Waxing Lyrical

Ok, I've done some very different things musically, this first offering is in the dance genre - It was written by an amazingly talented guy called Joe Thomas (currently residing in Leeds) and I wrote the lyrics for him, we never got around to recording it though which is a shame - pure crapness on my part as I'm sadly lacking in transport - I think I may have to give him a bell very soon...

Anyhow, this was a rather 'dirty' ambiant trance type track, very eerie...

All of my life I’ve been moving around
Aimlessly searching
For something that cant be found

So many times I thought you were the one
Blindly assuming
That my moving days were done

Looking back over the years
All the things I could have done
Seems like all that time is wasted now
What have I become?

We need to step outside time and space
Hopeful and dreaming
Gotta find a better place

At the dark side of the moon
Where the sun has yet to shine
There’s a place where we can run together
- just you and I

*grin* take a wild guess which lines he'd picked out as the vocal padding?

This second was very different, I was in a rock/ metal band called 'Fisted' as you can imagine, the idea was to be very provocative - please forgive me but I was in college at the time, I realise this may be a little harsh for some people but it turned out as a great song.

The Wonder Years

7 years old
No stranger to lust
My fresh young body
No longer untouched

Left all alone
Then your large hands came probing
To young to realise
Yet still consumed with loathing

Was it my fault?
Was it something I did?
The way I fought so hard
Only fuelled your perverse kick

There was no way out
I didn’t know what to do
I couldn’t tell my mother
‘cause my mother loved you

Another of the 'Fisted' tunes we played that was not quite as harsh, was in fact quite 'bouncy' despite the raw squealing guitars:

Risen

If you could match up to your ego
You'd be my kind of man

But your confidence is misplaced
It shows how shallow you really are

I need a man with some substance
I need those depths to plumb

That's the way it is

Show me some sense of feeling
Some kind of thought inside your head

Prove to me that there's a reason
To take this further than it already is

I need a man to stir my senses
To make me have to think

That's the way it is

My sights have risen
Will you surprise me?
Is there more to you than this
My sights have risen
You can't deny me

That's the way it is
That's the way it is

This band was in fact only thrown together in approximately 1-2 weeks, we were approached by our tutor who needed a 4th band for a showcase night, What really made us laugh - and I mean LAUGH was the fact that the following week we were featured in an issue of Kerraang! (actually, when I say 'featured' what I really mean is, we'd been reviewed) We got a full 3 fists and the tag 'ones to watch' sadly, we didn't really do much after that, it had been thrown together as a bit of fun - even the name had been a joke - we wanted to see if the tutors would allow us to use it.
But lets just say the covers of 'king nothing' by Metallica and 'weak' by Skunk Anansie went down very well.