Act 3, Scene 3: Rocks and Stones

Hmm, not depressed today! Yaay..cos I got to talk to Princess. =)

Hmm, today, I'd like to share another video with you. Haha. I've been writing too much la lately. It's time for a break to watch another video.

I've always liked rock; be it slow or hard or metal or even some facets of emo. I guess there must be something enjoyable in it to make me like it. I really like guitar solos and bands like Guns and Roses and Deep Purple really have a huge influence on what I like listening to. I feel that although the lyrics and vocals play a major role in a song, a few solos wouldn't hurt either. Even My Chemical Romance's Ray Toro puts in a few short solos into their songs and watching him with his huge hair bent over the guitar, with such anguish on his face, well, it just reminds one of Slash. =)

But today's video is from Iron Maiden. I really like watching them perform because its always so energetic and it makes them seem like they're having lots of fun. Bands nowadays tend to want to be individualistic and you don't see so much interactions among their members as if they're trying to outperform each other.

This was taken in 1992 so that explains the hair and outfit and the kinda lousy quality. But listen to the song and remember these lyrics. I think even if you do not like the music, reading the lyrics would help explain why I think this is such a great song. =)

So here's the video



And the lyrics:

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time
Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole
The sands of time for me are running low

When the priest comes to read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be there's been some sort of an error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end not some crazy dream

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming
It's not easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears they flow but why am I crying
After all am I not afraid of dying
Don't believe that there never is an end

As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Someone calls from a cell "God be with you"
If there's a God then why has he let me die?

As I walk all my life drifts before me
And though the end is near I'm not sorry
Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please don't worry now that I have gone
I've gone beyond to see the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down there is just a strange illusion


See what I mean? It sounds like a short story of a man who is going to die and the thoughts that run through his mind as he takes his final steps. Nothing SATANIC about it right? Dunno why people always associate rock with that guy. =P

Hope you liked it.

Princess, glad you're ok.

I love you.

I love, Nur.