i don't know where i've been

i can't recall if i'm wearing thin

i don't mind if i'm lost

i don't mind if i'm tired and frail and lost

i left a man in my wake

resented him for what he had to say

i don't mind that i'm alone

i don't mind that my heart, it carries stones

my heart, it carries stones

i told it all, unedited

i told it all like i remembered it

they interlocked and then they fled

and met again, but the love they'd made was dead

i am no historian

i'm prone to error in the records i give

i am proud of what i feel

i am proud that my skin is tempered steel

my skin is tempered steel

listened to lizzienrose's record and could not get it out of my head. picked up a few instruments (viola, drums, glockenspiel, etc) and had a little fun.

Just me and my guitar again. It's quite bare so please do add music/singing if you're so inclined!!

In this world you’re creating

There’s no point in waiting

For a sign to come

Cos there isn’t one

Onward always we’re marching

There’s no overarching narrative

Just live

Then be done with it

And that vacuous feeling that

There’s no way of healing

Is a consequence

Of our discontent

Try to fill it with trinkets

Do you honestly think it’s gonna work

I doubt it

The plug is out

You’re an ant on a rock

That shouldn’t come as a shock

If your rational mind

Thinks it knows it all you’re blind

In this infinite something

There is plenty that’s comforting

To cling to if you desire to

We’ve all got our crutches

I know but as much as

I like drinking

Thinking is preferable

The peddlars will own you

the preachers will loan you their old lies

so you can avert your eyes

the certainty pushers

will act as your ushers

as you fill the pen

are you sheep or men?

Albert was looking for vocals for some of his tracks with lyrics on the theme of depression. So here's what I've come up with using his excellent track '23-bass riff'. I looped it, added a vocal line or two and some weird ambienty sounds. Hope ya like it Albert!

Oh and my headphones are busted so sorry if the mix sucks - I can upload stems if you like it!

The air is my enemy
the sun comes up without me

the minutes pollute my lungs
and dull my mind and tie my tongue

pit of my stomach churning coal
my soul is old
my soul is cold

the ravens use me as their perch
call off the search
I'm in the earth

the mud is up to my chest
I only want to rest
my heavy eyelids turn me blind
I can't unwind the binds

Here comes the deluge
there goes my shortlived refuge
home is the dark days
I am the knot that frays

lyrics:

i ain't got a fuckin' cat.

i have no cats

i got no kitty litter

i have no cats

i have no ball of yarn

i have no cats

do you see a fuckin' cat?

i have no cats

do you see a fuckin' cat? 

I don't think so.

okay.

i admit it.

i have some cats.

but don't judge me!

they're my best friends!

oh i have some cats!

oh i may have some cats!

meowmeowmeowmeow

i have some cats

i don't know what they're doin'

i have some cats

they follow me into the bathroom

Alpal...who said to me, in no uncertain terms, that she has no cats. (and that she wasn't going to fart.)

lava_tornado released a great rockin instrumental called Project 26.  Then Babbish sung her sun baked and neon lit lyrics onto it.  Here, I just added some backing vox.

this is what tv sounds like to me

I liked this song quite a bit so I added a couple of instruments, some hand claps, and a bit of vocal harmonies as well. Yay!

This isn't really what I had in mind when I was first inspired to play with this piece.  But I was somehow pulled in this direction, and since it felt like it was cooking, I took advantage of the opportunity to just have fun with it...As much as it's kinda unexpected dress in which to drape such a dark lyric.  

The ideas are pretty well formed, but it's by no means "done".  Like, it feels "over" before it should be, IMO...Despite the long ambient section at the end.

I'm putting it out today because I'm not sure I'll be able to spend more time with it in the next few days, and I might forget to otherwise : )  So yeah:  Feel free to add new sections, parts, or arrange the parts I've created differently.

I'll be putting up stems shortly.  Everything has been conformed to a consistent tempo, and even the non-drum part at the end is at tempo should you care to use it, so it should offer lots of possibilities.

This was way too fun. P.s. This is a parental advisory warning. No children should be present when listening to this track.

Song lyrics are as follows:

You keep on, 

spinnin the track 

Until I bring it home

you got two turntables,

But I ain't no microphone drone.

I'm two tone,

I bring that ____ when I'm home alone

I don't run it down like I'm doin a drill

I spill them beats but that ___ is gettin ill

Twenty, Twenty regular please

Twenty, Twenty regular please.

Mr. I'll be gentleman when I settle them in,

Bullimic dream and my patience is running thin

I'm a mental lyriciist

Dominatrix of types

I'll take your balls and put them in a vice

I roll the dice, to get my dollars and change

rearrange the status and balance,

ya'll better know where I'm at.

I may be a "ghostwriter" but my lyrics 

they be getting tighter,

Ya'll better know where I'm at

I'm over in the ghetto but it ain't

no ____

Cuz I'm too legit to quit ______

Cuz I'm too legit to quit ______

Yea... And I curse like a sailor

And I eat taylor ham

Ya'll better know where I'm at

I've got a 22, 45, and I'm getting a gat.

Y'all don't know me, I'll shank you

Y'all don't know where I'm from

Y'all don't even know where I'm goin..

Where am I goin?

Now that's how it's done, son. 

Lava_Tornado's fabulous "feet first" with a little flow by me ;) Dude, i love your music LT and i meant what i said in the song...

lyrics:

orale brother asina me gusta

vamos a bailar porque la beat esta bien bruta

estamos grabando? otra ves por corazon.

un remix porque me gusta la cancion

change back to English so all y'all can feel this

lava tornado, you're a muthafuckin' genius

and i don't even care if this don't get recommended

call me passive i won't be offended

i liked this badass beat so i just started rappin

if Joe don't hear it doesn't mean it didn't happen

i'm just fuckin' around probably nobody will hear this

just think of this as a lesson in what real is

i'm a nobody from the Rio Grande Valley

with hopes to visit FilmPunk's hARThouse up in Cali

don't feel me? probably think i'm shameless

but this is for the fanboys lookin' to get famous

i don't mean to come across with such apprehension

but this is not the site for those who seek attention

here no one is greater, here no one is lesser

it's like creative industry without all of the pressure

we like it here, just the way it is

we end up here, 'cause we don't like the biz, ya dig?

so don't bring that negative jive

about "why him and not me?"

the whole experience is THE PRIZE!