Malificent (2018)

Malificent

April 29 2018

You can cast me in the role
Of the evil witch of lore
Reflect all your own shadows on me
It was your betrayal

Yet I'll still never be
What you say I am
Only I can define me

It's my choice
To stand tall
It's my price
Give me love
Give me
Everything or nothing at all

What is the cost of your soul
Don't you know it's worth more
Shining jewel of the light inside
Brighter than the dawn sun

Yet I'll still never be
What you say I am
Only I can define me

It's my choice
To stand tall
It's my price
Give me love
Give me
Everything or nothing at all

Never ignore the power of the darkness
Never try to cast it asunder
If you do then live in fear
For one day the reviled will rise on tattered dreams
And feast on your screams

Yet I'll still never be
What you say I am
Only I can define me

It's my choice
To stand tall
It's my price
Give me love
Give me
Everything or nothing at all

Absolution (2015)

Absolution

Lyrics by Chagall Sierra, 2015

October 2

Voices call for revolution 

Ignorance gives no solution 

See them fallen to pollution 

Silently sinking 

Into a morass of overthinking

This is the revelation

Precipice of sin and salvation

See them rising in elation

Following blindly 

A dance of ancient prophecy 

The faithfully deceived

Reaching out

To the angels for absolution 

How can it come 

Absolution

Absolution

How about a solution

Father forgive them 

They brought this on themselves

Nazgul (2015)

Nazgul 

Lyrics by Chagall Sierra, 2015 

September 27

On night winds they ride 

Deride

Warm caring soul

They sold

Now all they know

Is the will of the evil eye

Hiding from the seekers in the night

Predators circling like the ring that calls their master

Recoil in terror 

The wound that never heals

Nazgul

Faceless phantoms

Heartless in life despairing in deathly servitude 

Cold as the kiss of death

Nazgul

Caring heartbeat feels

Reveals 

Warm living soul 

They know 

The treasure untold 

Precious to the evil eye 

Strongest in the cover of the night

Predators circling like the ring that calls their master

Recoil in terror 

The wound that never heals

Nazgul

Faceless phantoms

Heartless in life despairing in deathly servitude 

Cold as the kiss of death

Nazgul 

They'll not win this night 

They'll not rule this fight 

Their days are numbered 

Send them to their rest 

Send them to their test 

Not by the hand of man

Mask (FAWM 2018)

Mask

2018-03-01 @ 04:57am
tags: metal
Being targeted by a narcissistic sociopath on top of being disabled is not fun.

Lyrics

Oh see here's the show
Master of disguise
Damnation lurks in the flickering
Shadowy silent silver eyes

Chorus:
Why can't you all see
Through his mask that he wears to deceive
Am I the only one
To pass the test and prove humanity's reprieve

Oh look there he goes
God's gift to women
Thinks he owns you just for existing
Sycophant sickness surrounds him

Bridge:
I'm not his angel to sacrifice
Don't have to listen to those lies
I never said I was a saint
Only Jah's will decides my fate

Tearing me down will
Never build him up
That angel is twisted and fallen
Deviant despair devouring

Comments

• Lady C - 2018-03-01 @ 05:10am

  I think the analogy of the mask is very fitting here. I also love the alliteration you use at the end of each stanza! Very creative and unique in this context. i Can't wait to hear this one! xoxo

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.

Heart's Ease (2015) Feast of Flowers 03

FAWM 2015 - Feast of Flowers

19 - Feast 03 - Heart's Ease

2015-02-28 @ 11:12pm
tags: indie-folk feast lyrics-only

Three cheers for somewhat ironic song titles!

Lyrics

Today
Thought of you again
Words
Rushing through my mind
Like a freight train
Every car loaded with memories
And the words we didn't say

When
When will I find
Heart's ease
All
All that I know
Gone on a breeze

Tonight
Wishing not to dream
You
Conduct my nightmares
Every track screams betrayal
Certainty of derailment

When
When will I find
Heart's ease
All
All that I know
Gone on a breeze

[Instrumental]

Tomorrow again I will pretend
That everything is fine
Tomorrow again I will smile
Tell everyone everything's alright
But tonight
The devil's shadows will creep
To touch me as I sleep

Rising From Death (2007)

rising from death
2007
Chagall

corporeal incarnation
insubstantial incantation
silver threads of my existence
trailing gossamer strands

rising from darkness
rising from death
drenched in a suffering light

comprehension of foreboding
sinners all, so blindly writhing
behind me the goddess of death
crowned with spikes of regret

rising from darkness
rising from death
drenched in a suffering light

light so perfect, so perfectly blinding
falling down to earth below, green fire
light, so hollow, so empty of meaning
redeem that heavenly glow, aspire

rising from darkness
rising from death
drenched in a suffering light
rising from darkness
rising from death
drenched in a suffering light

relentless ages ever circling
brutish memories unfolding
all my life chained from redemption
please suffer this requiem

for the multitudes astounding
spirits lost in daily moil
weave the lace of life
rekindle soul from soil

Lift Me Up (2007)

Lift Me Up

FAWM 2007

Chagall

Sacrificed and lost
My dreams betrayed
My life is gathering moss
I'm stopped and stayed
Gearshifts turn and grind
Deep doors within my soul
Illuminate my mind
Won't you make me whole

Flames engulf me now
Still I cannot feel
Won't you show me how
Love's deliciously real

Won't you
lift me up out of this
Change my pain to sacred bliss
Spirals drawing me inside
Scared of light I turn and hide
Spirals drawing me inside
Scared of light I open wide

Memories of you
Tears within my soul
Illuminate your heart
I could make you whole
Rebirth comes again
Gossamer indeed
Bitter healing rain
Death and life I heed

Scared of all I lose
Grant me wings to fly
Passion's flame renews
Music in my eye

Won't you lift me up out of this
Change my pain to sacred bliss
Spirals drawing me inside
Scared of love I turn and hide
Spirals drawing me inside
Scared of love I open wide

[solo]

Lift me up!

Scared of all I lose
Grant me wings to fly
Passion's flame renews
Music in my eye

Flames engulf me now
Still I cannot feel
Won't you show me how
Love's deliciously real

Won't you lift me up out of this
Change my pain to sacred bliss
Spirals drawing me inside
Scared of light I turn and hide
Spirals drawing me inside
Scared of light and love and
Still I open wide my wings
to fly to you

Seeing Red (2004)

Seeing Red

2004

Chagall

This was inspired by a short story.

Lyrics:

Trees burn as I sit here alone
Faces in my mind
Raging waters flowing with blood
Shed by innocents
Layered spirals circle back
To the end-beginning
Trees burn as I sit here alone
Faces in my mind

I am seeing red, I am seeing nothing
I am burning up inside
I am tired of this, I am dead alive,
I will break this, I can't go on

Knives won't help me solve this
Cast them to the flame
Destruction is exhilaration
Pile on one more excuse
So peaceful and such deadly sting
Hope is lost and long-gone
Knives won't help me solve this
Cast them to the flame

I am seeing red, I am seeing nothing
I am burning up inside
I am tired of this, I am dead alive,
I will break this, I can't go on

The lake of fire will cleanse me now
Of memories of you
My cloak will hide the skeleton
It's twisted pain I fear
I'll be the phoenix of passion's death
Blood-red transmutation
The lake of fire will cleanse me now
Of memories of you

I am seeing red, I am seeing nothing
I am burning up inside
I am tired of this, I am dead alive,
I will break this, I can't go on.

I am seeing red, I am seeing nothing
I am burning up inside
I am tired of this, I am dead alive,
I will break this, I can't go on
I can't go on
I can't go on

Can you see me in the fire? I am trailing my fingers in blood...

Night Garden (1996)

Night Garden 

1996-ish
Chagall 

Written around the time I was in a Goth band called Wysteria which was unfortunately shortlived. Music for this is very stately. 

Lyrics:

Often have I walked there, where lovers love to play 
Where flowers fill the darkened air, now there I'll stay 
Long's the time I've longed for you, though they say love is blind 
Well so is pride and now I know which I'd leave behind 

Night Garden 
Fill me with sweet scent 
Night Garden 
Help me to forget you went 
Away 

Veiled by night the white moonflowers perfume a place I know 
There we fought and there you left me those long years ago 
You walk with me within these dreams, you're twined into my soul 
Just as the twisting, climbing vines that in this garden grow 

Night Garden 
Fill me with sweet scent 
Night Garden 
Help me to forget you went

The scent of your skin has faded 
Into the whispering wind 
As I walk this labyrinth 
All I feel is numbness within 

Often have I walked here where lovers love to play 
Where flowers fill the darkened air, now here I'll stay 
Long's the time I've longed for you though they say love is blind 
Well so is pain and now I know which I'd leave behind 

Night Garden 
Fill me with sweet scent 
Night Garden 
Help me to forget you went 
Away