Ten Lyrics To Write About – nu/alt/prog metal edition

You thought I was done with metal! But it was me, Dio!

Yeah, no. There are too many types of metal for me to go through in a single list.

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Anyways!

You know the drill. Roll a d10 (or generate a random number from 1 to 10). Compare it with the list below. Write something based on the result! You don’t actually have to have heard the song, you can just read the quote and let your imagination fly! Share it in the comments— or not, I’m not the boss of you.

[BLANKET CONTENT WARNING FOR ALL THE LINKS: may contain graphic sex and violence and otherwise unpleasant things to look at. Especially Slipknot, dang.]

1. Why don’t you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square; was fashion the reason why they were there? (Hypnotize; System Of A Down)
2. The light on the horizon was brighter yesterday (Final Masquerade; Linkin Park)
3. Madness is the gift that has been given to me (Down With The Sickness; Disturbed)
4. Since I was young I tasted sorrow on my tongue, and this sweet sugar gun does not protect me (Coming Undone; Korn)
5. The weak ones are there to justify the strong (The Beautiful People; Marilyn Manson)
6. You cannot kill what you did not create (Duality; Slipknot)
7. I never realized I was spread too thin ‘till it was too late and I was empty within (Last Resort; Papa Roach)
8. My blood just wants to say hello to you (The Perfect Drug; Nine Inch Nails)
9. Dead I am the life, dig into the skin, knuckle crack the bone, twenty one to win (Dragula; Rob Zombie)
10. Please believe you’ll save me, rearrange me, I can feel your feelings running through me (Suffocate; Staind)

Happy writing!