An old song that I've never played live, but I recorded it one dark autumn night and like to hear it now and then...

Lyrics:
Don't write it down in blood 
It doesn't make it real
Don't write it down on stone
And think it will last  the year

You know where I'm coming from
The words have all been said 
And the deeds have been done
It's no crime
It's just the passing of time

In Part 'A' there was just space
Don't talk about that hole
Summer seems so far
With the sparklers and the coal

We both know I've let you down something terrible
The only way through it was to break it down into something edible
So we did, so we could live

In Part 'B' there were great flames
They would flicker against skin
And if you closed your eyes
They would destroy everything

For all intents and for all purposes
It is strengths or weaknesses that cause these disturbances
No Soul I Know Could Live Without...

No Soul I Know Could Live Without Love

This is the 2nd track from my debut EP 'Modern Life Is Lies', released on Friday 20th May 2016.

Music has always been running through the inner most part of me.  It consoles me when I am down, it motivates me, encourages me, and makes the best days even better.  In 2014 though, I decided to take things a little more seriously and I quit my job to attend Point Blank Music School in London and be taught by professionals how to produce music.

It was at the same time that I started meditating.  Part of this practice can include taking note of the thoughts running through your head and being aware of what you're thinking, and not just letting your mind run away with itself.  I started to find this useful to control my thoughts a bit more.

A few months later I found myself walking through the London underground tube and instead of being caught up in the all the rush and stress of everyone else speeding their way through the walkways, I started to chill, observe what was around me, what was happening.  I noticed the smell of the underground, something that I used to love when I came to London as a tourist.  I noticed the different decorations on the walls, the old stations, the new ones...  It made me realise how powerful the mind is and how much control we have over how we feel and react to something.

I remember a time during the summer of 2006, I was working in Manchester and we were in the middle of an amazing heatwave.  During lunches, I used to go out to these dis-used tennis courts and just sit in the sun for 30 minutes, against a wall, and think about... nothing.  I was so relaxed, and it came so naturally because I wasn't even trying.  I realised this was a time I'd kind of meditated before I even knew what it was.

There's a link between heat and feeling relaxed too... I remember in 2004, I used to be a cleaner in a supermarket from 5am till 8am and then go to a reception job from 9 until 4.  By 4:30pm, I would already be home and laid on my bed, in the spot where the sun came through the window every day, and I'd sleep for half an hour.  I would wake up feeling super relaxed. When I sing, 'I feel the sun in my sleep', I'm really thinking about that moment.

For the rest of the song though, it's really about my love of the city, how the energy can either drain you or feed you - and it's really up to you how you react to it.  It's how you can be surrounded by the craziness, and by hundreds of stressful people, yet you don't have to be sucked in and feel part of that stress, you can just take a step back, and observe, and enjoy that moment in life for what it is.  Maybe smile at someone who looks like they're having a bad day.  There's often a lot of people who looks like that on the tube.

Lyrics:
I feel the sun in my sleep
I feel the sun, I feel the heat

I’m gon' be alive, when I feel my
Mind free, get free, lost in the people
I’m gon' feel alive when I rake my
Seeds from the flowers of the purple steeple

Every time you say your truth
You grow a little inside

Mmmm slow motion
Bathing in the ocean
Of the people and the laughter
In the streets

Mmmm slow motion
Mmmm calm in the commotion
Drinks, rocks and
Harmonies and feet

While I recharge
Somethings goin' down in the city
I need this time
To cleanse my soul

While I recharge
People are spinning 'round in the city
We need this time
To feel worthwhile

When I wake up
I’m walking down to the city
I feel the waves
Washing over me

When I wake up
I’ll be venturing through the city
I wanna feel the life
It makes me feel alive inside

I’m gon' be alive, when i feel my
Mind free, get free, lost in the people
I’m gon' feel alive when i rake my
Seeds from the flowers of the purple steeple

Every time you say your truth
You grow a little inside

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Written, performed and produced by Web Sheldon.
Mastered by Nick Burchall of Audio Animals.

Web Sheldon - Purple Steeple

This is a track Hipnotic Jazz sent to me and I put down some vocals for it, we got some awesome production from Sycho Gast and a killer rap from Pteradigm as well.

@hipnoticjazz  http://hipnoticjazz.bandcamp.com
@sycho-gast-other-eps https://itunes.apple.com/tr/album/gaia/id1032488394
@websheldon http://www.websheldon.com
@pteradigm https://pteradigm.bandcamp.com/releases

This is the 4th track from the Hipnotic Jazz album "Infinitely Inconsistent".  You can stream the album and download it here:
https://hipnoticjazz.bandcamp.com/album/infinitely-inconsistent
If you pay for it, he will send you a 9 track bonus album!

To read the lyrics, visit my blog post:
http://web-sheldon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/new-song-collaboration-out-of-our.html

Hipnotic Jazz X Sycho Gast X Web Sheldon X Pteradigm - Out Of Our Control

The 5th song taken from my debut EP ‘Modern Life Is Lies', released on Friday 20th May 2016.
Available worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Bandcamp and Spotify.

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If I'm completely honest, this song just came out of nowhere.  I had some dirty electronic beats that I was messing with and a keyboard hook.  At the time of writing the lyrics, I was thinking about this studio apartment that I used to live in back in 2012 in Manchester.  I had this awesome job that I loved, living 10 minutes from work, I had loads of time for music and I was running lots and lifting weights regularly and generally just felt like I had a good control over my life.

At the time of writing, I'd played a gig a few months before in a venue called The Good Ship in North West London.  It was actually a gig my former band Bilamie had meant to play but we'd broken up a few weeks before so I decided to get my s**t together and play a solo electronic style gig.  On that night, there was an group called Of Embla @ofembla playing, the singer was called Maiken.  I already heard one of her songs online called 'Puppet' and it kind of blew me away.  It was sultry, dark, sexy, jazzy and just a combination of pure magic.  I got talking to her on that evening and we said we would work together at some point.

So I when this track came up, I asked if she'd like to sing the chorus.  When she came over to record, she brought a poem she had written called Chaos Machine.  We had a jam to incorporate it into the song and she did this awesome performance, just speaking the words to the music... I loved it and thought it fitted perfectly - she sounded powerful (like when I felt I had control over my life), the lyrics were coherent but disjointed (like the lyrics in the first part of the song) and the performance was perfect.

Raat Ka Nasha is a rough translation from Hindi meaning 'Enchanted Evening'.

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Music & production by Web Sheldon
Lyrics & performance by Web Sheldon & Maiken Marlen Sunby
Mastered by Nick Burchall of Audio Animals

www.websheldon.com

Lyrics:
Warm nights
Walls are windows wide
Gentle wind blows
Over my skin
Circulating

Indian spices, home is
Stubbed roach and rollies
In my finest wine glass
Rocks of ice

Every night is
Soft, unfocused
Long contented sighs

Every night is
Long, unfocused
Long contented sighs

Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine

City air, city noise
Summer bliss intoxicated joy
Just like my mind
Alive with
A streaming of feelings and drive
These evenings of diving and crashing and
Blissfully feeling my place
In the world

Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha

Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine

Calm, chaos
Chaos machine
Machinery
Rhythm
Rhythm and blues kitchenettwork..
Coffe shop - ping basket - ball..
Calm, chaos machin - ery - thm..

Idelogically speaking,
On behalf of..
Me? You!
The panel has spoken,
Solar panel - electricity
Chaos machinery

Web Sheldon - Raat Ka Nasha (Feat. Of Embla)

Don’t stay where you’re tolerated
Go where you’re celebrated
If the sounds you hear are dull and dated
Create what you want created

Saw you in the zone, feel the deep connection
Buzzing all fours in the natural flow
Reaching for your own slice of perfection
Your Art is Imperfect; it's a beautiful show

They say ideas appear from nowhere
Vision and sound homebound from anywhere
You know the feeling like a spark inside you
Like a thread through a portal beside you

Saw you in the zone, feel the deep connection
Buzzing full force in the natural flow
Reaching for your own slice of perfection
Your Art is Imperfect; it's a beautiful show

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Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/release/fingerprints/2260178
Traxsource - https://www.traxsource.com/title/960685/fingerprints
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Web_Sheldon_Fingerprints?id=Br3ftjlj3blbifw4mopszxxvuie&hl=en

Your Art Is Imperfect

Life Is hard
We are modern slaves
Chained to banks and cards
Life Is Hard

Life is hard
We’re in the gutter
We don’t see the stars
Life is hard

Oh remember back in the day
Our parents used to say ‘these are the best days of your lives’
And they weren’t far wrong
Don’t get me wrong
Adulting is more fun
But you gotta stay strong
You got to keep it together

Life is hard
We are Modern Slaves
Our nerves may be burnt, charred, scarred
But we are not in chains

We are not in chains
We are not in chains
We are not in chains
But what does that change?

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Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/release/fingerprints/2260178
Traxsource - https://www.traxsource.com/title/960685/fingerprints
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Web_Sheldon_Fingerprints?id=Br3ftjlj3blbifw4mopszxxvuie&hl=en

Modern Slaves

What’s your IG?
Have you seen me?
Music and political leanings
Throw in a few memes, prayer and god free
And try to be sincerely me

You’re posting more and more and building your audience
But the phones like another hand, now it’s obvious
There’s a split in the ID
Split in the ID
On ya IG

Losing Fingerprints
Erase / redefine
Justify your spin
On your Sound Life 

Check the scoring
What’s the story?
Soundtrack to a miserable morning
Or a trade for good intention
Try to push through, break the tension

You’re posting more and more, follow4follow
For sure you filter your posts like filtering negative thoughts
See the split in the ID, split in the ID
On ya IG

Losing Fingers, ohhh

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Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/release/fingerprints/2260178
Traxsource - https://www.traxsource.com/title/960685/fingerprints
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Web_Sheldon_Fingerprints?id=Br3ftjlj3blbifw4mopszxxvuie&hl=en

IG-ID

Even in the safety of your home
You’re exposed
Credit Cards ’n Chrome, instant loans
Reply enclosed

Tempted by commercial breaks
Snakes and snatching stores
Crucified in shopping centre windows
Buy and fall

We need love 
We don’t need stuff
The more we buy, the more we have to
Sell ourselves

All That Money yeah
All that money
Can't buy, can’t buy time

All that money can’t buy back time
All that money can’t buy back
All that money can’t buy back time
All that money can’t buy back
Time  

Trapped, dependant, last amendment
Should've fixed these ills
The scene we rendered only blended
Taxes and bills

Tempted by famous fakes
Endorsed through silicone
It breaks, you buy another
Throw it to the floor

We need love 
We don’t need stuff
The more we buy, the more we have to
Sell ourselves


We need love 
We don’t need stuff
The more we buy, the more we have to
Sell ourselves

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Traxsource - https://www.traxsource.com/title/960685/fingerprints
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Web_Sheldon_Fingerprints?id=Br3ftjlj3blbifw4mopszxxvuie&hl=en

All That Money Can't Buy

If there’s something that I’ve come to learn
It’s our own fault when we get burnt
Will we take responsibility? Will we learn?

If there’s something that I need to try
Crush those feelings and hold my head high
Can't be running on fire all of my life

If there’s something we should realise
They're all a mess inside too
The only difference is whether you keep on trying too

If there’s something that I’ve come to know
I make my own bed and guide my own fall
Will I accelerate or will I soften the blow?

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Traxsource - https://www.traxsource.com/title/960685/fingerprints
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Web_Sheldon_Fingerprints?id=Br3ftjlj3blbifw4mopszxxvuie&hl=en

Responsibilities

A cover of Madonna's 1986 song "La Isla Bonita".

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La Isla Bonita

I tried to change
But I couldn’t find time
I tried to adhere
Stand straight on the line

I tried to play the role
I can do sensibly
And it sounded ok
But it stank like mediocrity 

I tried to unravel, unravel, unravel, unravel
Everything that's caused this muse
I tried to unravel, unravel, unravel, unravel
Only to roll up and ravel back blue
  
I tried to abstain
But it's not to my taste
And when I return
We're gonna pick up the pace

I tried to be strong
But I'm a man on the verge
One day away
From a breakdown, word.

I tried to unravel, unravel, unravel, unravel
Everything that's caused this muse
I tried to unravel, unravel, unravel, unravel
Only to roll up and ravel back blue

Oh
I’m A Lover Not A Fighter, Oh, Oh

I fix myself up
Cos I always do
Filthy and loving
Broken and used

I try to keep hope
All the good vibes I send 
I'm a lover not a fighter
But I'll fight until the end

I tried to unravel, unravel, unravel, unravel
Everything that's caused this muse
I tried to unravel, unravel, unravel, unravel
Only to roll up and ravel back blue

Oh
I’m A Lover Not A Fighter, Oh, Oh

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Traxsource - https://www.traxsource.com/title/960685/fingerprints
Google Play https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Web_Sheldon_Fingerprints?id=Br3ftjlj3blbifw4mopszxxvuie&hl=en

Lover Not A Fighter

All You Believe (Feat. Priveyt) (Web Sheldon's Writin' Stories Rework)

Web Sheldon - Love & War (Beatm4n Remix)

The first single from my new album Fingerprints, released via Particle Zoo Recordings.

Web Sheldon IG-ID

This moment bullshit is all a lie
Misinterpreter missed a line      
Like a Russian Doll I could've died nine times
And I’m pretty sure that I’m still alive

I wanna remember why I try
I wanna remember before ‘89
I wanna go back to some pivotal time
And tell him, fuck it, just do you

Passing thoughts that create whole worlds
Another colour in a plastic swirl
Is this complete loss of control
Or just tumbling with the flow

You don’t know how a little thought can grow
And shape the next day, year and so
On and on and on before you know it
You’ve spun some storm you have to weather

Do You (Demo for www.fawm.org)

For The Spirit (fawm.org demo) - a song recorded for fawm.org (14 songs in 28 days).

For The Spirit (fawm.org demo)

FAWM Song 3 of 2020.

Fate
Fuck Fate
This isn’t fate
This is Intentionally Calculated Fun

By the way
It’s a new day
Means you can try on
Any shoes you want

You want the black ones, with the straps on
Yeah they’ve taken your eye
Just touch the leather
You’ll feel better

Fate
Fuck fate
You’re gonna change
Everything you want to in your life

By the way
How this plays
Depends upon you
And only you

You got the black ones
With the straps on
They took your eye
So touch the leather
You’ll feel better

Squeeze those toes in something smaller
Make yourself so small
Better off, sack that off
And don’t wear any fucking shoes at all

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Intentionally Calculated Fun

Urban / Electronic / Alt Pop.
Singer, Songwriter & Producer
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