I can’t believe you sold…
I can’t believe you sold out
Rip your soul out
Rip your soul…

Would you face me and look into my eyes
Before you lie straight through your teeth
And maybe you’ll pull it off again
But you can count me out

Look to the sun
For the energy you’re gonna need
While fighting for your legacy
Take it and run
So they’ll never know the holy ghost
Is not in you and never was

I can’t believe you sold…
I can’t believe you sold out
Rip your soul out
Rip your soul…

Would you face me and look into my eyes
Before you lie straight through your teeth
And maybe you’ll pull it off again
But you can count me out

Can’t believe you’re selling out
We only bury all the useless
We bury all the useless every day
Can’t believe you’re selling out
We only bury all the useless
We bury all the useless every day…

Would you face me and look into my eyes
Before you lie straight through your teeth
And maybe you’ll pull it off again
But you can count me out

They’re so tasteless
Changing
To be the one they want
Faceless
Wasted
You don’t know who you are

Notes: These should be almost perfect (uncertain about the second line of the chorus, though) and I’m definitely the first site on the web with these lyrics. I believe this song is from Smile Empty Soul’s upcoming album, “Consciousness”, but they haven’t clarified that either way.

You’ve become my nemesis
As I seek for an end to this
You’ve become my nemesis
And I fiend for an end to it
An end to you

Not a man and never more, nothing but a jester whore
Reality is emptiness and a taste of what’s in store
Chauffeur to the desperate and the villains all the same
A smile doesn’t matter much when the teeth have all been stained

You’ve become my nemesis
As I search for an end to this
And I fiend for an end to it
And an end to you

I won’t beg and I won’t shatter
Silent through what doesn’t matter
Watching as you twitch and clamor
Praying for a sound to stammer
Every demon that’s held dear
Every breath behind your jeer
Mingle til they see the day
When all your angels go away

You’ve become my nemesis
As I search for an end to this
And I fiend for an end to it
And an end to you
End to you
End to you
Little evil messages that will be the end of you

Notes: The music that would accompany these lyrics is heavily inspired by Tool and A Perfect Circle. I’ve been listening to them a lot, lately.

I am playing with words and I’m toying with melody
Picking up thoughts that just suddenly fell on me
I was that guy who was lost in the world
But now that I got you…
I’m the guy who got the girl

I had waited for days and I counted them all
I was drinking and cursing and rushing my fall
I wanted you so bad, saw this was my chance
To find what was missing, to hold someone’s hand
I was nothing…
Just nothing at all
But now I can see…

I am playing with words and I’m toying with melody
Picking up thoughts that just suddenly fell on me
I was that guy who was lost in the world
But now that I got you…
I’m the guy who got the girl

One more chance
Was all I wanted
A chance to be happy
Right there I saw it
I was that guy and you were that girl
Suddenly finding ourselves in this world
And now I see..

I am playing with words and I’m toying with melody
Picking up thoughts that just suddenly fell on me
I was that guy who was lost in the world
But now that I got you…
I’m the guy who got the girl
I am that guy
Who one day got the girl
I am that guy
Who one day got the girl

Notes: An acoustic song. Think along the lines of a song like “Hey There, Delilah”.

[verse]
I have closed my eyes to look back in time
Those forty-nine days that I fought the tides
When you were unsure and I had to cry
Praying to someone to make all this right
Then you stopped by, I remember the taste
The day we fell into love and place
That night broke me when you fell away
A long walk home on the morning of day

[chorus]
These words just can’t seem to say it
I know that I can’t explain it
Simple things I say never capture it
Little things you say, what comes after it?

[verse]
Day after next is when we found peace
A heart break day that a kiss would cease
Mistakes were made and mistakes would leave
And in their place, it’s just you and me
And we’ll fight the world, we can make them see
That this is right and it’s meant to be
A tattoo’ed heart, written fifty-three
I’ve come so far, it’s what you’ve given me

[chorus]
These words just can’t seem to say it
I know that I can’t explain it
Simple things I say never capture it
Little things you say, what comes after it?

[bridge]
I’m across the street, I can see you
I’ve been lost all week and I need you
Once my heart was weak, now I breathe you
Lift me off my feet, never leave you
I’ll never leave you…
I’ll never leave you…

[chorus]
But words just can’t seem to say it
I know that I can’t explain it
Simple things I say never capture it
Little things you say, what comes after it?

These words I say, dedicated
You and me, baby, look we made it
Simple things we say, we can prove this
You and me today, we’ll get through this

Notes: It’s a pop rock love song. Someone like Kelly Clarkson could probably sing it. As for the meaning? Well, cmon, it’s obviously about my beautiful girl.

[verse 1]
Isolated paintings that reside inside this canvas
Thinner fumes can not erase the anything that’s happened
These brush strokes are the perpetrated acts of lonely arrogance
Fibers of the being that are colored in by passion

[pre-chorus]
So gaze on me
Just gaze on me…

[verse 2]
Stare upon the tears in flesh that shred and show the stitches
The visions of collections that will morph into these pictures
Random strokes of innocence that grow into these fissures
Crimson streams of bitterness are carved in by your scissors

[pre-chorus]
So gaze on me
Just gaze on me
Gaze on me
Put your gaze on me..

[chorus]
And watch me spill these colors out
Just watch them flow together
Criticize the blackest clouds
And laugh to make it better
Mix the oils of the pain and shatter ever canvas
And postulate the meaning of the ordinary standard
So, gaze on me
Won’t you gaze on me?

[bridge]
Lie
Lie
Lie
Lie…

[pre-chorus]
So gaze…
Just gaze on me…

[verse 3]
Recollect the artisans and elevate their message
Find pretentious meaning in your artificial guesses
Mold it to intelligence and whore out every lesson
Until the words of colors, in the end are fucking lessened

[pre-chorus]
So gaze on me
Wont you gaze on me?
Gaze on me
Never gaze on me…
Again

Notes: I haven’t done song lyrics in a very long time and I still want to avoid them as much as possible, but I was listening to a Tool song and I just wanted to experiment a little bit and break away from the standard poems.

I don’t care about a thing you say
Cause everybody knows it’s true
And I don’t ever have a thing to say
It’ll never get to you

Cause I’m a loser
Drug abuser
Did you have something to say?
I’m a winner
And a sinner
Choosing deafness in my own way
Hey, hey

I see the people on your MTV
They never have something to say
Hit me baby, I’m begging please
Before I’m old and go insane

Cause I’m a loser
Drug abuser
Did you have something to say?
I’m a winner
And a sinner
Choosing deafness in my own way
Hey, hey

Another chemical to plug my ears
One more drink to shut you up
A lot of bottles to calm these fears
I think my stock is going up

I think I’m going
I think I’m going
I think I’m going up

I think we’re blowing
I think we’re blowing
I think we’re gonna blow our world up

Cause I’m a loser
Drug abuser
Did you have something to say?
And I’m a winner
And I’m a sinner
Choosing deafness in my own way
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey

Notes: I actually like these lyrics. To picture the beat, think back to some of those Nirvana songs that had a lively, almost fun sounding beat to them. This would follow that trend perfectly. While the lyrics are no where near his level of writing, I could picture Cobain singing to this song.

In a magic place
Where the sun was hidden, I found Jack
In the magic place
I found a prison and I found Jack
And now I stand
On the side of the mainstream. Where did you go?
I take my seat
And I wonder if you’ll ever know

Say, do you know?
Say do you…

On a cloudy day
You introduced us and I found Jaimie
Was a cloudy day
You stopped along to give me Jaimie
And in my hand
She sits right there in her orange dress
I’ll take my seat
And I wonder if you’ll ever know

Say, do you know?
Say do you…

Demons dancing in the courtyard
Pitch forks spinning, stabbing thoughts hard
Breaking in to every thing that I see
Seeping in to, asphyxiating me

Say do you…

Was a magic thing
The dance we had, Jaimie and Jack
Kill a magic thing
Jack put the Jaimie right in my back
Was the picture painted
I convinced myself to dream of hate
I’ll take my leave
I don’t care if you’ll ever know

Say, do you know?
Say do you…

Demons dancing in the courtyard
Pitch forks spinning, stabbing thoughts hard
Breaking in to every thing that I see
Seeping in to, asphyxiating me

It’s me and Jack
And me and Jaimie
It’s me and Jack
And me and Jamie
It’s me and you

Notes: I’ve been listening to a lot of System of a Down and it really encouraged me to experiment a bit and, since I had no rhyme beat in my head, I went with a song. I know, I know, I don’t like them either lol. I don’t know how to describe the sound. Sorry.

Intoxicated I…
And medicated I…
Intoxicated I…
And medicated

We’re living in this hollowed existence
Giving to your sorrow’s persistence
Absent to the lives that we hold
Dumb to the anguish we stole
We’re angels without our wings
Possess me through your sting
Cause I am nothing now
Your failure tears me down

Losing used to seem like a nightmarish dream
Never real or a choice
Until I heard your voice
Bathing in all my fears
Hating, withholding tears
Won’t look while you inject
Your poison in my neck

Intoxicated I…
And medicated I…
Intoxicated I…
And medicated

We’re living in this hollowed existence
Giving to your sorrow’s persistence
Absent to the lives that we hold
Dumb to the anguish we stole
We’re angels without our wings
Possess me through your sting
Cause I am nothing now
Your failure tears me down

Stall
Stall
Stall
Stall

I never through that life would turn into a fight
My engine’s running dry
Now watch this angel die

Intoxicated I…
And medicated I…
Intoxicated I…
And medicated

We’re living in this hollowed existence
Giving to your sorrow’s persistence
Absent to the lives that we hold
Dumb to the anguish we stole
We’re angels without our wings
Possess me through your sting
Cause I am nothing now
Your failure tears me down

Stall
Stall
Stall
Stall

Notes: A Tool like rock song. I’m not 100% sure of what Tool sounds like since I’ve only ever heard a few of their songs, but it’s the closest thing I can compare to. God, I hate writing lyrics.

Talking me, voices that I hear inside
Listen to my every breath
Lingering on every cry
Deep inside my mind, there’s so much going on
There’s so much going wrong
Everything is far from right
And I’m far from being strong

Bury me underneath your tempting call
Thoughts you place inside my head
Pushing me until I fall
Deep inside my mind, you’re scratching at this whim
I’m clutching as the brakes
While I drive into your sin
I drive into your
Your!

Cause I can’t breathe and I can’t think
I only feel your taunting sting
Calling me with your sedative
I’ll close me eyes and open your sin

Your
Your
Your
Your

Listen to the pain stemming from my chest
Can you feel the itch as I try to
Scratch it
You’ve become mistress sin and
I’m your addict
There’s a fire that is building in me
So now I’ll cut off my mind, look into your eyes
And let temptation come and take me

Mistress sin
Mistress sin
Mistress sin

Cause I can’t breathe and I can’t think
I only feel your taunting sting
Calling me with your sedative
I’ll close me eyes and open your sin

I can’t breathe, no I can’t think
I’m driven by your taunting sting
I open wide for the sedative
While you sit and open your sin

Mistress sin
Mistress sin
Mistress sin
Mistress
SIN!

Notes: I know, I know. Lyrics are far from being my strong point and many prefer straight up rhymes, but this one just came to me. This is a song about vices and addiction (No, I’m not a drug addict, calm down). Everyone has something they get hooked on and have a hard time turning away. This is my own look at the feeling.

I try to breathe
And take you in
Steps misguided
As I fall within
I can’t believe
How time has gone
So quickly
Yet we deny this bond

I can’t explain this
And I can’t make it clear
I can’t erase the past, now
Cause I can’t disappear
Does this make me selfish?
I guess that’s how it seems
Cause everytime I stumble
You are out of reach

I fail to speak
The silence wins
I lose my bearing
On this life we’re in
The words you say
Dance around my soul
There’s peace in knowing
That you make me whole

But I can’t explain this
And I can’t make it clear
I can’t erase the past, now
Cause I can’t disappear
Does this make me selfish?
I guess that’s how it seems
Cause everytime I stumble
You are out of reach

You’re out of reach
I’m low on faith
I just want to tell you
You make me feel okay
But when I speak
The bitter taste
I watch this silence
And I clench my hate

I can’t explain this
And I can’t make it clear
I can’t erase the past, now
I want to disappear
Does this make me selfish?
I guess that’s how it seems
Cause everytime I stumble
I fall into my dreams

Notes: I know, I know, it’s a bit weak. I’m just not that great at writing songs. Anyway, this is an acoustic ballad that gets a little heavier in the chorus and bridge. I don’t want to let details ruin your interpretation, but it’s about wishing you could tell someone something, but never really knowing how to say it.