Top Priority

I found a title for the lyrics I posted a while ago.

If I take myself outside,
Will you be satisfied?
Will you support me
When I lose my mind?

What's best for me
Is a break,
An easy pace.
I'm pushed into a tree.
I can't make everything my top priority.

I freak out
About the little things.
I get sick
And I can barely speak.
I found out
I'll never get to sleep.
Stupid authority
Is making me forget to breathe.

The Mask

Make me better.
I can't fail if I'm oppressed.
I don't know the difference.
The world's pleasures.
I won't break my life arrest.
Only you are making sense.
And they're sorry...

I will wear the mask on my own.
And I will live. Beneath this home,
Nothing stands.
With you, there isn't hope.
But I will wear the mask
On my own.

Slap my wrists.
Yes, it's shameful to detest.
I won't lose your interest.
If I desist,
Lock me up until my death.
I believe you're truly best.
Patriot citizens making all the plans.
Replace them 'cos they're not pretty.

(chorus)

Possible Material

A lot has happened this weekend, and over the past month. I've just decided to dedicate a song to this weekend called "The Trip". Another "Pressure"-like song will probably surface since I've been having problems with adjusting to school.

Tired. So, so tired.

Brand New Way - Completed Lyrics!!!

Echoes reverberated on the sidewalk of demise.
To be so consecrated, but never feel so wise.
The sky never was alone.
Feeling the light in what you'll never call home.
To feel the noise and then just disappear.
Only needed to make sense.
Commitment dangles so it's unclear, under false pretense.
Stand behind the line. Better safe then sorry.
Don't face the sign.

And I can hear you say
It's a brand new way
To see every day
When life throws you away.
And I don't figure...

Motions and fleeting faces
Fill the mind with open wounds.
Everything's evasive.
...Paranoid to soon.
Trying to stay above the flood.
Never denying, silencing what "should".
To fear the arms full of welcoming.
Always on the side.
Reaching out, but grasping nothing.
Living here to die.

(chorus)

Where do I go?
(You know where to go.)
How should I know?

(chorus to fade)

Brand New Way 1st Verse

Echoes reverberated on the sidewalk of demise.
To be so consecrated, but never feel so wise.
The sky never was alone.
Feeling the light in what you'll never call home.
To feel the noise and then just disappear,
Only needed to make sense.
Commitment dangles so it's unclear, under false pretense.
Stand behind the line. Better safe than sorry.
Don't face the sign.

I'm so proud of myself! Right as we speak, I'm trying to write the second verse. Exciting, I know. Things are gonna start speeding up a little. I just wanna write, write, write. And if I don't have time, whatever is in my way will have to wait.

Just Wanted to Keep You "Posted"!

I got a little farther in the lyrics for Brand New Way, but not far enough to post them on here. There's not much happening musically on my part, and it's mostly because of my unconscious refusal to adjust to High School. The work is becoming a bit overwhelming. I don't know how much I'll be able to juggle anymore, but I'm happy that I'm giving myself more time to finish this album than I've given myself for other albums in the past.

I am really itching to write. I just need to find time to sit down and let it happen.