What This Is

• Artist: GracelessElemental
• Description: Motivated by the success my first poem had here, I've decided to put up another song and hope it is equally accepted.
  
  This one was actually originally more of a rap than a song, but once I found the right tune for it, it became all that much better. It's a little piece of what I often feel like before any major project or performance and sometimes lingers afterward, depending on how things go.
• Date: 11/04/2009
• Tags: performance song lyrics shadows stage

What This Is


I'm Part of a Backdrop
Faded and used;
I phase here and there,
Torn and Abused.
I don't move my Lips,
Timid or shy.
I can't find my Voice,
But I don't know why.

Part of a Puzzle, part of a Crime
I am the Riddle, hidden in your Mind.
Part of a Chord, part of a Song,
I am the Rhythm, pounding along.
Part of a Story I once thought I knew,
We are the weary, the scattered, the few
~This is The Stage~

Here in the Spotlight,
Brilliant and Bright,
I reach your Ears,
Hollow but right.
This is my voice,
Rare and Cold.
Listen while I'm Here,
Loud and Bold.

Part of a Trial, part of the Grind,
I am the Answer, hidden in your Mind.
Part of a Minute, Time we belong,
I am the Second, pounding along.
Part of the Lyrics I once thought I knew.
I am here Weary, battered. I'm through.
~This is My Song~

And I run...
Far beyond your Sights,

And I bleed...
Beautiful and Slight.

Beautiful and Bright.