Empty Pages [Feat. CG5] Official Lyric Video || Dream SMP Original Song

Empty Pages is on all streaming services, go give it a listen there!

Also, we want to thank ‪@CG5‬ for being so incredibly talented and fun to work with, and for participating in this song. It seriously has been life changing!

Keep reading if you want to hear me ramble about the song and about the journey of making it ;D

Halfy and I had written the song at about 4 am (prime time), and it was originally called ‘Do Not Read’. Time went by and we continued to tweak and add to the song, making the melody and piano official. That is, until I realized that I LITERALLY COULD NOT SING THE SONG. I had made the melody myself, so why in the world did I choose to make it so hard? (for reference, the highest note belted in the song is the same note Elsa hits in ‘Into the Unknown’ which was crazy scary to me, as I do not have a lot of experience in belting). Beats me. But my stubborn self decided “hey, I hate this song because it’s too hard but I like the melody the way it is, I’m not going to dumb it down for myself. I’m going to tuck it in a corner where I won’t find it until I can sing it.” So, that’s what we did. It sat there for about three to four months, until I realized I may be brave enough to face it again due to the improvement I had made through singing other songs (thanks Oblivion). One thing led to another, and we decided we wanted a collaborator! It took about three months for everything to match up, but finally, with a leap of faith, we asked CG5 to collaborate with us by getting our lovely audience to spam the daylights out of the poor guy. He agreed! But dang, that wasn’t the end of it. Another THREE MONTHS of drawing, singing, screaming at the microphone, fixing volumes while we were literally in Hawaii, re-recording piano, and trying to send files through Twitter passed by. But finally, it got finished, and we couldn’t be more proud:) Just remember, if you think you can’t do something, don’t give up. Improvement takes time, but it will always happen if you just practice. I’ll give you a refund if you find otherwise;D

This song takes you through a series of emotions. Questioning, unsurety, panic, frustration, manipulation, regret, and acceptance. As you listen through the first verse, you can hear that the notes begin very low, but progressively become higher and higher by a third step with each line. This represents the panic. The panic one feels as they question whether or not they can trust anyone around them. Based on past events, it’s only been shown that “deceits and shattered loving prove that loyalty is nothing”. Ranboo has experienced this, maybe or maybe not hands-on, but definitely from afar. Which side should he choose? Who is the enemy? At the end of the chorus and verse, he comes to the conclusion that relying on himself is the best way to go, since clearly, that is the only person he can truly trust, especially in this situation with being controlled and unsure of what he has done, and what he hasn’t done.


This conclusion that Ranboo has come to, however, does not stick. It continues on to the next verse, CG5 representing Dream, who begins to tell Ranboo that not only can he not trust his friends, he can’t and shouldn’t even trust himself. “Allies can’t rely on something or someone who is living a pure lie.”

As the bridge rolls in, Dream begins by calling Ranboo an eccedentesiast, which means a person who hides pain behind a smile. He then continues on to list the previous lessons that have been shown through Ranboos lore. Meanwhile, Ranboo goes on almost exactly quoting what he said during that same video. Not wanting to remember… Too many reasons… It all breaks loose as the belt mixed with my vocals and CG5’s represents a scream/shout. Finally, they both come to the conclusion that Ranboo is the one who he has “spent his life running from”, meaning Dream, who has been controlling him from afar.

Empty Pages is a song a lot of people can relate to, if listened to closely. While it was written based on the lore events of Ranboo from the Dream SMP, it can very easily apply to everyday life. Everyone experiences panic and anxiety in different forms, whether it be about something they had done, something they hadn’t done, or something they wish was different. I can personally relate very easily to the pains of this song, which is filled with regret, but at the same time, can be drawn closer to my emotions in that way. Sometimes it seems as though our mind is a book we expect to be filled with word after word, yet when it comes to expressing those tough emotions, it can seem as though there are nothing but empty pages.