Luna Rex

JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Posts: 10,219
edited January 2012 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
These are the lyrics that I wrote that started off as a poem, but became a song for my band Luna Rex:

Beginning to End

How can you blame me for staying up late?
Counting the hours in every day
I’m a fool for waiting for you, because
When you’re not here I’ve lost my sight

Silence is Loud as I stare
Its Simple though, as nowhere

Such is life, and the way it goes
The end is far off where nobody knows
…down the road

(Chorus) how can we fly when we haven’t learned to walk?
Climb a tree when all there is, is city?
Breath underwater though we haven’t cut that chord
(x2)

Looking forward to tomorrow
Expecting you to walk right through that door
Fires burning its warm as that day
That Summers fires sent you away

Silence, as pages curl
Read these words
Over and over

Such is life, and the way it goes
The end might be near but nobody knows
…that road

(Chorus) how can we fly when we haven’t learned to walk?
Climb a tree when all there is, is city?
Breath underwater though we haven’t cut that chord
(x2)

Counting on, sitting right here
And asking my friends in the sky to
Bring you home
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  • rollingsrollings Posts: 7,124
    Good Lyrics!
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    very cool ! I would like to hear the song if you could post it sometime.

    Godfather.
  • Rollings wrote:
    Good Lyrics!
    Thanks again!!
    Godfather. wrote:
    very cool ! I would like to hear the song if you could post it sometime.

    Godfather.

    G, I have an acoustic version of the song on mp3, but I havent posted it anywhere - its a bit rough. I havent recorded it with the full band yet.
    I'll post some other lyrics and tunes later though. :)
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • CheeksCheeks Posts: 151
    I think these are awesome song lyrics. I especially like the line "climb a tree when all there is, is city."
    Luna Rex is a cool band name, not that you asked--just saying.
  • Cheeks wrote:
    I think these are awesome song lyrics. I especially like the line "climb a tree when all there is, is city."
    Luna Rex is a cool band name, not that you asked--just saying.

    Thanks Cheeks! that's one of my favorite lines of the song/poem.

    Thanks about the name too -- Its got a fun story on the name...I thought I had a ghost in my house for the first few years I lived here...turns out I just drank too much, haha! anyways, I pictured this ghost as a little girl of about 11 yrs old who died in the 1920's. Named her "Luna"...She's friendly though, but likes to disrupt the band because she thinks its "noise". So she wrecks the house or "rex" not "wrecks" the house.
    :D
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • pepperpepper Posts: 155
    Great lyrics/poem. And that story behind your bands name is amazing, I love it!
    Pepper- I am faith without religion, without bruised knees and pleas for forgiveness...
  • CheeksCheeks Posts: 151
    Love the story! Makes the names even better.
  • Thanks!

    Goofy video for this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL7SVIoDyiE

    Majic Table and the Story of the Ghost

    I am seeing things
    out of the corner of my eye.
    Uninvited girl sitting right here
    In a 1920’s disguise.

    Glance and flash, if your eyes not fast
    She probably won’t come back.
    Wants to be seen, just by me
    take me to the otherside.
    _______________________________
    (Chorus)
    Her Apparition condition...
    It’s hardly my outline

    Ghost may be streakin
    I’m not believing
    That I’m following behind.

    She is in my kitchen
    I am not believing
    That she is not alive.

    She whispered my name
    Others’ll think I’m insane
    For dancing by myself.
    ________________________________

    Little girl was glowin but I was not knowin
    It’s a Doppelganger by my side
    Nobody can see her, I’ve asked them all please
    For spirits unconsciously

    Can’t be dragged, because I’m not dead
    She will not surmise.
    And there on the mirror
    The Evidence was clear: (It read): Luna Was Here!

    ~~Repeat Chorus, and the lead guitarist, Mr. Axelband, does his majic here with a big solo~~

    Ps - you might notice a few sweet PJ posters in my house. :D
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • CheeksCheeks Posts: 151
    Nice job on the vid! The song is cool too! Enjoyed both.
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Jonny I really enjoyed! thank you for sharing

    I watched a couple others there ... I liked the intro to Luna Rex band very much

    the music is awesome!

    Please let me know if or when I can get a cd :D
  • pandora wrote:
    Jonny I really enjoyed! thank you for sharing

    I watched a couple others there ... I liked the intro to Luna Rex band very much

    the music is awesome!

    Please let me know if or when I can get a cd :D

    Thanks Pandora, I appreciate the kind words!
    We have a short 4 song EP (with 1 live bonus track), but we're going back in the studio in March to start working on a full length album. If you want to PM your address I'll send you a free copy of the older one for now. :)
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    pandora wrote:
    Jonny I really enjoyed! thank you for sharing

    I watched a couple others there ... I liked the intro to Luna Rex band very much

    the music is awesome!

    Please let me know if or when I can get a cd :D

    Thanks Pandora, I appreciate the kind words!
    We have a short 4 song EP (with 1 live bonus track), but we're going back in the studio in March to start working on a full length album. If you want to PM your address I'll send you a free copy of the older one for now. :)
    far out!

    will do...Jonny thanks!
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Rollings wrote:
    Good Lyrics!
    Thanks again!!
    Godfather. wrote:
    very cool ! I would like to hear the song if you could post it sometime.

    Godfather.

    G, I have an acoustic version of the song on mp3, but I havent posted it anywhere - its a bit rough. I havent recorded it with the full band yet.
    I'll post some other lyrics and tunes later though. :)

    that would be cool brother !

    Godfather.
  • I had this idea for a rock opera centering around a boy who wants to grow up to be an astronaut, but he finds a time machine, and in the future, only females are astronauts. I've only written three of the songs though, so I've got a lot of work to do.

    The first one is called Mangos & Time Machines and it is about the boy (a teenager) who finds the time machine and he keeps screwing up his first impression on the female astronaut in the future that he falls in love with, so he keeps going back to improve upon his first impression. (btw, if you like McCready style guitar solos, this one by my friend Paul Axelband is just amazing - kicks in around 4:00)

    http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_7541555

    Mangos & Time Machines

    So they say I was walking
    Sad to say its Sunday I’m alone
    Someday I’m coming back for you
    But for now it seems I’m going home

    (Chorus)
    Got to go get in my time machine
    Want first impressions, they go perfectly
    Just like dead flowers that hide amongst the weeds
    Homes for fireflies…Temporarily

    Looking up at mangos, I see
    All those pretty faces they’re staring back at me
    you reach for the fruit endlessly
    half aware I’m from the future, how dare me

    (Chorus again)
    Got to go get in my time machine
    Want first impressions, they go perfectly
    Just like dead flowers that hide amongst the weeds
    Homes for fireflies…Temporarily

    You say you’re not ready for the future
    Hitching rides from perfect strangers and spacemen
    The ceilings ride higher than lightning
    You don’t know if you don’t give it a chance

    (Chorus again, BIG guitar solo here, fade out...)
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    I had this idea for a rock opera centering around a boy who wants to grow up to be an astronaut, but he finds a time machine, and in the future, only females are astronauts. I've only written three of the songs though, so I've got a lot of work to do.

    The first one is called Mangos & Time Machines and it is about the boy (a teenager) who finds the time machine and he keeps screwing up his first impression on the female astronaut in the future that he falls in love with, so he keeps going back to improve upon his first impression. (btw, if you like McCready style guitar solos, this one by my friend Paul Axelband is just amazing - kicks in around 4:00)

    http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_7541555

    Mangos & Time Machines

    So they say I was walking
    Sad to say its Sunday I’m alone
    Someday I’m coming back for you
    But for now it seems I’m going home

    (Chorus)
    Got to go get in my time machine
    Want first impressions, they go perfectly
    Just like dead flowers that hide amongst the weeds
    Homes for fireflies…Temporarily

    Looking up at mangos, I see
    All those pretty faces they’re staring back at me
    you reach for the fruit endlessly
    half aware I’m from the future, how dare me

    (Chorus again)
    Got to go get in my time machine
    Want first impressions, they go perfectly
    Just like dead flowers that hide amongst the weeds
    Homes for fireflies…Temporarily

    You say you’re not ready for the future
    Hitching rides from perfect strangers and spacemen
    The ceilings ride higher than lightning
    You don’t know if you don’t give it a chance

    (Chorus again, BIG guitar solo here, fade out...)
    this is so exciting and that song was perfect!
    The echo..ing with the voices perfect for a spacey time warp mood,
    I love the lyrics, beautiful.

    I need this for the hot tub and a black sky full of stars! 8-)

    Your rock opera and the plot so creative Jonny ...
    it's gonna be a masterpiece...

    I think I am witnessing history being made! :D
  • Thanks Pandora!

    This one is kinda sad...about a guy who just cant shake the monotony of his dull routine. Oddly, the music that accompanies this song is more punk rock than all of our others.

    The Wheel

    I’ve been laying in one place
    There's no sun to find my face

    Static on the t.v. set
    MY muscles withered, how they forget

    Finally got out of the house
    but its a big maze, and I’m a small mouse

    Try to move forward in time
    But I'm afraid to become one of a kind

    Go to headphones and don’t raise my eyes
    Tuck in my shirt, now i'm just another guy

    Got a paycheck, to pay my bill
    But i'm back in bed, laying still

    There's no rest for my mind,
    And tomorrow i'll do it one more time

    One last time…
    Get behind…
    The wheel…
    And drive…
    Leavin tonight…
    Leave this life…
    One last time…
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
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