The Dream Engine Beckons

(((On May 31st, I got stung by my kryptonite. A red wasp got me. Allergies run in the family, and I've been gotten several times, but never to an extreme reaction. Until this incident. When my chest started hurting, hand swelled up, and face got puffy, I called in and took two benadryl. Within 30 minutes I was completely looped, in pain, and wiped out. I proceeded to sleep for fifteen hours, headphones nearby playing an instrumental I had arranged the day prior. That instrumental being none other than The Dream Engine. Among many fragments of dreams, I worked on lyrics for a theme in line with my instrumental. Sessions strung between feverdreams, memories, and my obsession with words. But as much as I tried to hang on, the lyrics slipped away when I woke up. I tried 3 times to write. To find what I worked on, while I was asleep, tripping balls on allergies, antihistamines, pain... I just couldn't. So I switched up, and I thought like an engineer. Find the sound first. I handed my piece between several Cover Sessions, using different Persona/Voices through each stage. Hexa staged the Glitch Core Darwin enforced Constant Shift Chess brought it to the industrial landscape Then we covered four more times, gradually bleeding out the majority of my piece, save for a few shadows of shadows. I found something close to the sound I needed to bring the lyrics back... and wrote this in about 20 minutes. This may not be exactly what I dreamed of, but it's damn close.))) The pain in me Stays on repeat The stains in me Stray then repeat Every little no Stenciled in my skull Severing the soul Pencill-ing a whole The gambit rots the core Revolvers at the door Unbrandish shots galore Resolved to hunt the whore The seething cry for more The ocean laps the shore A crushing wake in store The hunger starts to roar Offsetting the agony and inner teeth that wrench at me, are— the reckoning— a beckoning— It always rings— each breath I breathe— it's Destiny— The Dream Machine— It calls to me— I search within— The Beat begins— Hummin— It keeps— it keeps Drummin'— The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine— I sweat, I plead, I breathe, each leed, patterns sink, each time I think, RPM and BPM cycle through my sleep— Cogs keep turning, returning blinks, the yearning— unyielding, it never shrinks The Dream Machine— Stirs in me— Eternally— The Beat persists— too hard to— resist— I still exist— cus within— I'm driven— By the, By the—By the The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine!!!!! The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine!!!!! The anger invades When failures remain Etched in my veins Hope starts to fade Every simple task Slips into collapse So I blindly grasp Like claws against the glass Flesh and bone rubbed raw A tensing of the jaws For every little loss And everything it cost But Pity's for the lost I surf the aftershocks Of what once left me rocked Now I scream!!!! What the Dream Machine Talks!!!!! Offsetting the agony and inner teeth that wrench at me, are— the reckoning— a beckoning— It always rings— each breath I breathe— it's Destiny— The Dream Machine— It calls to me— I search within— The Beat begins— Hummin— It keeps— it keeps Drummin'— The Dream Engine— I sweat, I plead, I breathe, each leed, patterns sink, each time I think, RPM and BPM cycle through my sleep— Cogs keep turning, returning blinks, the yearning— unyielding, it never shrinks The Dream Machine— Stirs in me— Eternally— The Beat persists— too hard to— resist— I still exist— cus within— I'm driven— By the, By the—By the The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine!!!!! The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine!!!!! The Dream Engine— It radiates— it fluctuates— I can't hesitate— The Dream Engine— insists— Greatness awaits The Dream Engine— plugged within— it saved my skin— It saved my skin!!!! The Dream Engine— Exists— Exists within!!!!! The Dream Engine!!!! The Dream Engine!!!! The Dream Engine!!!! Offsetting the agony and inner teeth that wrench at me, are— the reckoning— a beckoning— It always rings— each breath I breathe— it's Destiny— The Dream Machine— It calls to me— I search within— The Beat begins— Hummin— It keeps— it keeps Drummin'— The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine— I sweat, I plead, I breathe, each leed, patterns sync, each time I think, RPM and BPM cycle through my sleep— Cogs keep turning, returning blinks, the yearning— unyielding, it never shrinks The Dream Machine— Stirs in me— Eternally— The Beat persists— too hard to— resist— I still exist— cus within— I'm driven— By the, By the—By the The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine!!!!! The Dream Engine— The Dream Engine!!!!! The Dream Engine!!!! The Dream Engine!!!! Greatness Awaits... Greatness Awaits...