DEMO = Anthropy (2021)

-- LYRICS --

It’s never been easy to confess yourself
You notice a problem
But you’d rather do the moment

And how

If I find anything 
On your dirty mitts
 
I’ll fly the wheel  
As it truly lives

You find a gap
Breaking back into your past
I’ll come back to you
When it’s all gone wrong 

Trouble is trouble even if you make it out alive
Trouble is trouble even if you make it out alive
   

A constant reminder to see what’s upon us
Trying to mine on
Trying to keep the light on
We feel it inside us
Like the morning cold 
You know it’s a problem but you let it go

Can you see it flying on?
D’you know The Trail has all gone wrong?
Oh and how The Trail is gone

Can you see me flying on?
Do you know The Trail has all gone wrong?
Oh but how The Trail is gone 

Is it uneasy to express yourself?
You notice a problem
Have you already forgotten?

What if I’m the gap?
What if breaking bad isn’t your path?

I’m coming back to you
Cause it’s all gone wrong


A constant reminder to see what’s upon us
Trying to mine on
Trying to keep the light on
We feel it inside us
Like the morning cold 
You know it’s a problem but you let it go

Can’t you see me flying on?
Do you know the trail has all gone wrong? 
Oh and how the trail is gone 

Can you see me flying high 
But do you know the trail has all gone wrong
Oh and how The Trail is won

DEMO = 1985 Pt.1 & 2 (2021) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

-- LYRICS --

At the start of it 
That rescued me
From a story so deep
With a secret to keep 

Out of questions
No more guesswork 
From damaged reason

I’m a dysfunctional
Am I dysfunctional?
This happens all the time
It’s only all the time
It’s only time 

I’m a dysfunctional
Am I dysfunctional?
This happens all the time
It’s only all the time
It’s only time 

Staving off the landslide
A relieving of the brain
Call it what you want it to save time
Receding in vain

Out of questions 
No more guesswork 
From damage reason 

(*Unclear* I finally found my weapon  
Finally realised my lesson
We’re coming
Coming alive
Partly I've been missing
But I can use it on the spot
Hearing the difference to still 
Turn and run 
Drop it all even despite..
Give us a reason to still turn and run…)

A final listen to come over 
Hear it deep inside
Run for your life

It's the start of it
That rescued me
A secret to keep 
From a dark melody 

Out of questions
No more guesswork 
From damaged reason

All you do is press my off switch 
An old trick 
Of dishonesty 
All I see are numbers here

I’m a dysfunctional
Am I dysfunctional?
This happens all the time
It’s only all the time
It’s only time

I’m a dysfunctional
Am I dysfunctional?
This happens all the time
It’s only all the time
It’s only time

I’m a dysfunctional
Am I dysfunctional?
This happens all the time
It’s only all the time
It’s only time

DEMO = TIRO (2022) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

-- LYRICS --

It pleases me to say you’re under the wing of an honest song
Sooner or later you will find pieces of
Hidden treasure floating to the surface
When it all comes around again, run

(When I move
I move like you move
I do as you do
So I keep you in view

But the rules, the rules that you use
Are the rules I abuse
I move as it moves you)

It pleases me to know you’re under the wing of an honest soul
Honest, so?
Don’t trust me with your weapon
I’ll break it in two 
Anything for you

(When I move
I move like you move
I do as you do
So I keep you in view

But the rules, the rules that you use
Are the rules I abuse
I move as it moves you)

The sunlight hurts my appetite
For trying to run away again
Caught it on satellite oh lies
My oh my oh lies

A lion within 
Cornered him
Inside my mind
Oh my
My oh my oh my 

Can we afford
To move forward
Move towards it

Can we afford
To move forward
Move towards
Something else

DEMO = Forwardism (2020) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

DEMO = Shiver (2022)

-- LYRICS --

How many of us all in the end are done?
As we begin to reach a summit  

Don’t believe in all this ache
It’s secretly myth
Cus it'll come alive 
Before you know it

A song full of answers
Full of answers for you

Time away selected for the view
Now I’ve got the weight off of my shoulders
I can refuel

Share my words with thought instead of gold
They say all that you need is a moment to breathe and..

Time away selected for the view
Now I’ve got the weight off of my shoulders I can refuel

A sealed fate you recognise
See for yourself how to weaponize
A ceiling you place on your own sky
It’s the time that you wish you’d take 

Time away selected for the view
Now I’ve got the weight off of my shoulders I can refuel

Refuel

Refuel (Extended)

-- LYRICS --

It’s insane, and it’s in flight
Can’t understand anything right
Even breathing starts, but slowly dies
Can you feel that someone’s in a rut?

It’s the same and it’s in flight
Can’t understand anything right
The breathing starts, but slowly dies
Can you feel that someone’s in a rut?

Softly coated
Broken inner glass 
With no fade in
I'll be seen to
In case I’m messed up 

Our coming undone
Is repeated twice
The break is of a right
You’re holding on to tight
You’re holding on too tight, you’re
Holding on too tight

Shutter
Shutter

Done and made complete 
It’s a shame that I’ll never be

Caught in melody 
It came alive 
Why didn’t someone tell me?     

Come alive
How sweet,
No shame, I’ve
Seen no other lights
And seen no shade
Can I come and see how

Softly coated
Broken inner glass
With no fade in 
I’ll be seen to 
In case I messed up 

Our coming undone
Is repeated twice
The break is of a right
You’re holding on to tight
You’re holding on too tight, you’re
Holding on too tight

It’s the same and it's in flight 
Can't understand anything right
As the breathing starts, but slowly dies 
Can you feel that someone’s in a Shutter?

But we're in flight
Can't understand anything right
And the breathing starts but slowly dies
Can you feel it?
Someone’s in a Shutter

STUDIO DEMO = Shutter (2022) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

DEMO = All The Sound (2021)

-- LYRICS --

I’d come alive
 But I fear you're setting schemes 
 And it makes no sense to me

Have I seen the light?
Or is this a seizure of sound

I won't stop calling it off
Starting - no 
Stop it all
Is there a reason I call it off
Fearing --------

I’ve come alive
 But I fear you're setting schemes 
It's starting to make sense to me

Now I've seen the light
I hear no seizure of sound

DEMO = Reflectory Pt. 2 - (2022) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

-- LYRICS --

What do you know about a waste of mind?
What do you know about waste of mind?
What do you know about a waste of mind?
Oh don’t you know you’ve got a place to find?

It’s always happened at the same time
You know you never really stole mine
But its looks are so deceiving
It’s so unfair
Even though it’s happened always in the same way, yeah

Breathing is harder
Don’t bother
A shutter appearing upon us all

I pictured you lying down
Come on let's sit down and just figure this out 
Yet still
I sit here all by myself 
Still believing you're the same as everybody else 

It's as if we're here like sitting dogs
To find a situation where we can explain ourselves

Finally we're dreaming in colour
The bother was worth it
Discovered the colour

What do you know about a waste of mind?
What do you know about waste of mind?
What do you know about a waste of mind?
Oh don’t you know you’ve got a place to find?

Now it’s feeling like it’s dragging us out
Someone cry out   
You fade in and fade out, like this is some kind of ritual
Come on, come on
Don't let them in your head

Now it’s feeling like it’s dragging us down
Someone cry out 

What do you know about a waste of mind
What do you know about waste of mind
What do you know about a waste of mind
Don’t you know you’ve got a place to find?

What do you know about a waste of mind
What do you know about waste of mind
What do you know about a waste of mind
Don’t you know you’ve got a place to find?

Breathing is harder
Don’t bother
A shutter appearing upon us all

DEMO = Waste Of Mind (2021) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

DEMO = Fuel (2022)

 It’s never been easy to confess yourself
You notice a problem
But you’d rather do the moment

And how

If I find anything 
On your dirty mitts
 
I’ll fly the wheel  
As it truly lives

You find a gap
Breaking back into your past
I’ll come back to you
When it’s all gone wrong 

Trouble is trouble even if you make it out alive
Trouble is trouble even if you make it out alive


DEMO CLIP = 1985 Pt.1 (2022)

ROUGH DEMO = Realizer 29 - 10

DEMO = Psychopation (2022)

(-- LYRICS --)

"*Insomnia*"

"*What keeps you up at night?*"

It's gone awry
I don't know if this is safe to try
It's gone and it's beaten up
I just wanna know if you'll wake up

*Insomnia*

Somewhere it breaks through
If only
Take two
It's only a ladder to climb
I dream of this Insomnia

It's gone awry
I don't know if this is safe to try
It's gone and it's beaten up
I just wanna know if you'll wake up
And while you don't want to wait
It sees your days waste away
While only you can make the change
Another play to change the game

Somewhere it breaks through
If only
Take two
It's only a ladder to climb
I dream of this Insomnia

DEMO = Insomnia (2023) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

(-- LYRICS --)

I don’t know where I’m going but I’m running 
Down to the scenes that I could see
No one would believe 
No one would believe
It seems that I should take a swim 

It’s like I’m talking to myself
And no one’s listening 
I don’t know about anybody else
Not sure how but it sings itself
Can’t stay away
But before long enough,
It finds its way right back in
Back down the same road
Down the same road

If you don’t know it the first time
Rewind to the start again

It’s not as if I need the words of a wise man
They’ll just ruin my plan
 
I don’t know where I’m going but I’m running
Down to the scenes that I could see
No one would believe 
No one would believe 
The soul inside of me

It’s like I’m talking to myself
And no one’s watching

I don’t know about anybody else
Not sure how but it sings itself
Can’t stay away
But before long enough
It finds itself right back in
Back down the same road
Down the same road

It’s so easy, 
How still things deceive me
But we’re all just in the dark 
Yea you don’t need the words of a nice man
They’ll just make fun of your plan

I don’t know where I’m going but I’m running
Down to the scenes that i could see
No one would believe 
No one would believe 
But me

DEMO = Swim (2022) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

INSTRUMENTAL DEMO Still Fire No Vocals 10 - 03

-- LYRICS --

Then on a night
One that you can't describe 
(It’s not what you think now)
I think about
Mind
At times so undefined
Can’t get my breathing right
Am I breathing right?

When I look for it I can't find it
Then it is pacified
That’s the experience called 

Satori

Turned on a light
One that was out of sight but
Lying in wait bothering no one

Why don’t you find out
Where your mind’s at
Make sure to blink twice 
Don’t think twice

--
I am a zen Master
I have nothing to say 
Zen is not words 
Everything is perfectly clear 
—

Pieces falling out their places
It’s not that you’d notice   
What you’re not expecting to find
Up on the front line
Turned us inside out 
You’re mind now
You're mine now  

A modern rhyme 
In olden time
Is happiness
at the same time 
Bring the power to breathe

Some say the more you analyse
all of the monsters in your mind
Then you will notice the difference each time
there's nothing left to analayse but

Pieces falling out their places
It’s not that you’d notice   
what you're not expecting to find 
Up on the front line
Turn us inside out 
You’re mind now
You're mine now

What is the thing, bad bad thing you’ve done
Give me a really good confession
I want to see the absolutely authentic you
Pain is when you let go
Not when you hold on

And just like that, you know
There’s a sudden glint of recognition
When I look for it I can’t find it
Then it’s pacified
That’s the experience called

Satori

When I look for it, I can't find it
That’s the experience called Satori

Some say the more you analyse
all of the monsters in your mind
Then you will notice the difference each time
there's nothing left to analayse but

Pieces falling out their places
It’s not that you’d notice   
what you're not expecting to find 
Up on the front line
Turn us inside out 
You’re mind now
You're mine now

 -----


Lyrics look cooler in google docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GijymmZqX_7jmUYU0LCcvBYd3Vya7V1PloSyWjxN96w/edit?tab=t.0.

DEMO = Satori (2023) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

-- LYRICS --

Closed off 
But better than before
I’ve seen it from another side
I’m Breathing,
But underground
Waiting for another life	

Seek out the things that’ll leave you deep
Keep close those that’ll sail away
The tide, when it pulls you in
Is seeking to begin

Seeking to begin,
Seeking to begin 
And then it pulls you in

No matter how far you go
You always begin  
When something that takes you whole 
Can’t break you within

And all the while
I wonder why 
We try to fly 
When every time
We never reach the sky
Oooh
Back on maroon

Ahooooh
Back on maroon
Then coming up with rules
My mistake again

Back from the shadow
You sold me out

Time for a reckoning
It’s gonna be beautiful 

Ahooooh
Back on maroon
Out of my cocoon
My mistake again


DEMO = Forage (2023) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

DEMO = The Balancing Act (2023) (Instrumental)

DEMO = Polarize (2024)

DEMO = Disco For The Highly Sensitive (2022)

DEMO = The Only Light (2023)

-- LYRICS --

Home grown
Stone cold ceiling
It’s difficult when you’re near it 

It’s the slow burn that 
Still deceives me
The catching on 
Seemed too easy

Wide eyed
Please receive me
Denied
Can you not see me?
 
This time we go
Climbing on your tiptoes
Heads down low
How long does it take to know? 

No one will know
Everybody let go
Everybody let go
Everybody let go

Soldier
Still in healing
Grows cold
When she needs it  
       
The slow burn
Still deceives me
The catching on 
Seemed too easy

Wide eyed
Please receive me
Denied
Can you not see me?

This time we go
Climbing on your tiptoes
Heads down low
How long does it take to know? 

No one will know
Everybody let go
Everybody let go
Everybody let go

DEMO = Let Your Self Go (aka. "Slack") (2023) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

DEMO = Don't Forget The Love (2024) (Instrumental)

DEMO = The Holy Sound

-- LYRICS --

There’s a way to breathe innocence
To play out a new game
Such a shame you won’t listen

Such a shame you’re indifferent
Is there nothing that I can say
To make you move with me
To The Emptiness Refrain

He said Stop weaving wars
And cheating laws
Keeping score

 She said there’s a rhyme
To keep me warm
And catch my fall
I won’t remember it all

There’s a way to breathe innocence
To play out a new game
Such a shame you won’t listen 

Such a shame you’re indifferent
If there’s nothing that I can say
Just move with me
To The Emptiness Refrain
move with me
To The Emptiness Refrain

DEMO = The Emptiness Refrain (2022) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

Give Us a Smile (Demo) - George Patrick

DEMO = Fuel for Delusion (2023)

DEMO = Fictional Music (2023)

DEMO = Mazed (2020)

DEMO = Scenes Of Accidents (2021)

DEMO = Reflectory (2020)

DEMO = Bipartisan Love (2020)

-- LYRICS --

We want more of it
The sound arresting me
But when we are surrounded it’s left to me  

More of it
Around for centuries
This is the sound reflecting me
The call is on
The call is on

The same is not enough
We understand the road is long
We’re sane, but not enough
We’re sane but it’s not enough
Start over again
Start over again
Start over again

It's always happened in the same way
String ring
Bring it back again
An ugly fate
And how it empties me/around for centuries
This is the sound rejecting me
This is the sound reflecting me

(Undecided vocals)
 
The same is not enough
We understand the road is long
We’re sane, but not enough
We’re sane but it’s not enough
Start over again

DEMO = Or Asleep (2020) (-- LYRICS BELOW --)

Chorus is weak and will be replaced

It's always the end that bothers you
Some days to pretend to fall
And so it's a pain to know that we 
Can't understand our trajectory

What's our reason kid?
Shifting ground
'til we're upside down

RUBBISH CHORUS

I never want the feeling that it's over
I never want the fe
It's pulling me apart
Pulling me apart
Pulling me apart
Pulling me apart

What's our reason kid?
What's our reason kid?

RUBBISH CHORUS



DEMO = Groundshifting (2020)

DEMO = Ninja (Instrumental) (2020)

**Recordings are all dated so look out for later years - you'll find better quality recordings and performances as you get towards 2025. You may wish to shuffle to get past the initial band demos which have been made public most recently.**

Life is one big sketch - so we thought we might as well show you ours. We have been going back in time and making public a lot of what we've kept private for over 6 years.

(By the way - both of us are significantly better singers now than many of these demos imply)

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