Classically-trained Ceyeo is a songwriter, vocalist and producer from Chicago. Ceyeo’s interest in theme-based albums sparked the creation of ‘Machine Learning’ in 2022, which is about moving forward in a world of alienation and inequality to anyone who doesn’t fit the norm. His second album ‘Baby I Care,’ released in 2023, was themed on caring, hope, optimism and positivity.
For his third album, titled ‘Together They Were Nothing,’ Ceyeo focuses on the themes of anger, anxiety and despair due to unhealthy relationships, greed and the lack of unity in the world.
In making ‘Together They Were Nothing,’ Ceyeo took a unique approach to first compose 10 classical piano etudes, for inspiration, and then produced those classical pieces into indie rock by adding rock instrumentation, synth layers, and vocals. The result is a clear evolution in Ceyeo’s writing and his most accessible album yet.
The first single for Together They Were Nothing, titled ‘Confession’ releases on February 16, 2024, with the full album releasing in October.
Trying
another night in this prison
another day to be the madvillian
another hope to be the real queen
another way to fix this damn thing
and to see you for who you really are
got to learn to take the mundane with the bizarre
Another cause and it’s because of me
with no effect that I can clearly see
This life that I’m living in
I got regrets and my patience is thin
trying to do the right thing but it’s damn hard
for a person in a world that is so scarred
you’ve been tossed like a rag doll
in the lost and found where you are gonna fall
your getting hit by the bad guys
from all around
and there’s no allies
and I see it every day
yea, every day
there doesn’t seem any other way
how and why do we not get a redo
why it is safer to be anyone but you?
safer stuck inside a shell and keep sinking
we didn’t create this, what were you all thinking?
we’re in a constant threat of being expelled
much safer to live your life in this hell
than be free
why can’t we be free?
free to be who we want to be
not have to live life as a casualty
but instead, we gonna run away
or fall in line and live a lie
until there’s nothing left inside
until there’s nowhere left to hide
until there’s nowhere left to go
where they can’t find you
someone thought for a second
I’d fall in line but I’m too deafened
this sort of thing happens all the time
but being yourself ain’t committing no crimes
I see you above it all, yea
talking loud and standing tall
I hope you can
I hope you can
people gonna give advice
who don’t know their saying
can’t imagine a world that treats you so low
get real help, not praying
you can’t imagine what it’s like when they come for you
you don’t know what’s it’s like to be so subdued
and after everything is said and done
you know that people gonna do what’s best
to save their own damn skins
and they gonna say to hell with the rest
but that ain’t us, that’s not the way we play
it’s you and me together, and that’s the way it’s gonna stay
yea, that’s the way it’s gonna be
for you and me
WRITTEN BY: CEYEO
2022
