Definitions by Death Menace

My City Was Gone 

I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South Howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
Well, I went back to Ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed

My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio
I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Said, ay, oh, way to go, Ohio

My City Was Gone

My City Was Gone by Death Menace March 3, 2023

Little Know It All 

I'm the kid that no one knows

I live a life I never chose

But these thoughts in my mind

Are my own, my own
I'm face to face with the unknown

My scary movie will be shown

I've got one evil mind

Of my own, of my own
We take from one another

And never stop to wonder

How it feels from the other side

Well nothing lasts forever

When stupid turns to clever

Why are you surprised?
Little know it all

Ten bucks in my hand

Little know it all

Don't cry I understand
I'm a target of the smart

They've got ambition I've got heart

Analysed and tagged

Before I start
So tell me

Who can I respect

I feel a leash around my neck

I find out there's shame

In the game
We take from one another

And never stop to wonder

How it feels from the other side

Well nothing lasts forever

When stupid turns to clever

Why are you surprised?
And I feel like

I'm caught outside the box

And I feel like

I'm sleeping when I'm not

We take from one another

And never stop to wonder

How it feels from the other side

Well nothing lasts forever

When stupid turns to clever

Why are you surprised?
Little know it all

Ten bucks in my hand

Little know it all

Don't cry I understand

Little know it all

Ten bucks in my hand

Don't cry I understand
You'll never know it all

Little Know It All by Death Menace March 2, 2023

Trans-Europe Express 

Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express

Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express

Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees
Leave Paris in the morning with T.E.E.
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express

In Vienna we sit in a late-night cafe
Straight connection, T.E.E.
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express

From station to station
Back to Düsseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express
Trans-Europe Express

Trans-Europe Express by Death Menace March 1, 2023

Butcher of Kingsbury Run 

There was a serial killer in the 1930’s in this place called Kingsbury Run in Ohio. I think that the place was like part of the Cleveland Ohio metropolitan area or something. Anyways, they killed like around 5 or 6 people or something. Decapitated their heads and left their bodies on the streets. His identity has never been known.

The killer completely got away with everything

I wonder who the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run was, and what was their motivation behind the murders ?

World may never know…

Butcher of Kingsbury Run by Death Menace March 1, 2023

Echoes

Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb toward the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance, two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?

And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun

Cloudless everyday
You fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky

Echoes

Echoes by Death Menace March 1, 2023

Bingo-Master’s Breakout!

Two swans in front of his eyes
Colored balls in front of his eyes
It's number one for his Kelly's eye
Treble-six right over his eye
A big shot's voice in his ears
Worlds of silence in his ears
All the numbers account for years
Checks the cards through eyes of tears
Bingo-Master's Breakout!
All he sees is the back of chairs
In the mirror, a lack of hairs
A lighted room, checks fill out
Here the players all shout

Bingo-Master’s Breakout!
A glass of lager in his hand
Silver microphone in his hand
Wasting time in numbers and rhymes
(One hand drug and faces bright)
Bingo-Master's Breakout!
Came the time he flipped his lid
Came the time he flipped his lid
Holiday in Spain fell through
Players put it down to
Bingo-Master's Breakout
A hall full of cards left unfilled
He ended his life with wine and pills
There's a grave somewhere only partly filled
A sign in graveyard on a hill reads
Bingo-Master's Breakout

Bingo-Master’s Breakout! by Death Menace February 28, 2023

Repetition 

Right noise.
We're gonna get real speedy
We're gonna wear black all the time
You're gonna make it on your own.
'cause we dig
'cause we dig
We dig
We dig repetition
We dig repetition
We dig repetition in the music
And we're never going to lose it.
All you daughters and sons
who are sick of fancy music
We dig repetition
Repetition in the drums
and we're never going to lose it.
This is the three Rs

The three Rs:
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
Oh mental hospitals
Oh mental hospitals
They put electrodes in your brain
And you're never the same
You don't dig repetition
You don't love repetition
Repetition in the music and we're never going to loose it
President Carter loves repetition
Chairman Mao he dug repetition
Repetition in China
Repetition in America
Repetition in West Germany
Simultaneous suicides
We dig it, we dig it,
we dig it, we dig it
Repetition, repetition, repetition
There is no hesitation
This is your situation
Continue a blank generation
Blank generation
Same old blank generation
Grooving blank generation
Swinging blank generation
Repetition, repetition, repetition....

Repetition by Death Menace February 28, 2023