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Just a Figment (Imagination)
I begin to doubt creation
When even my imagination
Stumbles off the deep end a bit too far
Then I go to pull it back and scold it out and cover my tracks
Just to protect my false-believing glass heart
My sanity hung by a thread
My sleep hours are going missing
How do I wake up from this nightmare?
My head is paralyzed and I am
Stuck in the same loop of time
Someone, please pull me back
Before another pulse attack
Lace our fingers tight
Whisper a lullaby
Allow me to melt into your embrace
Before the clock strikes again
And you go chase someone else
So I'm left, lips and hands in the air
But then again, you were just a figment
Of my little...
Imagination
The speaker's on the microphone
I breathe in uneven tones
The noise is gone
My ears are ringing
Why is my head screaming?
The words come out behind a mask
Scared to hint at feelings passed
But I know better, I can see
I'm wiser than you think I'd be
"This isn't real," they say,
"You're worth nothing to me"
Lace our fingers tight
Whisper a lullaby
Allow me to melt into your embrace
Before the clock strikes again
And you go chase someone else
So I'm left, lips and hands in the air
But then again, you were just a figment
Of my little...
Imagination
My sanity hung by a thread
My sleep hours are going missing
I'm ready to wake up from this nightmare
My head is paralyzed and I am
Stuck in the same loop of time
Someone, please pull me back
Before another pulse attack
Lace our fingers tight
Whisper a lullaby
Allow me to melt into your embrace
Before the clock strikes again
And you go chase someone else
So I'm left, lips and hands in the air
Let our fingers go
Say you never loved me so
I can pretend that I'm okay
Before the meteors collide
And it rains fire from the sky
So I'm left, eyes wide and cracks deepened
But then again, you were just a figment
You were only a figment
You were simply a figment
Of my hopeless
Of my irrational
Of my lying
Of my little...
Imagination.
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I wrote this piece to tell a bit of an odd tale: the narrator is in love with somebody, and they know that who they love could never love them back. So, in order to cope, they build this imaginary land of sorts, where they can be with the one they love. However, they become so attached to this imaginary way of life that they get lost in their own head. The second verse is the narrator slowly realizing that what they're doing isn't any good for them in the long run, and the last alternated chorus is them finally coming to terms with how things are in real life and letting go of this imaginary world- most importantly, the one that they love.