Song Lyrics as Poetry - MFLMG

[thefool_wa]

I wrote a series of songs just as lyrics (before I could play the guitar and before I had a computer to compose on). Most of these don't really have a tune, but I do have at least rhythm parts in mind.

I wrote these under the pseudonym Gabriel Paige, a name I found appropriately gothic for 1994. The band was labeled "My Favorite Little Mind Game". This stuff is dark, dark, dark, so be warned.

Enjoy. And as always please share song lyrics you have written.

Anywhere But Here
The wind is blowing shivers
Down my splintered spine of glass
Carry on away from me
This night into the past
The world outside is cold and pale
Against the frosted crystal pane
Loosing all its meaning
Hopelessly mundane

chorus
I can be alive (I will have no fear)
I can touch the sky (I will keep it near)
I can greet the dawn (I will hold it dear)
I can be alive (anywhere but here)

Darkness holds at bay the light
Pounding out its glow
My reflections in the looking glass
With nothing left to show
Searching through the mind
Of someone I don't know
Hiding deep within myself
There's nowhere left to go

chorus

bridge
What angels (live in my heaven)
What monsters (kill in my moor)
What sentries (covet my secrets)
What henchmen (settle my scores)

I have found the means
To heal my spine of glass
I can change all that is
Hope I feel at last
Shiny metal pore
Cool against my ear
Please just send me somewhere
Anywhere but here.

chorus


Safeword
I found a little fantasy.
One I think you might enjoy.
All you have to do,
Is be my favorite toy.
Don't rest even a second
On my joyful, painful ride.
This game is ours to play

chorus
I know the game is over
But I still want to play
Stalking darkened streets
Hunting helpless prey.
I cannot explain the pain I must extend.
Say the word to stop it all.
Say the work to make it end.

I hope its just a game
Sometimes all too real.
Your lips refuse to say a thing
Through the pain I know you feel.
I finally say, "We have to stop!"
"The price is far too high!"
Then tell you all the angers gone
And wonder why I lie.

chorus

bridge
Pain,
Is what I am,
Lost inside this fantasy.
Pain,
Is what I am,
No longer in control.
Forgetting who I was.

chorus

I want so much to hunt
I must have gone insane.
Never have I wanted
To distribute so much pain.
I'm begging you to say the words
Before I find my prey.
I'm begging you to end this game.
This game I want to play.

[thefool_wa]

1. Self kick (I feel dirty)

OK, no response yesterday. Maybe sunday people will like dark song lyrics better.

Here's one more. Same period.

Slave to the Flux
Hatched alive
From silicone eggs
The pure will survive
Destroying the dregs
Life as a slave
Taught to adore
Live to the grave
The beauty of war

chorus
Cloned to kill
Trained to destroy
Absent of will
A mindless toy
God help the stupid fucks
Who dare to go against the flux

One will succeed
Where thousands will fail
Best of the breed
In glistening mail
In battle she plays
Tossing bodies aside
The longer she stays
The deeper the pride

chorus

Fall from the skies
Angel of woe
For each on that dies
Ten more will show

chorus

Endlessly bold
Her home she defends
Priceless as gold
This war without end
And still they will fall
Those sniveling fucks
No end to it all
A slave to the flux...