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Existential Thoughts

from The Anthem of Perspective by Chasing Down Riley

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This is definitely one of the darker songs I ever wrote, despite the zany happy sounds. I remember vividly driving around Vegas a couple years ago and humming the song into a recording on my phone. As I kept driving around and singing little snippets of lyrics, and eventually whole phrases started to appear and when I got home and tried to make sense of my thoughts this song was the product. I believe it is meant to represent the disorienting madness and inner chaos you feel when you question things you’d never thought to question for the first time. That being said I don’t think of this song as a departure from faith but part of the necessary journey toward real faith, faith based on asking scary questions, and then waking up the next morning and realizing that the world still has not ended.

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What is right and what is wrong?
How do I get where I belong?
And what is love but just a game
Of pushing someone else away
And turning it into a song?

What is truth and what is not?
What do I know that I forgot?
And what is life but just a way
Of getting through another day
And longing for what you have lost?

And why is everyone so caught,
In the days of what was not?
And I’m caught up here again,
Trying to find means to my ends
With my Existential Thoughts

What are you and what am I?
Why do we laugh why do we cry?
Did God make us all this way?
Do we become us day to day?
Do we just live until we die?

I wear a smile I wear a frown.
I wear a mask I wear a crown.
And I wear thin just like a wire,
Wanting things that aren’t mine,
Wearing everybody down

And I wear my heart right on my sleave,
An open book that you can read.
But be careful when you do,
You might not like it when you’re through
Cause that is usually when they leave

And I’m a robber I’m a cop
I’m a good man till I’m not
And when I sin it’s with a smile
Looking the devil in the eye
Until he leaves me with my thoughts.

And if you’re crazy or you’re sane
There’s pills to balance our your brain
Try and tickle the right cells but if it doesn’t then Oh well,
There’s always pleasure in your pain

And I’ll keep traveling down this road,
Longing for what isn’t known
And when I see it up ahead I’ll hear sirens in my head
Trying to tell me that I’m home

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from The Anthem of Perspective, released March 1, 2017

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