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[bipolarmunkey]

So I decided to make a thread where I can post all of my stuff, without cluttering the forum. Please feel free to comment, offer advice, bash or praise! Any feedback is welcome!

Just for the record, for the songs. Here's what the different types of font mean:

Plain - Verse
Italic - Prechorus
Bold - Chorus

Hope that helps.

Here's the first couple of entries:

Bones

As you try to bend my thoughts
Break my will and isolate my hopes
Broken by the lack of faith
Jaded by shattered bones

I won't pull out the shards from my skin
I'll watch it all as the pain pours in
I'll take a sip from the poisoned cup
Say goodbye because I've had enough

As the body's cut down
The soul ruptured and the eyes gouged out
The symphony will play
A hymn of pain

Where everything's gone
The dreams, the hopes
There is no one
Welcome to your grave

The flames in my eyes illuminate
As my muscles tense & my mind grows numb
I can't move I'm frozen in pain
I begin to hate what I've become

A demon in the night, for light I search
Blackness behind and I have learned
To hold back anger, and put forth faith
Expel the darkness and shun the hate

But it's not as easy as it sounds
The weight of the world is crashing down
I've already drank from the poisoned cup
To late to change, I've had enough

Chorus

As the choir in my mind searches to find
The answer behind this mystery
Why I yearn for pain and rage
Is only found through my memories

The damage caused, the story so vague
I'd help myself but it's too late
With my last sip from this poisoned cup
I'll tell you that I've had enough...

Chorus

Scarred

Cut open my scars, and let the pain seethe
The memories within them set me free
The question that I ask every night
Why bless the blind and curse those with sight

To see the horrors and seal our fate
And live with the selfish, locked in their cage
To understand the difference and understand the pain
To go what they go through, and go insane

A twisted lie before a fitting truth
The numbing note to a forgotten tune
Swallowed pride amongst the lost and aimless
Choking on time, are the brave but nameless

Who followed those who conformed to the end
Waiting for judgment, waiting in sin
Taking the lives of the innocent
To late to realize that their souls are bent, in

The faded truth, and the lost lies
Push me on through the hollow night
The fear and loneliness, that surrounds me
The familiar sound of tragedy

The last grain of sand, stolen in fear
The hourglass broken, the pieces near
Waiting to be picked up again
But no one dares come close my friend

Though my soul may not heal,
You see my pain, and you feel
The shards that have pierced my skin
Running through dark, I've fallen in

The hole with the souls that have been condemned
Drowning in pain and waiting
To posses your body and crawl out
With a grin on their face, they've got life now

And now I hope you see
The abyss that has swallowed me
Lies become truth and the pain becomes real
Now you'll finally feel

The dark that engulfs the world you knew
Everything crumbles in front of you
Take the light now, and embrace it
Don't hesitate, too late to chase it...in

Chorus

And, towards the end
Follow through and cut me down again
As I walk on, as a broken soul
The air is dense and my body so cold

And a sting, goes down my spine
And I know I'm out of time...from the...

Chorus

Hope you enjoy! Feedback welcome!

[TrevorW]

Seems like good stuff to me -- again, I don't know a lot about lyrics. I wouldn't mind hearing these played.

Cheers

[bipolarmunkey]

This is actually some older stuff. The newer stuff is being recorded soon (in about 2 weeks actually) with my band Far From Sundown. I will post a link to them, once we have it up. The songs to look for are:

Damien, Never Stop and Cycle.

[TrevorW]

What kind of music is this? I sense light rock/ alternative.

[bipolarmunkey]

Well it's a pretty good mix of Hard Rock/Alternative/General Rock. But it's kinda of a cool mixture of influences.

Our drummer listens to heavy stuff like: Pantera, Metallica, Godsmack etc

Our Siner listens to stuff like: U2, Nine Inch Nails, Rob Thmoas, Matchbox 20 etc.

Our bassist is into: Tool, Glass Jaw, Atreyu etc

I'm the guitarist and I listen to everything: Fleetwood Mac, Chicago to Five Finger Death Punch, Greenday, 10 Years, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed.

So you can see it's kinda of a unique mixture of influences. But it comes together nicely and I can't wait til it's all done.

[TrevorW]

At 2/1/10 07:36 PM, bipolarmunkey wrote:

So you can see it's kinda of a unique mixture of influences. But it comes together nicely and I can't wait til it's all done.

Send me a copy! Would give better context to your work.

[bipolarmunkey]

At 2/1/10 07:38 PM, TrevorW wrote:

At 2/1/10 07:36 PM, bipolarmunkey wrote:

So you can see it's kinda of a unique mixture of influences. But it comes together nicely and I can't wait til it's all done.

Send me a copy! Would give better context to your work.

Absolutely. If you go to our site, farfromsundown.com. it'll lead you right to our myspace. no music is up yet, because like I said, we're recording in 2 weeks. But we'll have some up there soon. But we have some bio's and all that if you wanna send a request that's cool. We do a cover of Song 2 by Blurr and are working the song Wasteland by 10 years. Should be a good time.

I'll definitely keep you posted. Thanks man.

[bipolarmunkey]

Dead End

As my thoughts bend,
My will is broken and
The pain's too real for this to be fake

As the dream ends,
I can't see it,
The world I loved when I was awake

In my absence,
What has happened,
To the life that I left behind

All these changes,
Same places, different faces
All these things I don't recognize

And it's all new to me
Although I know I've been here before
All directions seem to lead
Me to this place, but I don't know what for

Another dead end...for me again

As the road ends,
I turn to walk again
To find my shadow drifting away

As I reach out
I start to break down
My world is gone, and nothing's gained

In my absence,
What has happened,
To the life that I left behind

All these changes,
Same places, different faces
All these things I don't recognize

And it's all new to me
Although I know I've been here before
All directions seem to lead
Me to this place, but I don't know what for

Another dead end...for me again

[Break Down]

It's all new to me
Although I know I've been here before
All directions seem to lead
Me to this place, but I don't know what for

Another dead end...another dead end
Just another...dead end...

[bipolarmunkey]

A little darker than normal, but I was having a really bad day when I wrote this...like 3 years ago, lol.

Dream Catcher

I'm the dream that never comes real
The feeling you wish you didn't feel
I'm the bad thought placed in your mind
I'm the ache and pain that you just can't find

I'm the spike that impales the bone
The heartache you get, when you're alone
The quiver and quake that you always feel
Is me on my way to make your fears real

Death on duty and saviors on hold
The streetlights dim and the air gets cold
You feel a shiver go down your spine
I'm here to tell you that your soul is mine

I'm the one, who wrongs the right,
The unholy one who corrupts the night
Cadaver and friends they all will feed
On the essence of your so called dreams

I'm what you say couldn't ever be real
The lies you believed, is what you'll feel
The pain you'll carry and the sadness you've kept
Is from the nights where everyone wept

About the missing and shrouded the dead
They did a head count, but missed your head
The lives lost in the endless battle
Is nothing but a silent rattle

In the mind, where silence slays
Loudness forgotten, and debts are paid
The times are hard and memories die
Only to dry up and eventually lie

In the hourglass of forgotten time
Waiting to break and unleash the lines
Of those who wrote down all of their pain
And wish at night, to just be slain

For the better of those that live around
The lies where thick and tightly wound
Into life after life as the pendulum swings
Days go by, and demons sing...

Death on duty and saviors on hold
The streetlights dim and the air gets cold
You feel a shiver go down your spine
I'm here to tell you that your soul is mine

Laying down the rules of despair
The crumbling skies and the gas filled air
The demons hunting through your mind
Searching and searching just to find

That all the pain that lays hidden
Is quite surprising and somewhat fitting
Taking chances and running away
From all of the pain

Is showing me just how you are
You're running away, but you won't get far
Stay to fight and fend for yourself
Take the dreams off of your shelf

I'll drive the stake through your bitter cold heart
Where feelings of love have been torn apart
Then I'll twist and churn the shattered wood
And put your life to end for good...because...

Death on duty and saviors on hold
The streetlights dim and the air gets cold
You feel a shiver go down your spine
I'm here to tell you that your soul is mine

Trying save the life you comprised
Is already gone, you've met your demise
That soul of yours is now dead and spent
Your body burnt and your dreams are bent

As time goes by your memory fades
The lies you lived and choices you've made
You'll pay for them when I'm done
Unleashing Hell, but try and stay strong

Paying for your transgression
Trying to break your sick obsession
Of lying to those who you hold dear
Listen to the demons, and you may hear...

Death on duty and saviors on hold
The streetlights dim and the air gets cold
You feel a shiver go down your spine
I'm here to tell you that your soul is mine