The Pain
Tonight's Prompt: Write a metal ballad based on random phrases all participants contributed.
Random Phrases Contributed:
Do what thou wilt
Fight for your right to Barter
Hopeless Anti-Romantic
He was the forgotten son
Beneath the pink and orange sunset
Where boats fly
Your Skeleton is wet
Sometimes donuts are too stale for coffee
The wandering jew
Fuck this track, jump the train, hello sky…
Collaborative Chorus and Bridge:
We are the night
Crawling through your veins
We are the answer
To your unspoken shame
We are the blight
Flowing through shattered strains
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
(We are, we are)
Like a dog collared under thunder and rain
Cast aside authority with their golden chains
Shout until we are, we are all that remains
Shout…
Shout…
SHOUT!
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
Metal Song Title: The Pain
INTRO:
Fuck with us…
V1:
Beneath the pink and orange sunset
When the bats flew from their nest
I thought of your rotting corpse
And the kiss I placed upon your breast
V2:
As my numbed mind wandered high
Like a demon with blackened wings
To a far off place where boats fly
And the love hurts and the longing stings
V3:
My tears make your skeleton wet,
My wings could not catch yours,
Still fleeing, from this love,
A deadly shadow that wants my blood.
CHORUS:
We are the night
Crawling through your veins
We are the answer
To your unspoken shame
We are the blight
Flowing through shattered strains
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
V4:
He was the forgotten son, angry, young, darkened, numb
Blood spills and pools at his feet
He lifts her head, she who was the only one, and into her locks he weeps
V5:
He wandered off alone.
Bloodstained hands and metallic mind.
Too tired to move on, too much to move on from.
A roadside diner and a drunken girl.
She gave a smile, he gave a wink.
And threw his midnight dinner down.
Sometimes donuts are too stale for coffee
And roadside sex is easier to find.
V6:
Do what thou wilt
Her thighs mark the spot
His thorn drips with guilt
As he fills her with his rot
CHORUS:
We are the night
Crawling through your veins
We are the answer
To your unspoken shame
We are the blight
Flowing through shattered strains
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
V7:
The mad embrace to calm the heart
Inflamed by passionate kiss
Unfortunate respite for the girl
Who met the wandering Jew
V8:
Ever the hopeless anti-romantic
Emotions always askew
He drums to the beat of the dead
And dances to the heart of the abyss
V9:
Fuck this track, jump the train, hello sky…
The man on the moon is his Necromantic light
Pound the Tread, Broken Thumb, easy ride…
He’s gonna find one more to kill tonight.
CHORUS:
We are the night
Crawling through your veins
We are the answer
To your unspoken shame
We are the blight
Flowing through shattered strains
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
V10 (BUILD-UP):
we sip whiskey sour in a memory tower,
asking what we will do to grow a grave flower?
wilted under the burden of a dower,
where we buried in the wonder of a cold shower,
dreams scared and cowered,
under the disguise of seizing ultimate power
V11 (BREAKDOWN):
Fight for your right to barter
Prisoners are just modern slaves
They'll turn us all into martyrs
Until we rise from their cage
And bring the fucking pain!
(We are the pain!)
BRIDGE:
(We are, we are)
Like a dog collared under thunder and rain
Cast aside authority with their golden chains
Shout until we are, we are all that remains
Shout…
Shout…
SHOUT!
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
CHORUS (2X):
We are the night
Crawling through your veins
We are the answer
To your unspoken shame
We are the blight
Flowing through shattered strains
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
We are the night
Crawling through your veins
We are the answer
To your unspoken shame
We are the blight
Flowing through shattered strains
WE ARE, WE ARE!
WE ARE THE PAIN!
OUTRO:
Fuck with us, we bring the pain.
Written and/or Contributed By:
@ledlevee @TheWolfeDen @ChrisSadhill @Shells @Ferryman @LilEnigma @fudo @fabulam @putski @MeeJong