Steph Something

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals Chet Ray - Bass, Drums, FX, Production There is a tempting fate Flying out the gate And a hunger that You cannot sate The logs are jammed When you cannot wait Oh, it's a far, far cry From tempting fate Just more Smoke and mirrors In the dark A chain of events Linked by Missing the mark Mmmm, it's the subliminal messages That's concerning When there are pictures Of heretics burning In a man-made hell Of inquisitorial learning There are no ifs, ands, buts When so discerning Just more Smoke and mirrors In the dark A chain of events Linked by Missing the mark And the souls we bear Are they still there The souls we bear Are they still there You've got to learn to beg before you crawl You've got to learn to beg before you crawl You've got to learn to beg before you crawl You've got to learn to beg before you crawl © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Somehing - Compostion, Melody, Lyrics, Guitar, Vocals, Production Alex Bevaqua - Bass, Drums, Production Hate Machines Just because something hurts Don’t mean it needs a name to blame Cause you’re only gonna put it on yourself At the end of the day We all hate Someone more than anyone else We all despise ourselves Giving that judge inside Exactly what it needs To keep playing on your guilt And self-pity We all hate Someone more than anyone else We all despise ourselves Since we were Old enough to understand We have been taught to be Anything other than ourselves We all hate Someone more than anyone else We all despise ourselves © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitar Marc Hollett - Composition, Drums Jochen Fleischmann - Composition, Bass Mitch Brody - Composition, Guitar, Keys, Production I have had my share of toxic lovers Enough to know That when the eggs fall It's time to go Because the sticky on your feet Will be my doing And the shells will forever Have me tiptoeing I have had my share of toxic lovers Enough to know That when the eggs fall It's time to go I have had my share of toxic lovers Enough to know That when the eggs fall It's time to go It's time to go © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitar, Vocals, Production Jochen Fleischmann - Bass, Production Marc H - Drums My mind Infinitely Analyzing That thing you said The face you made The tone you said it in I find all the hidden Meaning You think you are slick And it's exhausting Mentally frazzling Anxiety-inducing Indecision ruling And as if that's not Enough There are the what-ifs I've thought them all out Lived every version Of it on a mental train It's enough to drive Anyone insane But it's exhausting Mentally frazzling Anxiety-inducing Indecision ruling Perfectionism Equalling Mountains of self-criticism Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Overthinkin' Keeping me from Living © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitar Marc H - Bass Rodney Vosburg - Drums Matt Kaprelian - Production We find ourselves taking sides
 Across a line no one drew
 It all depends on how you look
 Taking in this other point of view By the light of the stars we barely shone
 Bearing the weight of our cross
 For each sin we commit and confess
 Tallies with the ones we accost In the scheme of things are laws to obey 
 And working your fingers to the bone
 All set in place by the ubiquitous "they" Who maintain the status quo all alone By the light of the stars we barely shone
 Bearing the weight of our cross
 For each sin we commit and confess
 Tallies with the ones we accost They wish To drain The milk of Human kindness, they say Our will Be done But I insist
 You stop writing it all down By the light of the stars we barely shone
 Bearing the weight of our cross
 For each sin we commit and confess
 Tallies with the ones we accost © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitars, Production Jochen Fleishmann - Bass, Production Alex Ruiz - Drums Her legs Up to here Her lips Give yo momma A heart attack Her voice Makes things move And her walk Makes you forget how to talk Oh You know better But Mmmm her touch And you're a puppet Her eyes They hypnotize Oh You know better You do But © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals, Production Rodney - Drums Mark - Bass I want to walk with you I want to see your shoes I want to watch your face When you're concentrating I want to look in your refrigerator I want to run my fingers through your hair I want to see your music collection Want to rearrange your furniture just for fun I want to dance with you Barefoot, standing on your shoes I want to make funny faces When you're feeling a little bit anxious I want to watch you play I want to veg out with you on a rainy day I want to see you grin I want to be your friend I wanna hold your hand I wanna hold your hand I wanna hold your hand I wanna hold your hand © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

HUMANS - Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian We don’t ask
 We assume
 We build our bridges
out of guesses Then wonder why they burn We speak in riddles
 And call them truths
 We want to be heard
 Not questioned
 We want agreement
 Not progression So we drown in conversation
 Choke on miscommunication We draw lines through chaos
 And pretend they form a picture
 We crave clarity
 But worship confusion Meaning bends
 Under the weight of certainty
 Indifference becomes logic
 Inference god
 We stop listening
 Jump to conclusions And still we wonder Why
it’s so difficult To find answers And I’m no different I speak in shorthand Listen through filters Base beliefs on instinct And call defensiveness intuition I dress my words in armor And then I wonder why No one can hold them Now the feed fills in the blanks for us
 It finishes our thoughts
 Our fears It predicts our rage
 Before we ever even feel it
 We scroll through mirrors
 And call them friends The silence isn’t quiet anymore
 It’s been optimized
 Every pause
 An advertisement
 Every opinion
 A performance We are all connected
 And no one is communicating Maybe we start again When we stop pretending to comprehend Maybe we learn to ask
 Without accusation
 To answer
without fear Maybe we find language again
 Not to persuade But to understand

Steph Something - Composition, Synths, Vocals, Lyrics, Production Marc H - Bass Rick Berls - Drums I do not desire Desire anymore It's now only felt When it's earned Always disappointing One-night stands When what I needed It could come from no man mmmmm.... But somewhere Between then and now I spent enough time Inside to finally learn how To love and respect The woman I am So if I desire It's not for just any man Always disappointing One-night stands © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitar, Production Matt Kaprelian - Bass Alex Ruiz - Drums A little too much For anyone Just enough to Get close and run Oh, it is always me It's not you It is always me It's not you Everyone says they want it real But no one really does Authenticity is always beat By comfort But comfort Won't change anything Won't lead to anything Do you want to live Don't you want to live A little too much For anyone Just enough to Get close and run It is always me It's not you It is always me It's not you Everyone says they want it real But no one really does Integrity is always beat By comfort But comfort Won't change Anything Won't lead to Anything Do you want to live Don't you Want to live You build a bridge To burn it down Get the job just to Turn it down You fill my heart Just to rip it apart © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Melody, Vocals, Lyrics Pierre Denissen - Drums Matt Kaprelian - Instrumental, Production, Composition Endemic In the Public Domain If you savage the broken tongue And then dissect the moon By cutting ties in circumspect Enables the means to consume To cherish all the flaking flesh One must flense down to the bone Each diagram shows the way Which seed was soundly sown Then to marry off the world To see how much it matters And by stopping all the clocks Adds more conscience to scatter Endemic in the public domain In endless brief pursuit The posthumous come into vogue So enticing in the gloom In fortuitous parlance grace By all means, exhume Such is the lambent ambiance When summoning the beast For all must bend the wounded knee To dine there at the feast Endemic in the public domain In endless brief pursuit The woke shall raise the sleeping dead Who shall always bear the fruit And so dear friends we stand alone Divided each in sacred pause The fight has long been apple-sauced And sacrificed in every cause Tempest is the fractal pace Each part a sanctioned zone For every piece must play its part Armed to the teeth and bone Some might question common sense And intellectualism a clown Between the wire and chimney stack How far the distance to the ground

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals, Production Marc H. - Drums Pierre Corriveau - Bass You kissed me on the cheek in the container on King St.. But when I begged for you to speak, to not let yourself give a fuck 'bout what the kids passing through might think You just laughed with modesty and said something a little mean. The way little boys would do when they liked you, and they'd chase you all around the school. But you and I, we know What the world is likes And in knowing that you said, it's just a joy to hear you sing. hmmmm And my happy made you happy too. Though try as I did, I couldn't get you to admit You wanted so bad to run free I even told you, you could just laugh, and you said you'd relay the words to me And I said, fine I told you, I'll show you I'll show you, I'll show everyone I am not afraid of anything. We're in this together So why are you making me feel like I'm all alone Because I'm all alone, yet I'm so not alone Not Even by a long shot © 2026 Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals Chet Ray - Bass, Production Benjamin Bourdil - Drums You said baby, I'm gonna give you the moon Well, what in the hell am I gonna do with the goddamn moon You said baby, I'll put the stars at your feet I don't want your impossible promises, I just need you here with me Working late Traffic jam Cut me loose Be a man Talk, talk, talk, talk, oh just, shut up If you cannot show up Well I know you lie, but who is it with you that lies Give your love to any woman who isn't me Too much of a coward to tell me what I already know But I will not leave until you have the respect to be honest with me Working late Traffic jam Cut me loose Can you be a man Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, Oh, just shut up I'm gonna be gone when you get home If you don't show up © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals Marc H - Bass Brian Henry - Drums When were kids They told us stories of awful and evil things But as we grew older We learned they were all just make believe It's not the shadows in the night It's not what your mama said to get you to sleep The real monsters, they walk in night and light and They could be you or could be me The most iniquitous in the land The most diabolical in the land The most nefarious in the land Is man Money high Power drunk Committing atrocities And not giving one single solitary fuck They'd shoot you right between the eyes without flinching If it gave them an ounce more power Bathe in the blood of those you love If it gave them another hour The most iniquitous in the land The most diabolical in the land The most nefarious in the land It is man It is man Man © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitar, Vocals Chad Hinton - Bass, Piano Benjamin Bourdil - Drums Pierre Denissen - Production Take my hand Right now is all there is Don't bank on another day Because we Can't change the past And tomorrow is no guarantee So Take my hand Right now is all there is Don't bank on another day Because we Can't change the past And tomorrow is no guarantee Fill your (Fill your) Heart right (Heart right) Now (Now) © Stephanie Gilliard

Lust by Steph Something

HUMANS - Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian I am the feeling coiled at the back of your soul’s cave Where the secret you buries your secrets Behind the flickering light of truth And I see you and your frightened eyes Makes my mouth water And you see me Don’t you Every time you blink Don’t you I will be your last vision, and you believe me when I say This is what fear is This is how it feels to be truly afraid I am the feeling of your pain The rotting core of everything Inside you from the start I am the base feeling coiled at the back of your dark heart

Steph Something, Massimo De Agostini and Robbin Lace Lying to Yourself Once again honesty has broken everything But it’s a cruel, cruel thing to keep Someone assuming But you are uncomfortable with the truth And it makes no goddamn sense to me Oh, you just keep Lying to yourself Lying to me Pretending you’re okay Pretending that you’re happy Lying to yourself Lying to me Pretending you’re okay Pretending that you’re happy (Making me look like the fool for telling you the truth) You let me get close Lured me with somedays and I believes But never close enough to let me be Completely me and it Makes not goddamn sense to me Oh, then why so much melancholy, baby Oh, you keep Lying to yourself Lying to me Pretending you’re okay Pretending that you’re happy Lying to yourself Lying to me Pretending you’re okay Pretending that you’re happy © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian I meant Every word of what I said, I will Not stay and keep Bleeding slowly, and let You dismiss my truth as Merely some daydream, because You're too afraid to face yourself And me I lay bare my heart Giving you the power to destroy Because I trusted you to tell me the truth It was a risk I had to take on you So it seems You have a decision to make I will not be here much longer So, if you have something you want to say It's now or never, because I cannot keep myself locked away Waiting around for you To finally take a leap of faith I lay bare my heart Giving you the power to destroy Because I trusted you to tell me the truth It was a risk I had to take on you © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Vocals, Guitars Marc H - Drums Craig Blackmore - Bass

Wawa & Steph Something

Steph Something, Alex Bevacqua, Jochen Fleischmann You had the perfect out But you didn't run You stuck around But for what To listen to me Cry and scream To watch me go Completely crazy Why didn't you run Why didn't you run If you don't want to show your face Why in the hell did you stay You get me high To shoot me down You get me high To shoot me down Take my hand to throw Me to the ground You get me high To shoot me down Are you having fun Are you having fun Let me feel around Until I get my nail stuck in your yarn Are you having fun Why didn't you run Are you having fun Why didn't you run Are you having fun Why didn't you run Are you having fun Why didn't you run © Stephanie Gilliard

Wawa (Jochen Fleischmann) & Steph Something One Of My Kind I’ve got a feeling I can’t seem to shake After a life of bad luck it seems that things are finally gonna be okay I begged the heavens, please send somebody down here for me And out of nowhere you appeared, well, could it be I don’t know if it’s divine I just know that you’re one of my kind Shuffling through years of melancholic years in a strange world Taking it step by step but feeling like an alien in a place I used to call home Having no connection feels like having no skin All alone, uncomfortable, with nowhere to fit in I don’t know if it’s divine I just know that you’re one of my kind You’re one of my kind You’re one of my kind You’re one of my kind

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitar Mitch Brody - Production Alex Bevacqua - Drums Pierre Corriveau - Bass Thomas Hines - Lead Guitar The End I can't make sense of it anymore The world is not the same People lost their humanity The ocean's always angry The sun leans in Shadows move without bodies Whispers fall heavier than screams No sound remains Only the hum of an ending A silence so sharp It cuts through thought I open my eyes But there is no I Only the echo of something that used to be And the echo whispers This was always how it was gonna be The sky slips its skin Revealing veins of static And colors that shouldn't exist Mountains melt into rivers that flow upwards Cities fold like paper Swallowed by the void Language collapses Words unravel Mid sentence No sound remains Only the hum of an ending A silence so sharp It cuts through thought I open my eyes But there is no I Only the echo of something that used to be And the echo whispers This was always how it was gonna be I reach for my hand But it isn't mine anymore Fingers stretch like shadows Graspin' at nothing Graspin' at everything And still the sun leans closer And closer until the world screams in light And then there is No world at all No sound remains Only the hum of an ending A silence so sharp It cuts right through thought I open my eyes But there is no I Only the echo of something that used to be And the echo whispers This was always how it was gonna be © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Vocals, Guitar Alex Bevacqua - Drums, Bass, Production The greatest communicator When you want to be around Notes in the refrigerator Running, running, running, running down The stairs You burst through the door and say You've been stuck in here too many days now You said, get up You said, get up We are going out Right now I said you look like a diamond And you went and put my face all over the place I ask questions in threes Sometimes you sleep beneath the trees You're really good at getting lost When you don't want to be found But you'll come back And one time you did You smelled like shit And I laughed so hard I cried While you explained why And I didn't care, I just remember Being so fucking happy To see you I said you look like a diamond And you went and put my face all over the goddamn place I ask questions in threes Sometimes you sleep beneath the trees Always scheming spaceman with a grin Always scheming spaceman with a tin rocket ship And I'll have an ocean of cardboard cutout waves In the backyard Because sailors and spacemen They have to have their ships And I really like Seeing you © Stephanie Gilliard

SS - Vocals Matt Kaprelian - Instrumental Mitch Brody - Guitars You, you left your light, you left your light You left your light for me You left your light, left your light for me You left your light so I could see what you could see Well I know I know you had to go And I don’t blame you Cause this party's dry as a bone But you left your light for me I know You figured out how we were meant to live And you got to go somewhere better for it And you left your light so I could see what you could see Cause you weren’t going to leave me here In this misery alone too long I know But all this time I thought I Was here to keep you safe I thought you needed me Oh but it turns out that I’m the one who needed you I’d be lost in the dark If I didn’t know your heart I’d be lost in the dark Without the light of love from your heart You left your light To show me How you got out To show me How to get out too I thought I was to teach you But you left your light To get me through Cause I’m the one who needed you

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals Jochen Fleischmann - Drums, Bass, Synths, Mix In memory of my sister, Amelia Nicole Gilliard 1982 - 2025 I miss you and love you forever What Did I Ever Do Can you turn it off There's only so much a person can take Do you think a heart Can physically break Just when I think That I could be happy The sky opens up And sucks somebody up But this time It got the only one I thought I'd have Forever Now my days are filled With breakdowns from a wound that can't heal Take it away Whatever it is that makes me feel Just when I think That I could be happy The sky opens up And sucks somebody up But this time It got the only one I thought I'd have Forever I don't Think that I can do this Without her What did I ever do to the heavens What did I ever do To the sky © Stephanie Gilliard

HUMANS - Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian I think that you're nice I think that you're great But you've gotta know that You'll never get laid by me Again it's not that I don't Think that you are great It's just that I'm Not into you that way Not into you that way I am not into you that way I think that you're funny I think that you're sweet But it would weird me out If you made a move on me Again it's not that I don't Think that you are great It's just that I'm Not into you that way Not into you that way I am not into you that way I don't know What else to say But I'm just Not into you that way I'm not into you that way Not into you that way Okay © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitars Marc H. - Bass, Drums, Production Trace the Exit We crack like porcelain The fractures too thin and I gather my reasons I loosen my grip You hold to me tighter You clinch both your fists but I'm cold to your light and The fog is just too thick And I Am going I watch as the doorframe Expands, I trace the exit My hands will stop trembling My feet will keep moving But I catch my relflection And breath Feel the ghost of your touch On my skin And I Am going But I turn from the edge of leaving For the distance could never unmake you And if I were to go I would leave me behind © Stephanie Gilliard

HUMANS -Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian, Featuring Marc H - Drums Surface They love The appeal The shine, the scent, the Curve of a promise Sweetness Keeps the Wolves polite They all Want to Peel me open wide Sometimes I let them try Let their fingers tremble at the edge Thinking their getting closer But the closer they get The more I disappear They don't know the difference Between what glows And what bleeds For me It's survival The truth is just The bruise I Hide © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals Jochen Fleischmann - Drums, Bass, Production I Defend It Between each breath Where the soul’s spine bends I keep myself in silence Not to stay hidden But to know who to allow in
 Because peace is not passive
 It’s an act of architecture
 Every boundary is a beam
 Every no, a brick that keeps the weather out They call me distant, sometimes difficult
 But I am just learning the sound of my own echo
 In a room I finally built myself No performance required nor desired I cherish it I defend it I keep it guarded because I built it from everything I refuse to lose They won’t take from me The thinnest slice of peace The thought where I get back to who I am The world disguises sledgehammers with compliments They try to take it with flattery With guilt Or the slow erosion of constant explaining Their goal is that I exploit myself So they may sell it back to me But I will protect it The part of me unedited The thought not meant to be communicated No performance required nor desired I cherish it I defend it I keep it guarded because I built it from everything I refuse to lose The silence sighed by stillness The heartbeat of my authentic rhythm And when the noise finally eats its own tail And the world quiets just enough I’ll hear it breathing in me My original language I keep it guarded because I built it from everything I refuse to lose © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals Alex Bevacqua - Drums, Bass, Production Anarchy in the Land of the Brave The homeless only getting more homeless Tied up in red tape and orange glaze Anarchy is the order In the land of the brave Dismantling and placing bets The worse they make it the more power they think they can get But we've got morals and we've got brains I think it's time we take back the reins (Dare I say.... fascisim) Bound up in new directives And endless empty invectives Surrounding all the huddled masses Oh this situation is getting serious Dismantling and placing bets The worse they make it the more power they think they can get But we've got morals and we've got brains I think it's time we take back the reins At the last supper who decides who will eat In the corridores of power and condescension Who will read the entrails and who'll be saved By the grace of god in red, white and blue Held to account by the depraved Oh anarchy has come to the land of The brave © Stephanie Gilliard 2025

Lyrics This song is for every nerd and freak. This song is for you if you're too shy to speak. This song is for all who have been turned away. You are special, don't care what the fuck they say. This song is for you whether you’re into boys or girls. This song is for all who don’t fit in this world. This is a song for those with a broken heart. You're awesome – just the way you are. They may mock you and call you a disgrace. But you are the cherry on the cake thrown into their face. They wanna make you clones of themselves, Isn't this boring as hell? This is for you if you were bullied at school. This is for you if you never quite got cool. This is for those who have pink or blue hair. They point at you, but you don't really care. This is for you if they say that you're too darn loud. This is for those who don’t follow a crowd. This is for you if you show humanity. You are the heart and soul of society. The may mock you and call you a disgrace. But you are the cherry on the cake thrown into their face. You feel alone but this is not true, there are millions of others, and I am one of you. We're the cherry on the cake thrown into their face. We're a splash of color between the grays. We are Halloween among the holidays. We're the cherry on the cake thrown into their face.

Lyrics No matter where I go, there's a cloud above my head Someone rather see me suffering than dead What if God is just a big mean troll Who is playing with my voodoo doll So you could run or you could hide Or you give a shit and walk on the bright side I'm dancing through the fire, singing in the rain And when I'm getting hurt, I'll write a song about my pain No, No, No, this ain't gonna break me No, No, No, nothing will break me No, No, No, this ain't gonna break me No, No, No, nothing will break me When life gives me lemons, I ask for Tequila In a Monkey business, I am growing to Godzilla Give me more rain and I take a little shower I take all the water and bloom like a flower You could run or you could hide Or you give a shit and walk on the bright side And if you’ve got the feeling that everything goes wrong Dance with me in the rain while turning up this song No, No, No, this ain't gonna break you No, No, No, nothing will break you No, No, No, this ain't gonna break you No, No, No, nothing will break you No, No, No, this ain't gonna break us No, No, No, nothing will break us No, No, No, this ain't gonna break us No, No, No, nothing will break us No, No, No, this ain't gonna break us No, No, No, nothing will break us No, No, No, this ain't gonna break us No, No, No, nothing will break us

Wawa - Instrumentation, Composition Steph Something - Vocals, Lyrics, Melody Alex - Drums Ami - Guitar John - Synth Sustenance: In the wake of this avalanche That took my breath away Blinding everything around me I was struck down in its path Just as love demands You serve it well Each strike of a hand And sweep of a blade The fire burns So much hotter When left wanting To its very core To leave its mark As starvation does The less you have The more you crave It becomes the Absolute center of the world Yet surrender will not conquer pain Submission will not make her kind Each crumb will not sustain The emptiness left behind It becomes a total compulsion And my total addiction Now I’ve begun to ache I may plead, but I am ignored The fire burns So much hotter When left wanting To its very core Nihilism Engulfs me And to endure Is but to freeze To leave its mark As starvation does The less you have The more you crave It becomes the Absolute center of the world The absolute center of your everything

Wawa - Instrumentation, Composition, Lyrics SS - Vocals, Master Vampires From Space A haunting sound and violet lights, Announce their arrival, they are coming by night. They’re bringing the darkness and spread fear and fright. They don't come in peace, they come for a bite. Don't follow the call and stay at my side, No, they won't get you, I'm ready to fight. No, they won’t take you away from me. No, they won’t take you away from me. They won't take away from me, what is mine. I blow them away, now they rest here as slime. I kick their alien asses back to the sky. They are gone now, they’ve been pulverized I turn back to you and look in your eyes. But nothing’s left to recognize. No, they took you away from me. No, they took you away from me.

Wawa - Instrumental Steph Something - Vocal melody, lyrics, vox Max Deago - Lead Guitar The Tempest Woke with the radio arguing with my veins Poured last night's promises down the sink and watched them drown Slid my sins into my pockets like loose change But not enough for a cab or forgiveness Worked a smile into the corner of my face Held the world together for a moment Then it peeled away I dig with my bare hands Nails full of time, lungs full of dust If I ever reach daylight I’ll tell it the truth I was the tempest nobody checked for And I stormed anyway You said weekend like a promise I took it like a dare Leaned too close and burned my palms on someone else's fire Now I trace the outlines of names I used to keep They’re thin as the smoke of a cigarette and gone before I can say them But I kept the good parts pinned beneath my ribs I did I dig with my bare hands Nails full of time, lungs full of dust If I ever reach daylight I’ll tell it the truth I was the tempest no one checked for And I stormed anyway I practice apologies in bathroom mirrors
 Watch the sink fill with rehearsals
 Watch my eyes leaving themselves I dig with my bare hands Nails full of time, lungs full of dust If I ever reach daylight I’ll tell it the truth I was the tempest no one checked for And I stormed away

WAWA (Jochen Fleischmann) - Composition Steph Something - Lyrics

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals, Production Tony - Drums Jochen - Bass Feels So Good I don't wanna Waste another moment On anymore Fucking drama This is my One life And I wanna Live it right This is my One life And I'm gonna Live it right Gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna love Cause it feels so good Go on get gone with that Negativity I've done had that drink And it's not the poison for me So I bid you farewell Going the other way You wanna fuss and fight And I wanna play This is my Life and I Wanna live it right Gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna love Cause it feels so good Love Gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna love Cause it feels so good Gonna love Cause it feels so good Whoo © Stephanie Gilliard 2025

Steph Something - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals Marc - Bass Benjamin Bourdil - Drums Mitch Brody - Production We All Know We all know the bases are loaded Our throats barred and our fingers crossed We all know our options are corrupted Hell surrounds us because heaven lost There's always been a battle It's in our faulty makeup Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea We all know there's a victim for every breakup Hell is in our DNA While heaven weeps eternally We all know the system has been broken Now the Joker and his pirates have Opened a can of worms for all to share As we are all quite aware There has always been a battle It's in our faulty makeup Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea We all know there's a victim for every breakup Hell is in our DNA While heaven weeps eternally But do we really care © Stephanie Gilliard 2025

HUMANS - Stephanie Gilliard Matt Kaprelian Lyrics Humanoid Lungs Folded origami wings Snared outside my windows There are three hundred broken birds stolen from someone’s drawers and stitched into my house Visitors ask, why the ornament I answer because I do not want people to see me gasp for air Behind the door locked by stabilizers And the landscape outside are sand dunes where I am tripping over my own steps in a two-meter sandbox filled with me and me and a girl broken by a reason that does not exist And for a second when the window is crowded by paper wings I can forget the nails in the sand and how my knees are numb until blood starts trickling red over my own shoes Two seconds into the house Dirty shoes and oversized slippers Two sky colored oceans And a well that taste like summer Death traps and one-way doors to a tomorrow with ever afters The world is a sun, descending down to my fingers and sprouting daffodils over my skin Three breaths of carbon dioxide too nonsensical for my own humanoid lungs © Stephanie Gilliard 2025

HUMANS -Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian Just a Pie in the Face I wanted your car, but you said no So I shot you dead You were forcing yourself on her She kicked, you fell, and you took a deadly blow to the head I took a life She took a life And now we're both rotting in a cell for the rest of our lives It just don't seem right, right? Nothing is ever black or white There is no one punishment for a particular crime Every interaction is situational Just deserts cannot be served until we get all the dirt You hear about a boy who broke his neighbor's toy Then you see his bicycle wheel come off You say, "It serves him right" But did you know last year, one night That neighbor pissed in little Timmy's shoes So who in the hell are you to judge Nothing is ever black or white There is no one punishment for a particular crime Every interaction is situational Just deserts cannot be served unless we get all the dirt And you'd have to be a fly on the wall To get it all You never know So get off your throne And leave everyone alone Before I Smash those just deserts right in your fuckin' face © Stephanie Gilliard 2025

Steph Something & Moe No One Revolts Between bread and the circus Who's gonna revolt Who's gonna be the first To sow the wounds with salt This country Is drunk on Its own reflection A machine That doesn't stop Even as the gears grind bone Everyone knows It's broken But no one wants to look up close Because if you see It clearly You can't pretend it's fine The fire is out there smoldering But most of us never notice a thing Dopamine on tap Filling our minds with unattainable dreams This country Is drunk on Its own reflection A machine That doesn't stop Even as the gears grind bone Everyone knows It's broken But no one wants to look up close Because if you see It clearly You can't pretend it's fine And yet We don't push We wait We watch Between bread and the circus No one Revolts © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something, Matt Kaprelian, Alex Ruiz

HUMANS (Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian) When Push Comes to Shove

SS, Mitch Brody, Marc, Matt Kaprelian You talk like you've been through hell I was born into it While you were learning to throw your first punch I was learning to smile through the first insult While you were bragging about the scars you chose I was collecting the ones I did not I've been told to sit pretty, to shut up To take a joke when there wasn't one I've learned to read the room before I speak To swallow rage so deep You wear your toughness like a jacket I had mine sewn into my skin So no You're not tougher than me Because baby, you've never had to be I've been talked over I've been looked through I've walked home with my keys in my fist Praying the footsteps behind me kept their distance I've learned to read the room before I speak I swallow rage so deep You wear your toughness like a jacket I had mine sewn into my skin So no You're not tougher than me Because baby, you've never had to be You think you're tough cause you've fought men I've fought the way men look at me The way they talk to me The way the world keeps telling me I'm smaller, and expecting me to prove otherwise Without ever breaking stride I don't need to tell you I'm tougher than you Because you've never had to Survive me I've learned to read the room before I speak I swallow rage so deep You wear your toughness like a jacket I had mine sewn into my skin So no You're not tougher than me Because you have never had to be © Stephanie Gilliard

SS - Composition, Meloldy, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitar Alex Bevacqua - Drums, Production Marc - Bass Love me A mess Let me A mess I swear A mess Swept right into catastrophe Next time Ruined Time after that Ruined Right now Ruined Checkmate, check, two, three Yeah Unforgettable Undesired Under a breath It's late Your way Hard sleep Your way Apologie Your way It was something left undone I caught A bad case of it today I've still got that bad taste in my mouth Still got that bad taste in my mouth That bad taste is still in my mouth Yeah Unforgettable Undesired Under a breath © Stephanie Gilliard

SS - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Guitars, Vocals Ellen - Mix/Master Your Muse I break silently You announce your burden as art Applauded for being Exactly what has me in such ruin Perhaps you found your muse In my suffering A declaration of war was never made Yet I find myself blindsided and Beaten upon a battlefield that was Once my trust Perhaps you found your muse In my suffering You have perfected sustainability Weaponized the masses without them even knowing Anything at all © Stephanie Gilliard

SS - Composition, Melody, Lyrics, Vocals, Guitars Alex Bevacqua - Drums, Bass Tired of Singing You nearly walk right through me Well maybe baby You shouldn't keep me So goddamn clean (I'm tired, tired, I'm tired of singin') You nearly walk right through me Well maybe baby You shouldn't keep me So goddamn clean (I'm tired, tired, I'm tired of singin') Can you tell me the reason I never miss a beat yet you Manage to forget The whole goddamn song (I'm tired, tired, I'm tired of singin') You nearly walk right through me Well maybe baby You shouldn't keep me So goddamn clean © Stephanie Gilliard

Steph Something - Composition, Lyrics, Melody, Guitars, Vocals Chris Simplson - All Other Instruments, Mix The Umbra The shadows won The day is done The odds have got us beat Keep turning tricks To get that fix Whoring up and down the street The umbra The darkest part of the dark The darkest thought You didn’t want And in the evening glow To pass the Time away We chase shadows Into the light Until they’re merely shade We were entangled To see what we could see But we ran out of space While playing games Of what might be The umbra The darkest part of the dark The darkest thought You didn’t want But they follow you Just the same They follow you Just the same Oh they follow you Just the same Oh they follow you Night and day Keep turning pages over Blaming all along the way Sent to find a four-leaf clover As it’s sure to fuck me over The umbra The darkest part of the dark The darkest thought You didn’t want But they follow you Just the same They follow you Just the same © Stephanie Gilliard