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04-17-2010, 05:22 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Freebase Dali's Toxic Verbal Adventure (part 2)
Since a few of you wanks screwed up my first one, and I'm considerably drunk enough to forgive you for your insolence, here is version 2.
No, this is not a followup snipe invitation. I just sometimes get lyrical/creative writing ideas that stagnate on paper all by their lonesomes. Love it or hate it, just don't troll it. Also... always read my lyrics to a hip hop beat. That's how they're written in my head. If you don't like my lyrics, I'm going to blame your hip hop beat first... so don't be surprised. First order of business: CTRL+Dismay That phony blithe ghost-wife, host to a fading still-life Null-strife performing better than surgery with a dull knife Think your way out of a skull crisis That seagull life is, that regal price is, morally supported vices minus a cost Ink crossed with legal toss fostering evil(er) thoughts On the brink of a lip-sync'd lie from high on the sole of the boss Abstraction for the sole purpose of covering loss The gloss minimum Reality surfaced with pits and sin in 'em So lay down lightly, hands to the front and try to fight me Fuck a daily grind when you can live your life nightly Write a letter to your senator, and this is what you say: Control plus Control plus Control plus Dismay. More to come, unfortunately. Last edited by Freebase Dali; 04-17-2010 at 06:40 AM. |
04-17-2010, 06:25 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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I take an unfortunitely long break from MB and the day I come back you have blessed us with this I hate to say it, but hurrah for drunkenness!
now onto the lyrics themselves. They are quite fun to read outloud to a "hiphop beat," that much is for certain. I don't really understand the CTRL + dismay thing... which is definitely my own ignorance and not yours. The images are fleeting but powerful. I particularly like variation pattern of rhyme and consenence, it bumps up the power level considerably. Really, that's what I get out of this... power. If I tood the time to really piece together the exact meaning of the words and phrases that you use in combination, lets face it, I'd probably get it wrong. But the emotion and strength of those phrases is undeniable. I liked the lines "Think your way out of a skull crisis" and " Fuck a daily grind when you can live your life nightly" in particular. However, there wasn't a line or image or word that made these lyrics stand out any more than anything else you've written (that I've seen/heard) or some of the other lyrics of this type that I've read. They aren't exactly average, but they aren't anything mind blowing either. what the heck, blame my hip hop beat
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04-17-2010, 07:12 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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I love this; your writing always has such a great rhythm. Establishing and maintaing rhythm in the written word is something that I personally think is hard to do. I haven't been able to get on MB regularly as of late but I love that I'm greeted with something else great from you. Please keep posting your stuff
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I like that about writing, because it helps me learn things about myself that I may otherwise be unable to rationalize without some self-analysis. What I take from it though, very generally, is the basic struggle between the need for controlling and being controlled, and the fears that inevitably result. Although that concept is not very well supported in the writing, it's the motive behind it. A revised version would be more explicit, having figured out the point behind my own lyric. Quote:
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04-17-2010, 09:03 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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Anyways, the in the first four lines it flowed perfectly dull knife; skull crisis; seagull life is, etc, but yeah that's about the only critique I had, keep 'em coming man.
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04-17-2010, 09:08 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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I actually worked out the rhythm intensively and it fits, but you gotta have context. I may do a hiphop track with these lyrics expanded to show you what I mean... but they all fit rhythmically. Note that a lot of my lines, including the one you brought up, actually start before the first downbeat of the line it's on. Like an 8th before. Last edited by Freebase Dali; 04-18-2010 at 06:18 AM. |
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