Heavy Metal: Rock 'n' Roll Poetry

By Jeremy D. Hill

Over 10,000 words of poetry inspired by heavy metal and rock 'n' roll music and presented as lyrics. This collection of rock 'n' roll themed poetry touches on subject matter that has fueled many a classic rock or metal song. Topics such as politics, the drinking and drugging lifestyle, suicide, the apocalypse, lost love, anger and many more themes and narratives fill this book of poetry.

We all have music inside our heads and we are all capable of being poets. This book is many years in the making and captures everything that is best about the scene that I grew up in - the late 80's and early 90's metal scene.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeremy D. Hill
• Release date: Mar 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507072998

Book preview

Where The Pain Don't Show

She disappears now and again

And she makes her way down

To that place we all keep inside

The place where we all drown

She slips into it like a second skin

And once again she's gone

No reason to stay here in our world

When she's all alone

And the needle

Is the home she knows

When times are hard

It's the place she goes

Deep down and low

Where the pain don't show

She's surrounded by it

Everywhere she looks

She can't seem to get away

Disappear for another day

Take a bottle of pills

And numb the wound

It's her future she kills

And it's all too soon

And the needle

Is the home she knows

When times are hard

It's the place she goes

Deep down and low

Where the pain don't show

Some people are busy living

While others are born dying

No excuses and no forgiving

You can't quit unless you’re trying

She takes it all in stride

Burns another hole inside

Nothing left, not even pride

Doesn't realize she died

And the needle

Is the home she knows

When times are hard

It's the place she goes

Deep down and low

Where the pain don't show

When The Ship Starts To Sink

No one believes in life ever after

And the proof is in their laughter

It's a misery mile

A day of tragedy

We're all in denial

Of the one true remedy

The blood has been shed

And no mercy is ahead

Trapped in this world

Life can be so absurd

The things we must inspire

Have been cast in the fire

We are our own religion

And our creations are undone

No one is listening

No one ever stops to think

Death is not the answer

When the ship starts to sink

The hell of one is the heaven of another

The death of the son is the envy of the mother

A new nation of greed

That the people can't see

The wounds start to bleed

But we just let them be

See Me Hateful

I want to feel something

I want to have someone

Put the coals to me

Set me free

Watch the flesh turn gray

I'll stay till I'm ash

Burn the pain away

And erase the past

All my life

I never followed the rules

All my life

I'd tightened the noose

Let me down, let me down

I'll be faithful

Burn me down, burn me down

See me hateful

It's tearing me again

For the end I'd be grateful

All the love in the world

Can't undo the hate I feel

All the words I've ever heard

Can't make me feel like it's real

I want all that is yours

I want all that is mine

Everything and nothing at once

You know my kind

Let me down, let me down

I'll be faithful

Burn me down, burn me down

See me hateful

Looking Out For You

I walk toward a stranger

That I call your name

I walk forward to danger

And play the same old game

Don't say a word

Don't let it be heard

It will never be the same

Looking out for number one

Is kind of hard to do

When I have to keep looking out for you

I can't stand to see you go

And I'd love for you to know

I'm looking out for you

One more night alone

One more chance to pray

One mistake and you're gone

In these games that we play

I won't try to be myself

Or act like somebody