https://victorsarchive.com/tags/lyrical-theme-authenticity/ Recent content in Lyrical Theme: Authenticity on Victor's Archive https://victorsarchive.com/seoCard.png https://victorsarchive.com/seoCard.png Hugo -- 0.137.1 en-us Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/high-fructose-corn-syrup-song-by-lamp/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/high-fructose-corn-syrup-song-by-lamp/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>A blues rock song about Hurricane Katrina. I wrote this with Lamp, my first band in high school.</p> <h2 id="style">Style</h2> <p>Rock</p> <h2 id="demo">Demo</h2> <p><audio controlslist="nodownload" controls="controls"><source src="https://victorsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/music/demos/High+Fructose+Corn+Syrup.mp3" type="audio/mp3"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio></p> <h2 id="lyrics">Lyrics</h2> <p>I left my home, went out the door<br> I drove away into the cold<br> There’s so many people here but I’m alone<br> Life’s too fast and it got sold</p> <p>High fructose corn syrup<br> Nothing’s real anymore<br> You wanted something to believe in<br> But only lies are told</p> https://victorsarchive.com/posts/jonesian-song-by-reenchantment/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/jonesian-song-by-reenchantment/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>This rap song was a protest against the attempt to control our creative process through the genre system.</p> <h2 id="style">Style</h2> <p>Electronic</p> <h2 id="recording">Recording</h2> <p><audio controlslist="nodownload" controls="controls"><source src="https://victorsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/music/Jonesian/Jonesian.mp3" type="audio/mp3"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio></p> <h2 id="lyrics">Lyrics</h2> <p>What is?</p> <p>Times are lookin’ tough, you gotta stop, take a long had look upon yourself<br> ’cause you’ve been had by the powers that be, and think that only God will set you free<br> So stop reading Alex Jones all night, and take a look outside your window at the ground<br> And realize that your demise ignores that chances their that will be found</p> https://victorsarchive.com/posts/on-an-astral-journey-to-an-expanded-consciousness-song-by-reenchantment/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/on-an-astral-journey-to-an-expanded-consciousness-song-by-reenchantment/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>A song about the mystical possibilities of spiritual practice.</p> <h2 id="style">Style</h2> <p>Doom Metal</p> <h2 id="demo">Demo</h2> <p><audio controlslist="nodownload" controls="controls"><source src="https://victorsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/music/demos/On+an+Astral+Journey+to+an+Expanded+Consciousness.mp3" type="audio/mp3"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio></p> <h2 id="lyrics">Lyrics</h2> <p>Die forever more, when you can’t live with yourself<br> Slowly drowning deep, without your own consciousness<br> How you see yourself, can determine your fate<br> You’ve got to save yourself, before your time is too late</p> <p>In our society, we all believe<br> We can read others, as we perceive<br> You better figure out, your own way<br> Before you bring about, other’s pain</p> https://victorsarchive.com/posts/remember-song-by-reenchantment/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/remember-song-by-reenchantment/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>A heartfelt acoustic rock song about the way we loose ourselves when we experience the struggle and the tragedy of life.</p> <h2 id="style">Style</h2> <p>Rock</p> <h2 id="recording">Recording</h2> <p><audio controlslist="nodownload" controls="controls"><source src="https://victorsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/music/Remember/Remember+(High+School+Version).mp3" type="audio/mp3"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio></p> <!-- tags: ["Content: Video"] --> <!-- ## YouTube Video The images in this video were generated with AI by David Sommer. <div class="video-container"> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-N-ciPOa1KM?si=h9sOToWHGhH6ZRtM" title="YouTube Video Player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> --> <h2 id="lyrics">Lyrics</h2> <p>Stumbling through the voids of rejection<br> Crumbling without any intention<br> Suffer the weight of the world, it’s your fate<br> You wanted to journey forever<br> When it was too late</p> https://victorsarchive.com/posts/the-paranoid-hallucinations-of-an-evil-spirit-deep-within-the-hidden-swamp-song-by-reenchantment/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/the-paranoid-hallucinations-of-an-evil-spirit-deep-within-the-hidden-swamp-song-by-reenchantment/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>A song about what it’s like to wake up from this fake world. Holden Caulfield was right!</p> <h2 id="style">Style</h2> <p>Doom Metal</p> <h2 id="demo">Demo</h2> <p><audio controlslist="nodownload" controls="controls"><source src="https://victorsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/music/demos/The+Paranoid+Hallucinations+of+an+Evil+Spirit+(Deep+Within+the+Hidden+Swamp).mp3" type="audio/mp3"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio></p> <h2 id="lyrics">Lyrics</h2> <p>You carry on, living fine<br> Nothing to wonder<br> Complacent mind</p> <p>You are so focused<br> An assembly line<br> So relieved so happy<br> Your time to shine</p> <p>A void is building<br> Within your being<br> Your pseudo world<br> Delusion’s dream</p> <p>While you are guided<br> By other’s ways<br> You’re being supplanted<br> In cosmic haze</p> https://victorsarchive.com/posts/theyll-come-for-you-song-by-reenchantment/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/theyll-come-for-you-song-by-reenchantment/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>This is one of the best examples of my acoustic rock songwriting. The <em>Mermaid Version</em> ended up capturing my sound in the most accurate way, although the last minute of the Pilgrimage Version is also interesting because is revealed how Aaron and I would sound with a more radio friendly approach. I did struggle with my vocals on that day though.</p> <p>The song discusses the way we are unconsciously shaped by social conditioning.</p> https://victorsarchive.com/posts/this-wicked-realm-song-by-reenchantment/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/this-wicked-realm-song-by-reenchantment/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>The lyrics here describe the inability to express a magical experience to other people. It was able to beautifully capture my interest in both doom metal and atmospheric rock.</p> <h2 id="style">Style</h2> <p>Doom Metal</p> <h2 id="recording">Recording</h2> <p><audio controlslist="nodownload" controls="controls"><source src="https://victorsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/music/This+Wicked+Realm/This+Wicked+Realm.mp3" type="audio/mp3"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio></p> <h2 id="lyrics">Lyrics</h2> <p>Aya, bring the dawn</p> <p>Try to live with the truth that you know, it is all that must be<br> Can you cope with the knowledge that you’re the only one to see<br> My silence buries you for all eternity<br> Why can’t you realize the truth must set you free</p> https://victorsarchive.com/posts/trip-tamine-song-by-reenchantment/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://victorsarchive.com/posts/trip-tamine-song-by-reenchantment/ <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>A psychedelic soundtrack for an epic video by Dr. Timothy Leary.</p> <p><em>Socrates said know thyself</em></p> <h2 id="style">Style</h2> <p>Electronic</p> <h2 id="video">Video</h2> <video controlslist="nodownload" controls="controls"> <source src="https://victorsarchive.s3.amazonaws.com/music/Trip-tamine/Trip-tamine.mp4" type="video/mp4"> <track kind="captions" src="" srclang="en" label="English"> Your browser does not support the video element. </video> <h2 id="lyrics">Lyrics</h2> <p>Dr. Timothy Leary:<br> <em>They came to Socrates and said</em><br> <em>Stop saying that Socrates</em><br> <em>You’re corrupting the mind of youth</em></p> <p><em>There is no self</em><br> <em>There is no knowledge</em><br> <em>Obey</em><br> <em>Believe</em></p> <p><em>Socrates would not be stopped</em><br> <em>He said know thyself</em><br> <em>Operate your brain</em></p> <h2 id="credits">Credits</h2> <p>• Music by Victor Fisher of <a href="https://about.reenchantment.band">Reenchantment</a> (Band) and <a href="https://paramusicology.com">Paramusicology</a> (Label).<br> • With video and audio by Dr. Timothy Leary.</p>