A Song a Day

[Reverend45]

Lynryrd Skynyrd - Freebird

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be travelin' on now
There's too many places I got to see

If I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows, I can't change

Bye and bye baby, it's been sweet love, yeah yeah
Though this feelin' I can't change
Please don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows, I'm to blame

And if I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't even be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change

Lord knows, I can't change
Lord help me, I can't change
Lord I can't change
Won't you fly high free bird yeah

 

[JacsMom]

This isn't my usual genre of music but it's how I feel

The Lonely - Christina Perri

Two am, where do I begin
Crying off my face again
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed
I'm a ghost of a girl
That I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl
That I used to know well
Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again
Too afraid, to go inside
For the pain of one more loveless night
For the loneliness will stay with me
And hold me till I fall asleep
I'm a ghost of a girl
That I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl
That I used to know well
Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you…

 

[Snake on the Moon]

I love listening to Jesse Cook while I'm in my kitchen.

Incantation – Jesse Cook

 

[ghosTea]

This isn't my usual genre of music but it's how I feel
The Lonely - Christina Perri

Thanks for joining in Jacs

 

[Sunstealer]

This is the band that made me fall in love with punk, all those years ago. Its SubHumAns - Subvert city.

 

[Snake on the Moon]

****TRIGGER WARNING*****
Contains some gore. So if that isn't for you, please be careful.

I found the english lyrics, I think this is an okay translation.

Uroko – Dir En Grey

You say, eyes averted, wrists awakened:
"I'm being reborn".

They say that by the time you're mysteriously charmed,
You're already intertwined with the cabbage worm.

Underneath the cat footed sofa-bed, the hiding Sphinx
Gives a glimpse at the underneath of the tattoo I'm peering in.

Digging in the kind claws, the short tail fin flails around.

Choosing my language depending on how tame you are.

The chandelier is shining for you.
Touch the completely dried up scales.

You say, eyes averted, wrists awakened:
"I'm being reborn".

They say that by the time you're mysteriously charmed,
You're already intertwined with the cabbage worm.

Digging in the kind claws, the short tail fin flails around.

Trembling bewitched.
Fluttering, writhing you're being deprived of your beauty.

Choosing my language depending on how tame you are.

The chandelier is shining for you.
Touch the completely dried up scales.​

 

[WatchingPlanesFlyBy]

I don't want my freedom
There's no reason for living with a broken heart.

This is a tricky situation -
I've only got myself to blame
It's just a simple fact of life
It can happen to anyone -

You win - you lose
It's a chance you have to take with love
Oh yeah - I fell in love
But now you say it's over and I'm falling apart.

It's a hard life
To be true lovers together
To love and live forever in each others hearts -
It's a long hard fight
To learn to care for each other
To trust in one another right from the start
When you're in love -

I try and mend the broken pieces
I try to fight back the tears
They say it's just a state of mind
But it happens to everyone -

How it hurts - deep inside
When your love has cut you down to size
Life is tough - on your own
Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies
Waiting for love.

Yes it's a hard life
Two lovers together
To love and live forever in each others hearts
It's a long hard fight
To learn to care for each other
To trust in one another - right from the start
When you're in love -
Yes it's a hard life
In a world that's filled with sorrow
There are people searching for love in every way -

It's a long hard fight -
But I'll always live for tomorrow
I'll look back on myself and say I did it for love
Yes I did it for love - for love - oh I did it for love.​

 

[Reverend45]

Uroko – Dir En Grey

Edit: fucking idiot I am.....wrote my reply in german XD too early in the morning.

Does Dir En Grey count a Visual Kei? The world of J/K/Pop/Rock is still new to me.

Egoist - Namae No Nai Kaibutsu (Was the first ending theme for Psychpass. Great series if you like mystery cyberpunky thrillers...the second season was bad, and the movie...we don't talk about the movie. Although Akane is a freakin badass)

Found the english translation of the lyris. no idea how accurate this is, I don't speak japanese.....^^

The fairy-tale
has died just now
I couldn't sing it well in this brick hospital
The foggy night, let the red moon float
Look at me
Keep eyes on me

Behind these iron bars
I was born
Pray for what deserves for your malice
And as you wish, to you
I will bring justice
Destroy them, before they destroy us
We'll pay for our karma
and go together, nameless monster

My ears are ringing
The barbed-wires are noisy
I can't remember the melody on that day
Still rain has not stopped
I can't see anything
See, it is now this big

Let the sky rain the black rain
I am a being of undesired
a cracked neruroic
To beloved bystanders with the same guilt
now excercise justice
Embracing my unerasable scars
accepting this body
let's go toghether, nameless monster

Ah
The God sentences the true world

Behind these iron bars
I was born
Pray for what deserves for your malice
And as you wish, to you
I will bring justice
Destroy them, before they destroy us
Pay for your karma
and repay, nameless monster

Let the sky rain the black rain
I am a being of unsesired
a cracked neruroic
To beloved bystanders with the same guilt
now excercise justice
embracing my unerasable scars
accepting this body
let's go toghether, nameless monster

 

[Sunstealer]

This is another great video by Rammstein its called Links 2 3 4 . I really like this video cos it shows that nomatter how small you are, you can, by working togetter, overcome the greatest of problems.

 

[Shelly]

I will break into your thoughts
With what's written on my heart
I will break, break

I'm so sick,
Infected with where I live
Let me live without this
Empty bliss,
Selfishness
I'm so sick
I'm so sick

If you want more of this
We can push out, sell out, die out
So you'll shut up
And stay sleeping
With my screaming in your itching ears

I'm so sick,
Infected with where I live
Let me live without this
Empty bliss,
Selfishness
I'm so sick
I'm so sick

Hear it, I'm screaming it
You're heeding to it now

Hear it! I'm screaming it!
You tremble at this sound

You sink into my clothes
And this invasion
Makes me feel
Worthless, hopeless, sick

I'm so sick,
Infected with where I live
Let me live without this
Empty bliss,
Selfishness
I'm so sick
I'm so sick

I'm so sick
Infected with where I live
Let me live without this
Empty bliss, selfishness
I'm so
I'm so sick
I'm so
I'm so sick

 

[Snake on the Moon]

@Reverend45
I'd say that they could fall into that category. They don't have the crazy hair though. :p

 

[WatchingPlanesFlyBy]

Edit: fucking idiot I am.....wrote my reply in german XD too early in the morning.

Does Dir En Grey count a Visual Kei? The world of J/K/Pop/Rock is still new to me.

DEG debuted as visual kei//prog-nu metal until Kyo and Toshiya (vocalist and bassist respectively) felt the look was detrimental when their music took a turn for the darker after Vulgar and Marrow of a Bone . Six Ugly is my favorite DEG album.

You want real Visual Kei? MALICE MIZER

Senketsu ni somaru mirai no toki
hageshiku modaeru honnou...

Place of silence, moving shadows
crimson eyes are strangely gleaming in the darkness
madness starting to awake
playful desire starving of blood
get down, limitless night

Beast of blood

Along with the scream from the death throes
sharp claws are shining brighter
dually obscene breaths continues
and rips apart the silence of the night
crossing the uplifty life
get down, limitless night

Beast of blood

Kokyuu ni karamaru chi no kaori ga
koukotsu no yoru ni tadayou
senketsu ni somaru mirai no toki
hageshiku modaeru honnou

Kokyuu ni karamaru chi no kaori ga
koukotsu no yoru ni tadayou

Beast of blood

No fear, no sadness
lofty life is tasting loneliness and eternity
and near by the target with no more life
red drops on my greedy lips
falls down on the freezing ground
get down limitless night

Beast of blood

Spills blood on me 'til it fills my body

Kokyuu ni karamaru chi no kaori ga
koukotsu no yoru ni tadayou
senketsu ni somaru mirai no toki
hageshiku modaeru honnou

Tsumetai karada ni hotobashiru
yokubou o akai chi de uruosu
kairaku no sakebi hibiku yoru ni
surudoku myaku utsu honnou

Kokyuu ni karamaru chi no kaori ga
koukotsu no yoru ni tadayou
senketsu ni somaru mirai no toki
hageshiku modaeru honnou

beast blood

 

[WatchingPlanesFlyBy]

And here's Versailles. This would make for excellent Castlevania music

I was able to find translated lyrics

My instincts are pursuing the pleasure of the heart's sweet voice
While my fangs thirsted for those concealed spoils as you smiled at me

Come now, I'll dye it with this beautiful blood
When this world comes to its rational senses
I'll open the white gates

Within the chalk-white walls, I thirsted for the flowing roses
The foolish thing that still hesitates with my contract

Come now, I'll dye it with this beautiful blood for you
When this world comes to its rational senses
I'll tear the white skin to pieces

The sublime rose-colored symphony
It dances in elegance, with a grievous tact
Rules are the rhapsody of darkness
On this back, I turned my arms

Within this small amount of memories, they played*

The ball** that was clad in a beautiful dress
The aristocrats sing and dance
Not even knowing the meaning of that blood

The sublime rose-colored symphony
It dances in elegance, with a grievous tact
Rules are the rhapsody of darkness
On this back, I turned my arms

Within this small amount of memories, the rhapsody plays

Come now, I'll dye it with this beautiful blood for you
Now I'll dye everything towards the world of roses
​

 

[ghosTea]

Video not available on your Queen post @WatchingPlanesFlyBy :/ I see we got on a weird Japanese kick while :P not much going on lyrically here. pretty repetitive. So I will post without

 

[ghosTea]

DEG debuted as visual kei//prog-nu metal until Kyo and Toshiya (vocalist and bassist respectively) felt the look was detrimental when their music took a turn for the darker after Vulgar and Marrow of a Bone . Six Ugly is my favorite DEG album.

You want real Visual Kei? MALICE MIZER

I find it humorous in this video how it shows them playing stringed instruments even though there is none in the music just because they were going for that look lol

 

[ghosTea]

I sometimes like when I miss a day because then I get to post two songs at once.. Yay me.

Some 80's oddness. I don't know of another female vocalist with a similar style it is a shame they only made one album and one EP

All action is reaction
Expansion
Contraction
Man the manipulator

Underwater
Does it matter?
Antimatter
Nuclear reactor
Boom boom boom boom

Who's your mother? Who's your father?
I guess everything's irrelative
Who's your mother? Who's your father?
I guess everything's irrelative

I'm a janitor
Oh my genitals
I'm a janitor
Oh my genitals
Oh my genitals
I'm a janitor

All action is reaction
Expansion
Contraction
Man the manipulator

Underwater
Does it matter?
Antimatter
Nuclear reactor
Boom boom boom boom

Who's your mother? Who's your father?
I guess everything's irrelative
Who's your mother? Who's your father?
I guess everything's irrelative

I'm a janitor
Oh my genitals
I'm a janitor
Oh my genitals
Oh my genitals
I'm a janitor

 

[Snake on the Moon]

I choose to continue the Japanese streak!!! This song is also repetitive, but I find it catchy. The video is neat to watch too.

Bad Apple – Touhou

Even in the midst of flowing time, I feel languid, look, spinning around and around.
I can't even see the heart that's leaving me, yes, I don't know
I can't even get myself to move, I continue to be washed down the cracks of time.
I don't know anything about what's around me, I'm just me and no more.
Am I dreaming? Am I seeing nothing? My words are useless even if I speak.
I'm just tired of being sad, I should go on without feeling anything.
Even if I'm given the words I'm at a loss for, my heart just won't pay attention.
If I move myself away, if I change everything, I’ll turn it black.
Is there a future for someone like me? Do I exist in a world like this?
Is this painful now? Is it sad now? Not even knowing myself.
I'm just tired even of walking, I don't even understand people.
If someone like me can change, if I can change, will I turn white?
Even in the midst of flowing time, I feel languid, look, spinning around and around.
I can't even see the heart that's leaving me, yes, I don't know
I can't even get myself to move, I continue to be washed down the cracks of time.
I don't know anything about what's around me, I'm just me and no more.
Am I dreaming? Or seeing nothing? My words are useless even if I speak.
I'm just tired of being sad, I should go on without feeling anything.
Even if you give me the words I'm at a loss for, my heart just won't pay attention.
If I can move, if I change everything, I’ll turn it black.
Does a future exist in wasted time? Do I exist in a place like this?
If you want to call me something, if you were to put it into words, I'd be called a "good-for-nothing troublemaker"
Do I exist at a place like this? Do I exist at a time like this?
If someone like me can change, if I can change, will I turn white?
Am I dreaming now? Am seeing nothing? My words are useless even if I speak.
I'm just tired of being sad, I should go on without feeling anything.
Even if you give me the words I'm at a loss for, my heart just won't pay attention.
If I can move, if I change everything, I’ll turn it black.
If I move, if I move, I’ll destroy everything, I’ll destroy everything.
If I grieve, if I grieve, can my heart turn white?
I still don’t know about you, about myself, about everything.
If I open my heavy eyelids, if I break everything, then turn black!!!​

 

[Snake on the Moon]

And here's Versailles. This would make for excellent Castlevania music

Now try doing DDR to that. haha! Feet will be flying!

 

[forever_scarred]

this isn't a song really but I think its still important.. and 77 yrs later I think it still rings true in many respects.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. …..

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Final speech from The Great Dictator

 

[ghosTea]

This song always makes me a bit sad but it is such a great track.. The lyrics from the start speak to feelings of loneliness and isolation "Don't bother looking for a chair just throw your coat down anywhere I'm sorry I m so poorly dressed I gave up hoping for a guest" . Living with my mental health issues I believe... well I know I have pushed people out of my life when I should have been more considerate or aware of there struggles as well, I try so hard to listen and be there for people when I can but in the end this one line sums up a huge issue that came up in my divorce.. All in retrospect.. "And I always wondered how you carried all that grief, I know it wasn't right to saddle you with mine" and the ending speaks of desperation of just having at least some time to be with someone as you open yourself up, all your weaknesses. at least "Till the morning" But I have nowhere to go to unburden my problems and feel that comfort anymore.. But even when I was in a relationship this song always reminded me of those feelings I felt at various times throughout my life. This has always been a powerful tragic song for me.

Don t bother looking for a chair
Just throw your coat down anywhere
I m sorry I m so poorly dressed
I gave up hoping for a guest
Whoa-oh-oh
You say you got a weight to bare
A cross you carry everywhere
I said I know and it ain' t fair
I tell you you can leave that here
Whoa-oh-oh...
And I always wondered
How you carried all that grief
I know it wasn't right to saddle you with mine
My life, my identity I lay them at your feet
And stand here broken in the mirror of your eyes
'til the morning...
The old prayers written on your skin
Claim you were meant to live in sin
They're singing mass out in the yard
They heard that you re the one I want
That I want...
And I m about to burn alive
You still won t look me in the eye
I'll turn the light out if you want
If you feel safer in the dark
Whoa-oh-oh...
I came to you an orphan
But I m living here a thief
If I can only find the door I'll go tonight
My life, my identity I lay them at your feet
In just the hope that you d let me come inside
Till the morning