I've decided to collect all the songs I've made through the last decade and share my favourite snippets with you guys. The pictures for the backgrounds will (as much as possible) be pictures I've taken the same year as the lyrics were written. The full lyrics may or may not be made official someday.
Part 3; 2015
Being the first full year I had been writing songs and the year I took one semester on what I now call my summer camp, this was a very productive year for songs. Well, it was a productive year for lyrics, I actually did only finish half of the songs I started. My lyrics became a little less angry overall and focused more on storytelling.
More info under the line
Stay creative, my fellow foxes 🦊💚
Song 1 (pic1); Pyriphlegeton.
A song named after the greek myth of the flood of fire in the underworld keeping the tormented standing so they can endure more pain, this is a song where I've taken the perspective of a woman with an undefined mental illness. Some lines however can be read through a trans lens. Fun fact: I rapped the verses on this. No I am not kidding (also I am not a rapper)
Featured lyrics:
Heartache! Her ribcage's a cage of a prison.
She's searching so hard for the brick life's missing.
Honorable mention;
She blames herself for going insane.
When all that she need is a shoulder to cry on,
Instead she chokes on water from Pyriphlegethon.
Song 2 (pic2); Icebirds
This is a fun one in that I made it as a sort of theme song for a novel length story I was writing about a boy that lived in a world where people got their mind wiped in they stepped out of line (or what he later learn is actually a brainfog repressing your memories and identity). So while the lyrics could be taken as a queer metaphor in context it is more litteral. I didn't finish either the story or the song however.
Featured lyric:
Out of the fog, clear reality to face.
How much of myself have ignorance erased?
Song 3 (pic3); Tidal Wave/Party Wave
One of the few times that I tried to write a party song. This was strange since I wrote as a typical Dane that drinks and loves parties (which I don't) but I do love this line a lot
Featured lyric:
The floor's alive with every beat.
We're the beating heart's arteries.
Song 4 (pic4); the Rabbit and the Turtle
One of the few songs with no real perspective character, instead it is about the passing of time and the ambivalent feeling I have about time in general.
Featured lyric:
today's struggles are in tomorrow's past.
Song 5 (pic5); Shout Out
A song I wrote as a tribute to the friends I've gotten in the three years of highschool (although some of the experiences mentioned go back to middleschool). One of the earlier examples of me using my own experiences in a song.
Featured lyric:
Where everyday it's a chapter, at dawn begins a new [chapter].
Song 6 (pic6); Fair Little Muse
In this song I take the perspective of a lover feeling something is wrong with their partner but not knowing what or how to communicate their worry. It is very flowery/artsy which is fitting since the muse part is inspired by the muses of greek mythology.
Featured lyric:
((Extended)) Your thoughts are roses, wild in bloom.
Are they midnight black or are they twilight blue?
While roses they wither, evergreen remains.
And snowdrops bear promises of better days.
Song 7 (pic7); Mirror on the Wall v. 2
This is a special case since it is a song that actually have two versions; one was very personal and read like a diary (version 1) and then there's one taking the perspective of a girl and a boy both having body image issues thereby depersonalising the story (version 2). And yet this line is so raw and trans coded that I cannot help but love it. I never finished this song.
Featured lyric:
Mirror on the wall, hear it smash against the floor.
I feel so wasted [and] lost in my own skin.
((Extended)) [in] this body I'm living in.
Song 8 (pic8); Mixtape
I had an idea of writing a song about two people sharing memories through their dedication to music (possibly because I was at a music camp around this time). I never finished the song but I like this first part.
Featured lyric:
I’ve made you a mixtape to soundtrack your wasted youth.
All your favorite songs are on it 'cause they’re mine too.
