Name: Famine of the Soul
Duration: P00H04M15S
Description: The oldest song on the album, I wrote this in very early 1995, and performed it in the tenth-grade talent show with my E-Mu Proteus MPS and an Alesis MMT-8.

Famine of the Soul

from THE GOTHIC (songs written 1995-96, age 15-16) by Alex Reed

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The oldest song on the album, I wrote this in very early 1995, and performed it in the tenth-grade talent show with my E-Mu Proteus MPS and an Alesis MMT-8.

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Famine Of The Soul:

I see good spirits and I see bad
I see friends that I never had
Too many broken to say the words
Here is the time and the sound I heard
In the times when I'm asleep
I hear voices call a name
Is it me or is it you
Who is making me insane?

Too close to slip away
I feel no pain anymore
In the dream, there were seven slain
But I know you wanted more

It was an alibi of yours
After the blood had run its course
Tears of hysteria fall free
What did the angel do to me?
All alone in sweat-filled night
Held together by a string
And it's pulling far too tight
With the humble past to bring

This is the way the stream runs dry
This is the famine of the soul
They are the ones who now have reached
All the comfort of their goals
When the shackles come unbound
There are fetters that hold strong
That will bind you to the land
And will blur your right and wrong

Nullification of your thoughts
Empty sockets left to rot
Warlike visions, warlock speech
There is a lesson only you can teach
And when hope is dead and gone
Don't come running back to me
You can't find me with your trust
Only then will I hear your plea

Now you've seen the things that I have seen
And felt the sterile serenity
A sucking void that you will enter
Ubiquitous now 'cause you didn't listen
No, you didn't listen

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from THE GOTHIC (songs written 1995-96, age 15-16), released July 24, 2018

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