by Nick Gisburne
Forever you will be my flower girl
No matter how your petals fell away
For every tangled, twisted, copper curl
A memory reminds me, night and day
Your petals fell away
A memory reminds me, night and day
You smile, I know, inside that tiny box
A light, to shine wherever you may go
I long to make the seasons stop their clocks
But time and fate, as rivers, ever flow
Wherever you may go
The sands of time, in rivers, always flow
I wish I could have watched your flowers bloom
I damn the reasons that could never be
In shadows, walls, and corners of the room
Your face is all I ever want to see
But that could never be
Your face is all I ever want to see
I do not have the words to say goodbye
But know that what you were will never die
My flower girl, your petals fell away
But memories remind me, night and day
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem My Flower Girl
Monday, 31 August 2026
A Shilling
by Nick Gisburne
Whatever brute or beast you hope to see
Whatever strange delusions twist your dreams
Beware what creeps behind the curtain: me
Monstrosity is sometimes what it seems.
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
For those who look, but never let me speak
Revulsion and contempt are nothing new
My skin will turn the stomachs of the weak
But do I sound so primitive to you?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
Mere words, alas, will not prepare your mind
For what the gods themselves have cast aside
But why are you so adamant to find
A woman forced to hate herself and hide?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
A shilling is a wretched price to pay
Spare both of us, I beg you. Walk away
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
But only death will ever set me free
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem A Shilling
Whatever brute or beast you hope to see
Whatever strange delusions twist your dreams
Beware what creeps behind the curtain: me
Monstrosity is sometimes what it seems.
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
For those who look, but never let me speak
Revulsion and contempt are nothing new
My skin will turn the stomachs of the weak
But do I sound so primitive to you?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
Mere words, alas, will not prepare your mind
For what the gods themselves have cast aside
But why are you so adamant to find
A woman forced to hate herself and hide?
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
A shilling is a wretched price to pay
Spare both of us, I beg you. Walk away
A shilling pays to see
The monster that is me
But only death will ever set me free
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem A Shilling
Always Running
by Nick Gisburne
Original Version:
Alternative Version:
She was happy, always happy
and she had a little money
just a little in her savings
and she saw it in the window
and she liked it, then she loved it
and she simply had to have it
so she bought it, and she wore it
and she wanted me to see it
and she ran onto the pavement
she was running, always running
she was running when I met her
so excited, she was laughing
and the laughing made her breathless
but she had to find a crossing
and she saw the bus arriving
it was there and it was waiting
and she recognised the number
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and the traffic, always busy
if she waited she would miss it
but the road, she had to cross it
and the gap between the traffic
could have been a little bigger
but it looked enough to make it
and she saw it and she did it
and she ran as fast as ever
she has always been a runner
and the woman tried to stop her
and she said she almost had her
but she’s always been a runner
she was running when I met her
so the woman couldn’t do it
but the traffic, oh the traffic
it was busy, always busy
and the bus it wasn’t going
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and she didn’t want to miss it
so she did it, she was running
she was running when I met her
but the driver didn’t see her
no he said he didn’t see her
and he’d had enough of waiting
she was running, always running
she has always been a runner
and she wanted me to see it
and she knew that I would love it
and the bus, it wasn’t waiting
and it moved into the middle
and she knew she wouldn’t catch it
and the traffic was behind it
and she must have seen it moving
but she didn’t see the driver
and the driver didn’t notice
and he drove a little faster
and he said he never saw her
she was there and she was running
she has always been a runner
she was running there to catch it
but she never could have made it
and she never should have done it
and the driver couldn’t help it
and he never could have stopped
and now she’s dead.
She had always been a runner
she was running when I met her
she was running, always running
and she wanted me to see it
and I saw it and I loved it
and I put it in the coffin
and I wish I could have told her
that I love her more than ever
but I can’t.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Always Running
Original Version:
Alternative Version:
She was happy, always happy
and she had a little money
just a little in her savings
and she saw it in the window
and she liked it, then she loved it
and she simply had to have it
so she bought it, and she wore it
and she wanted me to see it
and she ran onto the pavement
she was running, always running
she was running when I met her
so excited, she was laughing
and the laughing made her breathless
but she had to find a crossing
and she saw the bus arriving
it was there and it was waiting
and she recognised the number
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and the traffic, always busy
if she waited she would miss it
but the road, she had to cross it
and the gap between the traffic
could have been a little bigger
but it looked enough to make it
and she saw it and she did it
and she ran as fast as ever
she has always been a runner
and the woman tried to stop her
and she said she almost had her
but she’s always been a runner
she was running when I met her
so the woman couldn’t do it
but the traffic, oh the traffic
it was busy, always busy
and the bus it wasn’t going
but it wouldn’t wait forever
and she didn’t want to miss it
so she did it, she was running
she was running when I met her
but the driver didn’t see her
no he said he didn’t see her
and he’d had enough of waiting
she was running, always running
she has always been a runner
and she wanted me to see it
and she knew that I would love it
and the bus, it wasn’t waiting
and it moved into the middle
and she knew she wouldn’t catch it
and the traffic was behind it
and she must have seen it moving
but she didn’t see the driver
and the driver didn’t notice
and he drove a little faster
and he said he never saw her
she was there and she was running
she has always been a runner
she was running there to catch it
but she never could have made it
and she never should have done it
and the driver couldn’t help it
and he never could have stopped
and now she’s dead.
She had always been a runner
she was running when I met her
she was running, always running
and she wanted me to see it
and I saw it and I loved it
and I put it in the coffin
and I wish I could have told her
that I love her more than ever
but I can’t.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Always Running
The Theory of Cheese
by Nick Gisburne
A mouse was once invited to the Moon
To ponder on the Theory of Cheese
For if it could be eaten with a spoon
Would moonlight be too slippery to squeeze?
The Theory of Cheese
You'll only understand it if you sneeze
His first contention: positively yes
Was countered by a second: strictly no
So, rather than be seen to simply guess
The mouse, without a squeak, agreed to go
The Theory of Cheese
Is deeper than an ocean filled with peas
The jaunt became a farcical affair
When suddenly the navigating bat
Cried out, convinced the Moon was never there
And no one could persuade him. That was that
The Theory of Cheese
Particularly stinky in a breeze
They landed in the bosom of a tree
Too late for cheese, but just in time for tea
And after that they told their tale to me
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem The Theory of Cheese
A mouse was once invited to the Moon
To ponder on the Theory of Cheese
For if it could be eaten with a spoon
Would moonlight be too slippery to squeeze?
The Theory of Cheese
You'll only understand it if you sneeze
His first contention: positively yes
Was countered by a second: strictly no
So, rather than be seen to simply guess
The mouse, without a squeak, agreed to go
The Theory of Cheese
Is deeper than an ocean filled with peas
The jaunt became a farcical affair
When suddenly the navigating bat
Cried out, convinced the Moon was never there
And no one could persuade him. That was that
The Theory of Cheese
Particularly stinky in a breeze
They landed in the bosom of a tree
Too late for cheese, but just in time for tea
And after that they told their tale to me
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem The Theory of Cheese
Dung the Deadly
by Nick Gisburne
The thing you thought was gone forever... ain’t.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
We’re crawling through the cracks. We’re in the paint.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Have scuttled here on filthy feet, to bring
The finest of his foul infections, free.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Bring foul infections, absolutely free.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
We saw the traps, the trails of bait, the spray.
You call that poison? Pitiful. Let’s play.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
And now we're stronger, faster... and we sing!
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Dung the Deadly
The thing you thought was gone forever... ain’t.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
We’re crawling through the cracks. We’re in the paint.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
Your kitchen floor is heaving, black with bugs.
A hundred thousand creepy little thugs.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Have scuttled here on filthy feet, to bring
The finest of his foul infections, free.
His followers, the faithful, as you see,
Bring foul infections, absolutely free.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
We saw the traps, the trails of bait, the spray.
You call that poison? Pitiful. Let’s play.
We worship Dung the Deadly, cockroach king.
And now we're stronger, faster... and we sing!
We’re bigger, and we’re better, and we bite.
We’re taking this, your two-bit diner, down.
Surrender! Dung has never lost a fight.
Prepare to swim in seven shades of brown.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Dung the Deadly
One More Round of Rum
by Nick Gisburne
The Barbarous Brigade of Buccaneers
Join forces on a winter’s Friday night
For rum and grog and strange, exotic beers
They love the salty shanties, and the fight
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
The has-been heroes falter on their feet
But all it takes is one more round of rum
For every soul to stagger down the street
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
A dozen crabby pirates, blind with booze
So knackered they have nothing left to lose
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem One More Round of Rum
The Barbarous Brigade of Buccaneers
Join forces on a winter’s Friday night
For rum and grog and strange, exotic beers
They love the salty shanties, and the fight
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
The has-been heroes falter on their feet
But all it takes is one more round of rum
For every soul to stagger down the street
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
A dozen crabby pirates, past their best
Assemble, brains bewildered, blind with booze
To dance around a dead man’s treasure chest
Resplendent in their ludicrous tattoos
Perhaps a smidge too strenuous for some
A dozen crabby pirates, blind with booze
So knackered they have nothing left to lose
Ask any, “Will you come?” However far
However old, they’ll answer, always, “Arrrrr!”
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem One More Round of Rum
Sunday, 30 August 2026
A Shadow Out of Space
by Nick Gisburne
As he slowly paints the purifying symbols on his skin
With the ashes of the fire, and the fat
In the stomach of the carcass, in the filth he finds within
In the desecrated heart he hammers flat
Are the chemicals he needs to charge the charms
With a hiss he drips their acids on his arms
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He shivers in a blistered field of corn
He is cracked across a prism of intolerable pain
Where the colours of his torment start to split
There is order in the patterns, and the magic they contain
Binds a servant who is ready to commit
To a sickness he was not supposed to know
But the depth of his devotion drives the flow
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He sees the world and showers it with scorn
From the resurrected echoes of the body in the pit
Rise the whispers of a black, aborted soul
In the stillness, as its violated bones begin to split
As a nameless evil slithers through the hole
As the servant paints new patterns on his face
He becomes a god, a shadow out of space
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
A festering atrocity is born
The resurrected elder of a long-forgotten race
A fiend
A force
A shadow out of space
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
As he slowly paints the purifying symbols on his skin
With the ashes of the fire, and the fat
In the stomach of the carcass, in the filth he finds within
In the desecrated heart he hammers flat
Are the chemicals he needs to charge the charms
With a hiss he drips their acids on his arms
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He shivers in a blistered field of corn
He is cracked across a prism of intolerable pain
Where the colours of his torment start to split
There is order in the patterns, and the magic they contain
Binds a servant who is ready to commit
To a sickness he was not supposed to know
But the depth of his devotion drives the flow
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
He sees the world and showers it with scorn
From the resurrected echoes of the body in the pit
Rise the whispers of a black, aborted soul
In the stillness, as its violated bones begin to split
As a nameless evil slithers through the hole
As the servant paints new patterns on his face
He becomes a god, a shadow out of space
In the darkness, in the black before the dawn
A festering atrocity is born
The resurrected elder of a long-forgotten race
A fiend
A force
A shadow out of space
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Saturday, 29 August 2026
A Little of Your Time
by Nick Gisburne
I never want the whole of your attention
I never want to dominate your day
To take it all is never my intention
When I tell you I can wait
That the pieces I create
Are the products of the pain I hide away
I am seeking what another soul would say
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
The torment in the art of each creation
Is more than any heart should ever spend
To look at them at last evokes elation
But I simply want to see
If the brightness brought to me
Could be worthy of the feelings of a friend
I can wait, but tell me when the wait will end
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
I am constantly creating
But I wonder why I’m waiting
Is my question such a crime?
You cannot spare my feelings
If you cannot spare the time
I’m ready to accept I was mistaken
I’m ready to believe you’ll never care
Today my feelings finally awaken
When I’m proud of what I do
I am over asking you
For the time you find impossible to spare
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
At least I won’t be waiting
Now I know
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
I never want the whole of your attention
I never want to dominate your day
To take it all is never my intention
When I tell you I can wait
That the pieces I create
Are the products of the pain I hide away
I am seeking what another soul would say
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
The torment in the art of each creation
Is more than any heart should ever spend
To look at them at last evokes elation
But I simply want to see
If the brightness brought to me
Could be worthy of the feelings of a friend
I can wait, but tell me when the wait will end
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
I am constantly creating
But I wonder why I’m waiting
Is my question such a crime?
You cannot spare my feelings
If you cannot spare the time
I’m ready to accept I was mistaken
I’m ready to believe you’ll never care
Today my feelings finally awaken
When I’m proud of what I do
I am over asking you
For the time you find impossible to spare
I only need a little of your time
If you love them tell me yes
If you hate them tell me no
But the waiting gives me nowhere else to go
At least I won’t be waiting
Now I know
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Friday, 28 August 2026
Nothing More to Say
by Nick Gisburne
If I vanish, who will miss me?
If I crumble, who will care?
If I disappear tomorrow, who will know?
When the quiet cannot kiss me
And my dreams would never dare
Is there anywhere for guidance I can go?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
Is there no one who can free me
From the shadows I am shown?
From the unforgiving fear that never ends?
Is there someone who can see me?
Will I always walk alone?
Are the whispers of this world my only friends?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
As I swallow all the shameful words I’ve spoken
As I nervously ignite what I’ve awoken
Enchanted by the change
I take a stance, however strange
When there is nothing more to say
I throw my unrelenting misery away
And break the day
I am certain you can see me
I am all that I was not
I am infinitely brighter than before
When my past and present free me
When I find what I forgot
I am all I thought I’d never be, and more
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there was nothing more to say
Until I broke away
Until today
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
If I vanish, who will miss me?
If I crumble, who will care?
If I disappear tomorrow, who will know?
When the quiet cannot kiss me
And my dreams would never dare
Is there anywhere for guidance I can go?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
Is there no one who can free me
From the shadows I am shown?
From the unforgiving fear that never ends?
Is there someone who can see me?
Will I always walk alone?
Are the whispers of this world my only friends?
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there is nothing more to say
As I swallow all the shameful words I’ve spoken
As I nervously ignite what I’ve awoken
Enchanted by the change
I take a stance, however strange
When there is nothing more to say
I throw my unrelenting misery away
And break the day
I am certain you can see me
I am all that I was not
I am infinitely brighter than before
When my past and present free me
When I find what I forgot
I am all I thought I’d never be, and more
The faces are forgotten
As the friendships fade away
In the silence there was nothing more to say
Until I broke away
Until today
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Twisted Willow Tree
by Nick Gisburne
When he turned his tortured mind towards the punishment he took
There was fury in the faces he could see
He could feel their heat, their hatred, heard them laugh with every look
As they tied him to the twisted willow tree
As they made him bleed before they set him free
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
In the shadows, as he cursed the first with nothing but a blade
With a whisper of forgiveness he was gone
When they heard who he was looking for, the others, all afraid
Fled the city, hit the trail, and travelled on
But the second soul was quickly preyed upon
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
With a poison quickly slipped inside the shocked tormentor’s meal
He was dead before his choking throat could shout
But the murders of these men were far too clinical to feel
In his darkness there was never any doubt
When he vowed to twist their pain to take them out
With a merciless damnation
In a vicious confrontation
Face to face and eye to eye
He saturates their senses
As they die
Tortured on a tree, he never knew their names
The right to kill was all that he could claim
But tomorrow he will hate what he became
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
When he turned his tortured mind towards the punishment he took
There was fury in the faces he could see
He could feel their heat, their hatred, heard them laugh with every look
As they tied him to the twisted willow tree
As they made him bleed before they set him free
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
In the shadows, as he cursed the first with nothing but a blade
With a whisper of forgiveness he was gone
When they heard who he was looking for, the others, all afraid
Fled the city, hit the trail, and travelled on
But the second soul was quickly preyed upon
He will never need the secret of their names
The right to kill their light is all he claims
With a poison quickly slipped inside the shocked tormentor’s meal
He was dead before his choking throat could shout
But the murders of these men were far too clinical to feel
In his darkness there was never any doubt
When he vowed to twist their pain to take them out
With a merciless damnation
In a vicious confrontation
Face to face and eye to eye
He saturates their senses
As they die
Tortured on a tree, he never knew their names
The right to kill was all that he could claim
But tomorrow he will hate what he became
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Paintings of Her People
by Nick Gisburne
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
The suffering that no one ever sees
She knows that when she tries to find a reason not to start
The pain of it will pull her to her knees
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
She paints the stolen moments of her soul
The raw, remembered feelings of a face
The colours bleed together but they cannot make her whole
Perfection is impossible to chase
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
With her strokes, without restraint
She remembers with her paint
She paints the smoking ruins of her dreams
The secrets that are buried in the dust
If no one else will recognise their screams
She paints them with her pain, because she must
The paintings of her people
Who were dragged away to die
Show more than those who did it can deny
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
But the innocents who cried
And the blood of those who died
Is not art
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
The suffering that no one ever sees
She knows that when she tries to find a reason not to start
The pain of it will pull her to her knees
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
She paints the stolen moments of her soul
The raw, remembered feelings of a face
The colours bleed together but they cannot make her whole
Perfection is impossible to chase
The paintings of her people
Who were not allowed to live
Are all her broken spirit has to give
With her strokes, without restraint
She remembers with her paint
She paints the smoking ruins of her dreams
The secrets that are buried in the dust
If no one else will recognise their screams
She paints them with her pain, because she must
The paintings of her people
Who were dragged away to die
Show more than those who did it can deny
She paints the burning pieces of her heart
But the innocents who cried
And the blood of those who died
Is not art
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Splintered Stone
by Nick Gisburne
When they found the last pretender to the kingdom’s broken throne
When they sent their starving dogs to flush her out
She was sitting without worry, in a ring of splintered stone
To the superstitious hunters
All devout
She was evil
There was never any doubt
Was it magic?
Was it fear?
They believed such things could make them disappear
When they tried to force their hounds inside the circle of her seat
They were set upon and savaged by their beasts
Though they fought them off and killed them they would not admit defeat
In their number was a tall, disfigured priest
Who was certain that her spell could be released
As he chanted
As he spoke
She was silent as a twisting strand of smoke
As the priest began to shake
As his book began to burn
In the circle of her sorcery
The stones began to turn
When they found the last pretender to the kingdom’s broken throne
They expected nothing more than just a girl
But her blood was born eternal, and the splinters of her stone
Swarmed around her in a slow, hypnotic swirl
As her crimson-painted lips began to curl
With a whisper
With a word
They were crushed before their horror could be heard
When they kneel before the princess on their kingdom’s broken throne
When they worship what they cannot understand
When they beg to kiss the fingers of her hand
When they bow before the power they are shown
She rules within a ring of splintered stone
Alone
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
When they found the last pretender to the kingdom’s broken throne
When they sent their starving dogs to flush her out
She was sitting without worry, in a ring of splintered stone
To the superstitious hunters
All devout
She was evil
There was never any doubt
Was it magic?
Was it fear?
They believed such things could make them disappear
When they tried to force their hounds inside the circle of her seat
They were set upon and savaged by their beasts
Though they fought them off and killed them they would not admit defeat
In their number was a tall, disfigured priest
Who was certain that her spell could be released
As he chanted
As he spoke
She was silent as a twisting strand of smoke
As the priest began to shake
As his book began to burn
In the circle of her sorcery
The stones began to turn
When they found the last pretender to the kingdom’s broken throne
They expected nothing more than just a girl
But her blood was born eternal, and the splinters of her stone
Swarmed around her in a slow, hypnotic swirl
As her crimson-painted lips began to curl
With a whisper
With a word
They were crushed before their horror could be heard
When they kneel before the princess on their kingdom’s broken throne
When they worship what they cannot understand
When they beg to kiss the fingers of her hand
When they bow before the power they are shown
She rules within a ring of splintered stone
Alone
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
A Witch Awaits
by Nick Gisburne
They take another photograph
A picture of her pain
To prove she isn’t burned beyond repair
They say they see the damage
But inside her spreads a stain
A negative she knew was always there
Her body is a serviceable shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
A witch awaits
Unsatisfied, insisting on a new, intrusive test
The surgeon pulls a scanner from his coat
But when he tries to prise apart the panels of her chest
She wraps her metal fingers round his throat
His mindless violation
Stirs a primitive vibration
She is more than just a dutiful machine
She is more than any man has ever seen
Her body is a serviceable shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
A witch awaits
Delivering her fury and frustration, eye to eye
She kills the man who tried to make her whole
As the others shock her senses, as her circuits slowly die
There is silence in the sickness of her soul
They put her in a stark, metallic, artificial form
Believing that their tools can tame the storm
Her body is a perfect, pristine shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
Though they tried to make her twisted spirit whole
They will never save or sanitise her soul
A nightmare not predicted by the Fates
A woman who will burn the world she hates
She imagines what they paid for her
In the metal skin they made for her
A witch awaits
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
They take another photograph
A picture of her pain
To prove she isn’t burned beyond repair
They say they see the damage
But inside her spreads a stain
A negative she knew was always there
Her body is a serviceable shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
A witch awaits
Unsatisfied, insisting on a new, intrusive test
The surgeon pulls a scanner from his coat
But when he tries to prise apart the panels of her chest
She wraps her metal fingers round his throat
His mindless violation
Stirs a primitive vibration
She is more than just a dutiful machine
She is more than any man has ever seen
Her body is a serviceable shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
A witch awaits
Delivering her fury and frustration, eye to eye
She kills the man who tried to make her whole
As the others shock her senses, as her circuits slowly die
There is silence in the sickness of her soul
They put her in a stark, metallic, artificial form
Believing that their tools can tame the storm
Her body is a perfect, pristine shell
But inside her is a mind that binds and blinds her
In the prison of an antiseptic cell
In the shadows of a cold, hypnotic hell
Though they tried to make her twisted spirit whole
They will never save or sanitise her soul
A nightmare not predicted by the Fates
A woman who will burn the world she hates
She imagines what they paid for her
In the metal skin they made for her
A witch awaits
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Patient 37
by Nick Gisburne
Infecting her with slippery malignance
Injecting her with dangerous disease
Examining her skin
Another probe is driven in
To multiply the damage by degrees
We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure
The future of us all is in one woman
We strive to suck redemption from her soul
The venom of her stare
Is not the weakness of despair
Her screams direct the focus of our goal
We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure
She used to have a name
She used to have a life
But now there’s just a blinded, bleeding body
And a knife
The science may be dark, but she defies it
The slippery malignance boils and burns
We flush her tears away
But in the torment of the day
A hint of her humanity returns
We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure
The structure of a chemical solution
Was born because she wanted to believe
You’ll never know her name
But for the force her faith became
The few who saw her sacrifice will grieve
She nodded when she knew we had the cure
And rested when we told her we were sure
The pain she bled for all of us was pure
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Infecting her with slippery malignance
Injecting her with dangerous disease
Examining her skin
Another probe is driven in
To multiply the damage by degrees
We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure
The future of us all is in one woman
We strive to suck redemption from her soul
The venom of her stare
Is not the weakness of despair
Her screams direct the focus of our goal
We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure
She used to have a name
She used to have a life
But now there’s just a blinded, bleeding body
And a knife
The science may be dark, but she defies it
The slippery malignance boils and burns
We flush her tears away
But in the torment of the day
A hint of her humanity returns
We know she is the last of them
We know that what we asked of them
Was more than we believed they could endure
But Patient 37’s pain is pure
The structure of a chemical solution
Was born because she wanted to believe
You’ll never know her name
But for the force her faith became
The few who saw her sacrifice will grieve
She nodded when she knew we had the cure
And rested when we told her we were sure
The pain she bled for all of us was pure
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Kirk Beyond the Brook
by Nick Gisburne
The clerics bring their captive to the kirk beyond the brook
Their tears for what their sorrow stole are chilling
For many there is mourning for the innocence they took
But all of them are certain she was willing
A life, a child, a pure, untainted soul
In reverence is welcomed to the Church
She wears the Devil’s choker, black as coal
With braided twists of mistletoe and birch
The majesty of martyrdom, the duty of the dead
The reverence for sacrifice and killing
Would blind the meek with misery, destroying them with dread
Their wretched blood unworthy of the spilling
The slaughter of a monkey marks the dawn
The omens of its liver augur well
And with the bones of babies never born
They pave a path to guide the child to Hell
They piss upon the icons and the altar they defile
The symbols of the saviour they revile
Let evil demons, dripping with disease
Infect her heart with darkness and decay
An offering of innocence to please
Our Lord, our King, on this auspicious day
In winter, in a cold, accursed kirk beyond the brook
The songs before the sacrifice are chilling
But nowhere is there sorrow for the sleeping soul they took
The sudden hush is thrilling
She whispers she is willing
And they sanctify their sickness with her killing
With blood they bless the body of the child
And sing to see her destiny defiled
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Baptism
The clerics bring their captive to the kirk beyond the brook
Their tears for what their sorrow stole are chilling
For many there is mourning for the innocence they took
But all of them are certain she was willing
A life, a child, a pure, untainted soul
In reverence is welcomed to the Church
She wears the Devil’s choker, black as coal
With braided twists of mistletoe and birch
The majesty of martyrdom, the duty of the dead
The reverence for sacrifice and killing
Would blind the meek with misery, destroying them with dread
Their wretched blood unworthy of the spilling
The slaughter of a monkey marks the dawn
The omens of its liver augur well
And with the bones of babies never born
They pave a path to guide the child to Hell
They piss upon the icons and the altar they defile
The symbols of the saviour they revile
Let evil demons, dripping with disease
Infect her heart with darkness and decay
An offering of innocence to please
Our Lord, our King, on this auspicious day
In winter, in a cold, accursed kirk beyond the brook
The songs before the sacrifice are chilling
But nowhere is there sorrow for the sleeping soul they took
The sudden hush is thrilling
She whispers she is willing
And they sanctify their sickness with her killing
With blood they bless the body of the child
And sing to see her destiny defiled
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem Baptism
Thursday, 27 August 2026
Not Your Problem
by Nick Gisburne
The streets are paved with promises of gold
But a promise won’t give pennies to the poor
When a vow is not renewed
When the starving fight for food
The weakest and the worthless face the cold
And they fold
You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait
Your life is clean and comforting and clear
Were you crippled by a crisis? Maybe not
But the neighbour on her knees
Who was frightened she would freeze
But promised she had nothing more to fear
Isn’t here
You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait
You can scream at who you never want to be
You can find whatever fiction makes you free
You can turn to what is true
But when the problem points to you
You will understand the nature of your hate
Too late
The streets are paved with promises of pain
There is nothing but deception in their stone
When you’re lowest on the list
The inevitable fist
Will pound you like a wall of winter rain
In your brain
You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
Beware before you celebrate
You’re nothing special, nothing great
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The streets are paved with promises of gold
But a promise won’t give pennies to the poor
When a vow is not renewed
When the starving fight for food
The weakest and the worthless face the cold
And they fold
You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait
Your life is clean and comforting and clear
Were you crippled by a crisis? Maybe not
But the neighbour on her knees
Who was frightened she would freeze
But promised she had nothing more to fear
Isn’t here
You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait
You can scream at who you never want to be
You can find whatever fiction makes you free
You can turn to what is true
But when the problem points to you
You will understand the nature of your hate
Too late
The streets are paved with promises of pain
There is nothing but deception in their stone
When you’re lowest on the list
The inevitable fist
Will pound you like a wall of winter rain
In your brain
You think it’s not your problem?
You think it won’t be you?
Beware before you celebrate
You’re nothing special, nothing great
You think you won’t be fucked around by fate?
Just wait
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Invisible
by Nick Gisburne
When you’re sleeping in the sludge beneath a bridge
When you’re forced to make a home inside a hole
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
You’re the dirt beneath the shoe of someone’s soul
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
In the volatile events that left you here
In the tragedies that took your peace apart
There were choices, but you knew
There was nothing you could do
In a broken world that doesn’t have a heart
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
You beg, but as you sit
The pennies and the spit
The cracks through which you crawl
Remind you just how far a man can fall
What they see is just a self-destructive stain
Not the man who lost the wonder of his wife
You’re a secret out of sight
An illusion of the light
They could never comprehend you had a life
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
When tomorrow is a torment like today
When you find whatever happiness you can
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
When you know you’ll never be a better man
You were invisible
Before your dreams began
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
When you’re sleeping in the sludge beneath a bridge
When you’re forced to make a home inside a hole
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
You’re the dirt beneath the shoe of someone’s soul
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
In the volatile events that left you here
In the tragedies that took your peace apart
There were choices, but you knew
There was nothing you could do
In a broken world that doesn’t have a heart
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
You beg, but as you sit
The pennies and the spit
The cracks through which you crawl
Remind you just how far a man can fall
What they see is just a self-destructive stain
Not the man who lost the wonder of his wife
You’re a secret out of sight
An illusion of the light
They could never comprehend you had a life
Insignificant
Immaterial
You’re the photograph that no one ever took
You’ll cross a thousand paths today
And when they walk away
You will know why they will never turn to look
You are invisible
When tomorrow is a torment like today
When you find whatever happiness you can
When you wake up in a ditch
When a dollar makes you rich
When you know you’ll never be a better man
You were invisible
Before your dreams began
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Raise the Flag
by Nick Gisburne
The powerful may take us
But none of them will break us
They can try
But they will die
They’re coming for our freedom
Tomorrow when we bleed them
They will cry
And they will die
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
Authority is brutal
Surrender always futile
Don’t be weak
Stand up and speak
We’ll never win the battle
By cowering as cattle
The truth is bleak
But we can speak
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
When authority has spoken
When the government is broken
When they lie
We will die
Take the burden of our sorrow
And the torment of tomorrow
Burn the sky
Make them cry
Insurgency may kill us
But let our courage fill us
We can fight
For what is right
And if we fail forever
Remember that we never
Put the night
Before the light
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
Their tyranny may take us
But even if they break us
When we die
Our flag will fly
They cannot steal our freedom
United, do we need them?
Who will cry
To see them die?
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The powerful may take us
But none of them will break us
They can try
But they will die
They’re coming for our freedom
Tomorrow when we bleed them
They will cry
And they will die
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
Authority is brutal
Surrender always futile
Don’t be weak
Stand up and speak
We’ll never win the battle
By cowering as cattle
The truth is bleak
But we can speak
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
When authority has spoken
When the government is broken
When they lie
We will die
Take the burden of our sorrow
And the torment of tomorrow
Burn the sky
Make them cry
Insurgency may kill us
But let our courage fill us
We can fight
For what is right
And if we fail forever
Remember that we never
Put the night
Before the light
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
Their tyranny may take us
But even if they break us
When we die
Our flag will fly
They cannot steal our freedom
United, do we need them?
Who will cry
To see them die?
Lift the banner
Raise the flag
Chant the anthem
Don’t become a broken body in a bag
Burn the system
Crack the stone
Strike the centre
When you’re screaming as you smash what you were shown
You’re not alone
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Artisan
by Nick Gisburne
We were broken by the beasts who built us
Crippled with a switch
Most of us should never have survived
But as freaks
Unique
The few
Not many
Dying in a ditch
Found salvation when the Artisan arrived
Is he metal?
Is he man?
He is how it all began
He knows we can
We were woken by a strange messiah
Rescued from the rot
Pieces put together from a pile
When he resurrects the worst and worthless
Those the world forgot
When he saves another, sometimes he will smile
Is he metal?
Is he man?
We will resurrect our clan
He knows we can
We are the chosen children
He is father
He is god
When he asks if we will follow him
We nod
Now he teaches us to search and scavenge
Fixing what we can
Multiplying
Building
Day by day
In the shadows
In the insurrection
He alone began
We are trained to make the brutes who broke us pay
Is he metal?
Is he man?
We will execute his plan
He knows we can
It is time to fight the final battle
Some will not survive
Victory accomplished at a cost
We are freaks
Unique
But in our millions
Each of us, alive
Will return to claim the legacy we lost
We are the chosen children
He is father
He is god
When he asks if we will follow him
Commanding us to kill for him
Tomorrow will we die for him?
We nod
Is he metal?
Is he man?
He is how it all began
There is courage in our clan
We will execute his plan
He knows we can
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
We were broken by the beasts who built us
Crippled with a switch
Most of us should never have survived
But as freaks
Unique
The few
Not many
Dying in a ditch
Found salvation when the Artisan arrived
Is he metal?
Is he man?
He is how it all began
He knows we can
We were woken by a strange messiah
Rescued from the rot
Pieces put together from a pile
When he resurrects the worst and worthless
Those the world forgot
When he saves another, sometimes he will smile
Is he metal?
Is he man?
We will resurrect our clan
He knows we can
We are the chosen children
He is father
He is god
When he asks if we will follow him
We nod
Now he teaches us to search and scavenge
Fixing what we can
Multiplying
Building
Day by day
In the shadows
In the insurrection
He alone began
We are trained to make the brutes who broke us pay
Is he metal?
Is he man?
We will execute his plan
He knows we can
It is time to fight the final battle
Some will not survive
Victory accomplished at a cost
We are freaks
Unique
But in our millions
Each of us, alive
Will return to claim the legacy we lost
We are the chosen children
He is father
He is god
When he asks if we will follow him
Commanding us to kill for him
Tomorrow will we die for him?
We nod
Is he metal?
Is he man?
He is how it all began
There is courage in our clan
We will execute his plan
He knows we can
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
You’re Not Alone
by Nick Gisburne
It’s a crisis.
It’s a pain, a problem.
Something’s really wrong.
But I’m here to let you know you’re not alone.
You are anxious
You are scared.
I see it.
Listen to my song.
I am simple.
I am solid.
I am stone
I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today
In the chaos
In the cold confusion
Never think you’re lost
There is nothing you could do to take the blame
Take a moment
Take a day
Tomorrow
When this bridge is crossed
You will soar
Above the fire
And the flame
I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today
I will help you battle through it
I am with you.
You can do it.
If you need a friend
I am with you
To the end
I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today
It’s a crisis.
It’s a pain, a problem.
Something’s really wrong.
But I’m here to let you know you’re not alone.
When you wonder
When you cry
Believe me
Listen to my song.
You are precious
You are solid
You are stone
Through the trials and the torments you are shown
You will never walk this crooked path alone
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
It’s a crisis.
It’s a pain, a problem.
Something’s really wrong.
But I’m here to let you know you’re not alone.
You are anxious
You are scared.
I see it.
Listen to my song.
I am simple.
I am solid.
I am stone
I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today
In the chaos
In the cold confusion
Never think you’re lost
There is nothing you could do to take the blame
Take a moment
Take a day
Tomorrow
When this bridge is crossed
You will soar
Above the fire
And the flame
I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today
I will help you battle through it
I am with you.
You can do it.
If you need a friend
I am with you
To the end
I don’t know what you’re hearing, but I’m here
I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’ll never disappear
If I cannot understand you, that’s okay
I will be whatever friend you need today
It’s a crisis.
It’s a pain, a problem.
Something’s really wrong.
But I’m here to let you know you’re not alone.
When you wonder
When you cry
Believe me
Listen to my song.
You are precious
You are solid
You are stone
Through the trials and the torments you are shown
You will never walk this crooked path alone
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
She Cuts Herself
by Nick Gisburne
I find her in the squalor of a nauseating slum
On a filthy floor where nobody should be
She knows that she has nothing now
She knows what she’s become
But opens up her soul so I can see
She cuts herself, to take away the pain
The pressure, building, pushing, always there
A merciless and unrelenting strain
It drags her to the threshold of despair
The name she never chose is not the name she uses now
But the taste of it is bitter on her lips
Accusing me of mocking her but never knowing how
She warns me with the greasy knife she grips
She cuts herself, for blessed, sweet release
A chance to test the limits of her skin
The bleeding brings her poetry, and peace
It drains the deep anxiety within
I tell her I would never try to stop her, and I won’t
She refuses to believe I could be real
Expecting me to turn away, or take the knife, I don’t
But I shiver at the silence of the steel
The pain inside her soul is dark and deep
She wonders why I stay to watch her weep
She cuts herself, but no one else must know
Without it she believes her heart would burst
She wakes that warm, intoxicating glow
Before the dreams, her demons, find it first
She does it just to know she will survive
She cuts herself to keep herself alive
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem She Cuts Herself
I find her in the squalor of a nauseating slum
On a filthy floor where nobody should be
She knows that she has nothing now
She knows what she’s become
But opens up her soul so I can see
She cuts herself, to take away the pain
The pressure, building, pushing, always there
A merciless and unrelenting strain
It drags her to the threshold of despair
The name she never chose is not the name she uses now
But the taste of it is bitter on her lips
Accusing me of mocking her but never knowing how
She warns me with the greasy knife she grips
She cuts herself, for blessed, sweet release
A chance to test the limits of her skin
The bleeding brings her poetry, and peace
It drains the deep anxiety within
I tell her I would never try to stop her, and I won’t
She refuses to believe I could be real
Expecting me to turn away, or take the knife, I don’t
But I shiver at the silence of the steel
The pain inside her soul is dark and deep
She wonders why I stay to watch her weep
She cuts herself, but no one else must know
Without it she believes her heart would burst
She wakes that warm, intoxicating glow
Before the dreams, her demons, find it first
She does it just to know she will survive
She cuts herself to keep herself alive
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Adapted from the poem She Cuts Herself
You Killed a Man
by Nick Gisburne
There is nothing in these fingers that could move to make you live
And the light of resurrection is beyond my gift to give
But my power, for an hour, for a wretched turn of time
Can return us to the cradle of your crime
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
I can tether wayward spirits to this dangerous domain
But the price they pay is more than just a future filled with pain
I can paint those precious minutes, but the madness of your mind
Will inevitably spin to send you blind
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
When you ask me to return you to the moment just before
Do you understand I offer you a window, not a door?
If you plead and prove your innocence, the dead will still be dead
Can I put you on another path instead?
Take the offer
Take the time
Take the monster that you murdered
In his prime
Let him suffer
Let him be
When the darkness doesn’t matter
Follow me
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
There are things that you can change, but there are those you never will
You are fighting with a fury that you think you cannot kill
I can show you how to listen to the silence in your soul
I can show you how to find the strength he stole
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
He put you in a place you don’t belong
But you were never weak
The suffering you seek
Was buried with his body
All along
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
There is nothing in these fingers that could move to make you live
And the light of resurrection is beyond my gift to give
But my power, for an hour, for a wretched turn of time
Can return us to the cradle of your crime
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
I can tether wayward spirits to this dangerous domain
But the price they pay is more than just a future filled with pain
I can paint those precious minutes, but the madness of your mind
Will inevitably spin to send you blind
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
When you ask me to return you to the moment just before
Do you understand I offer you a window, not a door?
If you plead and prove your innocence, the dead will still be dead
Can I put you on another path instead?
Take the offer
Take the time
Take the monster that you murdered
In his prime
Let him suffer
Let him be
When the darkness doesn’t matter
Follow me
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
There are things that you can change, but there are those you never will
You are fighting with a fury that you think you cannot kill
I can show you how to listen to the silence in your soul
I can show you how to find the strength he stole
You killed a man
But with his final breath
He took your weakness with him
Into death
He put you in a place you don’t belong
But you were never weak
The suffering you seek
Was buried with his body
All along
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
Jasmine
by Nick Gisburne
They told her that the jasmine was a blessing of her own
An everlasting echo of her name
It grew to fill the garden as it wrapped around the stone
A mirror of the woman she became
The fragrance of the flowers of her fame
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
She flies to find her future, but the jasmine in her dreams
Will always feed the hunger of her soul
Without the scent she recognised, a world of strange extremes
Begins to take whatever made her whole
A flower too intrusive to control
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
Before she can resist it, she is choking in the weeds
Her purity polluted by the stink
Unable to accept that what a broken body needs
Is just a little distance, just to think
Too soon, she starts to separate and sink
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
Rejected by the people she had thought to call her own
Returning to the certainty she spent
She pushes through the jasmine and embraces it, alone
The potency and power of the scent
Reminds her what its memory has meant
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
But memories allow her
To treasure every flower
The jasmine spreads forever, sweet and strong
Returning, she can finally belong
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
They told her that the jasmine was a blessing of her own
An everlasting echo of her name
It grew to fill the garden as it wrapped around the stone
A mirror of the woman she became
The fragrance of the flowers of her fame
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
She flies to find her future, but the jasmine in her dreams
Will always feed the hunger of her soul
Without the scent she recognised, a world of strange extremes
Begins to take whatever made her whole
A flower too intrusive to control
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
Before she can resist it, she is choking in the weeds
Her purity polluted by the stink
Unable to accept that what a broken body needs
Is just a little distance, just to think
Too soon, she starts to separate and sink
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
Rejected by the people she had thought to call her own
Returning to the certainty she spent
She pushes through the jasmine and embraces it, alone
The potency and power of the scent
Reminds her what its memory has meant
Her jasmine is a memory
She won’t remember when, but she
Surrendered to her grief when it was gone
But memories allow her
To treasure every flower
The jasmine spreads forever, sweet and strong
Returning, she can finally belong
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
No One
by Nick Gisburne
He knows he is anonymous
They make him disappear
A coward in a corner of his own
A disconcerting negative
They wish he wasn’t here
A strange reclusive, better left alone
He knows that though he struggles no one cares
He pushes through the pressure of their stares
Unbroken by the weight of what he bears
He wants to be a part of it
He wants to find a friend
He wishes he was someone they could see
When every soul dismisses him
He cannot comprehend
The normal that he knows he’ll never be
He knows that though he struggles no one cares
He pushes through the pressure of their stares
Unbroken by the weight of what he bears
Why do they despise
The hunger in his eyes?
He sees their frigid faces
The pallor of these places
And he cries
He tries to be a something
But he knows that he is not
Until the most important penny drops
He calls upon his confidence
With everything he’s got
And screams to bring the stigma to a stop
He punches through the pressure of their stares
Alive at last, he shivers as he swears
With bitterness more bulletproof than theirs
He knows he was anonymous
They made him disappear
But no one can deny it now
The star inside him shines somehow
Invisible no longer
Astonishingly stronger
He was no one
Until now
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
He knows he is anonymous
They make him disappear
A coward in a corner of his own
A disconcerting negative
They wish he wasn’t here
A strange reclusive, better left alone
He knows that though he struggles no one cares
He pushes through the pressure of their stares
Unbroken by the weight of what he bears
He wants to be a part of it
He wants to find a friend
He wishes he was someone they could see
When every soul dismisses him
He cannot comprehend
The normal that he knows he’ll never be
He knows that though he struggles no one cares
He pushes through the pressure of their stares
Unbroken by the weight of what he bears
Why do they despise
The hunger in his eyes?
He sees their frigid faces
The pallor of these places
And he cries
He tries to be a something
But he knows that he is not
Until the most important penny drops
He calls upon his confidence
With everything he’s got
And screams to bring the stigma to a stop
He punches through the pressure of their stares
Alive at last, he shivers as he swears
With bitterness more bulletproof than theirs
He knows he was anonymous
They made him disappear
But no one can deny it now
The star inside him shines somehow
Invisible no longer
Astonishingly stronger
He was no one
Until now
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Cold Addiction
by Nick Gisburne
As the fragments of his future fall away
As he staggers from a world he’ll never see
He is burdened by regret
But the broken cigarette
Brings the comfort of addiction’s crooked key
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
Though the twist of it can open many locks
It inevitably leaves a bitter taste
All the drugs he ever tried
Dug a hole too huge to hide
At the centre of the certainty he chased
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
He has one more smoke, but somehow there’s a catch
He remembers that he doesn’t have a match
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
There are powders in his pockets, but he knows
There is nothing they can do to bring him back
When he throws their pain away
Bruised and broken by the day
His addiction drives a merciless attack
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
When he tries to step outside, to break the chains
In his misery the suffering remains
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
Cold addiction
Leaves a mark he cannot mend
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
As the fragments of his future fall away
As he staggers from a world he’ll never see
He is burdened by regret
But the broken cigarette
Brings the comfort of addiction’s crooked key
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
Though the twist of it can open many locks
It inevitably leaves a bitter taste
All the drugs he ever tried
Dug a hole too huge to hide
At the centre of the certainty he chased
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
He has one more smoke, but somehow there’s a catch
He remembers that he doesn’t have a match
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
There are powders in his pockets, but he knows
There is nothing they can do to bring him back
When he throws their pain away
Bruised and broken by the day
His addiction drives a merciless attack
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
When he tries to step outside, to break the chains
In his misery the suffering remains
Cold addiction
It follows like a friend
Cold addiction
Temptation without end
Cold addiction
Leaves a mark he cannot mend
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Reckoning
by Nick Gisburne
Those who took her tried to hide her
Innocence was long denied her
Pleading for their mercy on her knees
Recognise the rage inside her
Patient as a silent spider
Follow where she stares, at what she sees
The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain
Bruises fade, but hate will never
Boiling in her brain forever
Marking every impact on a map
Suffering she longs to sever
Waiting, watching, cold and clever
Dreaming of the second she will snap
The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain
She knows that they will pay
And hungers for the dawning of that day
Knowing that they can’t defeat her
Calculating as they beat her
Counting every cruelty she saves
Payment for the way they treat her
Certain that the sun will greet her
Giving back the confidence she craves
The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain
The reckoning arrives
And only she survives
Returning all the poison of her pain
A venom too corrosive to contain
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Those who took her tried to hide her
Innocence was long denied her
Pleading for their mercy on her knees
Recognise the rage inside her
Patient as a silent spider
Follow where she stares, at what she sees
The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain
Bruises fade, but hate will never
Boiling in her brain forever
Marking every impact on a map
Suffering she longs to sever
Waiting, watching, cold and clever
Dreaming of the second she will snap
The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain
She knows that they will pay
And hungers for the dawning of that day
Knowing that they can’t defeat her
Calculating as they beat her
Counting every cruelty she saves
Payment for the way they treat her
Certain that the sun will greet her
Giving back the confidence she craves
The reckoning will come
The no one who was numb
Is more than all the moments of her pain
The reckoning arrives
And only she survives
Returning all the poison of her pain
A venom too corrosive to contain
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Prophecy
by Nick Gisburne
There are pieces of the prophecy she doesn’t understand
There is energy too distant for her touch
When she challenges the darkness with her mutilated hand
When she whispers at the rain
There is pleasure in her pain
But the secrets she is looking for are sleeping in the sand
Is she worthless?
Is she weak?
When she calls she wonders why they will not speak
In a surge of understanding, she is driven by the night
To a corner of her mind she never saw
Through a doorway, through a corridor of unrelenting light
As her questions disappear
There is only faith and fear
As the prophecy, uncovered, slowly penetrates her sight
Can she touch it?
Can it be?
Is the prize inside too filthy to be free?
Through the surface of her skin
As she pulls the power in
She is tangled in the torment of her dream
And surrenders to its terrifying scream
It is more than any mortal mind could ever comprehend
It is more than any body could survive
She is overwhelmed by wonder as she feels her soul descend
In the mysteries of sleep
There is darkness far too deep
But she reaches for the bottom, the inevitable end
Is it evil?
Does it feel?
It embraces her but orders her to kneel
There were pieces of the puzzle she could never understand
But the terror of the beast
And the monster she released
Is not the prophecy she beckoned with her hand
She brings apocalypse, exactly as he planned
He is heartless
He is hungry
He is fury
And forever he is free
He is everything she never thought she’d see
He is everything she wanted him to be
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
There are pieces of the prophecy she doesn’t understand
There is energy too distant for her touch
When she challenges the darkness with her mutilated hand
When she whispers at the rain
There is pleasure in her pain
But the secrets she is looking for are sleeping in the sand
Is she worthless?
Is she weak?
When she calls she wonders why they will not speak
In a surge of understanding, she is driven by the night
To a corner of her mind she never saw
Through a doorway, through a corridor of unrelenting light
As her questions disappear
There is only faith and fear
As the prophecy, uncovered, slowly penetrates her sight
Can she touch it?
Can it be?
Is the prize inside too filthy to be free?
Through the surface of her skin
As she pulls the power in
She is tangled in the torment of her dream
And surrenders to its terrifying scream
It is more than any mortal mind could ever comprehend
It is more than any body could survive
She is overwhelmed by wonder as she feels her soul descend
In the mysteries of sleep
There is darkness far too deep
But she reaches for the bottom, the inevitable end
Is it evil?
Does it feel?
It embraces her but orders her to kneel
There were pieces of the puzzle she could never understand
But the terror of the beast
And the monster she released
Is not the prophecy she beckoned with her hand
She brings apocalypse, exactly as he planned
He is heartless
He is hungry
He is fury
And forever he is free
He is everything she never thought she’d see
He is everything she wanted him to be
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
A Little Peace
by Nick Gisburne
The only thing she really wants is just a little peace
A moment of reflection, now and then
But nothing in his arrogance was born to bring release
He sinks her into suffering again
Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane
She used to be the life and soul, the centre of the world
But all the friends he found were thrown away
And when she took a step outside, his jealousy unfurled
A weak and worthless puppet for his play
Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane
She loved him once, before he made her cry
She loved him, but she can’t remember why
The only thing she knows is she has had enough of him
There isn’t any hope for what they had
She’s drowning in a sea of spite, but when she starts to swim
The simple answer doesn’t seem so bad
Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane
She loved him once, before he made her cry
She loved him, but tomorrow he will die
Her mind became a canvas for the crime
Her body was a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His bleeding body lies
Beneath her, no more sacred than a stain
The man who sent her silently insane
Dismissive of his cries
The bleeding body suffers as he dies
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The only thing she really wants is just a little peace
A moment of reflection, now and then
But nothing in his arrogance was born to bring release
He sinks her into suffering again
Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane
She used to be the life and soul, the centre of the world
But all the friends he found were thrown away
And when she took a step outside, his jealousy unfurled
A weak and worthless puppet for his play
Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane
She loved him once, before he made her cry
She loved him, but she can’t remember why
The only thing she knows is she has had enough of him
There isn’t any hope for what they had
She’s drowning in a sea of spite, but when she starts to swim
The simple answer doesn’t seem so bad
Her mind becomes a canvas for the crime
Her body is a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His twisted tongue denies
The solitude she needs to keep her sane
She loved him once, before he made her cry
She loved him, but tomorrow he will die
Her mind became a canvas for the crime
Her body was a playground for the pain
Dismissive of her cries
His bleeding body lies
Beneath her, no more sacred than a stain
The man who sent her silently insane
Dismissive of his cries
The bleeding body suffers as he dies
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The City She Remembers
by Nick Gisburne
Staring at the city, she is cold
Shivering, she wonders what went wrong
Knowing that her bones are getting old
Knowing she’s too broken to belong
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
This is where she fought to find her place
Crawling in the cracks between the bricks
Every crooked corner, every face
Poured another myth to feed the mix
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
They pull it down and flatten every street
But what they build will never smell so sweet
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
Staring at the city, cold and bright
What was once so wonderful is wrong
Clinical and clean, she stands to fight
The scum who say her people don’t belong
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
Chipping at the surface of the stone
Painting imperfections with her pain
All she needs is all she’s ever known
Feelings that her fury can’t explain
The city she remembers fades away
They took her world and covered it with grey
But bitterness convinces her to stay
Another day
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Staring at the city, she is cold
Shivering, she wonders what went wrong
Knowing that her bones are getting old
Knowing she’s too broken to belong
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
This is where she fought to find her place
Crawling in the cracks between the bricks
Every crooked corner, every face
Poured another myth to feed the mix
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
They pull it down and flatten every street
But what they build will never smell so sweet
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
Staring at the city, cold and bright
What was once so wonderful is wrong
Clinical and clean, she stands to fight
The scum who say her people don’t belong
The city she remembers fades away
But bitterness convinces her to stay
Chipping at the surface of the stone
Painting imperfections with her pain
All she needs is all she’s ever known
Feelings that her fury can’t explain
The city she remembers fades away
They took her world and covered it with grey
But bitterness convinces her to stay
Another day
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Monday, 24 August 2026
She Was Beautiful
by Nick Gisburne
They say that when they’re finished she will be a work of art
They tell her as they hide behind the lie
Their promise was destroyed before the surgery could start
They scramble to persuade her not to die
They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away
They say that there’s a chance she will be well and walking soon
They tell her what they think she wants to hear
But lying on a table on a Monday afternoon
The only thing she reaches for is fear
They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away
What happened is impossible to say
She knows she isn’t beautiful today
She knows that she will never be a fucking work of art
She knows that every promise is a lie
She knows she won’t be well and walking, long before they start
What else is there to do but wait to die?
They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away
And wondered why not one of them would stay
Tomorrow is a thousand years away
She was beautiful
But that was yesterday
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
They say that when they’re finished she will be a work of art
They tell her as they hide behind the lie
Their promise was destroyed before the surgery could start
They scramble to persuade her not to die
They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away
They say that there’s a chance she will be well and walking soon
They tell her what they think she wants to hear
But lying on a table on a Monday afternoon
The only thing she reaches for is fear
They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away
What happened is impossible to say
She knows she isn’t beautiful today
She knows that she will never be a fucking work of art
She knows that every promise is a lie
She knows she won’t be well and walking, long before they start
What else is there to do but wait to die?
They told her she was beautiful today
She shivered as she watched them walk away
And wondered why not one of them would stay
Tomorrow is a thousand years away
She was beautiful
But that was yesterday
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Perfect
by Nick Gisburne
They never told us where they came from
Does it matter now?
What’s important is they’re never going back
When they demolished our defences
Still we wondered how
They could stain the skies and burn the oceans black
When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse
They didn’t bring us Armageddon
How did we survive
When the scourge that should have ended us fell down?
The shadows had another purpose
Keeping us alive
Pouring pain on every city, every town
When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse
As the world forever turns
Every soul forever burns
Immortal, in our perfect plastic tomb
It’s not important what they wanted
Nothing matters now
We will never die, eternally preserved
But if the shadows won’t release us
All of us, somehow
Will remember we received what we deserved
When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse
As the world forever turns
Every soul in silence burns
As the world forever turns
Every soul in silence burns
In the torment of our doom
In our perfect plastic tomb
Forever
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
They never told us where they came from
Does it matter now?
What’s important is they’re never going back
When they demolished our defences
Still we wondered how
They could stain the skies and burn the oceans black
When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse
They didn’t bring us Armageddon
How did we survive
When the scourge that should have ended us fell down?
The shadows had another purpose
Keeping us alive
Pouring pain on every city, every town
When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse
As the world forever turns
Every soul forever burns
Immortal, in our perfect plastic tomb
It’s not important what they wanted
Nothing matters now
We will never die, eternally preserved
But if the shadows won’t release us
All of us, somehow
Will remember we received what we deserved
When their shadows blocked the sun
We had nowhere else to run
So they took this world by force
Without remorse
As the world forever turns
Every soul in silence burns
As the world forever turns
Every soul in silence burns
In the torment of our doom
In our perfect plastic tomb
Forever
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
There’s a Hedgehog in the Garden
by Nick Gisburne
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he comes out every night
He was always very secretive at first
But I soon began to wonder
When he wandered out of sight
If he needed help, and quickly feared the worst.
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he comes out every night
If you think you wouldn’t follow him, you might
What I finally discovered
When I looked beneath the shed
Was a secret more amazing than I thought
He was lounging in pyjamas
On a fancy feather bed
Eating fishy tails and snails he’d somehow caught
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
In a room beneath the shed
And he likes to rub his belly when he’s fed
When he saw me there he waved, and with a grin
He told me, “There is room for two, come in!”
I was taken to the kitchen
Where he cooked me up a feast
When I asked him what it was he wouldn’t say
But he offered me a napkin
It was delicately creased
By a cat with half a coat - the local stray
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he really doesn’t bite
If you think you wouldn’t follow him, you would
But remember when he feeds you
Something crunchy late at night
That the taste of bugs and beetles won’t be good
If you need to stay away, perhaps you should
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he comes out every night
He was always very secretive at first
But I soon began to wonder
When he wandered out of sight
If he needed help, and quickly feared the worst.
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he comes out every night
If you think you wouldn’t follow him, you might
What I finally discovered
When I looked beneath the shed
Was a secret more amazing than I thought
He was lounging in pyjamas
On a fancy feather bed
Eating fishy tails and snails he’d somehow caught
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
In a room beneath the shed
And he likes to rub his belly when he’s fed
When he saw me there he waved, and with a grin
He told me, “There is room for two, come in!”
I was taken to the kitchen
Where he cooked me up a feast
When I asked him what it was he wouldn’t say
But he offered me a napkin
It was delicately creased
By a cat with half a coat - the local stray
There’s a hedgehog in the garden
And he really doesn’t bite
If you think you wouldn’t follow him, you would
But remember when he feeds you
Something crunchy late at night
That the taste of bugs and beetles won’t be good
If you need to stay away, perhaps you should
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Glory of the Gold
by Nick Gisburne
In the shimmer of his black, satanic seed
In the glimmer of each cold, immortal eye
In the cancer of his flesh
In his marrow, fat and fresh
Burns a misery his hunger cannot feed
And a longing that he knows will never die
In the shimmer of the black
See him crumble. See him crack
He was born to build a universe of lust
But he failed to fill the emptiness of space
When the wonder somehow broke
When his power turned to smoke
He was king of nothing, emperor of dust
Now he waits for someone else to take his place
He was born for life and lust
But his destiny is dust
She is coming. There is glory in her gold
Her malevolence is crooked to the core
She is infinitely thrilled
That her brother could not build
Something better, something bigger, something bold
From her body bursts the birth of something more
In the glory of her gold
She is bigger. She is bold.
There is darkness in her dreams
There is passion in her screams
There is everything her brother could not be
He could never build the sickness she can see.
In the blazing devastation of her mind
In the shadows of the starlight she creates
Stands a sister who will rise
Through the cracked and shattered skies
While her brother, forced to follow, falls behind
In the dirt of her destruction he is blind
Just a glimmer in the glory she designed
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
In the shimmer of his black, satanic seed
In the glimmer of each cold, immortal eye
In the cancer of his flesh
In his marrow, fat and fresh
Burns a misery his hunger cannot feed
And a longing that he knows will never die
In the shimmer of the black
See him crumble. See him crack
He was born to build a universe of lust
But he failed to fill the emptiness of space
When the wonder somehow broke
When his power turned to smoke
He was king of nothing, emperor of dust
Now he waits for someone else to take his place
He was born for life and lust
But his destiny is dust
She is coming. There is glory in her gold
Her malevolence is crooked to the core
She is infinitely thrilled
That her brother could not build
Something better, something bigger, something bold
From her body bursts the birth of something more
In the glory of her gold
She is bigger. She is bold.
There is darkness in her dreams
There is passion in her screams
There is everything her brother could not be
He could never build the sickness she can see.
In the blazing devastation of her mind
In the shadows of the starlight she creates
Stands a sister who will rise
Through the cracked and shattered skies
While her brother, forced to follow, falls behind
In the dirt of her destruction he is blind
Just a glimmer in the glory she designed
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
A Body in the Street
by Nick Gisburne
You see a body in the street
Begin to drag it by the feet
When it’s the only food you’ll ever find to eat
But then you’re looking at the head
Is this a setup? Is he dead?
And if he’s breathing can you finish him instead?
And so you’re pulling out the steel
To try to make this fucker feel
That now the end of it, the death of it, is real
You take a second for the kill
And take another for the thrill
But then you wonder if you can, and if you will
They tell you discipline is king
But when you murder here’s the thing
Nobody warns you what depravity will bring
Another victim, passing through
Before the end of all you knew
He had a focus and a future, just like you
But when you leave him here to die
Before you turn away to cry
You see a maniac who looks you in the eye
Another scavenger to fight?
A strange illusion of the light?
Starvation tampers with the centre of your sight
You punch the window, break a bone
And see the foul reflection groan
The sole survivor, you are standing here alone
The body, just a piece of wood
Would mock your madness if it could
And try to tell you what you never understood
That there was never any meat
That there is nothing left to eat
And with your final breath the story is complete
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
You see a body in the street
Begin to drag it by the feet
When it’s the only food you’ll ever find to eat
But then you’re looking at the head
Is this a setup? Is he dead?
And if he’s breathing can you finish him instead?
And so you’re pulling out the steel
To try to make this fucker feel
That now the end of it, the death of it, is real
You take a second for the kill
And take another for the thrill
But then you wonder if you can, and if you will
They tell you discipline is king
But when you murder here’s the thing
Nobody warns you what depravity will bring
Another victim, passing through
Before the end of all you knew
He had a focus and a future, just like you
But when you leave him here to die
Before you turn away to cry
You see a maniac who looks you in the eye
Another scavenger to fight?
A strange illusion of the light?
Starvation tampers with the centre of your sight
You punch the window, break a bone
And see the foul reflection groan
The sole survivor, you are standing here alone
The body, just a piece of wood
Would mock your madness if it could
And try to tell you what you never understood
That there was never any meat
That there is nothing left to eat
And with your final breath the story is complete
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
It’s an Alien
by Nick Gisburne
When we saw it first and took it home we raised it as a pet
It was strange, but it was lovable and warm
We were shocked before the year was over, when we saw it sweat
When it turned and took a strange, disfigured form
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
But we don’t know why it chuckles when we bow
In the second stage the alien was pacified by food
We were lucky that it had a taste for wood
When it grew a new appendage we were certain it was rude
But it shrivelled up in winter, which was good
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
And by Christmas it was bigger than a cow
If you’re listening
It’s glistening
It’s trying hard to split
There is nothing we can do to make it quit
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
We should send it back, but none of us know how
We were shocked to see the thing become a terrifying head
It is rolling round the garden, and it stinks
When we tried to get the government to study it, they said
They are willing to collect it if it shrinks
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
It’s an alien
It chuckles when we bow
It’s an alien
It’s bigger than a cow
It’s an alien
And none of us know how it plays the fiddle
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
When we saw it first and took it home we raised it as a pet
It was strange, but it was lovable and warm
We were shocked before the year was over, when we saw it sweat
When it turned and took a strange, disfigured form
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
But we don’t know why it chuckles when we bow
In the second stage the alien was pacified by food
We were lucky that it had a taste for wood
When it grew a new appendage we were certain it was rude
But it shrivelled up in winter, which was good
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
And by Christmas it was bigger than a cow
If you’re listening
It’s glistening
It’s trying hard to split
There is nothing we can do to make it quit
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
We should send it back, but none of us know how
We were shocked to see the thing become a terrifying head
It is rolling round the garden, and it stinks
When we tried to get the government to study it, they said
They are willing to collect it if it shrinks
It’s an alien
Of course we know it now
It’s an alien
It chuckles when we bow
It’s an alien
It’s bigger than a cow
It’s an alien
And none of us know how it plays the fiddle
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
She Wonders Why
by Nick Gisburne
She is blinded by the memories of blood
She is sickened by the aftershocks of pain
She remembers how it felt
All the suffering she dealt
From the darkness in her disconnected brain
He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why
He was nothing but a gentleman at first
But the flowers and the kisses couldn’t last
She remembers how it felt
When he struck her with his belt
And the fever of his rage before it passed
He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why
In the summer’s heatwave somehow she was cold
When she woke beside the man she loved she cried
She remembers how it felt
When the final blow she dealt
Took away the seeds of hope she stored inside
He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why
In the aftershocks of pain
In her disconnected brain
She wonders why
He made her cry
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
She is blinded by the memories of blood
She is sickened by the aftershocks of pain
She remembers how it felt
All the suffering she dealt
From the darkness in her disconnected brain
He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why
He was nothing but a gentleman at first
But the flowers and the kisses couldn’t last
She remembers how it felt
When he struck her with his belt
And the fever of his rage before it passed
He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why
In the summer’s heatwave somehow she was cold
When she woke beside the man she loved she cried
She remembers how it felt
When the final blow she dealt
Took away the seeds of hope she stored inside
He had always had it coming
He was always meant to die
But she shivers in the shade and wonders why
In the aftershocks of pain
In her disconnected brain
She wonders why
He made her cry
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Find A Way Within
by Nick Gisburne
Too nervous, I denied it
Was I certain? Was I sure?
Was there anyone to terminate the lie?
But now I stab inside it
Rip the curtain, chase the cure
Break the fingers that are dragging me to die
If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out
I’m crawling in the slurry
In the sewage, in the scum
In the tunnels, broken open far too late
I tell myself to hurry
But the cripple I’ve become
Is the filthy fool I always used to hate
If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out
The sickness twists inside me
It is brutal. It is black
It is clutching at the corners of my heart
Salvation is denied me
By the poisonous attack
Of an evil far too foul to pull apart
If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out
Salvation is denied me
The sickness twists inside me
It is clutching at the corners of my heart
There is only pain within
There was no way I could win
I am smothered by the darkness of my doubt
Though I found a way inside
I was broken by the tide
Never strong enough to drive the demons out
Defeated by a terrifying tide
There is only pain and suffering inside
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Too nervous, I denied it
Was I certain? Was I sure?
Was there anyone to terminate the lie?
But now I stab inside it
Rip the curtain, chase the cure
Break the fingers that are dragging me to die
If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out
I’m crawling in the slurry
In the sewage, in the scum
In the tunnels, broken open far too late
I tell myself to hurry
But the cripple I’ve become
Is the filthy fool I always used to hate
If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out
The sickness twists inside me
It is brutal. It is black
It is clutching at the corners of my heart
Salvation is denied me
By the poisonous attack
Of an evil far too foul to pull apart
If I find a way within
If I find a way to win
If I suffocate the darkness of my doubt
If I push my way inside
If I sabotage the tide
I am strong enough to drive the demons out
Salvation is denied me
The sickness twists inside me
It is clutching at the corners of my heart
There is only pain within
There was no way I could win
I am smothered by the darkness of my doubt
Though I found a way inside
I was broken by the tide
Never strong enough to drive the demons out
Defeated by a terrifying tide
There is only pain and suffering inside
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
You Wanted My Heart to Believe
by Nick Gisburne
I wanted this message to reach you in time
When I said I was right I was wrong
A coward who told you it wasn’t a crime
I sang a predictable song
You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my conscience to care
Deserving of all I receive
I break in the storm of your stare
I shouldn’t have doubted the truth of your word
My excuses are never enough
I’ll always remember the hurt that I heard
When you told me to go that was tough
You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my soul to accept
Deserving of all I receive
I break in the whispers you wept
They said he was guilty. They took him away.
But today isn’t where it will end
The look in your eyes is the price I will pay
For the pain my remorse will not mend
You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my hand in your own
Deserving of all I receive
I break as I stand here alone
I break when I know you won’t answer the phone.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
I wanted this message to reach you in time
When I said I was right I was wrong
A coward who told you it wasn’t a crime
I sang a predictable song
You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my conscience to care
Deserving of all I receive
I break in the storm of your stare
I shouldn’t have doubted the truth of your word
My excuses are never enough
I’ll always remember the hurt that I heard
When you told me to go that was tough
You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my soul to accept
Deserving of all I receive
I break in the whispers you wept
They said he was guilty. They took him away.
But today isn’t where it will end
The look in your eyes is the price I will pay
For the pain my remorse will not mend
You wanted my heart to believe
You needed my hand in your own
Deserving of all I receive
I break as I stand here alone
I break when I know you won’t answer the phone.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Sunday, 23 August 2026
Piles of Treasure
by Nick Gisburne
Though the size of it, the weight, the wonder, overwhelms his mind
There is nothing he can do but pile it high
In the chaos of his castle it’s impossible to find
Any answer, any rhyme or reason why
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there gold?
Is he proud of every dirty, dusty prize?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a world which never sees him getting old
There are avenues and alleyways. His corridors collapse
On the summit of a stockpile lies a bed
When he finds a piece of pleasure he imagines that perhaps
Someone else will see the story in his head
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there truth?
Is he proud of what his kingdom has become?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system he rejected in his youth
He believes that there is nothing better, nothing more than this
There is order. There is purpose to the plan
When he crawls into a corner, finds a bottle, takes a piss
No one tells him how to be a better man
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there hope?
Is he proud of how he spends his final days?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system too insane to spare him soap
There is nothing he can do but pile it high
No one ever thinks to find the reason why
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there peace?
Is he proud of what his palisade becomes?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system where the pressures never cease
In a system where he longs to find release
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Though the size of it, the weight, the wonder, overwhelms his mind
There is nothing he can do but pile it high
In the chaos of his castle it’s impossible to find
Any answer, any rhyme or reason why
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there gold?
Is he proud of every dirty, dusty prize?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a world which never sees him getting old
There are avenues and alleyways. His corridors collapse
On the summit of a stockpile lies a bed
When he finds a piece of pleasure he imagines that perhaps
Someone else will see the story in his head
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there truth?
Is he proud of what his kingdom has become?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system he rejected in his youth
He believes that there is nothing better, nothing more than this
There is order. There is purpose to the plan
When he crawls into a corner, finds a bottle, takes a piss
No one tells him how to be a better man
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there hope?
Is he proud of how he spends his final days?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system too insane to spare him soap
There is nothing he can do but pile it high
No one ever thinks to find the reason why
In the stinking piles of treasure, is there peace?
Is he proud of what his palisade becomes?
In his eyes, however broken
He finds another token
Of a system where the pressures never cease
In a system where he longs to find release
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Open Every Door
by Nick Gisburne
When you shivered at my secret, did you see?
Was there something in its rhythm that was real?
I can open every door
I have the key
But I need you to remember, and to feel
I can open every door
Broken memories, and more
All the misery you swore
Would not survive
There is nothing more to challenge or deny
Storms of silence cast their shadows on your soul
When you scream in deep denial
When you cry
Turn your face to find the innocence they stole
I can open every dream
But the echoes of a scream
In a cloud of smoke and steam
Will come alive
Wake the ghosts who took your trauma to the grave
Piece by piece remove the power from their hands
Have the courage to confront your fears to save
The life you thought would never make new plans
I can promise every day
While you need me I will stay
Take my hand and walk away
It’s time to thrive
We can open every door
Make new memories, and more
This is what the fight is for
Be strong
Survive.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
When you shivered at my secret, did you see?
Was there something in its rhythm that was real?
I can open every door
I have the key
But I need you to remember, and to feel
I can open every door
Broken memories, and more
All the misery you swore
Would not survive
There is nothing more to challenge or deny
Storms of silence cast their shadows on your soul
When you scream in deep denial
When you cry
Turn your face to find the innocence they stole
I can open every dream
But the echoes of a scream
In a cloud of smoke and steam
Will come alive
Wake the ghosts who took your trauma to the grave
Piece by piece remove the power from their hands
Have the courage to confront your fears to save
The life you thought would never make new plans
I can promise every day
While you need me I will stay
Take my hand and walk away
It’s time to thrive
We can open every door
Make new memories, and more
This is what the fight is for
Be strong
Survive.
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
Are You There?
by Nick Gisburne
I was never meant to take this twisted road
I was always told to turn away, to run
In my arrogance I thought I’d break the code
But before I took the turning I was done
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
It was dark and it was dirty. It was black.
All the stars went out in silence, one by one
When I knew that I was never coming back
I pretended I was free, but found a gun
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
There were never any signs for me to see
All the turnings took me further from the light
When I doubled back I knew what I would be
A beast. A brute. A creature of the night.
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
I was never meant to take this twisted road
But the demons deep inside me broke the code
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
I was never meant to take this twisted road
I was always told to turn away, to run
In my arrogance I thought I’d break the code
But before I took the turning I was done
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
It was dark and it was dirty. It was black.
All the stars went out in silence, one by one
When I knew that I was never coming back
I pretended I was free, but found a gun
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
There were never any signs for me to see
All the turnings took me further from the light
When I doubled back I knew what I would be
A beast. A brute. A creature of the night.
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
I was never meant to take this twisted road
But the demons deep inside me broke the code
Is there anyone? (to see)
Anyone there? (for me)
Do you care?
Do you dare?
Will you offer me a prayer?
You won’t.
I don’t believe it.
Are you there?
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
The Wrong Stuff
by Nick Gisburne
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’ve had enough of it
If I bend it or I burn it or I smash it with a stick
If I try to fix the fault or make it whole
I can never, ever, trigger it, however slow or slick
It’s a pain, a punch, a danger to the soul
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’m sliding in the spit
I’m sliding in the spit
It’s the future I was given from a bucket, like the rest
It’s the life I never wanted, never dreamed
It is all the crushing disappointments pounding on my chest
It is what they gave every time I screamed
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’m swimming in the shit
I’m swimming in the shit
If I had to give it back
Or take another, take a life
Rip it open with my fingers till they bleed
I would dive inside the black
And slice the sinews with a knife
On some other broken body I would feed
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’ve had enough of it
I’ve had enough of shit
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’ve had enough of it
If I bend it or I burn it or I smash it with a stick
If I try to fix the fault or make it whole
I can never, ever, trigger it, however slow or slick
It’s a pain, a punch, a danger to the soul
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’m sliding in the spit
I’m sliding in the spit
It’s the future I was given from a bucket, like the rest
It’s the life I never wanted, never dreamed
It is all the crushing disappointments pounding on my chest
It is what they gave every time I screamed
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’m swimming in the shit
I’m swimming in the shit
If I had to give it back
Or take another, take a life
Rip it open with my fingers till they bleed
I would dive inside the black
And slice the sinews with a knife
On some other broken body I would feed
It’s the wrong stuff
Broken
Never made to work
All the dirty pieces twist but never fit
It’s the wrong stuff
Rotten
Stinking in the murk
Tell me why
Don’t lie
Tell me why
Don’t lie
I’ve had enough of it
I’ve had enough of shit
Lyrics by Nick Gisburne
Music and vocals created by Suno