Falmouth, Mass. - Scott Lubofsky's first record release seems like a lot of rock albums: fast-paced vocals and guitars and an unsettling image cover in this case a menacing-looking clown.

But behind the creepy artwork is 10-year-old Scott's goal to help homeless and near-homeless families on Cape Cod.

Scott, a fourth-grader at North Falmouth Elementary School, has fiddled around with instruments and vocal work "ever since I really started listening to music," he said.

He got a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar as a reward for a good report card two years ago and a drum set shortly after.

"He's been around a lot of music," said Scott's dad, Evan Lubofsky, who also plays several instruments.

This summer, Scott decided to take that interest and a really catchy line he'd been humming for a while and turn it into "Sweet Dreams," a rockin' track produced with help from his dad.

But it wasn't enough just to create music, Scott said: He wanted to create good, too.

"I've seen the people who walk ... just to get their food. That's a pretty long walk," Scott said of the people who use a food pantry and shelter about a mile from his home.

After looking at a few Cape charities, Scott settled on donating proceeds from sales of the "Sweet Dreams" CD to Housing Assistance Corp., a nonprofit that operates family shelters.

The Lubofsky family decided to absorb the cost of creating the two-track CDs, around $2.25 each, so 100 percent of each $5 sale goes to HAC, said Lisa Guyon, the nonprofit's director of resource development.

Half the money will go to family shelters and the rest to Project Prevention, which helps keep families from becoming homeless by helping pay a mortgage bill during a tight month, for example, Guyon said.

"It's always incredible when someone comes to us and wants to tap into their talent or their time to help us," she said.

In July, Scott took a few lines of a song he'd come up with about a little boy who couldn't sleep because of a clown under his bed and began turning them into a song.

The lyrics became "Sweet Dreams," Evan Lubofsky said, and the two set to work using the software program GarageBand to add instrumentation.

The project took three months, and the results, the pairing of fun but creepy lyrics and a guitar-driven backing track, remind him of favorite bands like Guns N' Roses and The Who, Scott said.

Scott's sister Lindsey, 6, drew the album's artwork, a grinning clown leering on a black background.

Sold at local shops and on a family-run website, the CD has raised more than $200 for HAC since it first landed on shelves in November, Scott said.

And in the process, Scott who also tracks inventory and sales himself has learned business strategy and that "he can use this to help others," mom Debbie Lubofsky said.

"It's harder than I thought, but rewarding because I'm helping people and I'm learning to do these things," Scott said.