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Showing posts with label Alt Metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alt Metal. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Devil Down


This song was written by my buddy Larry Greer on drums and a friend of his, Ian Murphy on guitar.  The music was absolutely great and he was cool enough to let me attempt vocals on it.  I still need to add bass to the first half of the song, but it seems like it's coming along.


silence is the worst form of cowardice

 enslave and you rape 

and the world ignores it again 
when will we wake up? 
when will we take action? 
this happens every time 

war on women? 
civil rights? 
pedophiles? 
discrimination? 

we'd rather put a stupid rainbow on our facebook pic 
than take 5 minutes to seek out the truth

silence is the worst form of cowardice

when it comes to users 
you wear the crown 
and when you fall it's just 
one more devil down

isis is evil in it's purest form 
this is the war for which we've been born

and to the apathetic hollywood elites 
WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU NOW!?

when it comes to users 
you wear the crown 
and when you fall it's just 
one more devil down

When All is Sorrow (rough mix)


This is not really one of my songs.  My buddy Larry wrote and recorded this and was cool enough to let me toy with vocals on it.  I'm not settled on this yet, but this is a rough hack.


the things i overcome that keep me numb my life wasted on stupid dreams
i spent my life always on the run time to set aside childish things
trapped myself with promises I regret the mistakes i make when i agree
i'm meant to go with the wind on a whim, just unchained and free
i'm trapped by indecision now struggling to be the best i can be
but i'm smothered by expectation to be someone other than me
witness now the change of heart as cold as stone, it cannot bleed
i'm shutting down now to survive
i'm shutting off so i can breathe

time does not feel the same when all is sorrow
 when all is sorrow

do you think you can tame me use me just to change me
i can't save you i'm moving onward
now
i will not be your exit out
because
i can't save you i'm moving onward
i'm not your rewind i'm not your lifeline
i can't save you i'm moving onward
don't pin your hopes on me in the end you'll always see
i can't save you i'm moving onward

can you stand on your own two feet
without me, without love, can you be
the best version of yourself
not defined by someone else
who you are, who you were,
who you'll be
can you be you, without me?
cause i'm not always going to be here
you can't live your life paralyzed in fear
so i'm moving on so you can learn to stand
and when you find yourself I'll come back again
but until that day this is how far I'll go
cause time does not feel the same
when all is sorrow

Monday, December 15, 2014

Orwellian Dystopia


Trust has faded in the present tense
Now the nation moves without common sense
Generations want hand outs for free
At the price of liberty
Security, the proclamation cause
Fear begets our freedoms lost
Now we dance inside a cage
Socialists now, we turn the page
Constitution's raped, we don't say a word
Views distorted, twisted, perverse
Modernists now, the voices call
Transnationalists now, one and all
Unity, no more compromise
It's right or left, and both are lies
New World Order here we come
The day we all trade in our guns

For generations we've learned to become
taken care of at every step
Responsibility is a past time
that those in power want us to forget
From home, to school, to work, to death
Taxed and re-taxed at every turn
Taxation without representation
We're nothing but slaves now, you watch or burn

Answers? There are no answers.
Just trade our freedom for security
Disparaged now if question the calls of those
who propose the direction to lead
Silence now our voices
to those that say there is a better way
and though times may change, nothing changes
Oppression is still the word of the day

For generations we've learned to become
taken care of at every step
Responsibility is a past time
that those in power want us to forget
From home, to school, to work, to death
Taxed and re-taxed at every turn
Taxation without representation
We're nothing but slaves now, you watch or burn

For generations we've learned to become
taken care of at every step
Responsibility is a past time
that those in power want us to forget
From home, to school, to work, to death
Taxed and re-taxed at every turn
Taxation without representation
We're nothing but slaves now, you watch or burn

Innocent people called right-wing extremist
Napolitano's view of self-reliance
If you disagree you're branded an enemy of state
We need to clean the House, and clean the slate
We need to throw out Congress and start again
No more career politicians of the latest trend.
We need term limits on the Senate and House
Just like the president, and then we kick them out
They're so disconnected from the lives we live
Placating to their favorite lobbyist
The problem is there's lawyers in command
trying to fix laws, before they understand them
The don't hear they opposition when they set a task
Just a hurdle to a goal that they work to pass
At some point it's like they pretend to forget
We're American Anti-Socialists.


Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Repeal




Once they sign it, we will never get out again
Sit forever on the shoulders of our children
Cast our health care in a pit of ruin
And once they've signed it, we will never get out again

They say it's in our interest and it will fix everything
Behind closed doors, they bribed it's passage while their lobbyists sing
Because they're winner today, but our day will come
When we cast them out and leave them all def, blind and dumb
Once they sign it, we will never get out again
Sit forever on the shoulders of our children
Cast our health care in a pit of ruin
And once they've signed it, we will never get out again

Here you have a bill that 70% of tax paying citizens hate
We want it repealed but they try to convince that it's too late
The fact that it's unconstitutional doesn't mean a fucking thing
To them, but to us it means suffocating our dreams

Once they sign it, we will never get out again
Sit forever on the shoulders of our children
Cast our health care in a pit of ruin
And once they've signed it, we will never get out again

**Recording Notes - I programmed the drums with my Zoom 234 drum machine and direct input recorded them.  For the distorted parts, I mic'd a Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 head and a generic cab with a Heil PR20 in Magix at my buddy Jeremy's.  I used a Schecter Diamond Series Damian 7-String.  I used the native distortion on the Warp 7 for one side, and Boss Metal Zone MT-2 for the other side.  Recorded vocals with a Heil PR20 in Pro Tools.  For bass, I direct input an Epiphone EB-0 into Pro-Tools.