For months, I've been participating in a weekly songwriting challenge for /r/songaweek.  This is the collection of songs in order from newest to oldest.

Each of these songs was completely written and produced in one week (typically a Wednesday to Wednesday period).

Song a Week Challenge

For Song a Week Theme "Digital"

Lyrics:

My dreams are in a machine
Downloading hope to a factory
Assemble my life from a template
Of a man to whom I don't relate

Lost in the wave of technology
Dead to the world outside of me
Living in a cold blue gloom
I yearn for a future outside this room

I can't breathe
I need air
I can't see
My eyes are so tired

I can't believe
With all this information
That I still don't know how to live

I know so much but care so little
Always searching for the newest arrival
Mind is full of clicks and buzzes
Wishing I could ever fall asleep again
The day I waited for so long
Seems like it has come and gone
The day I waited for so long
Now what's left to do but remember the pain?

I've waited for so long
I've waited for so long    
I've waited for so long

Now I want to give up on this dream
Now I'm fully part of the machine

Factory Of Hope

From the /r/songaweek theme "Minor."

Lyrics:

Let's go to war
I think you'd like it
It's just the perfect thing
To feed your insanity

Lets go to war
I think you want it
Just by listening to
The way you talk to me

Heaven forbid I'm the one who wanted to love you
To actually forget the things that you did to shame you
Thankfully words aren't bullets or I'd be dead
But years full of memories are something I won't forget

Lets go to war
Lets tear each other apart
Lets go to hell
Lets give into the madness
Lets live in fear
With the corpse of that which we call love
Lets stay right here
Since the future requires us to grow

What's this fight really all about? 
Whats the pain that led to all your doubt? 
Why do you try and fight me 
When all I want is to give you peace? 

What the hell is wrong with me?

Let's Go To War

For Song a Week Theme - "Major."

Lyrics:

Wander through the wasteland of my memory
The holes inside my past phase into reality
The home we knew is just an empty space in the ground
Now it's left to me to fill the hole

Now it's left to me to fill the hole

Withered tree we climbed still standing strong
Echoing the verses to our favorite songs
Living in the fear that something or someone's lost
Now the present brings the past across our atmosphere

Now it's left to me to fill the hole

I don't even know why I still feel this
Don't even know why I still see this
Don't even know why I still want this
Don't even know why I pretend...

Now it's left to me to fill the holes

To Fill The Holes

For the Song a Week Theme "Color."

Lyrics:

Hear you coming
Your feet are pounding
My ears against the floor
My head is aching
My mind is racing
I can't take any more

The door flies open
My heart is broken
I don't know what I see
The pain, the torture
Soon to be over
The ghost of what was me

I see your eyes
Turned black as night

I hear you move just one step away
I feel your breath just one inch away
I see your eyes
Turned black as night

My eyes grow wide, just one quick mistake
My hands to fists, just one move to make
I see your eyes
Go black to white

And I know I'm done

I know we're done
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Who have we become?
Where are we even going?

I see you fading
I see you fading

What do we even want?
Who are we becoming?
The dark places we have gone 
I don't know if we can come back

I see you fading 
I see you fading
I see you fading
Becoming something worse

From Black To White

For Song a Week Theme - "Key Change."  

Lyrics:

I wanted to take a little time
To feel things out
I wanted to take a little time
But you wouldn't let me
 
I really didn't ask for that much
I really didn't ask for too much
I really didn't want that much
But I'll take it

Why did you let it go this far?
When either side leads right back to the middle.
I knew you wouldn’t like who you are
When either end goes right back to the beginning

I really didn't ask for that much
I really didn't ask for too much
I really didn't want all that much
But I'll take it

I wanted to see
If you believe
I wanted to see if
You have seen it – can you see it?

Why did you let it go this far?
When either side leads right back to the middle.
I knew you wouldn’t like who you are
When either end goes right back to the beginning

Give me a little time
I still need a little time
Give me a little time
Have you seen him?

Right Back To The Middle

For Song a Week Theme - "Sorry." - Updated Mix 10-18-18

The sorry came too late
It should have come before the bomb
It should have come before the kill
It should have come before I was gone
  
The sorry came  too  late
I could have told you before it was dead
I could have told you what's stuck in my head
I could have told you what all of this meant

The life that we used to dream about
The fears that we used to talk about
The hope that we used to want to share
The love that used to fill the air

It all comes apart
We all come apart
Nothing is forever
Words lost in the storm

The sorry came too late
I know I could have been better
You know you should have known better
But all we had was faith

The sorry came too late
I never had the strength to give
You never had the trust within
And now it's so far gone

It all comes apart
We all come apart
Nothing is forever
Words lost in the storm

Lost In The Storm

Solo by Tokar Alkire of The Wave Fixation - https://soundcloud.com/wavefixation

For the Song a Week Theme of "Weather"

I feel the wind
Silent snow
The world is frozen
Moon is full

I feel the wind
Silent snow
Am I just lost here
Can't find a way home

Home feels like it's drifted so far away
Feels like a million miles away
I can't find my way back through the night
Through the skies of blinding white 

Bring me hope
To find my dreams
To bring me right back from the edge
Give me warmth
To survive this night
To keep me right off of the edge
My blood flows cold
The darkest dreams
And yet I'm somehow still alive
The mistake I've made
Was to stay in the place
That keeps me fighting for my life

I feel my heart
A silent storm
Is pushing me to move my feet
I feel my heart
Still beating yet
To keep me on the frozen street

Bring me hope
To find my dreams
To bring me right back from the edge
Give me warmth
To survive this night
To keep me right off of the edge
My blood flows cold
The darkest dreams
And yet I'm somehow still alive
The mistake I've made
Was to stay in the place
That keeps me fighting for my life

My Blood Flows Cold (feat. Tokar Alkire)

For the Song a Week Theme of "Whistle."

Lyrics:

I can be saved
We can be saved
This can be saved
We will be saved

I feel a swell of desperation
Pulling me into the ocean
Never thought my life would come to this
I feel the pull of gravity
But the water’s still – it starts to freeze
And I am gone
Mind is gone
Warmth is gone
Fear is gone

I still feel the sharp sting
Behind the loss of all things
While the world seems cold and indifferent
I’ll will it all to change
It’s sudden but my soul it stirs
To the siren song inside I’ve heard
That calls to life, yet beyond the grave
Telling me I can be saved

I can be saved
We can be saved
This can be saved
We will be saved

The color now starts to return
While the blood beneath the surface churns 
Never thought my life would come to this
I feel the fire in my soul
Turning me back toward the shore 
And now I know that all of this it has to change 

I can be saved
We can be saved
This can be saved
This will be saved
We will all be saved...

I still feel the sharp sting
Behind the loss of all things
While the world seems cold and indifferent
I’ll will it all to change
It’s sudden but my soul it stirs
To the siren song inside I’ve heard
That calls to life, yet beyond the grave
Telling me I can be saved

This Can Be Saved

For the Song a Week theme of "Sex."

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Lyrics:

The depths of your passion
Attract me like a magnet
I'm lost in your warmth

I give my everything   
While moments pass slowly
I'm drunk in our passion

Let the world slip away
Let the world fade away
If only for a moment
When we are the night sky

Let our minds drift away
Let our hearts come to stay
If only for a moment
When we are the night sky 

Your breath warm like the sunrise
In the ocean where I've capsized
I'm everything and I am gone

Your touch sets me ablaze
Remove my heart from its cage
I'm ready to give in

We Are The Night Sky

For the Song a Week theme of "Mouth Instruments."

A descent into psychedelic madness, with lots of odd sounds created with vocal elements, industrial elements, and Avant Garde lyrics.  One of the weirdest pieces I've ever created.

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Lyrics:

When the sea
Bubbles to shore
The cliffs are near
Coming near
  
Boats on the sea
Float near the rocks
The cliffs aren't far
They're not so far

The wind it blows
You further away
I see your hand
I've lost your hand...

Swept away...swept away....

Take me out to sea
Sweep me out to sea
I see the waves
I am the waves 
I am the whole of the ocean
I am water
I am earth
I am becoming
I am the torturous breath
That you can't take
Because the water will flood in
We are trapped
By our own need
Our own need to breathe
Our own need to feed
Our own need to suck this body dry
Our own need to take
To take from our mother
To take from our father
To drain the sunlight
Into tiny little bits
Energy...pure energy

Moving forward
Pushing forward
Move your arms
Move your legs
Move your body
Find yourself at shore
Find yourself at home
Remembering what it's like
When you're drowning
But you never drowned

Never Drowned

For the Song a Week theme of "Tempo Change."

A unique piece inspired by the manic energy at the beginning of a relationship.  Features a mashup of sounds ranging from 80s inspired synths to huge progressive rock.

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Lyrics:

It's inescapable
The way I hold on to you
Into my mind, into the trap
It's unexplainable
The way I hooked on to you
Into my heart, onto my map

There's something bright and shiny
In the way that you talk
Where the words just seem to stick
There's something pure and joyous
In the way that you give
And now the bomb it starts to tick  

What will I give
What can you take
What will we do to avoid our past mistakes
What will we do
When our heads spin
And now we're lost in the waves of passion

It's inescapable...It's unexplainable...

And when our love's on the clock
We know that there's no time to watch
And we give...and we give the time away
And when our heart's set ablaze
We're lost in this place for days
It all trickles...it all trickles away from here

What we give...what we give
There's no more for us here
When we give...when we give
There's no more life for us here

Obsession turned to depression
We remember why we can't stay...

What will I give
What can you take
What will we do to avoid our past mistakes
What will we do
When our heads spin
And now we're lost in the waves of passion

It's inescapable...It's unexplainable...

Inescapable

For the Song a Week theme of "The 60s."

Noisy, lo-fi rock to a protest beat about not lying down even when you're bruised or beaten.

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Lyrics:

It started out like this
You wanna bow to the man
You wanna kiss on his feet
You wanna see if you can

It's going on like that
You wanna see past your eyes
You wanna get the surprise
You wanna see how it lies

You got one two fingers in your pocket
Tap the beat, but don't let them see
Then pull those one two fingers from your pocket
Fly them high, let them see

 It's going right over your head
You wanna see where it went
You wanna know how it tastes
You know you broke not bent

You got one two fingers in your pocket
Tap the beat, but don't let them see
Then pull those one two fingers from your pocket
Fly them high, let them see 

We go round and round and up and down
All to get to the same place
You go round and round and up and down
Just to see that the devil has your face

One Two Fingers

Cover of "Waiting Still" by The Family Crest (@thefamilycrest / https://soundcloud.com/thefamilycrest) from their incredible album, "The War: Act I."  If you like this version - be sure to give them a follow!

I took this in a much darker and more ominous direction than the original while still trying to retain the elements that matter most to me - the lushness and depth of the overall orchestration and feel.

Then in some places I did exactly the opposite and stripped it down to the bare bones.

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Waiting Still (The Family Crest Cover)

Psychedelic rock assault combining 70s guitars and progressive rock style with some sprinkles of punk and early industrial.

For Song a Week Theme - "The 70s."

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Lyrics:

Once he's inside
He feels alive
Going too deep
Into the jungle

What has he seen
What will he be
Fallen too deep
Into the chaos

Please step aside
Mouth open wide
Nothing to hide
I am the witness

Don't feel afraid
Home now to stay
Going away
I am defeated

Remember the dreams, my love
Or let the music remember for you
Remember the feelings, my love
Or let the others remember you
Remember the fears, my love
And what it is to be up all night
Remember the dreams, my love
Or they will be buried right beside you

In life, we find
All things in mind
Ticking with time
All things in mind
Grasping, crawling
Forward falling
This time you'll find
All things in mind

Wander the maze
Missing for days
Cannot behave
I am its victim

Who will arise
Who will survive
I can't abide
This broken system

Don't be afraid
Come to the gates
Open the door
Relive the panic

You are the key
Coming with me
Forever be
Judge and the Hangman

Remember the dreams, my love
Or let the music remember for you
Remember the feelings, my love
Or let the others remember you
Remember the fears, my love
And what it is to be up all night
Remember the dreams, my love
Or they will be buried right beside you

All things in mind

All Things in Mind

It's taken me a long time to be able to get back to writing music since my dad's passing - and I'm glad for this gift that appeared for me. 

For /r/songaweek theme "Love."


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Lyrics:

Some say that love is blind
But I still see
Some say we're in a spell
But I'm still here

You think that you know much better
You'd think that we know much better
Some say we live a lie
But isn't it sweet

Catch me when I fall
Won't you catch me when I fall

When it's all too good to be real
When it's just too hard to feel
When all the dreams they seem to fall
Why can't we float - we'll just float   

Some say till death do us part
But we're done in
Some hide from affairs of the heart
But we're still pushin

You think I'd know much better
You think I should have learned better
I know it's not the truth
But nothing is forever 

Catch me when I fall
Won't don't you catch me when I fall

When it's all too good to be real
When it's just too hard to feel
When all the hopes they slip away
Why can't we float - we'll just float

Just Float

For /r/songaweek theme of "Fear."

A rock anthem about the moments when you fall down. Defiance in the moment of being beaten.  Triumph regardless of failure.  Choosing to live how you like.  

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Lyrics:

Shaking
I shake against the force
If the wind blows me down
How will I know if I get up again?

Bracing
I brace against a storm
Send your thunder and your lightning
You'll still see me here fighting

Swallow the pride
Keep fear inside
I'll drown if I have to
I'll live how I want to
Crawl past the line
Weaker with time
I'll drown if I have to
I'll live how I want to

Standing
My knees shake under me
If my legs just give way
I know I can't get up again

Racing
My heart ready to burst
Even when things get blurry
I still know my soul

Swallow the pride
Keep fear inside
I'll drown if I have to
I'll live how I want to
Crawl past the line
Weaker with time
I'll drown if I have to
I'll live how I want to

Live How I Want To

For /r/songaweek theme of "Kids."

Hugely distorted bass and raging guitars in a grunge and metal fusion.  I obviously didn't have a typical childhood.

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Lyrics:

On the outside looking in
Can't seem to keep from looking away
Lust after things that I'll never have
A person that I'll never be

Fortunate son - aren't you the treasured one?
But the apple of your eye has turned to stone
The years are building up, we can't ignore them
Become the person that you never dreamed

Nightmares
Awake
My name in vain
Arise
This rage
My soul to take

How could you take such poor care of your creation?
Watch his fear slowly grow into fixation?
We'd count mistakes but we'd be gone before we're done 
And the memories are all still the same

Now the monster in your closet's apathetic
And the devil's in your head - could you forget it?
The paths both back and forward are ablaze
Yet here you are cursing my name

Nightmares
Awake
My name in vain
Arise
This rage
My soul to take

God bless the child
God loves his children

My Name In Vain

Spacey rock song with a variety of wide vocal elements.

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Lyrics:

It comes to me in deepest dreams
It feels so real but so far it seems
The light it guides away from fear
The compass point that brought me here

In time I’ll learn to find my wings
Escape the shadows my mind brings
Until the darkness splits in half
And lets the light reveal a path

Sunlight
Creeping through the blinds
Make my eyes go wide
Reveal the secrets I have kept from myself 

Light
Breaking the façade
A frozen path now thawed
Reveal the mystery buried deep within me

I’m going for broke
Though my mind is broken
I’m digging for gold
Though my treasure is stolen
I’m lost on the path
Though I’ve been here before
Still hope is a stowaway
My heart is a stowaway yeah...

Predetermination’s not my thing
I’d rather be the cause of everything
So when I’m upside down
There’s no one but me to blame

I’m going for broke
Though my mind is broken
I’m digging for gold
Though my treasure is stolen
I’m lost on the path
Though I’ve been here before
Still hope is a stowaway
My heart is a stowaway yeah...

In Deepest Dreams

Electro-madness with shades of Depeche Mode and other 80s synth pop and some modern flair.

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Lyrics:

When everything feels hopeless
When all things fade to black
Your life's a curtain call
Slowed up to a crawl
And everything is darkness

When colors drain to grey
When hope just floats away
Your heart in overwhelm
Caught under a spell
Now everything is jaded

I'll give you all I can
I'll give you all I have
I don't know all the answers
All I have is faith

Your fire might be out
The winter may be frozen
Your spark against a stone
You're farther from your home
Stay strong, keep on

I know you're tired
I know you're weak
I know you're resigned to defeat
I know your anger
I know your grief
I know you'll overcome the fear
I know your fire
I've seen the flame
I know you'll find it once again
I know your depth
I know your dream
I know there's more here than it seems

Your fire might be out
The winter may be frozen
Your spark against a stone
You're far from home
Stay strong, keep on

Spark Against A Stone

A hypnotic and eerie orchestral rock song building to an epic climax.

For song a week theme of "Patience."

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Lyrics:

When he crashed down to earth 
He had a score to settle 
And all of them around us
Refused to let him fly

He couldn't wait for God
So he set out to find him
He couldn't wait for peace
So he set out to find war  

When he shook off the dirt
He hadn't found his mettle
And all of them surround him
Refused to let him fly

He wouldn't wait for God
And when he set out to find him
He didn't see his piece 
So he started up a war

Crashed Down To Earth

The Silence Noise (n) - The moment before the music begins. The hushed moment of anticipation and build up of energy. The project features elements of various types of rock including progressive rock, ethereal rock, industrial, metal, classical, and electronic music.

The story of The Silence Noise seemed like it may have been over 10 years ago.

But the band roared back to life in 2018 in Boston, combining a signature alternative rock sound combining the heavy rock of Muse with the dramatic elements of Depeche Mode and the progressive inspiration of bands like The Dear Hunter and Coheed and Cambria. The project is the brainchild of one multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Ken Course.

Whether it's huge and epic moments featured in "Lost in the Storm," heavier rock like in "From Black to White," or the progressive atmosphere of "My Feet in the Mud," The Silence Noise has something for many different tastes.

The Silence Noise was Founded in 1999 by Ken Course.  The project evolved from using extremely basic elements such as basic Casio synths and tape recorders up through full fledged progressive rock.  The evolution of the sound throughout the years moved from more 80s and goth inspirations such as Depeche Mode, The Cure, and The Smiths to more industrial and rock influences such as Nine Inch Nails and Muse.

The Silence Noise seeks to challenge your musical frontiers with a variety of emotional and sensory palettes.  What will you discover?