To Scare Away the Ghosts

by AngelsDontKill

in Completed Works

Description

Feb 19th 2007
Tags:
industrial industrial metal metal
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158
Comments:
17
Score:
8
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EDIT(02/26/07): Uploaded with a new file. Distorted vocals and delayed vocals, as well as slight reverb to add effect and stick out some more. I also fixed up that last chorus.

I have been working on this for a while now... so here it is. This is my first true attempt at making something that sounds a bit like Industrial Metal. This is also my first song that has been entirely done by me without anyone else. So anyway, before I get to the lyrics, I have been questioned about some things about the lyrics. First of all, near the end of the chorus I say something about a post. Now it was meant to mean a light post. The reason it may confuse people is because when it gets to not having a way "To scare away the ghosts" it means that one is too far from any light, which in movies and old stories, ghosts are scared off by light. Now that was just so people can understand that little bit and not think I was too crazy while making it. Now anyway, here are the lyrics...

P.S. Thank you, everyone, for the front page!

To Scare Away the Ghosts

Verse:
Trees are falling without their leaves
Autumn has come with its disease
The birds are going with the breeze
Everything else falls on its knees
The graves are filling with lonely dust
Mother Earth has turned to rust
In this world, I see no trust
In this world... so unjust

Chorus:
I don't know where it comes from
And I don't know how to stop it
But these dreams aren't sleeping
There's one in every closet
So lock your doors
And unlock your hearts
There's an angel inside
But it's ripping apart
Now look at yourself
Then look at me
There's one too many
Ghosts to see
Fears have come alive
And I am too far from the post
I have no way...
To scare away the ghosts

Verse:
Nights are getting worse and worse and
I can't see far past this curse
My heart tells me I'm about to burst
Maybe this time it might not hurt
I saw the sky turning red
Maybe it's just in my head
I liked reality better dead
Maybe I'm just in your head

Chorus

(4:01)
I wish upon a sky not bright
Kill me before I dream tonight
I wish upon a sky not bright
Kill me before I dream tonight
I wish upon a sky not bright
Kill me before I dream tonight
Help me!
I can't wake up!
Wake me!

Chorus X2

All Lyrics and Music (C) Mark Griffin, 2007

So yeah, everything has been written and played by me. I will also tell you now that there is nothing prejudice, stereotypical, racist, sexist, or anything else offensive in the lyrics. I needed to mention that because somehow, I have had art taken off before because of a misinterpretation of the lyrics. Sorry for the long description, hahaha.

Comments

Elfofchaos Says:

nice song dude. definately like the sound of this one man. good job on vox.

TheIncredibleMundane Says:

sounds good

Celtic Twilight Says:

Much louder vocals please, we barely hear them.
other that that: great piece :)

Chris SR APPLEPIE Says:

Where am I?, Oh! Yeah, sounds nice.

Aviangel Says:

omg! it was kick ass!!!
and I mean it!
awesome piece
great job and I can't wait until another!!!!

WiseCracker Says:

Other than the vocal work, you might wanna work on that... it was pretty good

I would be motivated to do a video for it, but yeah, the vocal work...

Merina Says:

Near 1.50 you have this awesome guitar part <_<
And i must say <_< I dont know
crap i like this
though i think the intro is kind of odd o.O

Notesurfer Says:

Compositionally I enjoyed it, although the lyrics were a little cliche. You might want to consider bringing in someone else to do the vox, although I can see you enjoyed yourself with them. Also you might want to fix some of the timing issues, especially around 2:00 before the vox come in and during some parts of the chorus. An easy way to do that is to chop up the vocal sample into smaller mini-mp3s and ensure that each entrance is timed correctly. This also makes it easier to re-record any sections that aren't where you want them tonally or otherwise. Congrats on the song, I know I was super excited the first time I did a song on my own. I'm sure this will be the first in a long line of rawksome songs, eh? d-:

Minstrel Ayreon Says:

I'm really liking this. Oddly enough, the vocals remind me a bit of Marilyn Manson's technique...does that count as industrial metal or not?

redmagexero Says:

Nice