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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 2, 2005 23:48:26 GMT -5
We all have heard songs that "touch our heart". Earlier in my life, I lived a much more "insecure" existance, and often did not know where I'd lay my head the following evening each morning when I woke up. I've always felt this song reflected the way I felt, and gives something to think about, no matter who you are, and what your position in life is. Perhaps it will affect your perspective the next time you turn your eyes away from that "unwanted" person sitting with a cardboard sign mired in his own loneliness...
Anthem To the Estranged Metal Church
Starved for destination, a beggar man by trade A desperate man needs more than someone else to blame Friendless he appears, he hides behind his tears For things he's lost, or things he'll never have at all The forgotten man wanders misplaced in the world Obscurity is all the eye can see, and I recall All alone again
As we pass on by and continue with our day Can we appraise the quality of life some other way? All alone again When you take a longer look at someone on the run You may see reflections of yourself becoming one Take an extra moment when you find yourself at peace To think about your values and your own affluency
Everything you've worked for and everything you've done May be thrown by the wayside, and you're not the only one Everything around you may seen worn and overused But imagine yourself removed from all that you're used to All alone again
Once an influential man, once was in his prime He spends his days repeating lines like "can you spare a dime?" Shunned by those loved you and by those who were your friends Can you adjust to a different life of living on the edge? The destitute find meaning in a different way of life The doorways that they dwell in are shelter in the night No shining crystal possessions set out for his display His purpose is to find the food to get him through the day All alone again
Roaming aimless through the streets of supply and demand Once a gypsy disconnected, no more, no future plans Self discarded king of ruin, worthless to the world Fight to keep his sanity, his voice is never heard
You may think him thoughtless and his mind is on a string He always seems to find a reason to him through the day All alone again
He staggers down the alley to drink his spirits by himself As he prays to God that he wakes up somewhere else
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 0:48:46 GMT -5
These lyrics speak for themselves....just another that touches my heart....
In Harms Way Metal Church
In the empty spaces of the mind, that's here I store my past A ghostly image that I fear has yet to be surpassed I pray that I won't carry all the pain 'till the end
No direction from your guardian, the one who should protect I'm innocent of their decisions, I wonder why dad left Every night I hide in bed and plan to run away...
A lonely child with battered eyes No joy in innocence they cry Always has to lie his way through life
I've fallen down while playing ball But mom beat me up and down the hall Just because she had one of those nights
Instinct to defend, where does it all end How does a child get himself out of harm's way? A lifelong price to pay
It's not that mommy hits that hurts me, it's when she goes away Get home from school all by myself and won't see her for days A kid deprived of love in life has no alternative in sight He throws up barriers to get him through A human life's a gift from God Your conscience and your heart are gone You're much to cruel to have a point of view
No one to turn to, oh, how dare you How does a child get himself out of harm's way? A price no one should pay
Can't you see the tears they're crying Don't you care your kids are dying? From the senseless torment that you put them through
There's different kinds of lies to tell Abuse is from the pit of hell A demon with a goal that is to kill
You better hear the words I say Deliverence may be far away You'll look like you have been run through the mill
Instinct to defend, where does it all end How does a child get himself out of harm's way? A lifelong price to pay
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:06:14 GMT -5
Damnation Fates Warning
Thousands of years, before the dawn of history. Ancient races tears, are flowing like a river to the sea. Where sacred river ran, white deer had roamed the land, brilliant twilight in our dreams.
Primitive child, your unforgotten tribe calls to you. Descendants we are one, the tangled maze is broken once again. A myth without a meaning, you shade the light from the seed. The earth and virgin soil watch it bleed. The earth and virgin soil.
Red, white, black, in city masses, corporate buildings spread like rashes, stacked upon each other forty high. Stabbed each other in the back, you money-hungry maniacs, dig up the earth and spit it in your eye.
To intrude this sacred land, where the mortals have been banned, where your own forefathers lie in rest. To disturb this mountain side, where in battle we did ride, and our warriors where they lie, the earth digest.
Hear our cry from down below, let our restive spirits go. You've trapped us in your world of sin, let the plague begin, Damnation. Your cities disappear, to earth's interior, don't you know you've got to let your spirits go, let 'em go. You've got to let those spirits go. Let 'em go! You've got to let your spirit go.
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:12:34 GMT -5
Painted Skies Crimson Glory
When she's sad the world is lonely Silver clouds are crying only For the pain she feels So deep inside
The love she thought would save her Has somehow now enslaved her To a dream she thought she wanted To come true
Spread your wings you can fly But the dove is never free In painted skies that shade the color Of your dream Only nightmares are real Confusion conceals the only reason For the feelings you can't hide
When she smiles the world it shines But the silver clouds are only there To hide the distant storm That's coming soon The love she let surround her Has become the waves that drown her In the sea of everchanging warmth and cold
Spread your wings you can fly But the dove is never free In painted skies that shade the color Of your dream Only nightmares are real Confusion conceals the only reason For the feelings you can't hide You can fly
Spread your wings you can die But the dove is never free In painted skies that shade the color Of your dream
When the nightmares ensue All that you can do is paint your sky Another brighter shade of blue
Spread your wings you can glide Above the violent storm That plague your life You paint the picture blue or grey
Fly away
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:16:44 GMT -5
In Dark Places Crimson Glory
Waves pound the gloomy shores, I watch them roll across my feet so warm I know she's waiting there for me In ancient rhymes she whispers in the wind a strange and haunting melody As it fills the silence, I feel the shivers cold embrace my soul From the deep she beckons me promising eternity In a world where nothing's real beyond this realm of light and dreams You, mystic moon it's you who rules the night breathing life into my dreams I see your face in nightmares shining bright So, it's fare to you my sunlit world so full of hate and misery You see I can't take it anymore From my sleep you beckon me promising eternity In your world of mystery to your realm of harmony In dark places In dark places we will be forever beyond the light In dark places we will be free from the pain that fills our lives Through arching moonbeams of light we glide in bending shadows of warm starlight Angels of colors light the night as they fly transcending into the electric sky In dark places In dark places we will be forever beyond the light In dark places we will be free from the pain that fills our lives In dark places we will be forever beyond the light In dark places we will see worlds we've always dreamed
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:23:28 GMT -5
"This Time Imperfect" AFI
(spoken) We held hands on the last night on earth. Our mouths filled with dust, we kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves. It was empty on the edge of town but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river. So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and the shattered seasons lay, and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease. In our cancer of passion you said, "Death is a midnight runner." The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide. We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress. The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop. The few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime. I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall, but you made me realize that my ticket wasn't good for two. I rode alone. You said, "The cinders are falling like snow." There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence. Of blue and grey. Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of the city. The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon and the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines. Still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message.
I cannot leave here, I cannot stay Forever haunted, more than afraid Asphyxiate on words I would say I'm drawn to a blackened sky as I turn blue
There are no flowers, no, not this time There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you, could I only speak, just how much this hurts me
I cannot stay here, I cannot leave Just like all I loved, I'm make believe Imagined heart, I disappear Seems... no one will appear here and make me real
There are no flowers, no, not this time There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you, could I only speak, just how much this hurts me
I'd tell you how it haunts me I'd tell you how it haunts me Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams I'd tell you how it haunts me Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams You don't care that it haunts me
There are no flowers, no, not this time There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you, could I only speak, just how much this hurts me Just how much this hurts me Just how much you...
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:26:03 GMT -5
"God Called In Sick Today" AFI
Lets admire the pattern forming Murderous filigree I'm caught in the twisting of the vine Go ascend with ivy, climbing Ignore and leave for me the headstone crumbling behind I cant help my laughter as she cries My soul brings tears to angelic eyes Lets amend the classic story, close it so beautifully, I'll let animosity unwind Steal away the darkened pages, hidden so shamefully I'll still feel the violence of the lines I cant stand my laughter as they cry My soul brings tears to angelic eyes And miles away my mother cries Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence.
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:31:16 GMT -5
"MorningStar" AFI
I saw a star beneath the stairs glowing through the melting walls. Who will be the first to begin their fall? Or will we become one?
Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am I a ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything?
I saw a star beneath the stairs glowing bright before descent and in the morning there is nothing left but what's inside of me.
Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am I a ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything?
And I don't want to die tonight; will you believe in me? And I don't want to fall into the light. Will you wish upon? Will you walk upon me? I don't want to die tonight. Will you believe in me tonight?
Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am I a ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything?
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:35:08 GMT -5
"Vampires Will Never Hurt You" My Chemical Romance
And if they get me and the sun goes down into the ground And if they get me take this spike to my heart and And if they get me and the sun goes down And if they get me take this spike and You put the spike in my heart
And if the sun comes up will it tear the skin right off our bones And then as razor sharp white teeth rip out our necks I saw you there Someone get me to the doctor, someone get me to a church Where they can pump this venom gaping hole And you must keep your soul like a secret in your throat And if they come and get me You put the spike in my heart
And if they get me and the sun goes down And if they get me take this spike and
Can you take this spike? Will it fill our hearts with thoughts of endless Night time sky Can you take this spike? Will it wash away this jet black feeling?
And now the nightclub set the stage for this they come in pairs she said We'll shoot back holy water like cheap whiskey they're always there Someone get me to the doctor, and someone call the nurse And someone buy me roses, and someone burned the church We're hanging out with corpses, and driving in this hearse And someone save my soul tonight, please save my soul
Can you take this spike? Will it fill our hearts with thoughts of endless Night time sky Can you take this spike? Will it wash away this jet black now?
And as these days watch over time, and as these days watch over time And as these days watch over us tonight
I'll never let them, I'll never let them I'll never let them hurt you not tonight I'll never let them, I can't forget them I'll never let them hurt you, I promise
Struck down, before our prime Before, you got off the floor Can you stake my heart? Can you stake my heart?
Can you stake my heart? Can you stake my heart? (And these thoughts of endless night bring us back into the light and this venom from my heart)
Can you stake my heart? Can you stake my heart? (And these thoughts of endless night bring us back into the light kill this venom from my heart)
Can you stake me before the sun goes down?
(And as always, innocent like roller coasters. Fatality is like ghosts in snow and you have no idea what you're up against because I've seen what they look like. Becoming perfect as if they were sterling silver chainsaws going cascading...)
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:38:25 GMT -5
"Headfirst for Halos" My Chemical Romance
Yeah!
Well let's go back to the middle of the day that starts it all I can't begin to let you know just what I'm feeling And now the red ones make me fly And the blue ones help me fall And I think I'll blow my brains against the ceiling And as the fragments of my skull begin to fall Fall on your tongue like pixie dust just think happy thoughts
And we'll fly home We'll fly home You and I We'll fly home
Come on!
Well now I'm back in the middle of the day that starts it all. I can't begin to let you know just what I'm feeling. And now these red ones make me fly, And the blue ones help me fall. And I think I'll blow my brains against the ceiling.
And we'll fly home, You and I, We'll fly home.
Now honestly that's what I said to her, what I said to her
Think happy thoughts [x8] Think ha... wooo!
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:40:11 GMT -5
"Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" My Chemical Romance
Late dawns and early sunsets, just like my favorite scenes Then holding hands and life was perfect, just like up on the screen And the whole time while always giving Counting your face among the living
Up and down escalators, pennies and colder fountains Elevators and half price sales, trapped in by all these mountains Running away and hiding with you I never thought they'd get me here Not knowing you changed from just one bite I fought them all off just to hold you close and tight
But does anyone notice? But does anyone care? And if I had the guts to put this to your head... But would anything matter if you're already dead? And should I be shocked now by the last thing you said? Before I pull this trigger, Your eyes vacant and stained...
But does anyone notice? But does anyone care? And if I had the guts to put this to your head... And would anything matter if you're already dead? And now should I be shocked by the last thing you said? Before I pull this trigger, Your eyes vacant and stained... And in saying you loved me, Made things harder at best, And these words changing nothing As your body remains, And there's no room in this hell, There's no room in the next, And our memories defeat us, And I'll end this direst.
But does anyone notice? But does anyone care? And if I had the guts to put this to your head... But does anything matter if you're already dead? And should I be shocked now by the last thing you said? Before I pull this trigger, Your eyes vacant and stained... And in saying you loved me, Made things harder at best, And these words changing nothing As your body remains, And there's no room in this hell, There's no room in the next, But does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed?
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:43:13 GMT -5
"This Love" Pantera
If ever words were spoken, painful and untrue. I said I loved, but I lied. In my life, all i wanted..was the keeping of someone like you. As it turns out, deeper within me, love was twisted and pointed at you. - Never ending pain. Quickly ending life -
You keep this Love Thing, Love Child, Love Toy! You keep this Love Fist, Love Scar, Love Break! You keep this Love!
I'd been tempting one, stole her from herself. This gift in pain, her pain was life. And sometimes, I feel so sorry, I regret this .. the hurting of you. But you make me .. so unhappy, I'd take my life and leave love with you. - I'd kill myself for you. I'd kill you for myself -
No .. more .. head ..trips!!
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:45:53 GMT -5
"Heart of Steel" Manowar
Build a fire a thousand miles away to light my long way home I ride a comet My trail is long to stay Silence is a heavy stone i fight the world and take all they can give There are times my heart hangs low Born to walk against the wind Born to hear my name No matter where I stand Im alone
Stand and fight Live by your heart
Always one more try Im not afraid to die Stand and fight Say what you feel Born with a heart of steel
Burn the bridge behind you Leave no retreat Theres only one way home Those who laugh and crowd the path and cut each others throats Well fall like melting snow Theyll watch us rise with fire in our eyes Theyll bow their heads Their hearts will hang low Then well laugh and they will kneel and know this heart of steel was Too hard to break Too hard to hold
Stand and fight Live by your heart Always one more try Im not afraid to die Stand and fight Say what you feel Born with a heart of steel
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:50:26 GMT -5
"Bloody Kisses" (A Death in the Family) Type O Negative
Not long ago but far away. A rainy winter's day. All her pain she kept inside. Could no longer hide. No cry for help. She killed herself. Both life & love could not be saved. She took them both to the grave.
A pair of souls become undone. Where were two now one. Divided by this wall of death. I soon will join you yet. With my blood I'll find your love. You found the strength to end your life. As you did so shall I.
Oh no. Please don't go. It's like a death in the family.
A crimson pool so warm & deep. Lulls me to an endless sleep. Your hand in mine - I will be brave. take me from this earth. An endless night - this, the end of life. From the dark I feel your lips. And I taste your bloody kiss.
Oh no. Please don't go. It's like a death in the family.
Don't die on me. Don't die on me. Don't die on me. Don't die.
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:52:06 GMT -5
"Suspended in Dusk" Type O Negative
"Damn me Father, for I must sin..." Four centuries of this damned immortality Yet, I did not ask to be made. Why? I will never again feel your sun upon my face Or the comfort of a grave I am not alive and I am not dead This is Hell on earth How can I possibly explain this eternal youth? When I can do nothing, but sit by As my loves grow old and wither And with each of them, take a fragment of my heart And prolong this endless winder It is October's perpetual agony It is the shadow realm Father, please forgive him For he knows not what to do With every victim I pray for my own death And as much as I love the night I curse the moon's eerie glow Tis bloodlust that drags me to forever The toxic rays of dawn that condemn me to limbo I am forced to dwell in grey Autumnal twilight I am suspended in dusk Father, please forgive him For he knows not what to do Father, please forgive him For he knows not what to do
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 19:55:27 GMT -5
"Moon over Bourbon Street" Sting
There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight I've no choice but to follow that call The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all I pray everyday to be strong For I know what I do must be wrong Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over Bourbon Street
It was many years ago that I became what I am I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb Now I can only show my face at noon And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over Bourbon Street
She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans She's innocent and young from a family of means I have stood many times outside her window at night To struggle with my instinct in the pale moon light How could I be this way when I pray to God above I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over Bourbon Street
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 20:01:15 GMT -5
"Return To Serenity" Testament
I'm gonna take you To a place far from here No one will see us Watch the pain as it disappears No time for anger No time for despair Won't you come with me There's a room for us there This innocent beauty My words can't describe This rebirth purity Brings a sullen tear right to your eyes No time for anger No time for despair Please let me take you 'cause I'm already there
I'm so alone My head's my home I'll return to serenity
Rhyme without reason is why children cry They see through the system That's breeding them just so they die So please let me take you And I'll show you the truth Inside my reality We shared in youth
I'm so alone My head's my home And I feel So alone You know At last I'll return to serenity
Now that I've taken you To a place far from here I really must go back Close your eyes and we'll disappear Won't you come with me Salvation we'll share Inside of my head now There's a room for us there
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 20:07:01 GMT -5
"Date With Poverty" Metal Church
I live my life the best I can, sometimes I need a change Losing all my marbles wasn't part of the game Existing day by day tormented by the telephone It's hard enough to live my life, why don't you live your own?
I pay out money with a check, I never use the cash Collectors closing in on me, is this some kind of test? Borrow is my middle name, the banks give graciously With interest rates that terrify, they knock you senselessly
Bounce a check, lie a bit, do without I'm in hiding, just leave me be This is the first step to my date with poverty
You sit there in your cushy job and call me on the phone You want my money and everything I own I'll pay you soon as I get paid, the check is in the mail Don't call my home anymore, I've long since jumped bail
Bounce a check, lie a bit, do without I'm in hiding, just leave me be This is the first step to my date with poverty I'm in hiding, just leave me be This is the first step to my date with poverty
Living on a shoestring daily, maybe I'll make some money maybe I hope to make a living someday, then I'll pay you what I owe you Then you'll get off my back!
Someday I'll get ahead of things and life will be so grand I'll buy a house down my the beach, stick my feet in the sand For now I'll do what I can do to keep this dream alive Until I win the lottery I must survive
Bounce a check, lie a bit, do without I'm in hiding, just leave me be This is the first step to my date with poverty I'm in hiding, just leave me be This is the first step to my date with poverty
I'm so fuckin' broke I can't even afford to pay attention Don't you know who I am? You got any food? I need a drink Aw, fuck you
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 20:10:29 GMT -5
"Ghost of Freedom" Iced Earth
Every time you think about it It tears you up inside You curse the day your mother told you, your father died Now you're always searching Searching for the reason why I've gone But I will always be here By your side, through the darkest night
Here I'll stand on the firing line Here I'll walk through the field where I died I will fight and let the voice ring true I am the ghost Standing next to you
Every night you go to sleep You pray the Lord my soul to keep You don't know I've not gone away You see I watch over fighting men So they can have peace again And maybe someday you will all be free
Here I'll stand on the firing line Here I'll walk through the field where I died I will fight and let the voice ring true I am the ghost Standing next to you
You speak to me And I feel your pride Assuring me I'll never die I write Mother... "He's here with me..." He's in our minds He's in our souls Of sacrifice his story's told He holds the flame of freedom for all to see
Here we stand on the firing line Here I'll walk in the field where I fight I will fight of die for liberty With the ghost standing next to me
Don't tread on me...live free or die!!! To our fallen brothers You died to keep us free To our fallen brothers Who gave us liberty
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Post by wyndwalker on Nov 3, 2005 20:12:35 GMT -5
"Dracula" Iced Earth
Do you believe in love? Do you believe in destiny? True love may come only once in a thousand lifetimes... I too have loved...they took her from me. I prayed for her soul....I prayed for her peace
When I close my eyes I see her face, it comforts me When I close my eyes Memories cut like a knife
The blood is the life, and Christ I defy. My sworn enemy...birth of a new creed.
Is this my reward for serving God's own war? The blood I've spilled for faith fulfilled. To damn her, a disgrace, you spit back in my face. I served you loyally, and you spew blasphemy.
I avenge with darkness, the blood is the life The Order of the Dragon, I feed on human life
There are far worse things awaiting man than death Come taste what I have seen I'm spreading my disease I will feed upon His precious child The human race will bleed, they will serve my need.
I avenge with darkness, the blood is the life The Order of the Dragon, I feed on human life
I am the Dragon of blood, a relentless prince of pain Renouncing God on His throne My blood is forever stained
For true love I shall avenge I defy the creed that damned her
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