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January - Live
EP: "January (Live)" Released June 12, 2026
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Latest Releases
So Much Traffic
Day 929 - July 17, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Only As Strong
Day 928 - July 16, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman, Grant Steller
Performed By: Oliver Richman, Grant Steller
Teach Me
Day 927 - July 15, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Whiff Of Death
Day 926 - July 14, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
The Right Direction
Day 924 - July 13, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Lie About
Day 924 - July 12, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Longing
Day 923 - July 11, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Eternally Bad
Day 922 - July 10, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
A Bigger Rock to Climb
Day 921 - July 9, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman, Savidu Geevaratne
Wasting Time Again
Day 920 - July 8, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Scam
Day 919 - July 7, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Day 1000
Day 918 - July 6, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
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Chasing Time (FULL)
Chasing Time
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman, Abby Mohaddes, Gabby Ballesteros
LAST NOVEMBER
Last November you were happy
New horizons clear as day
I remember being happy
But last November's far away
Last November rain was falling
But it didn't hide the sun
Cause last November life was calling
To a world that just begun
Time is racing by
Can't help but wonder why
I've spent a lifetime chasing daydreams from my mind
That I left the world I thought I knew behind
IN A HUNDRED YEARS
In a hundred years from now
I wonder how
The world will see
In a hundred lives from here
Will life appear to be
In the lights that house our bedroom
In the love you always bring
In a hundred years from now
Will time sing
Da da da da da
Da da da-da
Da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Sing with me forever
Dance with me through time today
A life ago, I never thought
The world would find a way
Cause life can fill with sorrow
Hiding out in fear
But now I see tomorrow
With your light and laughter here
Da da da da da
Da da da-da
Da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
COME BACK
A little less sunshine today
A little less laughter to borrow
All of our dreams far away
Facing the pain of tomorrow
So wake me up when the nightmare’s ending
Wake me up when life is real again
Wake me up to prove that time’s pretending
But until then
Come back to your chair, Abby
Come back to your chair
I sit in your chair, Abby
It feels like you’re there
A little less music today
Filling our lifetime with quiet
A little less dancing today
Scrolling through time to deny it
So, take me back when life was endless dreaming
Take me back with millions of miles to go
Take me back when time was full of meaning
I’d never know until you'd go
So, come back to your food, Abby
Come back to your food
It’s waiting for you, Abby
Spoiling for you
Come back to your phone, Abby
Come back to your phone
They’re calling your phone, Abby
I sit here alone
So fuck the sun for shining today
Fuck the busy streets for moving on
Fuck the world for finding a way
When mine is gone
IF TIME COULD STAY
If I could turn the clocks back
If I had known tomorrow back then
If I could rewind time's track
If I could see your smile once again
Maybe I would open up my eyes
And never compromise
One moment chasing echoes that are bound to fade away
I’d imagine
If time could stay for a moment
If time could stay
I’d find a way in this moment
To say the things time took away from you
If love could paint tomorrow
Building monuments to mark the endless climb
If love could reform sorrow
In a world where we might live untouched by time
Maybe I would open up my heart
And never hold a part
Of time we have with anger from a day that’s come and gone
I’d imagine
If time could stay for a moment
If time could stay
I’d find a way in this moment
To say the things I should have said to you
But time isn’t waiting
For hearts in the past
Though time’s still creating
A million more moments
And maybe in one moment
Time won’t stop the love
Cause love is meant to last
YOU CHANGED MY SONG
I hear the breeze of last November
On every road we could’ve been
With lasting footprints to remember
When life was waiting to begin
Will the lights still shine without you to guide me along?
Will the world find you
In a life or two
Cause you never knew
How you changed my song
You changed my song with words I never knew
You changed my heart
With love that never grew
Till I met you
Now I hug a little tighter
Knowing time will move along
So in a hundred years from now
The world will rearrange ‘cause
You have changed my song
January - Live
EP: "January (Live)" Released June 12, 2026
Performed By: Oliver Richman
The Ballad of Phil and Phyllis (FULL) (Lyric Video)
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman, Joy Woods, Grant Steller
PHIL:
You can have the fame, Phyllis
I’d give up all the fame
You can have the overbearing stares
The noisy crowds
The holy shadow
And the shame, Phyllis!
But don’t pretend you want this
Don’t be so naïve
I’ll say these words again and again
But by then you’re bound to leave
They always leave
Why must you leave?
PHYLLIS:
Well, I guess I’m just like the rest
PHIL:
Why must you leave?
PHYLLIS:
We can’t all live forever
I sure was never as blessed
PHIL:
Nothing’s supposed to live forever, Phyllis
Nothing’s supposed to last that long
The burrows we made will eventually fade
And I’ll be left to sing the same old song
But if nothing’s supposed to live forever, Phyllis
Why am I the one who’s cursed to see
The sprout begin to spawn
Till the things I know are gone
Till everyone moves on but…
Hold me, Phyllis
Hold me like an apricot
Hold me like the world is not about to wave goodbye
PHYLLIS:
You watched my fur turn grey
PHIL:
I don’t like “goodbye”
PHYLLIS:
How many times have you had to say….
PHIL:
Please don’t say…
BOTH:
Goodbye
PHYLLIS:
Nothing’s supposed to live forever
Nothing’s supposed to last that long
That’s what they say, Phil
It all goes away, Phil
But something deep inside me knows they’re wrong
If nothing’s supposed to live forever
I’ll give you a part of me I guarantee you’ll find
In the winters and the springs
In the song your shadow sings
Forever is the things I leave behind
PHIL:
Behind?
PHYLLIS:
You’ll see me in their smile
And their claws
Will make you take pause
And maybe the burrows we made
PHIL: The burrows we made
PHYLLIS: Will come back to your mind
PHIL: The burrows we made will eventually fade
PHYLLIS: Back when we weren’t afraid the sun
PHIL: And I can’t persuade the sun
To let us rewind
PHYLLIS: Would set and let
PHIL: Let us start over
PHYLLIS: us leave our last duet…
PHIL: Before you leave me…
BOTH: Behind
PHYLLIS: Are the ones who go ever truly gone
When you’re…
BOTH: Holding on to who you leave behind
PHYLLIS: Who you leave…
PHIL: Hold me, Phyllis
PHYLLIS: Behind
PHIL: Why can’t you stay forever?
PHYLLIS:
I can see forever
Just by looking in your eyes
PHIL: Dry your eyes
PHYLLIS:
That’s the thing with love…
It multiplies and multiplies and
Nothing’s supposed to live forever
PHIL: Nothing’s supposed to live forever, Phyllis
PHYLLIS: But the tighter you hold me
PHIL: The deeper you look in my eyes
BOTH: The more that can’t be true
PHYLLIS: And the sprout begins to spawn
PHIL: In the winters and the springs
PHYLLIS: And the things I know are gone
PHIL: In the song shadow sings
BOTH: Till everyone moves on but us two
Cause…
PHYLLIS: Nothing’s supposed to live forever
PHIL: Nothing’s supposed to live forever
PHYLLIS: Nothing’s supposed to live forever
PHIL: How can I live forever
PHYLLIS: Without you
PHIL: Without you?
Bunnies FULL
August 28, 2025 SINGLE RELEASE
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
There were bunnies that were jumping on a trampoline
And I just learned that they weren’t real
If a bot can inhabit
An unknowing rabbit
It might manufacture the way you made me feel
How do I know that the sky’s really sunny?
Sometimes it feels like your love is as real
As an unknowing bunny
There’s a woman who was talking on my TV screen
And I just learned she doesn’t exist
Her heart was created
Her voice generated
Her soul hasn’t lived
And her lips have not been kissed
How do I know that the sky’s really sunny?
Now you can change how it looks with a wave of your hand
And a fuck ton of money
Am I just an unknowing bunny?
Am I just an unknowing bunny?
Hopping along
Bouncing away
While the clouds are crying
But we cover their tears with a bright sunny day
And forget we’re lying
So, forget about pain
Forget how to try
Forget how the rain used to dance with the sky
Till you no long care how the hair of a hare used to feel
Cause your mind’s made of lead
And your heart’s made of steel
There were bunnies that were jumping on a trampoline
And I just learned that they weren’t real
Glasses
Day 881 - May 30, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Inspired by this passage of
They Both Die at the End:
I take a deep breath. “But if for some reason
this plan doesn’t work, we need to promise to
find each other in the afterlife. There has to be
an afterlife, Roof, because it’s the only thing
that makes dying this young fair.”
Rufus nods. “I will make it so easy for you to
find me. Neon signs. Marching bands.”
“Good, because I might not have my glasses,”
I say. “Not sure if they’ll ascend with me.”
In case God takes away my glasses
Here’s what I look like
No clue where we’re bound to go
But need to make sure you know
In case it’s somewhere without glasses
In case it’s harder there to see
Cause it took way too long
To find you here in this world
And just in case
I don’t have glasses in the next one
I need to know
It won’t be just as long for you to find me
Just as long as you can find me
I Don't Remember Birthdays (FINAL)
Lyrics: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
I don’t remember birthdays
It’s not that I don’t try
I check Facebook every morning
For a whisper of a warning
To decide if I should open my heart
Or simply cry
That I remember every day you walk away
From who we used to be
‘Cause you remember birthdays
You remember mine
But you don’t remember me
I don’t remember movies
Or how the story ends
If you ask me to explain another plot,
You’ll find my brain begin to rot with—
Were they lovers?
Were they strangers?
Were they friends?
Still I remember how damn real
You made me feel
What scene can I have missed?
So watch another movie
Write another ending
And forget that I exist
Forget about all the times
We were scared together
Forget about all the dreams
That we dared together
If all the love that we shared together
Was just a charade
Then I’m still afraid that
I don’t remember birthdays
Or the song we used to sing
But it’s hard to find the comfort
In the pain as I refrain
From our refrain
To let it play, let it end, let it sting
If I could make these words rewind
I’d try to find
Some hook, some line, some clue
That you remember birthdays
You remember mine
‘Cause I remember…
You
Happy Birthday to you
How many years I thought I knew you…
How many candles on the cake?
How many wishes could I make for you
To take my hand and stay?
But now it’s just another day
Just another movie
Just another song that rings
With all the things you’re not
So I forget
How you forgot
I don’t remember birthdays
I’ve looked for many cures
But no matter how much empathy I spend
It seems my heartstrings never mend
‘Til I pretend that I don’t remember yours
So close the door and walk away
From yesterday and who we used to be
Till you remember birthdays
You remember mine
And you remember me
Me in a Year
Day 1 - January 01, 2024
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
He doesn’t second guess the clothes he wears
He doesn’t base his words
On faded dreams and jaded stares
He writes a new verse
With no one to please
He looks in the mirror and likes what he sees
He doesn’t seem far but he’s not near
Oh
And his eyes look just like mine
And he smiles just like me
What can he see that I can’t see?
Oh
Maybe it’s a little more love
Maybe it’s a little less fear
Maybe that’s me in a year
Maybe that’s me in a year
He turns all his losses into wins
'Cause he doesn’t live his life in should've dones and could’ve beens
He goes for the gold
He lands on his face
He takes the next step and gets back in the race
But that doesn’t make him disappear
Oh
And his eyes are just like mine
And he smiles just like me
What can he see that I can’t see?
Maybe it’s a little more love
Maybe it’s a little less fear
Maybe that’s me in a year
Corn Popsicles: A Corn Popsicle Found Me
Corn Popsicles
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
This is my submission for the Corn Musical
Lonely summer
Walking down to H-Mart
Singing Where do I go from here?
One year left in college
And I can’t help but acknowledge
That things would be different
If I knew you were near
Where are the friends you…
Meet in the movies?
Willing to wait…
Ready to be there…
Am I too much?
Am I too late?
Leave it to fate
And I suddenly see there
Lying on the shelf
A six-sided reflection of myself
Waiting…
What would I do without seeing the view
Of a corn popsicle?
Where would I be without learning to see
Like a corn popsicle?
Simple yet blazing
Profound and a-maiz-ing
And doesn’t need praising to raise to the top
I can finally say: I’m finally free!
Today is the day
A corn popsicle found me
To be corn-tinued…
Back Up
Day 466 - April 10, 2025
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Made a song from the sound
of a truck backing up
Back up
Can we just back up?
Can we just hit rewind
Before what’s bad get worse
Back up
Too late to back up
Too late to make the words
I said to you reverse
Reverse
I can’t move forward
Knowing you’re not here
I’ve tried to find a different road
But I can’t change the gear
So how did you move forward
And pave a different track
When all that I can do is
Look back
900
Day 900 - June 18, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Didn’t think I’d get to 100
Can’t believe I got to 9
Just cause I can’t see the sun shining
Doesn’t mean it doesn’t shine
Cause it looks cloudy here at 900
Just as cloudy as Day 1
Some days I seem to think
I’m far from where I started
But then look up to find
I’ve only just begun
100 songs that you ignore
Guess I’ll write 100 more
But who am I writing for?
Who am I writing for?
Stranger in a Bookstore
Day 117 - April 26, 2024
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
POV: You’re a hopeless romantic
in a bookstore
If you turn my way
And you caught my eye
Would we fall in love the way it happens in the stories?
Is it too cliché?
Thinking sparks would fly
That we’d fall in love the way it happens in the stories?
Would you ask my name?
Would you start to smile?
Would you feel the same relenting hope
That this new chapter last a while?
Would we stay right here and talk
Till we both forget the clock
Or were we only meant to walk the fiction aisle?
Cause you turn my way
And you catch my eye
And I say goodbye
To the stranger in a bookstore
Stranger in a Bookstore (Reprise)
Day 330 - November 25, 2024
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Never thought you’d turn my way
Never thought that story’d come to be
In a world where love’s passé
I don’t understand why you’d love me
I’m no prince
No fearless knight
I’m no hero worth the fight
Didn’t think that you’d rewrite my story
Thought I read this book before
Guess I somehow missed the greatest part
Now I know there’s always more
Now at last you’ve opened up my heart
And set the author free
I couldn’t find the key
Until you turned my way
And caught my eye
And helped my see
My story
