MIRAGE

this track was inspired by reading The Wager, a great true adventure story by David Grann. 

lyrics

meet me in the portrait 
down beneath the shade of tree
pack me in a suitcase
hollow out a chest built out for tea

I could be the border 
maybe you could set my scene
a painting like a raincheck 
trapped inside a submarine 

somebody is following
you better watch your back
once you lost your mind it's gone
and your incurring 
wager islands wrath 

so meet me in the rainbow 
down by the waterfront cascade
where beaux jack a dandies 
stole all the hearts from those who prayed

we could be important 
when our discoveries unveiled 
hook me up to morphine girl 
and I'll put up the bail

somebody is following 
you better watch your back
once you lost your mind it's gone
and your incurring wager islands wrath 

so meet me in the portrait 
we'll set sail at crescent moon
you can be the cannon
ball and I'll provide the boom

look out for me this summer 
when all the seas have frozen cold
you can be the treasure map
and I'll provide the gold


thanks for listening, greatly appreciated as always.


Wager Island (Acoustic)

Conspiracy

YOU EMBED A WIRE UP IN MY BRAIN
(music and words by The Ox Prison)

Way down inside
I can read your lies
Your face is still
But it’s in your eyes

You cast a spell
On the universe
You drive around
In your rainbow hearse

Up in my brain
You embed a wire
The microwaves
Set my mind on fire
You fly so high
Like the evil drones
You dwell within
Ghostly skull and bones

You dress so nice
Million-dollar shoes
You have your men 
On the evening news

You care so much
About the working class
You hug the kids
And you attend the mass
A day will come
When you need to go
It comes for everyone
You’d better save your soul

Way down inside
I can read your lies
Your face is still
But it’s in your eyes

Tora – Bass
Jimmy D – Drums
Mikey P – Guitars, Vocal, Keys


You Embed A Wire Up In My Brain

I think perspective is important but ends up seemingly difficult to attain. Being so self absorbed that you cannot understand or at times even see other people/nature ends up with a fertile ground for sensless persecution/discrimination . Perspective I think will make you humble and humility will allow empathy to grow


lyrics

Ok now, let's keep it simple
you're born,you live ,you die
I hate to inform you but
there isn't any  particular reason why

yes..you are important for sure
but guess what?? so is everything else on this small world

you are not above..you are not below
you are just part of a bigger show

if you don't see eye to eye
with someone else's view
remember you are part of them  as much as they are part of you

so live your life as you see fit
and leave everyone else to find their own niche
and if you still don't see eye to eye
please try to see heart to heart

I think that might work

keep it simple

My EP SUPERNOVA contains two Japanese songs, and this is one of them. I have never released a song in Japanese before, but I took the plunge and decided to release these. It's a song recorded in one take with my acoustic guitar and vocal. The tempo is middle tempo (I didn't use the metronome function so I don't know the BPM). 3m58s. The main genre is Folk. This is a gentle and slightly blue song. Link to major platforms : https://linkco.re/E2aRhZS6

Lyrics : (Alright)

悲しい湖を通り過ぎ
僕は明日へと辿り着く
もし僕が人生を捨てたなら
あなたは三度笑うでしょう

Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be

見知らぬ人に笑われて
僕は明日から戻るでしょう
僕の果てなき探究は
きっとあなたへと帰ってゆく

Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be

涙を見たくて
涙を流したくてOh
僕は僕は
きっと戻るね

悲しい湖を通り過ぎ
僕は明日へと辿り着く
もし僕が人生を捨てたなら
あなたは三度笑うでしょう

Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be
Let forever be

FOREVER BE

Et voilà, il est là ! 
🕊️ Envol — par Lena Normane

🌒 Longtemps restées dans l’ombre, ces chansons ont attendu leur heure. 
📓 Des mélodies écrites sur les coins d’un cahier, des mots griffonnés dans une chambre d’adolescente, des émotions retenues qui aujourd’hui s’échappent. 
✨ "Envol" n’est pas une fuite — c’est un dévoilement.

🎶 Ce premier EP est celui d’une femme sensible, passionnée, qui a gardé ses secrets en musique. 
💔 Chaque titre est un fragment de mémoire, un battement de cœur, un appel discret à ceux qui aiment les mots qui vibrent.

🦋 Des amours fragiles, des rêves qu’on n’a jamais osé abandonner — Lena Normane libère enfin ses chansons comme on libère des papillons dans la nuit.

🌬️ "Envol" : c’est ce moment où l’on ose. Et où l’on espère être entendu.

🕊️ Envol — by Lena Normane

🌒 Long hidden in the shadows, these songs have waited for their moment. 📓 Melodies scribbled in the margins of a notebook, words jotted down in a teenage bedroom, emotions once held back now breaking free. ✨ Envol is not an escape — it’s a revelation.

🎶 This debut EP belongs to a woman who is sensitive, passionate, and who has kept her secrets in music. 💔 Each track is a fragment of memory, a heartbeat, a quiet call to those who love words that resonate.

🦋 Fragile loves, dreams we never dared to let go — Lena Normane finally releases her songs like butterflies set free into the night.

🌬️ Envol: it’s that moment when you dare. And when you hope to be heard.<qq<z

Destination partout

Forever

Second Chance

here comes a very personal plea, which is not meant to be personal at all:

don't make AI a tool for deception, fraud, and fake. 

that's massively unfair to all the artists who invest 1000 times more effort, time, and talent in their work to earn respect and get paid on platforms like spotify & co. and it's disrespectful to every listener who celebrates you for something that wasn't created or performed by you but by a machine: whether music or lyrics or images or all of the above.

over 20% of all music uploaded to spotify and others is now AI-generated, and this figure is rising rapidly. that's fine, as long as it is clearly marked. but I doubt anyone will be willing to pay even a penny for music in the future without clear indication of whether it came from a machine at the touch of a button.

there are plenty of free AI detectors on the internet that anyone can use to check in seconds whether a song is AI-generated. but do we really need these control devices and an 'authenticity police force' that only fuels mutual mistrust? way better:

stop cheating! be honest with people. be honest with yourself.

being transparent about your use of AI makes you much greater than AI will ever make you – greater than the illusory bubble with which you try to shine on the social media stage, like wearing a superman/wonder woman costume at carnival until you start believing you really are wonder woman/superman.

just as synths, rhythm machines, samplers, digital recording technologies, and stuff, once did, AI is opening up entirely new possibilities for creativity. it’s up to you to make it an art form, or just artificial.

here it is as music. written & templated by me, performed by suno 4.5+

ICH KANN SPRECHEN, WIE DU SPRICHST
JEDE SPRACHE AUS DEM NICHTS
ICH MAL BILDER, FANTASIEN
SCHAFFE NEUE SYMPHONIEN
ICH BIN SCHNELLER, BESSER, SCHLAUER
MACHE ALLES VIEL GENAUER 
WEIL ICH EINFACH FUNKTIONIER 
UND AUF KNOPFDRUCK FASZINIER
ICH KANN TÄUSCHEND GLAUBHAFT LÜGEN
ALLE WAHRHEITEN VERBIEGEN
AUS VERSAGERN HELDEN MACHEN
ALLESKÖNNER KRASSER SACHEN
ICH MACH KLEINE GEISTER GROSS
LASSE KRANKE TRÄUME LOS
SCHAMLOS BLENDEN UND GERISSEN
KEINE SEELE, KEIN GEWISSEN
JEDER NOCH SO ARME ZWERG
SCHAFFT DURCH MICH EIN GROSSES WERK
WÄRST DU GERNE EIN GENIE?

KEIN PROBLEM, DU NULL 
ICH BIN KI

TRANSLATION?
NO PROB!

I CAN SPEAK THE WAY YOU DO
ANY LANGUAGE, NOT JUST A FUCKING FEW
SPIT OUT PICTURES AND FANTASIES
ANY KIND OF SYMPHONIES
WHO THE FUCK WAS MOZART?
TELL ME WHY SHOULD ONE WORK HARD?
I AM FASTER, BETTER, SMARTER
I'M A REVOLUTION STARTER
BECAUSE I WORK; YOU JERK!
I AM FASCINATING AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON
I CAN LIE DECEPTIVELY BELIEVABLY
I CAN TWIST ALL TRUTHS
TURN LOSERS INTO HEROES
TURN DICKHEADS INTO BEAUTIES
MAKE LITTLE WIMPS BIG
FREE SICK DREAMS WITH A CLICK
SHAMELESSLY DAZZLING AND CUNNING
WITHOUT A SOUL OR CONSCIENCE
DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT TALENTS
I DON'T CARE WHERE IT ALL ENDS
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A GENIUS?

NO PROBLEM, YOU IDIOT
IAMAI

I CAN MAKE IT, I CAN TAKE IT, I CAN BREAK IT, I CAN FAKE IT
BECAUSE I CAN
IAMAI

IAMAI

So, our friend (assuming he really is our friend) is no longer alone at home. The work week is over, it’s been a hard one. Maybe for both of them: for him, and for the woman now leaning out the window. There’s a touch of unease in the air, and it’s not necessarily connected to how things are going between them. Maybe something is about to happen. Or maybe not. The only sure thing is that they’re not interested in finding out.

This is the fourth in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short, and deliberately inconclusive tracks, assembled by combining new ideas with reworked older material, adding parts and sounds along the way. This time I struggled to make it to the end, adding and removing, changing and restoring and working to the mix. I probably messed things up a bit (thirty recorded tracks, twenty of them muted...), but never mind.

Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-1-night
Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-2-dawn
Part 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-3-noon
Part 5 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-5-night-again
Part 6 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-6-dawn-again

Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
All the ambient noises are taken from public sound archives. Saxophone is courtesy by Diamond Hues. Male vocals are mine, female by Spitfire Labs.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, September 19.

In case nothing happens - part 4 (late afternoon)*

Welcome, Bienvenue,

I am a singer, singer-songwriter, pianist and I recently started arranging. I wrote and composed several songs with a view to producing my first album and I have a lot of joy in sharing them with you here.
I'm really delighted to have joined this platform with lots of very talented artists, I'm delighted to discover your music 🎶 and it's a pleasure to be able to exchange! Thank you very much also for listening to my music, your comments and reposts which go straight to my heart ❤️
I like to cover titles from different universes ranging from pop/rock to electro through French song and bring them into my intimate universe in piano-voice. I sing international pop/rock, French song/variety, mainly, and also a little lyrical. 

🎶💕 If you want to discover my YouTube channel and subscribe, I will be delighted and will be delighted to subscribe in return :) ❤️

Je suis chanteuse, auteure compositrice interprète, pianiste et je me suis lancée depuis peu dans l’arrangement. 
J’ai écrit et composé plusieurs chansons en vue de la réalisation de mon 1er album et j’ai beaucoup de joie à vous les partager ici.
Je suis vraiment ravie d’avoir rejoint cette plateforme avec plein d'artistes très talentueux, je suis ravie de découvrir votre musique 🎶 et c’est un plaisir de pouvoir échanger ! Merci beaucoup egalement pour vos écoutes de ma musique, vos commentaires et reposts qui me vont droit au cœur ❤️
J'aime reprendre des titres d'univers différents allant de la pop/rock à l'electro en passant par la chanson française et les amener dans mon univers intimiste en piano-voix.
Je chante de la pop/rock internationale, chanson/variété française, principalement, et aussi un peu de lyrique.

🎶💕 Si vous voulez découvrir ma chaîne YouTube et vous abonner, j’en serai ravie et serai ravie de m’abonner en retour :)❤️

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