So for my heavy metal music class, my final project before exams was to compose a heavy metal song. I've known about this, technically all year, but the assignment was officially given a few weeks ago. It's due tomorrow today later morning, and I have just finished it now, at 1:04 AM. After starting it about 3 hours ago. Heck yes I feel good. So I decided to post it on here and would be interested in what you think. Here goes.
Abandon All Hope
This familiar limbo you left me in
Makes the lust we feel a friendly sin.
I'm a glutton for the love you'd give,
My greed needed it for me to live.
(Chorus)
I'm laying, laying twisted in my sheets
You left me no choice, I accept defeat.
Lucifer and I, we go way back
We're frozen together, no will to attack.
Now my anger knows no bounds
Your sweet heresy's not what it sounds
My emotions rain violence upon you
Let the world see your fraud anew.
(Chorus)
Your treachery left me with no room to cope.
You gave me nothing but to abandon all hope.
(Chorus)
So that's what I came up with in the wee hours of the night and from actually buckling down. It was easier once I got the first few lines in my head, though I couldn't really say the musical background to it that much. It's really not that heavy metal subject wise, but play it with enough distortion and we have a winner. It feels more alternative to soft rock to me in subject minus the fact that every line has a Dante's Inferno reference. Each line is a different layer of Hell going deeper down each time, with the chorus being the very bottom of it all, frozen in ice and loss of free will with Lucifer. Then the title is based on the sign he sees upon entering the inferno; "abandon all hope ye who enter here." Did I do a good job? Oh well. I like it I guess.
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