The International House of Dancakes Dan Warren

This is a bunch of instrumental music I made for a documentary called River Runner many years ago, just sort of stuffed together in one track.

I don't know why I made this either but here it is.

This is a track I did for the Frog Fractions 2 ARG, it was meant to be an artifact from the remains of the civilization of Bug Mars. It's a song of mourning in the last days of a dying civilization.

Lyrics:

There was no war, there was no victory
No grand defeat to make some sense of the
Things that we lost, things that we gave for free
Because we never understood
That when it's gone, it's gone for good

The sparkles kill and then they fade away
The heart grows still amid the world's decay
Even the atmosphere has bled away
And still we never understood
That when it's gone, it's gone for good

Sometimes I like to just sit down and build a generative music machine that makes pretty noises. This was one of those days, and this is the result.

Just a little instrumental thing I bashed together while learning to use Playbox

This is the instrumental track for a song I have still never recorded. I wrote the song near the end of 2020. It's about reassuring yourself that the currently horrible world events are temporary. It was a sort of cross between optimism and intentional irony, and of course 2021 turned out to suck even worse. Maybe one day I'll record it, but for now it just sort of sounds like Christmas shopping music that's been left out to decay in the sun for a few decades. Here's the lyrics:

Christmastime
Where'd the year go?
Spent inside
Living echoes
An endless parade of identical moments that shuffle away, leaving no real impression at all, but
Things will be better next year
I know they will
Things will be better next year

Christmastime
And I miss you
Soon it won't
be an issue
Maybe by June we can meet in a restaurant surrounded by people and think nothing of it at all?
Things will be better next year
They have to be
Things will be better next year