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MP3 Doomsayrz - Lost Souls
11 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Electric Blues, GOSPEL: Contemporary Gospel
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LOST SOULS
The Doomsayrz
Lost Souls is a concept album. It is a depiction of a plethora of ways that a soul can be lost, and finally, in the last song, the one true way to redemption. Lost souls of various kinds are evident on every track culminating in the final song when the audience realizes that when we put things before GOD, we are all lost.
Righteous Blues
“Lost Souls” begins with “Righteous Blues’, a slow gospel/blues song in the classic rock vein, maybe the Band meets the Eagles meets Pink Floyd. In this song, our hero believes that he is righteous, that he is a good person, on a good path and that because he has made it this far, he has the right to preach his way to the lost, never realizing that his lust, his covetousness will be his downfall. He does make some valid points, most notably, that you have to quiet the voices in your head to hear the DIVINE, so try not to judge.
Righteous Blues
When your mind’s all tore up and your soul’s stretched thin
You’ve got two holes in both shoes
And the cross is so heavy with the weight of your sins
You wish they would just crucify you
If you silence your demons, you’ll hear HEAVENLY hymns
Singing you just what to do
If you chose to listen that’s when you begin
To start singing your righteous blues
When your sorely tested and you don’t give in
And nobody knows it but you
And that big old bully hits you square on the chin
Do you turn one cheek or two?
And when you get to HEAVEN and there’s no virgins
Tell me what would Mohamed do?
Just listen to Jesus, cause he’s sitting in
While we’re playing your righteous blues
When your mind’s all tore up and your soul’s stretched thin
You’ve got two holes in both shoes
And the cross is so heavy with the weight of your sins
You wish they would just crucify you
When you silence your demons, you’ll hear HEAVENLY hymns
Singing you just what to do
I chose to do what my MAKER says to
So I’m singing her/his righteous blues
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
She’s There
In the second song, “She’s there”, our hero has an admirer. She is there for him, even though he is in love with another. She loves him back and they are “friends”, but she loves cocaine more, so she saves her sex for rich boy that keeps her supplied, thinking all the while that she really cares for him. So this song contains four lost souls. Musically, I have been told that this song sounds like Ozzy or Geoff Tate singing a Prince song.
She’s There
With you I’m always chasing rainbows
You are always on my mind
You never look over your shoulder
Cause you know I’m close behind
Late at night when you close your bedroom door
I’m always on the other side
I crawl home cause I’m wanting more
I call the one who doesn’t hide
And she’s there
Cause she cares
Even if she has to share
I swear
It’s not fair
But as long as you don’t care
She wakes me up at night
To see if I’m all right
And she doesn’t even ask
About you
I know your boy with that preppy name
I guess dad’s a millionaire
He writes lies in snow white cocaine
I write songs to show I care
And late at night when you close his bedroom door
And your rolling with the tide
I’m at home laying on the floor
She comes and takes me for a ride
And she’s there
Cause she cares
Even if she has to share
I swear
It’s not fair
But as long as you don’t care
She rocks me through the night
But it doesn’t seem quite right
That she never even asks
About you
I’m there
Cause I care
Even if I have to share
I swear it’s not fair
But why is she always there
She’s there
Cause she cares
Even if she has to share
I swear it’s not fair
But until you decide you care
She keeps me up all night
Tomorrow…
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
Mistress of Illusion
Ah, “Mistress of Illusion”, in this, our third song, our hero tries to understand our cocaine heroine in a final effort to free her from her addiction and win her heart. He observes that all women can be mistresses of illusion in so much as they can misuse their feminine powers to get what they want, because they know what men want, but if you get something for nothing, then nothing is what it is worth. All men and women that engage in this covetous and adulterous activity are lost.
Mistress of Illusion
Your mirror is your masterpiece
When all the world’s your stage
A cradle for your sanity
A weapon against old age
With every stroke you change the lines
And fill up on the crack
Now check once more the mirror
Who’s that stranger looking back?
Mistress of illusion
You’re an artist, queen of style
You use men for your amusement
And the presents that they pile
At your feet
Like a queen
I believe
I believe
You walk into a party
And you know the eyes are on you
It’s not for what you’ve accomplished
Or even for what you might do
You transform yourself with makeup
Using lipstick, crèmes and rouge
Your walk is designed to shake up
All the fools that believe the ruse
I believe
I believe
I believe
I believe
Mistress of confusion
Are you believing your own lies
When spent all your delusions
Then illusion is all you buy
I believe
I believe
I believe
In you and me
Illusion has a mistress
But her secrets I’ll never tell
How you sell men dreams of HEAVEN
But the profits are spent in hell
I believe
I believe
I’ve the conclusion
It’s time to get on with my life
Abandon all your children
But you cant play Father Time
I believe
I believe
That you and me
Are fantasy
I believe
I believe
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
Judge Not
“Judge Not”, our fourth song, lest ye be judged! It is about a sitting judge, so that’s all I am going to say about that! It is a very basic song that I would like us to be able to perform in an infinite diversity of styles and genres.
Judge Not
All rise
This court is now in session
And presiding
Is the honorable judge
Not
Judge not
Grudge not
Budge not
Don’t look down on me brother
Don’t look down on me brother
Don’t look down on me brother
Need not
Want not
Have not
Don’t look down on me brother
Don’t look down on me brother
Don’t look down on me brother
When you cry I want to know why
And when I die they’ll know that you lied
You hurt me when you judge me
But you don’t know what’s fair
It’s our children that are paying
When your saying
You don’t care
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
Down with the Sun
In “Down with the Sun”, our hero is incarcerated and hallucinates that he is playing a show and sees his lost heroine. She has come back and all is well, but the blinding light of the morning sun awakens him to the fact that she is lost to him and he is lost to himself.
Down with the Sun
As I walk alone down crazy streets
The people laugh as I trip over my feet
They don’t know the story behind my defeat
They never held you close or kissed you so sweet
Now the sun gets me down every morning
Yes the sun brings me down each day
The sun hurts my eyes to see
How I’ve sunken so low today
While I’m playing here I face the crowd
They’re drinking much too much and
Thinking too loud
Then a face I see
Could it be you
Your coming back to me
My dream’s coming true
Now the sun is bright every morning
Yes the sun gets me high each day
It’s so bright and gold and blinding in the morning
Now your back with me
To stay
But I’m wrong it’s just these old drunken dt’s
It wasn’t you, but I guess I’m still me
The rain is falling down
Dripping in my cell
It is my happy home
And I know it oh so well
The sun gets me down every morning
The sun gets me down each day
The sun hurts my eyes to see
How I’ve sunken so low
Today
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
Answers(Father and Son)
In the sixth song our hero and his son learn to play together and that they are not so different and they are both children of GOD and that is the answer.
Judge Not (Reprise)
Our hero winds up back in court and the judge hasn’t changed one bit.
Revelationship Issues
During the eighth song, our hero is having “Revelationship Issues”, so he turns to hip-hop. He finds his spirituality by losing his religion. Listen to the word, but think for yourself! Another lost soul joins him here or is it merely the voice of his feminine side voicing the same questions.
Revelationship Issues
Every night when I kneel to pray
I struggle with what words to say
Do I pray to GOD as taught in my youth
Or meditate on a different truth
One GOD does that ring a bell
Live by the word or go to hell
When I die will I burn and wail
Or sit back and laugh at this fairytale
Reincarnate will I heed the call
Become one small atom of the cosmic all
Like spiritual cream will I rise to the top
Or when I die will I just
Stop
I’m not a prophet or a saint
I am what I am and I ate what I ain’t
I wasn’t there to hear what they said
If alive in BC now I’d probably be dead
But I’m here with you baby to see the now
Make hamburger out of the sacred cow
I don’t believe a book that’s only proof is itself
In fact I’ll just leave it up there on the shelf
Maybe I’ll listen instead of beg when I pray
Thankful for all my blessings today
Silence my thoughts in my head when I lay
Perhaps someday I’ll find my own way
Life’s a balance between black and white
Man and women, left and right
Good and evil, sun and moon
Birth and death, ripen ruin
What makes you think that GOD is just one
It makes as much sense to worship the sun
Maybe GOD’s a goddess birth’s a mystery
Or maybe a force or a trinity
Maybe we’re angels after the fall
Or maybe there ain’t no Gawd at all
Now I’ve said it bitch and you can hold me liable
Burn me as a witch when I tear up the bible
But how many children have died in Christ’s name
And I bet ALLAH cried when twin towers aflame
No true god or prophet would demand that you kill
If there is hell to pay then send religion the bill
GOD talks to each of us in our own way
If there’s awkward silence
Perhaps there’s nothing to say
So child, don’t fear darkness or Satan’s nine hells
Why don’t we just take responsibility
And think for ourselves
Listen to the word
But think for yourselves
Every night when I kneel to pray
I struggle with what words to say
Amen
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
Killing Yourself Again
After his new-found insight, our hero goes back to his life and sees all the people that shared his bad habits are either dead, in jail, or still doing the same shit. So he asks them, why are you “killing yourself again”?
Killing Yourself Again
Your slashing your wrists so you bleed on the floor
And you’ll do it again just like you did it before
Ingesting poisons, rotting your brain
Puke them all up so you can take them again
Go back to the monster, let him beat you some more
If you desired to end it, you‘d walk out that door
Same old story
Night after night
If you keep on trying
You might get it right
Greed, envy, gluttony, sloth
Why you gotta kill yourself again
Why you gotta kill yourself again
Why you gotta kill yourself again
Again and again and again and again and again…
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
Lost Souls
“Lost Souls” is the title track and tenth song. It is the realization that all is lost and there is nothing that we as individuals can do to save ourselves.
Lost Souls
Lost souls are made to wander
Always searching for the light
When your world is torn asunder
Come join the armies of the night
These chains were made to hold me
On the outside looking in
But I have no right to curse them
I forged them with my mortal sin
The afterlife is constantly reliving
Every lost love, every lost fight
And though you howl and scream in torment
Nothing will ever be set right
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
Have no gods before ME
This is the most important song on the CD and the last. Musically, it is like a march thru HEAVEN..
Have no gods before ME
And the first commandment says
Thou shalt have no other gods before ME
Listen my children
Listen to me
Don’t think you can do now
Just whatever you please
Don’t think you can take from
What I’ve given to you
Without acknowledging
Oh just who made who
Have no gods before ME
I am the one
And you should listen
Like good daughters and sun
You like money don’t you
You like all the pretty things that it buys
But just look at that brand new
Cadillac escapade
As it’s rusting before your eyes
Diamonds and women and men
And money and sex
Power, a beautiful home
Lust, drugs
You don’t need anything between you and me
You and I are connected
Until you put some one/thing in the way
Smash it all aside
Throw it away
Have no gods before ME
I love you
I’ve always loved you
And I always will
Even when you worship something else
Sickness
And when I throw you in the fire
Forgotten
I’ll still love you
I’ll still be here
Copyright David Arlin Harrod 2006
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