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New song lyric of mine

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited May 2008 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
It's called Jonestown:


I’m being called out to the meeting house,
I’m being called out to prayer.
I’m being called out to come take my place
With the man with the black shuck stare.
It’s too late for Russia, it’s too late for China,
It’s time for the final White Night.
I’ll bow to the man with the grand design,
Ah, I’ll lay down to keep up the fight.

There’s crows on the wire, they’re gathering now,
Tasting the change in the air.
There’s storms coming in, they bite as they blow:
The pharisees’ curtain will tear.
Get going, get going, get moving, get moving,
Get going, get moving, get gone!
Take up in line, let’s have none of this grieving:
Lay down as an army of none.

And it’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul

There’s death on the runway, there’s death in the planes,
There’s death on the radio waves.
There’s death in the ghettos, there’s death in our veins:
We’re born to be beggars and slaves.
There’s nothing but words and there’s nothing but lies,
From the moment we wail and we cry.
A drop of blood equals the weight of your sighs:
Can you tell me a free way to die?

And it’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul

And it’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul
It’s sundown in the Jonestown of my soul.
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Comments

  • HushBullHushBull Posts: 996
    don't drink toe kool-aid.
    "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    It wasn't Kool Aid. It was Flavor-Aid.
  • DopeBeastieDopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    it's electric!!!
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Wow. Don't often see that level of lyricism from anything other than the greats. This is excellent.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    mr. finsburycarrots,

    brilliantly done
    always a unique angle
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Wow. Don't often see that level of lyricism from anything other than the greats. This is excellent.


    You'll have to play percussion at one of my gigs, sometime!
  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Posts: 137
    That is truly "Musicalesque"
    This guy wouldn't know magesty if it bit him in the face- Strong bad

    www.myspace.com/lastgeneration56
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Interesting. I'll record a version later, just a home demo. It's quite understated, really. I know that "Melodramatic popular song" is supposed to be a genre, these days, but if anything, this is the antithesis of that. I hope! :)
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Interesting. I'll record a version later, just a home demo. It's quite understated, really. I know that "Melodramatic popular song" is supposed to be a genre, these days, but if anything, this is the antithesis of that. I hope! :)

    I'm curious about how this one will sound. You don't usually have this much repetition in your lyrics.
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    You'll have to play percussion at one of my gigs, sometime!

    That's awesome... just the response I wanted. My work here is done. ;)

    J/K. It's got to happen, I'm counting on it.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Posts: 137
    I hope you didn't take my comment as a negative one... I think this is one of your best. When I read lyrics I always kind of put them to music in my head. For whatever reason when I read this I saw an ensamble dancing and singing it. The coolest thing about doing that is getting to hear the finished product and seeing how far off i was. I do that every time I get a new CD.
    This guy wouldn't know magesty if it bit him in the face- Strong bad

    www.myspace.com/lastgeneration56
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Didn't think Jonestown was much to dance about!
  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Posts: 137
    Didn't say it was a happy musical...everyone was wearing the sad-face mardi gras masks
    This guy wouldn't know magesty if it bit him in the face- Strong bad

    www.myspace.com/lastgeneration56
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    I'm still wondering about what this'll sound like. Have you put something together yet Mr FinsburyP?
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  • theskyabovetheskyabove Posts: 77
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Interesting. I'll record a version later, just a home demo. It's quite understated, really. I know that "Melodramatic popular song" is supposed to be a genre, these days, but if anything, this is the antithesis of that. I hope! :)


    You're not stupid enough to write a melo-pop-song, lol...
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