Sixth Form Poetry

I'd been writing bits and pieces for this for ages ... I think I might have started writing it in my head while I was at work sometime in 2004. Never bothered much with finishing it though, as I wasn't too keen on it. Then, sometime at the beginning of 2005, I was just writing down some verses at random based on whatever ideas came into my head, and I hit upon a verse that I quite liked .... I then decided to make it the first verse of this song, as it seemed to fit, and finished the whole thing quite quickly after.

I'm still not that keen on it mind you. I gave it the self-mocking title of Sixth Form Poetry because thats what it reads like ... angsty poetry written by a teenager (which admittedly it was, but I like to think I can write better than that), not particularly eloquent, and certainly not something any different to what had been written by a million teens both beforehand and since. And the choruses are pretty awful. But I wrote it down because it was there, and because I hadn't finished a song for about 5 months.

Musically I'd imagine it being sort of mainstream alternative rock I guess. My plan for it would be to reverse the typical quiet-loud dynamic, by having the verses be more forceful and direct, and the choruses more drifting and dreamy sounding

Sixth Form Poetry - 2004 - Early 2005

Just once I would like to feel
The sense of completion that comes
When the mission is over and done
And I need release
And I wish I could understand
The very nature of this deciet
Please let me go

Held under
Once again
Tried to scream but water just fills my lungs
Pushed under
Afraid
Fingers slipping
Lose my grip and
The fabric comes undone...

Chorus 1:
I think today I will rise
If you can find it in your heart to let me
And if it isn't too much trouble
I think I'll declare the day mine

Emotionally charged
Now burnt out
The fuse inside my mind has blown
Wound up so
So tight I
Need a reminder to let go...

Chorus 2:
I think today will find
A new door open somewhere in this room
And if you give me your blessing
I just might be able to rise

Tentacles slip and
Fabric rips and
Power resupplied

Chorus 3:
I'm sure that today I'll rise
If you just release your grip a bit
And even if you won't, you won't stop
What's been coming all this time

Chorus 4:
Somewhere the sun is shining
Even as you hold me down
And I can feel the night turning to day
As I feel my spirit rising