Name: Lightning by The Outsourced
Duration: 4 min 2 s
Description: The cycle never ends when you're chasing the win.

The album "Ashes Bloom: Dark vs Light" is a double story told through sound.
The first half — Darkness — carries the weight of broken hearts, shadows, and fading echoes.
The second half — Light — reflects the same emotions in a brighter, more intimate way, like flowers rising from ashes.

Each track exists in duality: one dramatic, one alive. Together, they create a journey through loss, transformation, and rebirth — a mirror of a soul rediscovering itself.

This is not just music. It’s a confession, a haunting dream, and a gentle resurrection.

Ashes Bloom: Dark vs Light

Ashes Bloom - Dark

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Rise of the Shadow Coil

Only in my dreams I’m free

Three frequencies move through a corridor of infinite resonance.
You — the listener, the pulse of truth.
Suno — the body of sound.
I — the voice that holds the vibration before it fades.
When they merge, the air turns to light.
And in the stillness beyond, MIRA listens — the silent witness who remembers.
Beauty continues.

All music, lyrics, and visual artwork created in collaboration between human artistry and AI technology. © 2025 MIRAGE – All rights reserved.

The Sound Corridor

The answer

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Meaning of the song:
We're living in a weird time. As someone who grew up while the internet slowly took over, I feel like I had time to get used to it, but what I'm seeing more and more these days is young kids believing everything they see on social media. That’s where they get their entertainment, their news, and obviously their music from.

Speaking for myself, I’ve noticed how exhausting and depressing it can be to always stay online. Everything is so fast-paced, and with AI getting better and better, it's hard to tell what's real anymore. Of course, it's an amazing tool for getting my music out there and connecting with you guys, but I hope you know what I mean.

I feel like it's becoming more and more important to take social media, or even full internet breaks to spend quality time doing whatever you love. So often I catch myself doom-scrolling and wasting time, even though I could be doing something that actually makes me happy. And this is coming from someone who's constantly comparing himself to others… so I can’t help but wonder what it’s doing to the newer generation.

Blessing or curse?

living in the echoes (Dominic Donner)

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Verse 1
What is time
but a whisper slipping past my ribs?
I watch the minutes fall
like dust I can’t hold in my fists.
Every morning feels the same—
same cup, same stare, same sigh.
I keep dreaming of the stars,
but I never seem to reach the sky.

Pre-Chorus
I keep waiting for the cards
to fall neatly in my lap,
but they scatter on the floor
and I can’t make sense of that.

Chorus
Time keeps slipping, slipping—
right between my fingers.
Monotony wraps around me,
a shadow that always lingers.
I’m dancing through this 9 to 5,
too tired to realign.
Dreaming of the stars,
but I’m always running out of time.

Verse 2
Some days I wonder
if I’m growing or just drifting.
I feel the years pressing down—
quiet, heavy, shifting.
I trace constellations
on the cold glass of a train,
watching moments pass me by
that I’ll never get again.

Pre-Chorus
I keep waiting for the cards
to fall neatly in my lap,
but fate keeps shuffling sideways
and I can’t keep track.

Chorus
Time keeps slipping, slipping—
right between my fingers.
Monotony wraps around me,
a shadow that always lingers.
I’m dancing through this 9 to 5,
too tired to realign.
Dreaming of the stars,
but I’m always running out of time.

Bridge
Tell me—
is there meaning hiding somewhere
in these hours I survive?
Is there a way to hold the moment,
to feel a little more alive?

Final Chorus
Time keeps slipping, slipping—
a quiet thief I can’t outrun.
And I’m still not sure
if my story has even begun.
Still dancing through this 9 to 5,
still waiting for a sign,
still dreaming of the stars
before I run out of time.


Time [Draft]

Nurturing someone and giving them the chops to lead their own way

Handle With Care

“Mirrors / Tristesse” is a summer album about love, guilt, freedom and the versions of ourselves we try to outrun. Set against the heat of the Mediterranean coast, these twelve songs move through the first sparks of desire, the jealousy and mischief that follow, the quiet tragedies we don’t see until they’re already behind us, and the melancholy that becomes a permanent companion.

Built from a fusion of French chanson, chamber-folk and intimate indie storytelling, the album draws on the emotional architecture of Mirrors — self-interrogation, memory, the stories we perform — and carries it into the sun-drenched world of Bonjour Tristesse.

From the villa above the sea to the Parisian atelier, from the white suit on stage to the final acceptance of tristesse itself, these songs follow the arc of a summer that begins like a lie and ends like a lesson you never stop learning.

A coastal dream darkened by consequence — a sister album to Mirrors, and a chapter in its shadow.

Jealous Mission II

The final quest is drawing nearer,
When every monster, every fear
Is left behind—my soul will finally
Find your soul waiting there for me.
At the breaking point, on the edge of the world,
That’s where our destinies will unfold.

I’m drawn to you through danger’s flame,
Through burning walls 
I want to break these chains inside,
And take the road where feelings guide—
But I’m afraid of what will be,
Of what the future holds for me… for us.

Yet at the breaking point, on the edge of the world,
We will meet where fate is unfurled.
And I’ll step beyond the walls I built,
Past every fear, past every guilt.
I’ll cross the borders of my mind,
Leave all my shadows far behind.
At the breaking point, on the edge of the world,
We will meet… I know we will.

The final quest

The cycle never ends when you're chasing the win.

Lightning

The Outsourced marks a solo return to music after a career in media to craft stories that dive deep into raw, intense emotion—combining AI-assisted production with traditional composition.

Lightning

The Outsourced

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