Favorite Song Lyrics/Poetry

[East Coast Hustle]

yeah, Shai Hulud was pretty good.

I saw them once opening for Himsa (who I hate, alot) and they stole the show right out from under that little bastard John Pettibone.

[AFK]

Here's something from one of my favorite bands, My Dying Bride.
This is the title song to their 2001 release.  A good album for anyone unfamiliar with the band to check out.  They are a kind of death/doom metal band.  Kind of like the musical equivalent of an Anne Rice novel.  

The Dreadful Hours

Mother will you take me down?
I have become so afraid
Mother please, please take me down
Sorry, your boy is not brave

Child just hold on. Night will soon be gone
Sleep if you can. But watch your father's hand

We do not want you. No-body loves you
Father of the dark. Tonight will greet you

God in heaven, can you hear me
Help me Oh Lord. They're coming for me
Mother warned me. Father scorned me
Oh my God No. Now I hear him

I claim your life on this night
within sight of your own God

The silence, the waiting then the pain
Oh child, sleep will be here soon
Your life has only ever been shame
And so young boy, my hand brings doom

Child, won't you awake. Father has gone
Child, please come awake. Please my tiny son

[Maharishi Miyagi Yoda]

Walking women want to see
The Southern Cross at night
And so they set aside a sock
And tie their laces tight.

Yes, mournful is the melody
That echoes in their heads
Without a beat they march along
Believing Bach is dead.

-The Residents, "Bach is Dead"

[maphdet]

Public Image Limited (johhny rotten)
What's it all about.

Whats ya gonna do when the river runs dry...
if all this worlds a cake then you took a big a slice...
no UFOs to save us-and do we really care...

what's it all about they scream and then they shout
don't ask me cause I don't know

don't blame me I told you so

the product in the packaging of multilayered glam
150 layers of materials to cover up a sham
protecting my planet wrap it in plastic
the package is product perfected eternal
a crap in a cling wrap
i never met yet a prime minister or president
who told the truth yet

kiss goodbye to the earth, the sun, the moon
it's easy to deceive a child

[Felix]

Get this band if you like opera, metal, and confusing lyrics.

Nightwish- Stargazers

A grand oasis in the vastness of gloom

Child of dew-spangled cobweb, Mother to the Moon

Constellations beholders of the 3rd vagrant

Theater for the play of life



Tragedienne of heavens

Watching the eyes of the night

Sailing the virgin oceans

A Planetride for Mother and Child



Floating upon the quiet hydrogen lakes

In this ambrosial merrry-go-round they will gaze

Ephemeral life touched by a billion-year-show

Separating the poet from the woe



[Repeat chorus]



Oracle of the Delfian Domine

Witness of Adam's frailty

Seer of the master prophecy

The stellar world her betrothed



Wanderers in cosmic caravan

Universal bond - The Starborn



A son in search for the truth

Following the pages of Almagest

Discovering the origin of dreams

Stargazers ride through the ancient realms



[Repeat chorus]

[East Coast Hustle]

sorry, but Nightwish is giving My Chemical Romance a serious challenge for the title of "worst band EVAR!"

ECH,
suggests In Flames if you want a little existentialism in your melodic metal

Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly

i wear my scars like the rings on a pimp
i live life like the captain of a sinking ship
the one thing that i can guarantee
i'm like a stepping razor, i suggest you stay fair with me
been payin dues for a decade plus,
before that i was just another face on the bus
tappin my foot, to the beat on the radio
dreamin 'bout the mic and the money and the ladies
oh mom, i promise im gonna be large
someday im gonna stop tryin to borrow your car
gonna go far, with charisma and skill
until they put my face on a million dollar bill
atmosphere, its just a ten letter word
discretion is the name of my cement-feathered bird
and if you didnt hear, fuck whatevers heard
i think you got the sickness i suggest you get it cured
caught up in the mix, of a bottle full of fix
im gonna hobble down the street 'til i reach knob creek
its not that i dont like you, i just dont wanna speak
you fuckin freak
now keep your days out my week
the world keeps a balance, through mathematics
defined by whatever youve added and subtracted
im pushin on the hammer, to trigger the brain
embrace how i live it, god loves ugly

[Maharishi Miyagi Yoda]

"By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
How can we sing the songs of the Lord
while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell
"Tear it down", they cried,
"tear it down to its foundations!"
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destuction,
happy is he who repays you
for what you have done to us-
he who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks."

-Psalm 137

It starts out really sad, but ends with smashing babies against rocks. WOW.

[Bella]

Here's my favorite song about the rivers of Babylon.

By the Rivers Dark
- Leonard Cohen -

By the rivers dark
I wandered on.
I lived my life
in Babylon.

And I did forget
My holy song:
And I had no strength
In Babylon.

By the rivers dark
Where I could not see
Who was waiting there
Who was hunting me.

And he cut my lip
And he cut my heart.
So I could not drink
From the river dark.

And he covered me,
And I saw within,
My lawless heart
And my wedding ring,

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark
I panicked on.
I belonged at last
to Babylon.

Then he struck my heart
With a deadly force,
And he said, "This heart:
It is not yours."

And he gave the wind
My wedding ring;
And he circled us
With everything.

By the rivers dark,
In a wounded dawn,
I live my life
In Babylon.

Though I take my song
From a withered limb,
Both song and tree,
They sing for him.

Be the truth unsaid
And the blessing gone,
If I forget
My Babylon.

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark,
Where it all goes on;
By the rivers dark
In Babylon.

[Maharishi Miyagi Yoda]

That's awesome. I like just about anything that features Babylon, whether it's about the Rivers, the City, or the Great Whore. I think Babylon is one of the most potent living symbols in Imagination's repertoire, and it's an idea that I've been fixated on for quite some time.

[Bella]

Cool. Me too. I've done several paintings of the Whore of Babylon and I'm working on a series revolving around the goddess Inanna. Her myth is the first recorded story of dying and then rising from the dead and predates Jesus by a long shot.  Plus, when she comes back from the underworld, she is accompanied by zombies! I love that story.

[Maharishi Miyagi Yoda]

Paintings, eh? I'd like to see them. I've been working on some Erisiana that showcases the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth. Unlike most Erisiana, it isn't intended to make people laugh. It involves Our Lady of Babylon, Eris Discordia, and the Statue of Liberty, all as symbols of Freedom and the Responsibility that comes with Freedom. I draw a lot of inspiration from the Bible, Aleister Crowley, and Discordianism, as well as other things. It's still lead though; not gold yet.

[Bella]

That sounds really neat. I'm not used to finding someone else with an interest in the Whore of Babylon. Are you planning to post and/or publish your work when you're done? I might post my paintings sometime, but first I have to find someone to take decent photos of them. None of my work is digital, so it has to be photographed and then scanned in.

[Michal]

And the Great Whore, who sitteth upon many waters, with whom the kings of the Earth have commited the sin of fornication and, drunk upon the wine of her fornication...

Meh, where is my memory?

Edit: Here it is.

"the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." (Rev. 17:1-2 KJV)

My bad.

At any rate, have you listened to Avenged Sevenfold-- Beast and the Harlot? I've listened to it so many times...

"Beast And The Harlot"

This shining city built of gold, a far cry from innocence,
There's more than meets the eye round here, look to the waters of the deep.
A city of evil.
There sat a seven-headed beast, ten horns raised from his head.
Symbolic woman sits on his throne, but hatred strips her and leaves her naked.
The Beast and the Harlot.

She's a dwelling place for demons.
She's a cage for every unclean spirit,
every filthy bird and makes us drink the poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings.
Fallen now is Babylon the Great.

The city dressed in jewels and gold, fine linen, myrrh and pearls.
Her plagues will come all at once as her mourners watch her burn.
Destroyed in an hour.
Merchants and captains of the world, sailors, navigators too.
Will weep and morn this loss with her sins piled to the sky,
The Beast and the Harlot.

She's a dwelling place for demons.
She's a cage for every unclean spirit,
every filthy bird and makes us drink the poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings.
Fallen now is Babylon the Great.

The day has come for all us sinners.
If you're not a servant, you'll be struck to the ground.
Flee the burning, greedy city.
Lookin' back on her to see there's nothing around.

I don't believe in fairytales and no one wants to go to hell.
We've made the wrong decision and it's easy to see.
Now if you wanna serve above or be a king below with us,
You're welcome to the city where your future is set forever.

She's a dwelling place for demons.
She's a cage for every unclean spirit,
every filthy bird and makes us drink the poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings.
Fallen now is Babylon the Great.
[x2]

[Felix]

Avenged Sevenfold..I think I dig Bat Country so far, but haven't gotten into it so much, since it's hard to seek out music.

I need hi-speed internet.  Even without doing cost benefit analysis, I know I'd be saving more than thirty hours a month of my life if I had it.  

As for ECH: Nightwish is a pretty lame assed name, but I think the content helps it dodge that sort of dramatic naivete that I attribute to names like that.

[Michal]

Bat Country's alright, it ain't my favorite, though. And yes, if you don't have high speed, your life is being sucked away.