Name: Doesn't Matter by DJRalphieJJ
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Description: Another warning to those that act callously or with blind ambition- not necessarily maliciously... just driven... to take account periodically, cause even if you didn't mean to step on others- it may still come back to haunt you.

This track brings the meaning of true love forward. It has a vibe that will attract listeners of all ages.

One More Chance

Another warning to those that act callously or with blind ambition- not necessarily maliciously... just driven... to take account periodically, cause even if you didn't mean to step on others- it may still come back to haunt you.

Doesn't Matter

Music lyric video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7xJxjDHXI

2022

the Watchers feat. Laura Delogu (Italy)

Slippery Hearts

The Walk To The Cross

April Rain

Waterfalls

GO ON IN

Produced by Mark Xenophontos 

Lyrics by Mark Xenophontos 

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Friday combustion in my chest tonight
Burning from the inside, losing sight
Of who I used to be before this maze
Before I torched my life in seven days

The pain's become the only voice I trust
It feeds on everything I thought I knew
I'm cracking at the seams, about to bust
While lovers walk like they've got something to prove

How did I get to this place?
Staring at my own disgrace
Time and chances slip away
Nothing left for me to say

Standing on the edge tonight!
Screaming at the static!
You trying to tell me something?
'Cause I can't hear You anymore
I can't hear You anymore!

If You're out there in the static
Pull me from this automatic
'Cause I won't make it through tonight
Won't make it through without You

Neon signs and 3 AM
Scrolling through my ghosts again
Should have listened when you called my name
Now I'm drowning in the shame

Mirror shows a stranger's face
Lost inside this empty space
Looking up but falling down
Silent screams without a sound

How did it get this dark?
Years of missing every mark
Chances scattered in the storm
Tell me where the broken go to heal?

Standing on the edge tonight!
Searching for a sign, a light!
You trying to reach me somehow?
'Cause I can't hear You anymore
I can't hear You anymore!

If You're out there in the static
Pull me from this automatic
'Cause I won't make it through tonight
Won't make it through without You

Friday combustion
Mind's destruction
Lost connection
Need resurrection

Static fills the empty space
Can't remember your embrace
Dancing on the razor's edge
Standing at the window ledge

Break me from these mental chains
Wash away the burning pain
Calling through the interference
Give me some kind of deliverance

Standing on the edge tonight!
But I can see a distant light!
Maybe You've been here all along
Maybe I've been singing the wrong song
Maybe I can hear You now!

Pull me from this frequency
Tune me to a different key
'Cause I might make it through tonight
Might make it through because of You

Friday combustion
New construction
Friday combustion
New construction

From the static comes the song
Maybe I've been wrong all along
Turn the noise into the light
Maybe I can win this fight

Maybe I can win... this fight

Friday Combustion

Another Round?

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

Music life of almosts:

-almost signed to a label out of NYC
-almost scored producer in NYC
-almost got my band's video on MTV Basement Tapes back when MTV was a thing
-almost placed a couple of songs with major artists thru NYC Pitch-A-Pro sessions
-almost scored with producers on Nashville shopping trips
-several honorable mentions in Billboard Songwriting Contests
-Honorable Mention in Musician Unsigned Band Contest.

Doesn't Matter

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