At long last, my trade with  seth-iova is finished. It's been, like, a year, granted I waited until I got my new computer to finish it. Yuss, no more year-long trades.

However, it came out pretty nicely, thanks to the wait, though I doubt I'll ever be fully satisfied with this, particularly my vocals. But Seth liked it, so it can't be all that bad.

The idea was to mimic Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones while creating something original. You should be able to spot certain similarities :3

Music and Lyrics:  buck

LYRICS:

As the skies burn a dull and dirty red,
And the clouds glow like magma in the darkened skies...

I’ve seen it all before.
I know what to expect.
Pretty soon rains of ivory
Will crush us all to death.

I’ve seen the end nine times.
I’ve worn the foreseer’s crown.
The sun is going out
And the moon is going down.

As the dust of the old blows from the west,
And the storm of these times comes in from the north...

I’ve seen it all before.
I know just where to go.
The rains are pouring down
In the dregs of a great cyclone.

I watched the sun fall out.
I’ve felt the earth drown.
The numbness overtakes
And the sun is out, And the moon is down.

As the dregs of this nightmare are choked down,
There’s a scar, an eclipse, a ring of light,
And the light polution of the distant past fills the air like fireflies.
And they flutter away in the gasoline-strangled day-turned-into-night.

I’ve seen it all before.
I knew it would come.
The fire-scorchéd clouds
Will let in no star shine.

I watched the sun fallout
In true radioactive granduer.
The darkness overtakes,
And the sun is out, and the moon is down.

Like a small beam of hope, something blinks in my eye, but the clouds eat like fire, and it falls from the sky.

I’ve seen it all before.
I knew it would come.
I watched the sun fallout
In radioactive granduer.

I’ve seen the end nine times.
I’ve worn the foreseer’s crown.
The prophesies come true,
And the sun is out, and the moon is down.