The What's On Your Mind Thread and the Countdown to Opening Day

[I Am What I Am]

Oh Eric. So confused. xD

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Malleus Maleficarum
 
 
Open my eyes as I submerge and I won't deny what I've been since birth.
I'll die drowned by your standards.
Breathe in the life of the summer's death as the orange and red breathe their first breath,
So welcome as they're burning through. We all begin to burn.
Autumn's flame dances in my eyes
Set alight for all we've learned.
My ashes falling.
My skin is singed but it heals my heart and with glowing pride I'll wear my scars.
I'm honored by your hatred.
Leaves fall we arise again, and the end impending, it will begin.
So welcome as it's burning through.
We all begin to burn.
Autumn's flame dances in my eyes
Set alight for all we've learned.
My ashes falling. Can you feel me...
Ashes fall and I'm rising up again. Ashes fall and I'm rising up again.
Ashes fall and I'm rising up again. Ashes fall and I'm rising up again.
Ashes fall and I'm rising up again. Ashes fall and I'm rising up again.
Ashes fall and I'm rising up again. 
Ashes fall. Ashes fall, fall, fall. Ashes fall as we all arise.
We all begin to burn.
Autumn's flame dances in my eyes
Set alight for all we've learned.
My ashes falling. Can you feel me...

I love this song so much.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Narrative Of Soul Against Soul


To the wounded:
I have seen the self image they've forced you to reduce to shattered glass,
With the only remaining value lying in its jagged edges.
But the few who warrant waking for await their recognition.
No fear of death but with fear of life, your weakness kills everyone.
So live. Angels for everyone. For no lack of searching I can't seem to find one.
Angels in everyone. What of all their promises? Can't seem to find much more than lies.
Angels in anyone.
A permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Before I'd lay me down to rest, I'd throw away everything to live.
Angels for everyone. For no lack of searching I can't seem to find one.
Angels in everyone. What of all their promises? Can't seem to find much more than lies. Angels in anyone.
Angels for everyone. For no lack of searching I can't seem to find one.
Angels in everyone. What of all their promises? Can't seem to find much more than lies.
Angels for everyone. For no lack of searching I can't seem to find one.
Angels in everyone. What of all their promises? Can't seem to find much more than lies.
Angels for everyone. For no lack of searching I can't seem to find one.
Angels in everyone. What of all their promises? Can't seem to find much more than lies. Angels in anyone.

!!

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

If I could catch my breath just to exhale, I'd know that I held it in too long...

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

The Prayer Position
 
 
Now! Peel the skin back from the flesh.
Steal the flesh back from the starving static minds.
From nature we must stray, to clarity we'll climb.
Deadly impulse seems so natural
Just look beyond it and we'll find (we will find) a brand new evolution.
Here begins a brand new line.
And in the distance there's a gathering, that no longer seems so far away.
Pushed to our knees so let us pray, and all together we'll bring the real rain.
Watch all that's wasted wash away, so let it come. Our will be done.
Stature retrieved, regain our form. Break free from instinct that's left us all confined.
From nature we must stray to clarity we'll climb.
Tradition ingrained, now impermissible.
Now comes a call for all to find (we will find) a brand new evolution.
Here begins a brand new line.
And in the distance there's a gathering, that no longer seems so far away.
Pushed to our knees so let us pray, and all together we'll bring the real rain.
Watch all that's wasted wash away, so let it come. Our will be done.
I can't help but fear, look to my species and tremble, to think that God is just...
And in the distance there's a gathering that no longer seems so far away.
Pushed to our knees so let us pray, and all together we'll bring the real rain.
Watch all that's wasted wash away, so let it come. Our will be done.

Waiting for this track to start.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

No Poetic Device


I've been dreaming.
I was lucid.
I was dreaming blood was seeping from my pores.
Who'd believe that it was all my own decision?
Cracked faces and medicated smiles.
Set fire to my home before I turned and walked back in.
For every needle open my chest and insert ten pins.
I just anticipate what awaits when I awake...break.
I (die) die in my daydreams.
I've been dreaming.
I was lucid.
I was dreaming blood was seeping from my pores.
Who'd believe that it was all my own decision?
The gardens have all been overgrown.
I pushed my hand through the thorns to crush the final rose.
A deadly secret only I suffer to know.
I can't eradicate what awaits when I awake...break.
I (die) die in my day dreams.
I've been dreaming.
I was lucid.
I was dreaming blood was seeping from my pores.
Who'd believe that it was all my own decision?
I've been dreaming.
I was lucid.
I was dreaming blood was seeping from my pores.
Who'd believe that it was all my own decision?
I've been dreaming.
I was lucid.
I was dreaming blood was seeping from my pores.
Who'd believe that it was all my own decision?

Love this song too.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

The Last Kiss


Hung in your room, swaying, hoping only that you'll see.
All by myself, I'm alone in such poor company.
The deeper I think, the deeper I seem to sink
I can't stop the insects that are feeding,
Pull the needles from beneath my skin.
I broke myself, shattered, tied a bow around every piece.
You'll love the eyes.
Have they always shown so vacantly? The more I show the less you'll want to know.
I can't stop the insects that are feeding, pull the needles from beneath my skin.
Now I'm on display. I am becoming. Hurt myself today. It's all for you.
Do you like, do you like what I'm becoming? Cut myself today. It's all for you.
I part the night, flashing, approaching as I watch you flee.
Pushed through your panes. Seems I've landed quite uncomfortably.
But as I pass through souls of broken glass
I can't stop the insects that are feeding, pull the needles from beneath my skin.
Now I'm on display. I am becoming. Hurt myself today. It's all for you.
Do you like, do you like what I'm becoming? Cut myself today. It's all for you.
Please don't ask me just what I think, trust me, you don't want to know.
Please don't ask me to open up, trust me, trust me, 'cause I can't.
Stop the insects that are feeding, pull the needles from beneath my skin.
Now I'm on display. I am becoming. Hurt myself today. It's all for you.
Do you like, do you like what I'm becoming? Cut myself today. It's all for you.
It's all for you.

I still have this song switched with Weathered Tome on my MP3 player...forgot to fix it last time I could...

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

The songs are in the right order, the titles just need to be switched.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Weathered Tome


They're coming 'round again. I've returned and they've been waiting.
Their aged offererings received and returned, passed through wet eyes.
I tremble as I feel them rolling in for, my sins, the old ghosts know.
So chilling as I feel them mourn within my soul. As the mourning grows.
Unfold before me. Turn back the page again, again.
Twenty four hours spent wishing that the day was never ending.
Shadows of glory shading my heart again.
Recall the summer when I left my heart to cool beneath the shadows.
I'm coming 'round again. I've returned and no one's waiting.
I strain my eyes to see but it's so hard to read the old tags on the fallen walls.
I tremble as I feel them rolling in for, my sins, the old ghosts know.
So chilling as I feel them mourn within my soul. As the mourning grows.
Unfold before me. Turn back the page again, again.
Twenty four hours spent wishing that the day was never ending.
Shadows of glory shading my heart again.
Recall the summer when I left my heart to cool beneath the shadows.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

At A Glance


No haven now as I watch it pour from everywhere.
Just like the storm that has come out of thin air.
Gentle caresses, just as paper thin -frail and only- lack the strength to hold.
What if could go to sleep for days, would you count the hours
Or would your restlessness consume fading memories of me?
Fall into open arms that offer their protection.
Quick to deny that their open to deceit.
Long to believe that support will never cease.
Bitter and lonely, those they've left before.
What if could go to sleep for days, would you count the hours
Or would your restlessness consume fading memories of me?
The vibrant heart so quickly growing old, the warmest eyes so quickly growing cold.
Just a glance for they don't care to see what becomes of me.
The vibrant heart so quickly growing old, the warmest eyes so quickly growing cold.
Just a glance for they don't care to see what becomes of me
What becomes of me, what becomes of me.
What if could go to sleep for days, would you count the hours
Or would your restlessness consume...
What if could go to sleep for days, would you count the hours
Or would your restlessness consume fading memories of me?

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

God Called In Sick Today


Let's admire the pattern forming. Murderous filigree.
I'm caught in the twisting of the vine. Go ascend with ivy, climbing.
Ignore and leave for me the headstone crumbling behind.
I can't help my laughter as she cries.
My soul brings tears to angelic eyes.
Let's amend the classic story, close it so beautifully, I'll let animosity unwind.
Steal away the darkened pages, hidden so shamefully.
I'll still feel the violence of the lines.
I can't stand my laughter as they cry.
My soul brings tears to angelic eyes.
And miles away my mother cries. Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence.
I can't stand my laughter as they cry.
My soul brings tears to angelic eyes.
And miles away my mother cries. Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Midnight Sun [Hidden Track]


What went down on the side of the road?
What I saw at the edge of the sea.
Only those elements time cannot wear, and they follow.
What seeped out through the cracks in time, what sucks out the color in me?
What awaits beyond infinity?

Beyond and to all time I stand.
Beyond and to all time I stand.

What blew in with the great gale?
What weighed down the falling leaves?
What came forth from the remains?
What has always lived and gone unseen?
What has caused the night to fall?
Who speaks of eternity?
Who awakes to night eternally?

Beyond and to all time I stand.
Beyond and to all time I stand.
Beyond and to all time I stand.
Beyond and to all time I stand, I stand, I stand.

Beyond and to all time I stand


O my sole love, I pray thee pity me
From out this dark gulf where my poor heart lies,
A baren world hemmed in by leaden skies
Where horror flies at night, and blasphemy.

For half the year the sickly sun is seen,
The other half thick night lies on the land,
A country bleaker than the polar strand;
No beasts, no brooks, nor any shred of green.

There never was a horror which surpassed
This icy sun's cold cruelty.

Beyond and to all time I stand.
Beyond and to all time I stand.
Beyond and to all time I stand.
Beyond and to all time I stand, I stand, I stand.
I stand.

O my sole love, I pray thee pity me
From out this dark gulf where my poor heart lies,
A baren world hemmed in by leaden skies.

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Hawthorne Heights!

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

I don't know what I want to listen to now...

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Hawthorne Heights – Gravestones (Acoustic) 4 minutes ago
Hawthorne Heights – Gravestones (Acoustic) 9 minutes ago
Hawthorne Heights – Gravestones (Acoustic) 12 minutes ago
AFI – Midnight Sun 24 minutes ago
AFI – God Called in Sick Today 29 minutes ago
AFI – At a Glance 36 minutes ago
AFI – Weathered Tome 38 minutes ago
AFI – The Last Kiss 43 minutes ago
AFI – No Poetic Device 46 minutes ago
AFI – The Prayer Position 51 minutes ago
AFI – Clove Smoke Catharsis 56 minutes ago
AFI – Narrative of Soul Against Soul 56 minutes ago
AFI – Malleus Maleficarum 1 hour ago
AFI – Exsanguination 1 hour ago
AFI – Porphyria Cutanea Tarda 1 hour ago
AFI – Strength Through Wounding 1 hour ago
Paramore – My Heart 1 hour ago
Paramore – Conspiracy 1 hour ago
Paramore – Franklin 1 hour ago
Paramore – Whoa 1 hour ago
Paramore – Never Let This Go 1 hour ago
Paramore – Here We Go Again 2 hours ago
Paramore – Brighter 2 hours ago
Paramore – Emergency 2 hours ago
Paramore – Pressure 2 hours ago
Paramore – All We Know 2 hours ago
Paramore – My Heart 2 hours ago
Paramore – Franklin 2 hours ago
Paramore – Conspiracy 2 hours ago
Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man 2 hours ago
Chevelle – The Red 2 hours ago
Linkin Park – Wretches and Kings 2 hours ago
Paramore – Whoa 2 hours ago
Paramore – Never Let This Go 2 hours ago
Paramore – Here We Go Again 2 hours ago
Paramore – Brighter 2 hours ago
Paramore – Emergency 2 hours ago
Paramore – Pressure 2 hours ago
Paramore – All We Know 2 hours ago



What I've listened to today...

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Just putting Gravestones on repeat...

 

[Mrs. Chamberlain]

It doesn't hurt my foot to put lotion on anymore

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

That reminded me that my lotion burns when I put it on my face xD Which is why I stopped...

This band makes me sad.

 

[Mrs. Chamberlain]

I'm forced to put lotion on my tattoo. I hate lotion lol.

Hawthorne Heights is kind of depressing XD

 

[Raven_the_Bird]

Got my report card today, lol. I'm only working on one class right now and still need a lot more things to finish in it...I read way too slow.