The Void [Lyrics]3/11/2020 These are the lyrics to "The Void", the first song on my album The Work.
Listen on Spotify here. What happens to so many jailers When the prisoners all are set free What happens to shepherds for saviors When gone are the penitent sheep What happens to time-honored masters When they hear the chains rattle and fall The shattered glasses of Bemis With nothing but time after all Imagine these men for a moment Looking and finding no help And for the first time in their lives Facing the Void of themselves And what of myself in my bedroom When all men have come and gone With no one to tell me who I am I realize I never have known When I tire of calling myself victim A coat I have worn like a skin Still none of the things that I yield to Can heal the unyielding within There are so many cures for this ailing And hundreds of ways to stay dumb Thousands of empty distractions And millions of ways to be numb The light in a dark place is painful It shows what we can’t bear to see And most of us patch up the rupture And take darkness, its sharp-edged relief The scariest thing about freedom You can no longer cry to be free The source of your strength has departed And taken your identity So tell me what have we to bind us When freedom grants each one his own Without duty or demon to blind us Who the hell are we alone
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Leave a Reply.AboutWords are the backbone of my music. They often reference powerful ideas that strike me in my readings or develop from my life experiences. The creative expression of these ideas sometimes begs for musical form, and other times it comes out on the page. Here is a selection of my lyrics, poems, essays and other writings. Archives
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