Misty Mountain Queen

Bed of Roses

Her whispers are
Nothing that I've heard before

A tail spin:
I'm falling into sin again

In her velvet eyes,
I am hypnotized.

On my faith, I will rest my head 
that you're a better love 
than all lies, all the lies I've said 
that lead me to lay you down
on this bed I've made
with pillows laced with shame 
and these roses… wet with pain


On moonlight gleam,
I hear her laughing when I sing

For the knave, the waves are crashing on the shore. Will it be the thorns, for evermore?

On your faith, I will rest my head 
that you're a better love 
than all lies, all the lies I've said 
that lead me to lay you down
on this bed I've made
with these pillows...and these roses
...and these crashing waves

On my faith I will rest my head 
that you're a better love 
than all lies, all the lies I've said 
that lead me to lay you down
on this bed I've made
with pillows laced with shame 
and these roses...they will fade.

I will fade... I will fade.

Bed of Roses (alt)

BedOfRoses(alt)

Inside (acoustic)

She Doesnt Dream of Roses

I wish
(Written by Mickey Newbury, arrangement Twstorme)
I wish I was a willow tree
Hanging' on a lazy breeze
Movin' like a midnight train
Through rainy Georgia

I Wish I was a grain of sand
Playin' in a babys hands
Fallin' like a diamond chain
Into the ocean

A willow tree is strong enough to bend
Not like the oak that lives in fear of the wind
A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be
Lay me down let the water
Wash right over me... all over me

I wish I was an old guitar
Riding in a beat-up car
Playing every two-bit bar
From here to Texas

I wouldn't be ashamed
To look up my old friend
He'd be so proud
To see me strung up again

Oh a grain of sand
Is all I ever wanted to be
Lay me down and let the water
Wash right over me...all over me

I wish I was a willow tree
Hanging on a lazy breeze
Movin' like a midnight train
Through rainy Georgia

I Wish I was a grain of sand
Playin' in a babys hands
Fallin' like a diamond chain
Into the ocean

A willow tree is strong enough to bend
Not like the oak that lives in fear of the wind
A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be
Lay me down let the water
Wash right over me wash over me

All over me
All over me
All over me

Dedicated to T.G. RIP- 2023

I wish

I Wish

"Fire in My Head"

I lay here on the bed,
I contemplate your eyes;
A doubt of shadow on your soul:
A promise to the wise?

You're In the stars, I'm losing sleep;
You're on the moon, so far from me:
In a dream, I burn.

When it's cold outside, I'll set the world alight
With the fire you set in my head
The city light don't shine so bright
without you in my bed,

"Hurry home", he said.

Tell them you came and saw
And looked into my eyes
Like the shadows on my wall:
A puzzle to unwind.

You're In the stars, I'm losing sleep;
You're on the moon, so far from me:
In a dream, I burn,

When it's cold outside, I'll set the world alight
With the fire you've left in my head.
The city light won't shine so bright
without you in my bed.

Hurry home.

There's a fire in my head.

"Hurry home", he said.

Fire In My Head

FireinMyHead-2023

When I sleep 

She only comes when I sleep.

Two lips, no words do they speak.
It’s for the best I know my secrets she will keep.

She only comes when I sleep

Stars they shine on sullen breeze 
The moon doth glow while whispers weep. ‘Neath a parasol she hides to capture souls in slumber’s tide.

A crystal prison, I am warm.
There is no shelter for the Storme.
I’ll Fly on high on burned wing, just to hear an Angel sing.

She only comes when I sleep.

Two lips, no words do they speak.
It’s for the best I know my secrets she can’t keep.

She only comes when I sleep.

When I Sleep

Inside (OriginalVersion)

Inside-OriginalVersion

Once Again 

Sweeter than moonlight,
Softer than rain.
A honey sweet silhouette 
in a window frame.

Shadows by the candlelight
Intoxication by fire fight.
She's a sightless contradiction on a frozen night 
who won't... forget my name.

Soft
Sweet
Pain
Burn me with your flame

Crash and wave and rumble
Pull me into you again
Crash and sway and rumble
Tumble into me 
Again?

Sweeter than moonlight,
Softer than rain.
The bitter sweet silhouette 
Of my shame.

Soft
Sweet
Pain
Burn me with your flame.

Crash and wave and rumble
Pull me into you again
Crash and wave and rumble
Breathe your breath into me

Crash and wave and rumble
Pull me into you again
Crash and wave and rumble
Tumble into me.... Again?

Once again?

Once Again

Escape

Always

You beg, you plead
You lie, you steal
To get your way.

Always in love with you
That will never change.

Tell me that my love is real
It will never fade.

Always in love with you
That will never change.

Tell me that your love is real
It will never fade.

Always in love with you
That will never change.

Release date:
29 December 2022
P-line:
℗ Tracy W Storme - Bloody Nose Music 1998-2023

Always

Recorded on three string cigar box guitar with humbucker pickups.

Fleetwood Mac cover- all rights reserved to Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood. Covered for respect, not for profit



The Chain (FWM Cover)

OnceAgain

The Wind

Standing on the edge, I feel,
the world is turning faster still.
A rose, it wilts and it dies.

Like the eye of naked night,
the shadows dance and steal the light,
from my dreams.

Won't you allow me a prayer?

I spoke. Entranced. Her restless eyes.
The ocean seized the cloudless skies.

With her I feel, so free.

And then the sun came, washing over me.
Then the wind came. I had known it to be: She's like the wind.

You were my sunshine, my moon child.
Why did you blow it all to hell, like the wind?

---------------
I originally wrote this song in 1993 and recently rediscovered it while flipping thru the dusty Storme archives.  The 2015 version of this demo is still not as polished as I hear it (more orchestral than rock) but it will have to do for now.  ;)
-TWS

TheWind

I immediately fell in love with this Tommy Bolin Song.

Here's his original acoustic demo for those interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-bl_tjsLc8 

All Rights reserved for Bolin.  No infringement intended.



WildDogs

16 Days

I fell back to my bedroom, staring at these walls.
16 days in sorrow, wondering what went wrong.

Well, my friends all say that my life is a game;
how could I be so blind. 

Blind? Yeah.

Some say life is  gamble- you play your hand or you lie.
I cast my luck to the wind, childe, and tonight I won't be denied.

I said stop. She said go.
What came next cut me to the bone.
You fill me up, turn me up side down-
"Take me one more time around?!" 

I fell back to my bedroom, staring at these walls.
16 days in sorrow, wondering what went wrong.

I said stop. She said go.
What came next cut me to the bone.
Fill me up, turn me up side down-
"Take me one more time around?!"

She said, "one more time around.  Take me one more time around"?






16Days

Fire In My Head-2016

Lila

Darkness calls, through the halls; I sing.
On velvet cloak, jamine roses: I bring.

Oh, Lila- is there a son in your eye?
Oh, Lila- is there someone in your life?

Will there ever be?

If you go, you must know all roads lead back to me.
Darkness calls, I must go to my land of dreams.

Oh, Lila- is there a son in your eye?
Oh, Lila- is there a star in your sky?
Oh, Lila- is there someone in your life?
Oh, Lila- was there a sun in your eye?

Will there ever be?

Lila

"Farewell to Innocence"
Tracy W Storme 

She said, “I’m built for sin”. 
I said, “I’ll take a ride”.
In the howling wind,
that girl lost her mind.

In her fall from grace, 
I heard my baby cry, “this is goodbye.” 


She was my sun and moon,
My angel, soul divine;
She gave her innocence, 

That I consumed like wine.
This is no punishment but now is the time 
Farewell my love, this is goodbye 


Farewell my shooting star,
You fell from moonlit skies;
Farewell my thunderstorms, 
You were my wildfires; 
Farewell my innocence, 
With bleeding heart I cry,

Farewell my love: this is goodbye 


Farewell my love,
This is goodbye .

Farewell 2 Innocence

Always

You beg, you plead, you lie, you steal--to get your way;
Always in love with you- that will never change.

Tell me that your love is real, it will never fade;
Always in love with you- that will never change.

Tell me that my love is real, it will never fade;
Always in love with you- that will never change.

Snow Patrol Cover.
No private rights created.  All rights reserved for the original author.

A Hundred Million Suns

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike (What if the Storme Ends?)

Sweet and Twisted

Flesh on Flesh- there's a fire in the nest.
She's a vampire sweet and twisted.
She's steals my soul, body and grace.
I shot and don't think I missed her.
From the abyss of bliss shes like a lost blind kiss.
She's a vampire sweet and twisted.

Dancing on electric shade, I'm falling from the heat with grace.
Moving like a fire storm, so innocent and dark;
swaying to reality on veil of broken hearts.

Dancing on the dizzy edge. 
How could I've been so blind for days?
They're using us, were using them but one things for sure.
Do not leave these broken pieces lying on the floor.

Flesh on Flesh- there's a fire in the nest.
She's a vampire sweet and twisted.
She's steals my soul, body and grace.
I shot and don't think I missed her.
From the abyss of bliss shes like a lost blind kiss.
She's a vampire: sweet and twisted.

Sweet and Twisted

The Haunting and the Haunted

All of you still, haunt my dreams
I've never understood, what that means.
Won't you fade, fade away?

Distant memories, call my name.
Fateful melodies, of glory/shame?

Wont you fade, fade away?

We cannot harm you now.
We cannot bleed you now.
We cannot hear you now.
We cannot heal you...now.

I never understood what it means that all of you still 
haunt my dreams.

The Haunting and the Haunted

Wednesday Song

The dogs are barking and running out of time,
It seems my bark was, much stronger than my bite.
I'm hiding in my shadows, 2 proud 2 kneel 4 prayer.
I've decorated my life with a hollow world so bare.

Have you ever wanted something so bad?

Over mountains, thru the city streets
I walk the road as though I seem half blind
I'm searching for my missing mind.
All I touch, all I see, it seems to end in misery.
All I wanted was to love you...and to feel your love.

I gave you something: the best of my soul.
You gave a little, child, but I wanted more.
Too much? Too little? I'm a little late.
Maybe I'm a sailor on the seas of fate?
But I had a dollar for every tear I cried,
I'd buy the world tonight...for you.

Over mountains, thru the city streets -
I walk the road as though I seem half blind
I'm searching for my missing mind.
All I touch, all I see, it seems to end in misery.
All I wanted was to love you...and to...

Time will heal the pain. Done is the harm.
We all have our point of weakness
in which we seek the shelter, of another's arms.

Original release- 1993
Rerecorded 2019

Released by:
Bloody Nose Music
Release date:
27 January 2019

Wednesday Song

2019

Dying Day (Slow Mix)

One cup, one door, lost souls

Twilight sky dances, the sun sheds her skin.
I wait here without you, the night closing in.

We all turn the handle to peer round our doors.
Though some perceive more than those who've looked before.

One door is pleasure, the other is pain and one hides lost souls who are never seen again.

Take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself are you sure?
Take a long walk thru the garden and begin to walk upon your path once more.

I've mastered this game, long 'fore today. Your mask is so thin, tell me: why do you play?
I'd give you the cup, to drink for your dreams but has sustenance beautiful lost all its meaning?

One cup is pleasure, the other is pain and one hides lost souls who are never seen again.

Take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself are you sure?
Take a long walk thru the garden and begin to walk upon your path once more.

Lost Souls

LostSouls

I’ve fallen at the root of your tree
I savor the fruit you give me
Rain wash away my disease 
Is the rain the true road to sanctuary?

Midnight in silence I plead:
Your arms, your hands I need 
All over me

I’ll run to the house and 
I’ll run to your arms and I’ll hide
I’d tear down the wall and hold back the tide to come inside

Capricorn angel falling 
Hush hear the quiet calling
Rain washing me, I am free?
Yes pain is the road to sanctuary 

Clandestine in silence I bleed
Your arms, your hands I need 
All over me

I’ll run to the house and 
I’ll run to your arms and I’ll hide
I’d tear down the wall and hold back the tide to come inside

Inside-rock version

Tracy W Storme is a brilliantly soulful blues-based rock and roll singer/songwriter who has been electrifying international audiences since 1990.

For bookings & inquiries: TracyStormeMusic@gmail.com

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