Strike Me Down lyrics

[rone rivendale]

Strike Me Down by Rone Rivendale

They say this house is haunted
That's why I got it so cheap
But turns out the story's true
And I can't get no sleep
I toss and turn wiggle and worm
But nothing can stop the noise
Pots and pans and various things
My insomnia brings them joy

Strike me down they wail
I guess they're stuck here
But what am I supposed to do
But wish I never came here

I've tried to appease them many times
I've offered riches and things
But it means nothing to them
No closer to heaven they bring
I'm no ghost-buster I can't help
Can't force them away
So I guess I better give up
Because these ghoulish guys are going to stay

Strike me down they wail
I guess they're stuck here
But what am I supposed to do
But wish I never came here

Now we have an understanding
Once I came up with my plan
Every October we make it big
Our haunted house attracts many fans
Kids and adults alike scream and scream
And I make a quick buck or two
They get enjoyment and stress relief it seems

Strike me down they wail
I guess they're stuck here
But what am I supposed to do
But wish I never came here

[king_arthur]

There's always had some argument surrounding me
Once there was a verdict, now we wait and see
Are you gonna strike me down this time round?
I thought that I was carved in stone, written on the wall
But nothing's ever really settled once and for all
Are you gonna strike me down this time round

You know, I would gladly persevere if I thought I could
This time my prospects aren't looking so good
But you're not the only voice in town
Precedents from history, words that people say
We're not gonna know how this turns out right away
'Cause you're not the only voice in town

These are just opinions
And opinions can change
What seems logical today
Once was strange
And things will turn around again.

You've become ruthless, think you're always right
I know you wish that I would just give up the fight
You can strike me down It's not the final round
And so whatever boat it is you choose to row
Just remember "nein" will not always mean "no"
You can strike me down it's not the final round
Even if you strike me down.

[vowlvom]

Strike Me Down by Vom Vorton
(with drums by John Cooperider)

there’s a floating shape that seems to follow me
like something from a dumb horror anthology
your suggestion leaves me rolling my eyes
it’s not a ghost, probably some kid in disguise

strike me down
what I don’t believe cannot hurt me
strike me down
and if this is the end then I’ll
come back to haunt you

every night there’s a whispering I can’t explain
and I wake up to the sound of clanking chains
it’s completely innocent, I’m pretty sure
like the variations in the temperature
you seem adamant that I should try to exorcise
I guess that I could stand to lose a little from my thighs
if that’s the best explanation you’ve got
let whatever it is come and take a shot

[owl]

Strike Me Down
miscellaneous owl

I'm in the hall for the baggage claim
Scanning the bags for the one with the tag with my name
What they said was a slight delay
Turned into eternity trapped in my seat on the plane

But I've got to make it home by Sunday
And if I don't, please tell my daughter I'm sorry
I'm sorry

"Promise me you'll be home for my birthday
You missed last year when your company sent you away"
"God strike me down if I tell a lie
I promise you that I'll be home with plenty of time"

Took off at night
Turbulent flight
Watching the lightning strike
We plunged through the clouds
The noise was so loud
But we came out alright
I just don't remember the landing

The man beside me picks up his suitcase
And the woman in yellow finds her cello at last
Finally my bag slides down the carousel
It's heavier than I remember it back when I packed
The customs form asks me to list the times that I've hurt someone
They've changed it a bit, I guess, since the last time I flew
They weigh my bag on the scales against the feather
And the man with the head of a jackal waves me on through

But I tell them I can't go on through the door that they're showing me
I tell them I can't go on
I tell them I can't go on

Because I've got to make it home by Sunday
And if I don't, please tell my daughter I'm sorry
I'm sorry

[Toby Roktot]

Strike me down
Toby Roktot

V1
I’ve asked you time and again
Don’t hold me down till I say when
You keep on. …. breakin’ my heart
You keep on …tearing me apart

Time I let you go
Things I don’t want to know
No, We can’t be friends
Don’t expect to ..see me again

Ch
I try my best …..you always … strike me down
When I get up, I’m heading …to …whiskey town


V2
Time was …..when we got along
Didn’t last……good times gone
Good to go ….don’t need to lie
Ain’t hard for me …to say goodbye

Pull over and let me out
You know what I’m talking’ about
Just done dealin’ with you
Yeah, guess you could say we’re …through

Ch
I tried my best …but you always … strike me down
When I get up, I’m heading straight …to …whiskey town

Lil inst…

When I get up, I’m heading down ..to ..whiskey town
Gonna find me a sweet , love - lost ..rebound

[Sober]

Strike Me Down
Sober

If to be good we need a threat of hell
Instead of love for the sake of itself
We’re just little sparks of light from some old stars that died above
Here but for a moment from the dust
I’ve never seen a person saved by anything but love
It’s the only thing that ever is enough

I don't wanna be here anyway
So if he’s got something to say
If he's real but doesn’t want to make a sound
and he can strike me down

Seeking meaning’s just as well
But ain’t this world enough by itself
And what truth we can discover we’ll uncover by and by
Until then we’ll have to be ourselves enough
You can’t rely on others to interpret what’s inside
There may be answers but they won’t come from above

What’s it matter if I’m wrong
Or if I’m right and there’s nothing when we’re gone
I still try to live my life today the same as I did then
Back before I traded guilt for love
But if we’re born anew or if we join the earth again
There may be answers but they don’t come from above

[lichenthroat]

Strike Me Down
Lichen Throat

Co-queen of the grass,
Co-queen of the clay.
No one could outclass
Me and Hsieh Su-wei.
Clasping calloused hands
Across the Taiwan Strait.
Walls between our lands;
Can we be the gate?
When I’m on the top
You can’t strike me down.
You can’t make me stop;
You can’t take my crown.

Bad old Zhang Gaoli
Snared me in his web.
At first I tried to flee,
But my resolve did ebb.
I wrote in blocky text
And posted on Weibo,
Sordid tales of sex—
Now everyone would know.
The party raised him up,
But I would strike him down,
Change his words to sighs,
His smirk to a frown.

Out of sight is out of mind.
Out of sight is out of mind.

I disappeared for months;
Still no one knows where.
I knew I’d bear the brunt,
Although it was unfair.
And when I finally spoke,
So careful and so bland,
You all could see the yoke
Which barely lets me stand.
The hammer hit so hard
When it struck me down.
I’m seeing yellow stars,
Lying on reddened ground.

[Merle Fyshwick]

Strike Me Down - The Magnetic Letters

Can't stop the man with the mic in his hand
He would be doing it anyway for kicks
They pulled the plug and they told him this would be the last time
But that was last time
A Stetson hat with a buckle to match but he sounds like Tiny Tim
Sings Last Xmas I Gave You My Heart and you can feel that
Ooh, you know that he means it
As one by one the lights go out
Pinch me tell me, is it a trick?
Strike me down, Moondyne Joe if this town of yours
Ain't full of lunatics
They're all fucken crazy
But you know I love it
I feel right at home, like I'm someone special

Heartbreak Hotel on a Casio, well
It's a Wednesday, what did you expect?
They're 2 Advanced? but just give them a chance
They play it deadpan, I haven't figured them out yet
Could be accountants, maybe engineers if I had to hazard a guess
They're pushing sixty, but they know how to rock
To a Bossa Nova beat on a pristine Ess Kay

One by one, the lights go out
Pinch me tell me, is it a trick?
Strike me down, Moondyne Joe if this town of yours
Ain't full of lunatics
They're all fucken crazy
But you know I love them
I feel right at home, as I walk back down lonely street

[FireBear]

Strike Me Down by FireBear
Lyrics based on Herbert West–Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft

A complex, organic machine
We can restore life to this human being
I rob graves, give them this serum
Reanimation is not just a dream

The first try, no movement to gleam
But then we heard an inhumane scream
By instinct, we fled in the dark
Kicking a lantern, the place was on fire

The newspaper reported a grave
Was desecrated and it displayed
The mark of the beast

Strike me down if what I'm doing is wrong
Otherwise I will prove I am a god
Strike me down if you are really up there
I will show the world, I'm the master of death

We try more, and try again
Injecting a boxer, but he's still dead
Reports of, a missing child
The boxer shows up, an arm in his mouth

Finally, I've perfected drug
I will kill for the sake of science
The great war, gives us more dead
Our gruesome experiments will spread

The rocks crumble, we're alone
It looks like they dug through the catacombs
No God, disemboweled, decapitated, they drag me to hell

Strike me down if what I'm doing is wrong
Otherwise I will prove I am a god
Strike me down if you are really up there
I will show the world, I'm the master of death

[Duncan]

Strike Me Down
Duncan Martin

C Am Em
Curtain lifts on a desert scene in Reno
F C F C F C
Spotlight finds a bandit, trying to land a leap into a heap of of hay on wagon dragged by a pair of
F C G
yoked up mules headed southeast of town
C Am Em
The pit band strikes a tempo fit for chasing
F C F C
He’s glances back with a money sack and pistol by his side
F C F C
The driver wasn’t planning much on racing, cracks the whip
F C F C G
He knows its all for show and says might as well sit back I’ve got some snax enjoy the ride
Dm
Gone are the days of petty theft he’s took em clean for all their heft, he’s headed for the curtains
G
at stage leftt
Dm
And the townsfolk poke their heads from every door they cry for more they sure aren't frightened
G
in the slightest, they aren’t frightened in the slightest anymore
They say

C - Am alternating
Strike us down if we allow the ghost to come to town sometimes
G
This crowd is proud of the man under the shroud to us it ain’t no crime
C
His blood runs dark for the lending shark who’s screwed us all when times were lean
G
He strokes a silver dollar, his napkin in his collar, and tells the help to swab his golf clubs clean

C Am Em
Sheriff’s boots on a rusty roof he aims and shoots
F C F C
A big to-do the lead goes through a window in a empty shed
F C F C
Of a homestead long deserted by the founders long ago
C
A perfect miss he blows a kiss to the bandit in the river mist who
Joins the vapor rising as the wagon tapers off to the horizon, and the loot he took was not just gold he took the books, the ledger that remembers how much debt and legal tender they all owed

And the bankers, feelin sore, they poke their heads from every door they always make it back and more and they say hey hey hey hey
We help you gents to pay the rent just bring it back with ten percent
in three short days when you get your pay we’ll see you again on the first of May
The market works to keep you fed, watch out you don’t end up dead
Money talks so have your say, we may not listen anyway

A blackened stage some quiet feet on main street
Muffled rolls on tympani, the heavens flash their sympathies, a golden bolt across the skies
The townsfolk rise from where they lie,

The clouds release a torrent on the homes and lawns
raining coins and bearer bonds,
Bouncing off the sidewalks and the rooftops down the gutters where the villagers
Take burlap sacks and scraps of napkins handkerchiefs and curtains even underbriefs whatever they can scab into a bag

Dm
And the bandit watches high from on rise a mile north of all the action where he keeps a minor fraction for his trouble and his time.
He says
C Am (repeating)
You Mortals may not understand but I can bite the invisible hand
G
Your interest and your debtors’ logs your damned free market pedagogues

Your laffler curves and registers, disdain for wealthy dowagers
Your contract terms, your first month free, those don’t mean a damned thing to me
You can strike me down I can’t be killed, I have no debts I have no will
If one of me should die another’s wating in the wings to take the kill
I’m Robin Hood I’m Lenin, I’m the ghost of Ginger Goodwin
I am Sawant and I am Swanson I’m the Bayonet that slaughtered Gunga Din

[shoehornTC]

Strike Me Down by ShoehornTC

Spirits fly everywhere, through some portal in the air
Angels singing choirs in the night, they're all hitting every note right
The ghosts of people play, through some magic happy ray
All the people sing in the night, they’re all hitting every note right

Strike me down get it over before I can blink
Strike me down get it over before I can think
Strike me down get it over… but after this drink!!

It sounds fun way up there, probably a little better than here
People singing in the night, they’re all hitting every note right

Strike me down get it over before I can blink
Strike me down get it over before I can think
Strike me down get it over… just after this drink!!!

[WreckdoMelle]

Strike Me Down - Brown Word and the Big Whine

Grandpa recalls the very day
The poltergeist moved in
On a golden afternoon
When the heavens opened up
And sent down its rays
And his mother's cookbook
Yellow with age
Flew right past his face

I dare you to strike me down!
he cried and thus invited
the spirit came inside

There was banging and scraping
And cupboard doors gaping
It was sometimes like a
Cyclone shook the house
For 7 days the wraith did rage
But grandpa wasn't flapped
He grabbed the phone
And called Art Bell
From east of the Rockies he did tell
His most harrowing tale

And lord the news did spread
That there was proof of life after death
And it was right there at grandpa's house
But after the demonologist
And before the scientists
The poltergeist must've left
Because ever after it was quiet as a mouse
Though occasionally it dropped in
For a game of chess

[Pigfarmer Jr]

Strike Me Down
Pigfarmer Jr

The preacher said I should ask you for forgiveness
But I don't know what it is that I've done wrong
They say I have some sort of mental illness
I've been stuck inside this cell too long

Strike me down if you don't like what I'm saying
Strike me down if you don't like what I do
I'm not the kind of guy that goes for praying
I'm doing the best I can without you

They stuck me in a cell with a rapist
He wouldn't shut up about the things he'd done
So I just kept on punching him with my fists
And the preacher's afraid of what I have become

Strike me down if you don't like what I'm saying
Strike me down if you don't like what I do
I'm not the kind of guy that goes for praying
I'm doing the best I can without you

They call me godless and heathen because I refuse to pray with them
But you can't deny that I made it better: this world we're living in

Strike me down if you don't like what I'm saying
Strike me down if you don't like what I do
I'm not the kind of guy that goes for praying
I'm doing the best I can without you

[Geoff WreckdoM]

Strike Me Down
by WreckdoM

You got a muscle car
I have a machete
I plunge it in your heart
I pierce the engine block
Acid! Hot Oil!
Splash across my chest
The softer bits fall off
Now I grasp the steering wheel

You can't strike me down, can't strike me down
The world can't strike me down, can't strike me down
No one can strike me down
No one can strike me down
Strike me down, strike me down, strike me down
Strike me down, strike me down, strike me down

You've got some paperwork
I've got a chainsaw
You shall be reborn
Blood soaked confetti
There will be news reports
Curfews! Manhunts!
But as the years roll on...

You can't strike me down, can't strike me down
The world can't strike me down, can't strike me down
No one can strike me down
No one can strike me down
Strike me down, strike me down, strike me down
Strike me down, strike me down, strike me down
Strike me down, strike me down, strike me down
Strike me down, strike me down, strike me down
Strike me

[sleepysilverdoor]

Phlub

Same thing but a different era
Double down on all your errors
Flip the script like capoiera
Good luck finding a pallbearer
Got more quotes than Yogi Berra
Laser focused like Strattera
I come prepared like Pera's Sarah
Think you're winning? Au contraire-uh
I play chicken with a train
Calculate momentum with my brain
Numb to the risk, I'm Benzocaine
Sharpen my Shawshank like Dufresne
My stances never wobble
Aim indirect like Bubble Bobble
So smoothed, I'm paved no cobble
I'm everywhere my gangers dopple

I'm not dumb, I analyze
You're petrified while I strategize
Your only move: dehumanize
Can't get to me, you can't strike me down


You can't strike me down
Head held high I hold my ground
Do you wanna go for one more round?
Know that you can't strike me (down)
You can't strike me down
Try and try till you melt down
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You can never strike me (down)

You can't strike me down
Head held high I hold my ground
Do you wanna go for one more round?
You can never strike me (down)
You can't strike me down
Try and try till you melt down
'Bout time you'll be stepping down
You can never strike me (down)

You say you love but your moves say hate
Propaganda's second rate
You say check but I've got checkmate
I ain't joining Heaven's Gate
Shoot the poison up with pride
Self-preservation, formaldehyde
Woken up, now zombified
In your soporific suicide
My psyche highly fortified
Unsinkable like old ironsides
Eagle-eyed, now cast aside
On the sideline mortified
Watch the blue check verified
With paranoia amplified
Spread death gospel nationwide
Higher reasoning ossified

Inflexible and crystallized
You read the script I improvise
You're paralyzed while I mobilize
Re-energized, you can't strike me down

can't strike me...strike me down
can't strike me...strike me down
can't strike me...strike me down
can't strike me...strike me down

[MellyP]

Strike Me Down
The Mellfire Trifecta

It came in powder in a vial
Took your boy and your husband
Tried to tempt you for a while
Couldn’t get you in its grasp

People reached out to help
City folk with good intentions
You couldn’t feel the heat within
So opposed to making friends

Your house was getting hard to keep
It started making plans without you
One day you broke for the coast
Just a backpack and no answers

You say I’ll be around
No one will strike me down
It’s a miracle confection
Bulletproof with no direction
You’ll wear a crown
And rule over this town
But your orbit is your own
You’re scared to make a bad connection
Never again

Throw some logs on the fire
Settle in for the night
You’re safe out here beyond the crowds
Stop looking over your shoulder
There’s no one running you down
Trying to steal another part of you

You say I’ll be around
No one will strike me down
It’s a miracle confection
Bulletproof with no direction
You’ll wear a crown
And rule over this town
But your orbit is your own
You’re scared to make a bad connection
Never again

[Sheail]

Strike Me Down
Idle Susan

Is this a spectre in front of me?
Oh it's you ma'am, the Iron Lady
Have you come to judge my legacy?
Well I got Brexit done, but Covid's not much fun
Oh Boris what have you done now?
I just invited some people round
Even though the country was locked down?
Well it was bring your own booze, there was nothing to lose

If I'm a liar then...

Strike me down
Like the useless clown I am oh
Strike me down
I'm trying not to drown, I think I've
used, up all my favours but
I, won't give in to Labour
I'm pretty sure ya, have to strike me down

I admit there was wine in a briefcase
Couple of ministers playing kiss chase
But it was so innocent you see
They're just young and free, but distanced socially
Well I've been talking with Susan Gray
More than cheese and nibbles went down that day
Someone saw you necking Theresa May
That's a sham, it was Jonathan Van Tam

If I'm a liar then...

[Gil Sans]

If the song's too short.
If my timing's bad.
If the drums sound cheap,
and the bass is flat...

I'll take the blame,
and I'll feel the shame.
In a basement, all alone, it's happening again!

You can strike me down.