You could've been all I wanted
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favors
But if you really loved me
You would've endured my world
Well you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if it's here we stop
Then never again
Will you see this in your life?
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed?
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played leader,
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, you'll die as you sleep
But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder... happy will I become
Be true that this is no option,
So with sin I condemn you
Demon play, demon out
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed?
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
I'd do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
Before I hope you die
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favors
But if you really loved me
You would've endured my world
Well you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if it's here we stop
Then never again
Will you see this in your life?
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed?
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played leader,
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, you'll die as you sleep
But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder... happy will I become
Be true that this is no option,
So with sin I condemn you
Demon play, demon out
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed?
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
I'd do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
Before I hope you die
The idea of a concept album is really great. Concept albums are essentially whole albums that follow a plot or a storyline. A good example would be MCR's 'The Black Parade' or Green Day's 'American Idiot'.
Concept albums are pretty much Coheed and Cambria's main arsenal. All their albums revolve around 'The Armory Wars'. An actual 5-part story created by Coheed's lead singer Claudio Sanchez (There's even a line of comics related to this story). I won't go into that since that's not the main aim of this post. You can read more about it on wikipedia or something.
What I really wanted to talk about was that there is so much music can do. It's not just limited to expressing one's emotions or to send out a message. Lyrically, music can be so much more than what most artistes release these days. Most concept albums usually descend from the genre of rock and metal in particular the progressive subset of these two genres.
Concept albums, in my opinion, gives musicians the opportunity to not only have a separate avenue for expressing their music but are able to take their listeners on a journey turning their music into a sort of experience. Kinda like an audio book with a lot of melody and rhythms.
Concept albums also provide a good avenue for the analysis of literary works. Although I have yet to see a concept album based on an already existing story or novel, it will be kinda cool to see what good musicianship can accomplish with existing stories. Somewhat in the vein of one of Silverstein's songs 'The Ides of March' which is an analysis of sorts into Julius Caesar's relationship with Brutus prior to his assassination. But on a larger scale.
