from Demos, released Fall 2011

Lyrics:
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights 
The pain, just as the train, goes by 
We relinquish a sigh, relieved of any further crime 
The crow outside my window slays its glide 
It sits atop the thicket pines, and runs a block of picket signs 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless shame floods my sides as I’m trying to hide from the northern lights 
Star-gazing towards the city of wine 
All of the bystanders align; I can’t help but to stay behind 
Shipwreck in my dream from what she’s shone 
She’s got me tremblin’ to the bone, but she has left me all alone 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights

Northern Lights

from Demos, released 2011
watch it live on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSSPFTLRbMQ

Lyrics:
Farther down and further off 
Slick plates react in circles, no cycles will be stopped 
The movement from the center amplifies the end 
You’re in the open perfectly, but you will hide again 
It’s just your natural instinct to think that you impose 
But please, baby, tell me why you never wanna leave just until the door is closed 

Forces form a cleanse, frequencies frequently intervening 
Won’t ask for hindrance, in moving on I’m sure that there is healing 

All of my life I’ve waited kind for something more 
Sleep through the days and stay in line behind the door, behind the door 

Roughly treading down the track of Fall 
Youngster bleeding on the kitchen wall 
Holding slightly, ascension or I stall 
Kicking all so softly ‘til the flight becomes a crawl 
So stitch up salutations until you find your high 
Talking to yourself, my friend, will only make you cry 

Passion paws in tears but all feelings perceived are only extremes 
No palpability, don’t get no in-betweens but they’re all I need 

All of my life I’ve pined so kind for something more 
Turn ‘round the days and split the line behind the door, turn ‘round the days 

Maybe I’ll get lucky but usually I don’t 
My hands been known to weave some crooked path, hopefully they won’t 
Foraging a signal to unlock every way 
Try to stay fixed skyward in spite of plummeting decay 
Farewell old friend, I must be leaving, but I’ll be back to the same old place 
I’ll never know when I’ll see anyone again and we will meet with a different face 

All of my life I’ve waited kind for something more 
Turn ‘round the days and keep your mind above the floor, keep your mind

Farther Down And Further Off

BUTTERFLY

I will be updating this track soon... possibly. My sister requested a song for her birthday and this is what I came up with. Watch live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/GygSJP95VY0

Lyrics:
Bathed in light
Maybe fallin' all the time

Made your round
In webs we've found
We'll get caught

Build it up
To break it down
Age-old love
Fallin', for shame...

Wouldn't it be grave
If all these things passed away

Make home
Take on

Kneeling, a willow
To mend this fallow sorrow

Seems my soul
Won't take no more

Weigh it up
To lay it down


Fallin' All The Time

When the façade's projector loses power and what's true is shown, will your image change?

Lyrics:
[Chorus]
Strip away the façade, and I'm empty
In your face if you thought I am plenty
'Cause I'm not, I'm whatever and wilting
On the windowsill, and I'm stuck inside
I see your fun, it's ending (It's ending)
Just got a gun you lent me (Why have one if you're friendly)
Why have some if it's empty

[Verse 1]
Got a magnifier and rent-free
I can see anywhere without fee
Just zoom right in, and the dot’s right there
Now you're on your way doing 60, ah (I got)
I got friends who are better than me at life (ah)
I barely respond 'cause I'm busy
I want to catch up, so don't hit my line
Know I wanna
I want to catch up to you, don't hit me
I know I look nice on the surface
I think I'm ugly—some think that's pretty
Some say that's pretty, I don't know at all

[Chorus]
Strip away the façade, and I'm empty
In your face if you thought I am plenty
'Cause I'm not, I'm whatever and wilting
On the windowsill, and I'm stuck inside
I see your fun, it's ending
Just got a gun you lent me (kyrigo)
Why have one if it's empty? Ah

[Bridge]
But I'm weak, and we know I don't keep my word
I spring into action with shock absorbed
Then I lay down, like an s550
I'm tired, Airmatic is hitting
The floor, I feel like I'm sinking
I cannot afford what's blinking
What I know exists can get me
So I play pretend 'til it gets me
One day it'll end, it's fixing
Paranoid in a way, please get me out
I feel like I'm stuck just rinsing
No repeat when I'm sat just stagnant
Stagnant sat with a loaded gun

[Chorus]
Strip away the façade, and I'm empty
In your face if you thought I am plenty
'Cause I'm not, I'm whatever and wilting
On the windowsill, and I'm stuck inside (kyrigo)
I see your fun, it's ending
Just got a gun you lent me
Why have one if it's empty, ah

[Outro]
Let's see a fallen sky

Produced by KYRIGO
Released via dear gradient, / The towne
© 2025  unkept

▄︻デ══━一

façade

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I just felt like posting something new, and this track poses a mood that's unique to the other songs. Also, it's great fun for me to let people in on the process of making songs, and this one's definitely still "in process." At the moment I'm working on three new full length albums: Be It Known..., one with more of a "rock" and progressive type feel, and one with more straightforward folk songs. This track will be on the lattermost of the three, which will be released next year. I know it would be more efficient to work on one thing at a time, but I seem to lack that capability. Anyway, here ya go, another bloody demo! Lyrics, below. Watch live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/_EXp_l66laA

Lyrics:
Bread to the fire
Lake, dawn
Blare of the siren
Lays like the fawn
And all the way you could have been right in the sun
Ya rest in the place you stayed on

Made a comeback
And they played on
Ever holy
Made in love

Moment to breathe
Take time
Say what ya need
But mean the line
Maybe we'd stand for more when it comes
Brace for the fall, brave when it's done

Made 'em comeback
And they played on
Ever holy
Made in love

Your wade applied
Face mine
Made in the heart
Take time
Mailed in the harbor
A-way in a boat
With the ropes to the blade
Made out a road

Harbor

Remastered by my friend Jon Hasz, of Ramona Music
Didn't know he was gonna do this, so it's an awesome surprise... 
Thanks Jon! https://soundcloud.com/jonhasz

Lyrics:
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights 
The pain, just as the train, goes by 
We relinquish a sigh, relieved of any further crime 
The crow outside my window slays its glide 
It sits atop the thicket pines, and runs a block of picket signs 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless shame floods my sides as I’m trying to hide from the northern lights 
Star-gazing towards the city of wine 
All of the bystanders align; I can’t help but to stay behind 
Shipwreck in my dream from what she’s shone 
She’s got me tremblin’ to the bone, but she has left me all alone 
I’m watching the northern lights 
Unendless fear in my eyes as I try to hide from the northern lights

Northern Lights (Remastered)

Watch live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/38cXQF5f1lw

Lyrics:

Away too long
You waited too long
And left to find
That cautious mind
Your way undone
Your path was none
The wave will break
The hit you'll take
And fall along
An idle stake

Away too long
You waited too long
And what you hold
A sight untold
The cruelest front
Now on the hunt
For what you've got
And you've got a lot
And that is why
You cannot stop

But the way's too long
And you waited too long
Just turn it back 
To seek the track
I know it's hard
You've thought and sparred
You've fought and warred
And all unarmed

Away so long
Why're you waitin' so long

You'll be received
With open arms
You'll decede
You'll fall into love

But oh, so long
You waited so long

Away Too Long

A new early demo; planning to put this on the third full length, but I'm feeling like this still isn't really done. Watch this version live on youtube here: https://youtu.be/TVumI_z3ZOw

Lyrics:

Dew on the vine
The birth of all mankind
To leave married in twine

The dawning mocks the sun
A hunger reign begun
And we wouldn't have to worry
About that...

'Neath surface lies
A time when peaceful liars come to rise

Move, lest we forget
The wound that hasn't transferred yet
And hardly regret
The ones who will not answer yet
A clerk is hard pressed
Exchanging signs that never met his debt

And ya left me on the way
But long forgotten soon
Just lay here for the night
You take me for the moon
But take note yet
Our body has a debt
Remembering the leisure in white and wine
We walked it all away
The tense in stone rough hewn
Embrace me for the day
You take me for cocoon

Awoke to feel alive
But in this hive
Could I
Survive?
(And we wouldn't have to worry)
About that...

But left me on the way
Your long forgotten soon
Just lay here for the night
Mistake me for the moon
But take note yet
Your body has a debt
Surrendering your pleasure in spite of mine
We walked it all away
A tense in stone rough hewn
Erase me for the day
You take me for cocoon

Dew On The Vine

from Demos, released Fall 2011

Lyrics:

An invite to the underworld but I’d like to decline 
Maybe it’s just selfishness but it still feels divine 
Selective answers crippling, the choice is only mine 
Far beneath rusting contours and burrows intertwined 

Oh sun, what is it I’ve done 
Awaiting your arrival but you’ll never come 
With an ocean below us and an ocean above 
Can I find ground between to hold me up 

I’ll span this landscape by myself or counter this terrain 
No face, no countenance at all to bear my name 
Could I imprint myself on it, be a stain 
Or will my anxious marks get washed away by the seething rain 

Oh sun, what is it I’ve done 
Awaiting your arrival but you’ll never come 
Many seasons have trembled; many trembles have won 
Surfacing upon interwoven notions I have spun 

Crossed sections angrily, deranged and out of mind 
And others hoping for a home tonight to find 
Each one now dealing with new failures of a kind 
Only those aware with will would be enshrined 

Oh sun, what is it I’ve done 
Awaiting your arrival but you’ll never come 
Chasing a myth could either get me lost or find me none 
Out in the middle of somewhere and I fall out undone

Look High, Look Low

im signed to ocd records because i just thought of that that's pretty good

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https://bio.to/DXRKNOVA
DXRKNOVA is a 21 year old independent artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally starting 2023 off with trap hits like "Padme" and "LETTERMAN", he has started branching out into other genres with his new indie pop releases like "Bottles" and "Call it Luck". DXRKNOVA loves interacting with his fan base and regularly posts vlog-type behind the scenes content onto his TikTok and Youtube accounts. His sound seems to be continually changing and evolving, as he has released a single almost every month this year with no end in sight.

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