Acoustic or metal? ... No, that's not a serious question. Also, "Icarus Drowning" lyrics

SO
I finished writing a new song on Sunday wiv the aid of a friend, and debuted it with the accompaniment of my friend Paddy at the Open Mic which he and I host Monday nights at the Bomber. It's called "Icarus Drowning", and here's the lyrics:

Chivalry escapes me because of who I am
Honor still flays me because of my actions
And in this cities night sky I see
The darkness between the lights
Show me snow I see cold
Show me a river I see no reason to care
For if the water keeps flowing on
What will be there? And it's gone where?

I used to see diamonds, now I just see ice
I used to feel pleasure, now I just think vice
I used to think sacrifice instead of pain
I used to love to stand in the rain
Every fire has turned to ashes
Every light has gone out
What happens when you find out everything passes
You whisper though you meant to shout

So they thought I was special
Well I guess they were wrong
You can only use those wings
For so long
Fly too high and they melt
Too low and you drown
Stitch a life together with wax
And find that it doesn't last
Though you may fly for a while
And that little peace your short escape brings
Only reminds you that you don't have wings

I could have flown so high

Instead the water rushes below,
But there's no room for sorrow
Frigid ocean hits my face,
Thought and emotion are erased
Frostbite my heart begins to kiss,
But until that moment this is bliss
I welcome into my mind,
That beautiful nothing that leaves all behind

*guitar solo*

Then from "Every fire..." to "...though you meant to shout", then
I wanna see diamonds, instead of ice
I wanna feel pleasure without thinking of vice
I wanna break the surface again
I wanna love to stand in the rain.

So that's pretty cool. And the music I wrote for it is different than what I usually do acoustically, which makes me wonder: can I easily switch over this song to electric?

I've seen the reverse done enough; a band has a sweetass metal/hardrock song, and then they try to convert it to acoustic and end up losing most of the energy (see also, any Three Days Grace acoustic set). What I wonder is, does the same hold true for taking an acoustic song and flipping it over?

Besides thinking of the classics that have been given this treatment and thrived, most notably Eric Clapton's acoustic "Layla", which has this feeling of sincerity not present in the original electric song, I've encountered such effects closer to home. A local band called Union of Lanters(R.I.P., unfortunately, but wish the boys well in their future solo careers), had this awesome song called "Don Quixote", of which an electric version was available on their myspace, but which I had only ever heard acoustically live. The electric version was good, but it lacked alot of the charm of the acoustic version.

However, I'm wondering if these rules don't apply to my acoustic stuff. "Icarus Drowning" has a bunch of moments in it where, whilst it was written and performed on acoustic, I can hear the distortion kicking in, and the drums and bass picking it up in my head. Because my main method of thinking musically is "rock", I tend to write songs that fit well on electric on acoustic. However, I wanna take it up a step from being a hardrock song. I wanna kick this bitch into metal.

So that raises all sorts of questions: do I keep the quiet feel for the intro, or do I have it be an explosive song right from the start? Do I have to write in new parts to give it that extra little kick in my mind from "meh...rock" to "YEAH, metal....bitch"? I've done this with songs before, the whole translating them from acoustic to electric and vice versa, and I've found that what it comes down to is this: you can't play a song both acoustically and electrically and expect it to be the same song. Acoustic has a charm and intimacy that's unique to it; electric has the raw power to blast out unadulterated emotion, but not so much on the subtle textures.

Ah, music. So deliciously varied and complicated. If it was a food I would eat it every day.

I might add more to this later, but my brain just ran out of words.

\m/,
Brian