Challenge 82 - Scarlet

[SubtleDagger]

scar·let (skärlt)
n.
1. A strong to vivid red or reddish orange.
2. Scarlet-colored clothing or cloth.

adj.
1. Of a strong to vivid red or reddish orange.
2. Flagrantly immoral or unchaste: scarlet thoughts.

o yeah

[DFelon204409]

I too have an uncle...come in.

[pixiesfanyo]

If anybody does a song and uses scarlet as reference for blood, i vote them last. If two people do it...I won't vote.*





*vote them both last

[smelnykthebassist]

First there was no hope
dismissal of a life
expressions were so faint
appendages unmoving

But the grin of life
graced the faulty essence
signs of imperfections
lost but not forgotten

chorus

aggravating kin
of miniscule proportions
conforming to the wishes
of one linked by blood

a hope for further power
the quest to make amends
a joyous time of passing
the voyage that be made

|Chorus|
vibrant and lost beast of hidden hope
sign of the future lusting for the past
magnificent beauty forever to remain
until the bells ring out, the end of scarlet hope
--------

present now a twist of fate
the need for good impressions
push the one that you love
to make him pay the price

see the error in the ways
of a soul filled with pride
misery to the brethren
one step less than yours

chorus

storm of great emotion
hides the bursts of pain
evil deed of prides desire
haunting futures unknown

ignorance is arrogance
evil deed of innocence
mistakes past, wisdom attained
destinyfor one is unmarred

[xKONRADx]

ok why the hell not

[TheTitan]

The sun will rise another night
So lets face the will of the moon
Set comfort to all your thoughts
Let sink, the darkness in the room

And these colors may be unaproached
Maybe not so preferred at all
But we'll listen to the sound of silence
and the moments we will call
...our own...

[Chorus]:
Others may only try to see
The things they don't prefer
Cause they're used to all the norms of life
that they'll never have to endure
The Albino treatment we get
The labels we try to forget
Its just so hard sometimes to feel
Different than the rest

Place your sighs and sorrows
In the tears dripping down your face
And let the scarlet of your eyes
Light up the world in place

Theres no more fear for either of us
Just what we can't really see
We can get through this all the way
If its just you and me
...just know...

[Chorus]:
Others may only try to see
The things they don't prefer
Cause they're used to all the norms of life
that they'll never have to endure
The Albino treatment we get
The labels we try to forget
Its just so hard sometimes to feel
Different than the rest

[Bridge]:
It just doesnt matter, the world will never change
So lets forget it forever, and make own passing lane
It just doesnt matter, the world doesnt matter anymore
So lets foreget it forever, and leave our problems at the door

[super deluxe]

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

[RunAmokRampant]

Blight Of The Blemish

"God has given you one face,
and you make yourselves another"
William Shakespeare


Cosmetic
Prosthetic
What's the point in rectifying this art of
Plastic rejuvination and age retaliation
Hollow skin shouldn't bear shame in this game of
"Whose the ripe old rotten egg?"
So why do you persist
In this lame charade?

What are you trying to calibrate?
Live with but the last of your feathers
And you continue to preen
Misleading eyes scan you with
Surveillance with scrutiny
Your thoughts of forever
They're living in the never
I hear those needles screaming
Spitting and wailing
"Vanity! Vanity! Vanity!"

Inside the blight will creep
Unlike before now it will seep
Through the restrictions
Of your aging skin
It's all bleeding through
Seeping through

Jaded beauty
Sifted out by ones still so pretty
Flush out the old
And in with the new
No use for that old plunger
You've already been
Sucked well right under

Save your sacred manicure
It yours to try and endure
Replace the scarlet tissue
To remain in the next
Starlet issue

Inside the blight will creep
Unlike before now it will seep
Through the restrictions
Of your aging skin
It's all bleeding through
Seeping through

Counterfeit, counterfeit does your nose fit?
Pluck out the feathers with
Needles and knives
Needles and knives

[ATC]

BABY SEE BLUE
(the fate upon which we turn the stars)


On the other side of yet another moonlit September,
Driven by the sounds and the ides of
A lonely woman waiting for you and the sidewalk
And she's got all the wrong things to say.
It's dark as day where she sits down to knit
Sweaters torn with scarlet and pink.
But it's warm as night when she gets up to pray,
Her harmony draped in worn out knees

Someone please wake her
If she drifts off someplace.
Etch in the memories
And add in the years.

There's that wall again, that wall they paint
Streetlights on to guide you, stranger, in the dark.
It's only beautiful when it's crying.
It's only pretty when it's lonesome.
There she goes again, dolled up in greasepaint,
You've got to love it when she revisits
The sins of her fathers and the whims of her daughters.

Nineteen's a nice life,
It's easier to follow.

She's different at midnight if you like that kinda scene.
Rustles your cufflinks as she greases down your love
Till its smooth, so pale its polished in
The irridiscent gleam of your mother's expectations.

You won't tell her, will you?
Cos it just might,
It just might
break her heart.

Have you seen her lately?
Under the overpass or beyond the bridge?
I know the answer just as well as you do.
Her post-mortem blues will overthrow the system.
Her post-mortem blues will overthrow the system.
Her post-mortem blues will overthrow the system.

[i am the robots]

The Choice

Scarlet fountains of chaotic shades
And darkened openings created from switchblades
The sadness that controls this societal dissaray
We feel the need to pray to make it go away
The encrusted souls of those in the past
Have only the time to finish in second last
Trust that they won't overthrow
Trust that they will never know

Violet rainfall crushes boulders
Like brightened seals upon our shoulders
More pride and belief than we could bear
A second homage that we should share
The encrusted souls no-longer lost
Broken free from their shell of frost
Let us hope they'll overthrow
Who cold think they would always know

And so you see the times have changed
From black to white, we've not stepped in grey
The chaos still in between exists
But man's true nature will always allow this

So we're beckoned by a scarlet skyline
And threatened by the darkened cloudline
Unable to make a choice
Unable to raise a voice

[BrokenSaint]

Eva

The year was 1993
Eva was still so young
Many days behind her,
Many days to come
She took a chance
Stepping out on that ledge
That Scarlet fire in her eyes,
It brought her end

Pre-Chorus:
And yet we’ve seen this all before
Same old story, on repeat
Eva broke her father’s heart,
What a shame

Chorus:
Everyone has something inside
That one thing we can’t deny
She was tempted and she fell
But only in her mind,
This sheltered girl in her shell

The time was ripe for breaking down
Eva still so innocent
Many things she struggled,
Many things came with ease
She had her hopes
Like a thorn in her arm
That rushing heat in her veins,
It was addiction

Chorus:
Everyone has something inside
That one thing we can’t deny
She was tempted and she fell
But only in her mind,
This sheltered girl in her shell

Well now its over, it’s done
Eva now so pale and cold
One thing she cares for,
One thing she needs
She lost her hopes
Like that dust in the wind
That scarlet fire in her mind,
It’s all she knows

Everyone has something inside
That one thing we can’t deny
She was tempted and she fell
But only in her mind,
This sheltered girl in her shell
That sheltered girl, she fell..

[El_Goodo]

Dreams

Close your eyes and dream away,
Tell yourself you’ll change the world,
Never lose sight of your dream,
And yea I think you could change the world
And after all dreams are what this world is made of

Chorus
So keep dreaming,
Little boy,
Keep on dreaming,
Little girl,
Yea…
Someday your gonna change the world

Open your eyes and see the world,
Tell yourself you gonna make a difference,
Never lose the scarlet fire in your eyes,
And yea I think your gonna make a difference,
And after all without people like you this world would be dull

Chorus
So keep dreaming,
Little boy,
Keep on dreaming,
Little girl,
Yea…
Someday your gonna change the world

Bridge:
Close one eye and keep the other open,
That way you can see your world and the real one together,
Someday your gonna open both your eyes and your gonna see your world,

Chorus 2
Yea your gonna change the world,
Yea your gonna make a difference
Yea your gonna see your world

Close your eyes and dream away,
Tell yourself you’ll change the world,
Never lose sight of your dream,
And yea I think you could change the world
And after all dreams are what this world is made of

Chorus
So keep dreaming,
Little boy,
Keep on dreaming,
Little girl,
Yea…
Someday your gonna change the world

[TheACafe]

::Simone::

Simone...
Simone the wasteful winter wears upon your face,
Scarlet wrinkles break your youth, and take their place
And your beauty they will chase...

Away...
Away in blizzards where your ex's set ablaze,
Your fragile heart until it's frozen in a daze,
A million years it lays...

Alone...
Is what you feel when failure stings your sturdy soul
The Forlorn melody that haunts you till you're old
It makes your blood run cold

At night...

Simone...
The eerie frequency of stillness in your mind,
Lets the doctors know that you've been left behind
You should just unwind...

...but you cant...

::A:: (aka) ::TheACafe::

[CSD & the Soul Machines]

~Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck...Goose~

Pass this briefcase
From palm to sweaty palm
Wire tap the fire can
For the tattered-clothed congregation

We wish you goodluck
This supper's tired from
the long walk home
Renovated pockets, more room for fingerprints

My air's gone stale
Two tugs, now let's resurface

Just take your time
The competition's worthless

Traffic hums eternal sleep hymns
Scarlet blanket replace the casket
The sky didn't bother to turn grim
Lives abundant but many wasted

[Necroses-bass]

jesus thats a f*cked word to use but i'll give it a shot

[Necroses-bass]

Kinda screwed up really, i'm not very inspired at the momnet but might as well ive it a shot




Scarlet secrets

Scarlet woman,
Lady of the night
You look for sinners
Luring them inside

Just seek your home
Take care of your child
Go home, love your man
Just do whats 'right'

Your scarlet secrets
Eating you inside
You won't live forever
at least live with pride

The gloomy streets of Amsterdam
Lit by the red light
Trees whisper their opinion
You get paid for the delight

You're too intellegent to think
That money can talk
You're too experienced to think
Memories won't stalk

Your scarlet secrets
Eating you inside
You won't live forever
at least live with pride

[SubtleDagger]

Khayr Ad-Din's Venetian Galleasses

We sailed the seas for thirty days
In wait of carronades and
Sacred goddesses,
The sunspots striking torrid rays
Of razored light, in ways
Suspect of treachery.

And when it rained the skies turned black
As ravens' wings, or the lack
Of which to fly on.
We set our roots in thankful ground,
Never traversed or found
By any pilot.

And it was to pass,
As all events we came upon
And the discoveries we sought.
The rain would end and fears would mend;
No more.

But commodore's hopes turned to ire.
The corsair showed his fiery
Scarlet face,
Ablaze yet scarred as jagged ice
That showed Doria twice
His routed place.

And it would not pass,
We knew it now as feared before
When we had rapped upon the door
Of sincerest hell, in lieu of bell;
No more.

His gunpowder enveloped hearts,
Laughing at the thoughts
Of feeble goddesses.
The sun had fled, the crescent moon
Softly spoke volumes
Of dreaded treachery.

And Barbarossa's Galeasses
Shadowed and accented
The will of Sulayman.
He set his boots onto my hands,
Grasping to shift the plans
Of hated pirates.

And it was to pass,
As I hung from my tortured La Reale
I prayed that wounds took time to heal
And fell into infinite blue;
No more.

[SmackU2]

Tainted:

Our scarlet dreams
Tainted by our lust
for what we can't have
for what we can't trust

Our scarlet lives
broken by our dreams
for what we know
will mean nothing

Our scarlet wish
changed by our lives
that we can't fulfill
No matter how hard (we try)

We try to hold ourselves up
But our foundation's breaking down
We try to stay awake for just
One more minute

Our scarlet ways
altered by our wish
to live more alive
to live more than this

Our scarlet lies
twisted by the ways
that we tell ourself
everything's ok

Our scarlet wish
perverted by lies
that will only leave
us hanging as (we try)

We try to hold ourselves up
But our foundation's breaking down
We try to stay awake for just
One more minute

One more minute with you
is all I ask
But my scarlet life
Is holding me back

I need to be
cleansed from head to toe
cleansed in every way
so that I can show

my allegance stands
for the one that I
know can stop from
saying that (we try)

We try to hold ourselves up
But our foundation's breaking down
We try to stay awake for just
One more minute

Ps. Sorry to the dude in my other topic. Didn't realize there was a contest.

[pixiesfanyo]

Please Do Not Break Me

I watch her
Paint perfect pictures
In the shadows
With her finger nails
Like some kind of
Erratic moonlight

Silent sleep is overrated
I want too hear the echoes
Of my name from those
Flawlessly fabricated lips
Like torn muscles
I want to be
One even,
If we are apart

Quietly we will tread
Through snowfall
And we will emerge
From the ashes
With fervor
With passion
Scarlet comments
Will cease

With the silence
Our lips will call for words
But each motion will
Send needle through thread
Sewing them together
Like her lost child hood doll

The flushed cheeks
Flushed cheeks
So red, so perfect
She looks so beautiful
When she blushes

[d0ped0g]

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RISE AGAINST REBELLION
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We live in a world of conformity to rebellion
Stuck in a roundabout of uncertain individuality
Corporate smokestakes shroud the blameworthy and real
Coerce me to convert imagination into reality

When whats being said has been said before
It makes you wonder whats left to say anymore
Its the same old story we must endure
Til the restless among us are freed from granduer

We bow down to a face of society without direction
Renouncing acts of outcry, disbelief or thought
Consider this realm of prison-farms a blessing
When rising against becomes self-taught

When whats being said has been said before
It makes you wonder whats left to say anymore
Its the same old story we must endure
Til the restless among us are freed from granduer

Mankind must open their flickering eyes
To the scarlet-lined hole in which we reside
Devolving into practice of foxes and sheep
Borrowing this wishbone warren far too deep

Zealous zombies of consumer driven hunger
Give rise to an image of deviant apocalypse
We march in single file to where the wave rolls back
And find ourselves in the wake of fatal eclipse

[k.s.e.]

Its a new day
time for the restless to
fight back the tears again
in this image
I'll carry a burden far
spreading a hopeless hope
pushing it to the end
where i'll only be
where the dark is all to help heal

Frustrating in my hands
another view held in this destruction
a scarlet signature is all I know
repeating this hate in successions
carefully shedding the right to speak
stuttering away the problems

nothing, I feel

Thriving on what I want to lose
but is there anything I need?
what was it that I needed to find again?
that line between a new hope and a tragedy
is that wrong?
being a shadow lost along this mountainside
among a long list of lines
to be forgotten by all soon

Lost to where I belong
but its rightfully set in place
I flicker during the day
to give out to my confusion
Use me for your first line to cross
I was never meant for salvation
Always there for an end

nothing, I feel

drowning to your effect
my life.. blistered to the bone
there has to be more you need of me