Ravenkin

insomnia

Half smiling the moon mocks me,

With a grin so sinister it snares my whim.

And leaves me loveless and lonely,

Broken like a pile of bloody sticks.

What do you want from this little boy?

Who stays up all night to hear your sweet voice.

And turn my heart into your little toy,

Obedient like a marionette.



Why do you keep me up all night?

So sweet a breath as yours,

shouldn't be wasted on my turbid life.

Keep me away from the pain of my shores.



I sink deeper

Day by day

And hear the rain bloom my flower

And petals fall

Into the soft sands

And sink deeper in my breathing

Sinking deeper just sinking

Mocking me

As sinking sands swallow my swollen form

Mocking me

This prolonged life abhorred

And your still mocking me

Smiling like the moon

A half smile so sinister

But it's crueler and crude



I sink deeper as the night turns to day,

The fading gray smashing my colored moonlit night.

The fading gray in listless light,

But soon the flower blooms again.

To get gulped in gallows of sinking sands.

And again sink deeper...

Mocking me

As the sands circle my bloody tears

Mocking me

Just mocking me

unable to sleep and hear a dream

Mocking me

Just mocking me

Ravenkin

Summer

I see the moon dance off your tongue,

The night sky shining bright.

How the dim light makes you seem so young,

Like the years before have never arrived.



And the sweet things you say still have meaning,

Like I love you or take me im yours.

How you stroke my hair to make me proud and beaming,

But now you live with the whores.



You dance and sing so merrily,

Even though I am deceased.

How now you long to join me,

On the clouds dancing in the breeze.



But the moon cant let you go,

Its hold on you stronger than my hand.

How you long for me to help woe,

Now my eyes glazed from starry stands.



Your day is soon to come,

The day to join me in the sun.

To dance the winter winds away,

And frolic as we sway.

So gently in the winter winds,

Peaceful, young, like time itself.

Stopped for us, and made me a man,

And you a woman.

Put us together in the poison,

To die together.

Young and free,

Merrily...

To Dance in the summer heat.

VEGANGELICA

Hi, Ravenkin,
Your song "Insomnia" shows the malevolence and appeal of the moon (a metaphor for the beloved, I assume). Am I right that it the speaker is dying (metaphorically)? (Based on the song that follows, this is my guess). I think "Insomnia" describes a love-hate relationship and the pain of experiencing that. The lines that especially stick in my mind are the following, because they remind me of how it feels to be used by someone who has little concern for your welfare or use for your love:

I feel that the final stanza (which I italicized) isn't needed to get the song's idea across, and the song would stand quite well alone without that final stanza. Since I'm often reminded to make my lyrics briefer, my guess is someone else may feel the same about these lyrics!

Your songs often have a very romantic lyrical quality...they seem more beautiful than harsh, even as they deal with what are supposed to be traumatic love/life events...which is interesting to me, since I'm not sure exactly how thrash music would/should sound incorporating your lyrics. Although I know little about genres and their dividing lines, I'm thinking that Stone Birds' feeling that the lyrics sound more like dark folk is probably a good assessment!

--Erica

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