Art Mayes

Art Mayes

Art Mayes Songwriter, musician, actor, director, author, and professional builder of creative playgrounds. Art was trained as a lawyer, taught himself to code, and has worked as an iOS architect and developer since closing his law firm. He asked Pete to come to Chicago to record a song they wrote 20 years ago, and this […]

Pete Lents

Pete Lents

Pete Lents From playing piano and singing for original band “Fulton’s Folly” (later Phraym 313), to a cross-country dueling piano career that would expand his song list exponentially and add bass guitar, drums, and harmonica to his instrumental repertoire, to a stint as a voice actor and audio engineer for the motion comics company “The […]

That Door

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That Door Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music YouTube Six days into the semesterYou invaded my dreamsThought this would be easyStroll through my days like a zombieWe Facetime at nightBut your voice can’t touch me Always around, going downtownGetting drinks and holding my handMaybe back to my place, save faceWe could go to yours insteadBut we […]

Cup at the End of the World

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Cup at the End of the World Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Wasting away in an urban cafeWatch it while it’s coming to lifeListen to stories told throughout the dayWeeding out the truth from the lies Watching some Stans with their faces in phonesThink they’ve been ignoring the signsCradled by ignorance, laughing at memesWonder if […]

Reality

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Reality Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music YouTube Hello, my old friend, It’s been a long timeJust reaching out, to see how you’ve beenDigital windows, a view from outsideOf this little world that I’ve been locked in Trying to quiet my mind in the crowdI’m surrounded by voices, screaming aloudI’m sure it’s nothing, though, and I’ll […]

Advice (feat. K. Omari Wilkerson)

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Advice Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music I’ve got a few things I think you need to hearThese are days of violence, and governed by fearWhen things seem their darkest, remember me hereAnd open your mind You don’t have to accept the world as it isBut you gotta know, cos you’re living in itYou can change […]

Clockwerk

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Clockwerk Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music YouTube Everything that we used to beLost relevance long agoI thought what you wantedwas who I made youFor all I have changed,There’s so much I don’t know My tiny changes seemed innocentSoon they became broader strokesTell me you haven’tAlways imaginedPainting a still life, trying to capture a rose All […]

Superhero Valentine

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Superhero Valentine Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music YouTube I met her on the flyOn a nightI was losing my shirtI guess she thought it would hurtThat’s why she stopped me from falling But I could only smileFor a whileCos I felt like a jerkI just wanted to flirtShe couldn’t stop me from fallingFor her Superhero […]

You

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You (feat. Kristin Lents) Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music YouTube Met him last SaturdayA devil in tweedCoiled like a snake in the high weedsBombed as I wasI was easy to pleaseHolding my hand while he leads Sunday was everythingI knew it would beSultry as summer between sheetsHungover, helplessAnd happy that he’sHolding my head as I […]

Take Me Back

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Take Me Back Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music YouTube Everything’s gotta change, I keep changingGot a pattern, but it’s always rearrangingI’ve been a good man, I’ve been badI wouldn’t give it up for all the fun we hadAnd when I go down, I’ll go down with a smile on my face Take me backBack to […]