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.
u can't hide
you know you can’t hide
I know you are in there
I’m gonna reach in right now
and grab you out of thin air
you know you can’t hide
I know this place
better than john glenn
knows outer space
can you rap over anything?
how about a funeral dirge
create an adrenaline surge
of the introspective urge that’s about to emerge
is it possible to retaliate but elevate
and at the same time also relate
and try to escalate the good
and alienate the bad remove the sad and the mad
I’m trying to add not subtract
and to pack in more impact when attacked
not just react or retract or crack when smacked
none of this is easy, just trying to be me
never been too greedy, too needy,
but nothing or nobody has ever freed me, or needed me, or even read to me when I was a baby
you know you can’t hide
I know you’re in there
I’m gonna reach in some time
and grab you out of thin air
but I’m still trying to get someone to see the real me (doctor, mama, preacher), whatever
but I don’t think I even see myself right
still a constant fight and I’ve been up all night
just thinking, doing a little drinking trying to keep my head from shrinking and my mood from sinking too far deep, too far gone, too steep
cause that’s not right, you got to fight it,
you got to think of bright lights despite of the dark night
I guess you always got to have your shit together
like the people I see on TV, or social media and streaming. it’s multimedia, not schizophrenia, or academia, it’s money, it’s beauty
it’s cruelty
just shoot me
you know you can’t hide,
I know you are in there
day by day, hour by, hour feels like the wrong people get the power, this is their hour and they trying to devour instead of empower they are sociopaths want you to cower to their supposed might
your plight, your fight, your struggle just to do anything right. It’s twice as hard to do anything, I ain’t lying. get pulled over for just driving. On your way to work.
And 10 times more likely to get into trouble for no reason and be beaten by a cretin who’s protected by their chieftain for no good reason other than to defeat and weaken keep the balance uneven
It’s a lesion on society, adds to our anxiety, hurts our sobriety
It takes us all down, everyone, were all effected when people are neglected, unfairly rejected and arrested instead of invested in and protected
we are all connected, you can’t target a group and not impact the whole it don’t work like that.
the world’s too small, we are all together
that won’t change ever
you know this
you know I’m not playing
and you know you can’t hide,
I know you’re in there
I’m gonna reach in right now
and grab you out of thin air
WRITTEN BY: CEYEO
2022
