Ra - Supermegadubstep

This track is from the album Sleepwalker and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/neverwake3

Days Gone By

Abyss Pt I

Annisokay - Throne of the Sunset

March of the Crocs

This was another song I wrote during those same emotionally turbulent high school years in the mid-1980s. If "Breakin' My Heart" was about the immediate shock of betrayal, "Shattered Illusions" dug deeper into the aftermath - that hollow feeling when you realize everything you believed about someone was built on lies.

The opening line "Midnight shadows, a phone that won't ring" perfectly captured those sleepless nights, waiting for someone who was never going to call. I remember writing that verse thinking about how naive I'd been, how I'd "built castles on empty words." The metaphor felt so real to me then - all those promises and dreams just crumbling down.

What I'm proud of in this song is the pre-chorus structure. Adding that extra emotional build before hitting the chorus made the impact stronger. "Shattering my world" felt like the perfect phrase to describe how completely someone could destroy your sense of reality when you're seventeen and think you know everything about love.

The bridge represents growth - moving from victim to survivor. "I'm done with your lies, done with the pain" shows that progression from hurt to empowerment that I was learning to navigate as a teenager. The outro ties it all together with "Your love was fiction, but I'll rise from this fall" - probably the most mature line I wrote at that age.

Like my other lyrics from that time, this sat dormant for decades until AI technology gave me the opportunity to finally hear these words with music. There's something magical about bringing teenage angst full circle with today's creative tools. The song now has that dramatic, emotional sound that matches the intensity I felt when I first wrote these words.

Shattered Illusions

Samurai King

Discrepancies - Art Of War

Guitars and Programming: Alan Sacha Laskow
Bass: Brent Stutsky
Vocals (Main): Jerrod Maxwell-Lyster

Recorded, Produced, Mixed and Mastered: Alan Sacha Laskow at Perfect Filth Productions
Additional Production and Engineering: Robert Kukla

Music: Alan Sacha Laskow
Lyrics and Vocals: Jerrod Maxwell-Lyster

Lend me your ear quickly
I have a thought
One of those lightbulbs flickering
On and off, wires crossed
Assemble the thugs
Treat them
Give them the world
Hate is a burden of the saddened man
They’re all in the room, now gas ‘em out

Chorus:
Envision the sign
Your fears are non-existent
Moments alive
It’s how forever pushes on
Envision the prize
We’re beggars impersonating soldiers and more
Affording things, we can’t afford

The genesis high feeds them
Appealing as all hell
Completing what we are, and what we’re for
We are the game, and we are the sport
Forget what they said, resent the point
Focus, blind
The blood on their hands will never dry
They’re all in the room now gas it

Fragile Machine

Every Hour Kills - NumLock

11 Full Circle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sx5xOQpzB8&list=PL2paZBjKqec2s0TpzieEYQrndG306MsRx&index=17&t=0s

Nekrogoblikon - We've Had Enough

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