A lot of those lyrics has to do with the Seven Deadly Sins in the most personal way possible. I started writing the songs for this EP before going into the studio to record the album. I was dealing with a lot of suicidal thoughts during the songwriting process. Eventually, my music saved my life before the recording sessions began. I feel better posting this and sharing with everyone. I hope to see you on the road soon.
I took this concept for my solo album with Cold Tourniquet, a acoustic grunge/post grunge/alternative project I started awhile back with pride, and enjoyed working on it a lot. I took a Stone Sour/Slipknot/Corey Taylor point of view combining it with my own original creativity with this album but all on acoustic. It is something I’m proud to have done with my music career so far. Quite amazing, too actually. This future album with Cold Tourniquet is called Seven Deadly Sins – Dismantled EP. Enjoy. I know I did.
Blessed Be,
Christian Grey Lovecraft
1. The Beginning (Intro)
2. Sick of It All (Wrath aka Rage)
3. My Date with A Sadist (Envy)
4. Forget to Love (Lust)
5. Take It All (Greed)
6. Take A Look Into The Mirror (Vanity)
7. Intermission
8. Craving Blood (Gluttony)
9. Hangover and A Cigarette (Sloth)
10. The End? (Outro)
All lyrics written by Christian Grey Lovecraft ©2012 Sadists Ate Me Songwriting™ All Rights Reserved
The Beginning (Intro)
So there I was, picking off the emotional crabs out of my soul crotch, reaching for the razor while I rinse out with RID. Life was pretty fucked up at the time. I had no cares in the world. I was 17 years old that time: a hard-on with a wretched pulse, greedy like a ************. I was the only known person in the fucking universe. I slept wherever my body laid, whether that be an hotel room, the cold streets, a cardboard box, a closet, a bathtub, on the floor, in a shelter, in the garbage dumpster, or even a night in the jail cells for drinking drunk in public. Butt naked. Hell, I was just a kid, raising some serious hell. I wanted what I wanted sooner than fucking later. And while my parents becomes severely fucked up and my stepdaddy beats me and rapes me at night while mum gets drunk, I’d run away to salvage what’s left of my dead innocence.
But fuck it. Fuck it all. I wanted the fucking world to burn. Let them feel my pain for once, savvy? I escaped to the town of dreams with a high price. Eventually, I’d become one of the hungry that wouldn’t bother with the cost anymore. There was no one to save me before I got cold. I was a whore for sale, fucking pissed at the cops, the fake and superficial, the porn stars, drug dealers, greedy pimps and doctors in this pathetic, fucked up town called Los Angeles that doesn’t give a fuck whether I lived or died. Fuck, I was an starving artist – hungry, cold, wearing shitty clothes with half torn shoes, bumming a smoke whenever I can. That was life. That was reality.
Now that I’m older, do I still want the world to burn? Hell fucking yes! But we’ll get to that later. Meanwhile, shut the fuck up, grab some popcorn and a soda. Then sit down, turn off your phones and enjoy the movie, Seven Deadly Sins. It’s gonna fuck you up good. Hehehehehehehe…
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“Sick Of It All” (Wrath aka Rage)
No one’s laughing now
No one’s laughing now…
Scatter my photographs on the bedroom floor
Cut and bleed a little more
Do I really give a fuck about you?
I could care less if I tried to break you
You won’t be left alive when karma comes to kill
I know that you’re no longer real
Chorus:
We have so many ways to die
But you continue with your lies
I’m sick of it all
Time to meet your downfall
No one’s escaping now
No one’s escaping now…
Shatter my dreams in my head
Is there a way to clean my hands of your Dead?
Do I really want to care about you?
I don’t even fucking trust you
The Primal hunger in me wants you to suffer slowly
It’s time you fade – there will be no traces of me
Chorus
There’s no one left alive! x10
Chorus
The animal inside is sated
I no longer feed, you’re jaded
I am finally free
And you can’t put a price on me.
(Ends)
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“My Date With A Sadist” (Envy)
I want it
I need it
I want to feel pretty
Won’t you rape me?
You know you want it
You want to have this
You crave your way with me
Don’t you want to be like me?
I devour what you can’t have anymore
I sate myself with this feast you hate nevermore
Take me
Are you jealous of me?
Ooh x10
(Ends)
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“Forget To Love” (Lust)
All my devotion is thrown away
All my romance faded away
Turn from Jekyll to Hyde
Do you see the insanity in my eyes?
I just want to crawl into you
I want to devour you
My masochist to cater
Your beauty is slain forever
I take your second digits with me
I take your vain heart with me…
So… it’s come to this…
Can you tolerate this?
I’LL KILL TO LOVE YOU! x10
You fade away into the ground
You fade without a sound…
(Ends)
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“Take It All” (Greed)
I want the world to burn
I want to have my turn
I want to feed my brains
So much knowledge is better than pain
I want to have it all
I wanna take it all
I want to own it all
I wanna take it all
I want the world to scream
I want people to bow to me
It’s human nature to enjoy what I want
Do I give a fuck about your holy rants?!
I wanna take it all
I wanna devour you raw
I wanna take it all
I wanna see you fall
Can I have everything? x6
Take it all
I’ll take it all x10
(Ends)
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“Take A Look Into The Mirror” (Vanity)
I know you think you’re pretty
I know you think you’re sexy
I know you think everyone loves you
But I’m the only one that hates you
Chorus:
Have you taken a look into the mirror?
Have you taken my advice for the better?
Are you faking what you really feel?
You’re superficial, not so real
Take a look into the mirror
Take a look into the mirror
I know you think you’re like a bondage porn star
Your fetish is to have your name on a star
You’re in the town of dreams and your credit cards are split in fucking half
You’re now the hungry that never bothers with the cost
You crave what you cannot have
Your beauty comes with a price – are you really that lost?
Chorus
Your daddy didn’t love you
Your mommy never spoiled you
You didn’t get the love so you ran away
Your friends doesn’t like you
You’re a whore for sale being used
There’s nowhere else left to go anyway
Falling down
You’re falling down
Another stupid girl
You got yourself a frown
You never got a crown
The cardboard buildings are the only thing that’s real!
Chorus
No one to save you from the cold
You walk the Boulevard of Broken Dreams all alone
You bum a ragged smoke
You snuff a line of coke
How does it feels to be so used?
Did you finally realize no one loves you?
Chorus x2
(Ends)
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“Intermission”
(Instrumental music for 8 and an half minutes)
(Ends)
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“Craving Blood” (Gluttony)
I walk like a vampire in San Francisco
Feeling my cold heart crave the thirst that left me alone
I suffer eternity feeding on victims
Sadomasochistic bites sing of a sad anthem
I wait for sunrise to sleep again
I crave the blood to satisfy my hunger within
Chorus:
The Primal hunger calls out to me
The beautiful victims await me x2
I couldn’t give a fuck if I killed her
I couldn’t even love if I raped her
I just feed to sate my precious hunger
And unfortunately, this is truly forever…
Chorus x2
Forgive me not of my Immortal sin
Because I’d just feed over again
I crave the blood
I crave the blood
I crave the blood
I crave the blood!!!!
Chorus x4
Do I even want to care? x10
(Ends)
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“Hangover And A Cigarette” (Sloth)
I wake up drunk from the other night
Let me sleep – turn off the light
I couldn’t care less if I skipped work today
I’m too fucking depressed so let me stay in bed today…
Chorus:
A hangover and a cigarette
It’s all I do to cope with my pain
A hangover with barely any rest
It’s all I tolerate while I hear voices in the rain
I wake up with a headache and an heartbreak
She called me last night to say goodbye – I started to break
I curl into the fetal position and go insane
Now I’m smoking a drag and breathe sulfur to numb the pain
Chorus
Scatter my ashes when I’m dead
Shatter my faith and leave me with Dead Memories in my head
Kill the switch, turn off the light
Do you mind if I can bleed to death tomorrow night?
Chorus x2
I’m unloved
I can’t rise above
So I move on to carve into my tourniquent
A hangover and a cigarette is enough to make my life submit…
(Ends)
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“The End?” (Outro)
So… we reached the end of the storybook. But did you really think this was the end? Yeah fucking right… Even though this was the last song on the album, I still have a few things to get off my chest. So sit down, shut the fuck up and listen to what I have to say. Savvy? Good. Moving on…
Before I get any further, I want to say that the supposed Seven Deadly Sins are fucking bullshit. Did anyone convert to Scientology because I let fly that little nugget of reality? No? Damn. Tough crowd. I’m trying to change your minds. See, we’re human fucking beings. This world obviously hadn’t evolved yet to that point. We’re supposed to have errors in our lives. I call them mistakes, not sins. Just merely character flaws in the eyes of the Holy Fuckface with an .45 forcing you to repent with the goddamn gun pressed to your fucking temple making you confess your supposed sins. Yeah, well.. God is dead. So am I, and so is America. Aren’t we supposed to die young one day? I mean, that is the American way, right?
(Hey! Are you fucking talking to yourself?)
(No, you fucking prick. I’m recording.)
(More like you’re whining.)
(Yeah? FUCK YOU!)
(YOUR MAMA CAN SUCK MY DICK!)
(Throws punch, guy is groaning)
(Slams door close)
Sorry about that. He was an arsehole. Bloody bastard. He lives right next door to me, complaining about the noises I make here, threatening to call the cops. It’s not my fucking fault that I have a recording studio and a dungeon in here to make cash to pay my bills. Hey… I gotta eat, right? Anyway, let’s try to finish this asap, eh mate?
It’s human nature to do what we do. But it’s not okay to sin if your sins involved hurting someone. Fuck, it’s okay to be a goddamn sinner as long you don’t fucking kill anyone or hurt anyone. The Seven Deadly Sins was all about control and the fucking idiots who wrote it up were faulty with the evidence at best. Then again, they never got anything right in the first place. This, however, is the new Seven Deadly for modern times. It’s time we got on with the program anyway, right? Here we go…
1. Child abuse
2. Rape
3. Murder
4. Torture (Actually, if it’s consensual and you’re kinky then it’s okay.)
5. Lying
6. Stealing
7. Bad music
Hey, I know what you’re thinking. “What the fuck, dude? You had me until bad music.” Ask Corey Taylor yourself. He came up with that list, I didn’t. I’m just going along with the program. But it’s the FUCKING TRUTH AND YOU FUCKING KNOW IT!
(Knocking on door)
(Hey, Christian! Shut up in there!)
(I’m trying to fucking record here!)
(Waah! Go fuck yourself, asshole!)
(Excuse me, punk?!)
(Cocks shotgun and shot in the air)
There. Don’t worry. I didn’t kill him. I just scared him off. Sorry I have to go on and on like this. But hey, you gotta do what you do to pay bills, put food in the fridge, a roof over your head, clothing on your back, and a good chunk of shopping cash on the side, locked up in a private spot in a nice jar for an rainy day. You never know when you’re going to need it.
Anyway, I’ve said enough for now. See you on the next album…
(Ends)