Resurrection

This is undoubtedly one of my favourite songs I've ever written. I took a break from my normal themes of emotion of varying kinds, and wrote this. I think basically it just started off with a chorus, and an idea for a horror movie style song ... I love the Resident Evil computer game series, perhaps it came from that. Looking at it now, I've realised it unintentionally has a bit of a Thriller like vibe going as well. Anyway, from there it gradually grew to have some hidden messages in it; like about how people can take their lives for granted until something completely unexpected happens; or about how even though someone is dead, they're never really gone (although I realise this is a bit of an odd metaphor!); or that in death all people are the same, not sperated by morality or class or colour or even time; or that too many people die too young; or that death is not the end.

In terms of sound, it's probably fairly typical of the sort of music I'd want my band to play should such a thing ever come into existence ... gothic, grungey hard rock, a mixture of my major influences really. It's another song that I actually have a pretty decent melody for, and I really reckon it could be an anthem if played and recorded properly. The 3rd and 2nd to last line of each verse have this rapidly descending thing going on, in order to lead into the chorus

I've decided that, on the very slim offchance that I ever do manage to record and release an album, this will be the first song proper on the first album "The Angels And The Devils Are Going To War", after Between Heaven And Hell (see the entry for that below), with a massive guitar riff backed by a wall of sound kicking straight in after that song ends. It'll also be the first single ... it's definetly the song that I'd want people to know as my 'essential' song :D

Apparently, this is also the last song I finished in 2004, which is joint with 2006 as my most producitve songwriting year to date

Resurrection - September 2004

And the moon's light tore through
The cloudy sky
A million people enjoying
Just being alive
Too busy to notice the gleaming white
Of the gravestones bathed
In an ethereal light
Deep in the ground something stirs and
For all those who have forgotten
Plans unmade and lives will change
And something strange
Must inevitably happen

Chorus:
And the dead will rise
And the dead will walk the Earth once more
And the dead will rise
And the dead will hunt down the night sky
And the dead will rise

Eighteen hundred and eighty one
Young Bill was cut down in his prime
Laid to rest beside a killer
Last shot fired in nineteen sixty-nine
Both so hungry, both will rise
Both will once more feel
The cold warm kiss of life
Tonight it's time to roll the years back
And restart the blood flow to the brain
Senses attack, memories flood back
And the Earth is cracked
Open by the rain

Chorus:
And the dead will rise
And the dead will walk the Earth once more
And the dead will rise
And the dead will stalk down the night sky
And the dead will rise

How will it take you when
The night belongs to the living dead
Now the resurrection has begun
Never slept inside a coffin
Never used the soil as a bed
Never forget the dead are never gone
No the dead live on
And they'll return
Now the resurrection has begun

So much unfinished business and
So much to be set right and
So many died before their time
And now it's time
They had a second chance

Spoken (Vincent Price style):
And tonight my friends....

Chorus:
The dead will rise
And the dead will walk the Earth once more
And the dead will rise
And the dead will tear down the night sky
And the dead will rise

Spoken:
And the dead will rise
And the dead will walk the Earth once more
And the dead will rise
And the dead will tear down the night sky
And the dead will rise