Lyrics - Let it rain

Walking beneath dripping leaves and the same clouded sky
I try to deny every moment but they call my lie
I know I've been haunting this mansion of memories alone
Convince me that this isn't the place that I used to own

Covered in mischief and misery and laughter and pain
Let me be washed of my memories and now let it rain

The fighting and hiding but always uniting its a dream
Help me to forget your touch as if it had never been
Remind me to forget the roads I have taken till now
Remind me of the next step I should be taking and how

Covered in mischief and misery and laughter and pain
Let me be washed of my memories and now let it rain

Invictus(by William Ernest Henley)

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Lyrics - Someone Else's Business

The world was new; and we were too,wits and sweat made us humans
And then you came;your claim to fame,were all your names and your games
What we begun when it was we went to sleep on our throne
and when we woke from our sleep the world we made was gone

All that we ever made,
is a gun held to our head
locked in our gilded cage
and left for dead...

I'm still alive, it's still my life
there's no one else, but I'll still fight
I won't give in, 'coz deep within
I know it's not some-one-else's-business

All that we knew was how to do;something for me and for you
We trusted you to follow too, and we would always come through
You said forget those days are dead and what the world really needs,
is narrow creeds, and dirty deeds, and all the things that hate breeds

We who know what is best,
have left it to the rest
you turn and walk away
'coz it not your mess


I'm still alive, it's still my life
there's no one else, but I'll still fight
I won't give in, 'coz deep within
I know it's not some-one-else's-business

Lyrics - Reality Check

Frog in the well, thinks the world is small
thinks he's seen places he's seen ti all.
Frog in the well,in the god's image
playing his part on a great big stage

Wake up! wake up! the world comes marching
Wake up! wake up!From the dream you're lost in
Wake up! The truth is breathing down your neck
Wake up! Wake Up! reality check.

Frog in the well,knows how to be
they showed it to him on the TV
Frog in the well,knows what none can see
whats not his word is just heresy

Wake up! wake up! the world comes marching
Wake up! wake up!From the dream you're lost in
Wake up! The truth is breathing down your neck
Wake up! Wake Up! reality check.

Reality Check..

Reality Check..

Lyrics - The booze song

Yeah when the lights go down
Then let the fun begin
For us the day starts over
At the setting of sun

Riding the golden beast
Into the purple haze
Strange and misshapen creatures
Walk through my stony gaze

Bumping through people looking
For my whiskey and wine
The last thing I remember
Is telling them I’m fine

Till I am walking talking
Get me another shot
All I meet are my brothers
Or friends that I forgot

Outro:
I’m one with my dreams,
The laughter and screams
I’m drunk and I’m stoned
It’s time to go home

Lyrics - One man army

This song is based on a true story of a battle between the English  and the Vikings in 1066 A.D. where one viking held a bridge against the entire attacking English army which allowed the hugely outnumbered vikings to escape to fight another day (They were eventually defeated in the war though). This is basically a heavy metal documentary on the events of the day.

I open my eyes, to a blood red dawn
with my brothers, in a land unknown
and now the foe, come marching in
I draw my blade, and pray to Odin.

Five to one, horses and feet
I swallow my pride, and begin to retreat
Over a bridge, I turn and roar
my brothers are dead, I can run no more

He turns and stands upon the bridge so none of  them can pass
with threats and taunts and sneers and barbs he begins to harass
They rush him with their arms to finish what he has begun
to find that weapons wouldn't bite upon this lonely one

Their heads and hands and legs and lives he takes to keep as his
the man forgotten long ago a berserker now lives
The day grows old the line grows thin the carnage carries on
a savage god come unto earth upon his grisly throne

lo! there do I see my father
lo! there do I see my mother and my brothers and my sisters
lo! there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning
lo! they call unto me and bid me take my place among them
in Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.

A spear strikes, upon my back
with no honour, cowards attack
my brothers are safe, at our fleet
I smile and join, the gods at their feast.

Lyrics - Freedom

Every night I see, tragedies unfolding
Every day I hear, the calls to do something
These causes with passion and reasons you give
Take them if you want, it's not my fight
My fight is not for my right to live
It's for my chance,my chance to hide

Freedom (oh  won't you save my)
Freedom (who can take it away)
Freedom (will take care of itself)
Freedom (is here to stay)

All the great men, the statues glorify
If not  for me, then tell me why they died
Some one should take up the mantle that fell
from the makers of August the 15
I'll stand on the sidelines and cheer when I can
Heroes these days are too far and between

Freedom (oh  won't you save my)
Freedom (who can take it away)
Freedom (will take care of itself)
Freedom (is here to stay)

If I do all this, who'll get the real work done
and it won't change a thing, because I am only one
There's too much to lose and I don't feel up to it
So stop asking me why don't you go and do it
If history asks I'll deny that I knew it
I kept my head down and eyes closed to get through it

Freedom.....
Freedom.....

The vagaries of unbidden dreams

Strange dreams, wicked dreams.
and the voices in my head
offer every serpernt's fruit
deal every hand of dread

the sights, the sounds, the sickly taste,
and the touch upon my skin
are all the different faces of
the  demons lurking deep within

Some feeble conscious part of me
whispers - "It's not real! It's not real!"
but in that twilight of life,
more real than real it feels.

All that my waking thoughts bury
beneath everlasting shame
runs amok, twisted mirage
the other me then takes the blame

And then I must wake and walk
amongst all my fellow men
and hold my smiles and frowns and laugh
when I think of where I had been

Though hidden meanings seem to lie
in every eye which at me stares
I cannot really help but think
were they with me when I was there.

The first performance

It's been a long time since this performance, but it was my first ever as part of a band so I finally decided to put this up. Also, today I am celebrating 'Experiment with Blogger' day while I wait for the clock to strike midnight and Jasleen's birthday to commence (at which time I will start getting drunk- teeheehee). I fully agree that putting a link in a post and then going on like everyone can see the link's content is somewhat retarded but I only have a 200MB video of this which promises to upload itself in a trifling 15 hrs on my internet connection.

We played the song at the prelims of the "Battle of Bands" in Xteme sports bar(Hyderabad) and was the first song I ever wrote (*applause* all around!!!!). As an aside, let me introduce... "The Turning Brain" with

* Jonas David - Vocals
* Mohtashim Khan - Lead Guitars
* Kislay Verma - Rhythm Guitars, Backing Vocals
* Nishanth M. B. Pais - Bass Guitar
* Aaabhaas Khanna - Drums

The man on the vox in the video, however, is Mr.Anirudh Voleti, who unfortunately, is with us nor more (as in he has left the band and is involved in great musical going ons in Delhi these days).

We are working on some more stuff, Let's hope it comes out soon. Really looking forward to 2010.

Lyrics - Nobody's man

This is a song that I recently wrote. It's still one line short of being complete but I still felt like putting it here because you know - F*** that S***

Nobody's man

People wanting me to be someone else
Making such a sad waste of myself
There is one thing that I know to be true
I’ve got some faults and they’ve got a few

The boy who lives next door is really kind
And the one upstairs talks really fine
A little more of this a little less of that
No one really thinking of what I’m at

I’m nobody’s man

It bothers everyone that I speak my mind
But honesty is so very rare to find
The stupid man is always getting into a fight
Always sticking up for what he thinks is right

You are good at math but love soccer too
Nothing less than A will ever do

But the neighbours' kid is always top of his class

I’m nobody’s man

People wanting me to be someone else
Making such a sad waste of myself
There is one thing that I know to be true
I’ve got some faults and they’ve got a few

You can live your life or they can live it for you
Earn my respect, I pay where its due
I’m what I am, it’s on my head
I’ll be nobody else, I’d rather be dead

I’m nobody’s man