Here is lyrictician's challenge to me to remix his remix of For You.  I really liked the vocals he recorded and felt like they could do with sitting front and center! I hope it doesn't seem lazy, but I really didn't do much here. I think it just needed to be mixed, I really liked it. 

G, A, F# .. my favourite 3 chords

i would really love if people would chant along.. i want the voices to build with the song

STEMS can be found in the results :)

I loved thedustdancestoo's poem "to: a broken-hearted butterfly" that he wrote on tumblr and pretty much begged him to upload it to hitrecord so I could use it to write a song. Half a year later... I finally got around to recording it. (sorry...)

i'd love to have this remixed, maybe add some strings? i'd also love to see this used in a video or animation.

A song about dreaming and driving.

They seem way too far all these dreams in my car

i pick em up put em down drive em around but so far

there just dreams in my car

we go through town on an aimless round

i stop a lot speed em up slow down so watch out

we go through town

is it enough just to dream about you

is it enough just to wish i had to you

i close my eyes but when i almost grasp you

i realize the road has turned to gravel

my world has turned to gravel

things aren't as they seem when you make believe

and all the time that i spend in a dream i scream

this is make believe

sometimes i wake up to this real life stuff

and i don't know what i want anymore it's so tough

all this real life stuff

is it enough just to dream about you

is it enough just to wish i had to you

i close my eyes but when i almost grasp you

i realize the road has turned to gravel

my world has turned to gravel

They seem way too far all these dreams in my car

i pick em up put em down drive em around but so far

there just dreams in my car

there just dreams in my car

there just dreams in my car

Wirrow's foxy illustration reminded me of a song I wrote so I thought I'd share. xx  

Little foxes lead the way

Trust their instincts

They know the way the land lays

Little insects, underfoot, are maimed

That’s the law of all things

Things change

There’s a code that we don’t know at play

In the spaces between things and in things

In every night every day

Do you feel it, hear it ring?

Little foxes know everything

Do you believe it? Breathe it in

Little foxes know everything

Do you believe it

Even in your skin

You’re a part of it all

A part of it all

A song by Metaphorest ... with piano.

Lyrics http://hitrecord.org/records/340486

Yeah, so. Still no time to work on new songs. So once again, digging up some stuff from the vaults.

This is the oldest one that I've posted to date. Wrote it when I was 16, recorded it among the first batch of demos when I bought my 4-track tape a year later. I have many issues with this one (and have actually always considered it one of the lesser recordings among my dozens of demos), but it's one of my wife's favorites. And she insists that it deserves to be heard, despite its flaws. I'm still not so sure. But I'll run with it.

i used to fly with peter pan in videoland and i saw people coming out from underground. gather up you silent searchers and lets go loudly into quiet churches lets surround the walls of guarded buildings and make our sound. lets invade palaces, they are always around when we sing out their anthems but not when we drown in video lala

this REmix uses the vocal and drums from Metaphorest's original RECord.

experimented with different variations before settling on this one. 

REmix production, arrangement, Synthesizer, 808 programming, Guitar: meeeeeeeeeeee

Hope you enjoy, and happy REmixing

<3

RJ

and many thanks to Sarah for making such a wonderful and REmixable song (and the stems too!) <3

I found an old beat by BenWiley4000 and sang over it. I'd love if someone/several folk took this very bare track and made it fuller/cooler/everything-er!

My weapon is hidden on me

My bullets will pierce your blackened words

You’ll be sorry you spoke, sir

Revenge is not what I’m after

I want to illuminate is all

I am happy to let you fall

Don’t mistake me

For another fool

You can’t make me

Believe you

My melodies sing your sorrows

Just wait till tomorrow finds you limp

Oh your chances are slim, slim

And on your death bed, will you wonder?

Which of your offences stings the most

Are you scared of your own ghost?

Don’t mistake me

For another fool

You can’t make me

Believe you

As requested, here's the audio of my video of the same title, featuring Matt on banjo and Alex on guitar, playing an awesome jam, now known as "Calenda", on Lake Wallenpauck during an epic June sunset. 

An old track, from my unreleased EP. (Recorded in the late 90's).

Wait for a while maybe think it over

that's just not a choice my friend, won't really know till we're older

hello little one you seem to know what's going on

i remember you're age we had nothing really on our shoulder

what ages faces?

times like these that go

oh, these times' that go like this