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Shatter

from I WAS HERE by Silent Specter

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Shatter

I sing the things I cannot say
I’m going through the motions
I mime the chords I cannot play
to simulate devotion

Lightning burns inside
and the fragile surface cracks
I know there won’t be a chance
at ever turning back

I swear I do not want to go
for I know I go alone
but I know also I cannot stay
the mission was foreknown

Shatter me from my dreams
Shatter me fast awake
Show me what it seems to be
is not what it will take

Shatter me when I think
I can distinguish what is true
Shatter life out of sync
Shatter me into blue skies

The first to the second
Then third—pry the fourth
So lost inside ecstasy
You cannot stay the course

Given to vast pleasure
you sought answers in vain
accessed the sacred records
and knew you must abstain

The will to reinforce the light
sensory devices are stilled
You become untethered
from the body's cruel chill

Shatter me from my dreams
Shatter me fast awake
Show me what it seems to be
is not what it will take

Shatter me when I think
I can distinguish what is true
Shatter life out of sync
Shatter me into blue skies

You rise to be above it all
You let existence flow
Looking outside the earth
your strength a vivid glow

You stop to take the call
where you let expansion grow
Looking at the outer shell
so few will ever know

You stand atop the precipice
Cast down where water falls
You think you might have missed the point
It was not about you after all

Shatter me from my dreams
Shatter me fast awake
Show me what it seems to be
is not what it will take

Shatter me when I think
I can distinguish what is true
Shatter life out of sync
Shatter me into blue skies

© Jennifer Hughes
12/13/12

Inspired by Paige Bradley's art--"Expansion" print of sculpture

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from I WAS HERE, released December 25, 2014
Music and lyrics by Jennifer L. Hughes
Performed by Mira Parfitt

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