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Track 18: won’t pick up the phone featuring Matthew Buckley

“Can your hear me scream to the skies

I know you’re out there this isn’t your last goodbye

I will hear you and we will find out way

If we can live through today I promise it will end up

Just fine”

This was the first song written after my diagnosis I think and my sections were written talking about my pain and daily experiences living with bpd and not wanting to, for Mat I asked him to write lyrics based on if he knew a close friend was wanting to end it all what would he say to them

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Full album stream available on YouTube for my new album ‘Atelophobia’

1. Atelophobia 2. Mistakes were made 3. Home 4. Empty 5. Shame 6. Breathe 7. OnTheEdge 8. Twisted 9. Words can be a prison 10. I don’t wanna fight Ft Danielle Jacobs11. Sucker for tragedy 12. Cycle 13. Desolation 14. Dismantle 15. The demons can’t find me here 16. Shame (acoustic) 17. What if she falls ft Mat Buckley 18. Won’t pick up the phone ft Mat Buckley

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Mike Liebo - My Velvet Love [FULL ALBUM ]

Chapter 1 from "Kingdom Of Nowhere" 1. Make Me Love You 2. I Need A Taste 3. Well 4. Came To Float 5. A Midsummer Nights Wet Dream 6. War On My Mind 7. Hell I Know 8. In A Lake Of Fire 9. Chemical Darling 10. Edge Of The Bay 11. Heart Burn 12. Golden Embers

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Track 17: what if she falls? Featuring Matthew Buckley

“What if she falls in love with another

After I am gone

And I know it might be selfish for me to think this way

But I know I’ll always want her to be

Happy”

A sad song disguised behind a nice sound poppunk melody this song was about the battling emotions of wanting to be dead but being sad that the person you love would move on and find someone else to love in your wake

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Track 16: Shame (acoustic)

“I can’t believe how I made it this far

So take me in your arms”

I already talked about the meaning behind this one in the alternative version earlier in the track listing but I just enjoyed the strings so much from the other version that I decided to pull those from the standard version and have a second stripped back one to really show them off

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Track 15: the demons can’t find me here

“Don’t let them find me, I’m out of time

Cause I find it frightening when they find a way in

I’ve lost more days than I can count

Tired of pleading in the dark

These years have definitely left marks”

Another sad one surprise surprise, I wasn’t sleeping very well around the time I wrote this one the darkness in my head was just too noisy when I was alone at night, so I just sat at the computer at 3am quitely writing and recording the music because sleep seemed to escape me that night

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(by tatsuya3736)

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can someone invent a type of letting go that actually feels good instead of feeling like your soul is getting ripped out via large intestine

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Track 14: Dismantle

“If art is is made through suffering then hang me as your favourite piece”

This was a song I wrote in one of my lowest moments when I really felt like everything was falling apart. Things in life have been a rollercoaster of ups and downs since then, but I managed to come through it, and channeling that pain into art has always been a form of therapy to me

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Track 13: Desolation

“Am I lost? Cause I feel broken

Is there more to life than this?

I feel that one of the most terrifying things living with my condition is the lack of self and realising the lack of identity and not knowing who you are or what you want to be.

I’ve spent so long reinventing myself again and again from hating who I am whilst also never really knowing who that is myself. I’m still struggling with this quite a lot but I’m try my best to be a better person and someone I could be proud of myself, anywayz that’s what this song is about

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Track 12: Cycle

“It’s a vicious cycle don’t let it bring you down

Stuck in the never ending, I guess it’s not so bad

Life’s like a heartless circle, it’ll make the same mistakes

Stuck in the never ending, why is this never ending”

This song doesn’t have much of a deep meaning behind it like some of the others, it’s more generic sad songs but i wasn’t excited to try some new ideas by playing around with vocal chopping. Really was a bit of an experimental song for me but I like how it turned out

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Track 11: Sucker for tragedy

“Do you think we could return

To a time when I was

Happy?”

This song was written in the early stages of realising my condition before I was getting any help, I felt like I had to perform this character so people wouldn’t get sick of being around me for being too much of a burden. In the end I burnt myself out worse than ever pretending to be okay to a place where I gave up on music for the last 4 years

I’m trying to do better but it’s a process, I hope I can achieve something past me would be proud of

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Track 10: I don’t wanna fight

“Baby, I don’t wanna fight all I want is you

And if we stick together we’ll make it through

So give me one last chance to make this right

Please”

I don’t really have a deep story for this song, the relationship I was in at the time we had a pretty bad arguement which was out of character for the relationship and I felt so bad afterwards I had to write a song about it to say sorry for my part in it

And Ofcourse a big thank you to Danielle for the incredible vocals on this one, it’s an old song at this point but I still love it so much

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Track 9: words can be a prison

“This life can be a prison, it’s all pretend

When no one hears you crying, you’ve lost your friends

Cause I’m all alone, and I’m losing my mind

I hope that all this pain will face with time

Will you send me above, will you give me some time

I wish that things were simple, I wish that I was fine”

This song represents a hard point but a learning point in my life, I was experiencing heartbreak but more than that I could see my band that I’d put soo much off myself into falling apart around me. Originally for my band Don’t Stop! Go! I loved this song soo much I had to redo it.

This song and section of the album was produced by @imneverhappywithmyusername who did an amazing job with the sound achieved on the acoustic guitar

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Track 8: Twisted

“So I’ll keep drinking and you’ll keep thinking

Of how I broke your heart

And I’ll keep bleeding to find some meaning

In this twisted life of mine”

TW: drinking/SH

So this song was about a dark part in my life where my mental health dropped significantly, I was struggling to exist on a daily basis and was regular slipping back in to old habits and was drinking most days just to stop the noise in my head enough to be able to sleep. I hated who I was at this point and I barely touch alcohol anymore except socially. Things were hard back then but since then I’ve taken steps to focus on recovery seeing a psychiatrist and various mental health professionals. I’ve still quite a ways to go but I’m proud of how far I’ve come