Turning Point

I wrote a little about this song in a previous entry, the one for the song Hold, although I've remembered some more things about the writing process which contradict what I wrote before :p

I believe I actually had the idea for the song on the day I broke up from college for Christmas in 2003, and it was on my way home I got the idea. It was pretty different then, but I think I got the idea for the chorus. Then on the night of Christmas Day (not New's Years Eve as I said before), after I'd probably had a little bit to drink, I started writing a poem based around the idea on the way home from the party I was at. As I said before, it was based around the fact that I was having trouble letting go of the past.

I put it on the backburner for a while, but eventually managed to turn the poem into a song about six months later. I tried to be quite experimental with it, writing a poem with quite a loose structure and then turning it into a song, and I'm not sure it turned out completely right; some of the parts are lacking in rhythm a bit, and the anthemic chorus sits a bit oddly with the introspective bulk of the song. But I feel it's got some pretty powerful imagery, and I got a couple of decent reviews for it.

Comments are welcome, as always.

Turning Point - December 2003 - July 2004

Spoken: I am not trying to escape my past ...

The storm still rages over
The place I've just left
Its power of destruction
Still fresh in my head
It will haunt me forever
Never let me forget
How the clouds would pour down
Their memories and regrets

Ahead lies an unspoiled plain
The sun reflecting off morning dew
A single step foward
And no more
Is all I can do
Before I'm pulled back again

Unbidden, the images flash through
Destroying the dam that
Holds back the flood
Again, the tides was the
Sunlit canvas
In their murky colours

Spoken: I am not trying to escape my past. Just the hold it has over my future.

Something still holds me
The only choice is to
Escape the rain

Spoken: This is my attempt to make peace with what happened...

The city still has me
In her icy embrace
Wordless, still tries to
Plant a kiss on my face
Now I've had far too much
Only needed a taste
But I kept wanting more
Until she took it away

With my brush I paint
A wonderful new life
It's just ahead
But I remain scared
And the night
Swallows it up again

Just grant me my own chance
And I will make a world
Where it shines, though still rains
And from this new things grow
A garden imperfect
A design of our own

Spoken: This is my attempt to make peace with what happened. And to recognize that circumstances are different now.

Last year I was trapped by myself
This time my fate's down to me
And I will break free

Spoken: Have I....?

Chorus:
No more pain! No more fears!
No more rain! No more tears!
Today is the point on which my life will change
I will break free and I must
Escape the rain!

This is the point
On which my whole life will turn
The scales are balanced today
Time has stopped in the here and now
But it can't stay that way
If I look back then I am lost
And as they tip I pray
That I can find the strength
To move them to a new place
And that I don't slide back into the...

Spoken: Have I broken free?

Chorus:
No more pain! No more fears!
No more rain! No more tears!
Today is the point on which my life will change
I will break free and I must
Escape the rain!

Escape the rain!

Escape the rain!

Spoken: Have I broken free? One step at a time.