When every song has has been sang, when all rhythm becomes one, when the melodies have gone flat, Each and every cord has been played and the strings have all been strung When all configurations of all music depleted the choir’s harmony lost When all the bright golden angels of our nature have rusted and dimmed And all and every demon bled thin When all the lyrics have been written and every word sang When all of the combinations of music of all the world’s, of all of the people, of all the universes, of every string, of all reality, of all time Have been strummed
The metronome will stop when the last song Is finally sung
It’s the time, when all things, and all time, all of everything everywhere it’s the end of all things, it has finally come
“Man was born to love Though often he has sought Like Icarus, to fly too high. And far too lonely than he ought To kiss the sum of east and west And hold the world at his behest To hold the terrible power To whom only gods are blessed But me, I am just a man“
Sky is clear tonight Sky is clear tomorrow
A star is out I reach for one to sparkle in my hand A star is out I will not touch you, I am just a man
Sky is clear tonight Sky is clear tomorrow
And every night I shut my eyes So I don’t have to see the light Shining so bright I’ll dream about a cloudy sky, a cloudy sky
Sky is clear tonight Sky is clear tomorrow
A star is out I reach for one to sparkle in my hand A star is out I will not touch you, I am just a man
Man was born to love Though often he has sought Like Icarus, to fly too high. And far too lonely than he ought To kiss the sum of east and west And hold the world at his behest To hold the terrible power To whom only gods are blessed But me, I am just a man
And every night I shut my eyes So I don’t have to see the light Shining so bright I’ll dream about a cloudy sky, a cloudy sky
And every night I shut my eyes But now I’ve got them open wide You’ve fallen into my hands And now you’re burning me You’re burning me
And every night I shut my eyes So I don’t have to see the light Shining so bright I’ll dream about a cloudy sky, a cloudy sky
A cloudy night, a cloudy sky A cloudy night that’s what a say
I’ll dream about a cloudy sky, a cloudy sky…
Written by: Michael Allen Patton, Bill Gould, Michael Andrew Bordin Album: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime Released: 1995
I walked green miles of jungle / I walked through yellow miles of pain I crossed starvation’s desert / Watched dead rivers swell with rain The song of insects filled the air / Nights in cites of despair Where killer’s sons said, son beware / And all the roads from here to there I sailed the sea of desolation / Dropped my anchor there Plumbed the depths of isolation / Walked its length and was not scared Went from end to end to end / And then from there I went again The road that only this one knows / Off to nowhere here I go Illumination comes so hard / Makes me see but leaves its scars At times I wish that I didn’t know what I know now Thought and thought until I lost my mind Looked and looked until I went near blind The path is fair but so unkind At night the highway’s diesel roar / Speaks to me and tells me more Than any book I’ve ever read / Or anything you ever said With silent eyes inside / I watch myself and worlds collide The seasons burn and crack my skin / I stay outside and live within
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“We live each day like there’s nothing to lose But a man has needs and the need is booze They say all the best things in life are free So give all your beer and your rum to me“
Heavy Metal Pirates! I Haven’t seen them live yet, but to me this is absurdity is at genius levels.
Piracy’s a crime and crime doesn’t pay And we go home poor at the end of the day But I’d rather live my life in rags Than be chained to a desk with a wife that’s a hag
We live each day like there’s nothing to lose But a man has needs and the need is booze They say all the best things in life are free So give all your beer and your rum to me
We are here to drink your beer And steal your rum at the point of a gun Your alcohol to us will fall ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer We are here to drink your beer And steal your rum at the point of a gun Your alcohol to us will fall ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
We sailed Over the Seas for Wenches and Mead And told great tales of the Huntmaster’s deeds The Quest for a drop of That Famous Ol’ Spiced Has shown us the wrath of Leviathan’s bite We went Back Through Time to get more Rum Though we end up Shipwrecked having no fun But Heavy Metal Pirates we must be So give all your beer and your rum to me
We are here to drink your beer And steal your rum at the point of a gun Your alcohol to us will fall ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer We are here to drink your beer And steal your rum at the point of a gun Your alcohol to us will fall ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
We are here to drink your beer And steal your rum at the point of a gun Your alcohol to us will fall ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer We are here to drink your beer And steal your rum at the point of a gun Your alcohol to us will fall ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
“Shut your mouth look around This motherfucker is burning down And nothing’s gonna save us now“
I’m cynical by watching the majority of the left become politicaly apathetic, self-deafeating, ignorant, complacent, arrogant, aggreived victimhood, isolated to their towers of self-absorption after Biden was elected gives me little hope for the future.
As a politicaly active person on the left all my life, the betrayl doesn’t come from MAGA or Republicans, it comes from the left and Democrats, because it’s been castrating itself willingly over the last 20 years.
So this is what you want Choices are made and given up I just cant comprehend the need to sit when you can stand The game is rigged, the money spent
Shut your mouth look around This motherfucker is burning down And nothing’s gonna save us now Get out… and save yourself
There’s only so much I can say tried so hard to help you find your way But every step a wasted breath of false hope and promises There’s nothing to save, there’s nothing left
Nothing’s left of you today Save yourself or die away
So this is what you want Your choice was made, you’ve given up I’ll never comprehend the need to sit when you can stand There’s nothing left, the money spent
Writer(s): Nathan Gray, Joshua Latshaw, Robert Ehrenbrand, Charles W Istvan, Christopher Rakus album: “While A Nation Sleeps…” (2013) BoySetsFire – While A Nation Sleeps.
This was the theme song or the Anime “Serial Experiments Lain”. It has never left my head from the first time ive heard years and years ago.
The song reflects & anime (to me), the disjointed, etherial, and dark atmosphere, like there’s a thing just out of your reach, but can’t quite hold it or see it.
Once you seek it, however, it’s heavy, foreboding, and descends upon you without warning.
And you don’t seem to understand A shame, you seemed an honest man And all the fears you hold so dear Will turn to whisper in your ear
And you know what they say might hurt you And you know that it means so much And you don’t even feel a thing
I am falling I am fading I have lost it all
And you don’t seem the lying kind A shame that I can read your mind And all the things that I read there Candle lit smile that we both share
And you know I don’t mean to hurt you But you know that it means so much And you don’t even feel a thing
I am falling I am fading I am drowning Help me to breathe I am hurting I have lost it all I am losing Help me to breathe
I am falling I am failing I am drowning Help me to breathe I am hurting I have lost it all I am losing Help me to breathe
Ah-oh, yeah Ah-oh-oh, yeah
I am falling I am failing I am drowning Help me to breathe I am hurting I have lost it all I am losing Help me to breathe
Written by: Paul Richard Turrell, Ben Henderson, Jasmine Rodgers, Alexander Caird, Lee Sullivan, Stephen Paul Rodgers Album: Duvet (ScummV Remix) Released: 2022
The borderline The borderline The borderline The borderline
Red and roses Lips and breath Hair and dolls They’re look alike
Smoke and mist Night and midnight The deep and hell They really get me
Flip and fly Heal and feel Flower and poison Are on the brink
The borderline The borderline The borderline The borderline
Body and Jell-O Crack and jazz Arch and bridge They’re look alike
Meet me and hit me Tiny and sticky candy Kiss and eating Are just the same things
Free and fall And love and low Evil make you feel good Can’t help doing that
The borderline The borderline The borderline The borderline
The Borderline” is a song by character Sharon Apple and performed by Akino Arai. It is featured in the anime OVA series Macross Plus and its compilation movie.
“I’m quiet as I’m kept and more or less concussed for years But I can’t shake your body So I shake mine instead when it’s time to percuss”
This song exudes femenine desire and yearning, it has a great shoegazer ascetic to it and a smooth laid back danceable beat for non-dance music.
The special way The hunt began and ended with London on my mind The nights from days And letters penned in earnest with heartstrings sent unsigned
In a round about sway Not a word, not a sound All’s forgiven, anyway
Haven’t even slept, so I’m quiet as I’m kept and more or less concussed for years But I can’t shake your body So I shake mine instead when it’s time to percuss
In a round about sway Not a word, not a sound All’s forgiven, anyway
Names escaped run amok with bottle caps for eyes The nights from days ferried east and ended with no one getting wise (when was this?) On the Champs-Élysées on no rest, you fluoresce All’s forgiven for forgotten men and women, more or less
In a round about sway Not a word, not a sound All’s forgiven by the way Men and women, it’s time to percuss
Written by: Motohiro Yasue, Paula Kelley, Steve Zimmerman, Greg Ackell, Peter Koeplin Album: Hard Light Released: 2023
“Forgive the trembling love, I’m weak and acting bold And alone”
The rhythmic and melodic layering in this song is amazing. The atmosphere it radiates chills you.
In blur, farther Glanced over stirred Imagined you laughing Muddied feet dancing What is this aching prism? This prison wincing Receiving sudden swaths of dogma
Wandering over royal yonder Wandering over flooded ground again
(What does daylight look like?) What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold? (What does daylight look like?) Solitude and falling into respites now
In blur, hovered Accepted devotion Unearthed, bleeding ark of creation
Wandering over royal yonder Wandering over flooded ground again
(What does daylight look like?) What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold? (What does daylight look like?) Solitude and falling into respites now (What does daylight look like?) What does daylight look like in this chaos of cold? (What does daylight look like?) Solitude and falling into respites now
Forgive the trembling love, I’m weak and acting bold And alone
Written by: Christopher Johnson, Kerry Dylan Mccoy, George Lesage Clarke, Daniel Tracy, Shiv Mehra. Album: Infinite Granite. Released: 2021
I’m coming to find you if it takes me all night A witch hunt for another girl For always and ever is always for you
Say goodbye on a night like this If it’s the last thing we ever do You never looked as lost as this Sometimes it doesn’t even look like you It goes dark It goes darker still Please stay But I watch you like I’m made of stone As you walk away
I’m coming to find you if it takes me all night A witch hunt for another girl For always and ever is always for you Your trust The most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world
Say hello on a day like today Say it everytime you move The way that you look at me now Makes me wish I was you It goes deep It goes deeper still This touch And the smile and the shake of your head
I’m coming to find you if it takes me all night Can’t stand here like this anymore For always and ever is always for you I want it to be perfect Like before I want to change it all
For some reason they remind me of early “The Cure”, in their prepop era. I like this band they are atmospheric, darker shoe gaze feel. One of the Members is in the band “Alecast”, of whom I like as well
Okay people out there in WP land this is a difficult question and one that is very hard to answer.
It gets worse if you have diverse musical genres you enjoy and listening moods that you mold the music around your feelings or state at the time.
Personaly; punk, hardcore, metal, & rock have been my main as well as many of the sub-genera’s of them all. Dark wave, industrial, blues, Ambient, folk, Folk Nordic metal, old country and bluegrass. I also like classical, early rap, more jazzy hip-hop/trip-hop or political (here’s looking at you Public Enemy) rap. I’ve never much been into pop, but PJ Harvey, Lady Gaga & Billie Elish i have a soft spot for because of their voice, they speak their truth’s, and the dark feminine nature they exude (Check out Chelsea Wolf). Im not a swifty but I like that she speaks out her politics and stands her ground.
So I im going to try to answer one of the questions I asked above and of course it is not 100%, but my favorite band(s) of all time goes to CLUTCH. Every song is a story, the lyrics build it into a saga, and the music a foundation for a mythology.
I first saw them in my brother’s basement in Madison, WI. Everytime I see them it’s like meeting up with an old friend.
Released 1991
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Clutch Clutch Album Cover 1995
Honorable mentions go to Carcass, The Dead Boys, Mastodon, Gwar, Godflesh, Boy Sets Fire, Paradise Lost, Subhumans, Grinch (west coast progressive hardcore), Bahaus, Circle Jerks, Black Flag,Amy Winehouse, The Cure, Beethoven, Curve, Public Enemy, Anthrax, Conflict, Brian Eno, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Chelsea Wolf, Suldusk, Swallow the Sun, Red Fang, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine, Coil, etc…etc…etc…etc.…
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So what do ally’all like? Can you answer this question?
I had no Idea that any of the bands i was in back in the day were even relevant, but I guess people like classical music from the mid-90’s. Although its missing i was one of the founding members of the band “Downer”, but i never played out with them.
Emo-punk back then was a completely different animal then what it has morphed into, which is more of a semi-goth fashion ascetic, rather than a mish-mash of rock, punk, hardcore, metal, even folk influences music type it was. Emo had nothing to do with look or style, it what was what’s inside that counted. Speaking up, baring your soul regardless of reaction of the audience. But hey! I was just a bass player.
Don’t get me started on what is considered to be “Goth” nowadays, it’s all become a fashion lifestyle were the music it aborted from it and is mostly just a side note. It’s a fact Bela Legosi is dead and the Sisters of Mercy didn’t include Sousxie and her Banshees. 😉
I think it was Hot Topic’s fault. Back in my day you had to go to a pet store to get a good chain collar to wear or mail order spikes for your black leather biker jacket. Damn kids! Whom are now in their 30’s. Ageing, is and always will be, the best self-own on those younger than yourself who are making fun of you for beingolder.
End of Witacre was the best of the three bands I was in ~1997. Of course ego’s got in the way of the one band i was in that had the talent and drive to make it, even if a little in the alt-music sphere. Remember this is way before MySpace, the internet music revolution, etc… recordings and making it to larger audiences back in the olden days was a lot more difficult than today because everything was analog and hardcopy.
Anyway, I stood my ground and defended my longtime band mate and friend Cory and decided that if they were going to kick him out, then I wouldn’t be part of the band either. Thus, break-up. I still stand by that decision. Loyalty, honor & character mean a lot to me. In the beginning of 1998 I moved back home to my parents house, played lots of starcraft, Diablo and went back to school concentrating on the natural sciences.
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