Hi All, I read the other thread about serious lyrics, I guess this is one... if you can imagine it's someone in a funk about what they've done with their life, looking at what's happened, looking at their pre-conceptions, how they view life - and having an internal conversation about it all... In terms of the salt shaper bit, that's supposed to add something elemental to it... I'm not sure why, but I felt I needed to have it there... and because I just quite like the sound it makes... The chorus is meant to say that life is not pre-determined, you operate within the context that you have made, it's ultimately what you make of it [and ergo, you can change it]. Anyhoo, blurb'd on too long...
I know I've probably committed a few crimes here [is it really bad to start off with "And"??], any suggestions / views most gratefully received.
Thanks,
John
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Verse 1
And so I've come to pay the price
For what was given without a price
For what we casually abuse
Turn into something to be used
When all is said and done
And dreams are all but one
I'll raise you
Salt shaper
Time taker
Verse 2
And in our starry starry nights
where eager hearts spin on the knife
we raise ourselves into the night
in search of loves eternal light
When all is said and done
And dreams are all but one
I'll raise you
Salt shaper
Dream changer
Chorus
There are no lines to read between
There are no spaces in-between
This is our machine, this is what we made
And this is how it works:
Verse 3
Life intertwining love and fear
We shade our eyes from old ideals
And taking memories to task,
maintain a policy of tears
When all is said and done
And dreams are all but one
I'll raise you
Salt shaper,
Dream chaser
Verse 4
Is this our measure, is this our truth?
Is this the life we bought into?
This is the hegemony we own:
so hard, so effortlessly alone.
When all is said and done
And dreams are all but one
I'll raise you
Salt shaper,
Soul taker
Chorus
There are no lines to read between
There are no spaces in-between
This is our machine, this is what we made
and this is how it works
[this bit would be sung to fade out in the various iterations]
Salt shaper / taker ; time shaper / taker
Dream changer / chaser; Soul shaper / taker /maker;
Bond breaker