I write frequently, and so I thought it best to create my own thread instead of crowding up this forum with song after song. This thread is for my pieces and for feedback on my pieces only, so please don't think I'm asking for your lyrics here. The first installment is titled "Ode to the Opiate". Ode to the Opiate The jest of age is played On ourselves, By ourselves For ourselves to see We’re not all We could be Tonight The timeless lottery Pacifying just rewards Is our just mistake Can we be Anything Tonight We are lost boys Lost in perfect snow As we count each flake That falls to scorn us Crystal-clear memories Confused with our daydreams Our hurried nightmare How can we be All we can be Tonight We are lost boys Lost in perfect snow And we count each flake That falls inside us Redeemed in our sleep Jacked up and ablaze We are tireless Living without sight Marching forward To nothing at all We are lost boys Lost in perfect snow Found among the laughter Of our idle sorrow
I leave this uncertain world In star-lit harmony, where Desperate pleas have fallen From the tongues of destiny I can't press on, beyond This neglected day-dream And on golden horizon I'll break your sleep In your narrow light Under moons of time I heard the whisper of The lingering dead For once in my life I know I'm not lost In a land of memory Distorted angels claim Violence is the way Of God's true soul In fleeting sufferage And what hearts are Honest to themselves? What words can be held In this uncertain world?
