Grounded

Orland City

I wrote this song during February Album Writing Month 2011 (14 songs in 28 days). It tells the story of the death of Snufkin from the Moomins. I remember describing it back then as a "Moomins at Spoonriver murder ballad".

The song is based on a dream which was most probably influenced by watching too much tv with my 1-year-old daughter. The story goes: the Moomins have locked themselves in their house because the Groke is coming. They're scared and nervous. Alice, the daughter of the Witch, is with them. She's holding the shotgun of Moominpappa. Suddenly she sees a shadow behind the window. Panicking she fires the gun. People run out to see if someone is hurt. Snufkin is lying on his back in the middle of broken glass, shocked but unhurt. No blood. Only a see-through hole in the middle of his chest. It is revealed that he doesn't have a heart and is thus unharmed by the shot. (This is also why he can seem such a cold bastard sometimes.) He says it hurts nonetheless and he'd better be leaving. Moominpappa gives him a horse and tells him to ride to the nearby town for a doctor. Snufkin answers that the place where he goes next is a very dark place. The end of the dream.

They ought to film this. People with animation skills, contact me. I wanna see this as a dark black and white oldschool Tove Jansson style short animation!

Lyrics:

my life from the start was a neverending road
the continous movement of soul was my home
friends i had all over but they never had me
i left them when i wanted to feel i am free

	now that i am gone the longing you feel
	is exactly the same that always drove me

i hated the tyrants and scorned all the rules
made by selfish and ignorant fools
i didn’t own anything, only memories i kept
(because) i thought of property always as a theft

	now that i am gone the longing you feel
	is exactly the same that always drove me

if you needed advice you came to me
but what made me wander i couldn’t see
i felt if i stayed i’d be smothered to death
by your kindness and that’s why i left

	now that i am gone the longing you feel
	is exactly the same that always drove me

in a fear-born accident i got shot through the chest
the shooter was a girl and like me just a guest
i said it hurts even though i don’t have a heart
then i stood up and left to a place in the dark

	now that i am gone the longing you feel
	is exactly the same that always drove me

Constellation of Thieves: The Death Of Snufkin (2011)

my brother sent over the acoustic track and I was inspired to make it an angsty high school power pop song. dig it.

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Face It (ft. kvnwoodruff) - FAWM 2023

Out of My Mind

Lost & Found REMIX🍋 @user-297959700 Thomas Mierkiewicz for FAWM 2/26/2025
Written by Kate E. Stanton 2/9/2025
Lost & Found
I don't know where it starts, & I don't know how it ends.
But I know that I'm lost again, found again, & how will I ever begin?
I drew a line in the sand while the iron gates of Alexander stand.
I'm somewhere in between, 3 bears & me,
Too little, too much is never just what I need, no!

Where do I go? Where does this lead me? How will I know?
Every step I take feels like I'm chasing my own ghost,
Running through this maze where I needed answers most.
Just keep it moving, slowly, 'til my path unfolds.
C'mon, let's go!

Every path whispers, "Hey! Hey, hey!"
Over here, over there—it's a game, hey!
Every choice has a price to pay,
No regrets yet—is that just what they say?
Roll of the die 'til we die,
Climb to heaven's spiral steps of steel.
I question everything—authority, gravity,
& the Blade of Evil's Bane is never the same, no.

Where do I go? Where does this lead me? How will I know?
Every step I take feels like I'm chasing my own ghost,
Running through this maze where I needed answers most.
Just keep it moving, slowly, 'til my path unfolds.
C'mon, let's go!

Move slow.
One foot... then another.

Where do I go? Where does this lead me? How will I know?
Every step I take feels like I'm chasing my own ghost,
Running through this maze where I needed answers most.
Just keep it moving, slowly, 'til my path unfolds.
C'mon, let's go!

Lost & Found Remix (Feat. Lemonbrew)

I wrote this album in 12 days. Name your price at marcoaziel.bandcamp.com/album/i-wrote-this-to-a-ghost

Pep Talk

(I Wrote This To A) Ghost

Jacket Over Hoodie Over Shirt

Wanted You To Know

Singer-songwriter creating ethereal indie dream pop, blending solo works and collaborations into transcendent, poetic music.

Drum and bell music from Finland, by Lauri Wuolio.

A home for secrets




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A very big fan of breathing. Guitar, vocals, writing & engineering for Daddy and the Long Legs. Southeast Michigan.

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