Empire in My Mind
"Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live."
Mark Twain
2/12/07
This website has consumed my attention for the last 3 - 4 weeks...learning the program, scanning, uploading, downloading, collecting and recollecting lyrics...and now I'm talking to it. (Perhaps an innocuous form of OCD.) Anyway, the other night - out of the clear blue (actually, grey and rainy) sky - I suddenly felt totally burned out with it...and that feeling was very sad…similar to losing a friend…I was miserable in my burnout. So, Zoey and I went out to grab a bite, and as usual, listening to Howard Stern...playing this song I had never heard...didn't get the name of the band, but just the words "me and Cinderella." Came home...Googled it for lyrics...The Wallflowers...never heard of them…Bob Dylan’s son Jakob Dylan...researched further for all songs and lyrics, stumbled upon some incredibly lyrical poetry…very dark, but absolutely touched my soul at that moment. Suddenly, I realized that I needed to write…enough already with the pictures…the realization rekindled the flickering flame of my motivation…
“The Empire in My Mind”
By The Wallflowers
Well, there is trouble in my mind
There is dark
There’s dark, and there is light.
I lay our hands over my eyes
As I look deep
Through valleys deep and wide
Across the border line
For the Empire in My Mind
You are the reason I don’t sleep
You are the light
That's breaking through the leaves
You know how hard I try
To believe
I have something good inside
Over barricades I climb
For the Empire in My Mind.
I have no love somewhere in time
I’ve been lifted up
I’ve looked honor in the eyes
I have no reason; I have no rhyme
I cannot deny
There’s a darkness that’s inside
I am guilty by design
And now I realize
The temptation’s made me blind
To the Empire in My Mind
There is no order
There is chaos
And there is crime
There is no one home tonight
In the Empire in My Mind
There is no distance that I don’t see
I do have a will
No limit to my reach
I wish I would; I wish I might
See a line tonight
Separating wrong from right
Some are only born to try
And maybe that’s the reason why
I am afraid someday I’ll find
There is no Empire in My Mind
There is trouble in my life
There is trouble in my life
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