I wanted to write a cheese metal song ala 80's thrash

 I have been listening to The Darkness and was inspired.  I wanted to just do something goofy like they do so i took the Hicks Road idea and worked it into this.  It's a goofy metal song sort of thrash meets weird al covering thrash.  Hope you find it fun!




Diving on a school night
Away form the city lights
One lane bridge to the farm
They want to do you harm

Moonlight on milk white skin
troubles about to begin
broken chain watching eyes
No one hears your cries

Hicks road running red
bone white Satan's word
Dark rites raise the dead
horror soon be heard

ride ever faster
got to get away
Pale haunting laughter
They want you to stay

ride ever faster
got to get away
Pale haunting laughter
They want you to stay

Now your running blind
Not one of our kind
Were going to find you
Nothing you can do

Hicks road running red
bone white Satan's word
Dark rites raise the dead
horror soon be heard

ride ever faster
got to get away
Pale haunting laughter
They want you to stay

First Full Moon of Autumn

Draw closer to me.
I know I've nothing,
you want, to give.
Tonight is something

I'm better with you
than I am without.
Laughing dreaming
you won't know about.

but were just strangers
nothing in the way.
No silly love!
Still want you to stay.

Help me end the day.
The moon is so bright!
With fall coming
I feel old tonight.

Too old for forever;
not much still remains
harvest's coming
cleaving bones and grain.

lets be together
only for tonight.
Been yours forever
just now see the light.

You've been my forever
never got it right.
You've been my forever
I never got it right.

Lost My Nerve

I wrote this with the Nick Lowe song And So It Goes running in my head on repeat.  I hope this works, I don't really know what it is a song a poem.

 In the air there is absolute devotion.
Ill stay in her arms ever after.
In the morning it wasn't like this;
I was hopeless , and alone.

I took myself to the lakeside
and thought about walking in.
clothes and all, sink like a stone.
Lost my nerve and , headed home.

In the sky, the sun was sinking
down upon the streets of Cahalan.
It felt like someone was waiting
for something that , I didn't Know----

Calling through the streets ever after
Calling for someone , I don't know
Somethings right tonight I will find her
Where she is, I don't know

She'll be everywhere that I'm not!
Next door to my favorite restaurant.
Turning late, I'm flying solo
Just my myself , and my radio----

Calling through the streets ever after
Calling for someone , I don't know
Somethings right tonight I will find her
Where she is, I don't know

Around midnight and I'm at a movie
sitting by myself in the back row.
Looking around who's next to me
arm in arm watching  , the picture show.

Calling through the streets ever after
Calling for someone , I don't know
Somethings right tonight I will find her
Where she is, I don't know

A poem based on The Band's "the Weight"

I feel there is more to this and it would go darker than it is now.   I will probably give it some work on the drive home and get back to it later.  But hearing The Weight played by the band so much this came out.  I guess all the radio stations are playing that song due to Levon Helm's death.  I tried to do something like song lyrics.  This would sort of work on a low key down beat shuffle if you want to put it on top of a song.  It am thinking something like The Weight

Stay your hand,
I'll do it in my own time.
Your aching for vengeance
I feel the pains of mine. 

Take down your halo
if you're throwing the first stone. 
It will do you good
to break these here bones.

Rest here a minute
You see them bottle in the trees
She once tied them there
When she still loved me

I'm ain't your rival
I'm broke just like you
but kick my teeth in
If it's what you need to do

Soon she'll be coming
I see her every day
She ain't coming back
I see her everyday

Threw down my gun
I'm a coward or I'd turn on me
See it sitting there
Under the hanging tree

Soon she'll be coming
I see her every day
You say I shot her
Maybe it's true what you say

I ain't been a good man
But I thought she was mine
Trying to hold her
I sure made a mess this time

Soon she'll be coming
I see her every day
She ain't coming back
I see her everyday

Another attempt at writing a song

I was thinking of Sun Kil Moon's "Lily and Parrots" for the rhythm but I was trying to work in the song format.  I don't know if its anything but I work in poetry and prose so much, these felt a little different.


Rage sunk down to my bones
I'll forget it when i'm alone
It's all cold til the highway
Get in the car think ill stay

The house with torn screen door
been calling me forever more
The one we once lived in
from humble starts we begin

Couple years with no problems
Then one more nothing but them
Couple times you broke windows
how many smash tv's i don't know

it's crazy we're still together
maybe we're afraid to be alone
give me back my records!!
No I'm scared to be alone

Sweet love don't ever leave me
Don't hit your ass on the door
give me back my records!!
No I'm scared to be alone

The police don't need to be called
Your crazy bitch glad I called
give me back my records!!
No I'm scared to be alone

it's crazy we're still together
maybe we're afraid to be alone
give me back my records!!
No I'm scared to be alone

Awhile by the water

Going with my statements I am trying to write to keep in the writing state of being.  Which i guess for me could be something like a manic state or personality facet.  I am feeling the meter from a song called Glenn Tipton by Sun Kil Moon.  I think some of the words are coming from Rush's Bacchus Plateau. 

Its unedited and less word pruned than I usually like to be.  I am trying to be more folk spun simple and use words like I might speak.  I am not this overly dramatic person that may come through in my writing, which is almost angular.  I am much more Kerouac than I am Ginsberg in person.  I don't know about big displays, they seem suspect to me.  I am the quiet person in the corner that leaves early and writes even in a party of writers. 

I am working on my ten thousand reps here.  Small movements to see what works but still make it feel like me.



I'll pull down the clouds
and head for the sea,
but only if you go with me
awhile by the water

It wont be dark til later
Go whenever you need
"stay" I wont even plead
give me a change of seasons

I'll take the mountains
For my own reasons
Give me hope out loud
chilly morning longing fountain

Play in guises upon the land
Foolish children hand in hand

Sweet Came the Sun

 This is sort of the work that came out of listening to the song Carry Me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon.  I have sort of a memory synesthesia when I hear certain songs.  This took me to the hills behind my house at sun down.  I tried to get it but I started drifting more to the song.  I don't know if this is the song or what.



Sweet came the sun
down lit the hills golden
just before day slipped away
one last kiss for stones to know

then Night things awoke
and there was no cold
eyes looked on eager and still
Higher hope fold in will

clouds turning from pink to grey
just before the light gave way.
All faces on the missed stayed
breaking in sorrow or hate

Lights of our little city arose
promising dreams be true
For some who it was but let
to all the wonder that it was

Split the company awhile
Too much and I get confused
everything swallows me up
if I can't run again away

clouds turning from pink to grey
just before the light gave way.
clouds turning from pink to grey
just before the light gave way.

Highway and far away
regret sets seeping in
familiar like a friend
Looking back on other ends

clouds turning from pink to grey
just before the light gave way.

Fascination Street

I was listening to Fascination Street by the Cure on the radio and this is the song that popped in my head.  It sort of goes with that dark droning music of the song.  I have had a few of these sort of songs or alternate lyrics inspired by another song.  If you have a band and want to use them your welcome to.  Just send me a link.  You can even come up with the title.



Why am I falling apart
Why are you walking away
Ill take you down with me
I'm going to tear it down
I'll burn it all up
Then sweep it under the rug

If I ever get through
You'll be the first I see
If it's the last id do
I'm coming for you

Better keep an eye out
Better watch where you go
Don't you ever stray
from the narrow way
I'll be a thorn in your side
You won't be able to hide

If I ever get through
You'll be the first I see
If it's the last id do
I'm coming for you

So don't be so smug
Thinking you've won
I still have another hand
All will go as planned
You've already lost
before the dice were tossed

If I ever get through
You'll be the first I see
If it's the last id do
I'm coming for you

Tin Man

Lift this sunward veil and Let me enchant this spell.  Draw out the sage and straw from the hills and send them to me.  Give me a cold wind after weary day, I'm wary of oncoming light.  Dream come up on my waking, existent only in night.  Scarecrow give me warning if I'm headed wrong.  Don't tell me to the morning of two suns in the sky.  Moon mirror my heart now radiate like a secret sun, on all the day is done. Scarecrow give me warning

Silly Love

Been a little while since
I set this thing running
I wasnt caught up
but now I'm falling and fumbling

You never broke down my door
I guess im just a bore

Call if your feeling funny
I be waiting by the phone
Kept the old line
In case you called any time

Always around the house
wont miss you I wont be out

Dont worry nothings changed
kept it all the same
I wasnt falling just lazy
Didnt feel like I was crazy

for you