Shadow Wonder
by
Lawrie Brewster


I watch,
As you whisper out my name,
In my wringing hands, lie the blame,
We laughed off life, as mere passage into earth,
As direst compacts danced the demon's birth.


My hopes and dreams lie
Hidden in black bags,
The cruellest cell bars
Shelled our love in rags.

Drive by lies, we're saying goodbye,
The car ain't slowing, horn blowing,
Into the shadow wonder, they'll call it murder.


I see,
As you fall into the stream,
In the writhing light, dying moonbeams.
You choked on words, last voyage into truth,
As final contact lanced our hearts youth.


My hopes and dreams lie
Hidden in black bags,
The cruellest cell bars,
Shelled our love in rags.

Drive by lies, we're saying goodbye,
The car ain't slowing, horn blowing,
Into the shadow wonder, they'll call it murder.


I cry,
As we clamour down dark lanes,
With my missing hope, here I shall remain,
We cloaked our love thrusting past into death.
Bag over the head, I trap my last breath.


My hopes and dreams lie
Hidden in black bags,
The cruellest cell bars,
Shelled our love in rags.

Drive by lies, we're saying goodbye,
The car ain't slowing, horn blowing,
Into the shadow wonder, they'll call it murder.




Notes
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Yep so I am trying to learn how to write songs, and to express the kind of unique storytellings - emotions and ideas etc that I always think oooh that would be cool to hear. Of course im a total and utter noob, but this is the start of my er songwriting/musical journey. Will it ever be great? hehe nooo but its fun and i totally appreciate any suggestions, ideas, comments etc.

The song tries to take a moment of grief - in which to love, in circumstances so doomed - is so painful, that existence itself is questionable, and when acts of horror to excuse it become tenable.