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Apocalyptic Reflections
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Scenes fill my mind Strip the land a desert dry I feel for this world A bloodless void The heart I never had
The path I once walked Through this forest of my childhood Covered all in concrete and asphalt An anthill colony A beehive neighborhood High density and human sprawl
All around you can see The plays of history Return again for more With a new score
Reflections of apocalypse Overwhelming scenes Why can’t anyone see?
News of the bombings, the young killing hands Absence of parents when holy man sinned Cries of oppression The terrorist yell
Over again I see the towers fall Before nothing else mattered at all Reflections of apocalypse In a bloodless void In a heart I never had
I long for the Sun For a ray of light to pierce the clouds Reflections of apocalypse in my sleep at night I dream these things, I don’t know why Apocalyptic reflections Cloud my mind
The skyline view Looks different now Spirits rain down Into the jaws of hell
Mobilize the best defense Prepare to strike with great offense Men and machines of war Going door to door As we stand on the brink Investigating every link Pain is in store
Settle the score… Settle the score… Settle the score… SETTLE THE SCORE!!!!! |
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For the Truth
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Why should I care about anyone but me? I’m too tired to care, anyhow The joy my possessions bring Don’t bother me with some ancient prophecy
Blinded by a vision of what I thought was typical Lifetime impressions of what I thought was normal
Reflecting inward now For once I see this could truly be Monochromatic Soylent Green True colors I have never seen Until now
Alone I search Oh, what lies beyond my door Searching for the truth Alone I search Why have I not seen this before Searching for the truth
This is the way it’s always been here Grinding down one day I may fail you A gear in the machine As I am left Wondering
I keep searching for my identity After all, how will I know?
Reflecting inward now For once I see this can truly be Monochromatic Soyulent Green True colors I have never seen Until now
Searching for the truth Alone I search Searching for the truth
Thoughts of yesteryear No use looking back now Leave this all behind I will never back down
Knowledge then, like knowledge now How different would things seem to be Drastic steps take crazy measures Insanity stimulate the pleasure
Grand illusions, premonitions Contradicting logic The smell of trash, the smell of stench Flashback to corpses in a trench
Facing down the fear No use looking back now
Something in this body crawls Operation extract infection Looking out from this flesh-like husk A rotting shell, forever haunting
Thoughts of yesteryear No use looking back now Leave this all behind Never back…no more |
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Tides of Hate
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You know where to find me I'll be where you hope I'm not In the darkest hour I'll fuel the anger I'll take the chance for peace you've got
Beware cycles of violence, Wear a mask of terror Embrace cycles of violence, You can't escape the horror
I'm fighting against the tides of hate and the current wants to carry me away
One chance, we live not in a dream No second chances For those we bring the war No divine foreshadowing Only violence we foresee Of things beyond out reason and control
I'll be there in the worst of times I'm misery in times of need I am not a face to see on some effigy only your deepest darkest fears
I'm fighting against the tides of hate and the current wants to carry me away I'm fighting against the tides of hate and the current wants to carry me away
One chance to live a dream No chance will I be Carried by the tides away By the tides of hate By the tides away Fight the tides of hate! |
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Red Shift
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I reach out but reach further in I set fire to logic and emotion Another red sunset freezes Above a sky that drowns in cold
I'm too far removed to sustain When truth was no witness No faith, no reason I was a living (you were a living) Martyr
I bear this burden for you Strength is not enduring (circumstantial coincidence) The demons I made from you I will free, free, set them free
The iron chains that I adorn Weight of death I mourn Hold me to the ocean floor I curse this silent blue It's all because of you I shunned the ones that I adore No more!
Off with these chains I cast false blame adrift Ascending shifting red And seize upon the day…
Sometimes I see the surface Most times my thoughts are best unsaid Sometimes I stare too deeply Into things that matter Matter not! Reality will never be the same, no Shifting blue from the frozen Sun Burns time. Just burns time.
Red Shift Time may change Your point of view Red shift
Nobody's ever fought for me so selflessly Upon the rock you would watch the sea And wait for me to breathe…
Reality will never be the same, no Shifting blue from the frozen Sun Burns time. Just burns time.
Red Shift Time may change Your point of view I hope my changing hues won't Phase me from your view.
Now it seems so insane To waste one more day I will not turn away I will not fade |
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Marjan
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I recall the day, the memory Of a lion, strong and true A king of beasts, who ruled a Concrete kingdom In the ruins of Kabul:
Taken from his pride By those who walk on two From the grass where he hides He watched his Mother die Nothing he could do Now captured and confined
The road is long and hot So long now, without the others He awakes to see so many eyes Looking through to him What’s a young King to do?
Years pass, the memories remain He dreams of the grassland He sees his mother’s face For those who walk on two Oh, how they taunt me I must not kill them, or they will not feed me
Oh, they battle constantly With a flash of light and The crack of thunder Through the day and night
Been here so long He is old and tired His concrete prison He is forced to retire
A quiet day, No sound of thunder The only light Is the light of the sun
The light of the sun, warms his face The light of the sun.
Those who walk on two Mischief in their eyes, taunt him And challenge him from the other side
One who walks on two In a foolish dare Climbs a wall On my concrete prison
Climb the wall foolish little man
Awaken! The lion! He smells the fear Of the unlucky one His life he will defend He sinks his teeth into The flesh of his neck Lifetime of pain bleeds away The lion, it will pay With its life
I’ll take the life of the beast For the honor of my brother
The lion, it will pay With its life
I’ll take the life of the beast For the honor of my brother
The old lion’s cornered again The human comes for revenge With death in hand He attacks with a flash Of light And the crack of thunder
One day came The ones that walked on two Stopped the battles that raged For a day, the sky was blue
He saw the grasslands His mother’s face From this concrete prison he ruled Now a monument
To the cruelty Of the human race |
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Broken Orion
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As hard as I try I can’t remember As seasons pass All just frozen winter
All I am And all I’ll ever be Just shadows of you Locked inside of me Thinking of you
As hard as I try I can’t see your face As seasons pass The memories fade
As hard as I try I can’t remember As seasons pass The memories fade away
Oh, so far… Wheels turning, life's fading Oh, so far Wheels turning, life's fading…
Life fades away…
All this for nothing How could this be ending now? A lifelong journey ends face down I start where I began Asking why
As hard as I try I can’t see your face As seasons pass The memories fade
As hard as I try I can’t remember As seasons pass The memories fade away
All just frozen winter |
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Man of Stone
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Reflections in the water The image reveals Time has no mercy Days - turned to years
Here sits a Man of Stone All the while he watches The tree grow Now long dead and gone Like the tree, he yearns To move on
Isolation, desperation
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