Friggin awesome dude !
some good stuff there by Varis and Deva too
I write what I call nursery rhymes for adults... a bit cliche and rhymy. All surface value, nothing much hidden or left to the imagination. Very infrequently, it just happens, I need to be in severe pain or emotionally overwhelmed. I wrote quite a bit around four years ago, I was in turmoil.
Lived Where ?
Id lived in there all those years
Safe and secure, I had found a warm spot
Within my mind, Id replay the memories
Forward to the future, onward with the plot
Now I feel it leaving me
The blanket removed, I shutter
Not from cold, but rather a burning
My chest grows heavy for there are arrows in my heart
Where had I lived and what did I give
A sacrifice of time for a safe place in my mind
For what I had gained would all become loss
And all that I missed I can no longer dismiss
I dreamed of that place where I did not live
A substitute for passion that could not forgive
Fighting the truth of a deep burning need
Within my safe place I would only bleed
Now before me Im face to the wall
Searching and listening I starve for the call
The once mighty warrior who laid down his sword
Stands abandoned of spirit and dizzied by the horde
Where had I lived and what did I give
A sacrifice of time spent appeasing my mind
For all that was gained has now become loss
And all that was missed hides in the meaning
Of that one
forgotten kiss
This is a song, my best song I think, wrote in '92, some of the more poetic parts (the first half) are decent read, some of the others just lyrics that fit the song topic, it doesnt flow well for me trying to read it, I only hear the melody and it was written by the melodys I heard in my head. Its a somewhat progressive song, many parts and moods, no chorus, no repeating verses, a continous movement till the end which finally comes back around to the beginning. Its about the breakup of our band caused by outside forces I could no longer deal with. Might not be good for here but Im proud of the song as a whole so I'll post it. theres some good thoughts in there I think.
- - - - - - - - - - Time Heals / Time Steals - - - - - - - - -
Thinking back
looking ahead
Past controlling future
Stealing the needles thread
Blind ambition
and no ambition
is such a lethal mix
Someone outside looking in said
That must be how he gets
.. his
kicks
Well he said hed never sell his soul
but had to watch as it was stole
His time eroded mind exploded
as the dream lay quiverin on the ground
So he kicked it and slammed the door
crushing the dream
A leak in the seam
Striving for excellence
Polishing the steel
Following the chosen road
Hanging tight to the wheel
But there are leaders
And there are followers
And for each a man to bring him down
Christ had Judas
Caesar
Brutus
And the Earth reclaims its own
and the time that heals
is the time that steals
the vitality
from the aging hand
What becomes of the sane man
Ooooooh
.once he snaps ?
He tried to hold it down
But no one cut him slack
Now hes just the axe man
Aaaaah
That got axed
Hes tried to lay it down
But just keeps turning back
To tired to fight
His dreams fade from site
To proud to lay down
Hes got to bring it back
Climb back up the mountain
To the land of the ice and snow
Cut through the fog
Thats lyin low
To hear the roarin wind
And feel the sun that warms the bone
solo
So when the chips are down
Youve got to hold your ground
And believe
that when you build a dream
Youve got to follow through
You cant just lay it down
Cause someone tells you to
No you cant just lay them down !
Tapin resource
Polishin wood and steel
Stealin back
.the stolen soul
).
