These are the two newest songs (or the lyrics, anyway) that I've written with my still unnamed band. Let me know what you think. I feel like I've
improved in my writing skill since Crime Pays, but I know not too many of you even knew about that stuff.
Same Old Rut
Singin' the same sad, sad songs
Sayin' all the same so longs
Diggin' holes and spinnin' my wheels
Makin' and breakin' the same old deals
I've got the sense I'm losin' time
There's too many things I've left behind
Stood and watched too many doors shut
Wastin' years in this same damn rut
I've got nothin' to prove
And not much more to lose
All my sins have been confessed
Time to pull out of this mess
Two steps forward, three steps back
I'm movin' this train to a brand new track
One of these days I'm movin' on
Don't look for me 'cause I'll be gone
I've got the sense I'm losin' time
Nothin' left to leave behind
On through this door before it's shut
I'm diggin' my own way out of this rut
I love it when a song comes together this easily. I wrote this in about 8 minutes after one of the guitarists in my band played a basic version of the
verse and chorus for us at practice one night. It's currently my favorite song we play, followed closely by the song that was our newest until this
one came together. This next one is based on my troubles with insomnia and general feeling of hate and anger towards the world, which is of course,
thoroughly boosted by all those nights of two or three hours of sleep before jumping out of bed again to get back to another day of the same old shit.
I guess this one's not quite as optimistic as the first one, huh? Here, it's called A Good Night's Sleep
Woke up this morning with my brain
Pounding right out of my skull
Woke up with a hate for the whole world
Cranked right up to full
Hard to get to sleep
Knowin' I'll wake up in the same fuckin' place
Tough to look in the mirror
When you wanna put a fist through every goddamn face
How do you get a good night's rest
When you've never known peace?
How do you come to grips with being
Another germ in the human disease?
How do you get a good night's rest
When you've never known peace?
How do you get through life
When you can't find a moment's release?
Went to bed last night
With blood stained sheets and a hate stained heart
Went to sleep knowin'
Wakin' up is just another day to start
Hard to get outta bed
When you got two hours escape from the world
Can't look forward to anything
'Cause you'll never escape this worldupyerbum - 11-18-2005 at 09:10 PM
As i read these I'm hearing a tune in my head, I don't know if its the right one, but it all rolls very nice. I'm also drunk...ish. and stoned. I find
the best lyrics I've written personally are the ones that roll out of me so fast I can't write them fast enough and I'm frantically yeliing at my bass
player to play that riff again...no not the chorus bit the da-daa-daa-da-da-da bit....yeah, that part. Sorry, I digress...Very good lyrics, they
definitely strike a chord with me and rank as poetry in my opinion...and your story about the 8 minute song brought back a couple memories as you can
well see by my rambling. I thank you for this post. Cheers, and I'll be back somewhere else drunker later.Spoiler - 11-18-2005 at 09:31 PM
fuckin great lyrics mandefstarsteve - 11-18-2005 at 09:50 PM
creamie pies
what the hell is that shit
good work man
ron wants to make us a myspace page...
I don't even think I have any demo's left
and I didn't even get to keep a shirt
and I made the fucking things...tireironsaint - 11-18-2005 at 10:02 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by defstarsteve
creamie pies
what the hell is that shit
good work man
ron wants to make us a myspace page...
I don't even think I have any demo's left
and I didn't even get to keep a shirt
and I made the fucking things...
I still have a couple demos and shirts, if you want some I'll send you
some. I still say we were pretty decent, it's just that as with everything I'm involved in, we didn't fit in anywhere. If we had played more Punk
shows instead of trying for the so-called Hard Core scene, we probably woulda been better off.Voodoobillyman - 11-18-2005 at 10:55 PM
Scary lyrics Big guy, but amazing as well, as pain is the truest form of art in our time. Which leads back to the scary I guess, I am semi drunk as
well and feeling this though, how would you explain the music to this? I have a tune in my head but I am sure it's not rhe same one you ahve written
for it.tireironsaint - 11-18-2005 at 11:17 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Voodoobillyman
how would you explain the music to this? I have a tune in my head but I am sure it's not rhe same one you ahve written for it.
Well, lemme see.... the music is definitely aggressive and heavy, but not in a metal way (which should be
obvious to anyone who knows me at all), there's a lot of melody running through the guitars too and they play off of each other instead of just
playing the same thing all the time. I think some of the newer songs we've written sound along the same lines as Bonecrusher in that it's definitely
melodic, but still sounds pretty mean (if that makes sense). I don't think we're close enough sound-wise to be a rip off of them (or really anybody
else), so I won't try to describe our sound that way. I've gotten one of the guitar players into a lot of Japanese Oi, like LRF and Rough Trade and I
think some of that style is reflected in there, although I definitely wouldn't say we sound very Oi ether even though at least three of us like Oi a
lot. I guess I'm not very good at describing our sound. Once we get some stuff recorded I'll set something up so people can hear it.
Thanks for all the feedback so far guys.Voodoobillyman - 11-18-2005 at 11:28 PM
I definitely want ot hear it, I love bonecrsuher. sounds awesome though. I have never heard any Japanese OI I would like to though, I am also an avid
OI fan.jason kills - 11-19-2005 at 03:55 PM
godamnit... 2 and 2 equal 4
hahah, you were in fucking crime pays. i'm about as quick as a fucking sack of hammers.
cant fuckign wait to hear the new shit. loved crime pays. very neg approach. you should hear mine and masoud's new band: gjihad. yeah.RomanticViolence - 11-20-2005 at 10:14 AM
Tireiron can i have a demo.. or maybe a shirt?Dave - 11-21-2005 at 10:02 AM
i'd take a demo, how much are they?Ed - 11-21-2005 at 11:03 AM
I really like The Same Old Rut lyrics. Good job!tireironsaint - 11-21-2005 at 06:58 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Dave
i'd take a demo, how much are they?
The demos I mentioned are from the band defstarsteve and I were in back
when we both lived in Austin. I was just bringin' them up because Steve said he didn't even have one anymore. These lyrics are from my new band here
in Colorado, different style, different sound. Thanks for the interest though, I'll let everybody know when we finally have something to show for this
band.
Oh, thanks to everyone for the comments, I appreciate it.
