1996
Grade: 10th into 11th
Age: 15 into 16
School: James Madison High School
Band: (Grim Reality), Requiem
CONTENTS:
A Never Memory, Lyrics
A Problem of Mine, Poetry
Burial, Lyrics
Desperate Dreams, Lyrics
Friday the 13th, Lyrics
Hell, Lyrics
Insignificance, Poetry
Overwhelming Strength, Poetry
My Home, Lyrics
Nice Day to Die, Lyrics
Requiem, Lyrics
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A NEVER MEMORY
Poetry
1996-00-00
Why am I so morbid? / My candles aren’t black
“Lonely” is a word / I’ve often colored black
In a haunted chapel / My angel sits in awe
Innocently dark / Breathing nevermore
Way up on a hill / Beyond the trees so dark
My heart plays a song / On a bloody harp
Golden in its beauty / Crimson in its truth
A tragically truthful ballad / A lullabye so true
Clouds cover heaven / Macabre is this night
Flowers for my grave / Have been planted here tonight
But if I can still see / How come I can’t breathe?
Way up on a hill / Beyond the trees so dark
My heart plays a song / On a bloody harp
Golden in its beauty / Crimson in its truth
A tragically truthful ballad / A lullabye so true
I have found a sanctuary / For now I may sleep
I have found a sanctuary / Let me rest in peace
I have seen my sanctuary / A never memory
My house feels alive / And I feel so gray
The powers that be / Have decided to let me stay
So if there is still hope / How come there’s no rain?
Way up on a hill / Beyond the trees so dark
My heart plays a song / On a bloody harp
Golden in its beauty / Crimson in its truth
A tragically truthful ballad / A lullabye so true
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A PROBLEM OF MINE
Poetry
1996-06-29
He who thinks too much / His name is mine
He who never forgets / Yet forgets all the time
Is that the phone I hear? / No, it’s just my head
There you go thinking again / Excuse me I didn’t hear what you said
I was too busy thinking / But what was I thinking about?
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BURIAL
Lyrics, Melodic Metal
1996-00-00
A morbid castle / My dirge is sung
They’re burying me / But I’m so young
I died alone / How very sad
A catacomb / For my pale corpse
Bury me / I am white
Pale as the moon / It will rain soon
An organ is ringing / In an empty hall
No one’s attending / My funeral
I must cry now / For myself
I was much too young / Much too young to die
Bury me / I am white
Pale as the moon / It will rain soon
Won’t someone call / The pall bearers
So I can at least rot / Six feet under
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DESPERATE DREAMS
Lyrics, Heavy Metal
1996-00-00
I can’t wait to escape / I feel like sleeping, I feel like dreaming
Away, my whole life / I’ve nothing better, consciousness is pressure
The world is a bleak and scary place
Desperate dreams / I haven’t time to waste awake
Desperate dreams / I’d like to sleep my life away
All I need / Is a world that’s not so hard
Desperate dreams / I want a world where I am God
The midnight blue of my mind / My paradise beckons, my island in the sky calls to me / A people of my kind / They cower in fear for I am king here
I am the master of my world
Desperate dreams / I haven’t time to waste awake
Desperate dreams / I’d like to sleep my life away
All I need / Is a world that’s not so hard
Desperate dreams / I want a world where I am God
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FRIDAY THE 13TH
Lyrics, Heavy Metal
1996-00-00
Friday the 13th / Something’s in the air
Demons and witches / But I’m too young to care
Moonlight, all night / Bright as the sun
People, pale white / Something must be done
Friday the 13th / Friday the 13th
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HELL
Lyrics, Heavy Metal
1996-00-00
Slowly we walk / Mutations of our former selves
Pandemonium / The strenuating task of order
Abolished / The devastation is plain to all
Morbid tales / Funeral pyres
The crypt of the suffered / I resign in pain
Incipient hell / Demons stalk our nights
Our lonely souls / Pray for wrathful spirits
Pursued by hate / A price not easily paid
Smothered in / The depths of infinity
Morbid tales / Funeral pyres
The crypt of the suffered / I resign in pain
Misery / A feeling of calamity near
Disaster / Unbearable moments of fear
Satan / The ruler of this hopeless pit
Chaos / Devils taunt my soul
Morbid tales / Funeral pyres
The crypt of the suffered / I resign in pain
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INSIGNIFICANCE
Poetry
1996-00-00
I ponder on eternity / The truth about infinity
That which exceeds / All hopes and dreams
A never-ending ocean / An interminable sea
Where time is everlasting / And no one cares about me
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MY HOME
Lyrics, Melodic Metal
1996-00-00
I am done with everyone / No need to live
Only my apathy / May I give
‘Cos I will always be with you / Indessinant destination, I am still a child
I lie bereft, my thoughts a mess / When can I come home?
With no one, I’m a lost son / Only if your will be done
Holy cross, I’ve lost my life / Crucifixion, my last rite
The night embraces me / Like a mother to her child
What have we become? / Won’t you stay for a while?
To guide me through this world? / To light the path I tread?
In a world with nothing left / I’d be better off dead
Oh, my home
Rise so high, salvation’s nigh / To breathe again
I’m alive, the air is cold / And mine again
‘Cos I will always be with you / Indessinant destination, I am still a child
I lie bereft, my thoughts a mess / When can I come home?
Alright!
I’m coming home to my home / To my home
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NICE DAY TO DIE
Lyrics
1996-00-00
Like the breeze on an autumn morn / There is always a death to mourn
Flowers that we gather today / We will spread for my wake
A requiem shall be sung / I died my death much too young
A funeral parlor, all is dim / In a sea of black my soul now swims
And I’ll find hope in death / My eternal rest
I’ve grown weary of life / It’s quite a nice day to die
My favorite days are dark and gray / But I don’t feel quite that way
I see truth in a different light / In the gray of day or black of night
The Earth below she calls to me / Won’t you hide yourself in me?
With death comes peace and piece by piece / Life falls away like autumn leaves
And I’ll find hope in death / My eternal rest
I’ve grown weary of life / It’s quite a nice day to die
The dark it creeps into me / I plunge into the blackest of seas
This will be my last daylight / I’m leaving my body tonight
Death so free accept me / Hold me in your arms
Like a mother caress me / Save me from the harm
It is a nice day to die / It is quite a nice day to die. Ohh
In this air of dejection / Everyone to each his own
This my morbid perfection / His majesty on his throne, yeah
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OVERWHELMING STRENGTH
Poetry, Norway
1996-07-00
Slippery are the rocks / Sad is the wind
The rain beats me back / But all is safe within
The ocean with such might / Hurls itself at me
Tempting me to act out / In a fit of bravery
A beautiful landscape sleeps beneath / All is calm at heart
I love to journey this valley / Nature how wise thou art!
To take a life when a life needs taking / A soul when it needs to breathe
To let me go when I am escaping / To forgive me when I am on my knees
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NICE DAY TO DIE
Lyrics, Melodic Metal
1996-00-00
Like the breeze on an autumn morn / There is always a death to mourn
Flowers that we gather today / We will spread for my wake
A requiem shall be sung / I died my death much too young
A funeral parlor, all is dim / In a sea of black my soul now swims
And I’ll find hope in death / My eternal rest
I’ve grown weary of life / It’s quite a nice day to die
My favorite days are dark and gray / But I don’t feel quite that way
I see truth in a different light / In the gray of day or black of night
The Earth below she calls to me / Won’t you hide yourself in me?
With death comes peace and piece by piece / Life falls away like autumn leaves
And I’ll find hope in death / My eternal rest
I’ve grown weary of life / It’s quite a nice day to die
The dark it creeps into me / I plunge into the blackest of seas
This will be my last daylight / I’m leaving my body tonight
Death so free accept me / Hold me in your arms
Like a mother caress me / Save me from the harm
It is a nice day to die / It is quite a nice day to die. Ohh
In this air of dejection / Everyone to each his own
This my morbid perfection / His majesty on his throne, yeah
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REQUIEM
Lyrics, Melodic Metal
1996-00-00
Cannot seem to find my way in here / The lights are dim and I have little air
In this maze I call my mind / I search for reason that I cannot find
So here I stand a soul in question / Will I be privilege to my ascension?
To be or not to be? and I choose not to / I can’t go on here in solitude
Alright!
The ships are sailing into the violet sunset / And I am the setting sun
The clouds suspended midst the fading daylight / And with my drowning the dying day is done
I am suffocating deary / In my own solemnity
Won’t you help me? You may hold / Me for all the world to see
Please my darling, won’t you take / This burden of loneliness?
Off my chest and maybe yes / I may get to rest in peace
Caress me night air, how I love thee / So beautiful in purity
Sway thy trees and let this breeze / Take away the air I breathe
Love is not the tie that binds / But rather one that inspires grief
There is no comfort in obsession / Only great anxiety / Ahh!
I know this all too well / Maybe I should just die tonight
A requiem shall be sung in my name / Grant me the path to the light
Farewell to all the world around me / Goodbye to the flowers and the trees
Fear I must leave thee now behind me / Along with all life’s memories
This aching is too much / This worried heart is tired
I’d love to just close my eyes / And be no more
Now as I jump / ‘Midst the tumultuous black waves
Won’t you be kind enough / To lie a rose on my grave?
A requiem shall be sung / A requiem shall be sung / Shall be sung