Courting My Soul - Marathon

A midnight game of hide and seek

Within the cemetery gates

Face pressed against nocturnal fields

Where granite headstoned congregate

I’m not scare in this moonless night

Everyone here admits they’re dead inside

Corpses below whisper their alibis

Explaining wasted lives

So where were you on this stormy night?

Is there a witness who can testify

That you didn’t take your own life

And hide the body by the turn pike?

We are hollow, agents of need

We reep the comfort while the third world bleeds

This will not change until we start to breath

Until we start living

I bought a dozen roses

And I put on my nicest clothes

I’m trembling but I look good

I’m ready to seduce my soul

Here is a time, here is a chance

To give my life some romance

And to be greater than the living dead

Fill up the neighborhoods with art

Make theaters in our own backyards

Laugh like you need it to survive

Sing just to prove that we’re alive

We’re alive

This is our time, this is our chance

To give our lives some romance

Have more to say than just nodding our heads

This is my time, this is my chance

I’m breaking out of this trance

Climbing out of this hospital bead

Park path concrete, words in chalk challenge me

«This is yours, so take it back»

Forge artistry or live passionlessly?

This life is mine, I want it back