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          Push & pull,
Left & right,
Up & down,
Don't forget your dog's in this fight.
Courage!
Might!
All so hard to see in this light.
Couldn’t put it any other way,
Hands up in the air as if they’re trynna say,
Will I ever be…
        
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          I wait, I wait,
For you now.
I wait, I wait,
For you now.
Now that you're ahead I wonder,
Will you turn and wait for me?
I wonder.
If I lost direction,
Would the favor return for free?
I wonder.
Hit the brakes, hit the brakes!
Wait…
        
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          It’s all smoke and mirrors
Why I can’t see straight
Will this illusion vanish 
When will it break
The smoke it lifting
The mirrors clear
I wasn’t really risking
Everything is still there
Am I still dreaming
This just don’t sit right…
        
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          I guess it's really gonna be farewell,
For as far as I can tell,
Once upon a time story sounds so swell,
the kind of story that we would tell,
We tell the children that it's all, alright,
Nursery rhymes to get through the night,
Hush little…
        
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          I'm mistepping, I'm a step behind
Everybody wants to own you
everybody wants to show you up
I'm mistepping, I'm a step behind
Notes:
Matt Parker on bass
Jarrett Osborn on Drums
        
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          “White coral islands in a dark blue sea.
Luminous clouds of hyacinth flakes.
Jet-black snow and hailstones flavored like oranges.
Pink snow, flakes the size of saucers.
“Vast things poised like crows over the moon.
Dark shadows crossing…
        
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          I HAVE COME TO SOLVE ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS
IF THERE'S NO PROBLEM, THAT'S A PROBLEM.
YOU'RE THE PROBLEM.
they charged a hand for a round in the dirty days of the rubber trade
then the Belgians and the USA made Lumumba a saint
but the current…
        
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          All the nations of the world have
Gathered here to show the best they’ve got
In the past: Olympia
Today a different town, a different spot
The possibilities are endless 
This event has not been done a lot
In the field of excellence
One…
        
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          To see you at all
To say all that falls
Don’t hide
Do try
You’re the one who gets my
All 
All
All
All
        
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          I want you madly and I want it
And I want it want it
Watch me all the time you see another
Another 
Another
Think about the time we spent and see if you can find the trusting side 
That I’ve been here for you and yours
That you’ve been…
        
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          Opened a policy and it’s getting old
All of my lives you’re so close to finding out
Go for a hike and these cliffs are beautiful
Pose for a pic for me and oh you fall
You fall
Are you there?
Did you find out?
Are you a-scared?
Where…
        
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          gotta stop jacking off and get productive
you can’t sit around on your butt all the time
you gotta get to work and get productive
make the most of days in our lives!
Studies have shown that making stuff makes you feel good and is totally…
        
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          He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Kanye
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Elon
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Trump
Someone probably should have told him
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Kanye
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Elon
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Trump
Well…
        
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          In the win
In the call
of the dog
To the yard
It’s a mend 
It’s a tool
It’s a fall
In a song
Giving in
To the same
This all hap
penned before
As it lays
All strung
Along 
the open floor
-
To the front
To the top
Of it all…
        
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          Dudin’ up a street in some small town
With a rhythm in my feet and sunshine golden
No one’s gonna keep-a-me down - i’m alright
Then my phone makes a buzzering sound. Burn it all down.
It’s the clown.
You can never have some time
Don’t…
        
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          sometimes your kid insists on standing on you so they can have a feetchair. 
        
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          did you ever put a wall up in your house?
did you ever want to mitigate thermal conduction?
did you want to make it quiet as a mouse?
did you wanna try to minimize sonic transmission?
you took up a mission 
a household decision
it won…
        
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          Come step onto the dance floor. Imagine a romance. A little bit of love and magic is in the air.
        
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          The latest single from Dave Saigh (say). This is a contemplation on taking a new step forward in a world of challenges and difficulties. 
"A New Breath" is a 2025 winter reflection on going forward through adversity. 
So take a listen and…
        
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          If you're watching, you know. If not, stay away from the elevator.
It has a certain appeal
Disconnecting from half of your life
Getting through the day by forgetting who you are
No need to find a way
Not remembering all that went wrong…
        
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          Straw can be light and golden yellow
Is often used to stuff our pillows
Straw is the hay you see in the fields
All those hay bales give good feels
The scarecrow of Oz was made of straw
though his brain held nothing at all
Dorothy held…
        
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           Demo for FAWM '25. A collab with @villedog inspired/adapted from original lyrics by @johnkaniecki
[Intro]
Excuse me 
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy! 
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy! 
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! 
I don't want your junk
[Verse]
I…
        
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          Demo for FAWM '25, A collab with @nahlej381.
In an interview, David Lynch once called Eraserhead his most spiritual film. When asked if he wanted to expand on that, he replied "no".
This might be my most spiritual song. 
[Verse]
My head…
        
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          2025 RPM Challenge Song Idea number 13 becomes finished song number 16.
Meh.  Waste of a good guitar solo in the outro.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure SM57. The leads are a Gibson Les Paul Standard 50's into…
        
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          Glory's Gonna Shine
Verse 1:
I woke up with a feeling deep down in my soul,
The world keeps on turning, but it’s out of control.
Storm clouds are rising, you can hear the thunder roll,
But I know my Saviour’s in control.
Verse 2:
Seven…
        
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          2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 20 becomes finished song number 13.
As the great Ian Gillian once said, can I have everything louder than everything else.
This mix kinda got silly as every level kept going up and up and up.  It's a fun…
        
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          A bit of Frankenstein of a song, lyrics cobbled from old lyric fragments, with variations on bass and melody and piano motifs, like I couldn't make my mind up where it was heading. Something about it, so has made the cut! 
*Tech Notes*
Hmm…
        
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          The song's about betrayal: about mixing with the wrong crowd, who then drop you from a great height. It's a love song. Maybe I should find a twee skirmish instead of relying on that Muse.
*Tech Notes*
Hmm. The usual set of twenty-three sound…
        
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          TL;DR: more guitary than my preferred synthery. With production practice too.
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For a recent collab, I undertook collation duties: mixing received stems without (hopefully) losing their original energy. Those stems were played on real instruments…
        
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          TL;DR: it's got percussion in it.
I had an idea for percussion-heavy song: that I found tough to articulate because it's not a usual thing for me. More practice required.
I dialled back the bpm as the percussion became (even more) a wall of…
        
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          Hmm. The trigger was to use a random Wikipedia page [via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random ] -- it gave me a 1990s Brazilian film I'd never heard of. Although it sparked a song, the verses that more obviously related to the film got…
        
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          Not _entirely_ sure where this came from, probably the muted trumpet sound, that's only possible to play in the wearing-a-black-turtle-neck style. Other motifs followed suit.
'Tis mainly from Cubase Halion sounds ... Reason double bass, and…
        
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          TL;DR: the song's about waiting too long to do the right thing ... and then still choosing to ignore it when you get the chance.
Last autumn, I spent too long polishing production & sound design at the expense of, amongst other things…
        
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          This song had been a "fragment" for a couple of years -- a state the befalls many an aspiring melodic doodle, sound design or chord cadence.
This time, the glockenspiel melody that formed the initial draft had another iterative polish, together…
        
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          If I'm being kind to myself, I'll say that I wrote this in a "through-composed" style. Truth is it probably required another verse etc., to nudge the song's story along and provide some semblance of structure. Instead, I was enjoying myself adding…
        
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          With thanks to FBJ Matt [https://fatboyjamz.bandcamp.com/] for the title, which inspired the lyrics and overall intent.
The vocals are largely from synths (I input the melody and lyrics, the synth -- Vocaloid in this case -- generates the tone…
        
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          Sequel to the "Spectrum EP", Anthem is the first single released by Jahmahn Sheyin. Enjoy Reggae out of Nigeria.
        
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          Fellas, you can be busy conquering the world, buh nah left ya woman dem lonely at home. Learn from Jahmahn, a certified lover man.
        
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          This song was written and recorded to my phone in less than 15 minutes - it's the reason I ended up dropping the first 2 songs I recorded from my 2025 RPM effort , as they sucked compared to this.
Lyrics
I’m too tired to do anything
I’m…
        
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          An electro instrumental track, with the occasional unintelligible vocals.
        
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          Let’s go save the planet
Let’s stop all pollution
It can’t really be that hard you’d think
But it’s not what we want
So we vote in fascists
Guess that we’re just in it for ourselves
I don’t know, what we can do anymore
As I watch the…
        
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          Lying on a rooftop 
Head shot in my sights
Finger on the trigger
The time to shoot is right
Oh yeah,
I’m killing a billionaire
We all saw it coming
They knew we’d fight back
It’s no use complaining
Your skull’s about to crack
Oh…
        
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          Stop telling me things that are just made up
Stop making it hard when it’s so easy
Stop shoving marbles inside my mouth
Stop making me over and over think it
Get me out of my head
Stop everything I need to get off this train
of thought…
        
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          A minimalist arrangement on this song, just piano and vocals, and a small synth solo.
Lyrics
I love you with dirt on your face
and grey and tangled hair
You don’t need to try to impress
Because I just don’t care
I only want you to…
        
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          I feel calm when it’s night
Away from things that are bright
Under the glow of the moon 
I’m happy
If I could go back in time
Take me to the 90’s that would suit me just fine
I don’t like how things have turned out
Since the tech bros…
        
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          2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 14 becomes finished song number 10.
This isn't so bad.  I used the just-loop-the-bass gimmick and while that sometimes works for me, this time it just feels super repetitive.  Not bad, just not very good…
        
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          2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 16 becomes finished song number nine.
This one is decent.  I wanted a little bit of a head banger on acoustic guitar.  It works on that level.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure…
        
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          Possibly the last one for this years RPM 
        The Only thing I feel 
The wind blew against the window and brought the morning I
Sunlight hit the curtain and I’m sure it trying to break on through
My senses woke  to the smell of tobbaco…
        
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