Jim Steinman - Lyrical Bits & Pieces
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PRIVATE OF PRIVATES
Lyrics: Ray Errol Fox, Music: Jim Steinman. Written around the time of 'The Confidence Man', 1976
He was young, he was eager to learn
He was stung, with a passion to burn
He was hung, and he hung in return—
My private of privates
He was mean, flowers died where he spat
Full of spleen, when he took tit for tat
He was green, but I loved him for that—
My private of privates
At the height of passion, he would dangle me
When he wasn't mashin', he would mangle me
Mornings he would dash in and untangle me
My private of privates was empirical
If I'm still alive it's a miracle
If I shut, both my eyes when we kissed
I got cut, at the neck and the wrist
At my gut, how his fingers would twist—
My private of privates
As my warrior grew gorrier
My body, it grew sorier
When he marched off to war, I was crushed
I was parched and downtrodden and hushed
Cause he marched on my back, while I gushed—
My private of privates
How much more in love could anybody be?
I kissed the ground he walked on while he walked on me
How much more in love could anybody be?
I kissed the ground he walked on while he walked on me
He wrote to me direct from overseas—
A note that made me weak at the knees
A depiction of war on a picture post card
A description of war that would make a ghost hard
How would I ever compete with that?!
Then and there I knew that I had lost
To a wanton bitch of a holocaust
Then and there I knew that I had lost
To a bitch… of a holocaust
Oh, my private of privates was gone
But his mark and his marks linger on
Yes, his mark and his marks linger on…
How much more in love could anybody be?
I kissed the ground he walked on while he walked on me
How much more in love could anybody be?
I kissed the ground he walked on while he walked on me
(UNTITLED)
Saturday, July 08, 2006
4AM
I just read your post Vin. It was really a casual aside, but if u want a song, here goes. Like I scribble lyrics all the time like this: Jim Steinman
I MISS THE LIGHTNING
AND IT ALWAYS WOULD IGNITE
I MISS THE STORMS
AND THE WAYS THAT IT WOULD STRIKE
I MISSTHE FIRES, WHICH WERE MORE THAN I COULD BURN
AND I MISS THOSE DAYS
MAY THEY NEVER RETURN!
I MISS THOSE DREAMS
WHICH WOULD INEVITABLY COME
I MISS THOSE VISIONS
WHICH COULD MAKE MY HEART BEAT RUN
I MISS MY YOUTH
WHICH I JOYOUSLY CRASHED AND BURNED
AND I MISS THOSE DAYS
MAY THEY NEVER RETURN!
I MISS THE FUTURE
NOW ITS COME AND'LL SOON BE GONE
I MISS THE PAST
HOW IT SEEMS SO VERY LONG
I MISS YOUR LOVE
IT MADE MY WHOLE WORLD ALWAYS TURN
I'LL ALWAYS MISS YOUR LOVE
IT WAS SO MUCH MORE THAN I COULD EARN
AND I MISS THOSE DAYS
MAY THEY NEVER RETURN!
RENEGADE ANGEL
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
940PM July 19'06
I am STILL going to finish RENEGADE ANGEL, as Im only now realizing how to do it. It started with a boy losing his virginity and "another angel got its wings." Jim Steinman
We hope & dream & strive
Till one day
Theres nothing left but
A Renegade Angel
And Only Lovers Left Alive.
PARADISE LOST
No matter how tragic the loss
No matter how heavy the cost
To this very day
I can stand tall & say
I fought for paradise
And Paradise lost
I fought for Paradise
But Paradise lost
Was it this or was it that
But Paradise lost in the final at bat
Paradise lost in the final at bat
THE MONSTER IS OUT OF THE CAGE
What's the point of all this fury
All this bitterness and rage
Theres no point at all
We're only young
And the monster is out of the cage
THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND
Friday, October 26, 2007
LANDMARK BLOG
Hi! I swore Id never do this but here it is!! I wrote these lyrics off the top of my head, stream of consciousness style. SO its not even first draft! But I thought it'd be interesting to get your responses. JUST THE LYRICS! Dont even imagine the music, unless you want to. But its not written yet, except I used my previously published PARADISE LOST chorus s it "seemed just right" at that moment. That does have a melody, a gr8 one, but that could all change as I develop this. This is a song for Hook in BOOH, "THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND". Read it & if u want, please write SPECIFIC detailed observations....each & every line if u wish......I hope you like it. Jim Steinman
I will decorate this city
With Ribbons Of Blood
I will find the endless tears
Soon to be a flood
I will conjure up the magic
Far beyond your sight
I'll illuminate this city
With the ascension of the light
Eternal terrors hold us down
Keep us plodding in the mud
I WILL DECORATE THIS CITY
IN RIBBONS OF BLOOD.
Broken hearts
Are the Devil's Playground
Shattered dreams
Disillusioned youth
And all of man
Is the Devil's Playground
Shameless lies
And Shameful truth
We'll all succumb!
And some time when
The Dark exults and moons arise
In the blink of an eye
The Devil's Playground
Is Born Again!
The Devil's Playground
Is Alive Again!
So Come On Down
To the Devil's Playground!
Come On Down
Before It Disappears
In the blink of an eye
You see the Devil's playground
Now it all seems dead
But it used to be here…Once!
(Once it was here)
Once!
Before it disappeared!
Once!
'Once' always disappears
Trembling hands
Are the Devil's Playground
Empty plans
And hollow hopes
ETERNAL TERRORS HOLD US DOWN
AND WE'LL ALL BE DROWNING IN THE MUD!
I will decorate this city
With ribbons of blood…
In the blink of an eye
All is lost
The storms they rumble
And the winds are tossed
In the blink of an eye
You're a sad old man
Trying to remember
Whatever you can
In the blink of an eye
Death will clutch you
No respect
For fortune or Fame
In the blink of an eye
It all awaits you
Thousand of tombstones
Waiting for the names
Just waiting for the names
In the blink of an eye…
In the blink of an eye…
In the blink of an —
I
I
I
I WILL DECORATE THIS CITY
WITH RIBBONS OF BLOOD!
(soft)
No matter
How tragic the loss
No matter
How heavy the cost
To this very day
I can stand tall and say:
I fought for Paradise
But Paradise lost
I fought for Paradise
And Paradise lost.
It wasn't your fault or mine
Wasn't this it wasn't that
But Paradise lost
In the final at bat
Paradise lost
In the last at bat.
(DARK.)
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