All The Unknown Is A Dream
All The Unknown is a Dream (Poem)
All the unknown is a dream;
And whether asleep or awake,
Unknown it has been and shall be
So to worry would be a mistake.
No matter the person you are -
A bird of the sky or a snake -
You wander this plane of existence
While every step that you take
Says nothing of where you are going
But what you have left in your wake
For generations here and hereafter,
You do what you do for their sake.
Whether the heart or the mind is what guides you
Your path you can always forsake
To travel a path more worthwhile
Than the broken ones causing you ache
So wherever you find yourself walking
No matter how much is at stake
Listen much more than you're talking
And transparent will be your opaque
- A. J. Darkholme (September 2015)
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All the Unknown is a Dream (Lyrics)
[Intro]
All the Unknown is a dream
I’m consumed by the dread, it’s all in my head
But still... I want to scream…
[Verse 1]
Am I who I think I am?
Do these thoughts all shape my fate?
Are my fears protecting me?
Or dangling me like bait?
And when the jaws come snatching
The future just out of my reach
Will my worries come to warm me with blankets
Or the fires of what I preach?
[Bridge]
I just want to walk through this life
Not run while I’m juggling knives
Of what could possibly be
As I wander the world half-asleep
[Chorus]
We don’t know where we're going
We don’t know what we leave
Every smile
Every silence
Every breath that we breathe
But if we only chase shadows
And cease to think in extremes
Then we can break our cycle to see
All the Unknown is a dream
[Verse 2]
Can I be a bird of the sky
Cut loose from the torture and lies
Who flies, free, from claws in my mind
That scratch, tear, remove, and revise
The things that I swore that I knew
Replaced by a small doubt that grew
To what my mind thinks is real
A present-joy had, that I let it steal
[Chorus]
We don’t know where we're going
We don’t know what we leave
Every smile
Every silence
Every breath that we breathe
But if we only chase shadows
And cease to think in extremes
Then we can break our cycle to see
All the Unknown is a dream
By keeping all your worries
You wander around this dark place
Like a name half-erased
Like a dream lived half-chased
Writing stories in footsteps
That time won’t replace
[Bridge]
For the ones who live now
And the ones yet to come
When the songs that you sing
Become songs that you sung
Live eyes-wide-open
Your heart on fire
And let not your thoughts
Keep you stuck in the mire
There isn’t a map
There’s no guarantee
That the glasses you make
Will help someone see
But keep stepping forward
Leave worries behind
And live... while there’s still time
[Chorus]
We don’t know where we're going
We don’t know what we leave
Every smile
Every silence
Every breath that we breathe
But if we only chase shadows
And cease to think in extremes
Then we can break our cycle to see
All the Unknown is a dream
[Breakdown]
They say it’s all random
A joke or a game
But even the broken still carry a name
Whether mind or the heart
Is the compass you trust
You can leave any road
To be covered in dust
And forsake it for better
Don’t stay in the pain
Drop all that is fake
Then soon your real-self will wake
[Outro]
So let go of the aching
Let it burn, let it bleed
The Unknown is a dream
But you still get to lead…