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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject:
Lyrics Subject description: Sharing our Words with You...
Tonight we welcome a new member into our fold, rainshadow, with whom I've done some collaboration on songs. She writes lyrics and speaks or sings them and she's looking for folks to collaborate with her on some tunes. Anyway, to welcome her I wrote this song which was inspired by something Jan said in the chat room. Hope you like it.
Les
Quote:
The Prayer Machine Broke Down
"Lord why have you forsaken me?"
Said Jesus on the cross
Nails in his hands and gouged in his side
They say the lord was with him
I faced my own crucifixion
A time when I was all alone
No prayer did help me
No word from God came forth
For God he tests you eternally
To see the depth of your faith
Through Hell you'll go and back again
Just to prove your love of Him
I will not play this game of His
No longer shall I accept torture
It's said he will not test you
Beyond your ability to withstand
If that is true, then I must be steel
For the evil that struck me
Was beyond what I could stand
More pain than I could take
The prayer machine broke down
The prayer machine broke down
The prayer machine broke down
_________________ "Let's make noise for peace." - Kijjaz
Joined: Nov 05, 2009 Posts: 14 Location: the rainshadowed desert
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject:
into the fold of space time relay
backwards forwards add a delay
written or spitten its hittin today...
~~~~~~~~
blessed by your presence...
at your behest...
what's in the chest?
does it stand up to the test?
at rest
i'm chillen
three-sixty degrees fillin
separation of self
reparation no tell
i fell repeated
rhymed while i'm seated
defined by my limitations
reclined deliniations
of black and white style
monochrome dialed
kindness seen, filed
i'm happy to be
here u see
invite u to read
to maybe speak
rhyme if you please
edit or flow
we wont really know
inspiration
curious sensation
sentient relation
deserted station
real life invasion
****oh noessss!**** it's a mess i confess...but maybe it gets across a message, like...come post your lyrics and rhymes here and stuff!
Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 6221 Location: near Austin, Tx, USA
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:
I wrote this song shortly after getting home from EM09. It's a true story. Enjoy.
Les
Quote:
In my deepest, darkest nightmare
I never would have dreamed
The fate that would befall me
Abuse of the highest order
The Christians spread their lies about me
An invisible enemy gave me an insect infestation
And another invaded my privacy horribly
All these things were done to me
As if that wasn't bad enough
Crept up a brand new evil
A little thing called madness
My Paranoid Schizophrenia
Thank God for friends and family
Especially my mom
Who took me back and nurtured me
As the pain slowly subsided
I crashed and burned it drove me mad
But little did I know
This personal crucifixion
Would be followed by pure joy
It took eight years of recovery
But when the wounds were healed
I arose like the Phoenix from the fire
Reforged and made anew
I stumbled onto ChucK
Which led me to this festival
A member of our community
I now am a very wealthy man
No, not riches or success
But things that really matter
Like friendships, cameraderie
On the forum and in the chat
Now I live my life compulsively
Driven by a lust for life
Music it flows out of me
And words they tell my story
Now I have a radio show
On electro-music.com
I joke around and have my fun
With friends present and past
Follow me, we'll have some fun
A good time for everyone
We'll ChucK up some fine music
And play that guessing game
Posting to the forum
We support each other faithfully
Our projects, ideas, and rants
Shared with the world for all to see
Join me in the chat room
Where my buds and me do gather
We talk about all this and that
And share pleasure with each other
Keep your wealth, your gold, your jewelry
Your house, your boat, your stuff
I have something far better than that
Frienship, music and yes memories
For you cannot take it with you
Might as well burn your cash
In the long distant future or so I hope
I'll jam with my friends in the afterlife
Join me in this paradise
For now Heaven is on Earth
I've found the ultimate climax
It's eternal and I live it every day
_________________ "Let's make noise for peace." - Kijjaz
Joined: Nov 05, 2009 Posts: 14 Location: the rainshadowed desert
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:
I sung this to a song i don't have the rights to, but would love to share it, so if anyone want to hear it then let me know and i'll send it privately, it's one of those 'for promo purposes only' things.
CHASING DEMONS
chasing demons
spiral seeming
path with no end
followed it in
found begin
their conception
their birth
where they appeared first
borne of fears and hurts
to understand
why they haunt my land
underside creeping
beneath true seeing
leaking through
all I do
they shadow step
the dark instead
of facing light
the revealing shine
might melt their essence
dissolve their presence
so shrinking away
they leave by day
but stubbornly stay
at night they play
inside or out
darkness of doubts
their landscape of pain
past to present again
memories are sent
negative bent
blanket decent
a smothering cover
cowering under
i hide
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject:
Kudos to Dan and rainshadow for their awesome lyrics. So you thought this would be lyrics only? Surprise! Here is a recording of Christian Man performed by myself with Howard doing keyboard on his G2 near the close of the EM09 festival. Woohoo! What a blast it was, and what an honor to be one of many who closed out the festival! Enjoy...
Les
ChristianMan.mp3
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Christian Man
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_________________ "Let's make noise for peace." - Kijjaz
I'm really enjoying this 'un! one thing, though. In my experience, anyone who's not Bob Dylan - and sometimes even he - will probably need to follow up the all-important brainstorming phase, where one tries to spew out (and I mean this in the nicest way possible, albeit slightly jealously, as I seem to have ruined my lyric writing muscle) as much text as possible, with the heartbreak of "killing your babies." By that, I mean the phase where you decide which lines/verses to bin and which to leave in. When I was able to write, back in the paleolithic areas, I sometimes chucked out the best lines or couplets, if they didn't help the song. Nowasays, of course, I immediatly start editing, so that hardly anything gets written, and what little DOES get written gets binned straight away... _________________ Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:13 am Post subject:
Yes Oskar, my lyrics are definitely "spewed out", but I don't think I'll change them. If you can do something better with them, I welcome your edits and modifications. I have more, perhaps I'll post those as well.
Les
p.s. thanks for your comments, appreciated for sure! _________________ "Let's make noise for peace." - Kijjaz
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject:
edit? what is that?
freeflowed rant
no room for recant
it is what it is
so let it spin
back to begin
i strive
to strike
timeless lights
into hearts of night
and speak right
truely designed
to bind
and remind
to let go to find
the inner kind
of purpose
no purchase
just bits
slid into place
its all it takes
Oh, another, probably more positive way of describing "killing your babies" might be to call it "cherry-picling." I know that Dylan does that on occasion - he'll write 2o verses and use the ones that he likes best at that moment, then maybe he'll chuck (ahah, I knew you'd like that word! ) in a few of the ones he didn't use on the record, either in addition to, or in stead of, the ones from the record. Or he might rewrite a few lines. What I'm getting at is, it's probably a good thing not to see ones lyrics as carved in stone! And I'm a fine one to talk, not having written a lyric for nigh on twenty years... _________________ Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:41 am Post subject:
Here is a pdf file that I created some time ago. It contain an introduction and the lyrics for my Paranoid Schizophrenia album. The album tells much of the story of the abuse that I received in 1999/2000 which led to a schizophrenic breakdown, the weapon story, and finally my recovery from madness. I released an album containing most of the songs on OCP's netlabel, EdP.
Point taken, Oskar. I should not see those lyrics as final, but will feel free to edit them later.
Les
Les, I would not presume to tell you what to do, in fact I'd rather you look at Danno Gee Ray's comment: "All just points of departure." Spot on! _________________ Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)
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Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:24 am Post subject:
audiodef wrote:
Nice lyrics, Les! May I borrow the phrase prayer machine? I like the phrase Jehovah the abuser, too.
Sure, well it's Jan's phrase but I'm quite sure he wouldn't mind. Although it may seem like sacrilege, Jehovah the abuser seems fitting to me in the context of Job. When we look at the atrocities of God as told in the Bible, the phrase seems appropriate.
Les _________________ "Let's make noise for peace." - Kijjaz
By that, I mean the phase where you decide which lines/verses to bin and which to leave in.
the last time I wrote a text I had a couple of lines, but ended up with just
Code:
I forgot the words
The other lines didn't work ... I've been using this text for a couple of radio sessions now
Inventor wrote:
well it's Jan's phrase
And that same text now runs through the prayer machine from time to time. The prayer machine is just a couple of delay loops BTW with pitch change & stuff.
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) in a few of the ones he didn't use on the record, either in addition to, or in stead of, the ones from the record. Or he might rewrite a few lines. What I'm getting at is, it's probably a good thing not to see ones lyrics as carved in stone! And I'm a fine one to talk, not having written a lyric for nigh on twenty years...
the last time I wrote a text I had a couple of lines, but ended up with just
