Decoy is available for a limited time on streaming services. We are working on trying to bypass streaming services for future releases. I WANT YOU HERE. I want you to have my music on your phone permanently and on a CD or other physical format.
Imagine this. In less than 24 hours my music could be removed from all streaming platforms and it would cease to exist. But if the Beatles were taking down, they would always exist somewhere on a CD, record or hard-drive. This is something I learned while I was on my musical hiatus. I was investing in the decentralized web, and learning about block chains structures, IPFS and other nerdy things i won’t go into because I am sure I have already lost many at this point. The greater message is redundant nods of my music is what will get the messages I’m sending to “the other side”. So yes, I think it’s important to download music along with streaming it. I also think that holding a medium in your hand is very personal and it is something that can be left behind for others.

Badlands

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)

Aketous – Everything Is Now!

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)

Rubicon by Aketous

• Released on 4/6/26 by Darren Farris Music
• Main artists: Aketous
• Genre: Alternative & Indie

When I release a song it’s always because I have this fire in me about it that makes it impossible for me not to share it with the world as fast as I can.

My promise is that I will never release anything that I feel is mediocre or filler. I especially love the music I am doing through Aketous. The creative license under a band is so vast. I can go places with my songs that I could never go as a singer/songwriter or solo rock musician. I really wish I had started my music career as a band.

Back This Way

Written by Darren Farris

Copyright 2026 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)

[Verse 1]
In the winter
The cold against my face
It brings remembrance
Of the man that lost his faith

[Pre-Chorus]
He said Son, I know you’re lookin’ for a better way, boy
I know if time can heal hurt and shame, boy
I know that you will save the day

[Verse 2]
The road less traveled
Is the one that you have chose
Lookin’ in the embers
Of the past as it unfolds

[Pre-Chorus]
He said Son, I know, there’s life beyond the silver chord boy
I know, you fight to walk the straight and narrow
and I know that you will save the day

[Chorus]
But, when you gonna get back this way again? (again)
Oh, the tides of life are shiftin’, I feel so lost within
Oh, when you gonna get back this way again? (again)
Remember, I’ll always love you, the memories never end
When you gonna get back?

[Bridge]
The silver wire is stretching thin
Where the ending meets the “could have been”
Building towers out of shifting sand
While the hourglass is breaking in your hand
Is the distance what you fear the most

[Chorus]
But, when you gonna get back this way again? (again)
Oh, the tides of life are shiftin’, I feel so lost within
Oh, when you gonna get back this way again? (again)
Remember, I’ll always love you, the memories never end

[Chorus]
When you gonna get back this way again? (again)
Oh, the tides of life are shiftin’, I feel so lost within
Oh, when you gonna get back this way again? (again)
Remember, I’ll always love you, the memories never end—

When you gonna get back?

Space Disco Cowboy

Written by Darren Farris

Copyright 2026 Darren Farris Music (ASCAP)

[Intro]
We all know what’s going on.
Let me welcome y’all to my party at the end of time! Are you ready?
I said ARE YOU READY! I am…Let’s roll! Yeah!

[Verse 1]
Yeah, we got the signal coming in hot
From this new priest of the drop
Everybody move, everybody clap your hands
Future’s here, make them brand new plans

[Pre-Chorus]
You say you want a revolution, well I don’t know
We’re too busy dancing in the starlight glow
The gravity is zero, the beats are hot
No time for fighting when you’re cruising through the sky
Got my laser boots on, got my helmet shined
Left all the worries of the past behind
‘Cause the future is bright, yeah, everything is good
Livin’ where we always knew we should be

[Chorus]
People love that space disco cowboy
Watch him ride across the burnin’ nebula, nowhere to hide
Everything’s so good when the cowboy rides across the sky
Giddy up, yahoo, boogie baby, feel that flow
Space disco cowboy shining bright tonight
Makin’ everything alright

[Verse 2]
Talk about destruction, you talk about change
But the only change we need is a wider range
Of rhythm of life, of sonic bliss
We trade the chaos for a cosmic kiss
Forget the manifestos, put the protest sign away
We’re building better worlds by dancing every day
No need for fightin’, no need for the fight
Just pure electric rhythm burning through the night

[Chorus]
People love that space disco cowboy
Watch him ride across the burnin’ nebula, nowhere to hide
Everything’s so good when the cowboy rides across the sky
Giddy up, yahoo, boogie baby, feel the flow
Space disco cowboy shining bright tonight
Making everything alright

[Bridge]
Can you hear the peace sounds rumble deep inside his voice
Every single moment is completely overjoyed
Disperse our glitter, his lasso is light
Bringing pure euphoria to the darkest night
No more sadness, no more fear
Just endless motion
Lost in the groove of the stellar ocean

[Chorus]
People love that space disco cowboy
Watch him ride across the burnin’ nebula, nowhere to hide
Everything is good when the cowboy rides across the sky
Giddy up, yahoo, boogie baby, feel the flow
Space disco cowboy shining bright tonight
Making everything alright

[Outro]
Watch him ride, yeah, watch him fly
Across the purple velvet sky
Giddy up, yahoo, boogie baby
Future is bright
Sing us a better day Space Disco Cowboy
Sing us a better way