DEFINED/EMPIRES FALL/CURTAINS

Last night in a dream
A melody came to me
Infectious and catchy
A magical discovery

Harmonies so divine
Who'd ever believe me
If I claimed them as something of mine
I couldn't even memorise them in time

It was like a million different songs
From deep down within
Picked over and worked by those before me
And those still to come
(still to come)

And what was left for me
As I grasped these fragments of melody
And the beauty just slips away
And I find myself falling
Into another day
Of destruction and decay

And now you say you'd rather stay awake
Because you've had just about as much as you can take
Of dreaming
And I say dreaming is all we've got

And the world doesn't owe us a thing
we owe something to the world
So what offerings can we bring?

Yea

Tell the robots to wait
Go replicate

Because life is too short for human beings
No time to satiate your soul swallowing needs
No time to update my feed
Time eater
Bile secreter
Mind depleter
Stupidity breeder

And every unspoken thought
Has now been spoken
And you start to realise
Some things should have stayed inside

So

Let these thoughts
Just flit on by
Evaporate in the wastelands
Of your mind

There's no left
No right
Just rich and poor
Me and you (me and you)
and our friends next door

We grew up and we left these shores
Yea we set sail for the great outdoors

We grew up and we left these shores
Yea we set sail for the great outdoors

There's magic in the air
And monsters everywhere

But we stand tall
We watch empires fall

We grew up
Left these shores
We hear the sirens call
We watch empires fall

I'm getting obsessed by the left brain and the right brain
The left side so analytical, clinical, cold, procedural
The right side so emotional, unpredictable

Is it your left brain?
Is it your right brain?
Why are they fighting?

Hey I hear reality came to visit you the other day
Just to check on you to see if you're ok
Are you okay?
You don't seem ok

You've lost you inner filter
You've raised your subconscious and placed it on top
And called it the internet

And this is not plain speaking
It's the chaos of your mind babbling
It's been chasing you for years
Fighting bitter tears
It saw it's chance
And it advanced

No need to think things through
No well considered truth
Just you and your petty insecurities
And your tedious little jealousies
All worn outside in and inside out
Where do you even begin with this stuff?
(Where do we begin)

And now who the hell do people think they knew
When they thought they knew you
Before you found the new you
By following some dude on you tube

Before you usurped the throne from yourself
Crowned your subconsciousness instead
Kicked your considerate side aside
And left yourself for dead

Wait

I see a space
So let's wait a minute
While I put a curtain in it

I see a stage
So let's wait a minute
While I put some people on it
Yea, push them to the limit

I see a room
A room with a view
Think I'll put a curtain in it
Hide it from you

I see a curtain
Between me and you
I might own the curtain
But I don't own the view

© Tobias Zaldua 2025