🔻 Song Insight
"Fused Layers of Love" is a full-bodied, electric confession. It captures the dangerous ecstasy of a love that’s not clean, not easy... but undeniably alive. This song surges with the friction of two souls who don’t ask for permission — they just burn. It’s about choosing depth over safety, lust over logic, and love that’s layered, bruised, and still worth every hit. Beneath the chaos lies a truth too visceral to fake: we are fused, and no one gets to define what that means but us.

🔻 Lyrics
Intro
Ropes of desire, binding me still,
Under your weight, bending to will.
A taste of us, raw and consuming,
Infused and alive—this is no illusion.
It’s you, boy, the one I adore,
The only fire I’ll ever implore.

Pre-Bridge
You’re taking shape, a force outside,
No matter your plan, I’m on your inside.

Bridge
Deny it now—it’s a futile fight.
Let’s tear this down before the night.

Solo
A mutual addiction, a dangerous fix,
Caught in the whiplash, another quick hit.
Pulled under, surrendered, I’m tangled in you,
A cycle repeated but raw and true.
Breeded, defeated—this love’s a grind,
We’re lost in the rhythm, out of time.

Chorus
Our skin pressed close, a tactile tide,
A tapestry woven, where secrets reside.
What they say fades—we carve our space,
Griping and growing, forgiving the chase.

Verse 1
Nothing is lost in this endless crusade,
A war of emotions where memories are made.
We’re a bond, a pack, unbroken, so true,
This is me, this is you.

Verse 2
Take my hand and meet the roar,
Together we’ll break through every door.
Unfiltered, raw, emotions collide,
A love that stands, never denied.

Electric Gutter Solo + Industrial Breakdown
(Distorted vocals, layered with clanking and reverberations)

Chorus
Our skin pressed close, a tactile tide,
A tapestry woven, where secrets reside.
What they say fades—we carve our space,
Griping and growing, forgiving the chase.

Verse 3
No permission sought, no duality,
This is the path—it’s destiny.
No fleeting chance, no misstep here,
Our bond transcends all doubt and fear.

Outro
No mistakes, no final glance,
This is no coincidence, this is our chance.
No do-overs, no last dance,
This must be our enchantment.

🔻 Personal Reflection
This one isn’t pretty... it’s real. There’s a kind of love that doesn’t show up clean or romantic. It slams into you. It fuses with you. You walk around with its fingerprints burned into your soul and its gravity in your bloodstream. “Fused Layers of Love” was written from that place — where devotion isn’t about appearances or perfection, but about survival, chemistry, and a kind of raw knowing that defies logic. It’s messy, it’s loud, it’s us.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
This track hits at the core of what 4Me2BeFree stands for — unfiltered, undeniable truth told through sound. Our mission has never been to chase commercial perfection. It’s to echo what people feel but don’t say out loud. “Fused Layers of Love” is more than a song... it’s a mirror for anyone caught in something tangled, magnetic, and unforgettable.

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Fused Layers of Love - COTC

🔻 Song Insight
“Shiny, Plastic and New” is a direct hit to the hollow chest of betrayal. It’s about being replaced not by someone better — but by something shinier. Something easier. Something fake. This track rips the mask off the person who walked away and calls out the emptiness behind their applause, their lies, and their choices. It’s not just heartbreak — it’s a trial by spotlight, where the final act is truth, and plastic can’t hide it anymore.

🔻 Lyrics
Verse 1:
Come to the stage, take your bow
They wait on you, the king, they vow
The fake, the plastic, shiny, and new
Your time has come to see what you've done.

Pre-Chorus:
I was your muse, the one you played
Digging deeper in my new hell, walking away
This is what I get for standing my ground
To save you, I fought like hell.

Chorus:
You gave up on us for plastic and new
You gave up on us so you can do you
You're a coward and a lie,
You say I’m the one, 
you build me up just to let me down

Verse 2:
The spotlight’s bright, it’s all on you
The fake applause, the cheers untrue
Behind the mask, you're just a shell
Plastic dreams in a plastic hell.

Pre-Chorus:
I was your muse, the one you played
Digging deeper in my new hell, walking away
This is what I get for standing my ground
To save you, I fought like hell.

Chorus:
You gave up on us for plastic and new
You gave up on us so you can do you
You're a coward and a lie,
You say I’m the one, 
you build me up just to let me down

Bridge:
Take your bow, your plastic crown
The truth’s revealed, you’re breaking down
I stood my ground, I fought for us
But my dreams of love were never enough.

Chorus:
You gave up on us for plastic and new
You gave up on us so you can do you
You're a coward and a lie,
You say I’m the one, 
you build me up just to let me down

Outro:
Your plastic and new, take your bow
The curtain falls, it’s over now
Your plastic and new, take your bow
The truth is out, you’re fading out.



🔻 Personal Reflection
This one hit different. I was angry when I wrote it... not just hurt. Angry at being disposable. Angry at the way someone can trade real history for something artificial — all flash, no substance. "Shiny, Plastic and New" is for anyone who’s ever watched someone they love choose the easy lie over the hard truth. I gave everything I had trying to save something real — and they wanted something that looked good under stage lights. This song is me walking away from that fake performance... and taking the mic with me.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
This track is part of the reason 4Me2BeFree exists: to call out the bullshit, the masks, the performances people hide behind. Not all songs are subtle — some need to name names, even if they’re metaphorical. “Shiny, Plastic and New” is theatrical, angry, honest — and exactly what we need to burn through the fog.

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Shiny Plastic & New - COTC

🔻 Song Insight
“Untouchable” is calm fury with a pen. It’s the kind of track that doesn’t scream — it seethes. This is a reckoning delivered like a scalpel: controlled, deliberate, and deadly. It's a breakup anthem for the ones who never got to speak their peace out loud... so they wrote it down instead. Every line drips with realization, not revenge — the kind of closure that doesn’t ask for validation. Just truth.

🔻 Lyrics
Intro (Spoken, Calm, Ice-Cold Delivery)
I’m not gonna scream.
I don’t have to.
You’ll hear this anyway,
Even if you won’t admit it.

Chorus
No need to say your name, you already know,
The weight of your mistakes, dragging you below.
Lies on your lips, truth in your eyes,
And now you’re left with your own disguise.

You thought you were untouchable, now you stand alone,
And every word I said is carved into stone.

Verse 1
I was your safe bet, your back-up plan,
The one you thought would never leave where you stand.
You called me weak, but I was your spine,
Now watch me walk away and take back what was mine.

Verse 2
History repeats, and so do you,
Just another pattern, just another fool.
Nothing original, nothing sincere,
Tell me, what’s it like to live in fear?

Bridge (Mocking, Final Blow)
This is the part where you say you regret it,
This is the part where you beg me to forget it.
But I don’t need your words, I don’t need your time,
I wrote my closure in every line.

Final Chorus (More Intense, Climactic Ending)
No need to say your name, you already know,
The weight of your mistakes, dragging you below.
Lies on your lips, truth in your eyes,
And now you’re left with your own disguise.

You thought you were untouchable, now you stand alone,
And every word I said is carved into stone.

🔻 Personal Reflection
This song was never about them hearing it — it was about me saying it. Sometimes silence is mistaken for weakness, and I needed to remind myself that walking away without yelling doesn’t mean I didn’t feel it all. “Untouchable” is about reclaiming power without theatrics. It's for every time I bit my tongue when I should’ve said something... and now I finally have. Just because I didn’t scream, doesn’t mean I didn’t mean every word.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
This track embodies a core theme of 4Me2BeFree: emotional sovereignty. “Untouchable” strips away performance and leaves only clarity. It’s not designed to be loud — it’s designed to haunt. This is the aftermath of awakening, where dignity wins, and fake power falls. For anyone who's been quietly broken but walks out stronger... this one’s for you.

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Untouchable - COTC

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Warning Call 6FEET - COTC

🔻 Song Insight
"Animal" is a lyrical execution—sharp, bitter, and final. Part battle cry, part eulogy, it tears through illusion with teeth bared. This isn’t a breakup song. It’s a realization track: the moment the curtain drops and the persona collapses under its own fraudulence.

Structured as a verbal reckoning, “Animal” confronts the myth-making that happens in toxic dynamics—when one person spins stories while the other quietly bleeds behind the scenes. The song’s tone is scathing but measured, never desperate… just done. Like striking a match and letting the whole delusional narrative burn.

🔻 Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Fantasy world you live in,
Delusions dressed as truth—
You rewrote history
To make yourself the proof.

I wish I lived in make-believe
Where everything you say is real.
So naive you must be
To think I’d never feel.

[Chorus]
All is fair in love and war...
But this was never that.
It was a mirror cracked by lies—
A truth you never had.

I could’ve read the leaves,
But let’s be honest:
I was never the reason
You left so thoughtless.

[Verse 2]
You’re not the genius I believed.
I gave you too much grace—
For who I thought you were
And who you couldn’t face.

[Bridge]
Dumpster fire ignorance,
Rail-grade flames—
Hearts gone numb,
Desires untamed.

You’ll either wake up
Or sink in the wreck,
Drowning in your logic
Of what comes next.

[Verse 3]
Never forgiven, never forgotten—
I keep score,
You keep rotting.
Too blind to walk,
Too proud to crawl—
It was never love.
Not at all.

[Outro]
No heart, no weight.
Not worth the crime.
Not worth the date
Or the borrowed time.

Spilled tears, wasted light,
I won’t name you again,
Won’t resurrect the night.
Yesterday’s dreams were never meant—
They died with you
And all you meant.

🔻 Personal Reflection
"Animal" was written during the tail end of denial—the moment where I finally stopped giving the benefit of the doubt and started giving myself back the benefit of clarity.

There’s a rage underneath these lines, yeah… but it’s not just anger. It’s grief that matured into indifference. The hardest part wasn’t losing the relationship—it was realizing I was the only one treating it like it meant anything at all.

This song is about reclaiming reality from someone else’s fiction. About burning down the fantasy house they built in your name—and refusing to ever go back inside.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
In the context of the COTC project, "Animal" is the throat rip. The chapter where love songs die and the storyteller takes the mic back. It's a sonic confrontation, raw with betrayal but restrained with purpose. Every word is a scar sealed in melody. This is what it sounds like when survival no longer needs apology.

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Animal - COTC

🎵 I GAVE IT ALL
by 4Me2BeFree

🔻 Song Insight
“I GAVE IT ALL” is a chaotic reflection stitched together in real time—less about what’s past, more about what’s spiraling right now. It captures that split-second implosion when you realize you’ve poured yourself out, only to feel emptier than when you began. The track cycles through glitchy static, layered distortion, and melodic collapse—mimicking the way intrusive thoughts and emotional loops hijack peace. It’s not a clean story arc… it’s an emotional snapshot mid-download failure.

With clean but aching vocals, the song fights back against the noise, refusing to scream but never pretending to smile. It’s for those who feel too much, too fast, too often—who don’t need a grand narrative, just the permission to feel something and say it out loud without shame.

🔻 Lyrics
[Intro]
mmmmmmm......mmmmmmmmm........mmmmmmmmm.....
why try..........why try.............why try............why try..........,,

[Pre-Chorus]
Passing time, trying to fix the inside
Lying just to stay off the high

[Chorus]
What’s the reason? What’s the fight?
Why the f*** do I even try?
Burned out, locked in, twisted tight
Tonight’s the night I question why

[Verse 2]
Reflections from a shattered past
A life I lived... at last?
Pain wrapped in plastic regret
A mirror screams: not done yet

[Bridge]
Did he? Did she? Do they?
What the f*** is left—
Is this me...?
No rewind... no peace
Skull cracked with memories

[Breakdown]
He doesn’t get to take this part
He doesn’t get my soul
Bent and burnt
Taken, left
I gave it all... there’s nothing left

[Chorus 2]
I wear the mask I want to be
Fake it 'til I fake it clean
Today’s a mess, tomorrow’s fire
Lies I swallow… feel inspired

[Bridge 2]
Go back to time that never was
Go back to love I never had
Was any of it real?
Or just a drug I mistook for trust?

[Outro]
You say “respect”—I see less
You say “love”—I bleed regret
You say “hope”—I hear a lie
So I laugh while I burn
Under a fake sky
glitch buzz fades... distorted laughter trails off

🔻 Personal Reflection
This wasn’t about something that happened. It’s about something that won’t stop happening inside my own mind. I didn’t write this to tell a story with a clean lesson—I wrote it because I was overwhelmed by thought loops and emotional static, and I didn’t want to censor that. It wasn’t rage, it wasn’t sadness—it was that weird space between numbness and overload where you're just trying to keep your grip.

Sometimes I feel like if I don’t put these things into songs, they’ll just rot inside me or mutate into something worse. That doesn’t mean I’m stuck in this place forever... but I should be allowed to visit without judgment. This song gave me a way to offload that chaos, even if just for a few minutes. And that’s enough.

I’m not here to relive pain for sport—but I also won’t lie and act like I’m fine when I’m not. I want to make music that says you don’t need a permission slip to feel what you feel, and you don’t owe anyone a neat explanation for your emotional processing. This song isn’t for attention. It’s just the sound of a system under pressure, releasing before it crashes.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
“I GAVE IT ALL” reflects exactly what 4Me2BeFree stands for—turning raw, unfiltered emotion into layered, cinematic sound. We don’t do gimmicks. We don’t chase formulas. We just translate whatever’s real into something listenable, something that mirrors the mess while still feeling human. Whether it’s heartbreak, numbness, nostalgia, or confusion—our music doesn’t pretend to fix anything. It just stays in it with you, beat by beat.

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I GAVE IT ALL

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🔻 Song Insight – Blue Rust by 4Me2BeFree
Blue Rust is the sound of standing at a fork in the soul. It's a moment of reckoning where you're forced to choose: stay on the path that’s killing you slowly... or finally sever ties with the broken version of yourself you've kept alive for too long. The song explores what it means to let part of yourself die—not out of hate, but because keeping it alive is poisoning everything else.
Even as that part decays, you realize fragments of it still echo in your choices, your relationships, your fears. And the hardest truth? You kept feeding it.
This track wrestles with self-denial, duality, and rebirth, weaving a cinematic rock sound with raw, poetic lyrics that sting as much as they heal.

🔻 Lyrics
[Intro]
Dripping thoughts now divide
Slipping past, deep inside
I try to force myself to see
This darkness... never meant for me

[Verse 1]
I have watched them come
I have watched them fall
One by one... until now

[Chorus]
Facing the unknown just to let go
Walking past these shadows
This is the life I had always known
Now it’s left to me... and me alone

[Verse 2]
To see the truth in hollow death
I feared I wasn’t allowed to pass
Stuck on the inside... no place to hide
Consumed by guilt, I walked on by

[Bridge]
The darkness consuming light
It was never true or right
Just illusions dressed as dreams
An image of what will never be

[Chorus]
I have watched them come
I have watched them fall
One by one... until now

[Verse 3]
In the corner, a child peered an eye
You could see the evil that had died
In death it fed on what was left
Chains latched... leather tied and bond

[Bridge 2]
A forsaken soul, never left, never found
The light that once was made no sound
No words to speak, no ways to feel
Protected in pain, warped in fear

[Breakdown]
I had to leave... I said goodbye
A person, a version, I’ll never be
Seeing through my soul, I ran
Chasing down this man... this new version of me

[Outro]
One by one...
They fell
And I remained
Reborn

🔻 Personal Reflection
There’s a version of me that I carried for way too long—like a corpse I kept dressing up just to convince myself it was still alive. Writing Blue Rust was a way to finally admit that I let something inside me rot, and I kept calling it strength.
This song came from a place of emotional conflict... not quite grieving, not quite angry—just standing at that edge where you realize some damage doesn’t heal, it transforms you.
I think part of healing is admitting that not everything inside you deserves to survive. Sometimes the most loving thing you can do... is let it die.
But even then, parts of it still flicker. And that’s what this song wrestles with—the echoes of who you were and the fear that you're still capable of being them again.
It’s not about perfection. It’s about choosing a different road, even when it’s unfamiliar and painful as hell. That’s what I did. That’s what Blue Rust is.

🔻 4Me2BeFree
This track is a mirror of what 4Me2BeFree stands for: emotional confrontation through cinematic storytelling. We don’t write songs just to sound cool—we write them to survive.
Every note of Blue Rust is built on truth, regret, and rebirth. It reflects our belief that music can be a vehicle for letting go... not just of relationships, but of entire versions of yourself.
For anyone standing at the edge of their old life, wondering if they can step into something new... this one’s for you.

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Blue Rust

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[Verse 1]
You were the light in a house made of rain,
A warmth I held with hands of pain.
I built this place with ash and gold,
A home for you when nights grew cold.

[Pre‑Chorus]
But lights don’t stay where shadows cling,
And everything in love can die while wearing rings.

[Chorus]
Now this Sanctuary holds your glow,
But you’re not here—and I won’t go.
I speak your name through hollow halls,
Where every whisper breaks and falls.

[Verse 2]
You slipped like fire through careful hands,
A fading note in ruined plans.
I lit each room with what we were,
But stars don’t wait for those who stir.

[Pre‑Chorus]
I kept your light when you grew dim,
And watched the dusk crawl back within.

[Chorus]
Now this Sanctuary holds (your glow)
But you’re not here—and I won’t go.
I speak your name through hollow halls,
Where every whisper breaks and falls.

[Bridge]
I wasn’t made to hold the sun—
But I still burn and now you're gone

[Final Chorus]
Now this Sanctuary keeps my ghost,
A fading echo of the love you lost.
You were the light—I held you tight…
But even stars can die at night.

[Outro]
This place remembers what I lost,
A light long gone… a sanctuary,
Which keeps my ghost. 

———

“Sanctuary of a Ghost” is a slow-burning alt-rock elegy—tender piano, echo-laced guitars, and a baritone vocal that bleeds loss into architecture. Set in G major at 120 BPM, this track walks the empty halls of memory, where love once lived and light once stayed. Built with ash and gold, haunted by fading stars, it’s a melancholic requiem for a sanctuary that now only holds a ghost. Let this song be your candle in the dark.


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"If it didn’t matter, it wouldn’t hurt. Pain is the gift of knowing you’re alive."

4Me2BeFree is more than music—it’s my story, my scars, and my survival. Every song is a piece of me, a raw melody of love, heartbreak, and resilience. I blend AI-generated vocals and instruments with real emotions, turning my experiences—especially from an LGBTQ+ perspective—into something that speaks to anyone who's ever felt lost, broken, or just searching for something real.

Breakup songs? Yeah, they hit different. Music carries us through the worst of it, and every generation finds their own anthems of love, loss, and getting back up. Heartache doesn’t care about age, gender, or where you come from—music connects us all.

I make music because I’ve been there. The pain, the anger, the hope—it's all in these songs. If something here hits home for you, let it. If you feel something, let me know. That’s the connection that keeps this alive.

Multidimensional being, trapped in a physical realm experience.

I'm a boundary-pushing artist whose work fuses raw poetry, immersive soundscapes, and striking visual artistry into a singular creative vision. I independently crafts every facet of my art—vocals, composition, production, lyricism, and artwork—transforming deep personal introspection into electrifying sonic narratives. My music channels the raw energy of alternative/progressive rock, the haunting ambience of post-punk, and the ethereal depth of indie, with just enough metal edge to ignite catharsis.

Behind the artistry lies a journey marked by profound resilience. Three years ago, an unfortunate accident not only left me with partial vocal cord paralysis—making every performance a testament to endurance—but also robbed him of the ability to play the piano, my favorite creative outlet, forever. Refusing to be subdued by these setbacks, I reinvented my approach: I embraced digital techniques to rediscover my passion for music and, similarly, taught myself digital art. My Instagram is now a vibrant gallery of my new creative endeavors, where drawing and digital expression take center stage.

I aspired to see my personal poetry evolve into emotionally impactful anthems, and my self-crafted visuals extend the narrative of internal struggle and rebirth. Now, as I push my creative vision into new sonic territories, I'm seeking a lead female vocalist to join me on my next project—an invitation to explore fresh harmonies and deeper dimensions of storytelling.

Follow my journey on SoundCloud and Instagram
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to experience a world where every note, every brushstroke, and every digital creation is a testament to the transformative power of resilience and art.


I have a hypothesis regarding music, which is: matter in our universe is perpetually in motion; nothing remains completely still. It resembles an everlasting dance, influenced by the smallest forms of existence that define matter at a quantum level. Furthermore, the very fabric of space-time is composed of waves. Therefore, I can only speculate that our universe communicates with us through sound and music.


If math is the language of the universe, then music must be its poetry.

Shining Music Records was formed by music producer and recording engineer Oleksandr Ilkaiev in 2015 in Ukraine, becoming Zaporozhzhia’s first indie label. Initially operating on a local level, it has since grown into an international brand.

Back in 2008, Oleksandr created his own studio, and in 2011 officially named it Shining Music, where he helped young musicians. Over the years, he developed the concept of his own label, and in 2015, Shining Music Records officially launched, using the studio’s resources.

In September 2016, Oleksandr opened one of the largest professional recording studios in Ukraine, which remains the creative space of the label. This is where projects of all scales and genres are produced - from initial sketches to the final master.

The mission of Shining Music Records is to help talented artists grow, unleash their creativity, and share it with the world. We strive to be a trusted music partner, focusing on artistic development, music production, distribution, management, and marketing. We empower artists to bring their ideas to life without limits, ensuring their art gets the recognition it deserves.

Email: office@shmrec.com

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