Maybe Tomorrow
I crawl over the dusty border
To escape your New World Disorder
Sky grows dark as you shade the map
Time runs out as you close the gap
Sanity jumbles as the empire crumbles
Maybe the last time's the charm
The change has begun and there's nowhere to run
Out of reach of the law's long arm
When will we realize all our fears?
When will our freedom go?
Maybe in a thousand years
Or maybe tomorrow
You want us to wear the same clothes...spend the same money...worship the same god...you push for conformity...Stamp out diversity...the order's begun...now we're one...
- Category: Dystopian Fiction
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Christopher about 3 years ago
I wrote this as song lyrics when I was 17 and had a band. I just came across them recently. I can't believe how prophetic it was. The third paragraph was the chorus and repeated a couple of times. That's why it seems to end rather abruptly. I had to eliminate the repeats and also link some of the lines with dots in order to fit it into a hundred words.
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Neville Hunt about 3 years ago
Great songwriting Christopher. With the important preface that I am completely apolitical, I love the New World Disorder reference. If you have a reference for the tune/melody, maybe I can try to perform it with one of the cigar box guitars I’m currently making (to keep me sane in lockdown!) .... but I will have to learn how to play them first!🥴 Years ago I tried to write deep and meaningful song lyrics and poems until I realised that what I really wanted to do was make people laugh! 🤣
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Christopher about 3 years ago
Thanks, Neville. I don't think I ever got around to writing the music. If I did I don't remember it. We were a metal band so the lyrics were generally either about banging women or governmental encroachment. We couldn't decide whether we wanted to be KISS (banging women) or Megadeth (governmental encroachment) so we were a little of both.
I still have a notebook full of lyrics, some that had music composed for them and some that didn't.
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Christopher about 3 years ago
And I would rather make people laugh too. And occasionally write a creepy drabble or two.
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Jamie Clapperton about 3 years ago
Sounded folk rocky in my head, Christopher along the lines of 'The ....Days Of Pearly Spencer or maybe that song Midnight Cowboy opens with. ....Haven't .tried the heavy metal version in case some telepathic neighbours hear it in my head and bang on the wall to turn it down..(Winks)
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Christopher about 3 years ago
Well, I never wrote music to it that I remember, so it could be anything, I suppose. I play the acoustic most times now so if I did write music to it now it probably wouldn't sound like metal.
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Neville Hunt about 3 years ago
The Days of Pearly Spencer... not that has blasted me down memory lane, Jamie!
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Jamie Clapperton about 3 years ago
:-) Love the 'Muffled' Chorus
