Flashing Forward Flashing Back
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The ground broke open, and I fell right in
Slept on a closet floor where the air was thin
Somehow safer than a feather bed
Compulsively desperate, spinning in my head
Car got stolen, didn't fix the key
I was drifting, floating, finally free
No strings attached, no strings at all
Just a quiet shadow on a closet wall
They talk about normalcy like a grocery store
Like you can walk right in and ask for more
But I know better, yeah, I see the flaws
We're just keeping our eyes off the breaking floors
But these memories are flashing at a high-speed rate!
Flashing backward faster than it's safe to contemplate!
Don’t need a time machine, my mind’s at full throttle
Stuck inside a hurricane inside a glass bottle!
It’s a memory, a dream, a fantasy spun—
Oh, how I wish it was just one!
Yeah, how I wish it was just one!
Standing at the edge of an empty field
Years after the storm took the harvest yield
They tell me to gather the wood that is left
To rise from the ash, to survive the theft
They look at my hands and they say there is purpose
Like friends sitting with Job right under the surface
But they only see shapes in the shifting smoke
While I'm pacing the floors of a structural joke
But these memories are flashing at a high-speed rate!
Flashing backward faster than it's safe to contemplate!
Don’t need a time machine, my mind’s at full throttle
Stuck inside a hurricane inside a glass bottle!
It’s a memory, a dream, a fantasy spun—
Oh, how I wish it was just one!
Building a chimera just to carry the weight
A design made of promises, dust, and fate
Standing in the kitchen, doing what I must
To survive the decades of noise and rust
So I ask about the circles of fire
The radiance of prayer taking me higher
Is it surrender? Or a law of desire?
None of it's tangible, none of it's real!
Just the weight of the ghosts and the things that we feel!
But these memories are flashing at a high-speed rate!
Flashing backward faster than it's safe to contemplate!
Don’t need a time machine, my mind’s at full throttle
Stuck inside a hurricane inside a glass bottle!
It’s a memory, a dream, a fantasy spun—
Oh, how I wish it was just one!
One life to live.
A lifetime of views.
Memories, love... everything we lose.
I close down the machine.
I breathe right through.
Adieu (May God be with you).
Let the static clear.
None of it matters... right here.