I Condemn You

[Billy]

This has been a fun collaboration. Although mainly done via PM's it just goes to show what you can get done.

Lyrics - Donna Devine ©
Vocals - Rebecca Riss (Reba1994)
Bass - Andy Gupta
All other music - Billy Playle

Donna sez: I can never resist the occasional temptation of Goth excess, wallowing drama, and obscure, tortured, purple prose. Initially inspired by a brief source text from the hilarious Goth-O-Matic poetry generator, I had so much fun constructing this. We all know that ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’.

I Condemn You

V1
Oh why have you left me
In perilous ruin?
While memories writhe
With love that I wasted
Demanding its tithe

Pre-chorus
But be warned!
Though I'm scorned
My power  holds
My hand is bold

Chorus
I condemn you now
To the fallow fields
Of dreary death
The roving raven's icy breath
I condemn you now!

V2
Oh why have you left me   
In torrents of tears
That spill from my eyes
Now drowning the last
Of our lost paradise

Pre-chorus
But be warned!
Though I'm scorned
My power holds
My hand is bold

Chorus
I condemn you now
To the fallow fields
Of dreary death
The roving raven's icy breath
I condemn you now!

Bridge
Oh, taunt if you will, Creation's enigma
Lustreless now, tainted by stigma
Once we were innocent, fevered, and bright
Drawn to the luminous, fuelled by light
Our path was eternal before you plunged into the night

Chorus
I condemn you now
To the dusty fields
Of dreary death
To the roving raven's
Icy breath
I condemn you now

I condemn you now

I condemn you now

© 2015-2020 Donna Devine

[Johnny]

Billy, you and Donna should have enough to produce an album, of these odd tunes.  I still remember, blah blah blah & the bamboo curtain song.  Donna needs to merge with a play write and do a musical.  We got Hamilton, how about Benedict Arnold from the English perspective 

Recently, someone turned me onto, Nightwish.  Kinda has that feel.  Really well crafted, Great singer!

Cheers!

[Reba1994]

Thank you!

Donna has a great amount of emotion in her lyrics and combined with Billy's dramatic and amazing composition, it was just a pleasure to sing. 

I think Billy has written a musical - Maybe Donna too! 

Billy, you and Donna should have enough to produce an album, of these odd tunes.  I still remember, blah blah blah & the bamboo curtain song.  Donna needs to merge with a play write and do a musical.  We got Hamilton, how about Benedict Arnold from the English perspective 

Recently, someone turned me onto, Nightwish.  Kinda has that feel.  Really well crafted, Great singer!

Cheers!

[Johnny]

Reba1994!

Lovely to meet you, and you are most welcome...Being into lyrics, I typically read first, & listen last.  I kept thinking, no way anybody can sing this, but you were sooo fab!  What a great set of pipes.
I scribbled on a Bobby tune the other day.  I think he wanted a temptress, but I purposely made it asexual so it might also be a temptor.  Look it up, if you have some time.  It's kinda jazzy, but I think you can sing anything.

Cheers   

[Donna]

Billy, you and Donna should have enough to produce an album, of these odd tunes.  I still remember, blah blah blah & the bamboo curtain song.  Donna needs to merge with a play write and do a musical.  We got Hamilton, how about Benedict Arnold from the English perspective 

Recently, someone turned me onto, Nightwish.  Kinda has that feel.  Really well crafted, Great singer!

Cheers!

Thank you for your wonderful comment, Johnny. Amazing that you remember 'Blah blah blah' and 'Aiko San and the Bamboo Blind'.    Indeed Billy and I have enough material to fill several albums of tunes.

Believe me, I'd love nothing more than to work with a playwright and do a 'proper' musical, with Billy as composer and Rebecca in the leading female role. 

[Johnny]

Donna you are the proverbial well of inspiration.  Blah Blah Blah, was one of the first tunes I listened to on this site.  I thought, 'what the hell is this'...Guests at a dinner party, it was great!  Of course, having Billy by your side...
Write your own play.  You certainly have all the tools at your disposal.   Blah Blah Blah, a musical about your Trump loving uncle coming over for the holidaze.  No no, that might require a murder scene. 
I recall the, sci fi "Green Leaf" series.  Practically a musical already.  You just need your own story and plotting
You can do it!  Anyway, I finished a little children's book last year, and now working on a whole series, I mean a complete Tolkien kind of world involving an advanced whale species creating aquatic monkeys, Atlantis and eventually, us.  I have 65 million years to play with. 
You really should think about it.  Yours is a gift.

Cheers, to writing and re-imagining your world.

[AndyG6508]

Turned out super. great write and performances from everyone.

Thanks for letting me play a part!
Andy

[Billy]

Thanks for the comments.

Johnny - We're only just warming up. Stay tuned.

[NickT]

Very ethereal! Great job gang!

[Johnny]

Thanks for the comments.

Johnny - We're only just warming up. Stay tuned.

🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️ Of that, I have little doubt. 👁

[Albino]

OMG!
This is so good, its powerful.

Rebecca, your voice fits this type of song so much, your strengths lie here...

A very good song, well done everyone inviolved!

[Reba1994]

Yes - Dark & Emotional is my style!   

OMG!
This is so good, its powerful.

Rebecca, your voice fits this type of song so much, your strengths lie here...

A very good song, well done everyone inviolved!