Question for metal heads

  • Alex Marlatt
    17 years ago

    First of all I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong forum, I wasn't sure where to put this thread.

    Ok well my band is working on putting together some rip your face off metal. We have one more slot open for a song. Now I have three potential canidates for that spot. I just cannot seem to pick which one (probably the fault of every musician or poet). So if you could, can you folks help me pick?

    Sonnenuntergang:
    Humanity is wicked and cruel,
    Killing innocents in the name of a misguided God,
    Greedily hoarding the fruits of prosperity,
    While hapless children starve alone,
    A continuum that humanity continues to condone,

    Our pseudo love is gone, and empathy’s gone with it,
    I can feel this world slipping between undeserving fingers,
    The sun is setting on a failed dream,
    And it will not rise tomorrow…
    No dawn amidst this f***ing SORROW!
    (We’ll never survive the morning)
    We sit here mourning the passing of the world,
    A world that never was!

    This is the end of it all; the world is willing a fall,
    We were given every chance to excel,
    Yet you squandered it and you squander it still,
    The sun is setting, the end of this dream,
    It will not rise again tomorrow,
    No dawn, no dawn,
    No dawn amidst all this sorrow!
    (We’ll not survive the morning)

    This Price of Freedom:
    We hold this hill over which none shall pass
    Entrenched deep into the earth
    This burning hatred we hold in our hearts-
    To which this war gave birth

    The gentle breeze does nothing to alleviate the stench
    As a hundred score bodies lying burning… decaying
    The grotesque shapes of men broken before our guns
    Retribution for our comrades’ slaying

    The uproarious sound of artillery rain
    The sound of a lost brother’s final cry
    The horrendous blood price of freedom-
    For which we give ourselves to die

    A Cold Winter Night:
    (Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!
    Gottes Sohn! O wie lacht!
    Lieb' aus deinem goettlichen Mund,
    Da schlägt uns die rettende Stund)

    A cold night in deserted city streets
    The bitter wind bites into exposed skin
    The distant echo of discharging firearms
    Waiting in a daze for the bloodshed to begin

    The sound of treads grows steadily louder
    The air fills with shrapnel and hot lead
    Men fall with one last guttural cry
    And the snow lays its veil upon the dead

    Women and children caught in the crossfire
    Men falling forever for a broken pile of stone
    Tombs built from someone’s home
    Encasing the frosted remains of flesh and bone

    (Stille Nacht! Unheilige Nacht!
    Gottes Sohn! O wie lacht!
    Hass aus deinem gottverlassen Mund,
    Warten uns auf die vernichten Stund)

  • Alex Marlatt
    17 years ago

    Thank you Lucas.

    Well the lyrics are all we've gotten for these songs. We're going to write music to it after the fact. I have to pick which song we'll use and shelf the others. I would just like an opinion on which, lyrically, sounds the best.

  • EssenceOfLace
    17 years ago

    I too screamed out the lyrics, and I agree that Sonnenuntergang sounds the best. But I also agree that I would need to hear music with it, but since that is not possible, I was able to get the best beat with Sonnenuntergang.

  • Alex Marlatt
    17 years ago

    Alright, thank you all. I think that's the one I'll go with. I'll run my decision by the blokes on Saturday. :)