Passage

 

Climb aboard this ship and leave today

The passengers continue on their way

I don’t know where I will go or who I’ll meet

I only know this journey’s incomplete

 

Let the sails out leave now with the tide

Set a course across the waiting sea

I am just a traveller in this life

Destination yet to be revealed

 

Bad Neighborhood

 

Hijacked to ground spiraling down

Like a bug ‘round the drain

Knocked into night spectrum of light

Folding into the gray

 

“Welcome back sir

You’ll be serving a sentence of life

Have a nice day

And thanks for your sacrifice”

 

Bad neighborhood where I’ve arrived

Familiar face nowhere in sight

All out of good in a bad neighborhood

I must have turned wrong at the light

 

There’s mistake ‘cause I’ve got a date

With an angel I know

Now if you’ll just take off these handcuffs

I’ll get back on the road

 

“What’s the rush sir?

Take your time and enjoy the sights

Good behavior

And you’re out by the end of times”

 

Bad neighborhood where I’ve arrived

Familiar face nowhere in sight

All out of good in a bad neighborhood

I must have turned wrong at the light

 

Bad neighborhood where I’ve arrived

Familiar face nowhere in sight

Bad neighborhood

Gonna leave this place for good

Got to find my own way to the light

 

Stuck Under

 

I am down here in the dark

I’m the keeper of your soul

Once a good son then cast from the kingdom

An angel far from home

 

Disobey the will divine

Kick the world upon it’s side

Is it so really low what I’ve done here

To make creation mine 

 

Will I ever climb back again?

 

I’m stuck under

I haven’t seen the sky for so long

My only desire to retake my place

And make His house my home

 

I would like to quit this hell

And leave the job to someone else

No offense meant to my father and his works here

But this business don’t suit well

 

If I manage to rise from the ground

Then I promise to never fall back down

 

I’m stuck under

I haven’t felt the sun for so long

My one whole desire

To earn back my place by the throne

And make His house my home

 

He separates the good from bad

He draws you back to sane from mad

 

I could be you, you could be me

We could be one another

We’re only looking for a savior

Looking for the one

 

Searching for heaven in an empty room

Our fates are slowly changing

Someday we’ll leave this all behind

But I’m still stuck under

 

Son Of Someone

 

I was born out of luck

In a beaten up bus

With a ghost hanging over me

Only one the unfortunate son

I’m the boy with the absent piece

 

I’m trying to get to you

I’ve got to know the truth

Just when I think I can’t reach you

There’s something down deep

Telling me to

 

Wait a little longer

‘Cause there’ll be a right time

Father of the future

When he comes it will be done

You will be the son of someone

 

I used to live with my mom and my sis 

Rolling round town to town on the old highway

Travelled light, she said “Why should I fight

when I know that it’s all gonna blow away?”

She said:

 

He’s gonna get to you

If you can let him through

And when you think there’s no time

Hear the words in your mind

Telling you just

 

Wait a little longer

‘Cause there’ll be a right time

Father of the future

When he comes it will be done

When he comes you’ll be the son of someone

 

He’s gonna get to you

If you can let him through

And when you think there’s no time

Hear the words in your mind

Telling you just

 

Wait a little longer

‘Cause there’ll be a right time

Father of the future

Reach out to the lonely ones

‘Cause everyone’s the son of someone

 

The End Of Me              

 

I was born so early in the morning

After hours I was already ten

I don’t understand what happens

 

Six o’clock I hear the doctors talking

“At this rate he will not make it ’til dawn”

And it hurts so bad to be growing

Why does it go so fast all for nothing?

 

Running out of time

Flying high

Paint the sky

With the end of me

 

Almost out of life

Crazy racing over me

I’m just makin’ time 

While there’s still time

I know today will be the end of me

 

Old and gray and I still got no answers

My twenty-four hours have all slipped away

I’ll be coming back for a new day

For another chance at a getaway

 

Always out of time

Flying by

Paint the sky

With the end of me

 

Almost out of life

Crazy racing over me

I’m just makin’ time 

While there’s still time

 

Minutes hours passing like rain showers

I’m born I die I never know just why I’m

Caught in this circle I crawl up fall downhill

Hold on to the things I could not leave behind

 

Running out of time…

’Til the end of me

 

Almost out of life

Crazy racing over me

I’m just makin’ time 

While there’s still time

I know today will be the end of me

 

I’m Not Supposed To Be Here              

 

I don’t know why I’m so cold inside

Trapped in twilight senses compromised

Carried on a wave until it dies

Only to drift alone

With a tide that has wandered

Far from home

 

If none of this is real and I am dust

Still I seek my source because I must

The gears of this machine have gone to rust

If a door can be opened once

Then there must be a way to return

 

I’m not supposed to be here

My home is higher

No matter how I go astray

You wait so patiently

 

Oh Heaven help me understand

That I must surrender

That on my own I’ll never make it through

The map I need is you

 

I’m not supposed to be here

My home is higher

No matter how I lose my way

I know you’ll wait for me

 

Oh Heaven help me fly away

From an empty space where nothing’s true

I’m not supposed to be here

Where are you?

 

Unvirtual Reality

 

Frozen in place by a wall of screens

Captured in a frame like a movie scene

Versions of a life that might not be

All lined up in a gallery

 

Focus on 9 gonna wind it back

Now we’re gonna see how you will react

Never make it through with the things you hate

Love too much and you slam the gate

 

Unvirtual Reality the cure for this duality

Behind the scenes we have the means to

Smash materiality and terminate this fallacy

You must break through this wall

Unbuild it all

 

Anchored in place once upon a time

Sorting out souls on the borderline

Building you a bridge to the other side

A narrow way through the Great Divide

 

Gotta make a choice gotta get it right

See what you do in a brighter light

Perfection of a life that could’ve been

This game deactivates your sins

 

Unvirtual reality the cure for this insanity

Shake off this curse we can reverse this

Individuality restore originality

If you get through this wall

Unthink it all 

 

Off the radar your true North Star

We’re the unseen

The Holy Ghost in the machine

 

Unvirtual Reality the cure for this duality

Behind these scenes we have the means to

Smash materiality obliterate this fallacy

You must break through

Can you break through…this wall

 

Unvirtual reality quest for immortality

You must believe we can achieve the

Point of criticality reaction of mentality

Find the way through this maze

 

Unvirtual reality the cure for this insanity

We’ll disconnect your neural net

Recode your functionality define a new normality

When you break through it all

Unbuild this wall

 

Pleased To Meet Me

 

“Follow me”

Just said a ghost who looks like me

“Once you believe in a destiny

You are not alone anymore”

 

“Can you see?”

He says and a light shoots right through me

“When you accept the supremacy

Your mind is like an open door”

 

Pleased to meet me

We are chasing the dragon’s steam

We’re erasing the frail line we dream

Between you and me

Pleased to meet thee

There’s no alone anymore

 

Is this me?

Or only a clever effigy

Hiding a truth I cannot see

Now I can’t be sure anymore

 

“Please do tell

Were you expecting someone else?

Maybe the sound of Heaven’s bells

Don’t you think you could be something more?”

 

Pleased to meet me

We are chasing the dragon’s steam

We’re erasing the frail line we dream

Between you and me

Pleased to meet thee

We’re not alone

 

Piece by piece, missing links

Together we reach escape velocity

And fly to infinity

 

Pleased to meet me

We are chasing the dragon’s steam

We’re erasing the frail line we dream

Between you and me

Pleased to meet thee

We’re not alone anymore

 

Father Of The Future

 

Since I said my goodbyes

To every earthly tie

I have not been home

 

Search the open wide

Where devils and angels ride

For the one unknown

 

Born to roam this make-believe

Looking for our legacy

 

Like an open book like a poem divine

I’ve got the father of the future in my mind

Like a gentle storm churning me inside

I feel the father of the future

The father of the future in my mind

 

When that which is perfect comes

What was in part will be done

Counting down to one

 

Darkly through a glass

A prisoner from the past

This trap has come undone

 

Time will take us to the brink

Make us either swim or sink

 

Like the missing verse in a perfect rhyme

I’ve got the father of the future in my mind

Like a dusty shore and a swollen tide

I meet the father of the future in my mind

 

Like an exploding star supernova sign

I see the father of the future in my mind

There was a secret source hiding all this time

I hear it singing in the silence of

The father of the future, the father of the future

The father of the future in my mind

 

Work Of Art

 

Gaze at my hands and I wonder

Am I still me or another

Scratch my skin but feel no pain

Bone dry in the rain

 

Where do they come from beauties and beasts

The color of blood the most and the least

Ages pass and time unfurls

Still He builds these worlds

 

Earth and sky the waters did divide

Could all this be the chance result of a reaction?

Flesh and bone a temporary home

Made by heart it’s a work of art

 

Can I believe the portrait I see?

Transmitter sends and I receive

Message from a foreign land

The Architect has plans

 

Earth below the sky the waters did divide

Could all this be the chance result of a reaction?

Flesh and bone a temporary home

Made by heart it’s a work of art

 

Portal

 

Open up a portal in my heart

Passage from what is to what can be

Nothing left to do or say return to the start

The restless ocean moving under me

 

Nothing else can hold me here go back to the start

Find the only place I’m meant to be

 

Sail beyond the line

Leave your world behind

Reach for distant shores

In search of nothing more

 

So wrap me in your gentle arms of light

Take me to the edge of destiny

I am just a traveller in this life

Destination still unknown to me

Strange destination still unknown to me

​

© 2023 L.Briand/M.Rohr