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Lil fun fact about my CR

So!

I am a lead singer and guitarist in a band, we are called Vessels of Rebirth. We have 5 members, including myself, and currently we have learned two songs and starting two more

I have just finished my first draft for our first original song and I wanted to share the lyrics and if you guys have any ideas or criticism I'd love to hear it!

**PLEASE DO NOT COPY OR TAKE MY LYRICS**

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The song is called Pennies for the Dead -

Verse 1: I’ve asked myself the age-old question, Is it really worth the fight? They sell you chains and call them choices, Bleed you dry beneath the lights.

If you find yourself contented Cherish these words like dust— Work hard, smile, and don’t complain, When they leave you out to rust.

They build their castles out of marrow, Line their pockets with our bones. Sing us lullabies of virtue, While they carve our names to stone—

Chorus: So tell me—was it worth it? Did you find what you were looking for? Tell me—did you earn it? Or just steal it from the poor? Take my body, take my spirit, Drain me ‘til there’s nothing left, A poor man’s poison Is just another penny for the dead

Verse 2: I watched the years slip through my fingers, Like wages never meant to stay. They built a throne from our surrender, We built their kingdoms, brick by grave

You’ve turned my hands to iron shackles Worn my bones down to gears Though you may feast upon my labor You’ll die choking on my screams

Chorus: So tell me—was it worth it? Did you find what you were looking for? Tell me—did you earn it? Or just steal it from the poor? Take my body, take my spirit, Drain me ‘til there’s nothing left, A poor man’s poison Is just another penny for the dead

Bridge: Tell me now—was it worth it? You stand alone atop your grave. Built your kingdom out of corpses, Now there’s no one left to save.

All the hands that fed your empire, Now they rise with bloodstained teeth. You can beg, you can bargain— But the dead don’t grant relief.

Final: If you are to listen to one last thing dear Promise your heart’s desire For if you follow the iron road You’re doomed to a pit of fire

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Am I that girl that you dream of?

girls js wanna have fun

the years have been hard on this lonely heart if you wanna know the truth

There's no more community gardens..

So I guess I'll have to settle for you <3

You said some things that I can't unabsorb,

You turned me into an idea of sorts,

You needed me but you needed dr@gs more,

And I couldn't watch it happen,

I changed into goddesses, villains, and fools,

Changed plans and lovers, and outfits and rules,

All to outrun my desertion of you,

And you just watched it happen,

i want to hold you close ; soft breath , beating heart , as i whisper in your ear . . .

" i want to fucking tear you a-part! "

the sun is getting brighter but im still COLD! don't even start to tell me that you feel too OLD!

YOURE JUST A SAD SOOONNGGG WITH NOTHING TO SAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY ABOUT A LIFELONG WAIT FOR A HOSPITAL STAY!

"He's really not my type

I know what I like

No, this is not a phase

Or a coming of age

This will never change"

Girls

Girl in red

"I should be into this guy

But it's just a waste of time

He's really not my type

I know what I like"

Girls

Girl in red

"They're so pretty, it hurts

I'm not talking 'bout boys

I'm talking 'bout girls"

Girls

Girls in red

penelope scott they could never make me hate you 🙏🙏

i

was

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ver

look-

ing

for

her

till i found her

now i find her everywhere

shes always there /lyr

drew my lil ghost of chicago :)

made a few more variants cuz i was vibin to the looped song and so that chicago gets haunted by all our ghosts /j (ftu! made on wigglypaint by me :DD)

SHE GETS MARRIED TOMIORROW OHWHENIMGONEFORNOW(??)UHHHSOMETHINGIDK BADABABADAABADBABDABDAAA BDADBADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

/more lyr cuz the ending just blasted in my ears and istg im addicted to music like weed cuz that felt so nice

made this last night I think it’s funny

“And he left you sick when you loved him the most.”

Kyle Craft, “Lady of the Ark”

how about a spritz of queer religious trauma induced lyrical analysis for your day ?!?!??!

you down? GREAT read on 🌼

*NOTE - this is not the interpretation anybody probably intended from this song, this is just my own personal joy found in it*

here are some lyrics from the song hallelujah, specifically the jeff buckley cover (not that it matters but.. it does):

I am a queer woman who was raised in the church and now has an ambiguous relationship with religion as a whole. And man, these LYRICS!! They fill my soul.

"Baby, I've been here before / I've seen this room and I've walked this floor"

I see this partially as a call to younger queer people, as an "it gets better, ive been there". But I also see this as a message towards those who are currently religious. I was deeply pious at one point in my life (before a lot of thinking and feeling went down). I know how.. everything works. I was you. I understand your church more than you know. Don't exclude me or cast my feelings to the side because I am not involved in it anymore.

"You know, I used to live alone before I knew you"

My journey through religion (and out of it) was a very, very introspective and intense one. Walking out on that felt like living alone. Learning independence and identity was a grueling, but beautiful thing (and heck, I still am).

"And I've seen your flag on the marble arch, and love is not a victory march.

I've been to a few pride parades and love them- this is not a dig at pride for me. It's a recognition that everything is... so much deeper than pride. Pride is what happens when you are alone at night and telling yourself that you are, truly, okay for being queer. Pride is what happens when you hold your partners hand in public despite being scared. Pride is wearing what you want because it makes you feel good. It's little. Not explosive. (Most of the time).

It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

Pride is to be found in exhales of air, sweat, blood, and tears. It is filled with hardship- with the screams of protests that have gone on longer than we've been alive. The most human hallelujah is not a sweet one. It's the sigh of relief when you come out to somebody and they dont.. leave your life forever. It's the trauma that comes from years, and years, and years of hiding and fear and hatred. And the realization that you have survived and you stand here still today to continue fighting. THAT is hallelujah. And some may never understand. But you do.

Music Quotes #2

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If my heart stops now,

You're the one thing that made it all worth it

If the sky falls down, right now,

You're the one that I'll worship

Pretty angel caught in the crossfire

Let me wipe those golden tears from your eyes

It must've hurt how fast you fell

For a match made in hell

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Match made in hell - Dutch Melrose and benny mayne

you're just thinking its a small thing that happened, the world ended when it happened to me.

"I'm gay" "I'm trans" well I'm the mover, I'm the shaker, I'm the headline maker

If I said you could never touch me

You’d come over and say I looked lovely

A while back I saw a Hozier related post about people simplifying Hozier’s lyrics and as an example of songs that are actually just about naughty stuff they gave Butchered Tongue.

Butchered Tongue. The song SO clearly about Ireland being colonised and his relationship with the Irish language.

“As a young man blessed to pass so many road signs and have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound” is him reading signs in Irish.

“The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn’t kill them. They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home” Irish men being killed, having their ears cut of and having their scalp cut off.

Ireland is probably the only country in Europe that has been colonised. They have been fighting for their rights for centuries and you wanna write this song of as “just about sex”????