A song written for the campaign Cyberpunk Red: Never Fade Away
I said before that my writing of late has focused quite a bit on the TTRPG campaigns I’m in, and I thought I’d share some of those with you here.
Let’s start with some songs written in-character by my Rockerboy, K2
Album: DemoGraphic
DemoGraphic is the first album/ep released by K2 after their debut performance at Hammer. The album is an eclectic mix of musical styles, from instrumental jazz to an industrial-metal ballad on the same album. The title comes from the fact that most of the songs were on K2’s demo, combined with the fact that the lyrics are mostly autobiographical.
On another level, the title refers to the fact that, like K2 themself, music doesn’t fit into a box but is wild, free, and authentic to itself.
Track One
“What If?”
(a retrospective on growing up)
When we were young
we didn’t know
how cruel life would be
as it pulled to earth
our castles in the sky
Cutting short the ignorance of youth
Leaving behind a heart as hard as nails
Emotions like hardened circuits
Calloused eyes and jaded lips
Locked away from the world
Hidden behind
a wall of grief
a well of sorrow
what could I do
but mourn a lost future
What if the things that never were
Became things that always will be
A new beginning, a fresh start
A substituted reality
Better than the world we see
Going back to when we didn’t know
What fate had in store for us
The earth left fallow
A soul less shallow
Rough edges filed smooth
Running In My Head 