New Song - The Stone Survives The Storm
Since beginning the band project with Phil and Gwen, I have finished writing sixteen songs. Two we have dropped - Come away Joe and The Coming of Mourning. That leaves fourteen original songs we are currently working on. We are also recording three cover songs - which will be included in a proof of concept EP with a handful of my songs.
The fourteen songs hang together pretty well and I am happy with the quality of the song writing. There is a good mix of tempos and emotions. It feels very real and raw.
The Stone Survives The Storm is an attempt to be more "ambiguous". This has been the keyword in feedback from the rest of the band. I have a song that unambiguously rejects Christian doctrine, a song unambiguously about nihilism and death, and songs unambiguously about metal illness. They don't have much room for personal interpretation and the taking of the different meanings.
Turns out that Phil and Gwen are big fans of songs that allow for personal interpretation and the taking of the different meanings. To be honest, I am too. "Honest Gardener" and "When the moon comes" uses imagery, metaphor and allegory. They are can be interpreted a few ways. So with this in mind, I wrote "Angel in a Dream" with deliberately vague lyrics. And I wrote "The Storm Survives the Storm" with a lot imagery and allegory - but kept it ambiguous and inconclusive. It also allowed me to keep the theme of questions going.
I expect that's it for now with the writing for this band project. I have three song writing projects to move to: which I am calling Projects C, D and E - Projects Ceilidh, Dahl and Empire. More on those later.
The Stone Survives The Storm
Verse 1
In the distance, the thunder calls,
The stone survives the storm,
And the rain begins to fall,
The stone survives the storm.
As the lightning cracks,
And the gale attacks,
This home that I built,
With the sweat of my back
But the walls are crumbling,
And the roofs falling in,
'Till nothing will stand between us.
Bridge 1
The parable says,
That the house on the rocks,
Stood firm and stood strong,
As the floods they came up,
But the winds they have come,
And they've blown it clean off,
But the stone survives the storm.
Chorus
Blow wind blow!
Blow wind blow!
Blow wind blow!
'Til nothing remains, but the cold hard stone.
Blow wind blow!
Blow wind blow!
Blow wind blow!
'Til nothing remains, but the cold hard stone.
Verse 2
The storm picked me up ,
And it carried me hence,
Dropped me down on the shore,
And left me for dead,
And I got up and I breathed again,
But the I'll bear these scars forever
Bridge 2
Then I looked up at that stony plinth,
Alone, but defiant,
Amid all the din.
Is it better to have your home on the wind,
Or be the stone surviving the storm?
Chorus
Bridge 3
The parable says,
That the house on the rocks,
Stood firm and stood strong,
But that isn't enough.
So learn how to fly,
Or turn into rock,
For the stone survives the storm.
Chorus