Troublemaker

When I hear a song in minor

I feel myself regurgitating again

And I’m trying to cling to the goodness

I chose to plaster on my person

Born with half a heart

that cuts too deep but bleeds too little

I’ve managed to fool everyone here

While fooling myself

That the box will stay forever sealed

The Troublemaker is my namesake

My body is the prison and she the inmate

Words, the way they form in my head,

Refuse to toe the line any more

They’re launching a revolt on the mouth

to have it at their mercy from now on

And it’s getting harder by the day

To forget the key is in arm’s reach

In an instant, the lock will come undone

And the ghost will be unstoppable  

The Troublemaker is my namesake

My body is the prison and she the inmate

The Devil is my doppelganger

She is taking over me like cancer

Etch me in your memory

In a split second,

you won’t recognize me

like I don't identify

with the one you see 

I am the Troublemaker

I am the Troublemaker, you'll see

She's gonna be home soon

Glances turned to words

And words turned to proximity

Proximity turned to kisses

And kisses into infinite possibility

Now it wouldn’t be so wrong

If I didn’t have to fade into anonymity

Because what if she enters the door

And we're covered in shades of culpability?

She’s gonna be home soon

And we’ve to lay our filthy coup

Boy, it’s not for me to hold

A moral high ground for you

She’s gonna be home

She’s gonna be home soon

She’s gonna be home, I realize

I was never meant for you

Be quick to hide every trace of me

And I’ll clean up the mess I prepared

I’m miserable, can’t you see, my love?

But I’m not your priority to repair

Yet, the heart wants what the heart wants

what it wants is your blood to rush through me

and while I flee the murder scene, remember   

to keep my love as a memento in your memories

She’s gonna be home soon

And we’ve to lay our filthy coup

Boy, it’s not for me to hold

A moral high ground for you

She’s gonna be home

She’s gonna be home soon

She’s gonna be home, I realize

I was never meant for you

She gets a lifetime

Of pulling you into her authenticity

While I get a few minutes inbetween

To pass on the electricity

You know we have chemistry

And physics and biology and

I’ve done the math and it makes perfect sense

You plus me sets us free

But she’s gonna be home soon

And we’ve to catch caution from the wind

She’s gonna be home soon

to put an end to this honeymoon
You can breathe easy now
I won't blow, this cover since last June

She’s gonna be home, I realize

I was never meant for you

Someday

When the streak of bad luck follows you around like a dog
When you're trying to find your way out through this hella hellish smog
You listenin to rap on repeat 'cause someone else is the baus
And you knock knock on doors but there's no one to bother
I could ask a million questions could you give me just one answer
I could wait here forever but don't make me your puppet dancer
There's too much I've invested in this future of a gangster
I'll be your fuckin chemo if you insist on the cancer

Someday, someday
when I'm there
I won't take your calls
Someday when I fly
and there's money in the bank
I'll forgive you all
I'll forgive you...

No no, no way, now is not the bloody time
When I say a dollar you negotiate a dime
A good word goes a long way, even lessens your crime
Today might be yours, tomorrow will be my prime
Did you forget yesterday you were just where I was
Would it even hurt you if you faked to be magnanimous?
It would save me the trouble of acting out like a cannibal
And I'd tear out this page from my book so biographical
Uh oh one day, what if my name is in bold print
on the internet, on the radio and even a frikkin blimp
I'll be on the toppity top and you'd be a tiny imp
Mercy is the word that I'd conveniently like to skimp

Someday, someday
when I'm there
I won't take your calls
Someday when I fly
and there's money in the bank
I'll forgive you all
I'll forgive you...

You might be bad but my mama told me to be good
Held me accountable for the way all my words were put
Treat everyone with respect no matter where you stood
I apologize if I made you feel lesser, I'm probably misunderstood
I'm made of flesh and bones exactly the way you were built
There is a soul inside of us that hopes never to get killed
I know and I believe that we were all once bolts of silk
and we can end this vicious cycle to rid us all of this jilt
we can end this vicious cycle if we just recognize the guilt

Someday, someday
when I'm there
I'll take your calls
Someday when I fly
and there's money in the bank
I'll forgive you all
I'll forgive you all

Knife!

Took some rough lyrics, begged Prateek to help me out, put some melody to the words, structured out the thing and here we are.

Presenting...*ding ding ding* a rough recording of Knife
https://soundcloud.com/archita-trisal/knife

Like always, don't hate it!

Knife lyrics

I'm not going to ask you to let your sleeping demons lie
I won't let you to kill yourself a little bit inside
Every day, every hour

Mobbed by these thoughts you don't let peace get to you
You let the love of sadness to stick to you like glue
Every day, every hour

Where is your knife?
Murder it, murder it
Put up the fight
Step in the daylight
Who'll clean this up?
Icky cerebrum on your floor
Where is your knife?
Get up now.

Between gallows and being friends with your spirit noose
You pass your insipid life drowned in this abuse
Every day, every hour

One day this mirror won't reflect the romance in your head
Save yourself that moment when all you see is red
Every day, every hour

Where is your knife?
Murder it, murder it
Put up the fight
Step in the daylight
Who'll clean this up?
Icky cerebrum on your floor
Where is your knife?
Get up now.

Credits

Vocalist: Archita Trisal
Lyrics: Archita Trisal
Guitars: Prateek Dubey

Victim of your habit

Wings weren't given to me so I could fly too close to the fire
desire wasn't supposed to burn me the way it finally transpired
Always dodging bullets and cannons of your flippant lust
I'm requesting you to employ a little tact, if you must.

You're the firecracker of the 4th of July
Shine bright for a fleeting moment, only to leave me high and dry
What's left of you in my mind is some awe and debris
and little traces of what I think looks like memories.

When you can’t decide whether it’s all or nothing

You bait me in, with the taste of a little something

I’ve been there too many times before, to think it a gambit

Please don’t come around again
and make me a victim of your habit

Please don’t make me a victim of your habit

The night, oh nights, I fear the most
you come around softly rattling the doors
the bulbs they're swinging, the wind is singing
they join your cacophony, now we're two forces at war
but I've no choice but to surrender to you like a helpless whore.

So when you can’t decide whether it’s all or nothing

You bait me in, with the taste of a little something

I’ve been there too many times before, to think it a gambit

Please don’t make me a victim of your habit

If distraction is all you need

There’s the world at your feet

Many a nubile mind will gladly let you inhabit

So why make me a victim of your habit?
Please don’t make me a victim of your habit.

Me on the piyanno!

Ohai! I made a cover of one of my favorite songs - Lithium by Evanescence. Took me really long to get this right - 4 difficult months to learn it on the piano and 2 months to get this far. Some chut has already Disliked it on YouTube :P Iz ok, I can handle it. Just needs to show I have to do better :) Yuss. Pliss to try and enjoy! :P

 

 It's not an Original Composition but I didn't have a better label to tag it with.

Neither here, nor there

I just can't seem to write songs that don't sound lame :)

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Neither here, nor there

I've been waiting but I don't know what for

You disappear, in a blink

but you come back for a little comfort in my home

every now and then

you assure me this can't go on, it is over

and I hope that you will take a stand 

but you're neither here, nor there

so I'm neither here, nor there

This time ask me to stay forever or let me go

I can't base my own life as per your whims and your fancies

No love is lost, but we're lost in this spiral of confusion

you're taking us both down

you're taking us both down

You can be anything you want 

as long as it's not hurting me and my pride

And I lay my love on the line 

but it isn't fair for you to walk all over it

and every now and then

you assure me this can't go on, it is over

and I hope that you will take a stand 

but you're neither here, nor there

so I'm neither here, nor there

This time ask me to stay forever or let me go

I can't base my own life as per your whims and your fancies

No love is lost, but we're lost in this spiral of confusion

you're taking us both down

you're taking us both down

I can't remember anything before you

and I don't want to find myself in a life without you in it

but I have to be strong, you need to right the wrongs

you're right, we can't go on living this way

we're neither here, nor there

you'll take us both down

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