Righteousness Hall
This one's some lyrics I wrote, which we did turn into a song. The song itself is... Quite unlike anything else, a mixture of prog, psych, hard rock, spoken word, protopunk... Really, I love it. But these lyrics are really what drives it. I've always liked these, since the moment I wrote it.
The souls of the restless speak to me For mercy, joy or intimacy The dead can cry for ever more Where the Spirit killed them all Lying headless on floor In Righteousness Hall The soldiers fight for captivity Blinded by false loyalty Fight a war that cannot be won A soldier is within a shawl It's one for all and all for one In Righteousness Hall Fires creep up a city street A silent girl on silent feet A phantom dancing through the night Cinderella runs out from the ball She's ready to join the raging fight In Righteousness Hall The Queen and Darwin never meet But together form the word deciept Never seeing eye to eye Royalty spent in a foreign mall Her face is used for getting high In Righteousness Hall In Tin Can Alley paupers play And bards sing out words and say Beware young child don't be free Succumb to society's call Rebels spend lives of misery In Righteousness Hall Abraham spends his life so gay Men around him every day His wife stays at home and cooks His secrets with a roaming Gaul Forever remain in history books In Righteousness Hall Empires fell to foreign might Never go without a fight The rape and death that war breeds When easy peace is dishnourable The sex that Genghis Caesar needs In Righteousness Hall A ship sails away out of sight Along the sun into the night The sun itself then eats the waves Causing the unholy brawl Between the castles and the caves In Righteousness Hall Simon Peter in the sea alone at last Just a remnant of the past Remembering times when he was Part of the wailing wall Watching the fight and the fuss In Righteousness Hall A worm travels much too fast Eating through Odysseus' mast He lived to be two hundred and three He was once known as Saul Until he ate from the knowledge tree In Righteousness Hall Four young boys in a record shop One small run in with a cop Addiction to music drives the mind The order itself was much too tall You can leave your old life behind In Righteousness Hall The world itself will never stop Nor birds stop singing or flowers drop Apart from in one place Where all sense and sensibility fall Never show your face In Righteousness Hall