Written by Charlie Kendall and Shane Skidmore

Swimming Through The Storm

Everyone knows the best way to save money is to pre-game before you go out for the night. Sometimes, the pre-game is a little too effective...

Lyrics:
Got tickets to the biggest show
Everyone’s here, excited to go
Broke the bank for the best seats in the house

On a budget the gang announced
Before things go and it’s time to bounce
We all know the party starts here at home

Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game, gotta save some dough
Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game, get buzzed before the show

Tony got us a bottle of jack
Kate has a keg out in the back
Randy of course brought the cheapest thing on the list

Jan played mixologist
Mike was more than happy to assist
Me and the wife were fixing all the snacks

Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game, no $20 beers
Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game, we’ll do the drinking here

Before I knew it, I woke up on the couch
Everyone else was strewn all about
I could barely read the clock with my pounding head

1;30 in the morning
The show started at 10
Damn
We over did it again

Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game (da da da da da)
Pre Game, we totally missed the show

FAWM 2022

Pre Game (DEMO)

I saw the One Synth Challenge last year, and I wanted to participate, but last year was a "serious album attempt" kind of a year, so I gave it a miss.

This year I have mostly been goofing off participating in various "exquisite corpses", so it seems like a good opportunity to give this Challenge a try. As the track title suggests, I used Cubase Pro 11's "Retrologue 2" analogue synth plugin, and lots of it.

A lot of polishing was needed, so this took quite a bit longer than I expected.

Phenola - Thirteen Channels Of Retrologue 2 (FAWM 2022)

I Am A Nightingale

Lyrics: 
The world can be a scary place
And adulting's not fun to play
People blowing up your phone
Never leaving you alone

Put some fires out, chase your tail
Try, herding cats, you will fail
It can really be too much
Those people shouldn't stay in touch

Wish we could be inside our bubble
Where the world just disappears
There's no stress and there's no trouble
Just a puppy and we two here
We can take a long vacation
And sleep, all day on a beach
Drink margaritas and have so much fun
Or, we can be inside our bubble

Never really loved nine to five
In the rat race, you'll never thrive
You always play a losing game
And it may drive you insane
Don't wanna end up in a padded room
Rather, go ride in a big balloon
Yeah, I'd rather have my druthers
Give my problems to another

Or we could be inside our bubble
Where the world just disappears
There's no stress and there's no trouble
Just a puppy and we two here
We can take a long vacation
And sleep, all day on a beach
Drink margaritas and have so much fun
Or, we can be inside our bubble

So let's go to the sea
Or the mountains work for me
Anywhere with a blue sky, 
That's where you will find us, or

We could be inside our bubble
Where the world just disappears
There's no stress and there's no trouble
Just a puppy and we two here
We can take a long vacation
And sleep, all day on a beach
Drink margaritas and have so much fun
Or, we can be inside our bubble

Bubble

This is a collaborative song by myself and Groove Temple.

The next big conspiracy is in the canal right off Smith Street
Brooklyn, NYC
Last place you’d expect a mystery
Below the chemical film 
In the cancer-causing goo
Is a cryptid that will consume you
A slimy octopod that occupies a body of water so vile
It’s a superfund site

Sludgy brown with 12 green eyes
Low oxygen makes it hard to survive
Only one could possibly thrive

There’s a monster in the Gowanus!
A creature in the canal!
Lurking in the deadly pathogens
The monster can be found
There’s a monster in the Gowanus!
A creature in the canal!
In the pollution all around
The monster can be found

Look at the news past the foul fumes
People making moves
Luxury condos with expensive views
Beyond the swill pond 
And bacteria unidentified
Construction of a new skyline
The kraken’s cousin still waits to be heard
From the depths where it lurks

The water that once caught fire
After rain raw sewage would rise
Only one could possibly thrive

There’s a monster in the Gowanus!
A creature in the canal! 
Lurking in the deadly pathogens
The monster can be found
There’s a monster in the Gowanus!
A creature in the canal!
In the pollution all around
The monster can be found

There's a Monster in the Gowanus! (Demo) - FAWM 2022

Song #14 is just for you. So happy to be finishing my 3rd FAWM today. Enjoy!

Thank You, Thank You

Stand up for yourself.

Song 14 of 14 for Fawm 2022.

Stand Up For Yourself

I've laid down beside you
and you've been in my home
I've been in a room with you
and we've been apart and alone
The only thing that I could think
is you don't know what I need
The most devastating 
thing you've done to me
was the time you left me on read

We used to get our business done
before we'd sink our teeth into pleasure
We knew the meaning of all our fun
but we still knew how to
 take each other's measure
The only thing that I could think
is you don't know what I need
The most devastating 
thing you've done to me
was the time you left me on read

There were so many things
I would've done for you
Given you an organ, let you watch me bleed
But the hardest thing you ever did to me
was that time you left me on read

Left On Read (#FAWM 2022 No. 29)

I thought I'd take the car out for a spin
I knew the racket I'd raise would be an unholy din
Fill the intersection with clouds of smoke
Anything to prove to the neighborhood
that my machine's no joke

It's not only how I get around
It's how you know there's no getting around me
I'm always around, you can't confound me,
you can't astound me, I'm on the ground
and when I'm around, you've gotta stand up

I fill the intersctions with my mating cry and call
Better watch out pedestrians, I'll mow you down one and all
Leaving tire tracks, circular crop markings
when it comes to the blacktop tarmac, it's you I'm stalking

I like my tight ones
I'm turning tight ones

Tight Ones (#FAWM 2022 No. 30)

Lily

Finale

created 2-5-21
this was for a challenge where we could only use 2 chords for the whole song

Cheesecake Voices

Hey - FAWM 2021 - Song 7

Sketches Of The Great Auk (feat. miscellaneous owl)

From my FAWM-22 album, Billhook, this is the first single.

Billhook

Emotional Damage

Emotional Damage (feat. Dimi de San, Eric Castiglia, J.P.)

On A Wandering Star (feat. Deena)[FAWM 2022]

These Days (feat. Deena)

34 Sexy Rice (feat. Debs)

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Tricia Torres
Los Angeles, United States

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