Instrumental 1

Some acoustic jam I wrote a few years ago.





Starting brush fires just for the smell of the smoke
Wear it proud on our clothes, trade in all our cologne
Climb through windows for fun
Mess around on the front lawn
Brings me back

Kiss in the rain like we were made in a movie
Fogging up the glass, drawing our names in our breath
Finger print stain graffiti
We were wanted, we were greedy
Stings like hell

Lost just as soon as you find it
High and low since we were kids
Hot and cold, arrange the fold and forgive the shift

We were specks in a shaken snow globe
Blew around until Spring told us to grow
Something to write home about
Trumpet a tall tale no doubt
Rings and stops

Shiny smile, red hot cheeks, setting sun
Biting hard, swallow shards, story sung
Dampier and Cherry
Giles and Dairy
Who was wrong?

Christmas lights once or twice, losing count
Ever afters, funny rug burns, final bout
All good things and all that jazz
Tiny white lies, always sad
Cut it out

Lost just as soon as you find it
High and low since we were kids
Hot and cold, arrange the fold and forgive the shift

We are not I, he, or she
We are we
And it's adrift, not quite flat
Bring me back

Brings Me Back

Pop Punk Ditty instrumental

[2024 dump: first in 4 years? Actually recorded early 2023, might delete later. A little rough but I want a cool "before" version to compare the final one to. Just having fun, man! If you scroll down to "Instrumental 2" in my Soundcloud, that's the song this one has been reimagined from. Way cool, shout out to Skylar, badass composer and mofuggin producer, holy hell.  #LexTempus (Song title is just an anagram for "Social Texture".)]

No style having
Little substance ass
Texture

Motherfucker
How you gonna cut the
circulation off of
Utopia?

You don't accelerate
the kind of change 
that's for the greater good
But, hey, the coffer's stuffed to the roof

Just send it, all you want to do is hover
Hammer in one hand and hope in the other
It's not going to put itself together

I know you mean well, but don't you see the leverage?
You're angry at the wrong shit

Misdirection
Imagination
A dangerous mix

Praying for rain
Praying for change like you're an atheist

"I don't mean to be blunt, but what the fuck?
Chalk it up to luck?"

Wet blanket shouting "There is a fire!!"
When we're in Atlantis

The village 
might as well be full of idiots 
when wise men are mute 

On deaf ears
Crocodile tears

We can do better
but when will we be?
From a place where phobia is king
I am a refugee

What a legacy: 
to see the peace and think 
it isn't worth a fucking thing
So collar the womb 
and gate the Garden of Eden

Pull aside the veil
To see it
To feel it

Thoughts and prayers if that's the way you want to run it
In a way I can't stomach: they have "nothing" in common

Pull aside the veil
To see it
To feel it
Pay attention to the fog they
blow in our face
Fake created

Exact Outliers (demo)

[2024 dump: haha jk, recorded in 2020. Wrote the lyrics on a cruise, idk why. Kinda just channeled my anxiety in its entirety #bars. The ocean was dark at night, man! Anyway, left in a silly little background "whoo" part because who listens to this anyway? #justhavingfunman]

Lighter now
You'll meet your cloud
Limbs living out
Comfortable in a crowd

I am a piece of everybody that I meet

Coming down
Sun's coming 'round
Shut the fuck up
You're feeling too loud

[Stupid "whoo" part! I told you!]

You're not your haircut
Or lack thereof
You're not the insects
Buzzing inside of your chest

You're not your bad habits
But you gotta stop that shit
You're not the misread 
signals in your head

You're not the fragments
Between every missed moment
Keep that mask on
You're not home yet

Home Yet (demo)

All music by Lex Tempus. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7xk3pHFD593HcG9HnLWs60?si=UvGeAenXTTCgKcwhjFBAzw

Arsonist
Standing before the bridge
Narcissist
Attacks backscattering

Every accusation a confession
You'll never know your limits if you never test them
Relieved that I cut the rope

How I'm levitating
Exercising all the lessons I have learned from
Practice recognizing
Details below me, blemish like you

Felt your absence for the briefest temporary
The easiest hit to take

Now I'm left with
Small regret, tiny mess
From your implosion

Why couldn't you just be patient enough?
We could have ruled if you just knew how to love
Why couldn't you just be less selfish?
We could have ruled if you just knew what it was

Arsonist
Standing before the bridge
Narcissist
Attacks backscattering

Every accusation a confession
You'll never know your limits if you never test them
Delusions of grandeur

Mental gymnastics
You won't find purchase 
when you're clawing at
your viper pit

VENOM (miss)

Now I'm left rebuilding again

VENOM(miss)

Dude, That Sounded Like a Dinosaur

All music by Age of Lions

Recorded a few songs we never got to bring to life.

REidea

Gruff

Salahd instrumental

Darkcore (demo)

Stole instrumental

She said, "mastering the art of telling time to stop
is like tying together hands on a clock"
She said, "the sky's as big as god, why're you so goddamn blue?"
And I spit out excuses chewed with my wisdom tooth

I'd gladly trade a decade of doubt for a moment of clarity
'Cause dying young ain't no charity

Here's to bourbon hearts raising a glass to you
Here's to patient lungs making faces blue
Here's to biting tongues with a wisdom tooth

We could bake a lot of bread if we grind our skeletons
To live forever, turn sin into sustenance
I held your fragile secrets in safe hands
And you held me as tight as broken glass

'Cause it's your sober season to my silver century
Your Peter Pan to their Wendy

It's getting easier now that you're gone
I'll sleep where I want too
And when I drink until I can yawn,
I'll sleep where I want too
I get tired of carrying on
I'll sleep where I want too
Top of my lungs 'til my voice is shot
I'll sleep where I want too

My shotgun spirit's trying to find some center in the spread
Despite my compass heart, I get lost in my head

Wisdom Tooth (demo)

If You're Out There

nicerteaser.mp3

...But I'm Nicer

Four Houses

Or "FRESH" if you're in the know.  Quick and dirty recording.

Robotany

Codename: Temptastic.  Quick and nasty recordings because I just couldn't be bothered.  Admittedly just an exercise in milking the snot out of one riff, but it was still nice to finally record it after almost a decade.

Entrophy

You may have written the book, but I was in the movie.  Reworked a song from way back when.  That riff towards the end is the chicken AND the egg.

Y.M.H.W.T.B.B.I.W.I.T.M 2.0

Music by Age of Lions.  Featuring a toy piano.

Stay tuned for the Great Flood of '19, coming 202020.

The Great Flood of '09

Written by the DelMayor Bros. (R).  

"This hourglass is hour heavy
the hour's only keeping hours from me
you made me trade hour security
for my ability to hours when I sleep" I think.

Also I cheated on the 7/4.

No Amish Hats for Cowboys

12 years old this August, 2020.  "Quarantine" is just a call to reboot your old songs I guess.  Uploading all these for posterity.

xndrmyr

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