GRAVEYARD COFFEEHOUSE

(Airing Out Dead Poems)

Singing To Stone

I sing my songs to stone In this dead world of eviscerated hearts and shattered minds We are all buried prematurely in shallow graves dug too deep to comprehend Slash and jab me with razor's edge and pointed blade Yet I do not bleed crimson like the others I am already dead, but live on in dreams Of what can be when two lovers caress Nightmare's of a lone wolf tearing soft flesh into a carnal feast Darkness enveloping day staring into the nothingness of your eyes You are already dead You are already dead.

FULL CONCERT MAYHEM - ALESTORM "Live At The End Of The World"

FULL ALBUM MADNESS - NEKROMANTIX - "Return Of The Loving Dead"

Keep The Beautiful Things Dear To Your Heart

Time passes away without ceremony or circumstance

Into darkness we fall irresolute and broken

Keep the beautiful things dear to your heart

Hold them close and breathe deep before you part ways

In the end we wake in solitude and despair

Lamenting days gone by in the shadows

Broken thorns in bloody flesh

Breathe deep and remember

What you hold close in your hands  

Before you forget

It was ever yours.

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - "The End Of Heartache"

DAVID BOWIE - "Ashes To Ashes"

THE DARKNESS - "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"

IRON MAIDEN - "Flight Of Icarus"

SKID ROW - "Monkey Business"

OZZY OSBOURNE - "Crazy Train"

BANG TANGO - "Someone Like You"

MEGADETH - "Peace Sells"

BECAUSE I CAN

EVIL CLOWN

Television Of The Damned

CINEMA OF THE DAMNED - "The Sixth Sense" (1999)

SHARK ISLAND - "Paris Calling"

DIO 

"As Long As It's Not About Love"

From the first time we touched with our eyes
Only magic could take away my heart
I am always afraid for my heart
So lay beside me now and tell me lies - sweet lies
As long as it's not about love

Shall we sail off the edge of the world
Fall forever and never look behind
But I must keep my heart from my mind
Lay beside me now and tell me lies
As long as it's not about love

Oh the last time we touched with our eyes
And the magic was stronger than the heart
Oh, I can't run away with my heart
So, lay beside me now and tell me lies
As long as it's not about love

Shall we sail off the edge of the world
Fall forever
Take my heart away but no
You can't say words about love
Ooh

If the magic comes between us
And we never meet again
Take a part of me away
'Cause maybe it's all above love
Love, ooh

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach” 
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

FULL CONCERT MAYHEM - MACHINE HEAD "Rock In Rio" (2008)

FULL ALBUM MADNESS - GRIP, INC. - "Power Of Inner Strength"

ALICE COOPER - "I Love The Dead"

          CRADLE OF FILTH - "Nymphetamine Fix"

I Recall Her Eyes

It all starts at your eyes and your lips

I drown in your gaze wondering about the night's carnival of the flesh

You speak to me without words as our hips embrace

And my hand follows the curve of your ass 

Pulling you closer as tongues entwine 

My fingers running through your flowing hair

A rendezvous in the darkness on my mind

Naked bodies alone to cavort in the wild

Thrusting deep with measured strokes as you moan and sigh

Slapping your behind a cherry red to keep the rhythm 

Passion unleashed to the sensual music of a lover's dance

Entranced we twist and sway within rumpled sheets

An orgasmic feast of ecstasy and pain as a storm brews outside oblivious

Let it rain or snow we hunger only for skin on skin friction and turbulence
As candles flicker down to a molten glow

I remember it all as yesterday
Lust yielding to the conflagration

Romance, seduction, pleasure and despair 
In a dream within a dream
A beautiful illusion cast out to sea only to return with the tide

Most of all, I recall the sex  

And her eyes. 

DUST BOLT - "Soul Erazor"

CHRONOSPHERE - "Brutal Decay"

ANNIHILATOR - "Hunter Killer"

CHEAP TRICK - "She's Tight"

MOTLEY CRUE - "Girls, Girls, Girls"

RATT - "Body Talk"

WHITESNAKE - "Fool For Your Lovin'"

BECAUSE I CAN

EVIL CLOWN

Television Of The Damned - "Land Of The Lost" Season 1 Episode 1

(1974) 

When they dared to use the word "intelligent" in children's television. 

CINEMA OF THE DAMNED - "The Masque Of The Red Death" (1964) - FULL MOVIE

ROB ZOMBIE - "Mars Needs Women"

MIDNIGHT - "Lost Reflection"

Motörhead - "Love Me Forever"


Love me forever, or not at all,
End of our tether, backs to the wall,
Give me your hand, don't you ever ask why,
Promise me nothing, live 'til we die.

Everything changes, it all stays the same,
Everyone guilty, no one to blame,
Every way out, brings you back to the start,
Everyone dies to break somebody's heart.

We are the system, we are the law,
We are corruption, worm in the core,
One of another, laugh 'til you cry,
Faith unto death or a knife in the eye.

Everything changes, it all stays the same,
Everyone guilty, no one to blame,
Every way out, brings you back to the start,
Everyone dies to break somebody's heart,
Oh, my lost love come back to me.

Love me or leave me, tell me no lies,
Ask me no questions, send me no spies,
You know love's a thief, steal your heart in the night,
Slip through your fingers, you best hold on tight.

Everything changes, it all stays the same,
Everyone guilty, no one to blame,
Every way out, brings you back to the start,
Everyone dies to break somebody's heart.
Oh, my lost love come back to me.

“Darkness may hide the trees
and the flowers from the eyes
but it cannot hide
love from the soul.” 
― Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

FULL CONCERT MAYHEM - DIO "Evil Or Divine"

FULL ALBUM MAYHEM - "PARASITE, INC. "Time Tears Down"

DEF LEPPARD - "Love Bites"

Glowing Embers


I am lost without your kiss
Stranded in a dark abyss of desire
Alone I hunger for your erotic salvation
Passionate and sensuous 
Honey dripping from a lover's tongue
I meet you in a dream when darkness comes
To embrace with thirsty lips
Bittersweet and malevolent
We dance naked like butterflies in the rain
Falling in a death spiral
Awaiting the naked touch of your skin to mine
Before we hit the ground
Drowning in your eyes
I rise again every night
To breathe in memories forsaken
That cut deep like a beautiful rose's thorns
Bleeding I recall making love until dawn
Waking in a pool of sweat and dried cum
Rock hard and ready for more
Thrashing about in the shadows
I refuse to forget everything you gave and took away
Orgasmic moans haunt me still
Evanescent cries and silence return by daylight
Fires burning to glowing embers
Smoking plumes of despair remain
Smoldering in the ruins of yesterday
I hear lovers making love in the moonlight
Within a dark forest
Waiting with my eyes closed
For your mouth to meet mine.

PANTERA - "Cowboys From Hell"

STATIC-X - "Monster"

SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Chop Suey"

AC/DC - "Back In Black"

ZODIAC MINDWARP - "Prime Mover"

BULLETBOYS - "Smooth Up In Ya"

BRITNEY FOX - "Girls School"

How Many Things Can Godzilla Destroy In 10 Minutes?

BECAUSE I CAN

EVIL CLOWN

Television Of The Damned - "Chiller Theatre"  WPIX TV New York

During the 1970s, I remember the nightmares produced by the above intro and the old horror movies shown on "Chiller Theatre," which was a late night horror movie show on WPIX TV.  I recall it was on after "Space 1999", which I found a bit dry and boring, though "Chiller Theatre" was a cause for many late nights up with the lights on and the covers over my head.  "Chillller theatre, hahahah!"

CINEMA OF THE DAMNED - "Nosferatu The Vampyre" (1979)

ALICE COOPER - "Bed Of Nails"

I like to look at shadows sweating on the wall
I get excited when I hear footsteps in the hall
Outside your balcony I have a room with a view
And I'm watching you

I dial your telephone each and every afternoon
I wait by your door till you're asleep at night
And when you're alone I know when you
Turn out the light

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
I'm gonna get close

You fumble for your keys
I'm six or seven steps behind you
I'm so close to you
Are you terrified of me? What do I know about you
How did I find out?
You think I'm a fool or maybe some kind of lunatic
Say I'm wasting my time but I know what to do with it
It's as plain as black and white

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
Oh so close

If you knew my infinite charm
There'd be no reason to be so alarmed
Maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm right
Maybe I'm some kind of lunatic
You say I'm wasting all of my time
But I know what to do with it
It is plain as black and white

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
I'm like a hungry Criminal
and your protection is minimal
So minimal


- QUEENSRYCHE, "Gonna Get Close To You"

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.” 
― Rumi

FULL CONCERT MAYHEM - ICED EARTH Wacken Open Air 2011

FULL ALBUM MADNESS - WHITE ZOMBIE " ‎La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1" 

THE CULT - "Love Removal Machine"

HIM - "Wings Of A Butterfly"

My Love Wanders

My love wanders in the darkness across the astral plane

It seeks that which wishes not to be found

Finding passion and pleasure on a battlefield of desire against all will

Emptiness must be filled by hate or love

I love you for the two nights we spent in ecstasy 

Against all that opposed such a taboo tryst

Like lunatics we cavorted until the end of nothing

Becoming friends from erotic dancers 

Entwined in Lust

I think of her full breasts and the curve of her ass

Trying to capture a moment that has past

As my mind wanders

To orgasmic interludes to come

With partners who know not

The devastating power that lies within

This twisted black heart

Bent on seduction

I call you
My love

Offering you my hand
From the shadows 
Of yesterday.

MACHINE HEAD - "Davidian"

OZZY OSBOURNE - "The Ultimate Sin"

FAITH NO MORE - "Epic" 

REVOLTING COCKS - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"

MINISTRY - "Jesus Built My Hotrod"

1000 HOMO DJS - "Supernaut"

WHITE ZOMBIE - "Thunder Kiss '65"

ASPHALT BALLET - "Hell's Kitchen" 

LOUDNESS - "You Shook Me"

Oh, fook no!  It fookin' GODZILLA!!!  Run fo' hu fookin' life!!!

BECAUSE I CAN

EVIL CLOWN

Television Of The Damned - "The Love Boat"

CINEMA OF THE DAMNED - "Ground Hog Day"

KAMELOT 

"House On A Hill"

Call me a liar, a king or a fool
But sing me a song of prosperity
Higher and higher the further we fall
Hard to remember

I will surrender and I'll always wait
Wait as in all of eternity

Hard to remember, and hard to forget
The shadow that hangs over me

Take me home, to a house on a hill, in oblivion
And take away the shadow over me

Cry me a river but once you run dry
Say there's a reason you do

Godless endeavors, smothered and broken
All that I wanted was you.

Take me home, to a house on a hill, in oblivion
Where souls never die all alone
You're longing for love, not for sympathy
So take away the shadow over me

Under the starlight you shine in solitude
Eyes on the ocean and far beyond west of the moon

Take me home, to a house on a hill, in oblivion
Where souls never die all alone
You're longing for love, not for sympathy
Over the hills

Home, to your house on a hill, to oblivion
Where souls never die all alone
You're longing for love, not for sympathy
So take away the shadow over me!

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
― Francois Sagon

LIVE CONCERT MAYHEM - SIX FEET UNDER (2009)

FULL ALBUM MADNESS - QUEENSRYCHE "Operation Mindcrime"

ACE FREHLEY - "Rock Soldiers"

KISS - "Shock Me"

I Know This Dance Was Not Meant To End This Way

Two lovers deciding who should bow and bend on an empty floor

This is not the way I dreamed it should be

It is not the love I died for a thousand times in a memory

I will not accept this permanence or the silence and subterfuge

A vision still flickers within my mind of what is to come

My journey is not over and my path still lies ahead

Upward and beyond to greater things

Alone for now

But not for long.

OVERKILL - "Headfirst"

CIRCUS OF POWER - "White Trash Queen"

CORONER - "Grin (Nails Hurt)"

COMBICHRIST - "This Is My Rifle"

VELVET ACID CHRIST - "Psycho"

LESBIAN BED DEATH - "Goth Girls Are Easy"

KINGS OF THE SUN - "There Is Danger"

SADE - "Soldier Of Love"

DOKKEN - "Jaded Heart"

MOTLEY CRUE - "Wild Side"

BECAUSE I CAN

EVIL CLOWN

Television Of The Damned - "The Munsters"

CINEMA OF THE DAMNED - "Predator" (1987)

JUDAS PRIEST - "Diamonds And Rust"

Holy Knights – "Love Against The Power Of Evil"

Proud on the horse blindig in his shining suite of armour
The night came back victorius from the dangerous battle

An adverse fate expected him while he was coming back to the castle
When he arrived there the first rays of the star lighted the castle

But no ray could wake his beloved 'cause victim of a spell
Of the evil witch coming from the land of dark valley

[Chorus]

Go warlike in love -
Run to find the antidote before it's too late
Go warlike in love -
By your bravery results her terrible fate
Go winner warlike -
Your winged horse knows of the unhappy mischance
Go triunphant warlike -
Cross marshes, destroy the mystical spell

Now you have found the magic draught come back she is waiting for suffering
Remember to stay far from the black and dark valley

The enchanted lake could be the only refreshment place
And the night goes down and runs around the angelic nights creatures

Now your trip is at the end your beloved you've saved ones more
And her eyes lights up with a sweet smile of a shining sun

Go warlike in love -
Run to find the antidote before it's too late
Go warlike in love -
By your bravery results her terrible fate
Go winner warlike -
Your winged horse knows of the unhappy mischance
Go triunphant warlike -
Cross marshes, destroy the mystical spell

“He kissed me wildly, overwhelming me like a giant wave rushing to shore. I was soon lost in the turbulent grasp of his embrace and yet…I knew I was safe. His wild kiss drove me, pushed me, asked me questions I was unwilling to consider. But I was cherished by this dark Poseidon, and though he had the power to crush me utterly, to drown me in the purple depths of his wake, he held me aloft, separate. His passionate kiss changed. It gentled and soothed and entreated. Together we drifted towards a safe harbor. The god of the sea set me down securely on a sandy beach and steadied me as I trembled. Effervescent tingles shot through my limbs delighting me with surges of sparkling sensation like sandy toes tickled by bubbly waves. Finally, the waves moved away and I felt my Poseidon watching me from a distance. We looked at each other knowing we were forever changed by the experience. We both knew that I would always belong to the sea and that I would never be able to part from it and be whole again.”
― Colleen Houck

LIVE CONCERT MAYHEM - IRON MAIDEN "Live After Death" (1985)

FULL ALBUM MADNESS - DOKKEN "Back For The Attack"

METALLICA - "Damage, Inc."

PROPAIN - "Don't Kill Yourself To Live"

CATS IN BOOTS - "Heaven On A Heartbeat"

How Many Heart Beats

How do you measure the time 

When two lovers come together

Within the ecstasy of a sequestered room?

Is it just a meaningless rise and fall?

An impure act of lust?

A carnival of Sin?

You can always tell if your lover is sincere

If he is counting 

How many heart beats before daylight arrives

And final goodbye

Thrusting you deep and shallow 

Keeping pace in a passionate race with the Sun

Making love until every last second is consumed 

Until the climax is done

While you fall together from the heights of desire

As you are forced to go in a blind rush

Your body shivering orgasmic

To one last explosive euphoric burst of pleasure

Ending with a prolonged sensuous kiss

As he holds you in his arms

You will know by this if your love is true

Heartbeats never lie 

Though lovers do.

HIGH ON FIRE - "Fertile Green"

KISS - "Forever"

VINNIE VINCENT INVASION - "Love Kills" 

FIREHOUSE - "All She Wrote"

Guns N Roses - "You're Crazy"

L.A. Guns - Sex Action

SPREAD EAGLE - "Switch Blade Serenade"

BECAUSE I CAN

EVIL CLOWN

Television Of The Damned - "Dark Shadows"

CINEMA OF THE DAMNED - "The Thing" (1982)

EUROPE 

"Open Your Heart"

Days filled with joy and days filled with sorrow
I don't know just what to do
Am I happy today, am I lonely tomorrow
Everything depends on you

I've been waiting for the angels to knock on my door
I've been hopin' that everything could be like before

Open your heart and tell me what's wrong
Why can't you talk like you used to do before
I don't know if I'm weak, I don't know if I'm strong
Hey girl, I can't cope anymore

I've been waiting...

Open your heart, let me hear you 
Make up your mind, I want to hear you call 
Open your heart, want to come near you 
Make up your mind, before we lose it all 

Maybe that time has it's own way of healin' 
Maybe it dries the tears in your eyes 
But never changes the way that I'm feelin' 
Only you can answer my cries

I've been waiting...

Open your heart, let me hear you 
Make up your mind, I want to hear you call 
Open your heart, want to come near you 
Make up your mind, before we lose it all Guitar solo (x2)

“There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.” 
― Jeffrey McDaniel

LIVE CONCERT MAYHEM - SEPULTURA "Live In Barcelona" (1991)