Techno Vocal Melodies

[intro]
Sit with the flame ‘til the wick says when
Fed by the loss, not the where or the win
Truth ain’t deep, it’s juss dumb it's juss near
In the breath, in the blink, in the muddled fear

[verse 1]
Cup full of nothin’, sip slow, taste fate
Chasin’ some peace like it owes me, mate
Clouds don’t answer, but the puddle knows
Reflections lie while they wear my clothes

I walked through fire with a grin and some tea
Burnt both lips tryna sip belief
Let go, they say, like ain't that neat
But I’m stitched to the itch by the prayer beneath

[pre-chorus]
Mind like a maze in a paper bag
Breath go deep but the thoughts come back
Truth ain’t loud it’s the space between
The word I said and the one I mean

[chorus]
Burn me slow, make the fire wise
Carve my name in the smoke, not sky
Ashes fall in the shape of me
Purpose ain’t found, it’s what you bleed

Fill my bowl with empty things
Hunger’s a bell when the silence rings
Sip what’s left of the echo’s song
Suffering taught me where I’m from

[verse 2]
Big man talk with a pebble tongue
Flexed on fate, got a lesson sung
Humbled fast like a monk with rent
Chose stillness ‘cause the war was spent

I bowed to a lamp post, thanked the fog
Made peace with the glitch in good
Still search deep like a lost regret
Found a pearl in this cigarette

[bridge]
I don’t want grace, I want real
I don’t want hope, I wanna feel
I don’t want faith, I want fall
I don’t want gold, I want it all

[chorus]
Burn me slow, make the fire wise
Carved my name in the smoke, not skies
Ashes fall in the shape of me
Purpose ain’t found, it’s what you bleed

Fill my bowl with empty things
Let the silence crown the king
I came with a wound and left with a grin
Still sufferin' but I let light in

[outro]
Hunger makes a better good now
Than comfort ever did

Empty Bowl (melodic techno mix)

[intro]
Midnight hums beneath the ribs, a pendulum of prayer
Silence tastes like iron, like the Lord forgot to care
I light one match for memory, another for deceit
The third I save for mercy, if it lives in me beneath

[verse 1]
Walls whisper psalms of plaster and bone
Each echo a sermon the dead have intoned
A chalice of dust where the wine should be
A choir of moths mouthing “set me free”
Faith is a fever dressed in gold leaf
Grace is a thief that sleeps with grief

[pre-chorus]
Come on, come on
Rise from the crypt of your doubt
Come on, come on
Breathe in the dark, breathe it out

[chorus]
Wrap the night around me, crown me in ache
Let my sins be the stars in the heaven they break
If suffering’s the sermon, then pain is the prayer
And hope is the ghost still kneeling there

[verse 2]
The heart is a metronome buried alive
Keeping time for the dead to survive
Ravens roost where the angels fell
Feathers of scripture, ink from hell
I saw my reflection in the virgin’s tears
A vision of God through the smoke of my fears

[bridge]
Gethsemane burns through cathedral glass
The chalice overflows with what cannot last
Every martyr meets their mirror at the gate
And calls the silence by its proper name, fate

[chorus 2]
Fold the dark around me, fold me in flame
If mercy remembers, it won’t be the same
I am the altar, the ash, and the lamb
And tortured hope says “I still am"

[reprise]
Midnight exhales the matchlight dies
The pendulum swings between our lies
And somewhere, in the black between
Love hums softly, half divine, half obscene

Litany for the Living

[verse 1]
I grew up with a mask, like it came in the mail
Smile painted on tight, but the truth felt stale
Old wounds hit quick, like a slow punch through da veil
Hands shaking at the memory, heartbeat frail
I was raised in a house where the love felt tilted
Where the silence got loud while blame got shifted
Trauma sewed in proud, so my soul got twisted
Became a guest in my body while the world downshifted
Learned jokes as a shield, learned wit as a weapon
Learned to read a room fast just to dodge and keep steppin
Turned pain into rhythm, turned fear into drive
Swore someday I’d thrive... just to feel alive

[verse 2]
Shadow on my back when the sun dipped low
Tried to drown the hurt with a bottle’s slow glow
Night felt safe when the pulse ran cold
Lost in a ritual I couldn’t control
Danced with the poison like I owed it a debt
Made peace with the panic I could never forget
Chased numb like a paycheck I hadn’t earned yet
Everything I loved turned to quiet regret
But in the pit of that storm where the old self bled
Heard a whisper in the static that said, “Lift your head”
So I clawed for the dawn with a half-dead roar
Full of shame, full of rage, but I aimed for more

[hooK]
Lift me up now, beats go boom
Heartbeat kicking in the dead-night gloom
Hands reach high when the dark feels doomed
We don’t fade out, we bloom, resume
Say whoa, whoa, break that sky
Say whoa, whoa, testify
Catch that spark where the pain subsides
Turn this ache into a rising tide
Turn this ache into a rising tide
Turn this ache into a rising tide

[verse 3]
Recovery ain’t clean; it’s a gravel-road climb
Where the flashbacks hit like a glitch in time
I rebuilt my heart with a splintered spine
Sewed truth to the fabric of a life misaligned
I forgave who I was, not the ones who broke me
Cut ties to the motherfuckers that choke me
Now I speak on the pain like the pain still knows me
But I walk in the light like the light chose me
Still haunted on nights when the shadows breathe
Still patching up holes where the shame seeps in
But hope grows wild where the scars run deep
And I rise from the dirt that they thought I’d keep in

[hook]
Lift me up now, beats go boom
Heartbeat kicking in the dead-night gloom
Hands reach high when the dark feels doomed
We don’t fade out, we bloom, resume
Say whoa, whoa, break that sky
Say whoa, whoa, testify
Catch that spark where the pain subsides
Turn this ache into a rising tide
Turn this ache into a rising tide
Turn this ache into a rising tide

Trauma

Shadows & Fire

Clockwork Elves

Very little is ever just one thing...

--BEWARE--
Unearned Wisdom
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Smiling Glad-Hands

Empty Bowl (melodic techno mix)

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