Badlands
Song by Aketous ‧ 2026
Through the Recursion
Badlands
Song by Aketous ‧ 2026
My fourth album Jackie Blue will be available everywhere June 15th 2026. Unlike previous releases this will be a FULL ALBUM DROP with no teaser singles. So my hope is that it is an album that you will listen to as a whole- from track 1 to track 14. I know it’s not the conventional way to do things, but it’s not a conventional album. I still enjoy making concept albums that have a specific track layout and you get to move from one story to the next. Hopefully you are like me and you enjoy trying to connect the dots as you run through each track. I think this album carries a strong message. Regardless, once it’s out there, it’s on my permanent record. It becomes part of the history of music. Aketous the band lives!
I don’t believe in overexplaining a song. One reason is all my songs tend to have double entendres (sometimes triple) and it can really mess up a song for someone if they pull something out of it that the writer never imagined, or did- but didn’t want to reveal the alternative meaning.
I hope this song lands wherever it is supposed to! Hopefully it will become as part of some peoples walk, the way it has my own. I wrote Everything Is Now during a deep (possibly delusional) state of euphoria at that the possibility that there truly is no past or future and that the PRESENT is the most beautiful gift, and all of life JUST IS.
Enough of all that! Put down the top, enjoy the sunshine, enjoy this cosmic frame you are in. Know that nothing is really lost and all good things that pass, may return.
Yesterday is still with us and tomorrow is written and today we experience.
(the hidden lyric in the solo)
Lyrics and Music copyright 2026 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)
[Verse]
They say the river’s moving toward the sea
But the water’s standing where it’s meant to be
No one knows the shape of every star
Only know we’re standing right where we are
It isn’t coming, it isn’t gone
It’s the same light shining in the dawn.
[Pre-Chorus]
So shake the dust off the weary clock
We’re waking up from the tick and the tock
The horizon isn’t where we run to go
It’s just the garden that we already know.
[Chorus]
Everything is Now!
Everything is real, everything is wrapped in how we feel.
Never looking back, never far ahead,
‘Cause it’s all been written in what’s said!
Everything is Now!
[Verse]
Our fathers looked out at the universe wide
They saw the layers where the ages hide
Like a map that’s folded in a heavy hand
We’re part of a structure we don’t understand
The beginning was the end, the middle is the start
It’s all beat-for-beat inside a single heart.
[Chorus]
Everything is Now!
Everything is real, everything is wrapped in how we feel.
Never looking back, never far ahead,
‘Cause it’s all been written in what’s said!
Everything is Now!
[Bridge]
Forever isn’t a long, long time
It’s the mountain that we’re meant to climb
It’s the Alpha and the Omega too
It’s the breath that’s living inside of you!
Everything!
Everything!
[Chorus]
Everything is Now!
Everything is real, everything is wrapped in how we feel.
Never looking back, never far ahead,
‘Cause everything’s directly overhead!
Everything is Now!
[Coda]
It’s here, it’s there, it’s everywhere!
(Everything is Now!)
We’re part of the light, we’re part of the air!
(Everything is Now!)
Copyright 2026 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)