Another song by me

I liked to walk down the wharf

In the winter night

A chill wind comes

Licking me with spite

Why does the frozen sky

Cry with frigid tears

Why am still so sad

After all these years

Burning fire in her heart

Quenched by the snow

I ran and ran, begging

Just why won’t you go?

The sun is an eye looking down

Down upon us slaves

Working and farming and growing

Among the graves

My first own written song

I made a deal with the devil

The devil made a deal with me

He got something I got something

Both of us left happy

The devil’s a beast, on your soul he will feast

If you dare make a deal with him

But rich beyond your dreams will reach

If you decide your soul to trim!

I made a deal with the devil

The devil made a deal with me

He got something I got something

Both of us left happy

Faust wanted ultimate power

So his soul I seized

His ladies friends were all his ends

Til they died of disease!

I made a deal with the devil

The devil made a deal with me

He got something I got something

Both of us left happy

But finally, at the age of forty three

Faust’s years had run too short

His end was near, a smoking fear

Of never coming mort

I made a deal with the devil

The devil made a deal with me

He got something I lost something

Now the devil is happy

My favorite and best songs

Best:

1.      Send Me On My Way (Rusted Root)

2.      500 Miles (The Proclaimers)

3.      Working For The Weekend (Loverboy)

4.      Strangers Like Me (Phil Collins)

5.      Mambo #5 (Lou Bega)

6.      One Week (Bare Naked Ladies)

7.      We Didn’t Start The Fire (Billy Joel)

8.      Footloose (Kenny Loggins)

9.      American Pie (Don Mclean)

10.   Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds (The Beatles)

Favorite:

1.      Victorian Vigilante (Abney Park)

2.      Aimee (The Cog Is Dead)

3.      Oh Lord, Wake The Dead (Voltaire)

4.      Cigarettes (Fort Minor)

5.      The Room (Cryoshell)

6.      Blood Sugar (Pendulum)

7.      Splendid (Professor Elemental)

8.      Heaven’s  A Lie (Lacuna Coil)

9.      Nobody’s Listening (Linkin Park)

10.  Evil Angel (Breaking Benjamin)

Throw Them Overboard

Utilizing their opinions against “modern technology” in Abney Park’s “Throw Them Overboard”, the band uses the upbeat tone and beat of the song, intricate jargon in their lyrics, and archaic and rebellion-type imagery to express what they think is wrong with society, and how they’d fix it, namely by “lining them up and throwing them overboard”

Abney Park’s “Throw Them Overboard” has a very upbeat tone. It’s fast and quick, and has a very joyful tune. Even though the song is condemning “newfangled technology”, it’s doing it very happily. The singer treats modern society audaciously, claiming that he’s “got no love for this society”.

Abney Park also utilizes jargon in this song. Using words such as anthropophagy, urology, and horology, they hearken back to a time where such long words were common. Anthropophagy means the study of human history, which the singer prefers way more than today’s music. Urology is the study of urine, and refers to the idea that today’s society is pissing away its good parts. Finally, horology is the study and art of measuring time. The band will have to go back in the past to obtain a society they approve of.

Finally, Abney Park uses imagery to convey their thoughts, emotions, and ideas through their song.  The main example of imagery is the repeated use of “newfangled” in the chorus, where modern technology such as phones and cars are viewed on as overcomplicated and evil. The “throw them overboard” line refers to the point in time when people used wooden ships, and a traitor/mutineer would be forced to walk the plank or, if they refused, thrown overboard. Overall, imagery colors this song in all the right ways that accentuate the ideas it represents.