I dug up two songs I wrote two years ago that I recieved a recording contract for with APG records in 2002. The compilation recording fell through because my band imploded two days before studio production was to begin. My bassist skipped town, left the bills to me and the drummer...and I was forced to give up music by selling all my gear.
But I have reaquired all the gear after two years and I'm planning on recording these soon with some friends just for the hell of it.
Let me know what you think.
The first song, August Falls, is about the suicide and discovery of a friends body. It's actually a meshing of two people suicides, one person I knew very well, and another I was an aquantence with. Both suicides happened in August, and at the time, in my mind, August was clearly synonomous with suicide. We found one of the bodies after a month on a trail in San Clemente in the scorching sun. his body had turned black and been eaten by coyotes...and one of the lines makes more sense if you know that I guess. Anyway.
_______________________
August Falls
Still standing there
to count the cost
While all the color bleeds
At the loss
Still shocked to find
your body without life
Silhoueted as August falls
And all this time
I thought that I
Was the master of my own fate
The halls we walk in
The doors we open
Reverberate
Soldiers clad in makeshift motion
Body blackened in macabre fashion
And I'll take the days --you threw away
I'll live the life --you wasted away
As August falls
down on us
As August falls
around us
The scene painted
by flowers on your grave
As far as I can tell
Nothing here has changed
Except questions in
our minds
and answers we
don't like
and we'll never understand
as august falls
down on us
as august falls
around us
Soldiers clad and august falls
All this death and august falls
Body blackened as August falls falls falls falls
I'll take you down as August....
As August...
___________________________
"This War We Wage"
This silent war between us
Build up your walls
A sudden violence comes
tearing down upon
Disappear
Through our fears
We trace the lines of combat
We trace them back to where
Victory lies
In our will to fight...
To push our boundaries to the edge
and back again
CHORUS
So this rain is coming down
In your drought I drown
Empty of meaning, empty of feeling
So my plane it falls
from out of your sky
and out of your life
for good
And every single note you play
The lines and scenes you orchestrate
You've kept me tied to all your lies
You've kept me bound here
for the last time.
MODIFIED CHORUS
So the battle rages on
towards your final goal
But you'll never be free
if you can't believe
in love
So my plane it falls,
shot out of your sky,
and out of your liiiiiiiiiiii-----iiiiife.
This war we wage...
This war we wage...
Our guns fall silent
This war we wage...
OUTRO.
But I have reaquired all the gear after two years and I'm planning on recording these soon with some friends just for the hell of it.
Let me know what you think.
The first song, August Falls, is about the suicide and discovery of a friends body. It's actually a meshing of two people suicides, one person I knew very well, and another I was an aquantence with. Both suicides happened in August, and at the time, in my mind, August was clearly synonomous with suicide. We found one of the bodies after a month on a trail in San Clemente in the scorching sun. his body had turned black and been eaten by coyotes...and one of the lines makes more sense if you know that I guess. Anyway.
_______________________
August Falls
Still standing there
to count the cost
While all the color bleeds
At the loss
Still shocked to find
your body without life
Silhoueted as August falls
And all this time
I thought that I
Was the master of my own fate
The halls we walk in
The doors we open
Reverberate
Soldiers clad in makeshift motion
Body blackened in macabre fashion
And I'll take the days --you threw away
I'll live the life --you wasted away
As August falls
down on us
As August falls
around us
The scene painted
by flowers on your grave
As far as I can tell
Nothing here has changed
Except questions in
our minds
and answers we
don't like
and we'll never understand
as august falls
down on us
as august falls
around us
Soldiers clad and august falls
All this death and august falls
Body blackened as August falls falls falls falls
I'll take you down as August....
As August...
___________________________
"This War We Wage"
This silent war between us
Build up your walls
A sudden violence comes
tearing down upon
Disappear
Through our fears
We trace the lines of combat
We trace them back to where
Victory lies
In our will to fight...
To push our boundaries to the edge
and back again
CHORUS
So this rain is coming down
In your drought I drown
Empty of meaning, empty of feeling
So my plane it falls
from out of your sky
and out of your life
for good
And every single note you play
The lines and scenes you orchestrate
You've kept me tied to all your lies
You've kept me bound here
for the last time.
MODIFIED CHORUS
So the battle rages on
towards your final goal
But you'll never be free
if you can't believe
in love
So my plane it falls,
shot out of your sky,
and out of your liiiiiiiiiiii-----iiiiife.
This war we wage...
This war we wage...
Our guns fall silent
This war we wage...
OUTRO.
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You can hear it. But nobody can make out heads or tails in it unless they actually know the song because the recording is soooooo bad. But give it a go. If you follow along with the lyriics to this war...you might just get it.
THIS WAR WE WAGE
[Edited on Jul 11, 2004 5:03PM]