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Thread: Vantablack (0 Replies, 29,750 Views) by Johnb31
I hear the echos inside your soul
The vantablack endless hole
Light is trapped as it dances by
The whispers pour from the sky
Your selfish ways are here to stay
No light will scatter...
Thread: Right My Wrongs (4 Replies, 22,555 Views) by Johnb31
Love was just a currency
Truth was just a lie
Well I'm just an emergency
You don't arrive in time
Hold me to the fire light
Burn me alive
Hell I won't even fight
It ain't worth the...
Thread: Right My Wrongs (0 Replies, 3,615 Views) by Johnb31
Love was just a currency
Truth was just a lie
Well I'm just an emergency
You don't arrive in time
Hold me to the fire light
Burn me alive
Hell I won't even fight
It ain't worth the...
Thread: Forgotten (0 Replies, 22,267 Views) by Johnb31
Dream about me when I'm gone
This is the life that I long
But I know that I'll be forgotten
Like fruit left rotten
The dreams in my mind
Will be just an echo in time
The world will move...
Thread: Mixed Up Life (8 Replies, 5,460 Views) by Johnb31
Hoy guys are digging up this ancient song I forgot about it haha.
Thread: Mixed Up Life (8 Replies, 5,460 Views) by Johnb31
Thank you for the helpful criticism!
Thread: Reborn (4 Replies, 31,076 Views) by Johnb31
The corporeal void within my soul
Withers like a dying coal
For the fire that's burns
Is the fire that turns
My soul to coals
My soul to coals
Warm the water with this coal
Pour it...
Thread: Johnb31 or John Baird (4 Replies, 20,969 Views) by Johnb31
Thank you so much! I'm actually working towards rewriting it a little bit. I'm trying to make the second verse mirror the first and cut out some of the bridge to turn it into a more traditional folk...
Thread: We'll Dream Our Lives Away (2 Replies, 24,797 Views) by Johnb31
We dream about the other side
But sometimes the other side is inside
And we can't escape from our faired lives
For we are drowning in the dust of another life
We hold tight to the handle bars...
Thread: We Are Bound (0 Replies, 2,189 Views) by Johnb31
Oh I wake from my slumber
To drink my day away
All the hours seem to tick by
Like time on a tree
And I'm sure that I'll find you
But I don't know if I'll wake
For I sleep till the...
Thread: When Worlds Collide (17 Replies, 9,691 Views) by Johnb31
This is the rewritten version of the song and the one that I put music to.
Thread: Desert Sun (0 Replies, 1,416 Views) by Johnb31
"chorus"
Even when the river runs dry
I'll have you know
That I'll still find my way home
I'll walk in the desert sun
I'll walk in the desert sun
I'll walk the path of the river run ...
Thread: Downtown (8 Replies, 3,419 Views) by Johnb31
Thank you so much for your comment!! I forgot about this song so thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll look into improving this song thanking for helping me.
Thread: City Streets (4 Replies, 4,202 Views) by Johnb31
Thank you, and yes I have its kind of a folkish sound
Thread: City Streets (4 Replies, 4,202 Views) by Johnb31
There's so much I don't know
There's so much I'll never be
But that don't mean I stop living
There's so much left to see
I won't be bound by these boarders
I won't be bound by the sea
...
Thread: When Worlds Collide (17 Replies, 9,691 Views) by Johnb31
Wow! I havnt been on in awhile I wasn't expecting this song to be back at the top of my threads. Thank you everyone who commented I appreciate it. It's been about 2 years since Ive read this song....
Thread: Goodbye Farewell (0 Replies, 985 Views) by Johnb31
So Goodbye farewell
Yeah it's fights like these
That feel like hell
And I don't know what to say
So I'm just goin to walk away
This goes on and on
I ask you what's going on
In...
Thread: Imagined (1 Replies, 2,886 Views) by Johnb31
I don't know why all that crazy stuff showed up, but it's all fixed up now.
Thread: Imagined (1 Replies, 2,886 Views) by Johnb31
Wake up
Welcome to the world
We got Facebook, twitter and more
Check out all the new apps
In the iTunes Store
Don't bother to look up
The phone gives you so much more
"Chorus"
Wake up
Thread: Shadow on The Wall (0 Replies, 1,488 Views) by Johnb31
It's been awhile since I've posted I've been extremely busy. This song is written for a friend of mine from his perspective. I'm still working on some of the verses I'm hoping to use some words from...
Thread: Pride Before the Fall (2 Replies, 3,371 Views) by Johnb31
Hey Doug! Yeah this song isn't really complete still trying to figure out where it's going.
Thread: Pride Before the Fall (2 Replies, 3,371 Views) by Johnb31
You got it all figured out
Every word leaves your mouth
More perfect than the last
You think you are fast
In yet you're stuck standing still
Lost in this dark mill
Constantly chipping...
Thread: The Absence of Light (7 Replies, 5,771 Views) by Johnb31
Hey, thank you for the comment! I'm not sure who it is about part of it is inspired by a friend of mine another part of it is inspired by all the broken people I see on Instagram and Facebook and so...
Thread: The Absence of Light (7 Replies, 5,771 Views) by Johnb31
Thank you so much it means a lot!
Thread: Revive (4 Replies, 2,269 Views) by Johnb31
I channeled my inner Three Days Grace.
Thread: Revive (4 Replies, 2,269 Views) by Johnb31
Can you feel the cold
Can you feel it mold
Around our empty skulls
What are we but eventual coals
We feel as if we're stuck
Grounded by pain covered in muck
It's time to breathe in the...
Thread: The Absence of Light (7 Replies, 5,771 Views) by Johnb31
When I slip away into the dark
I notice the demons have left their mark
One after the other I count the scars
Weaving across my skin like highway cars
Leaving no gap no space left clean
I...
Thread: Life Is Too Short (5 Replies, 7,914 Views) by Johnb31
Thanks Doug and Andrew w, for the comments I greatly appreciate them. Andrew w: I agree with you too many people including myself hold on to the past, living everyday remembering all the things they...
Thread: Life Is Too Short (5 Replies, 7,914 Views) by Johnb31
You're scared to erase
All the things you couldn't be
And now you're trapped in your stardust
Your stardust galaxy
In this world you are afraid
To be anything
Trapped within your stardust...
Thread: Misdirection (2 Replies, 896 Views) by Johnb31
Surrounded by the ocean
Surrounded by the sky
We feel the mixed emotion
As we break inside
And all is contorting
In this world of disarray
We feel as if were floating
To a world so far...
Thread: Empty Skin (6 Replies, 2,041 Views) by Johnb31
Perfect Doug thank you so much for the help!
Thread: Empty Skin (6 Replies, 2,041 Views) by Johnb31
I never knew that
Life could be so abstract
I've been here, there, everywhere
Trapped in the eyes of a distant stare
And I can't get away
I can't escape
The pain in my heart is here to...
Thread: Downtown (8 Replies, 3,419 Views) by Johnb31
I'm sorry Doug I meant to change it I didn't look what I was doing haha.
Thread: Downtown (8 Replies, 3,419 Views) by Johnb31
Good suggestion Doug! Yeah my avatar does look pretty cool it's rare when I am in good photos haha the lighting has to be just right.
Thread: Downtown (8 Replies, 3,419 Views) by Johnb31
Took a bus to the other side of town
Found a man who could turn a frown upside down
He spoke smooth, as a rushing river
He spoke words that would make you quiver
He said we got the man to set...
Thread: Are We Like Fish (2 Replies, 3,746 Views) by Johnb31
Like most of my poems and song this was inspired by "The Hollow Men". I wouldn't consider this poem completed I've been writing it for a year now off an on. More will be added more will be changed...
Thread: Are We Like Fish (2 Replies, 3,746 Views) by Johnb31
Are we like fish?
Staring off into space
Peering upon a falling star making our wish
While searching for something to embrace
Could this world be our tank?
And the man above us creates our...
Thread: Waiting For The End (11 Replies, 2,411 Views) by Johnb31
I'm gonna do fancy recordings with fancy equipment sometime this month for this song I will add a little reverb for ya Doug haha ;)
Thread: Waiting For The End (11 Replies, 2,411 Views) by Johnb31
Haha I get what your saying.
Thread: Waiting For The End (11 Replies, 2,411 Views) by Johnb31
I have somewhere around 15 of my songs with music I just never got around to recording. Some of these lyrics I will never sing just because it's not me anymore. Thank you so much! I don't believe in...
Thread: Waiting For The End (11 Replies, 2,411 Views) by Johnb31
This is Waiting For The End
http://youtu.be/o9d2wy6Wlj8
Thread: Maze (4 Replies, 1,296 Views) by Johnb31
Hey train girl welcome back ;-). I wonder who this lovely song is about haha ;-). I love it it has some great rhymes in it good job now write more!!
Thread: Make The Most of It (5 Replies, 1,571 Views) by Johnb31
This song is inspired by my girlfriend teaching me how to roller skate I felt like I wasn't living life to its fullest so I gave it a whirl fell a lot but I got back up and kept trying. I see this as...
Thread: Make The Most of It (5 Replies, 1,571 Views) by Johnb31
Thank you so much!
Thread: Make The Most of It (5 Replies, 1,571 Views) by Johnb31
I've been up and I've been down
I've been all around this sleepy town
I've been up top the hills
I've been down in the valleys
And I never want to go back again
"Chorus"
What about life...
Thread: May You Forever Run (10 Replies, 1,764 Views) by Johnb31
The lyrics are really good and very inspiring I love inspiring lyrics. You are a very talented lyricist I look forward to reading more of your work thank you for posting.
Thread: Light & Dark (Duality) (3 Replies, 1,284 Views) by Johnb31
WOW!! This is incredible exactly the kind of stuff I enjoy reading and writing. The polarity of life is both beauty and a tragedy you are absolutely right. Nothing more true can be said about our...
Thread: Live Today (8 Replies, 1,806 Views) by Johnb31
Wow that was a really nice rework of the song I love that. I'm not really sure where I'm gonna take this song musically yet but what you wrote has given me some ideas for this song thank you so much.
Thread: Live Today (8 Replies, 1,806 Views) by Johnb31
Thank you Doug. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Thread: Live Today (8 Replies, 1,806 Views) by Johnb31
Haven't thought of a rhyme for that yet haha