Produced by Mark Xenophontos 

Lyrics by Mark Xenophontos

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Summer is hard and full of temptation
A season where the haves have it better than ever
A season where the lonely break into pieces
I can't deal with it, seeing her just tears me apart
She's laughing in the sun with someone new
While I'm watching from the shadows, nothing I can do

Out of my depth and out of my reach
Gave up on the swiping, but I don't care
But I'd rather die alone than be another number in a vicious cycle
I choose my suffering over being a number

It's a mess
Ten years on the screen and the story is always the same
There's always another option
There's always something better in their eyes
That's the illusion of choice
The illusion of death

Years of swiping, years of hope
Years of messages that helped me cope
Until the silence came, until they disappeared
Into someone else's bed, someone else's dreams
The pattern never breaks, it just repeats
Another face, another ghost, another heart that beats
For anyone but me

It's a mess
Ten years on those things and the story is always the same
There's always another option
There's always something better in their eyes
That's the illusion of choice
The illusion of death

The ones at the top of the pyramid will always get it good
At the expense of what?
All those begging for a chance
They get the matches, we get the silence
They get the dates, we get the violence
It's a sick world
Built on our loneliness

God save me from myself
Save me from the temptation
Save me from the pain
I'm praying for a way out
If there's a way
God save me from myself
Save me from the summer
Save me

It's a mess
Ten years on those things and the story is always the same
There's always another option
There's always something better in their eyes
That's the illusion of choice
The illusion of death
When nothing's ever enough

Bring on the summer time
Bring on the summer time
Bring on the heat that burns
Bring on the truth that hurts
Bring on the summer time
I'll face it alone
Bring on the summer time
I choose my suffering

Illusion of Death

[Verse 1]
For ages I stayed frozen,
Locked inside this sleepless stone.
A fading spark, drifting alone —
I swore I’d never drown your flame.
But now I feel you call my name,
This endless gray begins to fall,
Your quiet fire melts it all.

[Pre-Chorus 1]
I feel your ember under my skin,
A hidden fire pulling me in.

[Chorus]
Just like a spark,
You turn my shadows to ashes,
You warm the cold in my veins.
So hold me once more,
I feel my darkness unravel,
Won’t you set me alight in your flame?

[Verse 2]
It’s that fever I can’t outrun,
High like the stars, wild like the sun.
A reckless pull that spins me thin,
It hums so soft, it draws me in.
I’m caught inside this restless ember,
Bound in your spell — I surrender.
Your fire hides deep in my core.
I see it burn in every sign,
We reap the light we choose to find.
I taste your glow across the night.
I know this truth, it carves me clean,
A beast’s wild heart in a dreamer’s scene —
So darling, will you set me free?

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I feel this ember waking inside,
Your heat a promise I can’t hide.

[Chorus]
Just like a spark,
You turn my shadows to ashes,
You warm the cold in my veins.
So hold me once more,
I feel my darkness unravel,
Won’t you set me alight in your flame?

[Bridge]
No one can swear what’s written ahead,
Maybe we’re dust in a fleeting dance.
But when I reach for tomorrow’s thread,
I hear your whisper, feel my chance.

[Extended Chorus]
Just like a spark,
You turn my shadows to ashes,
You warm the cold in my veins.
So hold me once more,
I feel my darkness unravel,
Won’t you set me alight in your flame?
Burn me bright beneath this moon,
Carve my name where night is strewn.

[Outro]
So blaze over me — oh, oh-oh,
Blaze over me — oh-oh-oh,
Blaze over me — oh, oh-oh,
Blaze over me — let it roar.
Blaze over me — oh, oh-oh,
Blaze over me — take me whole,
Blaze over me — let it soar,
Blaze over me — forevermore.

Ember of You

I Dont Care

Nowhere To Run

And The Power Chord Was Born

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Break my walls, break my pain
Even if it hurts, I’ll stand again
ここから始まる
Can you feel it? 命の音


I’ll scream your name, もう逃げられない
Take your aim, lock your eyes
It’s now or never—ignite!

FLARE! 火を灯せ, break the silence, tear the sky
FLARE! 闇を裂く, even if we’re bound to die
FLARE! This is our moment, our blood is screaming
FLARE! Keep on believing—FLARE!

Falling down but never break me
I won’t stop, I won’t stop!
影を超えて
I’m on fire, feel the blaze!

No more fear, 失うことない
Louder than the pain inside
Take my hand, 今信じて
It’s do or die tonight!

FLARE! 火を灯せ, break the silence, tear the sky
FLARE! 闇を裂く, even if we’re bound to die
FLARE! This is our moment, our blood is screaming
FLARE! Keep on believing—FLARE!

Take my hand and burn with me!
永遠の火

FLARE!
FLARE!
We’ll never die, 永遠の火!
FLARE!

…flare… ずっと…

FLARE

A Call to Trust

Before It’s Real

Number07

Pulse of My Art

Wheels spinning on the blacktop road
Ashes fall where the memories explode
Every mile a ghost
Every sign a lie
Burn the map no direction to try...

Let's Go And Say Goodbye

Winnipeg composer, retired from the farm, still chasing meaning in melody. My work lives where TV cues meet YouTube soundscapes, with a few albums in between. Built in Mixcraft Pro, fuelled by late-night coffee, stubborn curiosity, and a Stoic’s sense of timing. Also writing on politics, history, and philosophy, because sound isn’t my only instrument.

Before It’s Real

Wayne Mathison