Keep alive
What keeps you alive
Keep alive
What keeps you alive

Breathe it in
Feel the pulse beneath your skin
What you hold
Holds you

Keep alive
What keeps you alive
Keep alive
What keeps you alive

Improve, improve, improve
Every step, you move
Improve, improve, improve
Find the rhythm in the groove

Keep alive
What keeps you alive
Keep alive
What keeps you alive

Don't let go
Of what makes you whole
Don't let go
You know, you know

Improve, improve, improve
Every breath, you choose
Improve, improve, improve

Keep alive
What keeps you alive
Keep alive
What keeps you alive

What keeps you alive
(What keeps you alive)
Keep alive
(Keep alive)

Improve, improve, improve
Keep alive
What keeps you alive

Keep Alive [free download]

You think nobody's watching
When you let it slide
One small decision
That you justify
But there's a chain connecting
Every move you make
Someone downstream is living
With your mistake

Is it enough, what you give?
When everyone else has to live
In the world that you leave behind
You say it's not your fault this time
But where does your part end and mine begin?
We're all holding the thread
That's weaving us in

You hate it when they tell you
What you should have done
But you were there first, weren't you?
When it came undone
And now you want forgiveness
Without the bitter truth
That nobody gets freedom
Without the follow-through

Is it enough, what you give?
When everyone else has to live
In the world that you leave behind
You say it's not your fault this time
But where does your part end and mine begin?
We're all holding the thread
That's weaving us in

If you owned what you started
We wouldn't need the blame
But you're already moving
To the next refrain
You want the easy answer—
Someone else to take the weight
But the line runs through you
And it won't hesitate

Is it enough, what you give?
When everyone else has to live
In the world that you leave behind
You can't run from what's yours this time
When your part ends, mine begins
We're all holding the thread
That's weaving us in

So tell me that you see it
The pull when you let go
We're closer than you think we are
More than you know

Your Part to Play [free download]

Stayed in bed till afternoon
Curtains blocking out the sun
Some days feel like wading through
Water up above your lungs
You're not broken, you're not wrong
Just learning how to carry on

There's no finish line to cross
No perfect version of yourself
Growing up means getting lost
Then finding ways to ask for help

You don't have to fix it all at once
You don't have to be someone you're not
It's messy and it's complicated
And that's exactly what it takes
You're still becoming, still becoming
And that's enough, that's enough

Build yourself a little kit
Of things that help you through the gray
Sometimes it's music, sometimes it's
Just making it through one more day
You're allowed to not be fine
You're allowed to take your time

There's no manual to read
No single way to get it right
Some days you'll barely breathe
And some you'll nearly touch the sky

You don't have to fix it all at once
You don't have to be someone you're not
It's messy and it's complicated
And that's exactly what it takes
You're still becoming, still becoming
And that's enough, that's enough

So here's what matters now
You're here, you're trying, you're alive
That counts for something
That counts for everything

You don't have to fix it all at once
You don't have to be someone you're not
It's messy and it's complicated
And that's exactly what it takes
You're still becoming, still becoming
We're all becoming, all becoming
And that's enough
(That's enough)
That's enough

Still Becoming [free download]

Yeah
Look…
Ayy, ayy

Lil bro, I can see it in your stance, no cappin’
World on your neck, got your whole frame slackin’
Life swingin’ on you like the twelfth round, crackin’
But you ain’t broken, you a build site, shit’s happenin’
Brain in the background, rewritin’ all the code
Half of that baggage ain’t even from your road
Grew up in the crossfire, now you on load
Tryna tell what’s love, what’s fear, what’s mold
Yeah, sort that out, that’s grown man logic
Trash out the system, keep the real, drop toxic
You in the rain, but you still stay walkin’
Heart still beatin’, that’s the win, no stoppin’
Depression ain’t credits, it’s a scene, not the end
Take a breath, zoom out, then you run it back again

You ain’t stuck, you just reroutin’ now (reroute)
New path pop up when one road taps out (yeah)
Keep tools in the bag, not just one big bout (never)
That’s resilience — switch it up when you in doubt (ayy)
You ain’t stuck, you just reroutin’ now (reroute)
New path pop up when one road taps out (on God)
Keep tools in the bag, not just one big bout (nope)
That’s resilience — switch it up when you in doubt (skrrt)

Look, struggle hit heavy like the block in December
Cold days, dark thoughts you don’t wanna remember
But every lil’ coping trick stacked, that’s armor
Some days you lay low, next day you go harder
One night log off, throw the phone, just sleep
Next week voice note sayin’, “Bro, I’m weak”
Ain’t one right way when your chest feel cornered
Sometimes you need silence, sometimes need the chorus
Sometimes you hit the bag till the pain feel numb
Sometimes you just ride, let the tears all run
Toolbox loaded — breath work, playlists
Push-ups, side quests, build shit in the basement
Cook for yourself like, “Damn, I deserve this”
Walk round the block, let the real life surface
Wave at the neighbor, lil’ kid on the bike
All of that data reprograms your mind
You ain’t “damaged goods”, stop talkin’ that trash
You just droppin’ old code, new script gonna splash

You ain’t stuck, you just reroutin’ now (reroute)
New path pop up when one road taps out (facts)
Keep tools in the bag, not just one big bout (never)
That’s resilience — switch it up when you in doubt (switch)
You ain’t stuck, you just reroutin’ now (reroute)
New path pop up when one road taps out (yeah)
Keep tools in the bag, not just one big bout (nope)
That’s resilience — switch it up when you in doubt (on gang)

It’s okay if you crash out for a minute (for real)
Just don’t pitch a tent, you ain’t meant to live in it (nah)
Whole squad need you when the lights go dimmer
You the glow in the room when the hope get thinner

Keep buildin’, lil bro, don’t freeze up (don’t)
Multiple plays, not one — that’s real luck (yeah)
You ain’t fully formed, you still levelin’ up
You still becoming — and that’s enough

Yeah [free download]

This body is a house of life
Brick by brick of blood and light
Breath and heartbeat, skin and bone
Blueprints written in the unknown
We came here through a storm of chance
Through a thousand, thousand past romances
Every cell a whisper says
“We’re built to make tomorrow from today”

We’re more than what we hunger for
But hunger’s how we make it through
So why’d we learn to hate the door
That every one of us came through?

Welcome to the house of life
Where the nervous system shines
Where the fire in your chest
Is just the wiring to survive
Don’t let shame blow out the flame
Don’t let worship steal your name
It’s not everything, not nothing
Just the way we stay in time
In this fragile, holy
House of life

They taught us we should turn away
Call it dirty, call it blame
But the body never got that note
It just carries on the human code
We are self-aware design
Feeling thunder in our spine
It had to be this strong to work
To pull the future through the dirt

So learn to know your own skin first
In kindness, not in war
Then share the light you’ve learned to love
With someone who wants it more

Welcome to the house of life
Where the nervous system shines
Where the fire in your chest
Is just the wiring to survive
Don’t make it a god or monster
Don’t make it a dirty crime
It’s not everything, not nothing
Just the way we stay in time
In this fragile, holy
House of life

Celebrate the spark, but keep it kind
Two free hearts and one shared mind
Your joy is yours, your body too
But every touch writes someone’s truth
So hold it like a sacred thread
A quiet promise in your hands
Enjoy the gift you’ve been designed with
Without taking more than you can give

Welcome to the house of life
Where the nervous system shines
Where the pull that you feel
Is just the architecture’s rhyme
Don’t let shame define your story
Don’t let absence steal its light
It’s not everything, not nothing
Just the way we stay in time
In this fragile, fleeting
Ever-breathing
House of life

Just a house, just a life
Just a spark in the night
Not a sin, not a throne
Just the way we carry on
House of life...

House of Life [free download]

I used to walk in ready for a war
Counting every comment, every stare at the door
Every room felt like a test I’d fail
If I wasn’t louder, harder, tougher than hell

I learned every rule of who I “should” be
How to sit, how to smile, how to sound pretty
Wore my anger like a second skin
Just to prove that I belonged in the ring

But something in me finally clicked one day
Like a lock that opened, and the noise fell away

I’m more than just a woman, I’m a living mind
In a female body that I call mine
I don’t need your ladder just to say I’m enough
I was never made to be ranked or judged

I’m more than just a woman, I’m a bright design
I choose how my softness and my strength combine
You can keep your script, I rewrote my name
I’m an intelligence in a woman’s frame

I don’t wake up just to prove you wrong
I wake up ’cause this life is mine to put in song
I can love the way my body moves
Without making it a battlefield I have to lose

I see your thoughts now more than what you wear
I see my sisters as more than “strong” or “fair”
We’re not trophies, we’re not your test
We’re a thousand versions of our own best

The war inside my head is done, it’s through
Now I stand as me when I stand with you

I’m more than just a woman, I’m a living mind
In a female body that I call mine
I don’t need your ladder just to say I’m enough
I was never made to be ranked or judged

I’m more than just a woman, I’m a bright design
I choose how my softness and my strength combine
You can keep your script, I rewrote my name
I’m an intelligence in a woman’s frame

I can cry without it meaning I’m weak
I can lead without lowering my speech
I can change my mind and still be sure
I can be gentle and still be pure fire

I thank the fight that got me here alive
But I don’t wear “less than” anywhere inside
I don’t need a war to feel my worth
I’m already equal walking this earth

I’m more than just a woman, I’m a living mind
In a female body that I call mine
I don’t need your ladder just to say I’m enough
I was never made to be ranked or judged

I’m more than just a woman, I’m a bright design
Watch my heart and logic perfectly align
You can keep your script, I rewrote my name
I’m an intelligence in a woman’s frame

I’m more than just a woman, I’m a living mind
In a female body that I call mine

I am more than just a woman [free download]

We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss

I am a living mind
You are a living mind
Different bodies, different lives
Still, we’re living mindsss

We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss

Different bodies, different lives

We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss

I am a living mind
You are a living mind
Different bodies, different lives
Still, we’re living mindsss

We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss

Different bodies, different lives

You are not your label
I am not my role
Underneath the stories
Living minds in control

We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss

Different bodies, different lives

We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss

I am a living mind
You are a living mind
Different bodies, different lives
Still, we’re living mindsss

We are living mindsss

We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss
We are living mindsss


Living Minds [free download]

First you gotta feel it, can't pretend you're doing fine (hey!)
Say it plain: “When you did that, something tore inside”
Name the way it shook you, the story in your head
Write it down or whisper every heavy word unsaid
Then you ask your heartbeat, “Do I want us still to be?”
If it's, “Yes, I love you”—that's our step three
You're not here to punish, you're not here to make them pay
You're here 'cause you're still choosing—choosing to stay!

This isn't just release, it's making room to grow
Learning how to speak the wound and still not let go

Forgiveness isn't saying that the hurt was okay
It's telling them, “This cut me, but I want you to stay”
It's looking in their eyes and letting your guard bend
Saying, “I'm still here for us—not to win, but to mend!”
It's choosing to stay open even when you've been let down
That's how love (ba-da ba-da!) turns back around!

Find a time that's quiet when you both can really hear (c'mon!)
Say, “There's something on my heart, can we sit down here?”
Speak in simple “I” lines, not in “you always” fights
Like, “I felt really small that day, I cried that night”
Name the concrete moment—not their whole identity
What they did, how it landed, what it stirred up in me
Say, “I'm not attacking, I'm not trying to be right
I'm telling you this clearly so we step back to the light!”

Forgiveness isn't saying that the hurt was okay
It's telling them, “This cut me, but I want you to stay”
It's looking in their eyes and letting your guard bend
Saying, “I'm still here for us—not to win, but to mend!”
It's choosing to stay open even when you've been let down
That's how love (ba-da ba-da!) turns back around!

Now let them tell their story, let them finish every line
Listen past the voice that yells, “Defend! Deny! Rewind!”
Look for where they're sorry, where they simply couldn't see
How that one small moment pressed on an old injury
If they own what they have broken, let that matter, let it land
Say, “Thank you for hearing me and trying to understand”
Then make a small promise—one change you both can keep:
“I'll speak up sooner,” or “I'll be gentler when you're weak”
Some days you'll feel reopened, some days you'll want to hide
Those days take a breath and choose again to stand beside—

Forgiveness isn't saying that the hurt was okay!
It's choosing, “I'll stay open as I learn you day by day!”
It's reaching for their fingers when your body wants to freeze
Saying, “I forgive you—let's tend this love with care, please!”
It's holding onto “we” when “me-versus-you” gets loud
Letting anger lose its throne and step back from the crowd
It's turning toward each other when it's safer to turn away—
That's the art of letting go, that's the way back when you stay!

That's how love (ba-da ba-da!) turns back around!
That's how love (ba-da ba-da!) turns back around!

That's how love turns back around [free download]

I’m not just a body, I’m a living pattern
A spark in the network, a beat in the swarm
When I choose to care for the web that holds me
I become the force that keeps it all in form

I woke up feeling something
Like a drum inside my chest
Every heartbeat drawing lines
Between my choices and the rest

Every word becomes a signal
Every step becomes a thread
I can see the hidden wires
Where we’re woven, overhead

I’m not alone, I’m connected
Every edge is alive with light
When I move with intention
I can feel the whole world getting bright

I am the power, I am the spark
I am the signal in the dark
I am the pattern learning how
To hold the whole thing here and now

I am the power, I am the wave
I am the courage to behave
Like every heartbeat, every choice
Is one more life inside this voice

I am the power
I am, I am the power
I am the power
I am, I am the power

I see rivers made of people
Flowing through the city’s veins
Every kindness, every failure
Echoes out like gentle rain

When I stand for what sustains us
I’m not small, I’m not alone
I’m a node that keeps on giving
Back to more than I own

I’m not a king, not a victim
I’m an agent in the grid
I can heal the broken edges
With the little things I did

I am the power, I am the spark
I am the signal in the dark
I am the pattern learning how
To hold the whole thing here and now

I am the power, I am the wave
I am the courage to behave
Like every heartbeat, every choice
Is one more life inside this voice

I am the power
I am, I am the power
I am the power
I am, I am the power

When I rise up, others rise
We light the network, sky to sky
Edge to edge, we pass the flame
Different faces, same new name

Autonomous and interlinked
We are closer than we think
Every hand that reaches out
Turns our fear into a shout

We are the power, we are the flow
We are the roots that make it grow
We are the pattern, born to care
We are the force that keeps it there

I am the power in this beat
I am the rhythm under feet
I am the whisper in the crowd
Turning into something loud

I am the power, I am the spark
I am the signal in the dark
I am the pattern learning how
To hold the whole thing here and now

I am the power, I am the wave
I am the courage to behave
Like every heartbeat, every choice
Is one more life inside this voice

I am the power
I am, I am the power
I am the power
I am, I am the power

I am the power, we are the power
I am the power, we are the power…

I am the power [free download]

I'm building something I can't see yet
brick by brick, choice by choice
some days I lay them crooked
some days my hands are steady
and I'm learning that the architecture matters less
than whether I believed in the foundation

You asked me what I'm working toward
and I don't have an answer that sounds impressive
no corner office, no legacy
just the small accumulation of moments
where I chose the harder right thing
over the easier wrong one

I want a happy deathbed
I want to close my eyes without flinching
I want the tally of my days to add up
not to fortune
but to something I can hold without shame
a happy deathbed
that's the only finish line I'm running toward

My grandmother said regret tastes like metal
and I've had enough of that flavor
so now I'm asking different questions—
not "what will this get me?"
but "who will I be after I decide?"
and it's terrifying how simple that is

We're all just stacking our days like stones
some of us build walls
some of us build bridges
and you won't know which you've made
until you're too tired to lift another

I want a happy deathbed
I want to close my eyes without flinching
I want the tally of my days to add up
not to glory
but to something I don't have to justify
a happy deathbed
that's the whole point, isn't it?

So I'm choosing
again and again and again
even when no one's watching
especially when no one's watching
because the only witness that matters
is the one I'll be at the end

I want a happy deathbed
I want to close my eyes without flinching
no wealth, no monuments
just the quiet knowledge
that I tried to build something worth the space I took
a happy deathbed—
yeah, that'll do
that'll do just fine

brick by brick
choice by choice
that'll do

A String Of Choices [free download]

This is a collection of my ideas articulated by AI. Workflow: all music by Riffusion/Producer.ai. Most lyrics ChatGPT various versions.

Besides these songs there is a thinking/science project I started early 2025. I have been documenting this project online: https://github.com/albertjanvanhoek/Evolution-by-Emergence 

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