A couple of odds-and-sods
These are some 'lighter' 21st-century entries, also based on music from high school!
Drifting By (with prologue)
There's probably not a lot to say about the 21st century prologue to this song (which I think was done in 2022), but as for the main song itself, this is the fast Year 7 version of Drifting By, as opposed to the slow Year 8 one (which is '2nd Try at Drifting By', on Arko's High School Music Highlights)... this song occurred to me once when I was sleeping over at my Dad's house... I suddenly had all these triplets enter my head, and that's how this song was born!
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Lyrics:
Slipping from sight
Yesterday’s lost dream
Window fogs up
Parted for good
Relic from years ago
Gathered dust
Hollowness of years gone
See me play the fool
Face harsh light of day
Were that that dream true
Being made a mockery of
Joke’s on me
Vantage of the other side
Rather not have had
Only two who’d been there
Known to nought else
Time had slipped unnoticed
Windfalls never seen
Oh just one more time
Just wanna go back
Future comes into view
But what could portend
What had I to show
Maybe I’d never know?
I see my life
Staring through the window
I ask myself
Why is this so?
Those people place
All their blame on me
And so I say to them
Why don't you just let me be
Why, why have they control over me?
I feel cut from life’s reality
Why, why can’t I just break free?
The world seems to be ignoring me
The world is fad-
ing so fast I can’t see
I ask myself
How could this be?
Oh I see you
All so clearly
So I ask myself
Why can’t you see me?
Why, why must I do their decree?
I feel cut from life’s reality
Why, why are they authority?
The world seems to be ignoring me
Bittersweet Times (alternate version)
The verse music of this was done in 2024, but I think I did this because I wanted to do better justice to the Year 8 fragment that this is based on (the chorus music), than the original Bittersweet Times that's on my main Collection... (I felt that that, whilst a good song, didn't really do good justice to the Year 8 music)... however, I like the overall feel of this one, and feel it's quite successful!
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Lyrics:
Things aren’t quite what they seem
Layers kept underneath
Ain’t done till it’s done
That’s what the man says
Murky shrouded future
Paradise that awaits
All knowing your pain
In some far gone way
What I’d give, just one more
Oh that we were there
Please don’t ever mind me
Want the best, can’t you see?
A life of slow salvation is here, but the time now feels oh so near
Trinkets strewn away, as I’ll never let it part every day
Lost without purpose
Into vice of madness
With mirth someone laughs
Draws you into his lair
Gripped with pain from all sides
In a way just his own
Wipe that tear from your eyes
Chin up, that’s the way
Almost there, hold on
Gotta be where it’s at
Nothing seeming so sure?
So much better before
And things stretch on for yet so far, as I live bereft of my northern star
Will you wish me well, as I harbour things I just can’t tell