
Elegy in VoidΒ (Revisit)
The parchment stares, a mocking, silent white A symphony is screaming for the light This lead-sweet wine, a poison in my vein To build a world of overwhelming pain The chatter dies, the greetings fade away The blackest notes are all that ever stay My ear pressed hard against the splintered wood I play the desperate minor keys as hard as I could I cannot hear the melody I make But feel the vibration, feel the body ache A thunderous bass to the perfect sound inside my head A funeral march for the world of music that is dead The ink it bleeds, the notes are smudged and blurred A frantic dance, a most absurd word This hurried scrawl, a race I'm bound to lose From this eternal, deep and ringing bruise The world recedes, a distant, muffled stage I'm trapped inside this silent, soundless cage I stood up there, a conductor of the storm My frantic arms, a twisted, broken form They played a dissonance to my tormented mind A public shame, a torture for the kind They placed a shadow, cold with tact, behind And left the music in my head, confined My ear pressed hard against the splintered wood I play the desperate minor keys as hard as I could I cannot hear the melody I make But feel the vibration, feel the body ache A thunderous bass to the perfect sound inside my head A funeral march for the world of music that is dead Now locked away, in silence and in gall, No muse, no son, no answer to my call. Just scratching quill, a staccato of spite, In this mute world of never-ending night. My ear grinds deep into the splintered wood I crush the desperate minor keys as hard as I could There is no melody, no sacred air Just shaking bones and the weight of my despair A distorted bass to the screaming sound inside my head This is the final hymn, for all the music that is dead Just me... And the silent, blackened score... Just me... And the Drone... forevermore.

