Centre of Gravity
A song about the confusion that results from having too many conflicting thoughts and possibilities in your head and not being able to form a cohesive decision from them. It’s about being prey to whatever randomness is around you.
Rather an unlikely subject for me. I am by nature a decisive person who likes to have a firm frame of reference inside myself of what I think life is about so that even if the world is full of chaos I will at least know what my little piece of it means to me. I don’t know why I wrote this except that maybe it reflects the persistant fear that I have that one day I will end up with no sense of direction and er, go insane!
Uncertainty opens and unfolds
A story lies discarded, untold
Inside your head
Is a room full of doubts
Walk it’s floor blind folded
Feeling the wall for the way out
Fight to ensnare reason
Thoughts lead you safely nowhere
Bend them around
Twist them inside out
Take them point blank hostage
Attempt to break them down
An unguided universe
Endlessly unravelling
Adrift in a world of
Change and transformation
Perilously on the edge
Surrender yourself
And fall into the chaos
At the centre of gravity
Trapped and forever suspended
There’s end from what you can tell
Inside discover freedom
That’s so comfortable
In that secluded corner
Where the clock hands stand still
Still conscious and breathing
Fighting to stay awake
Self inflicted questions
Make no sense at all
They’ll just tie you up
It’s more than reason can take
An unguided universe
Endlessly unravelling
Adrift in a world of
Change and transformation
Perilously on the edge
Surrender yourself
And fall into the chaos
At the centre of gravity
Trace Henham
I have had this for so many years, well imagined I would not know you did not know this personally. I had so many things I wanted to do I could not choose which to do first and it just stops you from doing any of them, Time has helped me sort them out and I am doing what I can and like to do now, It is much like insanity I am sure. Trace xx
Morgan MacLaren replied
Yeah, for me it’s a case of generating far too many possibilities to think about because I am insatiably curious about life, the universe and EVERYTHING. I’m always going why why why why? And getting the answers just makes more and more interesting questions! Still, I’d rather have more questions than I can possibly answer in one lifetime than be one of those people who have none at all.
Trace Henham
I too love to learn and question everything. Too many things to do and not enough time.
I agree it would be no fun if I had no questions although they do say ignorance is bliss.