Riff
Keyboard warrior of just one name
Slashing at keys to dull the pain
It rises higher as I breathe
Slashing at keys just to be
Like a twisting torrent of color
Shapes and sounds spiral
I travel with them as they spin
Caught in the vortex with a grin
Shaped like dreams or maybe me
Futures past and present
Amalgams of my fantasy.
Beyond them I sit watching form at distance
I dip my fingers in
‘An attempt to become what they are
Never able to trap their consciousness
I twist ttwistt twist
Keyboard warrior
Slashin' at keys to dull the pain
Will these ideas become the freedom
Twisted tangled inside
Like a drop of water traveling down
Endless falling and drowning
Slashing at keys just to be
It rises higher as I breathe
The torrent reaches out
Fingers clasped around the key
A ring of brass or gold
Splashed with the color of soul
Yet as i bring it up
A single kiss from my lips
It is vapor drowning me again
What is this darkness inside
That can only be held at distance
By the torrent as it twists
Trapped in the vortex as I type
Endlessly broken again
I attempt to become that which is more
But I cannot become what I never was
A keyboard warrior
Slash
Slash
Tip and trickle out of me
my mind empties itself like a broken vessel
Down down I trickle
Down down i fall
Down
Down
D
Will the blocks fit together
To make a single page of coagulated thought
Or will they trick themselves
Into a sieve
The ideas slipping through
Like so many specks of truth
Take what I think and bring it a light
To burn into smoke or to see what is written
But don't expect it to mean
For meaning is lost In the transposition
Keyboard warrior of just one name
Slashing at keys to dull the pain
Data travels down the cord
To weave tales-journeys untold
What will it say at the end
The perfect image or will it bend
And never tell what I am to say
While all the colors fade to gray
In my head the truth twists like dna
Building on itself out of what may
Will it be
Or will it wont
The darkness fights to control
Still the colors twist and spin
As the keyboard warrior of just one name
Slashes at keys to dull the pain
It rises higher as he breathes
Slashing at keys just to be
