The Unholiest Sunday Lyrics Critique – Heavy Metal Power Ballad

by Anthony
(Evanston, Il, USA)

(*I wrote this song dedicated to a very close friend of mine who committed suicide a few months ago because of a fight he had with his girlfriend)

Verse: Melodic

I was trying to find a way
To another world
When I found out my friend
Had lfet us in this world

On the unholiest Sunday
On the coldest sabbath
I felt an eternal sorrow
And I felt an eternal wrath

I felt my body freeze up
But not one tear left my eyes
I hope that those words were false
I hope that those worlds were just lies

He was a part of me
We had a brotherly bond
But when I heard the news
A part of my heart was gone

Love was his motivation
But I never understood why
But because he wasn't thinking
I never got to say goodbye

Pre-chorus: heavy

Even up to this day
I stop and stare into space
And you can still catch me
Without any emotion on my face

Chorus A: Heavy/melodic

On the unholiest Sunday
It was something I haven't denied
On the unholiest Sunday
There were no tears I had cried
On the unholiest Sunday
I wasn't trying to hide
On the unholiest Sunday
I experience the darker side
On the unholiest Sunday
I was alone with no one to confide
On the unholiest Sunday
A large part of me died

Verse

When I heard time slowed down
And saw black and no other color
Maybe our lineage was different
But we were still brothers

Love can make a man do things
He otherwise would not do
If only you could now see
How many people loved you

Even if I became a hassle
You never distrusted me
But now you're at a place of nirvana
This life seems cold and irie

Now I feel I am lost and alone
I've been confused and frail
The news hammered me down
Just like your coffin nails

There was no rain to come from my eyes
The could die the fire of my fury
I don't know if this is wrath or sorrow
All I know is that this is misery

Pre-chorus

It is amazing to see
How many lives turned to wreck
Just because of one
Only one snapped neck

Verse

How can such a good man
Do something so selfish
We all wish we could've helped
But what has happened is now finished

I now have these harsh feelings
That I constantly must brook
But I cannot help myself
I cannot just over look

Pre-chorus

Devestation was cause
By just one death
But I still love you my friend
And now please peacefully rest

Chorus A

On the unholiest Sunday
The heaviest news had been told
On the unholiest Sunday

The value of dirt was applied to gold
On the unholiest Sunday
I felt death's chilling chokehold
On the unholiest Sunday
I had to stay strong, stay bold
On the unholiest Sunday
The darkest abyss had been revealed
On the unholiest Sunday
Everywhere I went was cold

Chorus B: heavy

When that chapter of my life was dead
So many thoughts ran through my head
I still regret what I couldn't've said
But now I don't know what I'd say

My hopeful blood has been bled
Everything I saw was in black n' gray
But because of the one you hoped to wed
You decided that you weren't gonna stay

The sad faces you can see 'em
This is just one sad voice's requim
You live on in the dreams of young

Thinking would have had you lead
To a path away from a boxed bed
But too late, you already fled
By the unholiest Sunday
Instrumental break

Pre-chorus

What I would do or say
What I would give or pay
Just for it to be a dream
The unholiest Sunday

Chorus B

As you look down from the sky
I am asking you why
And I am saying goodbye
And constantly I shall pray

I feel like a hawk that can't fly
I feel like a child who can't play
I remember when we would get high
We were in happieness and daze

You closed your life's door
And because your spirit was sore
You could not take any more

I wish I could deny
But not once could I cry
From the shock I got when you died
On the unholiest Sunday

Verse
I hope that you will smile for me
As I do when I think of you
But because of a burning passion
I never said I love you

Love was your motivation
That made you think you should die
But because you weren't thinking
I never go to say goodbye

Chorus A

On the unholiest Sunday
My burning desires dropped to subzero
On the unholiest Sunday
I've began to feel sheer cold
On the unholiest Sunday
I would've had my spirit sold
On the unholiest Sunday
You casted the bell's fearing toll
On the unholiest Sunday
A life of 15 years is unfull
On the unholiest Sunday
I've lost my friend and my hero

Pre-chorus

The day I felt most ill
The day were I wasn't okay
The day that had me in ruin
Was the coldest and unholiest Sunday

Chorus A

On the unholiest Sunday
A large part of me died
On the unholiest Sunday
I never got to say goodbye

Instrumental break

Chorus A: Melodic, not heavy

On the unholiest Sunday
A large part of me died