Shrapnel : Great Escape
Lost in a daydream of a distant coast
While Jakarta’s heat clings to the skin
Three mental steps back to the space I love most
Where the walls keep the quiet world in
I’ll spend my days drifting from bed to the floor
Chasing a peace that feels purely divine
The chaos of life waits outside of the door
While I claim this sanctuary as mine
But you left the room and you drifted away
Like foam on the sand when the tide starts to break
The streets are now silent, the night’s turned to gray
Leaving only the ghosts and a lingering ache
We sat on the swings as the daylight grew dim
I lashed out in silence and pushed you aside
Yet you orbit my heart on a tethered-down whim
Returning like waves with the pull of the tide
When sirens start wailing and warnings take flight
While you hide away where the shadows are deep
I’m chasing the storm through the eye of the light
Leaving the secrets that hometowns should keep
I’m driving straight into the glare of the sun
With lips dry and cracked from the myths I have sought
The journey for meaning has only begun
Ignoring the lessons the elders have taught
Past slaughterhouse gates and the neon of greed
Under lightning that tears through a heavy, dark sky
We look for the monsters or gods that we need
To prove we aren't lonely before we all die
I’ll find a new haunting ground, picket-fence white
To vanish like smoke from the friends I once knew
The billboard proclaimed that the end was in sight
I turned to the void and I saw it was true