Mind Fight - Tom Cardy

Will Wood - Cicada Days (Live)

This song appears in the 2nd act of a 3 act Musical we've written entitled The Raven Locks. "Evergreen" is a duet featuring Kate and Neil DeGraide on vocals. The Raven Locks Act 2 will be available on September 30th 2014.
Kate DeGraide - Vocalist
Neil DeGraide - Vocalist, Piano, Keys, Cello, Double Bass, Bass and Guitar.
Alex O'Nan - Drums
Gabe Lewis - Violins

Dirt Poor Robins - "Evergreen" (unmastered)

1 Steamboat Shenanigans

Looking back on life and its highs and lows and what was worth it and what wasn't

Wasted Life

A violinist plays his song with passion and vibrato
but when I try to sing along, it's like I'm singing solo
the cinema in Chelsea plays films with heartbreak and yearning
but when I breathe the air it tastes like charcoal, ash, and burning
I don't go to hospitals, no there I dare not tread
for a place that's saving lives, it holds so many dead.

Am I insane, or am I just different? 
Do I need glasses that block out the light?
They would have shades to block out the darkness
that always is perched at the edge of my sight.

When I walk up the stairs at school I leave a trail of mud
but soon my sneakers start to swell and overflow with
fluid that's hot and red, sticky and staining and
maybe it's okay, maybe I'm not just going crazy
but is it worse to bear a curse and see what no one else sees?
people made of mist are nice, although they have no hearts in
I only wish that some of them would keep their body parts in.

Am I insane, or am I just different? 
Do I need glasses that block out the light?
They would have shades to block out the darkness
that always is perched at the edge of my sight.

Transparent skeletons, blood clear as glass, and the echoing screeches of souls who have passed.
Why is this happening, why can't they see it, how long must I suffer, how long will it last?

Am I insane, or am I just different? 
Do I need glasses that block out the light?
They would have shades to block out the darkness
that always is perched at the edge of my sight.

Glasses

Say hello to your new ultimate history jam, folks. Get down to the funky beats with Frederick the Great, king of Prussia.

Special thanks to the amazing Stephanie Guralnick and Declan Ryan for playing violin and piano, respectively.

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When I was young, I tried to run from fate
I ran but I tripped and I fell
and destiny got the best of me
so I took it and I wore it well.
I put down my flute, I picked up my gun
and though i’ve fought more wars than I’ve won
I don’t pick and choose cause if I lose I’ll just come back again
say hello to Silesia!

When I was young I loved a boy
and so my father put a bullet through his head.
I had to watch and so I thought, I would learn to love the state instead.
Love the land as long as you own it, 
love the throne as long as long as it’s your throne, it doesn’t matter.
Love the crown as long as it’s upon your head, 

or until you’re dead, dead. Buried in the ground.
six feet under a glittering crown.
Dead, dead, better dig it down.
Down down down.

So you think you can take me? You think you can break me down?
You think you can make me? You think you can take me out?
You think you can beat me? Well, Maria Theresa thought so too.
I’m the soldier son of the soldier king so hey, you wanna go in the ring? Go!

So what am I to you? A crown? A name? 
I did what I could do, you’d do the same.
I fought and I expanded, I taught the empty-handed
To grow a newer world on land that I won
(one) second of you life is all it takes to win to lose to make a mistake
If you wanna do what you can, you gotta make the plans
You gotta do it all, make the tough calls.
There’s a way the world works. Everything is just so
My empire’s empirical and data is a must, so
I read up and I bring it down and
I rose up and I took the crown and
Who’d’ve thought a poet, a quiet child could go it
In the ring as a king, well that’s the thing!

When I am alive, they’ll bow to me
And when I’m dead they’ll bow to my grave.
They’ll never say I didn’t try
And they’ll never say that I wasn’t brave.
They’ll remember me after I’m late, 
There’s a reason why they call me The Great.
Potatoes or politics, take your pick
I got both on my resume. Hey!


Now, I run my nation with justification of my actions and facts to back me up
cause I’m enlightened. Don’t be frightened if I seem a bit unnerving
let me tell you, I’m deserving of my power ‘cause I wield it like a king
class and status ain’t gonna give you brains,
you gotta have what it takes and make your own damn way to the top
I know that I was born into this crown, 
but I am sailing like a ship where other monarchs have drowned.
So you can dirty my name, make me into a god
to cleanse your Germany of vermin, well I guess you forgot
that I read my Voltaire, and I know that nothing national
can ever beat the fact that man is rational.
So if I gotta go down in history, then history is going down with me!

So you think you can take me? You think you can break me down?
You think you can make me? You think you can take me out?
You think you can beat me? Well, Maria Theresa thought so too.
I’m the soldier son of the soldier king so hey, you wanna go in the ring? Go!

The Great

Demo for Ludo's Broken Bride. An official selection of NYMF 2016!

Save Our City [DEMO] - Full

A cover I did of the Crystal Kingdom song from The Adventure Zone, plus a tiny bonus "bridge" in the middle that I wrote. So it's sort of a cover, and sort of not? 
Also, I was totally gonna robo-tize my voice, but with the wicked high notes in this song, I couldn't find any filters in Garageband that weren't so ear piercing. So instead just enjoy my regular old voice with some cool reverb!

Crystal Kingdom (Cover)

Midwestern-gothic story of a small town, haunted and hunted by a man-snatching Jolene. Re-imagining of 'Jolene' by Dolly Parton.
(More to come in this genre)
Cover animation by: gravity-is-a-sketchy-lie@tumblr.com

Jolene (A Cautionary Tale)

MidasComplex