Dead of Night

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    jandros said:

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    Playing the song Moonlight (click here) by Kamelot about 10 times at max volume would probably "inspire" just about any would-be writer, and that's where these lyrics came from. In fact, might a very familiar pattern be seen here? Yeah I wrote this to go with that song. The first and third lines just started rolling around in my head, and then I got two verses and a bridge and chorus easily enough. But the rest of it was a little bit of a struggle. So is there too much rhyme anywhere? Like maybe in the second (extended) bridge? ... "When I read back the history..."

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    Now I know exactly how I need to feel
    Behind your promise there was nothing real
    The truth is clear because it's written on the wall
    Now we watch the endless darkness fall

    But as I grope for sanity
    It will not be the end of me

    Dead of night
    The only life you knew
    Out of sight
    You could tear my heart in two
    You took the moonlight
    And you gave it all away
    Is there nothing, nothing at all left to say?

    He was "nothing" just a nothing kind of friend
    But when he knocked you always let him in
    To steal your secrets and the words you held for me
    You only thought that I would never see

    When I read back the history
    I don't know what I should see
    But as I grope for dignity
    It will not be the end of me

    Dead of night
    The only life you knew
    Out of sight
    You could tear my heart in two
    You took the moonlight and
    You gave it all away
    And there is nothing, nothing at all left to say

    You took the dice of chaos as your game
    But the dice just would not roll the same
    A pair of two came up as less than one
    Turned the chaos into pandimonium

    But as you grope for sanity
    It will not be the end of me

    Dead of night
    The only life you knew
    Out of sight
    You could tear my heart in two
    You took the moonlight and
    You gave it all away
    And is there nothing, nothing at all left to say?

    (repeat)

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    Last edited by jandros; 05-29-2011 at 10:18 PM. Reason: several edits, several corrections/improvements
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    I intentionally didn't write lines of my own for the 2/4 lines that start at 3:25 in the song. I just don't have anything good to use there
    Having problems with vertigo for 2-3 days ... it's temporary, a mild case and it will pass, but for now I can't stay on the computer as much as normal :-/ ...