The Lyrics Are Done!
Alright, phase 1:
Here are all the lyrics to my album. I would be appreciative of feedback on them, but they're pretty set at this point. All the same, I'd be down with knowing what people like and what people don't! :-)
1) Freya
Pick up your guns, stand up and fight
No rest for you, you are the wicked one inside
No one for you to talk down to
Get off your cross, you're not the only one who's died
Lost sister, someone's child
Did the world now, go and steal your innocence?
Feel me? Are you with me?
Maybe next time, you could try and relate to me
Push it out
Bleed it out
Feel the stone leave my hands
At the riverside
Pick up your life, stand up and fight
No rest for you, your are everyone inside
The world, your sight
Your soul for everything tonight
Too many hearts are in my hands
Bleeding sweetly, oh so sweetly
Gotta be careful, sick of headtrips and power struggles
Gotta be strong as rock and let the waves break against me
No more shit, no more shit, no more shit
I followed you, but you were not for me
And all Valhalla's walls, oh, can't be as thick as they seem
So tell me no lies, my talons will tear deep
The rivers that I swim, they run as deep as they seem
Pick up your guns, fight for your life
Before there's nothing left inside
Before all that you're remembered by
Is the lust you left behind
This anger, spilling over
Self-serving, keeps dragging me under
Only you, make me this way
My demons, clawing out of chest now
Hate is love
Gotta remember
My higher self
By the second tide
Gotta remember!
Gotta remember!
Gotta remember!
'Cuz the water's high
I followed you, but you were not for me
And all Valhalla's walls, oh, can't be as thick as they seem
Deep enough to drown, deep enough to drown
Could never trust again, could never trust again
2) Scratch
Coming to meaning, farther from feeling
Nothing to show now for all of the bleeding
Cover the reason, fall from the ceiling
Hitting the ground with four feet and freezing
Trickster with too many faces
Harlequin just another clown
Temptress turned one trick too many
Guess I gotta figure what do I do now?
What am I gonna be doin' when the world falls down?
Where am I gonna be standin' when the lines get drawn?
Who's heart am I gonna be stealin' just to make myself feel loved?
And what do I do with this feeling that I just wanna fucking
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
Scratch out your memory!
'Cuz I need to believe in things you're not seeing
Unlock the mask and see what you're concealing
I'm tired of kneeling knocked back and reeling
Sinners abound and there's no use in grieving
For all of the evil, for all of the people
Who hurt and who die, just hear what they're singing:
Rain, rain, go away, I'll drown some other day
Just make her fade away, I'm all I need to be
Rain, rain, go away, the whore has gone to play
Just make her feel the same, torn eyes to see it plain
Rain, rain, go away, I'll drown some other day
Just make her fade away, I'm all I need to be
I need you
Why did you leave?
Why?
Why?
How could you do this?
What's wrong with you?
What did you think would happen?
You never loved me
You never loved me anyway
What am I gonna be doin' when the world falls down?
Where am I gonna be standin' when the lines get drawn?
Who's heart am I gonna be stealin' just to make myself feel loved?
And what do I do with this feeling that I just wanna fucking
I need you
Why?
Why?
WHY?!
How dare you?
What were you thinking?
Fucking whore
You never loved me
Rain, rain, go away, I'll drown some other day
Just make her fade away, I'm all I need to be
Rain, rain, go away, the whore has gone to play
Just make her feel the same, torn eyes to see it plain
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
Scratch out your memory!
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
Scratch out your memory!
Once upon a time we were happy
Now that time has passed
Once upon a time I loved you
Now that time is gone
3) Weather
Now I'm standing at the frantic pace
Covered in this bitter taste
With all the things you can't erase
Wish I'd known what I had got into
And I may regret the raven's nest
But in the end it's for the best
Tie my hands I'll still pass your test
And stronger walk away from you
Bloody weather leaves me breathless
And all I hear is the fucking madness
All your smug little words, so vicious now
Are the reasons why we can't work this out
But now you're standing at the frantic pace
The shock on your face
Tells me that
You weren't where you should have been
The walls that we built up
They just don't make a home
The apartment we stand in
Is colder than stone
Now your world is crashing down (down)
As I walk away from you
Still I pray that you find him (pray that you find him)
Despite it all I still care for you
Bloody weather leaves me breathless
And all I hear is the fucking madness
All your smug little words, so vicious now
Are the reasons why we can't work this out
But I could not give up
No I could never give up
'Cuz I never was sure
I wan never quite sure
But I'll bet that you knew
I'd roll the dice that you knew
That I'm not the one (no I'm not the one)
That all this would end (that we would end)
That I'm not the one (no)
And we will never be this way again
Bloody weather leaves me breathless
And all I hear is the fucking madness
All your smug little words, so vicious now
Are the reasons why we can't work this out
4) Positivity
Yeah
For every person this reaches
This album's for something different
There's enough hate out there; enough pain, enough fear
Nonspace is the generative clearing
Hold this space for something new
Be in the present moment
And open yourself
Positivity
Samsara surrounds
This world's been bringin' you down
Haven't talked in a while
Your voice holds more than it sounds
Di'know how much left to say
But karma's bringin' a space
Find the hard way this time
Tomorrow I'll still find my place
And now we're flirting again
Knowing too well where it ends
At the tremble I hear
I miss the touch of your hands
Hear your laughter like bells
I know I know nothing else
Learn the mistakes of the past
This time I'm keeping myself
And when it flows
The world just falls to place
Some days it seems so easy, what it is to be
There's already days
When I can fade it away
True we'd been flowing together
But I'm not sure that you'll stay
Even if "all this is one"
The paths we've left are so long
Thinkin' we'll travel together
Gives me the strength to go on
I'd rather follow than stay
But no one's showing the way
So I'm just takin' the lead
Spendin' it lonely today
Thought that had ended with you
Trustin' in faith sees me through
You mean too much for goodbye
Hoping that you'll see it too
And when it flows
The world just falls to place
Some days it seems so easy, what it is to be
And when it comes,
The sparks still jump on my fingers
When it's gone I'm not sure that it ever was
So all that's left is to be in this moment
Remember now, and make this world sing
So all that's left is to be in this moment
Remember now, and make this world sing
Make this world sing
Make this world sing
For you
Make this world sing
Make this world sing
For you
5) Hello
I am a child
I am the need
I am the faces in my dreams
I am the world
I am the skies
I am the truth disguised in lies
I am the prey
I am the beast
I am the prayer
I am the priest
I am the monk
I am the king
I am it all and I am nothing
Do me no favors
Just do me no favors
I love you all
Hello I'm emptiness I hoe you are my teacher will you stay
Teach me of tenderness and all the ways that we are one
I burn in effigy for all the hells I've put my lovers through
But that's okay I'll be alright, It helps them find a better place
We all need a better place
Find a place to get away
Realize that we are one
And fill our lives with compassion
I am alone
I am with me
I am the word and I am he
I am the fool
I am the sun
I am the stars and I am no one
I am the air
I am the earth
I am the death, I am rebirth
I am the shore
I am the sea
I'm everything and I am complete
Do me no favors
Just do me no favors
I love you all
Do me no favors
Just do me no favors
I don't deserve your kindness anymore
I love you all
6) A Thousand I Love You's
Once I wrote a thousand 'Ilove you's
No, I'm serious
Take a sheet of paper
Fold, fold, fold, fold
Cut along the edges, and cut that into thirds
Repeat that twenty more times
Throw out the last 8 squares from the pile in front of you
Suddenly you've got exactly 1000 tiny slips of paper
Find a thousand different ways to write the same phrase over and over and over again
Focus on the feeling so it doesn't lose it's meaning…
(Then put them in a box
and give them as a gift
the last time I saw you, you still had them)
Somewhere around 900 I convinced myself it was true
I'm sorry
7) Find A Way
I thought I lost the touch I feel, the hand upon my face
The trust it takes to lie right here is all that I can taste
When all the world around us screams in love and agony
How strange it is to find out that salvation's in our hands
And I was haunting for something deep inside of me
When all I wanted was to sleep beneath your roots
So, six feet under and sick from lack of empathy,
I sing my eulogy, a wake upon my grave
Prayers may go unanswered, but they'll bury me beside my love
When fires have burned to ashes, at the greying of the years
You can still walk away from me, still find a way
For now just sit and stay with me and watch this world…
This world… this world end
8) Chrysanthemums
The first words I said to you were
"This is not where friendship ends"
But then you had to go and
Try my patience, my friend
Blooming chrysanthemums are
What she reminds me of and
All I want's to hold her close
When dreams have fled away from us
Find me
In a better place
Auburn hair and eyes that
Shine in any light
A passion burning deeper than
You or I would like
Explosive combinations
We've already left behind
Only time will tell now that the
Complication's gone
So find me
I'm in a better place
And maybe when it's down on me
You might just still be worth it in the end
I don't know
What it coulda been
But I know that gonna be I'm down with it
Shoulda been
Simpler
But the empty fears confounded it
Two of them
Circling
But the key isn't surroundin' it
Slippin' in
Troublin'
But I'm not gonna drown in it
I found a razor but the blade just wasn't sound and it
said the reason for my need stems from the cuts that I
subdivided into lines of my ego to lift
up from the mirror of my eyes, now take and run with it
'cuz I am the body that knows no bounds
And I would be happy if you'd stay 'round
'cuz I am the body that knows no bounds
And I would be happy if you'd stay 'round
Auburn hair and eyes that
Shine in any light
The girl I'm looking for looks like
Chrysanthemums tonight
And I'll find her
In a better place
9) Rien
Led myself astray
These walls are closing in
I've made this world SHIT
I'm tearing off my own skin
I want your sympathies
Want all the love you have to give
I'll cut my tongue in two
To say the words to get you here
I am, and all of my life I've been
Just a liar trying to play like I'm superman
Rien, I'll die before I take you there
I'm no hero, just a child and an innocent
And my life isn't all that I want it to be
But my tears are the birthplace of sanctity
Feel heart beat
Feel blood flow… Remember
That finally I'm alive
The wheel came round again
One step closer to enlightenment
I've only got a thousand more lives to live
Spinning into infinity
Why the hell shouldn't the sun circle round?
Am I any less God than a deity?
Compassion and peace are at my right hand
I am, and all of my life I've been
Just a liar trying to play like I'm superman
Rien, I'll die before I take you there
I'm no hero, just a child and an innocent
And my life isn't all that I want it to be
But my tears are the birthplace of sanctity
Attachment is the root of all suffering
Breath
You are all you'll ever need
Everyone is already all they'll ever need
Just remember
Lord, and I was born to be
The holy infantry, shepherd of enemies
Rien, there's nothing left for me
Halos and destinies, this world has set me free
Rien, this world has set me free!
Get ready
It's coming back around!
Here are all the lyrics to my album. I would be appreciative of feedback on them, but they're pretty set at this point. All the same, I'd be down with knowing what people like and what people don't! :-)
1) Freya
Pick up your guns, stand up and fight
No rest for you, you are the wicked one inside
No one for you to talk down to
Get off your cross, you're not the only one who's died
Lost sister, someone's child
Did the world now, go and steal your innocence?
Feel me? Are you with me?
Maybe next time, you could try and relate to me
Push it out
Bleed it out
Feel the stone leave my hands
At the riverside
Pick up your life, stand up and fight
No rest for you, your are everyone inside
The world, your sight
Your soul for everything tonight
Too many hearts are in my hands
Bleeding sweetly, oh so sweetly
Gotta be careful, sick of headtrips and power struggles
Gotta be strong as rock and let the waves break against me
No more shit, no more shit, no more shit
I followed you, but you were not for me
And all Valhalla's walls, oh, can't be as thick as they seem
So tell me no lies, my talons will tear deep
The rivers that I swim, they run as deep as they seem
Pick up your guns, fight for your life
Before there's nothing left inside
Before all that you're remembered by
Is the lust you left behind
This anger, spilling over
Self-serving, keeps dragging me under
Only you, make me this way
My demons, clawing out of chest now
Hate is love
Gotta remember
My higher self
By the second tide
Gotta remember!
Gotta remember!
Gotta remember!
'Cuz the water's high
I followed you, but you were not for me
And all Valhalla's walls, oh, can't be as thick as they seem
Deep enough to drown, deep enough to drown
Could never trust again, could never trust again
2) Scratch
Coming to meaning, farther from feeling
Nothing to show now for all of the bleeding
Cover the reason, fall from the ceiling
Hitting the ground with four feet and freezing
Trickster with too many faces
Harlequin just another clown
Temptress turned one trick too many
Guess I gotta figure what do I do now?
What am I gonna be doin' when the world falls down?
Where am I gonna be standin' when the lines get drawn?
Who's heart am I gonna be stealin' just to make myself feel loved?
And what do I do with this feeling that I just wanna fucking
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
Scratch out your memory!
'Cuz I need to believe in things you're not seeing
Unlock the mask and see what you're concealing
I'm tired of kneeling knocked back and reeling
Sinners abound and there's no use in grieving
For all of the evil, for all of the people
Who hurt and who die, just hear what they're singing:
Rain, rain, go away, I'll drown some other day
Just make her fade away, I'm all I need to be
Rain, rain, go away, the whore has gone to play
Just make her feel the same, torn eyes to see it plain
Rain, rain, go away, I'll drown some other day
Just make her fade away, I'm all I need to be
I need you
Why did you leave?
Why?
Why?
How could you do this?
What's wrong with you?
What did you think would happen?
You never loved me
You never loved me anyway
What am I gonna be doin' when the world falls down?
Where am I gonna be standin' when the lines get drawn?
Who's heart am I gonna be stealin' just to make myself feel loved?
And what do I do with this feeling that I just wanna fucking
I need you
Why?
Why?
WHY?!
How dare you?
What were you thinking?
Fucking whore
You never loved me
Rain, rain, go away, I'll drown some other day
Just make her fade away, I'm all I need to be
Rain, rain, go away, the whore has gone to play
Just make her feel the same, torn eyes to see it plain
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
Scratch out your memory!
SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
Scratch out your memory!
Once upon a time we were happy
Now that time has passed
Once upon a time I loved you
Now that time is gone
3) Weather
Now I'm standing at the frantic pace
Covered in this bitter taste
With all the things you can't erase
Wish I'd known what I had got into
And I may regret the raven's nest
But in the end it's for the best
Tie my hands I'll still pass your test
And stronger walk away from you
Bloody weather leaves me breathless
And all I hear is the fucking madness
All your smug little words, so vicious now
Are the reasons why we can't work this out
But now you're standing at the frantic pace
The shock on your face
Tells me that
You weren't where you should have been
The walls that we built up
They just don't make a home
The apartment we stand in
Is colder than stone
Now your world is crashing down (down)
As I walk away from you
Still I pray that you find him (pray that you find him)
Despite it all I still care for you
Bloody weather leaves me breathless
And all I hear is the fucking madness
All your smug little words, so vicious now
Are the reasons why we can't work this out
But I could not give up
No I could never give up
'Cuz I never was sure
I wan never quite sure
But I'll bet that you knew
I'd roll the dice that you knew
That I'm not the one (no I'm not the one)
That all this would end (that we would end)
That I'm not the one (no)
And we will never be this way again
Bloody weather leaves me breathless
And all I hear is the fucking madness
All your smug little words, so vicious now
Are the reasons why we can't work this out
4) Positivity
Yeah
For every person this reaches
This album's for something different
There's enough hate out there; enough pain, enough fear
Nonspace is the generative clearing
Hold this space for something new
Be in the present moment
And open yourself
Positivity
Samsara surrounds
This world's been bringin' you down
Haven't talked in a while
Your voice holds more than it sounds
Di'know how much left to say
But karma's bringin' a space
Find the hard way this time
Tomorrow I'll still find my place
And now we're flirting again
Knowing too well where it ends
At the tremble I hear
I miss the touch of your hands
Hear your laughter like bells
I know I know nothing else
Learn the mistakes of the past
This time I'm keeping myself
And when it flows
The world just falls to place
Some days it seems so easy, what it is to be
There's already days
When I can fade it away
True we'd been flowing together
But I'm not sure that you'll stay
Even if "all this is one"
The paths we've left are so long
Thinkin' we'll travel together
Gives me the strength to go on
I'd rather follow than stay
But no one's showing the way
So I'm just takin' the lead
Spendin' it lonely today
Thought that had ended with you
Trustin' in faith sees me through
You mean too much for goodbye
Hoping that you'll see it too
And when it flows
The world just falls to place
Some days it seems so easy, what it is to be
And when it comes,
The sparks still jump on my fingers
When it's gone I'm not sure that it ever was
So all that's left is to be in this moment
Remember now, and make this world sing
So all that's left is to be in this moment
Remember now, and make this world sing
Make this world sing
Make this world sing
For you
Make this world sing
Make this world sing
For you
5) Hello
I am a child
I am the need
I am the faces in my dreams
I am the world
I am the skies
I am the truth disguised in lies
I am the prey
I am the beast
I am the prayer
I am the priest
I am the monk
I am the king
I am it all and I am nothing
Do me no favors
Just do me no favors
I love you all
Hello I'm emptiness I hoe you are my teacher will you stay
Teach me of tenderness and all the ways that we are one
I burn in effigy for all the hells I've put my lovers through
But that's okay I'll be alright, It helps them find a better place
We all need a better place
Find a place to get away
Realize that we are one
And fill our lives with compassion
I am alone
I am with me
I am the word and I am he
I am the fool
I am the sun
I am the stars and I am no one
I am the air
I am the earth
I am the death, I am rebirth
I am the shore
I am the sea
I'm everything and I am complete
Do me no favors
Just do me no favors
I love you all
Do me no favors
Just do me no favors
I don't deserve your kindness anymore
I love you all
6) A Thousand I Love You's
Once I wrote a thousand 'Ilove you's
No, I'm serious
Take a sheet of paper
Fold, fold, fold, fold
Cut along the edges, and cut that into thirds
Repeat that twenty more times
Throw out the last 8 squares from the pile in front of you
Suddenly you've got exactly 1000 tiny slips of paper
Find a thousand different ways to write the same phrase over and over and over again
Focus on the feeling so it doesn't lose it's meaning…
(Then put them in a box
and give them as a gift
the last time I saw you, you still had them)
Somewhere around 900 I convinced myself it was true
I'm sorry
7) Find A Way
I thought I lost the touch I feel, the hand upon my face
The trust it takes to lie right here is all that I can taste
When all the world around us screams in love and agony
How strange it is to find out that salvation's in our hands
And I was haunting for something deep inside of me
When all I wanted was to sleep beneath your roots
So, six feet under and sick from lack of empathy,
I sing my eulogy, a wake upon my grave
Prayers may go unanswered, but they'll bury me beside my love
When fires have burned to ashes, at the greying of the years
You can still walk away from me, still find a way
For now just sit and stay with me and watch this world…
This world… this world end
8) Chrysanthemums
The first words I said to you were
"This is not where friendship ends"
But then you had to go and
Try my patience, my friend
Blooming chrysanthemums are
What she reminds me of and
All I want's to hold her close
When dreams have fled away from us
Find me
In a better place
Auburn hair and eyes that
Shine in any light
A passion burning deeper than
You or I would like
Explosive combinations
We've already left behind
Only time will tell now that the
Complication's gone
So find me
I'm in a better place
And maybe when it's down on me
You might just still be worth it in the end
I don't know
What it coulda been
But I know that gonna be I'm down with it
Shoulda been
Simpler
But the empty fears confounded it
Two of them
Circling
But the key isn't surroundin' it
Slippin' in
Troublin'
But I'm not gonna drown in it
I found a razor but the blade just wasn't sound and it
said the reason for my need stems from the cuts that I
subdivided into lines of my ego to lift
up from the mirror of my eyes, now take and run with it
'cuz I am the body that knows no bounds
And I would be happy if you'd stay 'round
'cuz I am the body that knows no bounds
And I would be happy if you'd stay 'round
Auburn hair and eyes that
Shine in any light
The girl I'm looking for looks like
Chrysanthemums tonight
And I'll find her
In a better place
9) Rien
Led myself astray
These walls are closing in
I've made this world SHIT
I'm tearing off my own skin
I want your sympathies
Want all the love you have to give
I'll cut my tongue in two
To say the words to get you here
I am, and all of my life I've been
Just a liar trying to play like I'm superman
Rien, I'll die before I take you there
I'm no hero, just a child and an innocent
And my life isn't all that I want it to be
But my tears are the birthplace of sanctity
Feel heart beat
Feel blood flow… Remember
That finally I'm alive
The wheel came round again
One step closer to enlightenment
I've only got a thousand more lives to live
Spinning into infinity
Why the hell shouldn't the sun circle round?
Am I any less God than a deity?
Compassion and peace are at my right hand
I am, and all of my life I've been
Just a liar trying to play like I'm superman
Rien, I'll die before I take you there
I'm no hero, just a child and an innocent
And my life isn't all that I want it to be
But my tears are the birthplace of sanctity
Attachment is the root of all suffering
Breath
You are all you'll ever need
Everyone is already all they'll ever need
Just remember
Lord, and I was born to be
The holy infantry, shepherd of enemies
Rien, there's nothing left for me
Halos and destinies, this world has set me free
Rien, this world has set me free!
Get ready
It's coming back around!