DeHartMusic

I own and poorly maintain dehartmusic.co because this random Texan had already scooped up the '.com' url a long time ago. I recently got an e-mail from a domain registry saying the '.com' domain suddenly became available! So I reached out to the previous owner, Dan DeHart. He happened to be preparing music for a contest and I couldn't resist jumping on the project; Everything came together so naturally am so happy with how it turned out in just 3 days. Dan's powerful lyrics and arrangement provided the perfect foundation for this single to be published on Spotify, July 4th, 2019. Thanks for being a part of this story! p.s. Currently confirming genealogy with grandma. We think my great grandfather lost track of his brothers and we might be related! credits. Releases July 4, 2019 Lyrics and composition copyrighted by Dan DeHart www.reverbnation.com/dandehart Studio production by DeHartMusic www.dehartmusic.com Cover Art by Ricky Alexander twitter.com/chazzforte

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It means a lot of things: http://dehartmusicblog.tumblr.com/post/180884002689/49-evangelion-crashing-i-find-creativity-when

Written by Todd Fogarty, a member of the Skum Shine family. I've been playing the song with the folk-punk band for over a year since. One Punch Man AMV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00MYtLsni9Q Vlogmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTZCQqUZRbI Lyrics: I need a remote for my life Brand new batteries So I can skip the scenes Of heart ache and catastrophe Wreck the frantic manic fuckin voices in my head, disguise my Zombified insides a bit Well my thoughts are such a mess Like broken cigarettes A toxic mix of chemicals adrift inside my head I don't know what to say, neither does my brain, the feelings are fucking Hard for me to grasp and even harder to explain And in my dreams I'm choking on flies They fill my mouth, they fill my nose, and then they fill my fuckin eyes And now your gone, now your gone And I don't know how to feel. I never know, Oh still I can't pretend that I don't care, that half life of that feelings still there, but it's not its not enough, not enough. Like cave in victims my mind is stuck On the way things used to be And the changes in both of us, Its like pulling shards of glass out of a bloody pair of feet its difficult, and painful and hard to see My thoughts are such a mess Like broken cigarettes, a Toxic mix of chemicals a drift inside my head And God knows I hate change or maybe he don't, cause God is just the i-ma-gi-na-ry friend of the pope And in my dreams, I crawl out of the sea I find some creature of the deep has laid his eggs inside of me And now your gone, now your gone And I don't know how to feel. I never know, Oh still I can't pretend that I don't care, that half life of that feelings still there, but it's not its not enough, not enough.

I did a bit of conducting in high school and Dianne introduced me to this relevant anime, Nodame Cantabile. Please comment with suggestions for the next genre / anime AMV! https://youtu.be/8nWtrGVD8nw

Video: https://youtu.be/kW1Y5Srn5EA Hard at work finishing the album, just 4 more songs / videos after this one! I was in a happy relationship when I lived in Manitoba, but it was doomed to fail. Winter became synonymous with pain literally and emotionally. This song existed as an acoustic demo for the last two years and here it is now for better or worse. Lyrics: The door, to my heart has been closed for years But you got me, to open up a window It’s too bad, the window is on the 8th floor And I am sorry, for not doing you any favors Now, It’s starting to get cold in here Snow is drifting in from the windows, left wide open I should close them to spare myself from winter’s burn With regret, I should have just let you in You ran away, ran away, when we were getting close But You ran away, ran away, from me Oh, You ran away, ran away, shattering all of our hopes But this is what I get for being honest But it is futile, it’s temporary. I have known this, and I am sorry [You’ve, got me, soaking my thoughts, in this bottle You’ve, got me, hoping that some day I’ll change]

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Don't even listen to this song. Go straight to the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz_gLRsx8p0

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4LO30zwiw&t=3s

Starting this season with a fun dance song. This is the first time I'm using these 8-bit tools. How did I do? I'm also looking to hire lo-fi hip hop artists for a project I'm putting together, let me know if you're interested :)

The album is finished and released with an original music video(https://youtu.be/SpSM7Hn5OJc)! It would help a lot if you added this album to your Spotify playlist :D https://open.spotify.com/album/2XqdJmsfhMU3T58qFKzNCt Special thanks to St. Abel for lyrics and vocals, and to our animator, Chazz Forte! https://st-abel.bandcamp.com/ twitter.com/ChazzForte

This week, I covered an old favorite pop-punk song about zombies. I'm a big fan of bare bones punk music, though I don't get to make music in that genre as much as I'd like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk9DSx-O2mU&index=12&list=PLLraWmqzbPwfVN7K8hY5NINkZN7uscKZg

This one comes with a sick video from one of my favorite animes, Read Or Die. The vocal samples are from the 1938 radio broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03itTFjfsNA&index=11&list=PLLraWmqzbPwfVN7K8hY5NINkZN7uscKZg

The "thing" I shared this week is a clip from a podcast I co-hosted. I regularly mix / master podcasts, but this side of me isn't really seen in my portfolio, so I'm fixing that. Perhaps this clip can shed light on my personality, absurdity based sense of humor, and affinity for physics. Full Episode: https://soundcloud.com/drunkthepod/episode-11-just-the-tip

I'm working on a film score for a sci-fi film and this tune popped out. Need theme music or a soundtrack for a project? Please reach out to me :)

I wanted to challenge my music composition skills, so I composed one of the most difficult yet melodic pieces I could imagine while recording with techniques used in ASMR. My former piano teacher, Ruth Cruikshank, performed this live recording of the piece.

I imagined what a sexy funk song written by a modern Vincent van Gogh would sound like and this popped out. I met artist St. Abel online who offered to help pull the piece together with her sultry mostly-British voice. Think I should keep working with her? Like if you want and share if it's worth sharing! Thanks! XOXO St. Abel: https://st-abe.tumblr.com/ Lyrics: I want to paint you baby Across my bedroom wall come closer baby just keep shake'n it shake'n it shake it Don't need no ears when you talk with your body I'll let you paint me naughty or should I be more coy Come closer now just stop your talking Don't need no ears Vinny Doin't need to hear my voice Don't need no yellow in you Touch my body Know you want it Come and get it Stare and touch my body

"Tribute" is a soon-to-be-released indie film by a friend back in Manitoba. I offered to create an acoustic score in the two days before the film was due, and this is the final song. I'm very influenced by the mellow and warm acoustic sounds from Life is Strange and Juno. I hope you can enjoy this simple, lo-fi, emotional acoustic piece. To play this song, I needed my guitar strings tuned to ACFCEF at capo 7.

Cute, simple, sexy, and I hope memorable. I just picked up an old harmonica and came up with this song. It's inspired by the tone set by the movie "Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart." Any song style requests? Video: https://youtu.be/ecNUS6tnRw4

Physicists travel and relocate frequently to universities and national labs. I had the privilege of meeting up with Joe McLaughlin, a fellow physicist and metal head from the band Christ Complex in the brief window he is visited Vancouver. I've tried and failed to make metal music in the past; something about it my brain can't comprehend. This is not the case for the guitar wizard, Joe. We teamed up and combined our skills to arrange, perform, record, mix, and master a deathcore cover of 'All Along the Watchtower', a Vietnam War anthem most popularly performed by Jimi Hendrix. Are you a Hendrix fan? What are your feelings on Battle Star Galactica? Do you want to hear more collaborations in this genre? Let me know in the comments, thanks! http://dehartmusic.co/ https://christcomplexofficial.wordpress.com/

Ever see Swiss Army Man with Daniel Radcliffe? The movie with the farts? The film and soundtrack inspired me to challenge my fears head on and embrace what makes me weird, so this week I composed a (mostly) 7/4 A Capella piece. I know it's far from top 40, but I (hope I) was able to capture a roller coaster of emotion within this piece. It can mean whatever you want it: prepping for a surgery, battling cancer, being stoned off your ass, etc. I'm really happy with how it turned out and how far I've come in the last six months. Lyrics: I am on too much medication. I'm floating. I'm falling.

I'm still trying to find my sound. I like layering vocal octaves and the indie sound from songs in the game Life Is Strange. I wrote this while at a cabin off the Washington sound. There are close by islands, but all the water is from the ocean; the tides coming in and out make it resemble a river, inspiring the opening lyrics and the rest of the song. My talented gf inked out the art for this before she met me and I became memorized with it as I feel it fits the scenery and mood of this piece well. Lyrics: I'm waiting by the sea It looks like a river to me Cause it flows Cause it goes I'm waiting on a boat Just happy this old thing still floats And I paddle with ores made of arms And I brace myself for the wake Wake up I'm sinking in the sea It looked like a river to me

I was really obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid and totally bit someone once in kindergarten. What a mess... So, this song is largely a true story. Thanks for giving this song a listen, and please share if I have compelled you to do so. http://dehartmusic.co/ Lyrics: When I was young, they would ask me, When I grow up, what would I'd like to be? With stars in my eyes, I knew my answer well And to everyone I would tell, I wanna be a dinosaur. I want to be a velociraptor with twelve inch claws that I'd scratch your faces off before devouring your heart. I want to be an Ankylosaurus With a shell on my back and I'd make you sore with My great hammer tail, you're gonna get wrekt. Kids were never that nice to me, but I'll grow spikes and claws you see I'll have my sweet sweet revenge But first I have to be a dinosaur. There is a kid that would always shove He'd like to think that he was above the laws of the playground that's not right. I'd hunt him down with my dino-roar Jump onto my prey until he hit the floor And when I felt the mood, I'd have a bite Expelled for this behavior, That's fine that kid had a funny flavor And I no longer belong to human kind Because in my mind I'm a dinosaur Can you hear me roar?

This marks the half way point of the Thing A Week Project! Wooh! This song is pretty meta, inspired by the sounds of Say Anything and Cage The Elephant. It expresses my current frustrations with my slow development as a public figure in music.

This was a fun instrumental collaboration with Flip My Beatz who I met online. This song is really opening my mind to the idea of mixing genres. I might try some punk pieces with hip hop drums in the future because they can just sound so good!

I don't speak French, but hearing it in Montreal drove me to adapt a rock song to an acoustic ballad: Original: https://soundcloud.com/dehartmusic/wet-streets Lyrics [French]: Je pensais à toi dernièrement Je pensais que tu n'étais pas là Je pensais à la façon dont nous étions Et comme cet air d'été me manque Mais vous n'etes pas là Il pleut toujours à Vancouver Ce serait un miracle dans le sud-ouest J'ai dû apprendre à vivre sans toi Je ne peux pas oublier Je n'oublierai jamais Lyrics [English]: I've been thinking about you lately. I've been thinking how you're not here. I've been thinking about how we used to be. And how I that summer air. But you're not here. It won't stop raining when you're in Vancouver. This would be a blessing in the south west. I had to learn to live without you. That doesn't mean I will forget. How could I forget!?

Dianne got me into Lo-Fi Hip Hop, so to mix things up a bit, I dove into the genre. This song sounds suspiciously good and I should try to make music that sounds good more often. Super duper thanks to Benjamin Bubb who came out of his hiatus to collaborate on the ambient tracks for this song!!! What are your feelings on this genre change? Have any new specific sub-genres of music you want the world to hear? Benjamin Bubb: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1PI1XJUc18xtjM2j2TPxtg

A remake of an emotional original of mine. I'm a pitchy mess, but it's who I am. My wonderful gf drew the art for this based on an actual picture of me. I'm sort of a contortionist.

Just a brooding sad song.

This might be my favourite original yet! I half grew up on thrashy skate punk music and it's nice to make music that I would personally like to hear for once. Tell me, what are your most nostalgic genres? Thanks again for watching! Website: https://dehartmusic.co/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dehartmusic

I found someone on Tumblr who needed a lyricists for a musical they were developing. To audition, I needed to compose an outro song for the play. In it, a 13 year old girl knows she will mysteriously die the next day and writes a farewell letter to her loved ones. The title was prescribed to be "Love Forever, Sadie." Because of the nature of the musical and this song being a letter, I decided to make the lyrics linear. Thanks for listening this week! Please let me know what you think! The Musical: https://theanatomyofastar-musical.tumblr.com/ Website: https://dehartmusic.co/

Um, I like raccoons? I'm trying to not be afraid to branch into new and bizarre styles of music, so thanks for listening! If you had to write a love song to an animal, which would it be? My Twitter: twitter.com/dehartmusic My Website: dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC84zzX8RZeAd-BNL7FBT9uw Download: dehartmusic.bandcamp.com/ Lyrics: Let me tell you a tale of a boy who set sail for a land so far away With a song in his heart and a fresh new start he had no reason to stay But a time very short after he left the port a storm began to set in So He hummed a tune about a raccoon he met in horse shoe bay I was just on my way home with groceries tucked in hand A few feet from the door and I happened to make a new friend Fluffy like my mother's a kitty and colors black'n grey, I fell in love with a raccoon I met in horse shoe bay Raccoons are just the finest Raccoons have tinny hands Raccoons have my heart and more Raccoons are just so grand And I would love to be a raccoon Even just for a day I'd sneak and prowl With my new pall I met in horse shoe bay Now the wind started blown as the storm came rolling To claim his ship to the sea He'd get lost on his way to the friend he would say he met in horse shoe bay

I got bummed out one night and started playing blues riffs on guitar. Next thing I know, I have a slow 8-bar blues on my hands. Special thanks to Triss from Triss Tunes on YouTube for helping me out with a lot of the solo guitar work! Another special thanks to @dankmaths and @FindChaos for their original portraits of us for this week! They take commissions and do full color work! TrissTunes: youtube.com/channel/UCA2iabtg-LT5bhhjxvh7Gqw My Twitter: twitter.com/dehartmusic My Website: dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about Download: dehartmusic.bandcamp.com/ Lyrics: I'm not playing any games I'm not playing with your heart Tell me why you had to play me for a fool I didn't think, try as I may That our story would end this way and I didn't know you could be so cruel All I know, is that I'm lost and scared, oh Things are changing and I feel like I'm running out of air While you run out on me

Lets experiment with more classic pop-punk sounds! I felt like I missed the mark a little on this song, but it was fun experimenting and making this short fun track. I'm a sucker for telephone effects on instruments. My Twitter: twitter.com/dehartmusic My Website: dehartmusic.co Download: dehartmusic.bandcamp.com/ Lyrics: Let me know when it's okay for me to be myself again I think that is only fair. Just tell me everything will all be alright so I can get some sleep tonight The stress is tearing me apart Tearing me apaprt It doesn't matter what I say No one's listening anyway Never thought I'd feel this cold Feel like I'm losing all control what happens next I just don't know Please save me from myself Please save me

I made a song from a meme! I was so amused by this news interview and the talented beat-boxing at the end that I just had to do something with it. Special thanks to The Real Spark, the man behind the interview Original Video: youtube.com/watch?v=a8vaVbT_lX0 My Twitter: twitter.com/dehartmusic My Website: dehartmusic.co

Lets start Season 2 with a love story! I confess that The introduction was inspired by 'At The Bottom of Everything' by Bright Eyes, just a spoken word story to introduce the song. This is all a true story by the way, with the name of the love interest redacted of course. Thanks for listening! My Twitter: https://twitter.com/dehartmusic My Website: https://dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC84zzX8RZeAd-BNL7FBT9uw Download: https://dehartmusic.bandcamp.com/ Lyrics: Surrounded by a million people, they just walk on by But something special about you caught my eye I want to, need to know, more about who you are You've got me singing songs like never before! This is your chance now take it, Speak up before she's gone for good, Let her know how you're feeling. This silly little crush of mine Just might break my heart in two. I just need to see you again I know that this is incredibly forward, But this is what you've done to me Oh, would you take this song, as a formal invitation? Darling, would you, Darling, could you, Darling, you're driving me crazy Would you please, join me for coffee.

Happy Belated New Years!!! In February, I was listening to the podcast, What Should We Draw, and it was the first episode the host had done in 2018, and the host mentioned he got sick during New Years. He thought, "It would be funny for a boy band singing a New Years song about getting sick with friends." I immediately quit paying attention to class and started writing lyrics and a melody, and the song came in to being. This song is a bit bizarre, but it's cute and I like it. Thanks for listening! My Website: https://dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about My Twitter: https://twitter.com/dehartmusic YouTube: https://youtu.be/GicOXS3yABY Lyrics: I wake up choking on my own snot My throat is sore and my temperature is hot My body is losing to this winter's cold I had plans tonight, why would this happen to me? I'm sick for new years (Sick for the new year) Dripping from my nose (Drip drip drip'n) can't party with friends (No party tonight) That's just how it goes (I'm so full of snot) Looks like We'll spend this new year sick and alone I call up my friends and say I can't make it out tonight With a little concern, they ask "Why you being a little bitch?" I caught a bug that's slowly killing me and my sinuses hurt when I get up to pee They say "Get well soon my friend" And I puke on the phone Just a few minutes before the ball drops I'm bundled up and ready to die I hear a voice and a knock at the door But ignore it because it hurts to move We hear you're sick for New Years, (Sick for the new year) Dripping from your nose, (Drip drip drip'n) you can still hang with us (We'll party tonight) that's just how it goes (I have such good friends) We can start this new year sick, but not alone

Michael Buble and Sinatra were probably the first artists I listened to before I got exposed to punk music. I wrote this a short while back when I had a job playing piano at an Italian restaurant. Let me know what you think and thanks for giving it a listen! My Twitter: twitter.com/dehartmusic My Website: dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about YouTube: youtu.be/fFe0n8XQEus Lyrics: Someone's gonna take me home tonight Someone's gonna brighten up my life Someone's gonna take me far from here Someone's gonna take away my fear Someone's gonna call my name My life will never be the same There is only one I can adore Could you be the one that I've been waiting for? We'll have a house with a white picket fence We'll throw parties and invite all our friends We'll be the bell of the ball, and it's my name that you'll call Cause you're the one I've been waiting for I've had my ups and downs, and I keep clowning around And I can't seem to keep this smile on my face Need someone in my arms to proudly call me theirs And all I'd ever want is their sweet embrace.

This was a really eye opening experiment where I got to play with samples and loops to make a sort of psychedelic rock melody. Thanks for giving this song a listen! My Twitter: twitter.com/dehartmusic My Website: dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about YouTube: youtu.be/MP6wNFm2VHc Lyrics: Think again, where you've been where you're coming from. What makes you cry what makes you lie and what makes you run. Want you to live, want you to breath, want you to come with me, want the music to take you whole and set you free --- Sing it loud sing it proud sing a song for me, Did you end up who you thought you would be? Come and sway, night or day, I just want you hear Hold me close, oh so close, just hold me dear.

It's finally finished! Here is my parody song about Skyrim and losing yourself in Tamriel. Special thanks to my friend Ian for helping me get some in-game footage I needed for this video! My Website: https://dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about My Twitter: https://twitter.com/dehartmusic The Video: https://youtu.be/muzcBa-TomE Lyrics: (Skyrim theme intro) Skyrim calls me! I haven't finished Skyrim yet I'm almost done with the main quest but I am easily distracted by the butterflies and pulling wings off them And chasing elk down with my thu'um Raiding ancient Nordic runes Starting hundreds of side quests and completing all of them But life in Tamriel can be better than real life ever could Drink some skuma, hunt down dragons join the dark brotherhood After 300 hours you might think I'm getting close to the end But in the words of Boromir, one does not simply beat Skyrim I heard a rumor that I might have friends and that they are inviting me out again to a tavern or some place downtown that's not in Skyrim In the real world the graphics are great but this plot line sucks, it's really second rate it's as if the main character might not be me It's not like someone with the amulet of Mara is going to sweep me off my feet The way life is going, it's not like anything or anyone can compete I will slay every dragon, rob the ragged flagon, till this hole in my my life is complete But in the words of Boromir, One does not simply beat Skyrim (Skyrim theme out)

Here is a folk song I composed back in undergrad in New Mexico. I was really influenced by Mumford and Sons back then and a lot of local musicians also liked that acoustic style. Let the song take on any meaning to you, but I personally wrote it while frustrated, studying for the GRE grad school entrance exams. Let me know what you think in the comments! My Website: dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about My Twitter: twitter.com/dehartmusic YouTube: youtu.be/Pm24ojZZ59U Lyrics: There comes a point in every man's life Where you ask yourself son, Just how far have I come Just what have I done I've taken the beaten path Was this all a waste of time? When will it all end? Could I just get a sign? I've grown so tired of all these games, these bags under my eyes no salt left in these veins. With all the strength I have left Could I have just one more day Try as I might Will it matter any way I've become skin and bone Although I eat every day Try as I might I'm withering away --- Don't tell me how much time I have left Don't tell me how close I've come For when I lay my head to rest I'll know that I've won

I have been missing my college town in New Mexico lately and happened to be experimenting with sound loops. This is probably the best song I've produced up to now and I'm really proud of it. Let me know if you would like me to do more songs like this in the future, and thanks for listening! YouTube: youtu.be/DB9-1i3DC_k Website: dehartmusic.tumblr.com/about

I wrote this song nearly a year ago when I first started dating my girlfriend, Dianne. Over a phone call, I mistakenly called her a prison and had to quickly spin it around to sound like a positive thing. Now I've re-mixed the song and added some much needed percussion to make it sound more complete. I hope you like it! See the cute YouTube video for this song here! youtube.com/watch?v=h6xYkj59c7k

I met this handsome guy at a party. Something about him caught my eye and I was compelled to write this song. I have obsessed over perfecting it for several months, but it is time to let it go.

I have four originals that aren't quite ripe yet, so this week will be a cover. This is an instrumental cover of a very up beat intro song for Naruto Shippuden season 16. A long night of YouTube videos spiraled out of control taking me from EroldStory, to Filthy Frank, and finally Naruto Shippuden. This was all done with simulated guitar amps which are generally difficult to emulate correctly. Future projects will be done with a proper Fender Mustang IV!

This is a bare bones acoustic/vocal piece shrouded in the ambiance of a vinyl record. If you listen closely, the reverb and "wear" of the recording goes down the further you listen to the song. This was one of the very first attempts at recording the song, and I just can't reproduce this intimate sound, flaws and all. It was going to be a super romantic song, but then I messed it up with potty humor. Maybe subverting genres is my genre?

My girlfriend was making cookies when I noticed the sounds of her Kitchen Aid mixer could be made into a song. Here is the result!