wake up screaming (365-207 and QOTSA #13)
Day 207 of 365: a year in songs and photos and #13 in the QOTSA discography thingie
Song: Queens of the Stone Age, Wake Up Screaming
This isn't an original QOTSA song; it's a remake of a very dramatic and unsettling (at least in my head) Subhumans song.
The photo is of a ceramic mask I had sitting in my office. I think it's from Nightmare Before Christmas. The texture, called raw flesh, is from ghostbones.
I had several nightmares last night, a succession of them that continued through til the early hours of the morning, no matter how many times I woke up and went back to sleep. The last one woke me up at 4:30, with a scream stuck in my throat. I gave up, got up for the day and got this song stuck in my head.
listen to the QOTSA version here: youtube.com/watch?v=wa6-EwdvhMA
I don't think I am what I was before
Cause I never watched anyone die before
I wish I'd never left home
I wish I'd left it alone
Temptation is a disease
Cause you never do as you please
Your body takes over and your mind don't care
Never think twice what might happen out there
Screamin
Go straight in for the ultimate sin
Nobody else ever seems to care
So I took what I thought was mine
And waited for a very long time
And I thought I knew what happened to you
You told me exactly what to do
So I did it right, stayed up all night
Felt like killing myself for you
I don't think I think like I did before
I never watched anyone die before
I felt like I died as well
The look, the words, the smell
The way you looked at me
As if I'd never been free
I remember the words like a favorite song
Cause I forget the way things went wrong
Faked a picture of perfect health
I realised I was killing myself
I don't think I am what I was before
I never watched anyone die before
I dream in slow motion and I wake up screaming
Screamin
This song makes me feel like someone is punching holes in my soul. I really don't listen to it that often, for that reason.
wake up screaming (365-207 and QOTSA #13)
Day 207 of 365: a year in songs and photos and #13 in the QOTSA discography thingie
Song: Queens of the Stone Age, Wake Up Screaming
This isn't an original QOTSA song; it's a remake of a very dramatic and unsettling (at least in my head) Subhumans song.
The photo is of a ceramic mask I had sitting in my office. I think it's from Nightmare Before Christmas. The texture, called raw flesh, is from ghostbones.
I had several nightmares last night, a succession of them that continued through til the early hours of the morning, no matter how many times I woke up and went back to sleep. The last one woke me up at 4:30, with a scream stuck in my throat. I gave up, got up for the day and got this song stuck in my head.
listen to the QOTSA version here: youtube.com/watch?v=wa6-EwdvhMA
I don't think I am what I was before
Cause I never watched anyone die before
I wish I'd never left home
I wish I'd left it alone
Temptation is a disease
Cause you never do as you please
Your body takes over and your mind don't care
Never think twice what might happen out there
Screamin
Go straight in for the ultimate sin
Nobody else ever seems to care
So I took what I thought was mine
And waited for a very long time
And I thought I knew what happened to you
You told me exactly what to do
So I did it right, stayed up all night
Felt like killing myself for you
I don't think I think like I did before
I never watched anyone die before
I felt like I died as well
The look, the words, the smell
The way you looked at me
As if I'd never been free
I remember the words like a favorite song
Cause I forget the way things went wrong
Faked a picture of perfect health
I realised I was killing myself
I don't think I am what I was before
I never watched anyone die before
I dream in slow motion and I wake up screaming
Screamin
This song makes me feel like someone is punching holes in my soul. I really don't listen to it that often, for that reason.