Sun and Steel
I'm water in a well,
and I've always wondered why.
You'd drop down heavy stones,
so I could never see the sky.
Why won't you let me see;
Why can't I dream?
Why do you have to suffocate me?
Thought that I couldn't take it anymore;
face to the floor.
I'll break your chains, you'll watch me soar.
You put up metal bars to hold me tight;
you kept me down, confused, withdrawn.
You say you are the darkest night;
but forget that I'm the brightest dawn.
Down, down, down!
With the iron king and his fucking rusty crown!
Raise up your liquid confidence,
pour it til he drowns!
You put up metal bars to hold me tight;
you kept me down, confused, withdrawn.
You say you are the darkest night;
but forget that I'm the brightest dawn.
I am the spark that will chase you away,
I'm like the fingers, wrapped around your throat.
I am the man, holding you underwater,
I am the weight that won't let you float.
You put up metal bars to hold me tight;
you kept me down, confused, withdrawn.
You say you are the darkest night;
but forget that I'm the brightest dawn.
Whenever you're afraid of the darkest nights,
just know inside you lays an endless dawn.
Just reading this I imagined the beginning being slow, then changing to a quicker beat at the part where you say "you put metal bars to hold me tight"
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Not really, the 6 line section was meant to be a little bit faster, but I mostly just wrote all that, and told him to do what he wanted to with it haha.
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