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#157444 by azuritereaction
Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:18 am
Anyone here write thier own songs? I'd like to share some of mine; to be honest, not to sound too fanboyish, but my general writing style is partly influenced by some of Devin's works.

What I mean by this is that in most music today, there are SO MANY songs nowadays that seem to just be cheesy love songs, cheesy "i'm angsty and angry" songs, emo "oh god my girlfriend left me so i must kill myself" songs, and generally most songs nowadays on mainstream waves are very generic in emotions, topics, rather cookie cutter.

When I listen to Devin's lyrics, yes, they do sometimes touch upon themes of love and anger and such, but they seem much more "real" than the rest of the stuff you hear on the radio, and at the same time, they are very abstract, very surrealistic lyrics that you can interpret many, many meanings from.

Again, not trying to suck up to Dev at all; just saying my honest opinion. :)

This is why i'd like to post some of my lyrics, not trying to advertise myself, but it's because I feel that my writing style was partially influenced by Devin's ability to do this (along with a few other musicians whose lyrical style I really like), so I felt it wouldn't be that bad if I posted some of my stuff here.

I don't intend this to be a topic for just me though; that's why i'm wanting other people to post their lyrics too, maybe we can all critique each other's, say what we felt their songs were about, etc. and just have a general discussion about it.

If this isn't something Dev or Tracy wants, by all means close it though, of course.

If it's not closed by this time tomorrow, i'll assume it's ok to post some of my lyrics :P

#157478 by Grimview
Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:52 am
I'm in... as soon as I get some new ones, I'll throw 'em up. Might be a while, but it shouldn't be more than a week or two.

#157537 by travelyan
Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:21 pm
why so paranoid

share

#157542 by Deathcom7000
Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:36 pm
Yeah, I dont think theres any reason to be worried (unless maybe one of us STEALS YOUR LYRICS!! Nah, kidding).

#157549 by azuritereaction
Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:43 pm
? I hope you guys weren't saying I was paranoid, i'm all for sharing my lyrics; the only reason i wouldn't is if it were against the rules of the board for some reason.

Here's a few to start off with;

(and obvious note, just like Dev's music, just because the song may talk about rape or killing or violence or other issues, doesn't mean i'd actually GO OUT and rape or kill someone.)

Most of the songs I make I do when i'm half asleep, thus giving them an abstract, very bizarre feel; if you want me to write out the meanings (at least to me when I made them) of what each song's about, I will, but at first i'd rather you guys tell me what you feel they're about.

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silver cylinder (the title'll be in bold first, and then the song.)

silver lined, bloom
shuffle you in the room
thoughts coming, to you

where are you at, today
the world sent you away
the flowers gone
they all moved on
where did you go, today

the, light, seemingly gone
don't, lose, hope
i saw where it's gone

you never see
what's clearly in front of me

pretty well, pretty well,
i never saw how
you could have fell
fell and saw the other side
i wish i could have saved you
where will you be, today

inside the curtains
covered the blinds
living with your own kind

so where are you at today
why'd they take, you away
to never see
the shining trees
and all of it faded...

away...

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human walls

affixed in place
six sided face
cubes, they surround me

bizarre human trait
as if we have the gait
and yet we all, just settle

the enterprise
without human eyes
will crumble in the acid rain

reality's defined
by all human kind
there's so much we cannot be

so we settle down
chains in the ground
and resign, to the simple days

could we learn to rule
without barbaric tools
maybe you can teach them...

goodnight

-------------------
disturbed vacancy

As he turns around
feeling that silent sound
something stirs within him

those leisurely eyes
hide a silken prize
that no one wants to win

unbinding towers
destruction brings showers
of primitive epiphany

as he breaks the barrier
his innocence's carrier
the golden death awaits him...

time to compensate the masses

-------------------
gone

tiles fall back down into place
through the sky from the human race

settling back on the ground and sea
no one to witness this epiphany

only beings left are just those
risen above paltry poetry and prose

the end of time is only speculation
but it's relative to others,
logging us for fascination

no more sky
and no more earth
nothing exists anymore
to human's fleeting worth

no more time
and no more love
feelings and entropy
don't exist when push comes to shove

star's golden drops pour down to burn the soul
they all miss and hit the universe and fall in the hole

darkness absolute where time stood still
the well deepens too fast to even feel a thrill

time moves on and life drags on yeah
for all other beings

but human kind gave up the fight
even if they weren't willing

no more sky
and no more earth
nothing exists anymore
to human's fleeting worth

no more time
and no more love
feelings and entropy
don't exist when push comes to shove

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souls in the spin cycle

from my consciousness
there's a block, in this
sapping, the flow
of my unconscious mind

beat and the bass i feel
i'll reinvent the wheel
when i dream it up
passing judgement from on high

do you understand
wakarimasen

don't seem to comprehend

do you understand
wakarimasen

some advice my way, could you send

dr. phil says to do these things
jump through hoops and rings
can anyone
ignore themselves

stacking up bodily debts all day
working your soul away
and yet you wanna just pay yourself off
the world will still spin

flying into your cage
a commoner on the stage
everyone is waiting for a show tonight
so why don't they take a look in the mirror

do you understand
wakarimasen

don't seem to comprehend

do you understand
wakarimasen

some advice my way, could you send

well i don't seem to comprehend
well i don't seem to comprehend
well i don't seem to comprehend

do you understand
wakarimasen

don't seem to comprehend

do you understand
wakarimasen

some advice my way, could you send

sorry to see that you've shrouded your blinds
covered up the kids and their kind
sheltering your mind and soul
press the button to continue your spin cycle

seeing through them...
you became one of them...

*NOTE*: wakarimasen means "i don't understand" in japanese. phonetically, it also rhymes with "understand", but with two more syllables.

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reality

dream state
awake too late
slip off into
fantasies

reality is affected
and redirected
depending on who you ask

you can shape it and bend it
mend it and break it
define it as nothing you want
or all you desire

hallucination, hallucination
hallucination
seeing another place
exist in this waste
of your mind

prominent life
you had a wife
she left you
so long ago

you started down the stairs
without any care
and let them
turn into a slide

into a slide

hallucination, hallucination
hallucination
seeing another place
exist in this waste
of your mind

don't wake up
just live here
everyone is happy

your families here
they won't ever leave
this place
is all
your own

you can never leave here

hallucination, hallucination
hallucination
seeing another place
exist in this waste
of your mind

never leave us, never leave them
a castle that locked you up
for safety from reality

-------------------
roaded observer

going
walking
down a path that has no end

the clouds and trees
sigh at me
and i walk on anyways

creatures around me
relaxing peacefully
end of the day has come

the moon's floating
in the sea of consciousness
stars, seem to sway, lackadaisical

cycle repeats around me
circadian rhythm
matches the moon and sun

this can go on
forever...

-------------------
leeching thier memories

read my lips
my eyes are slits
staring at you
i'll leave this
i'll leave you

you come back
get off me
i'm sick of this
i'm sick of this
sick of this

don't even grin
your sexual side begins
it comes and goes
never leaves, constant flow
get it away from me

it's seductive and you know it
portraying that sexuality
should be criminality
so don't even fake it
don't even fake it

get away from us
from us

-------------------
breaking you

darkness is a fetish
lack of control I brandish

look into my eyes
your future lies in your sighs

don't try to escape
all that waits is your fate

pick submission or dominance
either is
a fantasy

imagine another you
spreading influence

yes you do

a grip on your shoulders
returns your body to me

you shake your head
but your soul flees

to me
to me
you give in
you want it
begging

-------------------
those living dead

chop me up
slice my eye
eat my bones
suck me dry

bitch

double vision, oh yeah
psychosis of the mind

scream reaches the pits of heaven's gates
where people solemnly plug their ears

ears i no longer have
vibrations are all i feel
body covered in pomegranate
multiple contorsions of the spine

bitch

chopped me up
sliced my eye
ate my bones
sucked me dry

i don't want this
but i love this
i want to cry
i love to die

black is a stereotypical color in america
death is pearl white in all of asia

the scythe
chops the plants
and reaps and sows
it's own little harvest

reaps and sows
bitch, bitch

why did i love to
die and wake from the dead

the dead are alive

bitch, die

-------------------
backstabber

ache in the skull
brain feels no pain
lack of nerves
can throw a curveball

conservative behavior
can constrict your bleeding mind

eyes floating in the red sea

collagen within
breaks your body down
collagen within
block the flow, blocks the flow

accept it you've accepted it for days
you lived with that hate
blocking your blood today

arteries and veins
the superficialities in pain
you wonder what you did wrong
they wonder what you gained

betrayal, knives littering everyone's eyes

collagen within
breaks your body down
collagen within
block the flow, blocks the flow

marrow melts in with the loss of bone
the liquidation of fixation
you realize
you're not alone

everyone's eyes are upon you
why did you make these choices

why did you
why did you
why did you
why didn't

too late, late, later

you're gone

-------------------
dinner time

birth of the one
singular demon
unlike any before
unlike any who were

but there's so many
so many unique ones
so many polish thier guns
they pilot our world

they pilot our world

changing and degrading
they'll eat you alive
sociological cannibals
on our existence they dine

cloaked in skin
but unearthly within
they'll invite you
to their world

and take away yours and mine

changing and degrading
they'll eat you alive
sociological cannibals
on our existence they dine

time to dine

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So yeah, that's about 1/12th or so of the songs i've wrote, sorry for the huge post but I just started posting em and... yeah =P

that and i'll probably be without internet access after thursday morning or so until monday afternoon.

#157569 by Biert
Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:09 am
I really have respect to people who can just... talk crap (in a way) like that.

I mean, I'm not badmouthing anyone. It's just that I admire lyricists for being able to write down so many words saying so little. :D

#157575 by azuritereaction
Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:45 am
Biert wrote:I really have respect to people who can just... talk crap (in a way) like that.

I mean, I'm not badmouthing anyone. It's just that I admire lyricists for being able to write down so many words saying so little. :D


haha, no offense taken

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