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LYRICS! DROP EM HERE!

#221
Some of my lyrics can be found here:

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The MIDI files sound terrible, of course, but they are generated by the same software I use to typeset the music so they come along for the ride. You can at least get an idea what the song sounds like.
 
#223
An epic I call "Machines". I want to see what you think it is, and then I'll reveal the intended meaning.


MACHINES



BEHEMOTH
Hear it take it's baby steps,
It treads into a bright new day.
Forget the elder ways, old man,
This warrior's here to stay.

Forget your superstition.
Forget your indecision.
Bask in our triumph of ambition,
We've more stregnth than your religion....


LEVIATHAN
The hull is plated, tried and true.
The deck will hold thousands of you.
The quarters are a palace, we should know, we built them so.
No thing of earth could sink this ship, not even God, and so...

Sail on gentle traveller,
you'll have all the peace you need.
We've engineered for safety.
Take no caution, be wild and free.

Sail on gentle traveller,
don't even think of home.
Sail on gentle traveller,
sleep as the engines moan....


DRAGON (RAINMAKER)
Look at our little wonder, the work of all our energy.
It's filled with so much promise of what the world could be.
Agent of the war's demise, restorer of the peace.
We've made an earthly miracle, our fears can finally cease.

We'll make it rain redemption.
We'll make it rain with peace.
We'll pour out power that makes Heaven shake.
We'll make our own fears cease.

As we create,
the future waits,
the armies prove their worth.
We'll compensate,
it wont' be great,
just one more fire on the earth......



OFF THE REIGNS
....It's led to so much more, than we ever thought it might.
We never meant to elevate, the slaughter of a fight.
We were consumed by our own power,
and our arrogance was shown,
when we boasted of our strength,
now it's too late to atone.


IRON JAWS
....Trapped within the jaws,
of our demon of the sea,
stuck beneath the surface,
why could we never see,
our assurance in our makings,
grew to ignorance instead,
all the power we thought we had,
went straight to our heads.

Ironic, that a piece of ice,
could take down our great ship.
listen as the hole expands,
you can hear the rivets rip.
a simple portion of creation, set in place so long ago,
is the thing that brought our power down,
Oh, how our pride will come and go.



FIRE
....We poisoned it, the fragile earth.
We burned it all, the city's dirt.
We killed so many, millions strong.
We ended lives, put out their song.
We've made it rain a thousand fold,
the cost of all our pride.
Because we thought we could do no wrong,
people vainly died.





HISTORY LESSON
Nothing we can make.
Nothing we can take.
No way we can move,
Nothing we can prove.
We're just another creature,
in a universe so vast.
Sometimes we need to shut out the song,
and stay tied to the mast.
When we say we hold the power,
we are letting down our guard.
When they built that marvelous tower,
you know it only fell from the stars.
There's more to the picture
than either you or I can see.
And when we make ourselves supreme creator,
we are as blind as we can be.

-Daniel Graham, 2011
 
#226
Conversion to religion by extremists, recruiting naive believers to their unsettling cause?

BTW, I have a chorus/hook written:

Time, my valuable time,
Passing off behind us, once again to blind us.
Fate, my beautiful fate,
Rushing up to meet me, coming on to greet me now.
Love, my darling love,
Never one to waste it, don’t you wanna taste it?
Life, my dead end life,
Why should I care, not going anywhere.
 
#227
Nice Edhunter. As usual well written, and actually no....not at all.

The whole thing is about how when people put too much faith in technology, and their own works, it leads to their downfall. I use three examples.
The Atomic bomb, an unnamed war machine, and the Titanic to illustrate that fact.

-The bomb was going to end the war, bring peace, and was just going to be "one more fire on the earth", nothing big.

-The war machine was a powerful new weapon that generals had so much confidence in that they said they were stronger than anyone's God ("We have more stregnth than your religion") and that this new "Warrior" was perfect and blew away older ways.

-THe Titanic was supposedly "unsinkable". THe captain even said "Not even God could sink this ship". Everyone said that it was so safe that no one even needed to worry about anything.

-THe A bomb poisoned the earth, killed millions of Japanese, and launched the world into a future in which destroying all life on Earth was actually possible. Einstein apparently was so distraught with his E=MC^2 formula being used to develop it, he said he wished he'd never discovered it.

-The war machine (you could say it's either/both a reference to a futuristic war machine that becomes like a terminator or the thing in "9" that gradually wipes out humanity, or a tank, which increased the death toll of wars by a drastic amount, and threw the world into the plane of modern warfare.) goes out of the generals original controlled concept, and becomes a commonplace mass killer in war.

-THe Titanic, as we all know, was struck down by a piece of ice, something so simple, even if gigantic and impressive, and was just one natural part of creation. The boat not even God could sink (according to its captain) was taken out by a block of ice.

The whole thing is tied together in a history lesson, as I call it. I use allusions to the Odessy and the Biblical tower of babel. THe end talks about that we as humanity should be meek in our accomplishments, resist the allure of too much technology, be cautious to keep control of the things we already have made, and to not think that we are gods, or try to play God by asserting our supremacy on the world. We are only human, and need to be careful.
 
#228
Believe it or not, this whole thing started when I was fooling around on the orchestra hit effect on my keyboard, and discovered that when you go really low and dischorded, and make a staggering rhtyhm with it, it sounds like a multiple ton robot walking. :D
 
#229
Haven't been here for a while, so I thought I'd check back in with you guys. OP might like this one. If I recall correctly, you're pretty religious. Here's one that uses some religious symbolism (despite my being an atheist, Christianity has some amazing artistic connotations to a lot the symbolism and growing up in a primarily Catholic household, I often see the romanticized side of it).

Paradisio

'Tis an embarrassment of riches
Upon the devil's spear
For demons fly across the sky
As apocalypse grows near
And angels fall without their wings
No more do golden heavens sing
No evangelic bells to ring
To awaken their great and mighty king

Satan laughs at the expense of earth
Humans delve into sinful lives
But demons fall before the sun
Giving heed to heaven's rise
As angels fly in upon wings
To hear the golden heavens sing
With great angelic bells to ring
Come forth, O mighty king

'Tis a day of ruin and power
As the doomsday clock does strike the hour
Upon this day the Earth will rise
And heaven's light meets mortal eyes
Satan falls back to Aghartan gate
Meeting a true devil's fate
Sealed beneath the earthen ground
Hell is lost, but heaven found
 
#230
I wrote this one about bass and drums and the rhythm section of a band in general. It was written with the intention of being rapped, seeing as how the lead singer of the band I'm in used to be a rapper.

I feel the pulse
It shakes
It moves
Can you feel the tempo?
Move your body to the groove?
It's rarely heard
But always felt
You know it's there
It's in the air
It moves you
Twists your body to a beat
A rhythm
Body and mind are lost
Biochemical schism
The music tears you up
You don't know where you are
But the bass brings you home
The drums know where you are
You move
To the groove
Rock steady and smooth
Silence hits
And you quit
But when the bass drums kicks
You're losing it

Author's note: the "it's rarely heard" line doesn't reflect my own feelings of the "bass should be felt not heard" philosophy. It's more of a satire because we play pretty heavy rock music and bass is downplayed so much, so the song is kind of saying that despite what anyone may think, it really is the core of most music.
 
#231
That's epic. I like it a lot. And you are certainly right. What is more powerful than the act of Jesus Christ sacrificing Himself for humanity's salvation, or the image of God finally destroying Satan? Even if you don't believe in it, those things are incredible. (as a Christian, I have opinions on the reasons why these things fascinate us all, but you'll have to PM me to talk about them. The mods don't take kindly to religious disscussion. ;))

But yeah, I like it a ton.
 
#233
Not lyrics, per se, but it sees my return to war and was written in about 10 minutes in my English class yesterday:

THE AFTERMATH

Half-there bodies under burning skies.
Naught but death to meet the eyes.
The ground below turned to mud,
As rivers run red with blood.

As high above the shells will whistle,
Die side-by-side both rose and thistle.
In death alone all are one,
To ride into the setting sun.

Yet crowds will cheer whilst mothers cry,
As boys too old to live and too young to die,
Lie still now 'neath the fire,
All around their funeral pyre.

This death was not in vain, so they say,
For we are free another day.
But they care not, their ears now deaf,
As freedom came at price of death.
 
#238
Whoa, that might've come off wrong. I said I've seen it does to people, not that I've been there. Hell, I'm just a kid. I saw what it did to my grandpa. He still has the occasional flashback to Vietnam. They said he had what everyone else had, post-traumatic stress disorder or something along those lines. The only stories I've heard are from my father because any time someone mentions war around my grandpa, he just goes dead silent and doesn't move for a few minutes, just staring into space. My dad heard stories from letters sent home by my grandpa. One story my dad told me is that my grandpa and his best friend had enlisted together and went off to Vietnam together in the same group. They were running through a jungle back to the rest of their guys together when a mortar went off. There were two foxholes, so they each jumped into one. My grandpa's friend landed in the one that was loaded with mines. It's a horrible situation I could never even dare to think about.
 
#240
Sorry Ed, WWI. Still, it's one of the two great wars. I wasn't THAT far off. :p Man, I'm listening to Foxtrot by Genesis and IT'S AWESOME!!!

And I'm editing Machines a bit in format. I think the purpose would be better served musically to go "Behemoth", "Leviathan", "Dragon (Rainmaker)", then their effects in that order.
 

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