Carry On Wayward Daughter
Carry on my wayward daughter
There’ll be peace after the slaughter
Lay your weary head to rest
Don’t you cry no more
Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high
Though my eyes could see I was a blind vampiress
Though my mind could think I was a mad vampiress
I hear the voices when I’m dreaming
I can hear them say
Carry on my wayward daughter
There’ll be peace after the slaughter
Lay your weary head to rest
Don’t you cry no more
Masquerading as a vampiress with reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise vampiress
It surely means that I don’t know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about, I’m like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say
Carry on my wayward daughter
There’ll be peace after the slaughter
Lay your weary head to rest
Don’t you cry no more
No!
Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
The center lights around your vanity
But surely RavenBlack waits for you
Carry on my wayward daughter
There’ll be peace after the slaughter
Lay your weary head to rest
Don’t you cry, don’t you cry no more
–Gallagher
Modified from “Carry On Wayward Son” – Kansas – Leftoverture
Man Wanted
Man wanted
One real man wanted
One mister rough and tough who’ll kiss me ’til I cry
Man wanted
Tall, dark and tan wanted
About this much across and just about yay high
Previous experience required
Plus an unlifetime guarantee to satisfy–in writing!
Man wanted
No Peter Pan wanted
These ain’t no kiddie toys so boys need not apply
Man wanted
One handy man wanted
Some guy who’s got the tools to keep my heat on high
Man wanted
One struttin’ Stan wanted
One randy rooster who can make my feathers fly
Extra strength and stamina desired
If you think you’ve got enough to qualify…I’m waiting!
Man wanted
No Peter Pan wanted
These ain’t no kiddie toys so boys need not apply!
Man wanted, man wanted
Keep those gents from Lord and Taylor
Slip me one good sweaty sailor
One real undead man wanted
It’s so hard to find good help these days!
–Gallagher
Modified from “Man Wanted” – Barry Manilow – Copacabana
In the Air Tonight
I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh lord
I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all my unlife
Oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight?
Oh lord, oh lord
Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I’ve seen your face before, my friend
But I don’t know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin
I know where you’ve been
It’s all been a pack of lies
And I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh lord
I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my unlife
Oh lord
I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh lord
And I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my unlife
Oh lord, oh lord
Well, I remember
I remember, don’t worry
How could I ever forget?
It’s the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up
No you don’t fool me
The hurt doesn’t show
But the pain still grows
It’s no stranger to you or me
And I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh lord
Well, I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my unlife
Oh lord
I can feel it in the air tonight
Oh lord, oh lord
–Gallagher
Modified from “In the Air Tonight” – Phil Collins – Face Value
Tears of Pearls
And we stare each other down
Like victims in the grind
Probing all the weakness
And hurt still left behind and we cry
The tears of pearls
We do it
Oh we do it
Is love really the tragedy the way you
Might describe?
Or would a thousand lovers
Still leave you cold inside?
Make you cry
These tears of pearls?
Oh, all these mixed emotions
We keep locked away like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away from all the world
Your kisses are like pearls,
So different and so rare
But anger stole the jewels away
And love has left you bare,
Made you cry
These tears of pearls
Well I could be the tired joker
Pour my heart to get you in
Sacrifice my happiness
Just so I could win
Maybe cry
These tears of pearls
Oh, all these mixed emotions
We keep locked away like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away from all the world
We twist and turn where angels burn
Like fallen soldiers we will learn
That once forgotten, twice removed
Love will be the death
The death of you
Oh, all these mixed emotions
We keep locked away like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away from all the world
Oh, all these mixed emotions
We keep locked away like stolen pearls
Stolen pearl devotions
We keep locked away from all the world
You were how I always wanted it to be. I hoped, naïvely, that somehow, someday, it would work. The adage is true though: everything good comes to an end. I won’t say I will never look back, because I know I will. You are a part of my past, part of who I am. You helped me become who I am tonight. Thank you, and I love you.
–Gallagher
Someday
You were so blind to let me go
You had it all but did not know
No one you’ll find will ever be
Closer to all your dreams than me
Believing the grass would be greener
You told yourself “I just don’t need her now”
But I know you’ll soon discover
You’re never satisfied with any other
Someday, ooh someday
One you gave away will be the only one you’re wishing for
Someday, hey hey
Boy you’re gonna pay ’cause baby I’m the one who’s keeping score
You’ll change your mind and call my name
Soon as you find they’re all the same
And when you find yourself alone
Don’t come back crying
You should have known
Believe me I’m not pretending
It’s not hard to predict
This ending now
‘Cause I know you’ll soon discover
You’re needing me in spite of all the others
Someday, ooh someday
One you gave away will be the only one you’re wishing for
Someday, hey hey
Boy you’re gonna pay ’cause baby I’m the one who’s keeping score
Someday, ooh someday
One you gave away will be the only one you’re wishing for
Someday, hey hey
Boy you’re gonna pay ’cause baby I’m the one who’s keeping score
Maybe now you just can’t conceive
That there’ll ever come a time when you’re cold and lonely
Baby, how could you ever believe
That another could replace me
The one and only?
But when your down
In your time of need
And you’re thinking that you
Might be coming back to own me
Just think again ’cause
I won’t need your love anymore
Someday
Someday, ooh someday
One you gave away will be the only one you’re wishing for
Someday, hey hey
Boy you’re gonna pay ’cause baby I’m the one who’s keeping score
Someday, ooh someday
One you gave away will be the only one you’re wishing for
Someday, hey hey
Boy you’re gonna pay ’cause baby I’m the one who’s keeping score
Someday
–Gallagher
“Someday” – Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey
Walk Away
You’ve got your mother and your brother
Every other undercover
Tellin’ you what to say
You think I’m stupid
But the truth is
That it’s cupid, baby
Lovin’ you has made me this way
So before you point your finger
Get your hands off of my trigger
Oh yeah
You need to know this situation’s getting old
And now the more you talk
The less I can take, oh
I’m lookin’ for attention
Not another question
Should you stay or should you go?
Well, if you don’t have the answer
Why are you still standin’ here?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Just walk away
Just walk away
Just walk away
I waited here for you
Like a kid waiting after school
So tell me how come you never showed?
I gave you everything
And never asked for anything
And look at me
I’m all alone
So, before you start defendin’
Baby, stop all your pretendin’
I know you know I know
So what’s the point in being slow
Let’s get the show on the road today
Hey
I’m lookin’ for attention
Not another question
Should you stay or should you go?
Well, if you don’t have the answer
Why are you still standin’ here?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Just walk away
Just walk away
Just walk away
I want a love
I want a fire
To feel the burn
My desires
I want a man by my side
Not a boy who runs and hides
Are you gonna fight for me?
Die for me?
Unlive and breathe for me?
Do you care for me?
‘Cause if you don’t then just leave
I’m lookin’ for attention
Not another question
Should you stay or should you go?
Well, if you don’t have the answer
Why are you still standin’ here?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Just walk away
If you don’t have the answer
Walk away
Just walk away
Just walk away
Then just leave
Yeah yeah
Walk away
Walk away
Don’t read too much of what you think into this. You may think you know, but unless you know, you have no idea.
–Gallagher
Modified from “Walk Away” – Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway
Not-so-happy anniversary
She was still getting accustomed to the redesign. She had gutted her entire apartment–again–and yet the new configuration didn’t seem “right” either. Very little seemed “right” to her at all anymore. This wasn’t the time for conceiving of yet another floorplan. She wandered back into her kitchen and retrieved her filet mignon from the oven–she had frozen the other in its package for use later, perhaps–and set the rack on the granite counter. Carefully she transferred the tender meat onto the plate, warm from its stay upon the stovetop, along with truffle butter, impressed into the form of a flower. She drained a florette of broccoli and placed it next to the steak, blood already pooling around it on the plate. Carrying the plate gingerly into her formal dining room, she moved the place-setting from the head of the table to the side, resting her plate on the violet tablecloth. Abandoning her dinner, she went to her wine cellar, selecting a bottle of Latitud 360, Malbec, brought from Mendoza, Argentina, a gift from her ex-wife. ‘Someone else should be here,’ she couldn’t stop herself from thinking as she poured more than she should have into her wine glass. ‘What the hell?’ she told herself, justifying filling another, and she walked into the dining room, a glass in each hand. As she plunged her knife into the steak, a line caught in her mind:
And so she raised her wine glasses, clinking them brusquely before taking a long draw from each, and congratulated herself, ‘Not-so-happy anniversary to me.’
–Gallagher
Excerpt from “The First Cut is the Deepest” – Rod Stewart – A Night on the Town
Torn
I thought I saw a man brought to unlife
He was warm, he came around like he was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry
Well you couldn’t be that man I adored
You don’t seem to know, don’t seem to care what your heart is for
But I don’t know him anymore
There’s nothing where he used to lie
My conversation has run dry
That’s what’s going on: nothing’s fine, I’m torn
I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel
I’m cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed into something real
I’m wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You’re a little late, I’m already torn
So I guess the fortune teller’s right
Should have seen just what was there and not some holy light
To crawl beneath my veins and now
I don’t care, I have no luck
I don’t miss it all that much
There’s just so many things that I can’t touch, I’m torn
I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel
I’m cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed into something real
I’m wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You’re a little late, I’m already torn
Torn
There’s nothing where he used to lie
My inspiration has run dry
That’s what’s going on: nothing’s right, I’m torn
I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel
I’m cold and I am shamed lying, naked on the floor
Illusion never changed into something real
I’m wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel
I’m cold and I’m ashamed bound and broken on the floor
You’re a little late, I’m already torn
–Gallagher
Modified from “Torn” – Natalie Imbruglia – Left of the Middle
My Immortal
I’m so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
‘Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won’t leave me alone
These wounds won’t seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There’s just too much that time cannot erase
When you cry I’d wipe away all of your tears
When you scream I’d fight away all of your fears
And I’d hold your hand through all of these years
And you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I’m bound by the unlife you left behind
Your face, it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice, it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won’t seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There’s just too much that time cannot erase
When you cry I’d wipe away all of your tears
When you scream I’d fight away all of your fears
And I’d hold your hand through all of these years
And you still have
All of me
I’ve tried so hard to tell myself that you’re gone
But though you’re still with me
I’ve been alone all along
When you cry I’d wipe away all of your tears
When you scream I’d fight away all of your fears
And I’d hold your hand through all of these years
And you still have
All of me
–Gallagher
Modified from “My Immortal” – Evanescence – Fallen
Almost Lover
Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You always swept me off my feet
The sweetest vampire I did meet
Clever trick
I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
And when you left, you kissed my lips
You told me you would never, ever forget
These images
No
I’d never want to see you unhappy
I thought you’d want the same for me
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you’re gone and I’m haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that
Easy to walk right in and out
Of my unlife?
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I’m trying not to think about you
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
–Gallagher
Modified from “Almost Lover” – A Fine Frenzy – One Cell in the Sea
