
Can hardly sleep when you lie with me
Stay up all night so I can hear you leave
‘Cause I am many things
But I’m not naive
Babe
No I won’t be the fool waking up to haunted sheets
Babe
And it’s all piling up at our feet
Dust and rubble gathering in heaps
I’ll get lost in you
You can get lost in me
Being lost is a bit like being free isn’t it?
Babe
It’s not you it’s me isn’t it ?
Babe
It feels like we’re getting older doesn’t it?
Babe

Written and Performed by feeo
Coproduced by feeo and Upcycled Sounds

feels like we're getting older doesn't it

Sand Fight

ffo Cigarettes After Sex, Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy, Sharon Van Etten, Beth Orton

Ghosts

New Translations on Audiotree Live

Coldest Century (Audiotree Live Version)

Released on July 4, 2025

Written, composed, vocals, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Tanner Cabaret.

Lyrics:

“Need A Reason”

BPM: 131

Key: G Major

Genre: Indie Pop, Dance-Pop

Who wrote the song? By a 21-year-old British Sri Lankan small artist from Walthamstow named Tanner Cabaret, or his artist name “L.T.”

Lyrics:

[Verse]

Oh my days!
Those nightmares fade away,
Shining on to my head,
And you wonder am I okay?

Now for so long,
When you put on Elton John
Tiny Dancer, not long gone
I lit up when you sing our song

[Chorus]

Yeah!
Gonna dance the night away,
Got your pictures in my head
Show my heart, my soul
You’ll feel my love and feel my glow

Oh!
Girl you take my breath away
Need a reason I can stay
By the power of love
You and me, we shine today

[Verse]

Let me hold you
Let me love you
We’ll dance until the world starts dancing too

Move like Mike Jack
Spin and slide back
Those love feelings, it is coming back

Stay with me, ‘till the morning times
You and me, it feel so right

[Chorus]

Yeah!
Gonna dance the night away,
Got your pictures in my head
Show my heart, my soul
You’ll feel my love and feel my glow

Oh!
Girl you take my breath away
Need a reason I can stay
By the power of love
You and me, we shine today

[Bridge]

Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!

Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!

[Chorus]

Yeah!
Gonna dance the night away,
Got your pictures in my head
Show my heart, my soul
You’ll feel my love and feel my glow

Oh!
Girl you take my breath away
Need a reason I can stay
By the power of love
You and me, we shine today

Yeah!
Gonna dance the night away,
Got your pictures in my head
Show my heart, my soul
You’ll feel my love and feel my glow

Oh!
Girl you take my breath away
Need a reason I can stay
By the power of love
You and me, we shine today

[Outro]

Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!

Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!

Need A Reason

typical misfit.

TvujObrazek

beat by prod.thomasp

lyrics:

pulled along
 you’ve got me on a string
thrown around
 like i don’t feel a thing
can’t fly away
a bird with a broken wing
for you, you know that i’d do anything 

black and blue 
and i’m missing you
how i wish that i could 
fly over and just see you again
but boundary lines 
push me back away 
new black new blue for every day 

it’s not on purpose
but you’re hurting me
do you ignore it 
or can you just not see?
how your actions, they are killing me
i take it all and do it willingly 

black and blue 
and i’m missing you
how i wish that i could 
fly over and just see you again
but boundary lines 
push me back away 
 new black new blue for every day

wish i could set myself free
protect the heart within me
but it will never be 
endure the pain for you 
and not for me 

black and blue 
do you miss me too?
do you wish that you could 
fly over and just see me again?
do boundary lines 
push you back away?
new black new blue for every day

black and blue 
endure the pain for you
black and blue 
would you do it for me too? 
black and blue
and i’m missing you
we’re black and blue
say that you miss me too

black+blue (missin u) - early demo

Taken from a live show on June 27, 2025 at Marvin Gardens in Belmont, California

What I Got

Too Far

I wrote this song to express my teenage years as a middle child and how I felt, always seemed as if no one cared even if they did. 

Problem Child

Having personally witnessed firsthand a tragic incident on the London Underground, this song acted as a kind of catharsis. The song expands the occurrence into a fictional narrative around the central protagonist. An ode to the fragility of human life and the importance of leading our best lives despite the cards we're often dealt.

Reset

Sirens

Brightside is the second single taken from the EP "Unemployment, Broken Bones, Death, Baby", out May 14 on VÅRØ Records. Damen is Danial Bin Ismail Ärlig (vocals/guitar), David Nordell (bass), Adrian Gejrot (drums) and Gustav Bondesson (guitar). 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/damenmusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/damenmusic/
Contact: hello@varorecords.com

Brightside

Damen - Brightside

We are not music snobs. We prefer music connoisseurs.

Down & Out

T. Hardy Morris

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