What If All We Give is All We Ever Get to Keep?

Posted on 2024/04/05 by Chad Philip

Invasion (track 02 from the Virus LP by Haken )

Haken's "Virus" album cover. [Formatted 500x500]

One less life for us to live
Holding on to something real
If these walls could talk to me
What if all of these eyes only saw what they believed?

Two heavy hearts that refused to beat
When my words fall on deaf ears
If your soul could cry for me
What if all we give is all we ever get to keep?

When we left behind the friends we made along the way
Why is it we never learned from all the mistakes we ever made?

One last chance to disappear
Calling out for someone real
If this God could pray to me
What if where we’re lost is where we are meant to be?

Too much
Much too young and gone too soon
Letting go
Latching on to something new
If this breath is the last I breathe
What if all of my sins are still addicted to me?

When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we’re never learning from all of the mistakes we ever made?
How is there one unconditional love when you’ve taken my will to breathe?
Losing our sense of direction has led us to where we all need to be

One less life for us to live
One last chance to disappear
One less life for us to live
One last chance to end this

When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road to which we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we’re never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

An Endless Coming-Back to the Start

Posted on 2022/10/22 by Chad Philip

Quest for Nothing (track 08 from the Synchro Anarchy LP by Voivod )

It is a race for another day
You have been driven all your life
There is no exit, no getting off

Always running from something
Since your birth, the chase is on
You are searching for a hideout

Where is this place called “liberty”?
When will I be satisfied?
What is this inhumanity, how freedom became a lie?

It feels like being thrown into orbit: an endless coming-back to the start
You are only passing by

It is a quest for nothing
Always a new beginning, until you find out it’s not

I want anti-gravity!

Busy day, overnight, rundown until you lie dead
The next day, overtime, until you pass out braindead

I don’t question
The are no reasons
I am an ant

I don’t refute, just execute
I am an ant

Get stressed out as you crawl, carry the weight till you’re knocked dead
Stumble, fall, now endure pressure until you’re crushed dead

In all and all, I am so small: a grain of sand
I am an ant

Vacation
Settle down
Your face hits the ground, flat-dead

Have no fun
So worn out
Let’s get back to work, but still dead

In all and all, I am so small: a grain of sand
I am an ant

This one life is the only I have
This whole life, I wouldn’t give it away

Never want to go, never want to go
Never, no way
Never want to go, never want to go, but I will someday

Endlessly, I wish I could live for eternity
I’ll never die because I never want to go, never want to go
Never, no way

She’s the Fire and the Fallout

Posted on 2022/02/26 by Chad Philip

Break the Man (track 04 from The Tipping Point LP by Tears for Fears )

This was never what I thought it was
This is not who we are
This is where someone was meant to say, “Enough is enough”
This is nothing like they said it would be
This has all gone too far
When everything is running out, this is love

She’s the fire and the fallout
She reminds you of the things we never talk about
She’s the lover with the best-laid plan to break the man
She’s a sinner in a side show
She feels at home when there’s nowhere left to go
She’s the devil you understand
Break the man

No more tearing the bandages off
No more living a lie
No more chewing the scenery
No more rain, no more rain
No more wondering what happens now
No more holding your feet to the fire
When everything is running down, no more pain

She’s the fire and the fallout
She reminds you of the things we never talk about
She’s the lover with the best-laid plan to break the man
She’s the trouble in the headline
She’s the mother who turns back Father Time
She’s the devil you understand
Break the man

No more wondering what happens now
No more holding your feet to the fire
When everything is running down, this is love

She’s the fire and the fallout
She reminds you of the things we never talk about
She’s the lover with the best-laid plan to break the man
She’s the trouble in the headline
She’s the mother who turns back Father Time
She’s the devil you understand
Break the man

We Are Will and Wonder

Posted on 2021/01/27 by Chad Philip

Pneuma (track 02 from the Fear Innoculum LP by Tool )

We are spirit bound to this flesh
We go around with one foot nailed down, but are bound to reach out and beyond this flesh
Become pneuma

We are will and wonder
Bound to recall and remember
We are born of one breath and one word
We are all one spark… the sun… becoming

Child, wake up
Child, release the light
Wake up now, child—wake up!
Child, release the light
Wake up now, child
Spirit

We are bound to this flesh—this guise, this mask, this dream
Wake up and remember
We are born of one breath and one word
We are all of one spark… the sun… becoming

Pneuma
Reach out and beyond
Wake up and remember
We are born of one breath and one word
We are all of one spark with eyes full of wonder

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