Cosmic Relativity (FAWM 2018)

Cosmic Relativity

2018-03-01 @ 05:59am
tags:
More of a poem but could be interesting as a synth thing in 3 parts.

Lyrics

We are born
We laugh we cry
We fall down
We sing we sigh
We grow old
-Er by the day
It's so weird
We're meant to be this way
Measured by sunlight
Measured by sunlight

Did you ever look at the stars as they fade into the dawn
Did you ever gaze at the trees and see them breathing
Did you ever laugh while rolling down a hillside
At how ordinary magic is?
At how ordinary magic is?

Cosmic relativity
Signals synchronicity
A space dust serendipity
Consciousness occupies a body
That can love
That can love

Comments

• airbagtester - 2018-03-03 @ 03:28am

  I could definitely hear this as a softly-sung piece over some nice sounding synths, maybe in the style of Ladytron, as sung by Bowie. There's a wonderful mix of existentialism and also measuring ourselves by the universe that I like very much. It's very deep, but without being pretentious.

• julesbf - 2018-03-25 @ 10:26pm

  This definitely reads like a song to me, great rhythm to the lyric and love the rhymes. This is great 'Cosmic relativity Signals synchronicity A space dust serendipity' would love to hear this one

Love Song (FAWM 2018)

Love Song

2018-02-26 @ 01:33pm
tags: antivalentine jazz piano girl-with-piano
Oh hey, no chorus! Finally hit one of the extra challenges this FAWM. Woot woot!

Lyrics

You probably thought
This would be a love song
I know you thought
That I still care
I cared about you
When you were a child
It's a long time
Since then

You probably thought
This would be a love song
Although you
Treated me wrong
I loved you once
But the man you became
Is a stranger
To his own soul

You probably thought
This would be a love song
Oh no
And adulations of a crowd
Can never fill
That emptiness inside
Your heart
Only you
Can love yourself
I know you don't
I know you don't

Comments

• Martin Quibell - 2018-02-26 @ 03:16pm

  Great writing Chagall :-) I love the fact that each verse starts the same, which reflects a feeling of having to repeat the same thing all of the time, when you’re constantly reminding people of something. Beautifully flowing!

• mojosarmy - 2018-02-26 @ 08:17pm

  Love it. I agree, that is one of my favorite motifs, and you use it well here.

• Lady C - 2018-02-27 @ 07:00am

  Love how this has no chorus! The flow is great and words are so on point! Just fab! 💙

Silenced (FAWM 2018)

Silenced (We Hear Their Call)

2018-02-23 @ 11:05am
tags: ambient environment protest faerie celtic geek
This will be made on my iPad.

Lyrics

The little people live in star-dappled shadows
Dipping in and out of light
They hold their own lives
Their own secrets
Dipping in and out of sight

They cry out
In voices beyond hearing
Yet somehow
We hear their call
We hear their call

The nature spirits live in many dimensions
Dipping in and out of light
They dance through the planes
Their existence
Dipping in and out of sight

They cry out
In voices beyond hearing
Yet somehow
We hear their call
We hear their call

When we cut down a forest
Or poison a river
It's as if a thousand thousand souls
Cried out at once
And then were silenced

They cry out
In voices beyond hearing
Yet somehow
We hear their call
We hear their call

Comments

• bethdesombre - 2018-02-23 @ 12:05pm

  I love the "we hear their call" echoes -- I hope we do! Also the phrase "star-dappled shadows."

• beepbeepmeow - 2018-02-23 @ 06:51pm

  "Dipping in and out of light/sight" is such a wonderful refrain.

• janeg - 2018-02-25 @ 11:02pm

  I wish we were paying more attention to the spirits trying to protect our forests, lands and waters!

Eternally (FAWM 2018)

Eternally

2018-02-15 @ 02:16pm
tags:
This is a first draft. Kind criticism appreciated.

Lyrics

You never share your struggle
It's just humour on your wall
But the man behind the facade
Is the strongest one I know

You faced your past with courage
Even as you tried to flee
Overwhelmed by the pain inside
You still tried to comfort me

You could have turned to hatred
Distractions don't cure self-loathing
But instead you faced the music
From your heart you let it sing

Do you love her more than you love me
Or are you grateful not to feel so empty after your history
Is it a love that's deep or a love that's true
If you don't feel deserving and worthy
How will you know when it's here for you
Eternally

Comments

• devin - 2018-02-15 @ 02:32pm

  For me, I like the hints at different perspectives... the lyric is open enough to let me interpret some things. Such as; "You never share your struggle, it's just humour on your wall" - a good universal feel & summary statement, but also hints at social media to me "You could have turned to hatred Distractions don't cure self-loathing" - has a cool Darth Vader vibe, but that's probably just my inner (outer) geek finding a parallel :-)

• mojosarmy - 2018-02-15 @ 07:23pm

  Great start, needs a chorus for a focal point. Verse 3 could use a companion, and V4 seems almost like a prechorus, could also be the outro/coda.

• bractune - 2018-02-16 @ 02:47am

  I like the idea of this song, it just could use a little structure. I could totally hear a killer melody coming in on the "Do you love her" part. (I assume that is the chorus.) My suggestion would be to take the second verse down, and bring that in after the chorus. Then you would just have the two verses before the chorus, and one after, before bringing the aforementioned killer chorus melody back in. I think everything you need is here (unless you want a bridge). The phrasing is already very musical. Nice.

Living Dead (FAWM 2018)

Living Dead

2018-02-14 @ 09:02am
tags: metal heavyaf scream death-metal
So, um, I have a disability. This is what it feels like - except in a way cooler, nerdier context.

Title - Living Dead or Russian Roulette? Hmm.

Sapient did music for my lyrics omg! - Chagall
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Sapient:
Well, I couldn't leave lyrics like this hanging there without something to sing along to, could I? :D

Lyrics

Shuffling through existence
In a horror movie marathon
Barista please pour me a liquid brain
I take two minutes, drink up
Roll up the rim on the cup

Oh no not again lost at Russian roulette
Oh no not again lost at Russian roulette

Hello sands of a thousand tortures
Skinned alive
Stuffed with wet gravel
Muscles burn like molten metal
Rust flaking off my bones
Every time I twinge pieces of me fall apart
Feeling like the living dead
Feeling like the living dead

Driving with persistence
Through the scenery of life
Director please write me a better part
I take ten minutes, silence
Praying today ends the violence

Oh no not again lost at Russian roulette
Oh no not again lost at Russian roulette

Hello sands of a thousand tortures
Skinned alive
Stuffed with wet gravel
Muscles burn like molten metal
Rust flaking off my bones
Every time I twinge pieces of me fall apart
Feeling like the living dead
Feeling like the living dead

What I wanna know
Is how is my skin still whole
Still whole
Still whole
Feeling like the living dead
Feeling like the living dead

Comments

• Richard Provan - 2018-02-14 @ 09:46am

  What beautiful lyrics. You expressed your existence so clearly, so poetically, so truly. The song is playing in my head.

• devin - 2018-02-14 @ 03:01pm

  This is painfully awesome. The images are striking.. very well done.

• Chagall Sierra - 2018-02-15 @ 06:56am

  Thank you @quork and @devin. Think I might make it to metal awesomeness one of these days!

• Chagall Sierra - 2018-02-16 @ 10:24pm

  OMG OMG OMG.

• devin - 2018-02-16 @ 10:57pm

  Dear godz people... how Fucking epic is this?!? Some serious good music grooves here, and the tortured lyric is done severe justice. Win.

• Lady C - 2018-02-22 @ 08:34pm

  Holy shit this sounds fucking amazing yo!! Lyrics fit perfectly with this Death metal! It reminds me of Nile crossed with DethKlok!! The metaphors are deep and well twisted!! xoxoxo

• Catherine Wacha - 2018-02-28 @ 07:17pm

  This arrangement fits these lyrics so perfectly. This song rocks hard as hell!

• Meadows - 2018-02-28 @ 09:30pm

  A great piece of art – of one of favourite genres, and really well done. That sound is just awesome, couldn't be done better. Lyrics and music: perfect match!

• T.C. Elliott - 2018-03-04 @ 07:05pm

  That lyric really brings home the feeling of falling apart... using the literally to explain the emotion and pain. And then this metal attack was perfectly suited to the lyric. Yeah, the lyric could be used in a lot of ways, it's that good. But the sense of resignation and perseverance really shines here.

• ZeCoop - 2018-03-04 @ 09:54pm

  Killer, kiiler, killer intro.... Even things like how the phraseing of "barista" is perfect. The song's phrasing both vocal and guitar pauses really stand out with this one. I love how you let your guitars pause and go to the harmonics. Slight relief only to be cast back in. Great change up with the Russian Roulette section. SWEET guitar solo too - love that dive into it. Great collab.

• silvermachine - 2018-03-07 @ 12:12am

  I gotta say I don't understand death metal bands, why would anyone feel compelled to sing horrific lyrics all the time, like there was no alternative. I gotta say it finally made perfect sense here in the light of Kirrivath's plight and lyric. I won't ask if all death metal musicians are disabled though. The music was totally in tune with the lyric and presented an uncomfortable listen. Damn, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have heard it like that if I hadn't read the liner notes though. I would've thought hah, fun metal zombie anthem. I'm confused. I'll be back tomorrow to finish the album swap listen, man.

• driftwood1 - 2018-03-07 @ 02:56am

  Powerful lyric. "Oh no not again lost at Russian roulette" is brutal. Great job bringing the lyric to life.

Kneel (FAWM 2018)

Kneel

2018-02-04 @ 09:02am
tags: apocalypse hope epic soprano
Needs to be operatic metal.

Lyrics

Kneel my child
Kiss the rose
Upon the cross
And lay your burdens down

Mother dear
Have you seen
A shadow grows
Even all through the land of dream

All hope is lost
While dogs fight for crumbs below the table of the rich
Our champion is fallen to greedy gold
The king sits laughing in the halls of corruption
The reaper sharpens his scythe at the door
All hope is lost

Dearest one
Do not fret
Ease your mind
A champion will rise again

Age after age
The sun still rises
The morning mist fades away
Shadow or not
Life will continue on
Age after age

Kneel my child
Kiss the rose
Upon the cross
And lay your burdens down

Comments

• acousticmaddie - 2018-02-04 @ 09:21am

  Oh sweet song, great message given here. Could be both within a family and in faith. Good one.

• devin - 2018-02-04 @ 03:47pm

  Reads awesome... please let me know if it gets musicated the way you want... would love to check it out!

• Chagall Sierra - 2018-02-04 @ 10:20pm

  @acousticmaddie Yes, I felt it as both. @devin Open to a collab?

• Lady C - 2018-02-06 @ 05:17pm

  These lyrics are Boss darling! I definitely hear epic metal music in my head to pair with this. that would so be appropriate.

Luxury Is A Necessity (FAWM 2016)

Luxury Is A Necessity

Chagall
FAWM 2016

Envisioning this as a show tune, maybe cabaret jazz?

Liner Notes

Ok wine being food *is* a stretch... but...

Lyrics

Sometimes a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do
Twenty dollar coffee beans and a mirror for the loo 
A record player and a big soft chair
Cause I ain't going anywhere

You can take your mansion and shove it
You can take your fine cars, what of it
Just give me a computer and an ipad and a tree-house
Luxury is a necessity

Oh people will frown
people will scowl
But us high-heeled girls
Ignore their howls

You can take your private planes, what of em
You can take your cigars and flush em
Just give me fine wine and I'll make this a glee-house
Luxury is a necessity

Scraping By And Hanging On (FAWM 2016)

Scraping By And Hanging On
Chagall
FAWM 2016

Yes many people love country music. I detest fake country music, where people put on a fake twang to sound authentic when they've never been near a horse ranch. And although I have been near a horse I'm totally a city girl born and raised so I feel I can't really do country justice like the real country stars - Willie, Johnny, Dolly and more locally Uncle Herb and friends.

Liner Notes

Oh ugh I just wrote a country song.

Lyrics

It's six oclock in the morning
and I hope my cheque has come
because I really want a coffee
and this uncertainty to be done

It's a hard life living paycheck to paycheck
Some days I wish I wasn't strong
But I'm still here to thank the Lord
scraping by and hanging on

The lights are still on here at my place
Thinking of you I never can sleep
Between a rock and a bankruptcy
Flashbacks and fantasies

It's a hard life living paycheck to paycheck
Some days I wish I wasn't strong
But I'm still here to thank the Lord
scraping by and hanging on

Tinder (FAWM 2016)

Tinder

Chagall
FAWM 2016

Liner Notes

Hmm. Interesting.

Lyrics

Every day I feel pain I remember nothing's the same
Every breath too much stress you've made it all a mess

Are you a demon?
Dark eyes
Dark hair
A ready smile
Takes my air

You may as well be agent orange
Or iron and a match
Cause I'm dying inside
A fact you didn't catch

You may as well be kryptonite
Or flint and tinder
Cause I'm going up in flames
A sanctified sinner

It was nothing to you but who am I stained with rue
It was true love to me but it seems I must be free

Are you a demon?
Your hands
Your touch
Awkward laugh
Means too much

You may as well be kryptonite
Or flint and tinder
Cause I'm going up in flames
A sanctified sinner

You may as well be agent orange
Or iron and a match
Cause I'm dying inside
A fact you didn't catch

Or did you

Gotta stay strong
Gotta stay strong
Stay alive stay alive
Don't ask you to
Stay

Wonder and Stars (FAWM 2016)

Wonder and Stars

Chagall Sierra & Bonita Storm Chavez
FAWM 2016

Written in response to the death of David Bowie and quite a few other inspiring musicians who've left us lately.

Liner Notes

Started pre-FAWM with a couple of fragments. One was in response to the death of Bowie and the other, written by a Facebook friend a few months ago and placed into my fragments file.

"See the stardust falling down
See the dark side of the moon
See the signs of life on other planets
You were taken too soon

Once I was a child staring in open wonder"
My fragment

"We are here to feel
We are here to heal"
by Bonita Storm Chavez

Combined that with a dream and finally sat down to take a write.

Lyrics

Once I was a child staring in open wonder
Upon the fields of stars that filled my sight
Tall pine trees whispered thunder
Pebbles scattered like memories

We are here to feel
We are here to heal
To restore the glory
Of what's real
Wonder & stars
Wonder & stars
Stardust marks the seal
Starlight illuminates
Our frail humanity
Our frail humility

Walk the dark side of the moon
See the signs of life extraterrestrial
Are you coming back soon
You were taken you are gone

We are here to feel
We are here to heal
To restore the glory
Of what's real
Wonder & stars
Wonder & stars
Stardust marks the seal
Starlight illuminates
Our frail humanity
Our frail humility

See the stardust falling down
Dream the ghosts beside us floating
This is seeded you have sown
In the river never twice

We are here to feel
We are here to heal
To restore the glory
Of what's real
Wonder & stars
Wonder & stars
Stardust marks the seal
Starlight illuminates
Our frail humanity
Our frail humility

All the stars are falling from the sky
And I never had the chance to touch them
Haven't had the chance to fly
You're taking a piece of my heart with you