Gift Art

every year around yuletide I try to draw at least one peice to give to somebody as a gift; this year I did two.
the first one was for teeny and is to a song that I could of sworn was written by her that I read on her blog. turns out, it was by some system band called "Children of Bottom"? or something around those lines. the was every "time I die"; if I had known about it's origins I wouldn't of put pen to paper about it in the first place, but heh too late now. it's not my fault she didn't specify! I would include it here but, her blog has mysteriously vanished into thin air for no reason, I can't exactly reconjure it so you'll just have to trust me :D it did though have something to do with a candle going out and angel wings being broken, if that helps explain it, but no nothing about stitches I added that myself, but if teeny would be so gracious as to provide us with those lyrics you might see that it was inadvertently influenced by them.

Everytime I Die

my scanner has betrayed me!!!

(and yes a candle does smoke alot like that)

The second peice was done for Flo and is in fact copied from a picture of teeny off of hi5, no it's not quite obcession... I had planned a different composition of the same subject but it wasn't working out so I just took this pic and added all the trimmings :D

Fallen

Both were framed and I gave Teeny's to her on the last teen meeting of the year. Flo's took a little longer in getting to her... a whole month in fact, but hey better late than never...


oh yes and these are also for the challenge :D

everytime I die for...

28. sorrow (maybe I might not even count it for this) :D

I'll have to figure something else out for that but it's that one for now...

and Fallen

88. Pain :D

quite refreshingly "macabraic" for lack of a better word


*cackle*

-The Revig

Ghost

Ghost

I was there but then again I wasn’t. I was there but no one else saw me. Only you noticed me. Only you cared. Only you reached out and touched me when everyone else just walked right through me, not even seeing me. I was a ghost to everyone but you.
Vicariously, we laughed, we cried. We sang, we promised a dance. You showed me the world of the living, and I showed you a glimpse of my sweet death. But, through it all we never truly felt each other the way it was meant to be. The way we meant it to be.
Time and distance drives apart what was once so close, and now they torture us. What little that was there is now crumbled to dust and blown away. I didn’t want this. If I could I’d strangle the Time and distance that separates us with my bare hands. I hate these things that tore us apart, I wish they never existed, I wish things were not so. I wish we were together. But for all my wishing I cannot ignore the reality that we’ll never be together the way we long to be.
I hold nothing against you. We are apart this way because of things beyond our control, but know this; if things were different I’d run to you, I’d hold you in my arms and feel your sobs, dry your tears, and whisper what I have forever longed to say. But there is nothing we can do. Now my arms go right through you. I am still the ghost I was, immaterial, unseen; now even more so to you...

Stem--- heavenly music

The new stem album... in a word, yes indeed, it is heavenly. Their lyrics are in earnest, their melodies inspired, and the feelings invoked by each are stirring and gutwrenchingly pure. Both say so simply what I have felt all along, especially this last year, and no doubt I am not the only one who can say that. indeed, it is the songs like these that are making the revolution of today.

to give you a taste of what I mean here is the first song on the alblum. finally someone has said what I have felt all along...

Deathe Music

(V1)
Generation, defined by,
Words from a bleeding nation.
Long ago, music was so,
Different from what we hear now.
Feeling, meaning,
Now it's missing.
Celebrity masterpeices,
Rocking millions of sheep,
Deeper into their sleep.

(Chorus)I want the sound of,
Youth rebellion,
On the system,
Revolution,
Action,
Hate for evil,
Make me feel,
Something real in time,
Words that force us to action,
Chords that breathe
Dedication.
Turn off the radio,
Music, leave me breathless and bare.

(V2)I spent enough time hearing girls whine,
About their boys, sex, and toys,
Half naked, lip syncing,
Sex sells, so make it worth it.
Rapping, bling-bling,
shooting, bleeping,
Meaningless words for profit,
Skating, breaking,Desecrating.
Morals, don't think about it.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Bridge)
I know where I will go,
Run down this one-way street,
Whatever He will take from me,
I give it willingly.
It's death music,
system shit.
Pan, stay away from me,
Water poisoned for your soul,
You're gonna die on it.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Outro)
Why listen to the enemy, enemy?
Why cower to his vice on you?
Don't be as lethargic masses, friends.
Don't listen to the enemy.

This is what I have felt so recently.

The thrill of freedom.

The thrill of flight.

This is my song.

Nothing to lose


Let's Go!


V1
.You can take everything from me now,
My pride and my selfish way,
Everything I used to hold so dear,
I swear it's making me sick.

Chorus.
Nothing to lose,nothing between,
Nothing can stop lean, mean machine.
Everything to gain, aeroplane,
Until my death I swear allegiance,
Cause I make my stand now.
I'm moving forward,
I'm with you now,
And there's nothing to lose in the end.

V2.
Here I stand, unafraid and fearless,
I'm ready, I've made my dying wish.
I've been here before, but I know,
This time with him I'll end victorious.

Repeat Chorus

Bridge.
You try to slay me and I'll rise above,
You try to slay me and I'll rise above,
You try to slay me and I'll rise above,
You try to slay me and I'll rise.

Repeat Chorus

End!