Music
Sometimes a small piece of music, a simple riff can be so mesmerizing, that you keep repeating it, over and over. Trying to find connection pieces, slowly peeling away layers of unexpected sounds, harmonies and emotions. I didn’t write Spiraling Purity, I was the mere vessel, the conduit that nurtured it into existence.
Lyrics
A sine wave is the most perfect, most pure sound we can imagine, it also sounds awful! The beautiful sound of a musical instrument or the human voice looks very chaotic, filled with imperfections, disturbances and blemishes. So why would we pursue perfection when there is beauty in imperfection? Can we learn to embrace this imperfection?
– Mirko
lyrics
Pure, form
Immaculate, norm
Guidance, conform
Defiance, reform
For a higher…
Alignment, aware
Conscious, scare
Suffocating, air
My thoughts, I should beware
Obsessed by compliance to form
Conformity eases the mind
Molding to adhere to the current norm
Or be left behind
While we frantically mimic this perfect ideal
And find nothing of the promises made
Without any blood on our hands, any burden to bear
We will never do anything
But what is all this worth if we cannot connect to the
Core of our soul
We’re running in circles to find ourselves here…
Unblemished, in a perfect state
Untouched by time and men and fate
Each side, each aspect, tessellate
Impossible to replicate
We analyze and we collate
We bemoan and we berate
From perfect sphere to frail oblate
Our vain attempts to re-create
Ignore the facts, repudiate
Spin the tale to obfuscate
Accuse, lie and implicate
Draw the lines to segregate
We cut, remove, coagulate
Object, protest and isolate
Correct, select and regulate
Until there’s nothing to left to hate
Obsessed by the pursuit of just
Reality needs to adjust
Lost in a twisted mirror maze
While so out of phase
While we desperately censure this perfect ideal
And denounce all the progress we made
Without any words that offend, any thoughts that descend
We will never get anywhere
But what is all this worth if we cannot connect to the
Core of our soul
We’re running in circles to find ourselves
When the universe began
small imperfections made matter possible
Imperfections created the stars and the galaxies
We, are made of these imperfections
Heart, beats, pulse, life
Breath, air, streams, calm
Touch, skin, feels, love
Think, thoughts, brings, new
Understanding of myself
Guided by uncertainty
Adhere to the duality
Nothing you see here is real
Except what you feel
So as long as we cannot accept who we are
And embrace all our faults and our failings
Without it we’ll never find peace, never find the release
We will never be anyone
Now what is all this worth if we cannot connect to the
Core of our soul
We’re running in circles to find ourselves now
credits
from Refrained Transgressions,
released September 9, 2023
Music & Lyrics: Mirko Pelgrom
Narration: Verity (@vblyth on Fiverr)
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