Dracula Meets Frankenstein Meets Crunchy Biscuits

Welcome once again to Milk and Cookies Time at Castle Biscuits. Today's story will be all about the origins of two frightening (in a good way? You decide!) songs; Now It's Alive, It's Frankenstein & Look Out! Dracula!

So we did a rough and spontaneous take of Frankenstein some time ago and I thought that'd be good to write lyrics to. It's straight to the point, with an easy structure and fun content so adapting Mary Shelley's horror/sci-fi masterpiece should be fun. It was and I came up with this:

Now it’s Alive - It’s Frankenstein

With a ball of string and a pair of scissors

A patchwork man from the cemetery village

Awake!

Awake!

Awake!

Awake!

With the rod of Zeus and a mother of thunder

A killer’s heart and a childlike wonder

Obey!

Obey!

Obey!

Obey!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Crushed some flowers and killed some children

Tried to hide away in the top of a windmill

You ran

Away

Away

Away

Away

You played god and he played rough

Can you make a wife from the corpse of your love?

Is he man or is he monster?

And is he really gone forever?

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now It’s Alive!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive

Now it’s alive – it’s Frankenstein!

…it’s alive…

Look Out! Dracula! on the other hand has no music yet just an inspired singing style Chris came up with for an early song called Dungaree Kangaroo. It sounded like he was singing Look out Dracula! and as I've been meaning to do another Universal Monsters themed song this seemed to fit: 

Look Out! Dracula!

A tale!

A tragedy in Transylvania!

A terrible man called Vlad the Impaler

Lover, a killer, an immortal saviour

If you sold your soul to unholy Satan

Please stake me

I loved a vampire

Please stake me

I loved a vampire

Inside the bride of

Vlad the Impaler

She bites like a diamond

She tries to save ya

From a miserable life and a wife who hates ya

Please take me

Please take me

Please take me

She hates me

He crossed the land

The rain came down

In a boat in a tomb

Filled with sacred ground

Sailors went missing

Rats came ashore

The priests wept blood

And the wives turned to whores

Throw me a lifeline

Show me a good time

I’ll drink from your bloodline

In time before dawn

Throw me a lifeline

Drink from his bloodline

He swore he loved ya

From a lifetime before

Look out! Dracula!

Look out! Dracula!

Look out! Dracula!

Look out! Dracula!

Look out! Dracula!

Look out! Dracula!

Look out! Dracula!

Look out! Dracula!

It is good fun writing stories for songs.

Incidentally for you purists out there I know that Frankenstein's Monster is the correct term but it just doesn't fit lyrically. So there.