Lead Me Astray | An Original Song

I wrote "Lead Me Astray" for a songwriting class. The prompt was to listen to a song, and base an original song on it after analyzing the lyrics. The song I ended up choosing was "You're Haunting Me" by BlackBriar, which then inspired a song about something being in the darkness, and the fear of the unknown. 

I made a music video for it, and I tried to capture the feeling of "found footage" (footage that was filmed on a camera/phone that captures something paranormal). 

 

But if you want to listen to the music without the video, you can do so by listening to this. 

  🎶  Lyrics 🎶 

Skeletal branches tap against my window frame,

Reaching out like they have have something to gain,

I don't feel the same,

The sounds of the night,

The pale lights,

Want to...lead me, lead me astray

But, I don't feel that way

Something in the darkness is there,

Wanting to lead me into its lair,

Voices in the darkness keep calling,

But I don't feel like following,

They tell me riches await,

If only I trust in fate.

Often stories were told,

Of creatures of old,

Wanting to lead travelers away in the night,

Those stories would give me a fright,

But, now I am down to my last light,

I feel my desire growing,

Because of my not knowing...

What is there,

I feel I have been caught in its snare,

As it leads me astray...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you saw a light in the darkness, would you follow it? Has music inspired your own songs and/or stories? 

-Quinley