MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY


LET ME TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY
BEYOND THE OUTER SHELL YOU SEE
DON'T BE AFRAID TO REACH WITHIN ME
THERE'S ROOM ENOUGH IN HERE FOR THREE

THE PASSAGE OF TIME
APPEARS UNEVEN
ALL IN THE MIND
OF A MAN CALLED STEVEN

NOT AFRAID TO TAKE YOU WITH ME
ACROSS A CLEAR CEREBRAL SEA
MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY
AN EMPTY PLACE THAT WAITS FOR THEE

BARELY OUT OF HIS MIND
SO SICK OF THE CRAVIN'
DOUBLE-CROSSED THE LINE
NOW HE’S CRAZY AS PAVIN'

NOT AFRAID TO TAKE YOU WITH ME
ACROSS A CLEAR CEREBRAL SEA
MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY
AN EMPTY PLACE THAT WAITS FOR THEE

THE HATCHER OF CRIME
WITH HIS SENSES LEAVIN'
IGNORED ALL THE SIGNS
AS THE DREAMS KEPT A WEAVIN'



LET ME TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY
BEYOND THE OUTER SHELL YOU SEE
DON’T BE AFRAID TO REACH WITHIN ME
EXPLORE THIS NEW REALITY

CHOPPED UNTIL FINE
THE HIT HE WAS SAVING
SWORE HE WAS BLIND
WHEN HE FINALLY GAVE IN

NOT AFRAID TO TAKE YOU WITH ME
ACROSS A CLEAR CEREBRAL SEA
MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY
AN EMPTY PLACE THAT WAITS FOR THEE

THE HORRORS BEGIN
WHEN WE STOP BELIEVING
DECAY FROM WITHIN
THEN WE LOSE ALL FEELING

LET ME TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY
BEYOND THE OUTER SHELL YOU SEE
DON’T BE AFRAID TO REACH WITHIN ME
EXPLORE THIS NEW REALITY

I’M NOT AFRAID TO TAKE YOU WITH ME
ACROSS A CLEAR CEREBRAL SEA
MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY
ANOTHER PLACE THAT WAITS FOR THEE






THE HATCHER OF CRIME
WITH HIS SENSES LEAVIN'
IGNORED ALL THE SIGNS
AS THE DREAMS KEPT A WEAVIN'

NOT AFRAID TO TAKE YOU WITH ME
ACROSS A CLEAR CEREBRAL SEA
MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY
ANOTHER PLACE THAT WAITS FOR THEE

BARELY OUT OF HIS MIND
SO SICK OF THE CRAVING
DOUBLE-CROSSED THE LINE
NOW HE'S CRAZY AS PAVIN'

NOT AFRAID TO TAKE YOU WITH ME
ACROSS A CLEAR CEREBRAL SEA
MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY
AN `EMPTY PLACE THAT WAITS FOR THEE

THE PASSAGE OF TIME
APPEARS UNEVEN
ALL IN THE MIND
OF A MAN CALLED STEVEN

LET ME TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY
BEYOND THE OUTER SHELL YOU SEE
DON’T BE AFRAID TO REACH WITHIN ME
EXPLORE THIS NEW REALITY

THE PASSAGE OF TIME

MIND IS JUST ANOTHER COUNTRY

LET’S START A WAR IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

LET’S START A WAR IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
PICK ON SOMEONE WHO ISN’T OUR SIZE
ANY LAME EXCUSE
JUSTIFIES THE ABUSE
FOR WE ARE THE FIRST
AND WE ARE THE LAST

WE TRAMPLE ON THOSE WHO DARE TO OPPOSE
KILL OFF AWARENESS BEFORE IT GROWS
CONCEALING OUR IDENTITY, WHATEVER THE COST
BETTER FOR US IF NOBODY KNOWS

LET’S START A WAR IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

BECAUSE WE ARE WHITE
AND BECAUSE YOU ARE BROWN
WE WERE CHOSEN BY GOD
TO PUSH YOU AROUND
VENTURING FORTH ON UNHOLY CRUSADES
WE CONSIGN YOUR RACE
TO UNCONSECRATED GROUND

YOU ARE OUR VICTIMS
YOU ARE THE QUARRY
WE, THE ENTITLED, BASK IN THE GLORY
PUMP UP OUR CHESTS
OUR SAVAGE BREASTS
ADDS ANOTHER CHAPTER
TO OUR HOLLYWOOD STORY

BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T LEARNED YOUR PLACE
WE WILL CRUSH YOU UNDERFOOT
BECAUSE WE ARE WHITE
WE ARE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS
BECAUSE WE ARE WHITE
WE ARE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS

WE ARE WHITE, WE ARE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS

WE ARE PRIVILEGED

LET’S START A WAR
WE ARE WHITE, WE ARE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS
UNCLE SAM. FEELS LIKE A BIG MAN

THIS WEEK VENEZUELA
NEXT WEEK THE CHILDREN OF IRAN
TARGETING THE WEAKEST
COURAGEOUSLY SLAUGHTERING LAMBS

WE ARE WHITE, WE ARE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS
UNCLE SAM FEELS LIKE A BIG MAN
LET’S START A WAR
WE ARE WHITE, WE ARE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS
IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
UNCLE SAM FEELS LIKE A BIG MAN
LET’S START A WAR
WE ARE WHITE, WE ARE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS
IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

LET’S START A WAR
IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
LET’S START A WAR
IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

LET'S START A WAR IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

In the WRONG PLACE at THE WRONG TIME with THE WRONG MINDSET, apparently making THE #WRONG #MUSIC, but it feels #RIGHT to ME!

Highly unlikely more than one of my tunes will ever be heard by more than a handful of listeners, so just for the record here is an incomplete list of artists my music has been compared to by other musicians, depending on which tunes they heard, StevenVellou (Gothic Funk)

RESIDENTS, PHILIP GLASS, DAVID BYRNE, FRANK ZAPPA, THE BEATLES, BAUHAUS, SISTERS OF MERCY, DAVID BOWIE, LOU REED, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, PARLIAMENT, SYD BARRETT, PINK FLOYD, PSYCHIC TV, NEU, MOMUS, MINISTRY, CHARLES IVES, BEACH BOYS, KINKS, THE FALL, JOY DIVISION, DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN, LEONARD COHEN, STONE ROSES, GIORGIO MORODER, GEORGE CLINTON, THE CURE, DALIS CAR, JOHN ASTLEY, KILLING JOKE, ALIEN SEX FIEND, ROBERT FRIPP, DEVO, B52’s, IAN CURTIS, FAD GADGET, TALKING HEADS, GORILLAZ, MIKE PATTON, JON ZORN, LES CLAYPOOL, STEVEN REICH, TOM WAITS, THE EX, TOM CORA, THE CAKE, NAPOLEON XIV, KEVIN AYERS, ROXY MUSIC, FRANK TOVEY, RUPERT HINES, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, SPARKS, BILL NELSON, JOHN CALE, TRIO, JULIAN COPE, HEAVEN 17, LLOYD COLE, TUBEWAY ARMY, FRONT 242, NITZER EBB, COCKNEY REBEL, SHRIEKBACK, VICTOR SNOW, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, THE THE, BABYBIRD, JOHN LENNON, ULTRAVOX, DAN DEACON, BACH, SQUEEZE, ANDREW ELDRITCH, IGGY POP, MIDNIGHT OIL, BILLY CHILDISH, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, LOVE AND ROCKETS, ART OF NOISE, LOOK PEOPLE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, PRODIGY, et al.
>
Don't take sides and I'll respect you for it; take sides and I'll treat you with the same contempt I treat anyone with a mob mentality, because mob mentality invariantly betrays an underlying intolerant right-wing mentality!
>
#SUPPORT gathers #MOMENTUM when #RECIPROCATED!
>
My tunes are ten times better than you might imagine!
>
A lack of listens proves nothing, other than the fact that no one is finding your tunes; it does not prove, as some believe, that your tunes must be crap, so don’t ever take such a ridiculous notion on board—on an internet FLOODED with music no listens rarely has anything to do with the quality of your music, your creative talent, is almost always down to the fact that the right audience can’t find your music, because finding it is now as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack!
>
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE, EVERYTHING FOR SOMEONE!
>
For diversity and consistency, I am not hesitant in saying my Soundcloud pages house the most inventive creations on here. There are others making fabulous tunes, but no one is more prolific while maintaining a high standard of pole to pole invention, and that applies to the lyrics too. I won't escape obscurity and oblivion, but that proves nothing, the internet is way, way, WAY overcrowded with unsigned music, way too much mediocre stuff, which obscure anything exceptional out there; the wood hidden away behind lots and lots and LOTS of trees, and no one has the time to look for needles in haystacks, to find a diamond in the rough, it's just way too big a task, not humanely possible!

INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, DIVERSE MUSIC, INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, IMAGINATIVE LYRICS, but those are the last things the vast majority of listeners are looking for these days!
>
Me, I'm awestruck by musicians who can't be pigeonholed, who don't conform to any borders, who don't think about which direction each new creation will take, they just go wherever that creativity takes them; pure, on the fly, innovation, imperfect but 100% authentic, as far a way from manufactured, recipe book, regurgitation, as it is possible to get, totally unforced, inspirational and way, way, WAY outside the box! There ought to be a place for such creativity, there was at one time, but a mercenary music industry put an end to that, leaving us with a situation where those who deserve the most adoration for the talents receive the least!
>
Will this ever change, will a yearning for TRUE underground, creativity unique to the individual, ever return, or has the spoon-feeding gone to far this time, is its grip so vicelike nothing can break it!
>
I make #INVISIBLE music, perhaps it feels that way to you too!
#Overlooked, #Underrated, Dismissed Without A Listen!
>
When Soundclouders follow me or click like without leaving feedback, what is it they are hoping for? That I come listen to their tunes and heap praise on them, what? I mean really, what is the point of following someone, what is the point of liking one of their tunes, if you don't actual think they are deserving of feedback, if you don't think the tunes are as good as what you do???

EXPLODING THE MYTH THAT UNSIGNED IS UNSIGNED BECAUSE IT’S INFERIOR TO SIGNED MUSIC!

>
UNTIL this MYTH is blown out of the water we don’t have a cat in hells chance of breaking through. #TheMyth  is the BIGGEST obstacle that stands in our way, it is the FIRST hurdle we must get over, it is the message that should be going #VIRAL, it’s down to each & every one of you to make that happen!
>
#ExplodeTheMyth
>
Listening to just one of my tunes tells you nothing about my creative approach, listening to ten of my tunes will still tell you very little, listen to a hundred of my tunes and the penny will start to drop, but it's only after hearing 500+ of my creations and collaborations that your eyes will widen in amazement! 
However, if you don't have unlimited eclectic taste none of that applies, and the reality is, who, in this world, is going to listen to every tune I've created, no one--if even one tune is heard from beginning to end it's a minor miracle, because sadly, there is a belief that unsigned means inferior, but I've heard enough tunes by the rest of you guys to know that's a myth, that's bullshit, we create some of the most inventive, authentic, imaginative tunes out there!
Give me unsigned, independent and underground music over signed, safe, predictable, recipe book, music any day of the week!
>
I MAKE TUNES NO ONE WILL EVER LISTEN TO!
>
Some musicians & music fans don’t want to hear music from the past because they would have to acknowledge IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE!
>
Finally come to terms with the fact that I'm PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE OF ONE, and even I have to FORCE myself to listen!!!
>
My music and lyrics are all about different, but if no one listens no one will EVER know! 
#StevenVellou

I CREATE TUNES ON THE FLY; NO FORMULA, NO PLAN, NO DIRECTION; THEY JUST HAPPEN--I'M IGNORANT OF THE RULES INVOLVED IN THE MUSIC MAKING PROCESS, SO I'M NOT BOXED IN BY THEM, WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE SO VARIED AND UNPREDICTABLE!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Meaningful yet tongue-in-cheek tunes that can’t be #PIGEONHOLED!
Great production ISN'T my forte, accomplished musicianship ISN'T my forte but #UndergroundInvention, #InfiniteDimensions & LYRICS are!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Now I don't personally believe I'm in the same league as #Bowie, other than my lyrics, more often than not, making more sense, but I do think I share his ability to adapt to different genres, and his endless, diverse, creativity, just not quite on the same level.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I'm not proficient/accomplished on instruments, & I have other musical limitations, but most genres come natural to me, and I much prefer having that unforced ability to being highly accomplished on instruments, highly polished on production, or having the perfect voice!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
If I didn't feel I had my own approach, if my music was easy to pigeonhole, I would have quit music a long time ago!
Never been about fame & fortune, just about pushing the boundaries without actually intending to push the boundaries; creativity that's second nature not formula! 
Yes, I want to reach an audience but making money from my music means nothing to me!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
NOT saying I’m THE MOST #talented musician on music promotion sites but I will say I’m one of the most #UNDERRATED! Even so, I would much rather be underrated than overrated!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

New tracks tagged #GOTHIC DYSFUNKTION