Brendan O’Donnell / Ryan Ore · 2025
Again and Again I like to pretend that we were
made for … so much more.
It goes without saying, without explaining,
she was rotten to the core
But I … only ever wanted to see the best in you
And I … never even heard you try to tell me the truth.
She holds me down, Keeps me around, I don’t put up a fight
She holds me down, I don’t make a sound, I hold her up to the light
Her body is a temple, My sacred place inside
I love the feeling of being afraid of what I will find
I get excited by being gaslighted, so tonight you've got one chore
Twisting and Turning, my blood is burning, and I'm yearning to be yours
But I … only ever wanted to see the best in you
And I … never even heard you try to tell me the truth.
She holds me down, Keeps me around, I don’t put up a fight
She holds me down, I don’t make a sound, I hold her up to the light
Her body is a temple, My sacred place inside
I love the feeling of being afraid of what I will find
Ryan Ore · 2025
What did I do to make you change your mind?
What did I say that I can’t take back this time?
What did I do to make you think it’s something we can’t get through?
What did I do?
Well maybe this time it was you
But imagine a world.
Imagine a world.
Can you Imagine a world?
Imagine a world that doesn’t revolve around you
I realize it’s hard when you realize when you’re wrong
Like hearing words you’ve never heard in your favorite song
And I know why I’m blamed any time you get burned
Cause Pain’s like a river, and It follows the path that it learns
But imagine a world.
Can you imagine a world,
Can you Imagine a world that doesn’t revolve around you?
Imagine a world.
Imagine a world.
Can you Imagine a world.. Where I could be right sometimes too
Your gravity is strong,
It pulls me down, no matter what I do
I thought I had this solved.
But my solutions all revolve around you
I thought I had this solved
I thought I had this solved
I thought I had resolve
But my resolve just dissolves around you
But imagine a world.
Can you imagine a world,
Can you Imagine a world that doesn’t revolve around you?
But imagine a world.
Can you imagine a world,
Can you Imagine a world that doesn’t revolve around you?
Ryan Ore · 2020
All the trees…. That lost their leaves. waiting it out, Skeletons asleep,
But they know December in Chicago is no place to wait out anything, … but you say,
Maybe if we wait, Just a little break, the medicine will take, telling me it’ll be fine
Have a little faith, everything is great, just a little space, its really just myself I'm, trying to find.
We were born in the summer
We were forged in the sun
And we will make it through this winter
Just like we did the last one
What used to be, sweat on our sheets, Third floor apartment, still home to me
Is now sheets of ice on our window warm tears running down your cheek
But you say, there’s nothing wrong with me, if it’s meant to be, you’ll just have to see you can stop asking, I feel fine
I think it’s in your head. I’ve never been better. It’s really just this goddamn weather. I’m trying to leave behind. Leave behind.
We were born in the summer
We were forged in the sun
And we will make it through this winter
Just like we did the last one
But I see you… looking down, at me
How do you find yourself on the moon anyway?
Ain’t it cold when the sun shines on me
But it doesn’t shine on you
But I see you… looking down, at me
Eyes as blue as ice, should ever be
Ain’t it cold when the sun shines on me
But it doesn’t shine on you
We were born in the summer
We were forged in the sun
And we will make it through this winter
Just like we did the last one
Ryan Ore · 2017
My voice, your song,
I play along.
If you go, right now,
I wouldn't change even if I knew how
My life, your pain
Your loss, my gain
We try to be,
Everything to everyone but some things they can't see
Make me feel
Let me breathe
Cast your shadow over me
Make me feel
Make me see differently
Cast your shadow over me
I came, along
You made me Strong
Now I’ll carry it all cause you… left so much to hold on to.
This time it’s done
You’ve come undone,
We’ll be alright,
The Darkest shadows come from the brightest lights
Make me feel
Let me breathe
Cast your shadow over me
Make me feel
Make me see differently
Cast your shadow over me
Ryan Ore · 2017
Drip drop feed the animals
micro-dosing mind control
Clawing at each other through imaginary walls
It’s feeding time
Evolving slowly into this…
Pixel photo synthesis
I don’t think it’s working, have we considered intravenous ?
You took their medicine and now you need their medicine again.
You took their medicine and now you need their medicine again.
They slipped their venom in and now you need their medicine again.
Choose your words,
Choose your weapon,
Pick your poison
Don’t cross the line
Drip by drip till bellies full
Through the night the faces glow,
Someone cut the power, This fevers growing out of control
Through the Tubes the venom flows
In the air the power grows
Weaponize, incentivize weaponize weaponize
It’s Feeding Time
You took their medicine and now you need their medicine again.
You took their medicine and now you need their medicine again.
They slipped their venom in and now you need their medicine again.
Choose your words,
Choose your weapon,
Pick your poison
Don’t cross the line
When worlds collide
Call the kids inside
Protect your wife
And hide, tonight, at feeding time
Ryan Ore · 2001/2025
I, I apologize
I, I, I, I apologize
For drowning in you.
Please, Please don’t throw me no lines
Please, Please, Please, Please don’t throw me no lines
Cause I’ll be fine in time.
But I’ve been drowning in you, since you poured yourself on me
I’ve been drowning in you, since you poured yourself on me
I didn’t fall into you, you know you poured yourself on me
Now you wanna put it back
Back in the bottle, back in the bottle
Like you were setting me free
Setting me free
Setting me free…
Setting me free…
I, I apologize
Well you tipped over, dripped over, spilled yourself up to my knees
When you reached my eyes, I finally realized, that I was
Drowning in you.
But I’ve been drowning in you, since you poured yourself on me
I’ve been drowning in you, since you poured yourself on me
Ryan Ore · 2025
You left room to breathe
There’s an ocean of air in between…
Your sense of self and everything else, which is me
And It feels like a dream,
I see everything,
And everything makes sense and everything’s not what it seems.
Falling up through clouds
The air is thin, and I can’t see what’s in front of me
Falling up through clouds
With so much space, why is it so hard to breathe?
You left the room to breathe
And I stayed here to be…
Alone for the night so we don’t need to fight about me
You’re Walking through a dream,
With a temporary sheen
Ignoring the slip of losing your grip on everything
Falling up through clouds
The air is so thin, and I can’t see what’s right in front of me
Falling up through clouds
With so much space why is it so hard to breathe?
How far can we fall, how much can we stand
How far can we fall, is the universe expanding
Fall up through clouds
Before clouds turn to shadows
Can we get back home, can we get back home
Falling up through clouds
The air is so thin, and I can’t see what’s right in front of me
Falling up through clouds
With so much space why is it so hard to breathe?
Ryan Ore · 2025
I could’ve passed right by,
But in a moment of weakness, I decided I would pass through.
I must have been pretty lost…
I must have been pretty lost to be stumbling upon you,
A thousand miles of bluegrass and black fences,
A thousand memories flood my senses.
I don’t know what I came for.
I’m the one who left, but you’re not here anymore.
You got no business being here you say to me
I’ve got nothing left to give.
But God forbid you give a damn
God forbid you think about me once in a while
I know we never made it easy
But god forbid it make you smile
God forbid
I wander around while I marvel in your beauty.
Fragments of bullets, my regrets tearing through me
And with the patience of a dead man
I wait for something that resembles you
You got no business being here you say to me
I’ve got nothing left to give.
But God forbid you give a damn
God forbid you think about me once in a while
I know we never made it easy
But god forbid it make you smile
God forbid
God I know I
Don’t belong here
Just had to see it for myself.
I left but, You’re the one who’s gone.
Just had to see it for myself.
Ryan Ore · 2026
Reading…
someone else’s lines
With inflection and perfect time
How did I even find myself on this stage?
Living…
In another place,
In an unintended space
Always looking out for what I’m too afraid to chase
[Instrumental]
Could it…
And should it be my time?
I know I’m past my prime
My expiration date has come and gone
But I know…
The Hand I’m dealt is Divine
Probably should feel sublime
But If you don’t know pain you aren’t living or so they say
[Instrumental]
Maybe I should just read the lines, the way they’re written to be.
I can read lines all day if you would feed them to me
Maybe I could play the part, In someone else’s scene
If you’d play it with me
Living
In another place,
In an unintended space
Every step I take brings me back to where I started
But despite all
The loss that I’ve sustained
The perspective i have gained
Somehow I’m still waiting for it all to blow away
[Instrumental]
Maybe I should just read the lines, the way they’re written to be.
I can read lines all day if you would feed them to me
Maybe I can play the part , In somebody else’s scene
If you’d play it with me?
[Solo]
Maybe I should just read the lines, the way they’re written to be.
I can read lines all day if you would feed them to me
Maybe I can play the part , In somebody else’s scene
If you’d play it with me
If you’d play it with me
If you’d play it with me