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Vin 02:13 pm UTC 02/21/14 |
| In reply to: | You even sound like Jim! - Jacqueline 09:13 am UTC 02/21/14 |
| Thanks! I absolutely take that as a compliment, though I don't personally notice much similarity - except when my voice cracks and I try to overcompensate with hystrionics; I studied under the Master :) > > > > Thanks to Scaramouche for introducing me to Sound Cloud, > > here's a link to a (very) rough demo vocal of this song. > > Recorded in my basement while chasing the cat around. > > Meouch. > > > > > > http://snd.sc/1mfSrQ3 > > > > Which you may or may not take as a compliment (but I love > Jim's voice). And the song is more brilliant that I had > "heard" before. Geez, Jim has talent around him!! > Will send this off to him at once.... > > > > > I wrote this lyric years ago as a hypothetical sub-title > > > track to Bat III. This was around 2005 when presumably > > > Jim and Meat were going to make the album *together*. I > > > haven't posted it before but it seems appropriate again. > > > > > > Nothing ends well or else nothing would end > > > and so we both agreed > > > that it's better this way. > > > That the skies should split from end to end, > > > that the seas should wash this world away, > > > before we let ourselves repeat, > > > before we dance this twisted dance again. > > > > > > You know I cried in the night to the heavens > > > And I prayed, "let it not be the same." > > > And I swear I heard a demon shiver > > > when the stars called back your name. > > > > > > And now the temperatures are dropping > > > and there's frost on Satan's brow, > > > and if I never needed you before > > > God knows I need you now! > > > Yes if I never needed you before, > > > By the Gods I need you now! > > > > > > It's the coldest day in Hell > > > If it's back to me and you. > > > And it doesn't really matter now > > > just who crawls back to who. > > > There ain't no use in running > > > when it's Destiny tolling the bell. > > > But if it's come back 'round to you and me > > > its surely got to be > > > the coldest day in Hell. > > > > > > Now there's a wicked cold front creeping > > > across the dark abyss > > > And it's conjuring dormant memories > > > of a frigid goodbye kiss. > > > > > > Aw, which one of us is the albatross? > > > And who's the Evil Twin? > > > Just when I thought Time had broken us clean > > > We suck me right back in. > > > Just when I thought we were over and out > > > it all begins again! > > > > > > It's the coldest day in Hell > > > if it's you and I again, > > > we're the best of jaded enemies > > > and the worst of faded friends. > > > No kicking and screaming can save us, > > > and I guess that it's just as well, > > > for if it's us again the Fates decree > > > then it's surely got to be > > > the coldest day in Hell. > > > > > > Now would you rather crash and burn, > > > or simply fade away? > > > Fall fast upon a flaming sword > > > or whither and die another day? > > > We can choose to go out in a blaze of glory > > > or a haze of tedious, ignorant bliss. > > > Either way there's no happy at the end of our story, > > > but as sure as you're breathing I can tell you this: > > > whatever it costs to close this book, > > > there's gonna be Hell to pay! > > > > > > A fiendish snow is falling now, > > > as I reach out for your hand. > > > And I know that I can't keep away, > > > as a chill blows through the damned. > > > > > > It's the coldest day in Hell > > > if it's back to me and you, > > > and it doesn't really matter now, > > > just who crawls back to who. > > > There ain't no use in running > > > when it's Destiny tolling the bell, > > > but if it's come back 'round to you and me > > > then it's surely got to be > > > the coldest day in Hell! > > > > > > Nothing ends well or else nothing would end > > > Nothing ends well or else nothing would end > > > Nothing ends well or else nothing would end > > > > > > Nothing ends well > > > (the coldest day in Hell) > > > Nothing ends well > > > (the coldest day in Hell) > > > Nothing ends well... > > > > > > ...or else nothing would end. > > > > > > | |
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