Tonight's Prompt: Write a metal ballad based on random phrases all participants contributed.

Random Phrases Contributed:

Do what thou wilt

Fight for your right to Barter

Hopeless Anti-Romantic

He was the forgotten son

Beneath the pink and orange sunset

Where boats fly

Your Skeleton is wet

Sometimes donuts are too stale for coffee

The wandering jew

Fuck this track, jump the train, hello sky…

Collaborative Chorus and Bridge:

We are the night

Crawling through your veins

We are the answer

To your unspoken shame

We are the blight

Flowing through shattered strains

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

(We are, we are)

Like a dog collared under thunder and rain

Cast aside authority with their golden chains

Shout until we are, we are all that remains

Shout…

Shout…

SHOUT!

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

Metal Song Title: The Pain

INTRO:

Fuck with us…

V1:

Beneath the pink and orange sunset

When the bats flew from their nest

I thought of your rotting corpse

And the kiss I placed upon your breast

V2:

As my numbed mind wandered high

Like a demon with blackened wings

To a far off place where boats fly

And the love hurts and the longing stings

V3:

My tears make your skeleton wet,

My wings could not catch yours,

Still fleeing, from this love,

A deadly shadow that wants my blood.

CHORUS:

We are the night

Crawling through your veins

We are the answer

To your unspoken shame

We are the blight

Flowing through shattered strains

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

V4:

He was the forgotten son, angry, young, darkened, numb

Blood spills and pools at his feet

He lifts her head, she who was the only one, and into her locks he weeps

V5:

He wandered off alone.

Bloodstained hands and metallic mind.

Too tired to move on, too much to move on from.

A roadside diner and a drunken girl.

She gave a smile, he gave a wink.

And threw his midnight dinner down.

Sometimes donuts are too stale for coffee

And roadside sex is easier to find.

V6:

Do what thou wilt

Her thighs mark the spot

His thorn drips with guilt

As he fills her with his rot

CHORUS:

We are the night

Crawling through your veins

We are the answer

To your unspoken shame

We are the blight

Flowing through shattered strains

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

V7:

The mad embrace to calm the heart

Inflamed by passionate kiss

Unfortunate respite for the girl

Who met the wandering Jew

V8:

Ever the hopeless anti-romantic

Emotions always askew

He drums to the beat of the dead

And dances to the heart of the abyss

V9:

Fuck this track, jump the train, hello sky…

The man on the moon is his Necromantic light

Pound the Tread, Broken Thumb, easy ride…

He’s gonna find one more to kill tonight.

CHORUS:

We are the night

Crawling through your veins

We are the answer

To your unspoken shame

We are the blight

Flowing through shattered strains

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

V10 (BUILD-UP):

we sip whiskey sour in a memory tower,

asking what we will do to grow a grave flower?

wilted under the burden of a dower,

where we buried in the wonder of a cold shower,

dreams scared and cowered,

under the disguise of seizing ultimate power

V11 (BREAKDOWN):

Fight for your right to barter

Prisoners are just modern slaves

They'll turn us all into martyrs

Until we rise from their cage

And bring the fucking pain!

(We are the pain!)

BRIDGE:

(We are, we are)

Like a dog collared under thunder and rain

Cast aside authority with their golden chains

Shout until we are, we are all that remains

Shout…

Shout…

SHOUT!

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

CHORUS (2X):

We are the night

Crawling through your veins

We are the answer

To your unspoken shame

We are the blight

Flowing through shattered strains

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

We are the night

Crawling through your veins

We are the answer

To your unspoken shame

We are the blight

Flowing through shattered strains

WE ARE, WE ARE!

WE ARE THE PAIN!

OUTRO:

Fuck with us, we bring the pain.

Written and/or Contributed By:

@ledlevee @TheWolfeDen @ChrisSadhill @Shells @Ferryman @LilEnigma @fudo @fabulam @putski @MeeJong

I see the light, it was disguised

I missed it right before my eyes

Some years ago, I was so low

Taken by the undertow

There is still a lot that I could say

My intuition led astray

I made my heart a shorter leash

And tricked my mind to think I’ll cease

I fight to chew on every word

And let our memories all burn

It’s time for me to break away

Before my empathy’s betrayed

Our favorite song is on repeat

Drowning out all of my screams

You’re just manure for his seed

He’s not really what you need

I gave our time another look

Discovered how you bait your hook

And now I’m better on my own

Shattered glass & bitter stone

I see the light it was disguised

I’m better now to my surprise

Years ago, I was so low

Recovery meant let you go