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Original Dance Pop Track: Stand Up

Stand Up – an original dance pop track

This new dance pop track Stand Up was a process! It was written as reminder that no matter how beaten down you feel (it happens a lot) it’s hard but so important to keep getting up and trying again. Even against the most impossible odds.

On a technical note, I have been learning more and more about mixing and mastering and still know it’s only the tip of the iceberg. In another post, I will share some things I have been learning and other great sources of information I’ve come across.

I hope you enjoy and please leave a comment below!

LYRICS

Lyrics for “Stand Up,” an original, dance pop track:

Stand up where you are

Keep reaching for the stars

You know it feels so right

You’re fighting for your life

Here you are

Feeling down

Feeling like you’re about to drown

Remembering

Where you were

What happened to the future?

Held in place

It’s no good

Without a past misunderstood

Questioning

Your place here

It’s so hard to live in fear

We all want

To play again

To dance on beaches in the sun

It’s all right

To be afraid

But not ok to give up again

Ok now

So stand up where you are

We have to start somewhere

Not going down alone

You’re breaking out of here

You feel trapped

And starting now

Remembering the cave and how

Time to say

No more pain

Breaking out of molded shame

And here you are

Who are you?

This is what you’re meant to do

You have strength

To break away

And never fall back here again

This is what

You have to do

Don’t stop now

Cause lights in you

It’s OK to be afraid

Moving forward into change

OK now

So stand up where you are

Never say too far

You’re standing on your feet

And listening to the beat

So Stand up where you are

It’ll never be too far

You’re standing up right now

Keep the vision in your heart

You’re frozen

Frozen in this place

You’re frozen

Froze in outer space

Stand up where you are

Never give up the stars

When you’ve fallen down

Get up off the ground

Rise up where you are

You’ve brought yourself this far

You’re moving with the beat

And dancing in the heat

Stand up where you are

Keep reaching for the stars

You know it feels so right

You’re fighting for your life

Also listen to: Put It Down, No More and SOS.

You can listen to the Dance Pop Playlist HERE

Yes, It’s That Time Again—Time to Dance: Better Left Unsaid

Dance – I hope that’s not a misleading word in the title. Although this features some of the usual angst and melancholy you can expect from a p.m.warner track, it’s set to 128 BPM so you can dance – maybe with tears in your eyes. (Apologies to Ultravox – my god they were the best).

Anyway, presenting, Better Left Unsaid. Sometimes there are just no words to make things better.

Better Left Unsaid

All these things that

Are

Better left unsaid

This open door

An invitation to explore

The abyss there

Never easy to ignore

There’s a space without stars dancing in the night

Tumbling down

Getting lost without a light

These are things I’ve done

I’ve seen it all before

Feels like I’m struggling

Far away from shore

All these things that

Are

Better left unsaid

It always stings

To visit images

And sifting through

These old explanations

Night machinations return knocking on the door

Sinking low

Back to where I was before

Now all these things they’ve said

They’re already in mind

With nothing else to say

Try leaving them behind

(Time to leave them all behind)

All these things that are

Better left unsaid

There’s nothing else to say

It’s better left unsaid.

Also listen to:

Move

Put It Down

The Calling

Listen to New Electronic Dance Track, “Move” by p.m.warner

Listen to the latest electronic dance track, “Move.”

Dedicated to all of you with dreams and the perseverance to keep moving forward.

Move

Let’s take a little time

Read between the lines

You’re a hundred miles away

While they’re turning out the lights

Looking to the skies

Heard this all your life

A thousand miles away

Is where your heart lies

So what I am trying to say

Your answer’s far away

You’re speaking through your heart

You need to break away

(So yeah) you’ve got to move on

You’re on your own
You’ve got to move on
Sometimes you walk alone

Reaching for the stars

Who knows where they are

A million miles away

Never let them fade

What I am trying to say

The answer’s far away

Speaking through your art

It’s time to break away

(So yeah) you’ve got to move on

You’re on your own
You’ve got to be strong
Sometimes you walk alone

Let’s take a little time

Read between the lines

Also listen to Put It Down

Listen to Electronic Dance Song, “Daybreak” | p.m.warner

Electronic Dance Track: “Daybreak”

This electronic dance track sat in a folder for awhile. I returned to it after I accidentally heard a draft I had left on my phone. Some may say I should have left it there. However, I dusted this baby off, reworked it and let it run.

There are parts I really like here, there’s also parts that could be better. As an electronic dance number, I really like when it opens up on the second half of the opening verses. After that, I get lost in the details and end up missing the focus at times.

But there’s something there and I went for it. I also tweaked the tempo from 125 to 128bpm. See what you think.

Also listen to

SOS

Put It Down

Hold On

Lyrics

Daybreak

I’m staring at the sun

Thinking of all the things we’ve done

Waiting for the rain

Expecting to feel pain

While it’s dark before the dawn

Must not know what’s going on

If you’re feeling far away

I’m asking you to stay

WhatX3 have we done

Have we wanted to become

Do you say

Or does this all get thrown away

I have a question

Looking at this wrong

We were standing all along

Looking for a way

It’s time for moving on

WhatX3 have we done

Have we wanted to become

Have we said

Is this the world we created

Where do we go

What does the open future hold

What do you say

Is this the break of a new day

I had a question

Where was the sun

I had my doubts then

And now daybreak here it comes

I had a question

Put It Down | p.m.warner

Listen to Original Electronic Music, “Put It Down”

Finally finished mastering a lush electronic music mix I’d been sitting on for awhile. Although it’s not perfect, the refrain “Everything will be all right” seems very appropriate at the moment.

UPDATE: Click here to listen to the new, remixed version of Put it Down

SoundCloud:

ReverbNation:

https://www.reverbnation.com/pmwarner/song/26095862-put-it-down

For more electronic music, listen to SOS

Hope you enjoy!

Lyrics

Put It Down

Not that long ago

I’d sit in darkness by myself

Trying to drown the fires in my head

I’d often miss the flames

Wishing I was somewhere else

Come to as myself instead

I tried to hide the fears

Tried by killing all the pain

Thought I could keep it outside

I tried to light the darkness

All the same ways as before

Wanting to forget again

All these lies

I felt so paralyzed

There was no way to tell a simple truth

All this time

I couldn’t recognize

It did no good

To try and think it through

I never get it right

And then I think about it all night

I never got it right

And tried to bury it alive

Put It Down

Watching from a distance

It’s so easy to be clear

The problem wasn’t you’re upset

What should I do next?

Would be the question that I asked

Not ready to go down quite yet

All these lies

I felt so paralyzed

There was no way to tell a simple truth

All this time

I couldn’t recognize

It did no good

To try and think it through

I never get it right

And then I think about it all night

I never got it right

And tried to bury it alive

Put It Down

Everything’s all right

You can hold this out at night

And everything will be all right

So please don’t try to kill the light

Everything will be all right

Put It Down

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