lauantai 17. helmikuuta 2024

 


Song lyrics part 10. I went through some old lyrics that i have in my closet, and i found this one among many others but i kinda like this one. It had only two verses, i finalized it and added the chorus. I think it's one of my best lyrics, i love it. The god of dreams is of course the old Greek god Morpheus. Johnny Cash/Springsteen territory again. Most of these lyrics are like twenty years old, the zeitgeist has changed, now they sound vintage. I have not written anything in decades, this is my swan song propably.

 

                                           D e v i l ' s  H a r v e s t

 

 

The god of dreams will help you through the night

No need for confessions or artificial light

Wide open angels no peace no rest

The seeds are sown for the devil's harvest

 

The devil's harvest, out on the street

Lightnings like veins when crows gather to eat

The devil's harvest

 

Last night thunder and rain had a fight

The skies are heavy, but conscience is light

World falling apart screws up my rest

When i gaze through the blinds the devil's harvest


The devil's harvest, out on the street

Lightnings like veins when crows gather to eat

The devil's harvest

 




 

 

 






 


Song lyrics part 9. This lyric is just dadaist nonsense. I am just having fun. At the same time it kinda makes sense, has a certain point. Uncomposed, unrecorded.


                                               World Hugging Man

 

A station wagon farmer at Wild Horse saloon

Driving through America to get there soon

World hugging man discovered at last

Overcoming a gravity, head spinning fast

 

World hugging man

 

Big faith bang blast angels have a past

Throwing arms around on a runway forty-nine

Light talk shows spectacular sights

The globe is shrinking, cancel flights

 

World hugging man

 

Satellite lullabies, two a:m red light

Lonesome figurehead superstar at night

Diagnose yourself well and divided

World hugging man name undecided

 

World hugging man

tiistai 13. helmikuuta 2024


 

Song lyrics part 8. This one is one of those haunting and mysterious again. I like the title. Nowdays talking about God is very old-fashioned, but for me it's a metaphor, cultural expression. It's not about anybody's private beliefs, it's just a one way to paint the lyrical canvas, it's a country thing. I wrote this in around 2004, it is fully written composed song.

 

                                       T h u n d e r w a l k i n g

 

I hate to see sun shining, and i don't like rain

I am waiting a lighting, that knows my pain

I hear a wind coming, but i will not pray

No i will not pray

 

Thunderwalking

Hear Gods talking

Thunderwalking

 

I hike through barricades, moved by invisible hands

To the city of darkness, there plays a band

I shake their hands and i enjoy with the crowd

And i enjoy with the crowd

 

Thunderwalking

Hear Gods talking

Thunderwalking

 

I climb on the hill, that never was a mountain

Electricity is cracking, looking for a grounding

I hear a wind blowing, like a just another loner in this town

Like a just another loner in this town

 

Thunderwalking

Hear Gods talking

Thunderwalking

 

 

maanantai 12. helmikuuta 2024

 


Song lyrics part 7. This is emotionally heavy lyric. It's talking about the guilt of a parent after the divorce. Parent wants to, tries to fix the damage somehow for his kids. Johnny Cash territory. This is the type of lyric that you just don't know if it's good or complete crap, some lines are bit too simple and clumsy when i read it now, but the main idea is sound i think. I wrote this around 2002. This would work best if sung by a woman like Dar Williams, Mary-Chapin Carpenter or something of a that style.


                                         M o t o r c y c l e s

 

Jack and Jill decided it was that day

The priest crossed his fingers on a holy pray

Everything seemed fine, and the child was born

To see all the fightning, he started to grow up wrong

 

Motorcycles, motorcycles, motorcycles

Daddy's gonna buy him, a motorcycle

 

Jack got drinking, and Jill got a new man

In the courtroom, united they stand

Until the judge, made his orders with a grin

He said in the good old days, they used to call all this a sin

 

Motorcycles, motorcycles, motorcycles

Daddy's gonna buy him a motorcycle

 

Now Jack lives up the road nearby

With guilt bigger that catches any eye

His son is now a man, and sees all it through

Desperation of a man, not knowing what to do

 

Motorcycles, motorcycles, motorcycles

Daddy's gonna buy him, a motorcycle

sunnuntai 11. helmikuuta 2024

 


Song lyrics part 6. I think i will write a dozen of these or so, maybe few more. This one was never played that much, but i kinda like this as a lyric. Again, there's that haunting feeling of mystery, mixed with little humour, that is typical for many of my lyrics. Something is somewhere, very close, but can not be seen. There's only a story about it, somebody else saw it. I don't know where i get it. This one was written in 2003 i think.

 

                                     Stranger On The Highway

 

There was stranger on the highway, fifty miles off track

Coming back from home, never looking back

There was stranger on the highway, grinning to the lights

Walking little loose, disappearing of sights

 

There was stranger on the highway, and vehicles down the road

Sometimes people swear they saw, a man in a long black coat

There was stranger on the highway, looking like a clown

That walked over and fell, off the edge of town

 

There was stranger on the highway, told the host in the news

Reporters from CNN, went discovering the blues

There was stranger on the highway, and people looking around

Somebody said that's all, there's only a legend to be found

 

Like e stranger on the highway 

 

 



lauantai 10. helmikuuta 2024

 


Song lyrics part 5. I wrote this one around 2004. I think it's one of my best lyrics, on top five. It is pretty clear i think, describing the changing world and changing times. Country singer starts to play the blues as a response. This one has been demoed many times, but never properly recorded. One demo was sung by a very good female singer, but i won't release it because i promised not to. 


                                         Country Singer's Blues

 

There ain't no more highways

Where you can let that engine run

There ain't no more cowboys

Who can handle the gun

There ain't no more lightnings

Not grounded by a man

There ain't no more broken hearts

Rain beaten smiling fans

 

You may think this ain't no news

You may have got nothing to lose

But you'll never understand

The country singer's blues

 

There ain't no little towns

Alone on the prairie

There ain't no more wedding gowns

Or man on his knees 

There ain't no more gods

And devils are news

There ain't no more spare parts

For the Baton Rouge

 

You may think this ain't no news

You may have got nothing to lose

But you'll never understand

The country singer's blues

perjantai 9. helmikuuta 2024

 


Song lyrics part 4. I love the mood of this lyric. This could be a country song or a metal song, unrecorded. It is about losing your faith, divorce, and about many things. Storms outside are a metaphor for the inner feelings of this guy, storms are real, they are true. Chasing them, understanding them is a crazy hobby. 


                                               S t o r m c h a s e r

 

Cloudlights on horizon, gotta go dream up fast

Flat out beams on, radio silence outcast

Never seen a green man, no Jesus in sight

Telescopes and cameras, waiting in the night

 

I put my kids to bed, and kiss my beautiful wife

Watch the news reports, about destroyed lives

It's coming this way now, named like a human child

It has a birth and doom, and soul juvenile

 

Morning news i gaze, thundercracks in my ears

Lab my density photos, drive kids to the school

Everything now gone, sun setting daylight

Tiretracks on the fields, shaking hands, rainbite