Lyraical Abortions Pt.3

Here's a song kind of based upon the old archetypal myth of the Vampiric siren, The Countess Bathory figure, stealing the life essence of those men who seek her to prolong her own unnatural life. So, a lovely, dark, gothic horror tale!

Upon night’s descent

I stole away

To see her beauty

To glimpse her face

Legends spoke

Of her countenance

Her milky skin

Her silken tress

Oh my Lady, I bow to thee

Thy love I crave

Thy great beauty

Oh my Lady, I dream of thee

On fevered nights

In reverie

Long I sought her

Desperately

With haunted thoughts

She burned in me

Of “The cruel siren”

I was told tales

Warned to desist

Lest I fall prey

The Siren called to me

In my dreaming mind

“Find me, my dearest”

She spoke to me

“And I will pledge my love to thee”

Years have passed in ceaseless search

Yet the siren still eludes me

At last I found her

Waiting for me

“thy life is mine

To satiate me”

Her terrible face

Gorgeous, cold

I will never forget

It haunts my soul

That day I died

Killed by the Siren’s darkened love

She stole my life

To prolong her own

Fed upon the souls

Of those who sought her hand

Immortal rites

Forever slaying…

Methodical destruction...

Came up with a new bass excersise today (or accidentally came across a pre-existing one) and I thought I'd write it down here, if only to allow myself to remember it!
First you play the ascending half of a scale (minor, major, Dorian, whatever) starting on fret 3 or 5 according to personal comfort. Play this same ascending part of the scale moving up 2 frets each time.  After doing this, play the descending  half of the scale moving back towards where you started in the same way.
Once you have done this and feel comfortable playing it with different speeds and patterns (triplets, sixteenths etc.), reverse it! Play the descending half starting at where you began and after moving up the fretboard 4 times, play the ascending half moving back up. It's a cool, surprisingly taxing workout, good for improving your concentration, rhythm, speed and fretboard fluency. Well, wrote that in a pretty rambling style but at least it (kind of) makes sense to me! =D