this song is about not being able to connect to people, even when you seem similar to them on the surface. even if sometimes you feel disconnected from everyone around you, you don't have to change.
ideas for lyrical meter and how to set the melody:
line of iambs or trochees, a lá James Murphy (one measure) tetrameter line of iambs or trochees, Allah James Murphy (one measure) tetrameter line of iambs or trochees in a clave pattern (two measures) pentameter
Title ideas: Two Memories Half-Brothers (i.e., Death and Sleep) Half Memories
my eyelids thin, the quiet writes my eyelids thin, the cough of time my eyelids thin, the scuff of fate my eyelids thick and voices fate eyelids thick and voice is rusting a heavy rhyme inside my ear a heavy rhyme upon my ear heavy rhyme against my ear heavy weight against my ear path of necks and reddish dust and sleeping bodies quicken just
listen
eyes on the corner eyes on the corner flesh in the mortar
keep your eyes forward keep your face forward keep your eyes forward they're in the corner
one time but two memories one time but two memories what do you mean? what do you mean? one time but two memories
you and me entangled in spirals around your face in spirals around your eyes in circles around your eyes in circles around your pupils
angled mirror mirror an angle green and gold to gold and greed inextricably entangled me and you to you and me
eyes on the corner eyes on the corner flesh in the mortar
keep your eyes forward keep your face forward keep your eyes forward they're in the corner
one time but two memories one time but two memories what do you mean? what do you mean? one time but two memories
you and me entangled in spirals around your face in spirals around your eyes in circles around your eyes in circles around your pupils
no passage between us to take no silence to navigate no silence and then a sheer drop and no ship our resemblance could meet to slip from my spinning thoughts to slip from my memory
what do you mean? what do you mean? you're greater but I carry dreams but lamps and mirrors
how did I get here? how did I stay here? you and me entangled in spirals around your face in spirals around your eyes in circles around your eyes in circles around your pupils
how did I get here? how did I stay here? entangled, you and me one night, two memories in circles around your eyes in circles around your pupils
what do you mean? what do you mean? nothing between us but lenses and mirrors but lamps and mirrors
circles around your pupils
next to you breathing
circles of pupils
how did I get here? how can I lift my eyes? entangled, you and me one night, two memories in circles around your eyes in circles around your pupils
rasen kaigan rasen kaigan rasen kaigan rasen kaigan
a moon in your face a moon in your face
no lighthouse tonight in your eyes a rock in the fog in the sea shining on our shallow sea and shallow the sea shared with me sea but not deep shared with me no land bridge to cross your mind though you're death and I think I'm sleep though you're death and I must be asleep though you're death and I think I'm asleep
kathmandu
one hundred thousand ladders and wires rising into their right place circles around your pupils circles around your pupils
don't round that corner, don't show your face one hundred thousand earthquakes
two eyes on mortar, on doors a face one hundred thousand towers rising into their right place
angled mirror at an angle angled mirror mirror at an angle green and gold to either side me and you are all entangled
red, paint your face red your face of stone death, paint your death red beneath your throne
tangled up in ancient temples signals of your speech now the floral blood has dwindled down between your feet
silent growling growing canines three a head of teeth thin and dire, dead in daylight sniffing at my feet
I can't seem to think I am right // what if this is a reference to some kind of prophetic dreams?
you're greater but I carry dreams one day but two memories
together we climb inside one night spent between the red teeth but two different memories
we each find our way inside his viscera warm and bright
it's dark in the heart of this beast this perilous land we tread this perilous air we breathe thick with the power of dreams
like snow that you can't quite breathe you're breath but I need to breathe I can't seem to think I am right
bread but not blood shared with me
I can't see the fire for the flies I can't feel my feet in the tide I can't seem to think I was right
I don't want to see what I see
tonight, is there light in my eyes?
don't breathe on me, don't breathe on me
I don't want to see what I see
tonight, is there light in my eyes?
don't breathe on me, don't breathe on me
close your eyes
though no monster guards the way though no three-headed beast bars the way though no thorns grow across the way and no road for our kinship to meet and no road that our love could just meet and no road our connection could meet and no road that our blood could just meet
no silence when you come to play no echoes except my name no sadness when I have to leave one day but two memories
whenever you bell players wade through the water to call my name we meet down among the reeds one time but two memories
together we climb inside one night spent between the red teeth but two different memories
it's dark in the heart of this beast this perilous land we tread this perilous air we breathe thick with the power of dreams
it's dark when I open my eyes trepidatious here in the trees together we enter inside we each find our way inside his viscera warm and bright one day but two memories like snow that you can't quite breathe you're breath but I need to breathe I can't seem to think I am right you're greater but I carry dreams our distance reminds me of brine and conjures the taste of time I can't seem to think I am right
divergence a small anomaly convergence don't disconnect /now that's enough /just reconnect
with them I don't see what you see my people are all around I try to believe I was right
- bread but not blood shared with me
- only bread shared between you and me
- no blood shared between you and me
- night but not day shared with me
- sea but not shore shared with me
sleep close to me, sleep close to me silences, one at a time forgot myselves one at a time from what was said when you came by the things that I felt at the time while you're out walking the night the color of our last goodbye I can't see the fire for the flies I can't feel my feet in the tide I can't seem to think I was right I'm leaving my people behind
tonight, the older light is in your eyes and it's hard to feel your feet beneath the tide your intellect may sway you from your [calling][purpose] or betray you set the arguments aside
there may come a day when outstay delay obey outweigh portray dismay
grace displace
[5] now the world can be an unfair place at times [5] but your lows will have their complement of highs [3+] and if anyone should cheat you, [4+] take advantage of, or beat you [5] raise your head and wear your wounds with pride
now kid, I know I haven't been a perfect man and I've avoided doing things I know I can but if I've learned one thing to tattoo on my arm or burn into my thumb it would be that
you must stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done
old max schmelling was a formidable foe the ambling alp was too, at least that's what I'm told but if you learn one thing you learned it well in june you must give fascists hell they'll run but they can't hide
you must stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done [x2]
and when those thunder cloud are crying in the skies, in the skies and when those fireflies keep shining lights in your eyes keep your mind on the time with your ass on the line keep your fleet feet sliding to the side, to the side
now the world can be an unfair place at times but your lows will have their complement of highs and if anyone should cheat you, take advantage of, or beat you raise your head and wear your wounds with pride
you must stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done
stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done stick up for yourself son never mind what anybody else done