Faces
Faces
The years forgot
You’ve got cracks
In the corners of your eyes
Ain’t no surprise
Have you checked the time?
When was it that we last spoke?
I don’t know, but I know that
Busy hands don’t stop for no one
Or nothing
Until we erode
And ebb away Into nothing
Faces
That we’re not
Wearing masks in the broad day light
Walking shadows filled with doubt
“How are you?”
“I’m just fine.”
But it’s all a lie
When we’re crumbling inside
And all we want to do
Is breakdown
We’re just facades through time
Fading away
Complete the circle
We will someday
When it all ends
And we go home
Faces
That are gone
No more sun rays
Forever a part of the earth
Gone back to where we came from
Where do we go
When it’s all said and done?
I want to see my papaw
And dead friends again
In the end
We’re just facades through time
Fading away
Complete the circle
We will someday
When it all ends
We don’t know
We’re just facades through time
Fading away
Complete the circle
We will someday
When it all ends
Lyrics by Joshua Back © 2024
Sheep
A world so blind
Lost and contrived
We’re caught in time
With our future in rewind
Do not think
Fall in line
Eat up endless lies
A web-hive mind
No thoughtcrimes
How dare you think
Who should we believe–
These talking heads and their doublespeak?
While we spread the falsehoods from
electronic “friends?” What are we–
Sleepwalking sheep?
Vault the fence
While we bleat
Talk is cheap
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
Sisyphus
Would be proud of us
With dirty sides
Twisting truth
Right before your eyes
Don’t you see?
For generations
We’ve made no progress
The fate that awaits us
Brings revelations
But don’t believe
Who should we believe–
These talking heads and their doublespeak?
While we spread the falsehoods from
electronic “friends?” What are we–
Sleepwalking sheep?
Vault the fence
While we bleat
Talk is cheap
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
We’re not…
Sleepwalking sheep
Vault the fence
While we bleat
Talk is cheap
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
We’re not sheep
Lyrics by Joshua Back and David Mullikin – © 2024
Colors
Is this all we’re really after
Climbing fake ladders to eminence?
Stockpiling plastic bullshit
Until we all turn to grass?
All we got is time
Little tick tocks of consciousness
Don’t you see the colors?
Better look before they pass
The child takes her first steps
Rainbows paint the leaves
Wrinkles on your mother’s face
Grey hairs dot your cheeks
Are the days turning to weeks?
All we got is time
Little tick tocks of consciousness
Don’t you see the colors?
And look before they pass
And look before they pass
look before they pass
Look before they pass
And look before they pass
Look before they pass
Look before they pass
And Look before they pass
You know they pass
They never last
Look before they pass
Lyrics by Joshua Back – © 2023