Skylines (God Bless Suburbia)

I started writing this song last Sunday and I've kinda finished it (OK, I still need to touch some things up). But this is what I've got.

Basically, this song is my anger and disappointment with the progress of my home country of Malaysia. It mainly revolves around race relations. About how despite Malaysia portrays itself as a nation where all races live in harmony, there are still tensions and its not as pretty as the ads show it to be. Not that it isn't there.

I make references to a couple of events in modern Malaysian history, one more recent than the other.

Here it is:

Hey, this city's skyline got so much going for (it)
It's just flashing lights.
Hey, what happened to the pictures on the airplane TV screens

We're wasting time
We're being laughed at by small towns
Have we always been monsters since the summer of '69

God bless suburbia


Chorus:
Because this city's so full of sin
We're burning churches while
We let Vampires rule the day
They rob us blind
They try to keep us deaf and dumb
Our fathers say
'Welcome home, my son
Welcome home'

You know we're in trouble when we agree with enemies
But this time spent away has gotten the best of you and me
What's with all this hate?
Don't you know we're just digging our own graves

It's making me sick to know what we've become

Chorus

I'll stand up tall for my nation
But clench fists at this situation
Have all these years counted for anything at all?
We restrict our own progress
Because we speak a different language
When will we overcome the walls that divide our hearts?


Solo

I will love you
I will always love you

(END)

I know I've been getting slack with my explanations :P.

Malaysia is the country I grew up in and despite its many flaws, I love it and what it stands for. I truly pray that we will overcome our problems and progress as a nation.

MALAYSIA BOLEH!!

Smile (tentative title)

I've been on writer's block for a while now so this was quite exciting for me to write SOMETHING. Its a simple song with the standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure.

Here it is:

Every scene leaves a heart ever longing for any sign to tell me where to go from here
On this road that leads nowhere
Every photograph is a memory
One that I might lose if I don't take this chance
So big and wide
don't forget to smile

Does who we are define us or is it what we do?
Who's the one who's gonna pick me off the streets
Is it true I'm a let down?
Is that why I know that I'm never gonna sweep you off your feet

Troubled times are far more forgiving than the lines that flow from my pen
and the times I realize that we're all just towers
Will we all stand to fall when its all over?

Foundations made from paper or are they set in stone?
Give me secrets that I'd like to keep
I swear I won't say a word if you tell me not to
So kid, won't you run away with me?

Solo/bridge

Chorus 1

(END)

Basically, that's it (at least for now). I'm way too lazy to explain this song in great detail but generally, its about friends and relationships (whichever kind you want) and how our actions can determine how good are the bonds we form. Or some shiz like that.

The Zim is back :D