The Mad Highway

[indelibleface]

These are some random song lyrics I wrote for my band... hope you enjoy. :D

"The Mad Highway"

I cut my ethics and good reason from myself again,
a cold season tends to harbor cold actions.
the snow on the windshield reminds me of myself,
my wealth of frozen aspirations,
I don't know the cost of today's determination,
my fascination with dirty secrets.

so here I am again on this mad highway,
a two-lane length of string with two ends,
one black, one white,
one brings what I pretend to be tonight.
and it swallows me alive.

the hours pass as I reflect on my contradictions,
flying past the Jesus signs and nowhere institutions.

so here I am again on this mad highway,
a diagram of the dichotomy of life,
a twisted sickened branch of the undivine,
and it swallows me alive.

so here I am again on this mad highway,
I remember times when this place was bright and bathed in the sun,
then all the good times came undone and the fires went out.
and I kept on driving and waiting for justification to reach me,
but I could not see that there are no epiphanies for the liars.

 

[New]

Wow, that's harsh.

I could imagine my world crumbling down around me as I drove down that lonesome road.

 

[colicolo]

my wealth of frozen aspirations,
I don't know the cost of today's determination,
my fascination with dirty secrets.

fantastic. i know this road, but i always hit the pot hole of presumption and end up running off the road. presumption - the other white meat.

 

[indelibleface]

I wonder what your interpretations of this song would be...

To me, this mad highway is actually a real place, although it's metaphorical too. It's the stretch of I-5 in California between Sacramento and the Oregon border. The metaphorical road is the road we all go down when we get lost in a cycle of lies and deceit with the people we love. You lie once or twice, and then you continue to lie out of habit, and pretty soon everything you know is a sham. Your reality begins to crumble when you realise what you're doing but you can't stop.