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DiSTANToblivion - Songs and Poems
The other thread I had got deleted so I'm going to be posting all of my songs and poems again. Hopefully things will be neater this time :P:
So, here we go again... (a poem) The Rose Of May May rests her emerald eyes for a moment in time They open slowly as she weeps Softly, her silent sadness seeps into her heart and into her soul This emotion she can no longer control May lies upon a cold floor as she dreams… Pale snow white skin and a frost filling the air A single red rose nestled within her hand, it’s colour bleeds crimson across the white It’s colour burns long into her night May awakens from her dreamscape For a moment in time, to questions without an clue Buried deep and building into blue into her thoughts and into her mind These dreams that always leave her blind May clutches her red rose, tightly pressed against her naked stomach Scared… One red rose continues to bleed there May feels no comfort as she bears the pain May feels nothing more, not the cold frost or the burning flame |
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Solitary
I sit uncompromising and jaded Seeking company, a way to fight this loneliness Only to see those I told, I hated Waiting for someone… Someone to fill the vacant space beside me Move my fingers along and across the empty seat sitting here for too long… and I am turning to stone In my defeat This sole, lonely need, has overtaken me If only I could turn to see I cannot move at all Someone sits next to me As they cry out their soul They want company They need somebody a way to fight this loneliness All I can do is listen, as lonely as they are, as long as the stone man sits As long as they can bear it They just need someone to listen |
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The Further The Distance
He walks alone at night, through the cold He is unstable The street sign in disguise and the road reflects He takes it all tonight, unwillingly He is unstable tonight The signs point to him and aim Still, this night remains He sleeps on damp ground, he drinks to silence the sound, to drown the voices, to end it all tonight.. He wakes alone today, mourning still cold and he is still grey He left it all last night Serenity sold, he was nameless last night He walks In the morning glow, he walks… to forget his father, to stop his words To escape forever... Now he runs, from the past, he runs… to live for a future, to start anew Into a new day Into a new light |
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Bridging The Gapless Mind
- INTRO - You drain me of all that I have learnt and I am burning in silence So take me away... Same old tired excuses So sick, of being like this Same words you will always speak them So take me away... - VERSE 1 - Away... I walk, astray (Away) I start today... In peace I feel the pain In love I feel the strain and I know this feeling now I know this feeling - CHORUS 1 - All that You have done All that You will do All of this anger, built from inside you All of these pages From which you taught me Are all of the pages That will now haunt me - VERSE 2 - Insane... I slip away (Insane) I've fallen today... No cover from all this rain No shelter from all it stains and I know this meaning now I know the meaning... - CHORUS 1 - - CHORUS 2 - All that You have done All that You will do All of this anger I'm the voice inside you All of these pages That will now haunt me Are all of the pages That have been brought to me - BRIDGE - I'm lost... I don't know who I am I've drained me of all that I have learnt and I have been burnt in silence So tired of making excuses Same words and different meanings still speaking, these words These words... - CHORUS 3 - (x3) All that you have done All that you will do All of this anger I'm the voice inside you All of these pages (torn from under) That will now haunt me Are all of the pages (torn asunder) That have been brought to me - OUTRO - ...and I'm lost now far from who I was and I never lived a moment So tired of all the excuses The same words with different meanings still speaking, these words These words... |
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Pure Faith
- INTRO - The Fixtures Painted... (pained with black) The Figures Moving... (turned your back) - VERSE 1 - You've got a 'Pure Faith' in the unknown I'd like to tell you, but you don't know You're losing what (you make-believe...) I'd like to show you, but you wont see - CHORUS 1 - Yesterday called again tomorrow... too long, too long You hold your head and pray to... your God, your God and damn you for believing... it's wrong, it's wrong So don't hold their hand and say... Dear Lord Dear Lord - VERSE 2 - So about this... (Pure Faith in the Unknown) There's no miracle... (now I've been told) I'll tell you You wont see This can't be happening... Right in front of me... - CHORUS 2 - Yesterday called again tomorrow... too long, too long You hold your head and pray to... your God, your God and damn you for believing... it's wrong, it's wrong So don't hold their hand and say... Dear Lord Dear Lord... Yesterday called again tomorrow... Today Too Late... To hold His hand and say Dear Lord, Dear Lord Damn you for believing... anymore Damn you for believing... anymore So don't hold my hand and say... You're God... You're God... (my God..) - BRIDGE - (my God... my God...) What are we doing? Where are we going? Things we keep saying We aren't knowing My God My God... Where are you going? What are you doing? Things you're saying I never hear you anymore... ...anymore - CHORUS 2 - - VERSE 3 / OUTRO - You've got a Pure Faith in the Unknown I'd like to show you but you now know I wont tell you what you now see... The Fixtures Fading... (fell in black) The Figures Leaving... (call them back) |
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Awake Without Sleep
- VERSE 1 - Wake up blind, born again deaf Yet you see the signs and hear those names Will you ever find The truth and what it is? An alibi… fit for your mistakes Your pathway crossed upon this broken home Of hollow hearts and empty beds This cold dark room It stains your mind and all that’s left… Is left behind Now it’s turning over again Now it’s turning over again It’s turning over again… - CHORUS 1 - and you cant breathe now They’re pulling the curtain closed It’s the last time, the final call to rise… This is the last time they place this pain within your eyes You can’t breathe now They’re leaving this open door It’s the last time, the final call to rise… This is the last time they live their life inside your mind - VERSE 2 - Wake up lost, left again dead now you fear the signs and scream those names Will you ever stop and think for once and all Or will your thoughts be never yours? Now it’s turning over again Now it’s turning over again It’s turning over again… - CHORUS 1 - - BRIDGE - What is turning you away? Now you’re turning over again… What is turning you away? Now you’re turning over again… What is turning you away? Now you’re turning over again… What is turning you away? Now you’re turning over again… It’s turning over again… - CHORUS 2 - (x2) and you feel free now You’ve torn the curtain down It’s the last time, the final call to rise… This is the last time they place this pain within your eyes You feel free now You’re walking through the open door It’s the last time, the final call to rise… This is the last time they live their life inside your mind |
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Looking Through
This mask covers, cold Upon the skin it rests, frozen and I see through it, as your words bleed upon it This is my protection But it’s not who I am I see your face, afar Pulling away from my hands I look into your eyes… As your silence means so much Now my mask turns to ash and this persona with it I fear the revelation As this lay bare, with intention I look into your eyes… As you’re still so silent now Can I see myself as you do, without this mask I have lived through? |
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Discuss & Disassemble
- VERSE 1 - The day goes by, the TV on The daily flicker and then the day is gone... The past replays, the life before The future dims and then the past ignored... - CHORUS 1 - His futile efforts in vain… can't erase or kill the shame His decision to clear his name… can't cover or shape the blame - VERSE 2 - The night falls now, the TV off The nightly silence and then the night is lost... The time decays, the man before The timely quiet and then the time restored... - CHORUS 1 - (x2) His futile efforts in vain… can't erase or kill the shame His decision to clear his name… can't cover or shape the blame - BRIDGE - He has lived with this now seems like forever… He needs someone, somehow (seems like forever) Disassemble… to start again He has lived with this now seems like forever… He needs someone, somehow (seems like forever) Disassemble… to start again Discuss his life again - CHORUS 2 - (x2) His futile… efforts in vain can't erase or kill the shame His decision… to clear his name can't cover or shape the blame - VERSE 3 - The future is here The time has come The past fades, and now the man won't run... - CHORUS 3 - (x3) His futile efforts in vain (discuss this now...) can't erase, or kill the shame His decision to clear his name (disassemble and start again...) can't cover, or shape the blame |
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Okay so it's been a while but I have some new finished lyrics, hope you like them...
Burning Bridge - VERSE 1 - Smoke filling the air, as this burning bridge remains The barren shore beckoning Calling upon your restless reckoning no communication, no communication Your eyes can’t look back now Your voice echoes a silence You long for the beginning again but you speak with such violence - CHORUS - (x2) Think past All those days No going back now What you’ve done Has been done, never to be the same - VERSE 2 - Step into the river, into the dirty water Swimming against the argument The lonely distant shore (disappear) Triggering your innermost fear no communication, no communication The smoke now clouds the skyline Your eyes can’t see the shore Your voice speaks a silent whisper and you can’t bear it anymore - CHORUS - (x2) - VERSE 3 / OUTRO - The bridge burns Brighter still Collapsing into the water You lay upon your riverside As the smoke clears You see no shoreline (As the smoke clears) You see no shoreline (As the smoke clears) in your mind, your burning bridge remains… |
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Truth
I want you to tell me a lie and tell me I'm fine, that I'm happy with myself and I'm alright I can't take the truth It has a hold on me I don't want the truth Lie be told to me… “I need you to tell me to smile and feel something new Not this hollow heart and not without you” But you won’t lie to me or tell me I’m fine I’m not happy with myself and I’m not alright To hear your words, the truth must be spoken… “I wish you could smile, feel something new Forget this hollow heart I am here for you” |
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Very early one, this one...
Beautiful World Sight seeing, a sight to see How bright is the bright blue sea? This beautiful world for all, makes us proud, makes us tall With vast colours, shaded here and there… Yet fenced off and separated everywhere A childs nervous hand reaches for the wire to be shot at with a round of fire Leaves the hundreds lined, with crying eyes Anyone whom touches the fence surely dies With fear, inside their hearts’ burn With every single heartbeat upon this worlds turn Pushed back, freedom only in dream for enough of this world they have seen Now they wait for tomorrow when their eyes witness this tragic scene again But this scene is so wrong all the time Subjecting a group to think ‘living’ is a crime This ‘beautiful world’ for all makes us scared, lets us fall Shaded with the bloodstains here and there But no one is listening… do they even care? Maybe we can figure this out Make the promise, listen to their plea and shout: “Problems lie not with them but with the world! let them in! let them live! Let them escape into their beautiful world!” They will not fear waking everyday They will never forget what you took away Their life… Their family… Their hope… Their entire world… Now, just let them live, knowing they can cope and they not only have the right to see but that they have the right To be |
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Last Hope (Tainted Memory)
- INTRO - Breaking the experience away... Experience the breaking away... - VERSE 1 - The bloodied skies breath, slowly taking from me Breaks the strain in the everyday Brings the pain in a different way The darkened clouds rise, drifting in their demise Bloodied skies breathe taking from me... - CHORUS - (x2) Lost, twisted and tainted memory Investing in a lost time... The only time, I can make it mine Found, wasted while I waited Investing in a lost time... Only this time, I'm losing my mind - VERSE 2 - The desperation seems, now a part of me Crimson rains and I start to pray Feeling the pain on a different day The liberation clear, I see why, now I'm here Experience the breaking away Experience this breaking today - CHORUS - (x2) - OUTRO - I'm losing my mind... I'm losing my mind... |
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I find songs about faith issues interesting, and so would like to learn what "the fixtures fading (fell in black)" and "the figures leaving (call them back)" mean. I understand the basic idea of the song as being that the singer feels the woman who believes in god is wrong...but perhaps the singer feels the woman is losing her faith and can't help her? I can't tell the viewpoints of the singer, but would like to. Also, what is it that the singer "can't believe ... is happening?" I like the line, "You've got a Pure Faith in the Unknown" because that, for me, summarizes what religion is...except that those who are religious feel the "unknown" is known. I'm confused by all the different time references. You make frequent references to time in the song, so I know it must be important, but I'm not sure why: Quote:
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I might ramble a bit here, sorry. Basically the song is about living your whole life being a non-believer, but forgoing that when the worst happens. You are faced with dire circumstances so you change every idea that you've ever believed or not believed in to save yourself. I don't have any strong religious beliefs myself but I don't see how people can do that. Being scared because you're facing these things and deciding that you need to believe in something you never have. Seems really false, like you're really lying just to save yourself. In that sense the singer is kind of jaded; thinking that those who believe all along are wrong. Like they don't have the right to believe in something they themselves don't know is real. I wanted to have the song from the perspective of someone who lost someone recently. After something horrible like that you wouldn't know what to believe, worse if you've been brought up differently to everyone else around you. Everything that the singer is saying about this person is alien to him. He can't share the beliefs of the other person and will not conform to when the end comes. What the singer cannot believe is that in the end he himself is searching for something to believe in. He is at a point where his attitude towards religion has backed him into a corner, he actually needs to feel some sort of faith when the worst comes to him. He doesn't believe in what his partner believes in (from the way he was brought up?) and dismisses the fact that people find an easy answer when faced with the end. But after it all he does conform, he doesn't want to lose his partner. When she is suffering and he is going to lose her he may understand why people need faith, he isn't finding an easy way out, he understands. I don't know if he takes the revelation well though, he isn't at peace with himself after it, he doesn't know what to believe after she is gone forever. The fixtures fading could be a couple things: - it could be his partner, whom had been with him for a long time - it could be his religious views The figures leaving can be taken physically or spiritually. Most songs and poems I write are not entirely personal, but yes I see what you mean. Some of them are very personal from when I wasn't feeling the best. 'Burning Bridge' is very personal and 'Looking Through'. But everything is okay, I'm perfectly fine, I write mostly when I have a problem about something going on. Phew... I'll shut up now. lol |
You've got great, deep lyrics, can you put up some links?
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You mean links to this thread? I'm flattered... Yes you can, thankyou again. :D |
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It is also hard for me to imagine shifting my worldview...and when I meet people who do (such as a religious person becoming atheist) I'm always curious about what that "revelation" or realization was like for them. I know a few people who go from agnostic or atheist to religious and I'm never quite sure what triggered the shift...what unfulfilled need or desire results in them being open to what to my brain/logic system seems so unlikely. I suppose even I (like the person in your song) might not be immune during a time of crisis (in the midst of an accident, say) to pray something like, "If there is any supernatural force, please stop this from happening!" However, since millions of religious people die in unfortunate accidents all the time, I see no reason to think that, even if there were a supernatural being, this being would ever come to anyone's physical aid. I think your song topic is probably correct, though, that people in different circumstances will do things they never expected they would. A concrete example: captive, starving soldiers in a war prison camp filtering through human sewage in latrines to find tiny grains of undigested rice to eat. True story. Would I do that? Hard to imagine based on my current situation, but I probably would. I feel your song lyrics do capture part of what you wrote the song about. My preference would be for the song to drop a few more hints to show what is going on, although I understand you perhaps want the song to be very open to interpretation so that people can take away different ideas from it! ~ Erica |
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I did want to leave it open for interpretation but I'm starting to wonder about making it more clear. I may repost that one to revise it, I'd like to have your input as well, if it's okay? I'll need to get back into writing as I haven't done anything in a while. Burning Bridge was something new but I can't find the right words anymore. Like you replied earlier about lyrics and poems written when you're younger, having more raw emotion within them, I think I need to try going back to basics. Plus there is a story that I've been writing, that I've had writers block with for months now and it's upsetting. I may post some of that too, I'm not sure yet. |
This mist, the fever and its embrace,
mind easing in its calm retrace This tale lies Woven within, seeping through, it begins… It ends with you This mist, a comfort now replaced Dismiss, to enter this saving grace Your dream, the story unfolds ^^^ wish i could finish this. |
I don't think that the last one needs to be that much longer. There are some really, really good songs which have very, very minimalist lyrics.
Let's take "Is there Anybody Out There" by Pink Floyd. |
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Something new, another song...
Residue
- VERSE 1 - Green growth and the fading illumination, peering through this rusted machine Entangling the bruise, left by cold hands… Left in this waking moment and marked forevermore Green growth, with vines of thorn Reminders that remain As the dark seeps through… Your shadow sinks further - CHORUS 1 - Within a mind A story for another time One not told (never told) Within a mind Never spoken of again Ever again - VERSE 2 - White flower blooming with renewed determination Break free of your machine Don’t hide the scars, don’t you turn away… Leave this place forgotten and barren forevermore White flower blooms, upon vines of thorn Reminders that remain As the light grows strong Your shadow fades faster - CHORUS 1 - (x2) - BRIDGE - This industrial nightmare of a cold city Your streets beckon you Calling you back But your rusted cell, a prison-hold no more… and it holds you no more Green growth and your white flower Calls from the forest The strongest echo for you now… - CHORUS 2 - (x2) Within a mind A story told one time Within this moment… your moment arrives Speak this again Forever once more - OUTRO - Your rusted cell, a prison-hold no more… and it holds you no more Green growth and your white flower Calls from the forest The strongest echo for you now… The strongest echo for you now |
Older song, haven't posted anything in a while
The Mirror Lies
- VERSE 1 - Sit, soaked amongst your vanity Stay warm, and lay with your insanity The swarm is eating you from the inside… You’ve broken promises before What makes you think you won’t do it anymore? Cut to the core... I’m sure… you know by now What’s headed your way - CHORUS - The mirror lies, before you Before you leave… You will know Your mirror lies for you Your mirror lies only for you - VERSE 2 - Live, a lie using your cracked mirror Look through and pray it gets better This time has been unfair to you… You’ve broken promises before What makes you think you won’t do it anymore? Cut to the core... I’m sure… you know by now What’s headed your way What’s headed your way now… - CHORUS - (x2) - BRIDGE - You’ve broken promises before What makes you think you won’t do it anymore? Cut to the core... I’m sure… you know by now What’s headed your way What’s headed your way now… - CHORUS - (x2) |
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In Silence
- VERSE 1 - Within a lost, hidden meaning internal truths never letting out Never will I speak as these words drag on My voice… it grows so weak In this silent comfort - PRE-CHORUS - Tell myself, I know what I want now An indecisive choice All along a branching path (and onward…) Onward into a destiny unknown - CHORUS - Tell myself To let it out Tell myself To let it out Tell myself… I’m not scared of this truth now - VERSE 2 - Within a silence, filled with voices your soft voice sounds Enticing my words and these words drag on My heart… it grows weak In this familiar comfort - PRE-CHORUS 2 - Tell myself, I know what I want now A decisive choice All along a branching path (and onward…) Onward into a destiny unknown Into a destiny unknown… - CHORUS - (x2) - BRIDGE - Would I, Trip and stumble across the conversation Across this conversation… I’m not scared Of this truth now… - PRE-CHORUS 2 - - CHORUS - (x2) |
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My favorite lines are in bold above because they express self-doubt and perhaps self-loathing very efficiently. Plus, I like the ominousness of wondering what is heading the person's way. What *is* heading the person's way? My guess is that the song is about someone with an eating disorder, where the person (probably a woman, though men can having eating disorders, too) has promised herself before, looking with hopeless vanity at herself in the cracked mirror, that she won't give into the urge to starve/binge/vomit...but she has failed, and knows she will again? Since the Bridge is a repetition of the second verse's second stanza, I felt there was more repetition than necessary in the song. I would prefer to see the Bridge add or explain new information rather than just repeat a pre-chorus. I am curious now: what was the subject you had in mind when you wrote this song? ~ Erica |
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Truthfully, the subject matter is about self-image and low self esteem. I wanted the song to sound like I was referring to many different afflictions people suffer from when they see themselves. Though I was worried that I'd make it sound like I'm attacking vanity. It's true, I hate when people focus on the outside but there are some serious things that people go through that others will never see. Media has easily made this a huge concern, everything in magazines and TV, they all depict what a 'perfect' person should look like. If only there was a mirror out there that showed a person for who they truly are. They done something similar in the movie 'Shallow Hal', I don't think every 'good looking' person out there would be ugly inside though. I just think everyone should, in the end, just be themselves... What might be heading the persons way? Another endless cycle of insecurity? I've been around people that, even after they overcome what they've hated in themselves before, would still find something new to target again. That seems spiteful though. They might not see the light at the end of tunnel and think that they have no way out, that they'll always be unhappy? I don't want to think that way, I always like knowing that there is some hope, no matter how small. That bridge really does have to go... I'm not sure what to replace it with though? I may just have to scrap it all together, anything that I say in the bridge has been said before and it's repetition renders it meaningless. Thanks again Erica. You always have the best responses and critique, I always wait to see if you reply to a song or poem I post. Thank you so much. :wave: |
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Unending self-criticism is an awful downward spiraling state to be in (I know from experience). I found the only way out was to stop wishing to gain others' good opinions and, like you say, just accept being myself. Doing this, though, takes getting to the point where you value your own judgement and realize that your own opinion is just as valid and important as someone else's. (This doesn't mean you can't listen to other people's opinions and let them shape your own when you see validity in them.) During my early 20s I was very hard on myself...I naively thought that if I were thinner, more beautiful, more this, more that, relationships might work out better, people might value me more. Eventually I figured out that the key (for me) to happiness is loving myself as I am and not needing others' approval, though it is nice to have.:) If people are unkind to you, no amount of work on your exterior will make things better...and besides, if it *did*, those people weren't and probably would never be true friends anyway. What got me to finally stop turning to others to help bolster my self-worth was experiencing time and again when relationships went bad that it was much better to be alone than to be with someone with whom I felt lonely. I learned that, though the feelings sucked for a while, I could survive relationship break-ups and feel stable again. Getting to the point where I didn't *need* others helped free me from needing their approval. Heh heh...I still like hearing, though, that I'm giving you good critiques! Perhaps that is *my* vanity showing itself! ;) |
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The things I put in bold with what you said, I can't agree enough. |
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This one is very personal... umm... I wasn't going to post it. Just wrote it now because I'm not feeling the best. So... here it is :shycouch:
Past, Present, Future - VERSE 1 - Make this go on forever, never tell me it’s over In this timely comfort In this timely moment Happiness burns brightest, and brighter still Leave the flame alight, and never let it fade… - PRE-CHORUS - But oh no… I cannot stay Although I will not leave, this has to end… I know I know… - CHORUS 1 - This time… Best moments of my life, but then the music is over (the music is over) - VERSE 2 - Ride home once more, lived this life once before For one time, one more moment For one more comfort Happiness flickers in silence, and remains calmly still Leave the flame alight, and never let it fade… - PRE-CHORUS - - CHORUS 1 - (x2) - BRIDGE - Now I know… I cannot stay Although I must now leave, it wont end I know I know… These moments stay with me These moments stay with me… Although I must now leave, it wont end I know I know… - CHORUS 2 - (x3) This time… Best moments of my life, and the music plays once again (I hear it forever) - OUTRO – Make this go on forever, never tell me it’s over… |
You're moving so fast,
the world loses its focus An image An icon as the colour fades One less soul, in a soulless love An unused heart is starting to break A part of the plan, laid out for you To move on, to move on Now the image sets upon one more soul (something I just couldn't finish...) |
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Since you talk about the "best moments of my life," I am reminded of Bryan Adams' song, "Summer of 69," which is one of my favorite songs that describes nostalgia for the past: One issue I've thought about, while reading your lyrics, is that often you seem to write about your feelings in general terms, rather then describing the details of the events that trigger your feelings. Sometimes I miss the events, the people, who cause the feelings you experience. When I hear more concrete bits of a *story* I can imagine the story, and this triggers the feelings in me, whereas reading about how the feelings feel directly causes sympathy and understanding but doesn't necessarily trigger the experience of the same feelings. So, for example, in "Summer of 69" the image of the girl on her mama's porch sticks in my mind, inspiring my imagination, and I feel the longing, the yearning, the nostalgia. If Bryan Adams simply said, "I feel longing, yearning, nostalgia for her" I would understand, but I wouldn't feel those feelings. When I hear the details of what he did with this girl, *then* I start to sink into his moment, feel it as if I were there. Quote:
Your partial song sounds like it is describing someone ripping himself, or being pulled, slowly away from something he feels he can't have in life. |
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I really want to get better writing in that way though. It tends to become a mess for me when I do. Maybe writing general feelings allow people to decipher their own meanings or put forward their own moments in the lyrics? That could be the only positive side of generalisation like that. Maybe I shouldn't be afraid of opening up and explaining more? Quote:
As always Erica, thank you for your helpful words. I'll try opening up more, maybe to include some events that I've grown up experiencing? Like I said, I find it hard to write that way. But if I don't at least try then I'll never know what I could write next. - Russ |
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I start writing and then start to think...
'What if I'm saying this now and I'm completely taking something the wrong way? Out of context?' Like, say for example, I was to write about a significant moment in my life that turned out wasn't the way I remember it. I want to be honest in what I'm saying. It won't mean the same thing to me if I suddenly were to realise what I was writing was wrong. Maybe I think about it too much and that's what messes it up. ...maybe I just can't find the words sometimes and am making things easier through generalisation? I like to be challenged, I'm going to have to overcome my insecurities I think. EDIT: Great songs you posted too btw :thumb: |
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My perspective on it is a little different, perhaps: when in the past I have written about particular events in my life, my goal was just to capture how I viewed them at that moment. So I have a mess of old poems that make me chuckle now because my view of the situations described in them *is* different now...but I still like having a record of how I felt about something at the time. These old poems are like an internal photograph. Like that poem of how you felt seated next to a park statue, two people so close but unable to turn to each other, my old poems take me to a particular moment in my life and to a person I was who has changed in some ways since then. Maybe, DiSTANT, as an exercise, you could try writing about some situation the way you recall yourself viewing it in the past, and then write a second song/poem about the same situation as you see it now, from a greater perspective! :) Or, you could take a current situation (what is weighing on you now) and write about it as you imagine yourself viewing the situation in the future...or as how you wish you'll see it in the future. |
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It's been quite a while...
Into The Night (Let The Light Lead) Let your light lead Set the crystal alight Echoing the call Piercing into the night Let the light lead across page after page spoken word for word Let your light lead Empty fields span an open universe With figures spinning, singing Into the night An echoes movement, softer still Dancing toward a distant light Drifting further into the night Empty fields frozen over time With figures staring silent Into the night An echoes movement, softer still fading further… Floating toward an approaching light Let yourself be and set yourself free Read the words The voice spoken all at once they stand still Let yourself see and set yourself free Forever let the light lead |
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