
I AM
(Sound of a match striking) (Exhale of smoke) (Lo-fi drum loop enters gently) The screen is glowing blue in the corner of the room No shadows left to hide in, just the electric gloom I feel the nervous tic, the camera on the wall They’re rewriting the history, and I don’t recall… If what I read yesterday is what I read today The words inside the paperweight just melt away A boot on a face, forever, so they said But I’m just trying to keep the static out of my head. The river of these images, it flows so fast A spectacle of nothing meant to make the silence last They want to numb the hunger, keep the spirit tame But I can feel the flickering of a different kind of flame. I am the light-bringer in the dark I hold the fire, I hold the spark No gods above to pull the string I own the song I choose to sing. Invisible chains, yeah, the wage is the yoke Working for a phantom until the mirror broke They say it’s sins, I call it being alive The passion and the will are how we survive. I’m not looking for a reform, or a hop across the crack I’m tearing down the veil and I’m never looking back The enemy is psychic, a vampire in the mind But I’ve left the guilt and the sacrifice behind. I am the light-bringer in the dark I hold the fire, I hold the spark No gods above to pull the string I own the song I choose to sing. Black candles in the mind, against the white lies I see the universe looking through my own eyes The magic isn’t spells, it’s just the will to be The only god worth serving is the one inside of me. The inverted star. Turning the world around. Just me. Just the will. (The song I choose to sing…) (Tape click off)

