Lyrical Lyricalness

[Mippin]

Marionette
by Gandalf


A vision of mortality - all spirits reign supreme
Watched and controlled - these emotions are crucifying me

Who can you trust
when you are lost
Who'll show the way
when you're astray
Who tells the truth
to the world and the youth
Don't need an answer to this
'cos I'm in a sacred bliss

When you're a marionette
locked by your lost emotions, dancing to images of clowns
When you're a puppet
looking through the eyes of the dead, on your lost, burning soul

Who is the fool
is it me or you
Do you know the way
when you are astray
try to find out
what life is about
Don't hesitate
before it's too late

You hail to the king
you know that he will win
But in the mirror you see
a puppet with a face of grief

*chuckles* Somehow it seemed to fit...

[elberethvarda]

By Gandalf??

[Marigold Gamgee]

Yes indeed. It was discovered in the Tower (y'know.. the one on the Tower Hills...) shortly after he had departed Middle-earth via the Grey Havens. I think Sam had it published for him, and insisted that it wasn't being published posthumously, though the publishers weren't so sure.

[Mippin]

*laughs* I like Mari's explanation better, but Gandalf is a heavy metal band... yeah.

[Amarië]

*chuckles* Somehow it seemed to fit...

Yes, fits in just about every situation.. doesn't it? *snicker*

Gandalf writes such interesting lyrics... It'd be funny to hear him sing those lyrics, too...

[Mippin]

*laughs* I think Galadriel is even funnier, though... ooh.. I wonder what Arwen sounds like... Can ye imagine it? Arwen rocking out in her black gothic gown, with torn sleeves, and the bottom all frayed and ripped terribly, tons of arm bands, tattooes.. wild hair... yelling her lungs out...

[Marigold Gamgee]

Chains. The whole thing would be nothing without the chains. She could fall on them, what's more.

Y'know what I'd like to see? A hobbit band.. quite possibly a hobbit punk band.. with a hobbit bassist. *grins hugely*

[Mippin]

Would I really want Arwen to fall on 'er chains, though? ^^;

I think they were called Oneless, or something to dedicate the one-less member they 'ad... 's about as close as ye get. ^^

[Marigold Gamgee]

Maybe not...

Aye, but a three-member band's a bit small, no? I can think of whom they might add, but 's too funny to say..

[Amarië]

Why would we want to see Arwen fall on chains? That's Arwen-abuse.. the bad kind. But if we're talking about the usurping-Arwen, then yes, it'd be a bit funny... Actually, it be funny either way, because if anyone falls over on chains, it's just plain funny; unless they got seriously injured, I'd still laugh not matter who it was. If I were to trip over some chains now, I'd start laughing at my own self.

Arwen rocking out in her black gothic gown, with torn sleeves, and the bottom all frayed and ripped terribly, tons of arm bands, tattooes.. wild hair... yelling her lungs out...

*snicker* that'd be fun.. save the tattoes and wild hair... but yelling is fun... and that'd be funny to see, especially if I had a camera.

[Mippin]

I meant usurping-Arwen, yes. ^^ Hum.. MORE LYRICS!

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Iron Maiden

Hear the rime of the Ancient Mariner
See his eye as he stops one of three
Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares
of the Sea

And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and
the Mariner tells his tale.

Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
To a place where nobody's been
Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
Hailed in God's name,
hoping good luck it brings.

And the ship sails on, back to the North
Through the fog and ice and
the albatross follows on

The mariner kills the bird of good omen
His shipmates cry against what he's done
But when the fog clears, they justify him
And make themselves a part of the crime.

Sailing on and on and North across the sea
Sailing on and on and North 'till all is calm

The albatross begins with its vengeance
A terrible curse a thirst has begun
His shipmates blame bad luck on the Mariner
About his neck, the dead bird is hung.

And the curse goes on and on at sea
And the curse goes on and on for them and me.

"Day after day, day after day,
we stuck nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
Water, water everywhere and
all the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink."

[SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1798-1834)]

There, calls the mariner
there comes a ship over the line
But how can she sail with no wind
in her sails and no tide.

See... onward she comes
Onwards she nears, out of the sun
See... she has no crew
She has no life, wait but there's two

Death and she Life in Death,
they throw their dice for the crew
She wins the Mariner and he belongs to her now.
Then ... crew one by one
They drop down dead, two hundred men
She... She, Life in Death.
She lets him live, her chosen one.

[NARRATIVE]
"One after one by the star dogged moon,
too quick for groan or sigh
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang
and cursed me with his eye
Four times fifty living men
(and I heard nor sigh nor groan),
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
they dropped down one by one."

[SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1798-1834)]

The curse it lives on in their eyes
The Mariner he wished he'd die
Along with the sea creatures
But they lived on, so did he.

And by the light of moon
He prays for their beauty not doom
With heart he blesses them
God's creatures all of them too.

Then the spell starts to break
The albatross falls from his neck
Sinks down like lead into the Sea
Then down in falls comes the rain.

Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
See them stir and they start to rise
Bodies lifted by good spirits
None of them speak
and they're lifeless in their eyes

And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.

Now the curse is finally lifted
And the Mariner sights his home
Spirits go from the long dead bodies
Form their own light and
the Mariner's left alone

And then a boat came sailing towards him
It was a joy he could not believe
The Pilot's boat, his son and the hermit
Penance of life will fall onto Him.

And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea
And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins

The Mariner's bound to tell of his story
To tell his tale wherever he goes
To teach God's word by his own example
That we must love all things that God made.

And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man
And the tale goes on and on and on.


^^

[Arwen]

*gasp* I'm being usurped!!!!!! *runs away and hides*

This is Your Life By Switchfoot

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life and today is all you've got now
And today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Is it everything you've dreamed it would be
When the world was younger
and you had everything to lose

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over

This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
is it everything you've dreamed it would be
when the world was younger
and you had everything to lose

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

[Amarië]

Vitamin R
by Chevelle

Some will learn; many do.
Cover up or spread it out.
Turn around, had enough,
Pick and choose or pass it on.
Buying in, heading for
Suffer now or suffer then.
It's bad enough
I want the fear... need the fear

[Pre-Chorus]
Cause he's alone (he has become)
He's alone (he has become)

[Chorus:]
Well if they're making it, making it
Then they're pushing it, pushing it
And they're leading us along
The hassle of all the screaming fits
That panic makes remorse

After all, what's the point?
Course levitation is possible.
If you're a fly; achieved and gone
Theres time for this and so much more.
It's typical - create a world
A special place of my design
To never cope or never care just use the key

[Pre-Chorus]
Cause he's alone (where have we gone)
He's alone (where have we gone)

[Chorus]

Over and Over a slave
Became
Over and Over a slave
Became
Over and Over a slave
Became
Over and Over a slave
Became

[Chorus x2]

The Red
by Chevelle

They say freak,
When you're singled out,
The red, well it filters through.

So lay down, the threat is real,
When his sight goes red again.
Seeing red again,
Seeing red again.

This change, he won't contain,
Slip away, to clear your mind.
When asked, who made it show,
The truth, he gives in to most.

So lay down, the threat is real,
When his sight goes red again.

So lay down, the threat is real,
When his sight goes red again.
So lay down, the threat is real,
When his sight goes red again.

Seeing red again,
Seeing red again,
Seeing red again,
Seeing red again,
Seeing red again,
Seeing red again,
Seeing red again,
Seeing red....

They say freak...
When you're singled out.
The red, it filters through...



gah, there's some very messed up and off lyrics for Vitamin R, but I think I've found the closest one.

two very spiffy songs.. Woo, Chevelle! *scampers off*

[Galadrie*snackle*den]

Chevelle's Spiffy. ^_^

Hole - Reasons to be Beautiful

Love hangs herself
With the bedsheets in her cell
Threw myself on fires for you
10 good reasons to stay alive
10 good reasons that I can't find
Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, give me one reason to be beautiful
Oh, and everything I am
Love hates you
I live my life in ruins for you
And for all your secrets kept
I squashed the blossom a nd the blossom's dead
Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, and I will make myself so beautiful
Oh, and everything I am
Miles and miles of perfect skin
I swear I do, I fit right in
My love burns through everything
I cannot breathe
Miles and miles of perfect sin
I swear, I said, I fit right in
I fit right in your perfect skin
I cannot breathe
Hey, baby, take it all the way...down
Hey, baby, taste me anyway
Oh, you were born
So pretty oh summerbabe
We'll never know...
And fading like a rose
Give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
I'll give you my body, just sell me your soul
Oh, and everything I am will be bought and sold
Oh, and everything I am will turn hard and cold
And they say in the end
You'll get bitter just like them
And they steal your heart away
When the fire goes out you better learn to fake
It's better to rise than fade away...
Hey you were right
Named a star for your eyes
Did you freeze did you weep
Turn to gold, baby, sleep
Hey honey mine
I was there all the time
And I weep at your feet
And it rains and rains

-Menelien

[Mippin]

Eeeenteresting..

Okay, so now comes the time I flood you all out with Iron Maiden lyrics. Enjoy. ^^

Flash of the Blade

As a young boy chasing Dragons
with your wooden sword so mighty,
You're St. George or you're David and you always
killed the beast
Times change very quickly
And you had to grow up early
A house in smoking ruins and the bodies at your feet

[Chorus:]
You'll die as you lived
In a flash of the blade
In a corner forgotten by no-one
You lived for the touch
For the feel of the steel
One man, and his Honour.

The smell of resined leather
The steely iron mask
As you cut and thrust and parried at the
fencing master's call
He taught you all he ever knew
To fear no mortal man
And now you'll wreak your vengeance in the
Screams of e-vile man.

[Chorus:]
[Repeat chorus]


Fear of the Dark

I am a man who walks alone
And when I'm walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park

When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it's dark.

Fear of the dark,fear of the dark
I have constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark,fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there

Have you run your fingers down the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for the light ?
Sometimes when you're scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that something's watching you.

Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no-one's there ?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you're sure there's someone there

Watching horror films the night before
Debating witches and folklore
The unknown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks
You sense,and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing shadows from behind.

Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone's always there.

When I'm walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone

Iron Maiden
It can't be helped.. I wanted an iron maiden when I was little.. so it just fits, and amuses me. Greatly.

Won't you come into my room, I wanna show you all my wares.
I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare.
See the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought.

Oh Well, wherever, wherever you are,
Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far.
See the blood flow watching it shed up above my head.
Iron Maiden wants you for dead.

Won't you come into my room, I wanna show you all my wares.
I just want to see your blood, I just want to stand and stare.
See the blood begin to flow as it falls upon the floor.
Iron Maiden can't be fought, Iron Maiden can't be sought.

Okay, I'm done now. ^^