There you go

Working away

Looking for problems

Finding mistakes

You play with your tools

The drills and the screws

Keep it together

Yet it’s still falling down

A distant plea

How you used to look at me

I feel like I’m alone

Sometimes I’d wish you’d act like it too

Why won’t you work on us?

We’re broken and could be tuned up

Why won’t you work on us?

You’ll fix it all except for me

Why won’t you work on us?

We’re broken and could be tuned up

Why won’t you work on us?

Is it because I’m too banged up?

Rushing cars

Get where you're going

A day of hope

The day of dreams

Wishing for

That steady whisper

The magic spark

The magic grace

In a world that's moving too fast for you

The lights that blur the lines that flicker

Blink and they're gone in a flash

That whispered word, the slightest whisper

I did this song with no audio during the panel. In 5 minutes. To show that you don’t need to be good to enter

I wrote this at VGM Con on an Ableton Move.

Many distant worlds

There’s darkness all abound

Gathering the glory

Flying through world

Collecting all the love notes

Send your hearts across the star

Give me all your cheers

I’ll protect them with my twirl

I’ll take these messages

Love can go to space!

The galaxy could use more of our love

The galaxy could use more of our love

lyrics made up

As rain stops falling on the trees

I stand, letting the last drops bounce off of me

Let the cloud of misery fly by

Embrace the stormy sky, ride it through

The sun comes out, so I’ll see it in my eyes

When the rain falls, make it warm like where it lies

Take my worries wash them away

Turn the page for another day

I think this got worse the longer I worked on it

The rain of shattered glass

Looking to the blue above me

Sun of round shining on the desert sands

This blue, will never be again

Watch over the water’s edge

As I wish you a rock away

Break the way open and smash it free

Up and all the way

The tasks are far away the time is ticking

Sort the record, I saw him in a

Time for those who were commiting

Looking for a dimension in the dark

The data’s there the clues are tripping

My memory brings me closer to the

Way that brings us to you

Umm, but

Where have you gone?

All the clues pointed to here

Oh no,

where have you gone?

You were supposed to be here

Now I’m back to square one

All these electronics songs

Sing about the night

But what about the day

When I’m with you in a sunny way

Your radiant presence makes me smile all over

Our party life starts the moment we wake up

There’s a time for dance (it’s night)

But I’m with you in the day

Because I love you here and I love you now

Take a kiss while birds are at play

An ancient age gone lost

An empire of data’s so clear

Strangling magnetic tape

What data it once held dear

The desperate cries are gone

There’s no one left to be

Those who once looked after all of this

Released. Were they truly set free?

Lyrics were rushed only did one take

Don’t drown yourself in darkness

Shine in light

Don’t let yourself be shadowed by the fight

Keep your voice up

be the light

When your rays combine

you’ll be so bright

I kind of ad-libbed many of the lyrics, but here's the words I wrote down:

So it all goes
Take it all down and wash it to the ground
Bring it to the water’s edge
Degrade it down into the sand
Here it all ends
You took it all and broke it down
Why did you flood the zone so bad
When did that temple that did no wrong
Take it all again

Grains Fall One By One

I wrote this in the hallway at MAGFest

Reflection of a dream

In the panes I see

A dream of the things that you wanted from me

Reflection of the ground

The waves that make a sound

Of the things that I could have been but you couldn’t see inside me

In a windowed sea

From these extremely glassy trees

The world below is where I make my stand

There you are, and then there’s me

I thought my pain was there to be

But I’m wicked and there’s no where else you’ll see

I’m all alone

I hail from a golden land

A place unlike what you’ve seen

A forest of song and fame

Where our love outgrows the trees

I heard your secret song

The sadness of your pleas

A wish to escape the dread

And the loneliness you’ve seized

Don’t you wish for something more

I’ll give you this leaf

It’s a promise I will leave with you

Of a glorious place to seek

The trees I love want you to know

Your quiet tears will make them grow

You sing a song no one could hear

But with me you can sing away their fear

The trees want you to play a part

To take that passion and make a start

Leave behind your life alone

And come with me to the Woods of Hope

Lyrics are kind of approximate

Alone on the street

Staring at the falling rain

When I heard your voice

An offer of help

It was a lightning strike

All I needed was someone to care

To notice

To see

To observe this part of me

How you gave me hope

Underneath a thunderstorming sky

Lightning struck this part of me

You lifted me up

You gave me care

You noticed me and gave me a lightning’s spark of hope

I wrote the song on Ableton Move, then recorded it live into the DAW, then sang over it. The song lyrics are kind of ad-libbed, they don't match exactly here.

Marching forward

Keeping focus true

Keeping my days

My desires anew

Don’t know why

There’s never a time

Too many things behind me

Interrupting my way

Why shouldn’t I

Move forward with all the choices

What do I fear

Do I have that much to lose?

Why shouldn’t I

Move forward with all the choices

What do I fear

I don’t have that much to lose

excuse my shitty live playing sry

Lights shining softly, revealing within

The joy and cheer and the warmth of my sin

The pure light and the snow all around

Can I forget the wrongs I’ve done now?

I tried to forget you, the day I’ve walked out

I denied the neglect that I brought about

How did you call me, did I deserve that ring?

How can I come back, after all the things I missed?

Your smiling faces, innocent and pure

Have you forgotten how I’ve been so cruel?

Can I be better, can I deserve your trust?

Is your faith and love, will that be enough?

I couldn’t forget you, the day I walked out

The lights, please lead me, as I come about

I couldn’t forget you, the day I walked out

The lights, please lead me, as I come about

I dream of all the things you do

I wish for the life in you

I see all the things I want in you

I see all the things that I can be

I wish for them to be for me

All that you have, can it be me?

But why can I hear those shattered shouts outside?

But why do you slam the door with tears in your eyes?

All that I see isn’t the truth

The devil’s hiding in the bush

Your life had blinded me

Dazzling behind me

I need that eye exam to see the darkness in the room

We're looking for you now

Let light guide your way

We're here to bring you back

From the lost at sea

Verse

When I hear

I’m always there to cheer

I’m the rock on which you stand

Lifting you up

When I make my own plans that don’t go

I’m normally on my own

Chorus

Sometimes everything is going down

In slow motion, all around

The body is willing but the mind is weak

The weight of the things you have to do

But in the end, you’ll make it through

You told me , “This is something you can do.”

This is something you can do

This is something I can do

n the cold, s’all I know

I let loneliness grow

Tell myself, I don’t need

Anyone else

As I think, but no one knows

Hidden from the show

Why won’t you look in my way

I’m going to light it up

Create a beacon in my desert

Burning it all down

This fire’s my war within

The painful hours, the trying times

As you saw the blood, you fell for the lies

Helplessly you slipped from my view

Belief in a hope that couldn't be true

What do you see in the night?

As you know, I can't follow you there

What do you know in this time?

I can't believe you did this again

Remember that not everybody wants the world to burn

Keep your circle loose and free

And let your people speak freely

The bubble grows to keep those you love safe

For tolerance and care and equality to all

inking down low

how I feel

My heart is down

The sand is now the sky

The darkness whispers inside

Each moment I wonder

If my mind deserves to die as I let everyone down

Ooooh

Ooooh

My heart drowns in this pit of despair

Tears shed mix with the mud

Each moment, guilt, won’t let go

continue to swell continue to grow

Sinking down low

Climbing back up

Falling free

The less I work the more I’ll live

Find me (free me)

Find me (free me)

Find me (free me)

I’m sinking but the sand’s too rough for me

Big Wooden Dome

Empty room

Bright lit sky

Wooden floor

A dance tonight

Bring the shades

And set the tone

We dance tonight

Under the tome

This white room is where you’ll set me free

Leave your worries behind

Take a seat and dance tonight

It’s gonna be all right

Welcome to the white room

You’re in the right room

Welcome to the white room

Enjoy the room, boom

<verse>

Beneath a blackened night I crush my mind to dust

Yet another problem here, another issue there

Breathe slow, it doesn’t help. Breathe fast, that’s my natural state

The retina I see the blood as you call me back to bed

<prechorus>

Burn, my passion

Sear my soul and burn my skin

I can’t get it out of my head

I can’t think of anything else

These roaring flames so loud

Drowning out and blinding out

When I explode I wish

It wasn’t out at you

<chorus>

Bring me down below

(Where the water’s crystal clear)

Show me the calming days abound

(And put that fire out)

I thought I burn away

But you brought me to the edge

We fly Into the blue shores of an inverse sky

This one scuffed, the hardware got out of sync and some of the sound design didn't take, and I didn't get record the sequences I had put in.

Ran out of time didn't record lyrics or anything.

I thought eternity was together you and me

My anger falls out effortlessly

It’s like you draw it all out from me.

In the world that you see

Gravity meets emotionality

Sucking it out

Drawing it out

Like a bullet’s fantasy

It’s only with you that I feel this way

only with you I feel this way

only with you I lose it all

Your gravity pulls my emotions out

Your gravity pulls my anger this way

The smothered sky

Leaves a trying time

Paths covered by the leaves all dead

The travelled way

Hidden in day

One path of love and the hatred's at play

Calculate the path

Three points in a line

Line them up in time

Make your way and fight through all the pain

Pain in your brain

lyrics made up kinda

Come out for summer's day, out in the breeze

Come hear the robin's play, up in the trees

Something like that? I didn't write the lyrics down, I ad-libbed them

Wash the bricks free

The door opens in the rain yo

There's one body here now

I'm watching in your moment

Wash it all away.

Nothing's made it to the top

I'm the one and only paint shop

When the blood on the walls

Can't take it no more

I come down and smother

The colors of the rainbow

Leave it to hide to the tragedy

Never forget each paint drop is a memory

Paint the reality

It's not for me

Our lives are grim

Give me a pastel to cover my eyes

I'm hiding the blight a color at a time

The life past my eyes is grim

Give me pastel cover the world in trim

This would have turned out better if I didn't keep recording over my melody part by accident

Startled awake by wretched sounds

In the dark nightlight, I scrub up the puke mounds

The filthy smell keeps my nose awake

My exhaustion, alerted, sends me to no bounds

As the sun peeks over the curve

The fuzzy ones do leaps and pounce

Cover the sun my hands on my eyes

Kitty kisses asks for pets where she lies

This really needed a few more takes, and I ran out of time to finish the arrangement part too

I recognize the forest’s breath

This trail was our ancient way

In the misty woods the secret safe with us

The trees stayed out of our way

When I saw this fallen stump

I knew what I had to say

And with you beside me I could

Say all the tender things I felt for you

Only the leaves and fallen logs

Observed what we wanted to be true

Between our secret love

And the forest’s misty day

Bitwig + Voice

The falling leaves drift by the window

The autumn leaves of red and gold

I see your lips, the summer kisses

The sun-burned hands I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I'll hear old winter's song

But I miss you most of all my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I'll hear old winter's song

But I miss you most of all my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall

I recorded this in on an Intellijel Cascadia, a synth I’ve never used before, in a synthesizer shop in Vancouver, through the headphone speaker into my phone’s mic.

In the middle a customer came into the store and asked for a repair so you’ll hear some noise as well there.

I haven’t listened to this so it’s like a blind compo too.

Watch over land

From a neon sky

Ride down

RIde down to a paradise

Caela lived upon a broken earth

Ascended long ago

Watching through the pillowed skies

Stare down at descendants born

The flame was but a flicker in the wind

The smoke was a signal so much more

Ride down to wish them well

A passing hope and dream

hardware improv without preparations

A somber memory

A bitter leaf to turn

English ivy dances on the wall

Reclaiming the old prison once held dear

The roots devour, twisting vines beneath the floor

Let it suffer, choke that world out

I never learned to cope with the thorns I felt inside

I never learned how to live despite the fact my mind would die

The leaves, they smother all the things I learned from all those years past time

But that’s okay. I never had a chance until I left.

I'm falling.

It's getting dark down here.

Rocks in circles

Wash into the sea

Rub the rocks together

Draw a wish unto me

Take the dive and dig deep

Pull the devil inside

And carry that stone forward

So your dreams can die

Throw these rocks into the water

So these dreams can die

Throw the rocks forever

So these dreams can die

Draw the wish into the color

So these dreams can die

Let desires get so tired

So these dreams can die

I saw you sneak

A little glance

If an angel falls

Is it my chance?

Next to a night light

Holding the blue mic

A speech in twilight

That song for daylight

When nothing is what you asked for

You got it and everything more

When the risk is too great

Then bet the silk for you to take

A precious touch

Smooth on my skin

How do I dare to be close with you

Your gentle self

Let’s kiss again

Dare to be close once again

Let’s kiss again

Dare to be close once again

When you throw down a wicked smile

When you give me silence

The red smoke covers my eyes

I can’t see through

the darkness to you

When you throw down a wicked smile

When you give me silence a while

It’s a smoke screen that I can’t see to you.

The lyrics don't match what I actually sang

The silver coins shine in my hand

A silver lining, the heist is near

The safe’s never shining, I’m in danger, fear

I wanted nothing more for my dear

Welcome this bright new day

The summer’s warm

The birds are singing

Call them forth and feel the joy

Call them forth and feel the joy

Joy of a new summer’s day

The wet rains of spring are gone

The flowers now bloom

Forget the dreary cold

Brighten up and come outside

ad-libbed after some experimenting went wrong

Feat. Xavier and Arcana

We did this in literally two minutes

As I move across the space of stars

Stories told of days long past

Of what’s left of our ancestral home

That single tree among the rock

Cling to that fateful living thing

Space and darkness shield my home

It’s not just a symbol of our past

It’s a reminder of mistakes we’ve made

This is the tree that saw it all

Watched us dwindle down to nothingless

This is the tree that judged us all

We desperately cling to what’s left

This is the tree that saw it all

This is the tree that judged us all

This is the tree that saw it all

This tree is our burden

no lyrics. no time

Grab the wrapping roll

Look for tape

We’re getting ready

For the gifts

Cut cut cut and slice slice slice

Wrap that present tight tight tight

Getting ready

For the party

Getting ready

For the best party

Wrap those presents nice and tight

Give a gift that lasts the night

Performed live, single take, no pauses or software editing afterward (except compression on master)

Looking down the hill

Seeing all the tracks in the roads

Where will I end up

Where will I go roam

Will I find you now

Seeking you all across the grass

Looking to the sky

Seeking the trace of you

You wanted to go roam

But I would like you to come home

I miss you dearly

As the grasses sway around you

Spiral in, spiral out

Lost in the depths of your soul

What are you hiding behind there

What edges haven’t been told

Know that I love you

And that processing is hard

But I’ll be there if you reveal the glass

Show me the depths inside your mind

I’m here to hold you up, your emotions crystalline

I’ll bring you to the forest

I’ll hold you in the trees

I’ll carry you through the darkness

Across the glass and past the breeze

I’ll be with you forever

As you understand your dread

Shatter the dark with a glass sword

And light the way ahead

Recorded on phone

Looking downward, looking in

No way, I’ll stay at the top

But the light shines so bright within

I can’t dive for that secret within

Your gentle smile, a simple nod

Enough to make my heart soar

But I don’t know if I want to go.

The grail glows

Above my head

But it’s not the way

That you make me feel

What blades’ll I find

In the pit of your heart?

Do I take this plunge

Or go back to the start?

You’re so warm

behind the scenes

And so cool

On the cliff’s gleam

Close my eyes

And now I’ll dive

Into your mind

Into your heart’s pool of darkness

Closed to me

Now I’ll see

Dive to your mind

Into your heart’s pool of darkness

Why does it all feel so slow?

I’ve made it big

On the rooftop of my luxury penthouse

Worry not, I’ve got it all

Built on the back of of the legal minimum wage

I can sit back and relax

Making decisions that rely on my intuition and my ability to lead

I’m a guy who’s got it all

Kicking back in the sunset

I’m the guy who’s got it all

Crypto and chains

I’m the guy who’s got it all

Buying the labor

I’m a guy who’s got it all

Singing my praises from the rooftops

I gave my dad a call today

I asked him if I could drop by

We had tea, and I let him know that I loved him

I thought of the woods by the bye

My mind is a blur, it’s all a fuzz

I lived but my mind always cried

I walked out there to those woods behind my house

In there, maybe I’ll…

I think I’ll miss the world

Even as these woods won’t miss me

Everyone will just forget

Let me linger in these trunks and leaves

I know that I’ll miss the world

Even as lost as I’ll be

Everyone will just forget

That I’m hanging in a lost wood tree

I did this on a cruise ship with an iPad in GarageBand with only Bluetooth headphones and the default iPad mic so the quality is bad and I could barely even hear the backing track while I was singing

Lyrics are something about me not ever thinking I’d be a singer. Like ever.

(hardware: TR-8s, Access Virus TI, Micromonsta 2, sequenced on Hapax, recorded to Bitwig)

Running this game to ground

Can't find anyone else around

Unprecedented popularity

Leads to fires eventually

(The place is burning down potentially)

Pay scale is pretty poor

Can't handle it anymore

This IT is the tiny stuff

But I ain't tough

Can I move on I’m not good enough

Data's down

404

Internal 500's out the door

Backend devs to save the day

But the debugger's fucked

The stack goes away

BIND don't work

Bad sector found

Can't find the address

We're just going

Round and round

Through the town

Every dev's got a workaround

But there's no fix they can devise

Replace the hard drives

Backup's been borked

There's no time anymore, guys!

Random note: I actually didn't sequence the chords (though I did record the loop in MIDI)

I'm so sleepy

How do I make it through my day?

Seeing double

Seeing multiple things along the way

I wish I never

It's a single crisis day by day

This time I really, really wanted to

Make it to you

There was no way for it to go

The way I wanted it to

Too of this

Too much of that

I can't just give it up

There's just too much that's going on

There's just too much that I see in my mind

Everything is rushing to me two-by-two

All these plans I've given up

Erase each day one hour by hour

Do I see past the twin in the mirror

Could I make it to you?

Step by step

Through the sandy desert day

The wind and rock endlessly in the way

Stumble once, see a glimpse of orange sky

In the distance, away the light flies

Step by step

As my fortune disappears

Step by step

I want to fall into my fear

When you're feeling down

When nothing's green around

Find the time

Find the time for a rebirth

When the grass is brown

And your spirit's gone

Share your pain, for what it's worth

Step by step

I keep moving

Step by step

I am falling

Step by step

I keep crawling

Step by step

I'll never stop looking for a way

Golden rise

Put inside my eyes the blonde light

Set aside my prior fear

The invisible irrational dear

Showering light

I thought I wasn’t good enough last night

I think that no one cares enough to see

But it’s an old thought that keeps growing with me

Why do I grow these thoughts inside me

Why do I water these thoughts inside me

Isn’t it my fault somehow

Isn’t that an explanation

I know you think that small of me

I grow this seed of doubt and frustration

Before in my lonely time

A plush doggy lent his ear

Black, unfeeling eyes

Always there but never heard

Now together in this bed we share

I now long for lonely time

A plush doggy used to listen

When I need a friend you whine, whine whine.

Why can’t you just look up for once?

From that screen you hide from me

Despite the loudness war

I feel as mute as ever

I was not happy once

I was lonely sad

But the way you twist my words

My plush doggie’s better

The lyrics aren't all in the song

When you wanted to go on a walk

I didn’t want to come at all

The outdoors they hold no interest for me

I just didn’t feel it today

But you thought of it another way

Can’t you go without me just this once?

I think I really want to be with you

But sometimes I just need a time for myself

It didn’t come out the way I meant it to

I just want some time alone

With only me and my own

But that doesn’t mean I don’t want you

Walking through the snow so free

Stop in the windy trees

Turn in the mists to see

Take a good look at me

It’s a glorious snowfall

The cold drops all around us

But together we warm us

An island among a cool white sea

I started on hardware didn't lik it and remade it

Sorry I'm late

Adlibbed lyrics

and then

The lights dance across the sky

Reminding me of the lovely life I fly

Stars sing to me and they grant to me the world

The world I have with you

You sent that text

“We need to talk”

I played off as cool

“What do you need to talk about?”

But I wasn’t fine

I had no clue

Would you reveal a raindrop or a flood?

Why do I feel the tension flloding in?

I’m sure it’s nothing but sometimes my blood is running thin

Do you know that I sweat over the smallest thing?

The weather’s dry and yet it feels the rain is coming in

Why do your messages fill me with this flood of dread?

It’s just text and yet I let it get all to my head

Why do your messages fill me with this flood of dread?

They’re tiny pixels and yet they get inside my head.

Then you said

“Maybe we should paint our bedroom green.”

And was that it?

Why does every message create a temptest in the teapot of my heart?

It’s so rare

But that trust is broke

The bridge that carries me over water is too bare

Too wet and soaked

I’m one step away from being swept away.

That deep fried spicy tofu felt so nice

But it didn’t agree with the rice

Hours and a slice of cake later

It cranks the intestines with the force of a hater

That extra serving of chicken was tasty

But the peanut sauce sure feels a bit hasty

Sat in my stomach like a can of warm beer

Was just a skewer but it skewered me here

The end

The end

It all comes out in the end

Despite its role as a glorious hor d’oeuvre

It won’t be contained in this pustulant hour

The end

The end

It all comes out in the end

Whether I liked it or not the first time around

It’s leaving a message on its revival through town

I’m going to pass out on my end

After fourteen years

What joyous times I’ve found

A place to make and sing and listen to my friends all around

One Hour Compo’s a place for us to play

And it’s a place for another fourteen years I’ll stay.

Thank you for this time each little week

Sharing musical moments with you

All of our creations, big and small

Each week we have songs to be thankful for

Thank you to One Hour Compo and you all

This rainy day I took a walk outside in the forest rain

Cold beads of water splashed on the parasol of my prize and fame

I didn’t mean what I said to you, it was my mistake but I still believe it

I took some private time away from the dread and grind and the worries that left their mark

I want to be alone but please check on me

Don’t want to see you now, but yet I do

I did it wrong I didn’t care that much for you to have to hear it

Your voice was so loud and sharp and the final die was cast

Despite the cold outside and the dreaded leaves and the sunlight dark

I can’t just read your thoughts so please tell me what my judgement is

I thought I did it right, I thought I wished for you

Maybe I was all wrong. Can you forgive me for it?

I thought I said it fine, but it wasn’t true

In a rainy day. Can there be sun again?

nonsense lyrics

van tan ik le libra

oh nan oh chi xing

ta no tan le fibra

san ik chan lexing

van tan chi san

vik lo mano fira

nay si tanto mir

vik lo mano fira xing

Thundering heart

No pauses for the ochre

Fox, you’re on the run

Fox, you’re on the run

Take no part

Make the space you’re out of time

Fox, you’re on the run

Fox, you’re on the run

Your frosty breath

Rends in your lungs

Fox, keep light on your feet

Don’t let yourself be beat

I don't know if I've got the skillz for this it's been too long!!!

V1.

As the corn stalks grow
The loss is ever deeper
The candles drown out the ghosts below

The sadness takes on the show
The flame ignites the new way
The glorious life we had together fades like the day.

(Whisper)
It’s just a husk, it’s just a visage.


Chorus.

Don’t lose your mind to the darkness!
Don’t give yourself to the flame
Don’t watch as the fire takes it all and
Burns the straw and hay

Your passion is not this display
Don’t let yourself absorb it and consume it
Leaving but a scarecrow’s rage

V2.

Talking hearth and kiln
The embers simmering
I’ll stay with you as for all the time you need
These tricks still come to play
The burned man haunts your day
I’ll protect you from the fires and the flame

Chorus

I stepped into a world of time

Where the darkness floods this heart of mine

A promise to find my lost one

Against the grains where I’ve never run

Leaves they grow and the leaves they fall

But never did I thought that you’d leave at all

Was it just a moment you stepped out of mind

Or did you plan to hide all this time?

Why are you falling so near?

Beyond my sight, I wasn’t looking

Why are you missing, my dear?

No sign of sound, I wasn’t listening

Will you come out and meet me in this world of mine?

No wait, scratch that, let me meet you in your time.

I’m not watching, I’m not listening as I need to be.

Let me meet you in your time

To find you in a maze of mind

Oooo

Spinning an invisible web

Oooo

Laying out a welcome for the dead

Gather all the tricks she needs to do

Let the little treats fly home for you

She waits for you

The spirit of your tiny housemate

Drifting on the wind

The little ghost, eight legs whispering

She resents being crushed by your hand.

Break me free

Rip apart the box round my mind

Give imperfections their space r

My limits are no longer jailed inside

Hello there, little boy?

Want a deal with the king?

You said my name,

“Ghost ghost became”

Now I’m here in all my fame

Don’t you think you’re lucky?

Roll your dice up with the dead

A shot of blood, like a bit of sweat,

Don’t you shake your little head!

Come with me, go haunting

Come with me and Ooooo

Make a deal with me

We’ll go terror on the mooks

Come with me, you little boy

Come with me, and Oooo

Break from life and join the strife

You could be the new reign of the spooks

Ugggh I wasted too much time and didn't add voice

They are like a clum?

• Made with Polyend Tracker
• Sorry I didn't have time to add vocals
• It might be a little loud, not used to how to properly gainstage this thing yet

sorry I didn't have time to process and clean audio well. Backing track was done on the Polyend Tracker and then I sung over it.

--

Sugar, it’s sweet

Taste the mint in the leaf

The smell, a bit tart

Slightly bitter, but so smart.

These moments where I sit down with my coffee and tea

A peaceful moment where I can sit down with me

The rain outside batters on the outside of the wall

Don’t let it bother you, let the pieces fall.

Pet my cat, in my lap

Take her purrs, treasure them in my head

I can have my chocolate cake and then eat it too

There’s no one to judge, let the world give me this room

Though the rain outside rails on the wall

There’s nothing quite like a peaceful free for all

I don't remember the lyrics, I made them up on the fly. I kind of don't have a good idea of what I did, I swapped out the instrument samples at the last minute because they were clicking, which is probably why there are render errors since I didn't listen to them before I exported.

A layer of honey my words spill out

Tell them what I hear, no need to shout.

Things are spicy, it’s about to get dicey

Flip a card, see the heat,

there are no rules, it’s a bet on the street.

Wolf pack

Flash your fangs at me

Trapped, I asked for another word

My question was so plain to be heard

But I ask ‘bout they sent me to the sand

The wolves came out, took a bite from the hand

I can’t feel my feet from my head

My mind will walk ike it’s dead

The raccoon dog

It dangled its bells

Raccoon dog

Are you lucky, so plucky,

When the wolves came out

Raccoon dog

My little furry friend

Raccoon dog

Don’t look at me like I’m dead

with some random lyrics

I need to learn to make better use of my time

There are actually lyrics and they're beautifully sung, but I didn't test the setup before recording so now you can't understand what was actually being said. Oh well. That's what happens when you read the synthesizer manual during the compo instead of before.

My crystal holds the light

In the fire now, the bonds are set

The tracks and rails lay out all the way

My ship’s my bond

The travel through the heat anew

My escape the last hope of the day

The grey world left behind

Memories all formed

I can’t forget the pain they cause

I don’t remember any joy

The sky will pay no mind

To the thoughts I leave behind

On my way, the crystals say

There’s more, I hope, in a colored future nigh

Do you know now where you roam?

Can you see now the future you seek?

Can you run now the future’s you don’t know?

The crystal leads you but do you trust its light?

There are lyrics, but I didn't write them down

Something like "Take To the Sky" "To the edge" man I already forget, I spent all of my time being like "what's trance music" and forgetting how to get decent sound quality out of synths

Live voice over drone

Run

Engine of world

Shift

Creation of all

Move

Making go right

Deny

Maintenance heat

The engine around us breaking down

All around do we see it

In the end

Break it we'll cease

Experimental abstract atonal music

Fire

Flame

In the way

Hear the cry

As I die

Beneath the vision

I’m wishing for a way to try

What see?

In the deep hell

A single repeat

Mistakes I’ve made

Watch them

Watch them

As you’re leaving me

Eggs in the basket you left for me

Tormenting me

As you’re gone you can’t help but to torture me

Let me free

Don’t live my life for me

The fate I take

Like the cold blood of a snake

I’ll bite you back

I’ll bite you back

Like you bit me

I’ll bite you back

Drowning in yourself

Look back on mistakes

What if I was someone else

Not quite in my space

But see a twin break out

When you face yourself

The truth will rise

Facing to the mirror’s edge

What did I do wrong?

Why’s there one successful me

Am I drowning in doubt

Can break out of this chain

Binding me to me

The other self, shows me the truth

I can.

I made the lyrics up but they go something like

Where do you keep what you seek
where do you hide the precious things

Take up and watch the light

Nothing else to realize

I’m here, I go alone

Stare out through brilliant eyes

Take the step there’s no surprise

I will

I will survive

Oooooo

Wait for me

I’m searching for

Ooooo

Dream for me

I’m on my way home

Construct the rise

Electric beams strike

the Water’s edge, the water’s edge

Slow. Down. For. The. Wake

Guard the timea

Don’t dare turn away

Keep looking (Now!) Keep looking (Now!)

Focus All The Force

Sparkles In The Sky

Blazing Lights Horizon

 unlucky chance

That you’re here

What’s the odds I run into you?

What a chore

To be seeing you

After so long ago it was!

And the world stops

Doors close around me

Keep me from running away

I don’t wanna see with you

Stand the sight of you

Not this time again

Close my mind

Lost with you

Lost with you baby

Are we through?

Yes but I keep staring

Am I

Lost with you

Lost with you baby

What’s there to do?

But yet we’re close

Safari doesn't like thasauce. causing upload issues. need to check why later

live on hardware, live sung, live mixing, no software, etc etc.

Under night
The moon rises
At this time
The gates shall open

Do you see?
The dreaded history
Open your mind
And let us in

Ritual
Dream
Open
Gate To Hell
Hatred
Creating
Your Fear
Dwells

Live with hardware, only software FX was Ozone

Take a moment

Grab the daylight

See the smile

Time. Dance

Stories

Keepsakes (They seek this memory)

Promise (Hold that gentle feeling)

It’s these moments that you’ll look back on

It’s these times that you’ll dream of again

The happy faces, the novel sights

Take in all the glorious times and live 

When information is cheap

Disinformation is free

Don’t like it? Forget it

Love it? I now know it

You think different from me

I think different from you

Where does it say that

That everybody thinks like you?

When the voices all stop

What do you do with the time?

Sit by, and let it

See it, forget it

Not my problem, not an issue of mine

When you block out the trash

What do you think you can find?

Logic, reason

Deduction

It’s not just what you know it’s the process

Constructed in the mind

Familiar blue

Travelled, true

Stories to share

With home, with you

It’s all grown over

Left in a world of green

It all seems over

Nothing left to see

When I left a dream to drive

I knew that I’d return alive

Except that I left you behind

Earth’s covered the memories

It’s been a time away from home

Sunlight’s but a speck in me

Watch the message queue alone

There one dark road ahead of me

To the rising edge I drive

As I wish for a voice that’s live

(I should have asked for you)

It’s a faraway world I’m at

But maybe it’s for the best

There’s a wish, and a reality alive

Call me here

In the greyest night

Your smell of cheap booze hits my mind

Telling  me this news

in purple neon light

Was what I doing for you all a lie

- Hear the rain pitter patter on the glass

Slip that word that I thought was in the past

Why didn’t you open up before

I would - have - fixed it for you

Too much has gone by

Though the cold rain falls

The umbrella blocks our sky

Oooooops I really ran out of time for this one, like super minutes over.

Procedure down, one more time

Results, repeat, keep your focus

One thousand failures before you now

One thousand restarts that you need now

It’s not just science that moves you

The answer’s not that far away

My future rests in this observation

Tenure track keep my frustration

Steady move on

Write it all up

Observe the records

Store it, back up

Take down all the data

Enter the automation

Cold ice under the skin

Dark eyes hold secrets within

Whispers capture the ear

Mysteries are rarely so bold

Is there a warmth in the eyes

Hidden in a blizzard to me

Her gaze a chill within my soul

And yet the aura warms me to the bone

Ice and fire begging to be mixed

Warm and cold that are asking to be kissed

The heat that radiates from me

A touch that radiates from you

Air shifts the mountains to me

Stars call out to me wanting to fly

Bring me to fly

Stars poke a speck out at me

They laugh and taunt me thoroughly

Dumping the sky

Wind stops me slow but there’s no deterrance

Cast way all doubts and whispers into the air

Bring to the end

Let me see the shooting stars

Can I really do it

Will the magic happen

Show me how it ends

Bring my story to a close

Let this stress just go

Send it to the sky to burn away

Spring air
In the morn
The shadow forms to me
A bird whispers in my ear

A feather falls right down my neck
A raindrop falls on my head
Rain clouds form

Was I supposed to sense you near?
Was I supposed to know, my dear?
How could I ever have seen this coming
Are you a bird in flight
I hope you are
As I watched you
Please watch over me

Tell me the know

How hard it is

The desert show

Wanna know how tough it is

This desert wants to know

What are gonna bring to me

The desert wants to know

Just how much you can show

There's never a moment

Where I didn't notice you

What was it that brought us near

A word, a glance, an excuse to wave

A smile, a chance, a reason to give

There's a time for time, and more.

What do you take me for

Walking me with you to your door

What do you like about me

Just me?

Not sure how things got this way

But being with you there's nothing to say

I like how things are going

So let's go beyond

I like how things got this way

Being with you there's so much to say

Let's keep going

Let's go beyond

Lost in the frigid day

My mind's a world away

Caught in my frozen body

Each step made on a rotten plank

The bridge to worlds between us

Crossing will mean I leave us

But yet I cannot seem to

stray from this mossy fogged up place

Putrid fog

hides you among me

Fogging up my mind

Hide you in this space

Putting you in place

Putrid fog

hides us inside me

How will I find

where I've left you behind

Heart of land

Forged in heat

Our love lies forever

Under the rubble

With every flame

and every burst

My rock doesn’t falter

The heat forges everlasting crystal

I keep my rock strong

I keep my core going

I hold my face stoic

I bathe in your lava

I face all your vulcan

I bind all my geodes

I forge all my steel

In your everlasting sun

What the heck did I record

The lyrics are mostly ad-libbed and the melody made up on the spot

Ahhhhh

Red bird wings

Cross the eyes

Fluttering

Specks in sky

Hard times flow

Like birds fly slow

Accelerate

Let those thoughts go

Ooooo

The river of life continues

Deep at the water’s edge

A little fish appears

Next to all the dredge

I can’t help but think of us

As little fishes we once were

In the widest rivers

Only thoughts were pure

There’s many fish in the sea

But there’s only one fish for me

In a million miles of ocean

I found you happily

There might’ve been another fish

Another pond, another sea

But we ended up together

I found you happily

Lyrics are approximate

It was your eyes

that set me burning

The sounds you made

They kept me going

The fire lit, uncontrolled all day

Needed to get away from you

Stop the flame inside

Controlled burn exposed to you

Let you sustain within my mind

I found the fire inside me

You set that fire inside me

All the air, sucked right outside

Don't let it all burn away

Keep my head in the game

I chase my dreams

I try to fly

But when I lose air

I'm drowning

The swamp traps me

They grip me near

Crocodile jaws

Clamp on my wishes

Pulling me down

I just can't do it 

I don't know how I'm supposed to fly

Trapped the murky swamp land

I don't know how I can break out

When the crocodile's got you

I guess I need to shake it off

But how can I do that?

The pain is real but yet it's not

Will I move on now?

Looking down

At clouds that day

Flying high I'm feeling fine

By the sunny rays

Because I'm over it

Because I'm over you

Cause I'm

over you

I see the sky

It's clearing up, the cloud's no longer here

Shadowing me

Let me free

I don't need your noise

Keeping me down, the needles like the rain

Each drop was the cold

But I'm flying now

Because I'm over you

Looking down

Because I'm over you

I see the sky

Because I'm over you

Don't need disguise

Because I'm over you 

Holy what's mixing



Feel the sandstorm weeping
As the last man standing
An evolution apart
There's no turning back
On the way that the monsters rebelled


And so ends the war of the bulbasaur
The dried up earth descends no more
Last of humanity conquered that day
The bulbasaurs now rule their way

One thousand souls behind us

Each a page in a book long written

What do the words say?

All these stories are forgotten

One thousand souls no longer

An  age in a time that’s past us

Each life is a day

In a time that’s left behind  

Ages forgotten to the times

Imagine all the truth and lies

Crumbled to dust

Each thought was once alive

A book for every story past

A life for every soul that lived

Brought us to here

The things we hold dear

Each thought was once alive.

Sorry, I don't have lyrics because I ad-libbed them

Like a knife falls

Razer-like claws

Pierce me like saws

The force of blades all

Silent looks sharp

A wave falls apart

A touch strikes it deep

It stays there to sleep

Is there anything more you can say

When all the metal has come out

Is there anything more that you can do

The blade's been drawn and so are you 

I recorded this in a DAW. Not one take.

Whatever I see 

However I'm free

It's always as I want to be

The trees are weeping

As the wind is sweeping

The dust approaches separately

Rains on the streets like wine

Rinse the sweet thought of time

I see the dark

behind your eyes

Seeping out

Like red wine

I did not actually sing this all live, I did takes and stuff and wrote a song in a DAW but much good it did me right

Gentle whispers entice me near
Voice, it is familiar
I’ve known it for so long
I’ve known it for so long

Tell me stories that I hold dear
Flatter me with exotic dreams
But I turn and no one’s there
I turn and no one’s there.

Don’t tell me
That you can’t hear it too?
It’s right next to me
Why can’t you see?



The voice, it calls out to me
When I turn, no one is there
Close my eyes and listen
The familiar voice remains


A padded room awaits

Sorry this clipped.

Despite opening a DAW, I realized I didn't know how to use a DAW anymore and went back to hardware and live recording. Maybe I'd be able to do better if I started doing vocal takes instead of trying to ad lib an entire song in one take.

As the day comes to an end

See the leaves fly free and true

When the sun halts at the rise

Set down your work and rest your arms

Turn back to your loved ones

Delight in simple things

The company, the family

And relaxing in warm days

Take care

Take care

This day’s work is done

Take heed

Take heed

This day’s work is done

These normal times

When good plans go

Take in some time

Let your achievements roll 

Performed live, one take, synths and stuff running on the looped sequencer.

On the green hills

On our violet hill

Back in the time when what we had was simple and pure

On the green hills we shared our thoughts and dreams

I thought about what could have been if I had a braver heart

I didn’t want to know the pain of us being apart

I watched the sun rise

(And then I let it set)

When you went away

A violet shade full of regret

When I think back 

(about the smile on your face)

I let it get away,

I let us get away

My world is bathed in facets

Of alexandrite light.

Violet and green

My world is bathed In facets

Of alexandrite night

As the sun sets

I was the one who was truly green

Stare into the wall

Carefully where your eyes fall

Stare into your soul

What fears you most inside?

Cry alone at night

Block out the sun in day

When you see yourself

A shadow’s all that’s left

Hate all that I’ve become

But change will make it done

Start the smallest act

Find a bright shard intact

Live hardware, single recording, no multitrack, no software editing except Ozone, etc etc.

It's a miracle what you can do if you actually turn mixer knobs

Times wastes away

Why have you woken me now?

Not here to play

I’m tired of your silly

Games dragging me down

Making me guessing all the time

As the clock strikes at the morn

I’m done today

I’ve no more time for you.

Time Wastes Away!

I can’t make time for you.

Time Wastes Away!

Can’t you see I’m done?

Time Wastes Away

I’m setting myself free.

In the secret forest

Hidden behind the tree

Dark thoughts seek salvation

They’re hiding inside me

The haunting spirits scurry

Their tiny moments, free

Rest, my heart, beats slowly

Unleash the truth, control me!

Deep thoughts rest inside my head

Lives rent free in my mind

Impulsive urges rack my heart

Causing my eyes to bleed dark

My body gives nothing a break

I want to be what you’ve become

If I can’t be what you are

Then I’ll take all of you away

I performed this live on Access Virus, TR-8s, and Vocals with Hapax sequencing. It's pretty rough, it's the first time I've actually tried using the Hapax for songwriting.

Pouring rain
Like the sky has claimed its lot
Covered now
It's all wet and hot

In the deep
The muddy waters flow
My best hope
To start my life anew

I failed compo today

Single take, live with Eurorack synth, live effects, no post processing (except Ozone), music is live too, etc. etc.

I dream of trips across the sky
I think of metal birds flying by
I want to be free in the air

I want escape from all this pain
Feeling trapped but yet again
Set me free, like an airplane

I'm sorry, I can't stay anymore
It need to go, it's not you, it's me.
Please don't find me right now
I need this time to be lost, away from your eyes

I need to fly!
I need to be in the sky!
Maybe you'll look for me
But I wish you won't
Now that I know the skies I can maybe keep it free
Away from you and your watchful gaze
I want to be lost on my own.

What do I feel?

It's an odd sense of freedom

What do I know?

Six degrees plus one more

I can't see through all the noise you make
Behind the doors, the things you say are fake
In all your time, you hide behind these words
A plastered mask, where your feelings are burned

The times we had, what was the number one?
Was it with me, or was it all no fun?
Retreat again, to the virtual truths you say
Falling through, the thoughts of the day

The trash you spread, can't handle any more
The heart, the passion, the sad state of the lore
You love your lies more than you believe
You love your lies more than you love me

A vocal version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-AAgSW8Y4 which was also in OHC143.

It’s only you and me
Us two within this great blue sea
It’s only you and me
Let’s sail away intor eternity

It’s only you and me
Us two within this great blue sea
It’s only you and me
The night is young, it lasts forever

It’s only you and me
Our time together, let it be
It’s only you and me
Together we can our love free

Hold me
Touch me
Stay with me
Carry me home

Deep in the cold

Wet and old

Trapped in this prison

Drips sounding bold

I dream of a sky

I think of good-byes

Resolve like the steel pipes

that trap me inside

How long have I

been swimming in this sea

Who said that hell was fire?

They lied

I'm breaking out

Unsettled in my skin

I'm coming out

My patience wearing thin

Wash me clean

Watch me free

Leaving behind the steel pipes that trap me inside

Holding your hand

Keeping you close

Life slips slowly

From my fingers

Seeing your eyes

Longing to be

Bright and glowing

They're so weary

Watch See Think Feel

Time is waiting

Worlds in standstill

Standing with you

Step two three four

Down the long hall

Soon departing

I'll be with you

Eyes are a blur, my skin is numb.

Cries in my head, a constant hum

I'm not grounded

I keep floating

My mind keeps drifting away.

Be there, once again

Take me into your arms

Wrap me with your gaze

and bring me home

At last, I found my way

Faith for me to follow

All the things you've taught me

I keep right here

Be my anchor

Keep me here

Hold my body

Grab my soul!

<There are some words but I made them up as I went along>

Infinite bliss

The stars are your eyes

Mirrors in which

I see my soul

Infinite bliss

When you are with me

I reflect on my self

As you laugh dearly.

Hold it together

Link it together

Infinite bliss

When I am with you

Why do you keep me?

How am I worthy?

I must accept

That I can have

Infinite bliss.

Literally made up both the lyrics and vocal melody on the spot so I can't tell you what they are

on an icy land
the ones were lost
never to be seen again

in a frightening world
there's a mirror of your heart
there's a baring of your soul

and on this world
we hide
behind our funny rocks
making our funny faces

the sky falls

as the world warms
we find the feelings lost
show them once again

it's a world on which they hide
a world

behind the funny rocks
we make our funny faces
show off a hidden feeling
hide the other feelings

as the sky falls
the crescents cut a swath
they show our funny feelings
etched on our funny rocks

I don't know what key this is, I sang this by ear.

Live modular Eurorack + Deluge.



help me see
In the world of the dark
shine the light
and hold it high

in fire we bond
among icy chains
as we shiver in the night
witness the coming storm

let's be free
let's find out war
away from the cold
know the truth and let it go

be a beacon in the cold

Live recording with modular and bass synth and vocal

Deep Blue Seas
The night wears young on me
Watch the view
What do you see in me?
Taste the brew
The only one right here
Everyone is in my view!

Among the green fields

Under the great trees

Together we stand

Together, you and me.

Let the birds see

Set our shouts free

The world will know

Bearing witness to you and me

From a blue sky  

The lark flies,

staring above

From the trees it goes free.

In the blue sky

Be aware of us

Spread the word that

Together, you and me

My audio interface crapped out, so I used a Roland VP-03 vocoder as my audio interface.

Lie heavy in the room

The heat makes us drift apart

When it gets hot in here

It's when we're close together

The airy, drifting stares

Steal a glance at you, apart

It's always hot in here

For you it's all I remember

Do I wish the heat could disappear?

Yet I like it. I like it a lot.

I want that heat to be there,

Do you notice? Can you feel it?

Long ago, I knew a girl in school

She moved here from England

She lived just down the street

I walked her home each night

Through the park, stories were shared

Down the alley, feelings laid bare

Across the crescent, messages shared

But she didn't know how I felt.

I was so young, I didn't know how

I was toor strange, clinging so close

Being too weird was always my way

But being a creep drove her away.

I was a creep

I didn't know how to trest someone

With respect and care of their space

I was a creep

SPOKEN

The ages you've spoke of have come.

Why didn't we heed the words of our wiser ones?

We instead fought among ourselves for our own petty struggles

All in the name of hedonism and the "right" of freedom.

Now, as the blood red sky burns around us,

How is there anyone who can save us?

VERSE

In times of old

The computer told

The scientists

The secrets of the world

Our trust was low

Our futures bold

Now face this world

Ten-red fold.

CHORUS

The moon

Shedding blood all through the night

Spreading dread across the land

A sign of fear o'er your hand

Omen

Cast the pall into your hearts

Final days are yet to come

As they fly beneath the sun

The red shade rises.

Make your slow way up the hill, from the top down we go again.

I played the Theremin live for this one

What do you see in fires

Joined in combusting heat

A steamy conflagoration

As the fires meet the sea

In the flame, woah woah

In your flame, woah woah

In the flame, woah woah

My halo's in you

All the things

Just as I left them

Nothing's changed

My step back in time

But something's different

When I step through the portal

You've lost, I've won, it's begun.

At some time I started looking for you

When you were lost

And I was only one

Then we were two, now I'm one again

It had only just begun.

Not really a successful cover, this needed more takes, and maybe I should have changed the key.

Sleepless gliding

Over the city lights

Watch us flying

Over the streets tonight

And I say

There's a way, there's a way I know

I know that someday we will surely find it

There's a way, there's a way I know

Someday, there's a way I know it

Sunday morning

Watching the city sleep

Dreams are shining

Finally they're within reach

I tried to do an orchestral song

A distant dream, a memory

Faded in integrity.

Dwell in the power of the mind

Leaving the mysterious past behind

In paradise, the stranger

Ever lurking in the danger

As they dwell in a strange land

Fighting darkness with a light hand

Chaos. Do you feel it?

Must kill the chaos, do it.

The light I bring

Kills the chaos within

From brighter days

I saw you

in the moonlit sky

A twinkling past

Together

As the time flies by

In morning's sun

We bridged the

Passage in our way

Honesty

Passion and

Humility

The sun sets on our time

But when the night begins

We learn about each other

The dark might be unknown

But it's peaceful and serene

It leads to a new dawn

Recorded live (with only one small edit in post and some mastering)

Except that this did take like a few dozen takes, I eventually did record the final version live.

Composed with Modular + Minibrute 2s + VoiceLive 3 loop pedal

Roll the dice

Feeling lucky

Throw your chips

My heart's not lucky

Some days I just can't catch my break

There's no place for my mistake

You've got no place for me in your mind

You've got no place for me in your heart

The numbers don't favor me

The lucky one

The numbers don't favor me

I'm done

VERSE

One-two, is that a wheel for you?

Three-four, the hinges on the door

Five-six, are~ windows a trick?

Seven, eight, this was a mistake.

Unclear why you even care 

Not sure why you all must stare

These things, they only cause division

No path to win, no satisfaction

PRE-CHORUS 

Of all the things

That we fight about

This was that thing

Where answers burn out.

CHORUS

What now

Is that an open door?

What now

Spinning wheels some more

What now

Is it anticipation?

The things you list

Add to your frustration

VERSE

One-two, a gears a wheel you say?

Three-four, the hatches on the floor

Five-six, the numbers you predict

Arent even close, what a mistake.

CHORUS

What now

Is that an open door?

What now

Spinning wheels some more

What now

Is it anticipation?

The things you list

Add to your frustration

What now

Is that an open door?

What now

Spinning wheels some more

What now

Is it anticipation?

 he things you list

Give in to your elation

Wandering in dark

Lost in our way

Wondring where goes

All the bright days

~

What can we do?

Where do we go

Caught in dark nothing to see

We only pray

Where shall we see?

Whats is there left?

Amidst the dark theres no such path

Cant see today.

~

But then, we see, a light

From ashes, a hope

From the horizon strikes, a ray, our fates!

~

And the light

Tt shines above the darkness

And the days of shadowed moon

The torch of hope, it shines brightly

As we witness a new noon.

All is still

it's calm now

The day a clear sky

Face your storm it said good-bye

You stood tall

On a pane of glass

The mirror's edge

At the top of the mast

What happens now?

What happens now?

Modular synth + bass synth + vocal pedal stuff.

Post processing was minimal (1 compressor and Ozone), but I did sing over some parts that weren't good

Behind the long, red sky

How far will the sun-set reach

Behind every hill

Each tree, each blade of grass

Stories left untold 

How far will you go?

As the arrow flies.

Why has it come to this?
Why do you face this storm?
In my shadow, longing
Must I take. you down this morn.

Your ways led you down this path
Did you see how this road would end?
You quake, but you hold the line
I cannot let you keep your ways.

You trample and you take
No mercy or mistake
You say all shall be free
Free for all shall take your day.

Face your storm, freely
I am your storm, really
Find your fight, truly
Ill take you down!

Ab - ove

The waves

They watch

From the tower

In sun

In rain

The lights

Show their power

I was working on this on stream. I was using a tracker for this compo for the second time, and then my cat stepped on the hardware, unplugged it from the computer, and I had last saved about half an hour ago. oooops

First time using a tracker to make a song

Another song where I sang live to a Eurorack modular beat with a hardware-only setup. I have no idea what I'm doing or how to mix with an actual mixer apparently.

A journeys end
Staring from the summit
My lifes work
My guide smiles at me.

Have I peaked too soon?
Halfway to the moon?
Will I journey down
Or will I fall?

Old man, what do I do now?
Help me up
Help me down

Old man, what happens now?
You gave me a way
But now you frown.

The slow path down
My energy sapped
I stumble on my feet
My guide smiles at me.

The top is just the halfway mark
he says. You still have to go down
And from there is a new way
That is only for you.

Old man, youve shown me how
To find a way ahead
A starting crown

Old man, the journey was not the end
Your patience and your help
Were the real grace.

Performed live on Eurorack modular and voice AT THE SAME TIME with no software except for Ozone to bump levels up at the end I hope this doesnt really suck

Drowning

Flooding my mind
It never stops

When you leave my spirit
Im drowning inside.
When you leave me behind
It floods my mind

I never realized until this day
That I could miss those I had never met before.
I never understood
The power of these unseen bonds

Flood, my mind
It never fades

There is a part of you
That lives inside
A part I never understood
Let me see it again.



Drowning in you
Feeling like its just begun
Drowning in you
These times are not undone

Drowning in me
My feelings spilling over the rim
Drowning in me
Im never done.

Flood, my mind
Dwell in the moisture

Flood, my mind
I need the deep

Flood, my mind
I missed you

Flood, my mind
Its so clear

These magic moments

Before my eyes

Step back to see

These things time gifts to me

As each new thought comes

Adds to my memory

These are what my soul stores

Stores these things forever more

There's never any doubt of the things that I can see

My mind expands to feel the strength of our soul

As I learn, as I feel, as I think, as I breathe

These moments create me, define me

I take in what time offers to me.

When time comes gifting me

I take what I can see

When time comes gifting me

I accept what's known to be

(Cover song of Answers by Nobuo Uematsu because crystals, also this is hard to sing and I'm sorry it's also not finished I couldn't get through the song)

I close my eyes, tell us why must we suffer

Release your hands, for your will drags us under

My legs grow tired, tell us where must we wander

How can we carry on if redemption's beyond us?

To all of my children in whom Life flows abundant

To all of my children to whom Death hath passed his judgement

The soul yearns for honor, and the flesh the hereafter

Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after

Shining is the Land's light of justice

Ever flows the Land's well of purpose

Walk free, walk free, walk free, believe...

The Land is alive, so believe...

Suffer (Feel) Promise (Think) Witness (Teach) Reason

(Hear) Follow (Feel) Wander (Think) Stumble (Teach) Listen

(Speak) Honor (Speak) Value (Tell) Whisper (Tell) Mention

(Hope) Ponder (Hope) Warrant (Wish) Cherish (Wish) Welcome

(Roam) Witness (Roam) Listen (Roam) Suffer (Roam) Sanction

(Sleep) Weather (Sleep) Wander (Sleep) Answer

Sleep on

Now open your eyes while our plight is repeated

Still deaf to our cries, lost in hope we lie defeated

Our souls have been torn, and our bodies forsaken

Bearing sins of the past, for our future is taken

War born of strife, these trials persuade us not

(Feel what? Learn what?)

Words without sound, these lies betray our thoughts

Mired by a plague of doubt, the Land, she mourns

(See what? Hear what?)

Judgement binds all we hold to a memory of scorn

Tell us why, given Life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries?

Witness (Feel) Suffer (Think) Borrow (Teach) Reason

(Hear) Follow (Feel) Stumble (Think) Wander (Teach) Listen

(Blink) Whisper (Blink) Shoulder (Blink) Ponder (Blink) Weather

(Hear) Answer (Look) Answer (Think) Answer together

Thy Life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow

To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow

In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow

Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow

In the same fleeting moment

Thou must live

Die

And know

The sun shines on a new birth

Granting a new dawn!

A life, a new hope was born today

Let it emerge forth

Observe as life finds a way

Giving us all a new day!

Innocence, splitting free from the darkness

And gifting it to the world!

Nurture the ones that come before

Support those past the morn

Their radiant journeys

Wave as we welcome them  

Wave when they sail away

As the waters flow

Leaving but shards behind

Steal the light from your sunrr

Determination brings us home again

Shine bright, let your heart rise again

As the warmth rises up to you once more

All those days before

Set you for today

Struggles that faced the morn

Your mind shall know the way

Feel the strength, that's born

As you live each day

A journey's grace adorned

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There was a time when I thought that art was "art". That it was meant to be expressed and shared.

I didn't realize that the world... was so depraved.

I wanted it to be a dance song!

I was going to create a rock song

I had dreams of creating a rap song

I didn't realise that it would all fall away.

Now there's a creepy theme

And all I can do is whisper strange things into your ear

All these things that I held dear

In some abstract, ambient wind

When I was a young boy, I did not fear the dark

I wrote all of my songs, subjected you to my innocence

With each Two Hour span, you could see more of the truth

The hidden secrets, the little tricks

Copy-paste, repeated harmonices, presets, samples

A place without a plan

The themes that Antik exposes us to

He says he can count, but what does he do?

He ignores the past, covers up the present

Two Hour Track Sunday isn't so pleasant

The skills I learn, what are they for?

If numbers aren't correctly stored

The lies, the tricks, the secrets of sound

The songs, played once, and never again found.

This is probably the most emo song I've ever done. I'm actually doing fine though

I got a computer but didn't test properly before doing compo and ran into a bunch of problems so things didn't work as expected and I ended up deleting everything and rewriting around 40 minutes in.


Parched
The boring eyes suck me dry
Vampire of thoughts
Thief of tears

Please, pass the salt, they say at ease
But saltiness remains
My seat at the table, ever too short
My tension grows

What is it that they want from me?
Why dont they ever feel my pain?
Is it them, or is it me?
Flawed, a child, as I can be.

Time, the moments that they stole from me
and gaze at me with sympathy
I do not understand their stares
I feel so lonely

Dreaded times, drifting sands

Clocks in shadow, twisting hands

Turn back the tide, turn the time

To younger days.

Flowing river, down one way

It hurts now. Not back in the day

History repeats, secrets of man

Drifting moments, automatic

Those younger years

My more confusing time

But discovery reigns

In my simulated hope

The feelings, so strong

Only for first time

Or so I thought

In my simulated hope

SORRY I had huge technical issues with this one so levels and quality is TOTALLY OFF. I also started 45 minutes late.

Trouble's in your face

Permission denied

The paperwork's in place

As our work collides

Should have been hawk-eyed

The words within

Revealed to you the truth

But corporate always wins!

Didn't you take the time

To smell the roses

Don't you read the lines?

Affecting your ways

Protect ourselves,

That's what we do

But why do you not read?

It protects you too.