Topic: The Flies of Someone Else's Hope
Michael1427's photo
Sat 07/24/10 12:30 PM
(sung on youtube, rough version no music)

My blood has dried up in my bones
My lips have chapped from microphones
My fingers scratch against my skin
Trying to rid myself of them

And since you’ve wandered in my head
Please forget all that I’ve said
I never meant to cause you pain
I can’t help that I enjoy the rain

Please leave me shackled to my soul
For it is all I’ll ever know
The whipping boards become my throne
I rule the kingdom of alone

And as pathetic as you may think
I may be but still the stink
Of rotting lives around me choke
The flies of someone else’s hope

I’d rather burn myself in flames
Than suffer in your #@%* games
And fall into the traps that you
Believe make u better too

Don’t think that I didn’t know
The spindling of *!#% you blow
You point your fingers like it’s you above
But you’ve never known or tasted love

Cause I am suffering here for you
The cage around you’s black and blue
Too blind to see that it’s your fate
You’ve locked yourself with pride and hate

So I will stay your punching block
And let you mock me for my clock
And never let you in to see
The prisoner here was never me

And as pathetic as you may think
I may be but still the stink
Of rotting lives around me choke
The flies of someone else’s hope

So I hope I make you feel
Those bars around you are not real
And focus on my faults
I’ll help you tuck yours safe away in vault

And with my last and bitter breath
When I am covered here by death
Remember the first bloom
Of ever flower’s there for you

Cause I am suffering here for you
The cage around you’s black and blue
Too blind to see that it’s your fate
You’ve locked yourself with pride and hate

Please leave me shackled to my soul
For it is all I’ll ever know
The whipping board’s become my throne
I rule the kingdom of alone

And as pathetic as you may think
I may be but still the stink
Of rotting lives around me choke
The flies of someone else’s hope

Gwendolyn2009's photo
Sun 07/25/10 01:51 PM
The rhyming is so forced that it makes no sense. What the heck does causing pain have to do with the narrator liking rain?

Poetry should flow naturally; the words should not be used because you need to rhyme with the preceding line.

no photo
Mon 07/26/10 03:57 PM
I think there's the foundation for a really solid piece, but a lot of the rhymes seem really forced. The first and last two lines are awesome, though.

Michael1427's photo
Tue 07/27/10 04:35 PM
I appreciate your view. It is not forced however, it is a song with alot of depth and meaning, sorry it missed the mark for you.

Gossipmpm's photo
Tue 07/27/10 04:43 PM
I can hear the song

is it with music on YouTube?

I see metal:heart: