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Infatuated available everywhere now
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Lyrics

Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated

A couple weeks ago went out with a friend
Had a drink to help him get over his ex
He chatted to a girl in the bar, hit a spark, was it the start 
Of something wonderful?
'Cause now they’re spending all their time together
And they’re saying they’ll last forever
But it got me freaked out wondering whether
They can find love suited better 'cause

She's pop rock and loves Shrek
He's halloween and bumps heavy metal
His hot rod screams hell yeah
Caught in the middle got me giving some advice

Hey, remind yourself 
There's nothing wrong with being alone
Hey, I'm no saint myself
I'll admit love's complicated
Are you sure that you've fallen in love?
'Cause from where I stand I swear that you're just
Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated

He’s jamming Maiden, she’s dancing to Bieber
He’s beer and bacon but she’s pineapple on pizza
He’s a skater, she’s a book reader
And they can barely hold a conversation between them
But now they’re spending all their time together
And they’re saying they’ll last forever
But it got me freaked out wondering whether
They can find love suited better 'cause

She's pop rock and loves Shrek
He's halloween and bumps heavy metal
His hot rod screams hell yeah
Caught in the middle got me giving some advice

Hey, remind yourself 
There's nothing wrong with being alone
Hey, I'm no saint myself
I'll admit love's complicated
Are you sure that you've fallen in love?
'Cause from where I stand I swear that you're just
Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated
Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated

She's pop rock and loves Shrek
He's halloween and bumps heavy metal
His hot rod screams hell yeah
Caught in the middle got me singing one more time

Hey, remind yourself 
There's nothing wrong with being alone
Hey, I'm no saint myself
I'll admit love's complicated
Are you sure that you've fallen in love?
'Cause from where I stand I swear that you're just
Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated 
(Heavy metal)

Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated
Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated
Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated
Infatuate, infatuate, infatuated

Infatuated

it's all about you

autumn loving baby

autumn loving baby (acoustic)

A story about an affair and the choices one must live with.

From the album Gliding Towards Oblivion. Produced by Dusty Wright. Recorded & mixed by Dusty Wright & Martin John Butler at Strauss Park & Two Dog Studios, NYC. Final Mixes by Brandon Wilde at Studio 76, Brooklyn. Mastered by Alan Douches for West West Side Music.

Dusty Wright - vocals, acoustic & fuzz guitars, drums, percussion and handclaps
Brandon Wilde - bass and vocals
Jonathan K. Bendis - electric spring guitar
Martin John Butler - handclaps
Howie Halpern - congas & percussion

©2018 PetRock/BMI. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

Gliding Towards Oblivion

Silence of the Knowing

"Silence of The Knowing"

This song inspires me to create and not be afraid. We record it back in December at Abbey Road Studio in London with Agustin Kafka.

Keep in touch throughout my IG on www.jackwish.co.uk

Love,
Jack

Hallelujah (Cover)

why? taken from sunflowers and rainy days
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lyrics:

i don’t really think i understand
when you fall in love you have to compromise that shit
but you don’t even wanna hold my had (no more)
when i met you i was thinking oh my (this is it)

and my heads still aching
my hand’s still shaking
i hoped you would come 
through

why did i fall in love with you?
fabricate in my head bout the way that we’re still cool
wishing that we could be the two
to fall in love forever till our blood starts running cold

(whoo!)

heaven knows i want this all to stop (and it knows that)
my mind’s been spinning round non-stop
but i’m stuck here scrolling
and i checking on, checking on, 
checking on photographs (sh, huh)
checking if your mind just switched me off

so my heads still aching
my hand’s still shaking
i knew your love had moved
on

why did i fall in love with you?
fabricate in my head bout the way that we’re still cool
wishing that we could be the two
to fall in love forever till our blood starts running cold

i’m glad this thing worked out for you
but what am i supposed to do?
when all i think of all the while
is how you have a lovely frown

Sunflowers and Rainy Days

Why?

Performed by Caswell

Writers:
Kristin Caswell-Robinson
David E. Sugar

Contributors:
David E. Sugar (Producer)
Hugh Fothergill (Co-Producer)
Cenzo Townshend (Mixing)
Frank Arkwright (Master)

Surface

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SUNNY

Our man has fallen for a lady of the night named Sunny and he thinks he can take care of her, save her from men who puzzle her existence and all the rest of that Roxanne bullshit. However as the song goes on our boy's initial confidence and certitude begins to wane and he can't save himself from the very crime he wants to save her from. His care turns into lust, his lust turns into naivety and his naivety is used in question against her on whether she actually wants to be saved. Questions of love, questions of time; he then looks at his own place in the world. This is Sunny.

...

Lyrics:

Put on something different for me
Lying with your mind disarms, but won’t make me leave
Your wondrous eyes tell me the things that you hold so deep 
I’ll tell you where the sun looks better
I can’t believe we’re wasting it
Put on something different for me
Tell your boy I’ll pay the fifteen

I know the games of chance that you play at night
Your fingertips amidst the moonlight
Does a man go make you feel, Sun?
What makes you think you gotta be like that?
Why you on the floor?
I was talking to myself
Ways that I imagine you
Oh I’m such a little boy
Telling you I’m the man 
Makes me stay up late at night

Would you want somebody to love you?
Would you want somebody to dare?
Would you want somebody to hurt you?
Do you even think that you’d care?
Would you want somebody to be the man
Would you want somebody who could tell you how this ends?
Would you pretend?

Take me, take me baby boy
Put on something different for me
I’ll tell you what to do babe, baby
Worry no more, no more

Do you ever feel like you’re the fool?
Pantomiming as your mind disowns you
As you undress yourself in the corner of a hotel room
I’m mumbling words that I could say to you
About where you are in all your dreams
(He likes to tell you it’s real)
Or your curves beneath those midnight seams
(He longs to know what to do)
As the sun shines upon yesterday
(He wonders how he should feel)
I’ve lost myself somewhere in between

Millions of miles above
Visions of days now gone
My baby, are we lost forever or here right now?
Minds unborn or fated somehow?
Am I supposed to bare you my heart
Sure as sun lights up the day?

...

'DIY, R&B music infused with Folk, Soul, Rock, Jazz and whatever sound that seems appropriate at the time to tell tales of the human condition. Once a purist of seventies singer-songwriter soul searching, and now a stranger in a dark room writing, producing and making weird noises on a laptop. Formerly the lead man of ‘Wild Rossa And The ’88’, LAPP is now attempting to do a Zayn, form his very own one man wolf pack and see how many fellow weirdos he can find along the way who, hopefully, might dig the tunes as well.'

…

SUNNY © - LAPP
Song written, recorded, produced and performed by LAPP
Song mastered by Andy Fernihough in Crash Studios, Liverpool
Bass Guitar: Sam Weston
Saxophone: Luke Ledger

lappxmusic@gmail.com
...

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Sunny (Single)

Sunny

better if you never
(づ꘠‿꘠)づ🌻
track 3/10 from my sophomore album 'sunflower boy'
Tom Shawcroft 2020

Lyrics:

[Intro]
You know how I’ve been
You know that I’m just a mess
You know what you saw and
I’m just so low and depressed
You know what they say
How nothing ain't what it aint
We shouldn't go there
Life just caught me up, so don't you

[Verse 1]
Tell me what you feel
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you know
I don’t know your deal
I’m better alone
If you call, then I’ll fall
Cause you know just how to work yourself around me
Yeah

[Chorus]
Oh, you know it's better if you never call 
Oh, you know it’s better if you never 
Call me once, call me twice
Get that thought out of your mind
I need space, I need time
Just back off a little while
Oh, you know it's better if you never call me back

[Bridge]
You tried to call a million times
But you know that it’s
No good way to tell me that your fine
So don’t you

[Verse 2]
Tell me what you feel
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you know
I don’t know your deal
I’m better alone
If you call, then i’ll fall
Cause you know just everything about me
Yeah

[Chorus]
Oh, you know it's better if you never call
Oh, you know it's better if you never
But I tried, then I cried
Cause I took the wrong advice
When I lied, said I’m fine
With falling back to you every time
Oh, you know it's better if you never call me back

[Chorus 2]
But I tried, then I cried
Cause I took the wrong advice
When I lied, said I’m fine
With falling back to you every time
Oh, you know it's better if you never call me back
You know it’s better if you never call me back
Oo, you know it's better if you never

[Outro]
Call me once, call me twice
Get that thought out of your mind
I need space, I need time
Just back off a little while
Oh, you know it's better if you never call me back

better if you never

BOOM BOOM!
track 2/10 from sunflower boy

http://smarturl.it/boomboom-single

lyrics:
you wanna grab somebody make your body go boom boom
when you feel it in your blood you better go boom boom
feel a buzz till your mind can’t follow
body rush till there was no control
body shock through the bass move closer
into one with my hands all over
catch a breath to the beat’s vibration
feel the heat with no isolation
time to sink to my feeling for you
feeling I know you feel for me, oh
you wanna grab somebody make your body go boom boom
when you feel it in your blood you better go boom boom
you wanna grab somebody make your body go boom boom
when you feel it in your blood you better go boom boom
crossing lines with my blurry vision
crashing down, lack of inhibition
fading out with intoxication
in and out, up and down, sedation
running thick, through your veins, unstable
one, two, when you go boom boom
burning up, shutting down, unable
one, two when you go boom boom
you can’t take the voluntary madness of this game
and if you see it, you believe it, rest assured you’re not insane
one another, roll the dice, it's just a pleasure to claimed
i'm the one and only fucker who can take tomorrows pain
you wanna grab somebody make your body go boom boom
when you feel it in your blood you better go boom boom
you wanna grab somebody make your body go boom boom
when you feel it in your blood you better go boom boom
i knew you'd make me feel low darling
think you sold your soul to another
it's true I knew I was starting
to open up to you as a lover
but for now I'll look on the brightside
it's not only doom
I feel a rush, something in my blood 
and now I really, really, wanna go boom boom

BOOM BOOM!

alone again, *track 5* from my sophomore album 'sunflower boy'

listen to the full album: smarturl.it/sunflowerboy

[Chorus]
Some way to break it
I’m a fool just to claim
I’m not giving it up, I’m not giving it up
I’m not giving it up to be alone again
Love starts to waiver
Drift apart just to fail
You by giving it up, you by giving it up
You by giving it up to be alone again

[Verse]
I don’t wanna go home tonight
Cause my words make bitter times all the bitter
Flash back to the back streets thinking that I’ll call for you
I don’t know if I meant it, but I’ll consider (ah)
Lifestyle with the right style, I just gotta
Pipe down till it’s right now, meanwhile
Imma unpile all my things that I got
Packed on my back that I carried for lifetime
Lifestyle with the right style, I just gotta
Pipe down till it’s right now, meanwhile
Imma unpile all my things that I got
Packed on my back that I carried for lifetime

[Chorus]
Some way to break it
I’m a fool just to claim
I’m not giving it up, I’m not giving it up
I’m not giving it up to be alone again
Love starts to waiver
Drift apart just to fail
You by giving it up, you by giving it up
You by giving it up to be alone again

[Bridge]
Think back to one you know
Every second blowing up my phone
Ain't love, deep down you know
But you can't seem let go of this
Faked out with the one you call
Your lover, what a straight downfall
Uncover all the lies you told
So I don't have to waste my time

[Chorus]
Some way to break it
I’m a fool just to claim
I’m not giving it up, I’m not giving it up
I’m not giving it up to be alone again
Love starts to waiver
Drift apart just to fail
You by giving it up, you by giving it up
You by giving it up to be alone again

[Outro]
You said take time, don’t fix her
Your love strikes hard, you tricked her
You made your bed you sleep in every night
Don't tell me nothing
You called to tell me something
Your words dig deep you’re bluffing
Her love don’t mean a thing 
When she don’t wanna tell me nothing

alone again

YAYYYYYYY! first official single!! out on apple and Spotify!

CATCH ME NOW (feat. A R I E)

I Want It.

idc, never mind

[Verse}
I’ve been looking for something
Even though it hurts me sometimes
To give a little love don’t mean hurting
But the bad ones corrupted my mind

[Pre-Chorus]
Do you want me to say thank you, please stay?
‘Cause I’m honestly so proud of you, I’m proud of you
But you lied so it all means nothing at all
Pain is the way that I’ll learn to forget what you did to me

[Chorus]
You didn’t call me to tell me you’re sorry
The day your friend told me you lied
It kills me to know you don’t love me at all
But I said I don’t care never mind
It’s nothing that’s new to me ‘cause nobody’s true to me
But I just can’t leave this behind
It kills me to know you don’t love me at all
But I said I don’t care never mind
I said I don’t care never mind

[Verse]
Feels like searching forever
So I just settled one time
One time turned to forever
Even though it killed me inside

[Pre-Chorus]
Back and forth we said, thank god we met
We set up to fail with a lie to me, a lie to you
But you led me on, and you know it was wrong
I cannot change that you went out your way to regret
All that you’ve done

[Chorus]
You didn’t call me to tell me you’re sorry
The day your friend told me you lied
It kills me to know you don’t love me at all
But I said I don’t care never mind
It’s nothing that’s new to me ‘cause nobody’s true to me
But I just can’t leave this behind
It kills me to know you don’t love me at all
But I said I don’t care never mind
I said I don’t care never mind

[Interlude]
I said I don’t care never mind
I said I don’t care never mind

[Outro]
You didn’t call me to tell me you’re sorry
The day your friend told me you lied
It kills me to know you don’t love me at all
But I said I don’t care never mind
I said I don’t care never mind

I don't care, never mind

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