Written and produced by @vibesbynikhil
Mixed and Mastered by @kevincarafa

Training Wheels

Like I Will

I was bored and decided to cover one of my favorite songs by one of my biggest inspirations. Hope you guys enjoy!

Self Control (Frank Ocean Cover)

Kaanapali

Written by @vibesbynikhil
Produced and Mixed by @decria
Mastered by Simon Hestermann: http://www.simonhestermann.com/

Andromeda [prod. Decria]

Guava

Written, produced, and recorded by Nikhil
Additional production by @decria
Additional guitars by Arthur Gibrananto
Drums by Luke Kuppan
Mixed and mastered by Kevin Carafa

Lyrics:
I keep writing the right songs for the wrong ears
My best friend says I’m wise beyond my years
Investments would seem to go to waste without you
You cure these sore eyes and runny nose
Your picture’s on my door and
Common sense becomes so foreign

Lemme paint a picture amarillo, lake house when we were little
Hot summer no El Niño, padres lit the cigarillos, those Swisher Sweets, you feelin me? 
Four years and count that’s our history
You don’t get sick I’m your antihistamine 
Stay at the Sheraton when you need Claritin-D

Sometimes I play with my old guitar
Sometimes I’ll count all these faded scars
To see we’ve come so far
My ears don’t like the quiet, I can’t sleep in the silence
I’d rather hear the violence in your mind

How many times will I wake up to a humming fan and broken clocks?
A shot of OJ in my cup? Free of pulp
A year’s gone by, lost another friend
That makes five, used to be ten
At fifteen, I wanted to be a man. Now I’m nineteen and can’t go back again

Feels like cloud nine
Feels so divine
And I know that we, don’t drive Bugatti, give me time

Avenues

Matte Black Bugatti

Written, produced, and recorded by Nikhil
Mixed and mastered by Kevin Carafa

Lyrics:
Constellations on your dermis
Serve no purpose on the surface
But to be a burden on my restraint

Do you worship our inertia?
Repaint the walls within the culture
Wearing different skins
Ain’t no room for mea culpas
When not committing any sins

Don’t get yesterday involved
We’ll conversate about the moment
Your presence is a lens with custom tinted roses

Beyond a sky, we dissolve
Ascend through clouds that drape like oceans
Overcasting emotions, you could never be a burden

And it’s unbearable
(Adhering to my mental)
Putting fire to my pen
(Find comfort in a friendzone)
Developing my character
(For fear of losing backbone)

Making beelines for that E line
(Investigate your temples)
To keep out of the snowfall
(Erected out of milestones)
Make you come out your Levi’s
(Never lost a backbone)

On greener grass, we might erode
Still whoop your ass 
On Rainbow Road tonight
You won’t put up a fight

Misplace minute hands (for you)
Arythmic metronomes (for you)
This song demands
That we detour home tonight
Catch you in a fortnight, pray that it’s a brief lightyear

This home could house these feels
These walls is way too real 
(Speak my truth over an 808. Mix, master, and celebrate)
The latent function of these Kleenex
Your muddy iris, that’s a weakness

I never know it til I see it
You hold your tongue, you’ve never seen shit
Reese’s Pieces double-helix
Heavens above. This is when we roam

To Uproot A Dandelion

Written, produced, and recorded by Nikhil
Mixed and mastered by Kevin Carafa

Lyrics:
To uproot a dandelion is to kill a weed/dream
And nothing you say can change that, issa fact
My youth was still intact when we laid there on the couch at ******* birthday party
Near but distant, close yet far
And I still don the scars of what we lost but a year ago 
And it’s all good, I don’t mean to bring it up, but it’s something you should know
Hickory, dickory, dock, keep your eye on the clock
When that shit strikes one a mouse runs down
Like he has somewhere to be
Poor thing
Wonder what’s got him so shook 
Tiny boy

Tiny Boy

Written, produced, and recorded by Nikhil
Mixed and mastered by Kevin Carafa

Lyrics:
Rise, my baby, this overcast is news to me
Could venture, isles of palm trees, but we let this jet lag in between
The waves once left me speechless, now monotonous beaches of my dreams
No wasted moments on my time

Acne hides on head behind my bangs
Ham from yesterday between my fangs
Chunked the sucker on the downswing
Sky drips through the clouds, that’s everything
Might rip my skin off in the morning
Make it easier to know me
It’s been a handful of days since I plotted on a runaway
11 in a row like I got dogs on the way
I was sorta late, you always hit me with “andalé”
Hanging by a thread, get slept by a gamma ray
Might rip my skin off in the morning
What I would give for you to know me

Acne hides on head behind my bangs
Ham from yesterday between my fangs
Chunked the sucker on the downswing
Sun drips through the clouds, that’s everything
Might rip my skin off in the morning
Make it easier to know me
It’s been a handful of days since I plotted on a runaway
11 in a row like I got dogs on the way
I was sorta late, you always hit me with “andalé”
Hanging by a thread, get slept by a gamma ray
Can’t hide my tears in the matineé
I see you been down the whole week
Drown that, put morphine in your streams
Peace to the cursed, not the holy
Gold skies feel matrimonial
Spray your neck, I smell it in stereo
Olfaction overdrive, your pheromones
Snatch my soul and snack like it’s Cheerios
No wasted moments on my time

Brother, do you know my love?
Mother, know my trust
Father, would it be unjust
To have forever, before I turn to dust?

Written, produced, and recorded by Nikhil
Mixed and mastered by Kevin Carafa

Lyrics:
How come I come alive
On the avenues at night?
After street lights come to life, they catalyze
Every time you’re a pedestrian of my mind

You and me
We’re not used to this mirage
We wish upon a flying rock
How’d that turn out for Pteranodon?

You love my eccentricity, you shake your feet to fall asleep
I’ll cut my teeth before a ring if smiles are few and far between
But they’re not few and far between
We’re just a couple finite beings
We’re stranded somewhere in between 
But Imma still swish this Listerine and lean in

I had a dream about the ocean
We found ourselves out in that open
But that’s not our frontier, now is it dear?
Cleary, we’re broken, maybe, we’re frozen
In time, you’ll know when to turn off your firewall
Don’t dip your toes in. Can’t you see that I dove in headfirst? 
If this was our last sunset, you know there is nothing
Nothing
Nothing would hurt me more than if you said goodbye

Nikhil

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