Black Alyss
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
11:48AM - Welcome to Orphan
alright my lovelies. Here's the deal. You all now are memebers of a band called "Orphan"- make sure you can spell it. We need to start focusing as April is approaching and we had said that we wanted to start playing some open mic type deals. I have no experience with how to go about that- so im putting Melissa in charge of locating a place etc. Then when we have practice we need to zero in on being able to play the songs well and in a way that's entertaining. These are the songs i think we'd play (however i dont know how many is customary at something like that so Melissa can direct me on if they're too many or too few etc)
GNS
Heart Punch
Original Sin
And perhaps "Heart Of Tears" as we just need to get a fix on Melissa and emily's parts. Speaking of Emily's parts- we also need to really start thinking about what to do about Emily's lack of a drum kit. Any ideas? I'm not sure how we would want to do the open mic thing- perhaps we would do it accoustic- so we only had to worry about Daniel's amp...but i guess we'll discuss it.
Im also really thinking about changing band practice to two nights a week but for shorter times. Maybe wednesday from 7-8 and friday from 7 - BSG i dont know it depends on Melissa's work schedule amongst other things.
Let me know what you think about all these things ASAP
Saturday, March 11, 2006
9:21PM - new song
"Flower in the snow"
this is it
death to all before
begin to all the end
die for all your sins
this is it
black hole starts to rend
this is it
time begins to bend
death defy
all is white
death defy
in my eyes
in your eyes
all is pure
in the air
all is cool
in the cool all there is
is you
death defy
all is white
death defy
in my eyes
breathe into me myself
losing to you
winning to me
death defy
all is white
death defy
all is white
death defy
all be free
death defy
call to see
Thursday, March 9, 2006
4:58PM - Songlet
"Strength"
If we could go back
to how it used to be
could we forget?
can we ever be free?
And after everything we've seen,
and all that we've been through...
will we ever find peace?
I hope I've the strength
to save us from ourselves.
I don't think there will be any more verses than this, I think it'll be a highly 'music' piece.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Friday, February 10, 2006
10:13AM - Today
Okay so band practice at the apartment again...if that's okay with Emily and Melissa. In terms of what we do today- i thought today it might be fun to try a cover- so pick something out if you can.
in terms of our songs im thinking the usual line up
Original Sin
GNS
Tunnel
Heart Punch
L.D.B
and Melissa two (Still unnamed..tisk tisk)
and if Daniel wants to pick out one of his to work on that would be good. i know that might be difficult on the korg...
Also i was thinking that in the future with band practice it might be cool to do like a potluck thing for dinner sometimes. I was thinking i might bring over stuff to make spaggehtti- gasp- and try and make it for you guys- myself! If you're game mabye M/E could do a salad and the diet coke....
okay peace out!
Thursday, February 3, 2005
11:31AM - Hey Motherfuckers.....
Game plan time...you know i love these. Here's my thoughts- i think today we should work on other aspects of being rock stars...the get wasted and fucked up aspects. Melissa i'm putting you in charge of the booze...Emily we all know you don't work for your mom...i expect you to bring enough stuff this time to share! Then we can just sit around and talk about how much like sucks until BSG comes on and we are all humbled how not really all that bad our lives are in comparison.
Seriously though- i guess Daniel and i will bring his snyth over, and i'll bring my accoustic- and we'll just work like that this afternoon. I mean it will probably be kind of a nice little change (ha look at that amazing coping mechanism clicking in right there) and we can even try out maybe doing a cover song or something...who knows. I have work in the morning though so i'll need to leave right after BSG :(
okay my lovelies....let me know what you think...
here's the tenative set:
Oringinal Sin
Girl Named Sorrow
Tunnel
Heart Punch
Melissa one and/or two?
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
1:02PM - Mythisical?
Hmmm....what about the name "Pandora" for the band? Its probably already been used but there's some neat stuff about her. The myth's depict her as being the bringer of all evils to mankind but my professor pointed out that her name means the "giver of everything" so maybe she wasn''t evil but another form of the concept of an all-providing mother goddess. I just thought the concept of using such a misunderstood figure was appealing, also the concept that she brings both evil and good is thought evoking. Just food for thought.
1:35AM - Revised redux
Okay, here are the new lyrics to "The Greatest Dance Song Ever" Which has been renamed "Swell" (it was "Lost" originally)
“Swell”
lost,
lost at sea
dance,
dance with me
lost
lost in a dream
just breathe just breathe
(breathe to save your life, alive, breathe to stay alive, alive)
orange lights are lighting you up
the swell, the swell is pushing me pushing up
let’s dance into the foam
let’s dance, let’s dance all alone
lost
lost in the world
lost
lost little girl
dance
feel the beat
dance
beat the heat
(beat the heat, beat the heat)
blue lights are lighting you up
the swell, the swell is pushing me pushing me up
let’s dance in the foam
let’s dance, let’s dance all alone
(Alone, Alone, alone)
Lightning lights you up
the static, the static is breaking us
breaking us up
Let’s dance on top of your grave
cuz remember we can’t stay
(we can’t stay)
lost
in your thoughts
lost
your just so lost
lost
in your mind
but,
your all mine
lost
in the sound
I hope we’re never found
(never found, never found never found never found)
lighting lights you up
the static the static is breaking us breaking us up
let’s dance on top of your grave
remember remember that we can’t stay
so dance dance in the foam one last time let’s dance dance all alone
we’re lost we’re lost in the ground and I hope to God we’re never ever found
(never found, never found, never found, never found)
WOWOOOOOOOOOOOOO yeah!
(Party time, rokk out synth style whoa!)
Stuff in parentheses is vocoder stuff.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
1:44AM - Hmm?
"Lost"
Lost at sea
just drift
lost with me
just dance
lost in a dream
just breathe
just breathe
orange lights light you up
the swell is pushing me up
on top of the wave
let's dance in the foam
let's dance all alone
Lost in the world
Just drag your feet
lost little girl
just feel the beat
lost in the swirl
only one way to beat the heat
blue lights light you up
the swell is pushing me up
on top of the wave
let's dance in the foam
let's dance all alone
lost in your thoughts
lost in your mind
lost just so lost
but you're all mine
lost in the sound
I hope we're never found
Lightning lights you up
the static is breaking up
on top of your grave
you're all mine
lost in the ground
I hope we're never found
I wrote the best dance song ever today, and I guess these are the lyrics i'm thinking of for it.
Friday, January 27, 2006
12:12PM - let me try not to screw this up again...
Okay. Today i think the emphasis will be on practice, practice, practice and less recording unless anyone has anything specific they want to get done.
I think we'll proabaly work on:
A girl named sorrow (or my perffered title- a grill named sorrow)
Original Sin
Tunnel
and then we should start another song - any suggestions? I was thinking maybe Missed his Mark? so we get a Daniel song in there - or Heart punch- even though i know only me and Daniel like that one- or we could try and do one of the other ones me and Melissa have already started working on such as "Broken watch"....just tell me what you think....except you Emily...i dont care about your opinion ;)
oh i know Daniel wanted to work on Melissatwo sometime so that's fine too....
Friday, January 20, 2006
7:33PM
I guess I'm feeling kind of romantic right now. To be honest I'm really pleased with how these came out. I've had that first line rolling around im my head for a million years it seems.
“The Kiss”
It’s like we’re dead were so far removed from everyone else
I’d rather be dead with you then alive by myself.
You’re so cute when you’re saying you’re sorry.
I’m sorry I killed us both.
Your forgiveness was the sweetest kiss.
Your forgiveness is my only wish.
It’s like we’re dead we’re so at peace
it’s like we held on after the final release.
Make up on the collar of my shirt.
Make up a castle where we live and love aloud.
Fake out the dogs and the cats
and dress up in white and black.
I love you more then you could ever know.
You love me more then you could ever show.
It’s like it’s day it’s so bright at night
It’s almost as if the spaces between stars are just as white.
And remembering your house with the roof all ablaze
makes me just want to sit here and stay
forever
like I’m dead.
It’s like I’ve slipped off the edge when I’m here
Burned away all that was left, and burned up all my fear.
It’s like I’m dead I’m so far apart
From all the poison that had leaked into my heart.
It’s like your dead you so perfectly still
and it’s like I’ve never been alive until
we kiss.
4:18PM - "And we died, one after the other,"
Poor Robert. He's so sad. Was almost late to school today. Go me. That took long. Now i'm going to walk down town and buy the correct textbook. Go me again.
Here's what i thinking of as a tenative goals for band practice today:
Practice playing: A girl named sorrow
Original Sin
Tunnel
Heart Punch
Finish recording parts for : a Girl named sorrow
I want us to balance recording new stuff (as it helps solidfy stuff in the long run) and actually just practicing and getting the arrangements down. Any suggestiongs, comments?
Also in other band buisness Daniel expressed some interest in re-examining the name "Black Alyss" and if it really still fits. Im open to a discussion about this. So thoughts and other names are encouraged. It will be hard i think to find something we all agree on but I guess when we do it will be the right name. However i'm not a 100% sure i think it needs to be changed...but anyway we'll all talk about this im sure.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
9:58AM - Fuck the world...
OKAY. Here's a really pissed of song. Completely disjuncted from my mood but whatever. I'm glad to see that i don't have be this upset to right unhappy songs....
"The End"
Despite what you said
Your just another gun to my head
Im sitting here till you make me move
i've got nothing left to prove
The earth is dark
deep
cold
In your shoes I've sold
to the highest bidder
why didn't you stop me
when i hit her
Should've known better
That you never would've let her
be mine
be mine
the hate is all i have left
to keep me warm from you chill
you left me standing atop the hill
will you leave tomoroow or today?
I wish it had been yesterday.
The room is warm
but i don't feel it
Im surrounded by birds of prey
cigarette's already lit
The sun is gone
far
away
I'll never see the day
when you were happy with me
and I with you
Couldn't you see
Should've known better
that you would never let her
be mine
be mine
the hate is all i have left
to keep me warm from you chill
you left me standing atop the hill
will you leave tomoroow or today?
I wish it had been yesterday.
2:08AM - here's a song
It need some editing. It's also a lil emo :) and I reference the cure twice. go me!
“Lonely Winter”
Everything is sound sound sound going around
and down and down.
Desperation is hidden by dust clouds
and the inevitable is hidden by the sounds
We all sit in terror of the unspeakable
buried deep under ground
deep under ground
Mist is seeping through the sides
and I believe in nothing.
Mist is seeping through my life
and I see nothing.
You are weeping at my side
but you are nothing
you are nothing.
Little bits of light shooting around my head.
And we’re all bits of light
shooting around until were dead.
The screaming won’t stop
no matter what I do
My dreaming won’t stop
until I’m away from you.
My dreams are the only place I’m safe
My bed is my only place
away from you.
Mist is seeping through the sides
and I believe in nothing.
Mist is seeping through my life
and I see nothing.
You are weeping at my side
but you are nothing
you are nothing.
I’m singing to a stranger’s tune
This lonely winter afternoon.
You touch my hand
and I don’t even feel it.
If I felt it I’d kill you.
I swear I’d kill you.
And so you walk away from me and the lonely winter room.
We’re both grateful for what we have left
you have your life
and I have my aching chest
I have the snakes in my bed
and I may finally have some rest.
I am nothing
I am nothing
Thursday, January 12, 2006
7:20PM
wow. Re-listeing to our recording of Broken Watch i can tell how far we come. Even just the way me and Melissa do stuff when its just us. I love the recording- espeically for the bird nosies. But its very cool to have to see where we've come from (which was great to begin with).
:)
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
7:29PM
For Lisa to work with:
(intro)
Storm cloud whisper
baby cry
the words you give me
I hold tight
the plans we made
when hopes were high
And I'm still standing by you.
(pause sort of, eventually we'll work out something better here, since I can hear how the drums go, and they wouldn't fit in how we were playing it earlier)
Wandering vagrant,
dreams go on.
Foreign cities
and beyond,
Still we stray
from what we want,
But I'm still standing by you.
(start chorus part)
the words we spoke
so long ago
we can't go back
we won't let go
I'm here for you
we'll see this through
and in the end we'll survive
(eventually bridge, currently just pause, back to verse)
Sunday dreamer
wakes again
the dark is gone
our time begins
we both hold hands
to greet our friends
I'm still standing by you
I'll always stand by...
(music to chorus again)
words we spoke
so long ago
we can't go back
we won't let go
I'm here for you
we'll see this through
and in the end we'll survive
(piano only on verse)
I'll always stand by you.
(end thingy)
If you need more, I can describe more.
4:55PM - "And"
just reposting the lyrics to the song we just did a take of
And it’s the black between the white
it’s the day between the nite
it’s the wrong mixed in the right
it’s the whores between each wife.
Shot dead
got red
on the brain
no more pain
In bed
got lead
in the brain
too tired to explain
Look out your window:
what do you see?
Look out your window:
It’s me.
And it’s the sharps between the keys
it’s the space between your knees
it’s the end of every breeze
it’s the fruit between the leaves
Shot dead
got red
on the brain
no more pain
In bed
got lead
in the brain
too tired to explain
Look out your window:
what do you see?
Look out your window:
It’s me.
And it’s the air in your scream
it’s the coffee in your cream
it’s the faith in your being
it’s waking between dreams
it’s waking up at the wrong time
it’s the smile before your crime.
Saturday, January 7, 2006
10:00PM
And it’s the black between the white
it’s the day between the nite
it’s the wrong mixed in the right
it’s the whores between each wife.
Shot dead
got red
on the brain
no more pain
In bed
got lead
in the brain
too tired to explain
And it’s the sharps between the keys
it’s the space between your knees
it’s the end of every breeze
it’s the fruit between the leaves
Shot dead
got red
on the brain
no more pain
In bed
got lead
in the brain
too tired to explain
And it’s the air in your screams
it’s the coffee in your cream
it’s the rip in your seam
it’s waking between dreams
it’s waking up at the wrong time
it’s the smile before the crime.
9:34PM
“Mew”
Skipping stones
mew mew mew
collecting pinecones
you you you
always had a way
of making me stay
forever.
Walking against the breeze
mew mew mew
painting our names on trees
you you you
always had a wish
of helping me live
forever.
Making books made of leaves
mew mew mew
writing the words with reeds
you you you
always had a dream
of living on a beam
of forever.
Golden, amber eyes
mew mew mew
I just severed the last ties
so you you you
can live with me
forever
in our cabin by the sea
forever
sipping salty tea
forever
made a believer out of me
forever
I’ll always believe
forever
I’ll never leave
never.
Mew mew mew.
Thursday, January 5, 2006
12:57PM
just busy contemplating love and death as I lie around sick.
"I dream in white"
Last night i dreamt of my wedding
I wore white
the blushing bride
melloncollie played
and you were there
you were there
I thought i saw your face
i dreamt your name
and nothing was the same
no one was to blame for the end
for the end
I walked down the aisle
everyone stood
i looked up and saw tears
and the lights went out
and the lights went out
I thought i heard you say my name
i felt you take my hand
but it was all a dream
no one heard me scream
scream
In the dark i found you there
nestled amongst my dreams of peace
and rest
I felt your wrist and you were alive
and you were alive
but you are just a dream
just a dream
and nothing will be the same
and no one will hear the scream
because you are just a dream
just a dream
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