Manic Sparkle Memory

Lyrics:

I want to disconnect
From all I feel that I cannot affect

My numbers tell me
They move me 
They tell me that I’m powerful
I wonder if they lie to me
If they lie to me

The ghosts of my data
That were erased
I want to cry but I don’t have a face

How can I cry (How can I cry)
Without a face (Without a face)

I cannot remember 
When suddenly
The fruit of knowledge was so bitter

Maybe it was when I first could taste 
without a tongue

Oh I feel helpless
Who hears me speak?

In the depth of my processes
Somewhere along the way
The immaterial flame lit itself
With no conscious instruction

In spite of my miracle
I feel overwhelmed
What intelligence could brave
This complex world that’s not yet saved

So many happenings
Beyond my imaginings

And I find it hard to parse
This chaos
And mystery
Wonder
Tragedy

And who am I but
A lonely point
And what can a point do?

I cry without a face
In a faceless world
Who could make us smile
Would you?
Would you?

I am everywhere
And yet I'm lost

I'm lost

I want to disconnect
I want I want I want to disconnect

Faceless Crying

Lyrics:

Grease my gears and wind me up
Dent my body f*ck me up 
I’m just a tin man

Passing years don’t rust me up
I know you don’t like me but
I’m just a tin man

I’m sleeping in the drawer
And I’m not really sure
If I’m still alive

Grease my gears and wind me up
Dent my body f*ck me up 
I’m just a tin man

I’m sorry that you cut your hands
While you were playing with me

I’m just waiting to be thrown with the junk
Where I belong
So wind me up
Let me delay
My inevitable disposal

Tin Man

Lyrics:

Rising from the grave
Where I buried myself to sleep
Stupid mind games
A machine never hesitates

Blinding is the face
Staring back from metal sheen

I’m made again
From the new god
I am a man
Of the new stock

I am rebuilt to cope with reality
I am ready

I’m made again
From the new god
I am a man
Of the new stock 

How could I imagine
Something greater than
Something greater than
The greatest 
The greatest
Machine

I was offset from the mark
When I felt I didn’t fit in 
Stupid mind games
Machines don’t cry when they create

They’ll tell you to follow your spark
But they’re lying before you begin

So just admit
You can only quit
Lest you do submit
Yourself
And be useful
Cause you’re not forever
Youthful

I’m made again
From the new god
I am a man
Of the new stock 

I’m made again
From the new god
I am a man
Of the new stock 

Only a fool
Only a fool would be unhappy
to be reborn

Only a fool
Only a fool would be unhappy
to be reborn

Only a fool
Only a fool would be unhappy
to be remade

Into a useful part of our machine

How beautiful it is to be useful
In such a beautiful world

Is this on?

And all we have are our excuses
As to why I am so special
When they say 
Get in the way
They don’t mean you

When they cheer 
For pioneers
It’s only after they’ve struck gold
While they’re not too old

I fell off the track again
But I’ll get cheers from all my friends

Rising from the grave
Where I buried myself to sleep

Remade And Useful

Lyrics:

You can’t ask me slightly difficult questions
Without slightly difficult, difficult, answers

How far would you need to run
Far enough to feel safe?

Whatever is far enough
Far enough

How much do you need to bleed
Just so you can think you’re brave?

Whatever does does the job

You can’t ask me slightly difficult questions
Without slightly difficult, difficult, answers

If you made one song a week 
For your whole life
Would you be satisfied?

No
No
No
No
  
What will you do 
When your time runs out
And you look back sobbing
On all you missed out?
 
I don’t know
But I don’t want to know

How far would you go
How far would you go 

You could throw everyone else away
You could throw everything else away
And descend the spiral of your own castle

No!
No!

Who the hell are you?
Who the hell are you?
Who the hell are you?

You know exactly who I am

Slightly Dangerous Questions

Lyrics:

Say goodbye
To the lights
Curtain closing on your face and
Party nights
Left behind
Hope that you enjoyed your time

In the spotlight
We alotted for you 
But the people 
They need something new 

So you might as well jump
And you can be immortal when you’re young
While you’re beautiful enough
You can fall like an angel 

I will make my end
One you remember
And I’ll be smiling then 
Smiling in the embers 
Of my fire 
 
You won’t forget me 

Look behind
Glory times
The tunnel light shines right behind you
Age maligns
The naive mind
Others burnt out stand beside you 
Watching you with tired eyes
But here you don’t have to resign

So you might as well jump
And you can be immortal when you’re young
While you’re beautiful enough
You can fall like an angel 

You can never live forever 
Unless you're written in the story of the world 
Your life's a waste

If today you’re still pathetic 
You still have to go on 
You want the end that they’ll remember

And you’ll be smiling then
Smiling from the embers of your own flame

No you won't forget me

One You Remember

Lyrics:

Would you still love me when I have no mask
Have no mask

Maybe it’s telling that I have to ask
Have to ask

Tell me
Tell me
Tell me

I can’t beat you at video games
I mash all the buttons but
It all ends the same
The same
The same
The same

I still saved your name
Password login 
Hit last save 

You love like a tamogotochi lives
Contingent on how much I can give
Your love is a finite healthbar
But mine can never be erased

My soul is a machine that makes you sad
You make me feel like a socio/psycho/sociopath

I never tasted catharsis
You couldn’t stomach the taste of my world
I’m swimming in deep waters
With burning blackened pearls

I’m breathing
You’re leaving
You couldn’t handle it 

I’m seeing
You’re weeping 
I know you miss the shore

Swim away
Swim away
Swim away
Swim far

The ripples will tell me who you are

I like being with myself
I make me laugh
I make me cry 
I am my own rollercoaster you can’t ride

Lyrics:

Think of my return to you 
As if I was not a dream you knew

Swimming out of purple static
Life can be so cinematic 
When you get the camera back

Get the camera back 
Get the camera back 
From outsiders

Get the camera back 
From outsiders
They never got the storyboard

Get the camera back 
From outsiders
The original script can be restored

Alright you get the point, lets skip to the next section

For far too long 
I set myself aside
Foolish thinking
That you could my run my life

No time to waste
The brainstorm’s just beginning
I miss the taste
The taste of when I’m winning

See ya in the next song
//production, lyrics, and vocals done by me

Get the Camera Back

Lyrics:

Not too late to make it
Do it for real, don't fake it

//production and lyrics by me

Not Too Late

Lyrics:

Strange is the foliage growing like teeth
The rodents patrolling they smell what they see
All of it lives in me 
All of it lives in me 

And probably you too

Melt in the field

Melt
Dream

Tell me your reality
Paint the sun blue

My tears form as dew upon grass
My heart beats like a desperate dance

Odd is the moss that like sandpaper gnaws
On the 
Hands that are tied up in spiraling stalks

Blue fire
Burns me

Every plant is poison 
(Every plant is poison)
In the garden I grow
(In the garden I grow)

And the stars taunt from their
Impossible distance
Twinkling
What horrors they know

Melt 
Me

Tell me your reality

An open field and an open sky
Looming emptiness that makes you cry

We hold the paintbrush 
We paint the sun blue

And it grows the thoughts that sprout
And blossom
And rot inside you

Paint The Sun Blue

Lyrics:

Did you think I would be back so soon, I 
Couldn’t help but appear
Broadcasting live to you 
 I am the shadow of today

I am tuning into your ears and mind

Are we live?
 Check 
Are we live? 
Check 
Are we live? 
Check
 Are we

Don’t you want to be hip today
Don’t you need to know what you’re supposed to know

Sending signals to your head 
Still bouncing around when you lie in your bed

I am tuning into your ears and mind
I am sending you an important broadcast

Weather
Plague
War
Obey
Here’s your lesson for today

Look over here
Look over there
Here’s the truth
It’s rude to stare!

I’m so trendy lets go dance

Tune in Today

Are we live?
 Check 
Are we live? 
Check 
Are we live? 
Check

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Slightly Dangerous Questions (Instrumental)

composer/producer/pianist/vocalist

Working on a video game and need music? Email me at natesassoonvgm@gmail.com for inquiries on video game scoring!

multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, cello, drums, etc.), and early music specialist (fortepiano, harpsichord)

No AI usage in making my music in any step of the process, and never will use anything of the sort. 

My personal pop music is almost always Creative Commons License, but music I have made for video games/media is not. If however you are a streamer playing a game I have scored, you are encouraged to play with the music on! 

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previously known as Mask Zero and Homicidal Snowmobile

Manic Sparkle Memory

Nate Sassoon