Nobody carries it alone. Not over there, not back here.
You tell the story, your way. It comes back as a song, written with you, for you and for the veterans who'll hear themselves in it. It costs you nothing. Everything the music earns goes to veteran suicide prevention.
Start here. This is the song that started it all.
That's Still Here, the first song; read where it came from. The new single, I Can't See the Glass, is out now on every major platform. It started as a drawing.
Phantom Soldier is a storytelling project, not medical or clinical care. If today is heavy, the Veterans Crisis Line is 988, then press 1, or text 838255.
Bottom line up front
Veterans have stories that don't survive translation. On paper they read like a report. Out loud they stop a room, so we mostly keep them to ourselves. A song can carry one the whole distance. You bring the truth. We handle the words, the music, and the release.
Any branch, any era, any job you held. If your story becomes a song, it might stand on its own or be woven together with another veteran's, so more of us can see ourselves in it. Your name is never on it. How it works Who's behind this
New single, out now
It started as a drawing. Glass walls on the path to getting better, that you can't see until you hit them, and the X's at the bottom where you land when one doesn't give. The drawing is on the song's page, next to the lines it turned into.
Open it in Spotify or YouTube Music. Also on Apple Music and Amazon Music.
Every song here started as one true thing. A drawing. A fact about concrete. A question somebody asked at work. Pick a song and read where it came from, then play it.
No names. That's the rule on every song, including the first ones. All the stories
It started as a drawing: a path, glass walls you can't see until you hit them, and the X's at the bottom.
Concrete is crushed stone. Nothing standing anywhere wasn't broken first.
The first song. A quiet house, ringing ears, and the stance the whole project is built on.
What do you tell a kid who wants to enlist? The honest answer takes half an hour.
Four steps. The story stays in your control the whole way.
A paragraph is enough to start.
Same person the whole way through.
You read every line and push back until it's right.
Released as Phantom Soldier. Your name isn't on it. If it helped you, pass it on.
Two things are required: an email so we can reach you, and the story. It doesn't need to be polished, in order, or finished. One moment beats a whole deployment.
Rather not use a form? Email it to Project.Veteran.Overwatch@gmail.com.
Veterans Crisis Line: dial 988, then press 1.
Text 838255. In an emergency, call 911.
Free, confidential, and staffed 24/7 for veterans, service members, and their families. You don't need to be enrolled in VA care to use it.
This is a place for stories, not a place for care. Nobody here is a doctor or a counselor. More lines to call, and how to find your local VSO
Who's behind this
A civilian listens and it's just another song. A veteran listens and you can see it land. That's the connection: we all know what we're not talking about.