BROKEN GLASS (2009)
The looking glass
Stared back and fell to the floor
And you were
Reflected in
Each shard, madonna and whore
Colors always the same
Amber and green and clear
If you remember my name
I’m your volunteer
I will come a-running
And I’m gonna crawl to you
Over BROKEN GLASS
Gonna dig a tunnel through
All this BROKEN GLASS
You’re a prisoner of jagged pieces of truth
Hypnotized by your perception of what’s absolute
I’ll be with you after clearing a path
Through the BROKEN GLASS
Your murky eyes
Are mining your memories
Every night
You’re pirouetting
On your silent trapeze
And when the lantern explodes
Shattering more than light
I’ll be writing you odes
We can both recite
I can’t keep my distance
And I’m gonna crawl to you
Over BROKEN GLASS
Gonna dig a tunnel through
All this BROKEN GLASS
You’re a prisoner of jagged pieces of truth
Hypnotized by your perception of what’s absolute
I’ll be with you after clearing a path
Through the BROKEN GLASS
The blood won’t stop flowing
The heart won’t stop knowing
The blood won’t stop flowing
The heart won’t stop knowing
And I’m gonna crawl to you
Over BROKEN GLASS
Gonna dig a tunnel through
All this BROKEN GLASS
You’re a prisoner of jagged pieces of truth
Hypnotized by your perception of what’s absolute
I’ll be with you after clearing a path
Through the BROKEN GLASS
©2009 Z. Mulls
Sometime after I won the 2008 ISC, I was contacted by a composer in Europe who had some tracks and wanted me to write some lyrics.
It’s hard to write lyrics to pre-existing tracks but I gave it my best.
Nothing satisfied him and we never completed a song. I kept asking for more guidance as to what he was looking for, but he wanted me to just intuit it.
I wrote at least two version of the original track title, "I Remember You" -- that lyric is posted.
I rewrote the same musical track two more times as "Love I Know" and "When the World Began". All these lyrics are posted if you want to see me trying and trying to figure out what he really wanted.