Marooned

(some more lyrics for the as yet unnamed band I'm writing for. This is a song of about eight and a half minutes and it's about a guy marooned on an island, feeling desperate because he was left by a woman. He can't leave the island until he has learnt - to cut a long story short - not to substitute lack of personality with relationships. Before the last six lines come in, there is a two minutes instrumental section so the break in setting and mood isn't actually that striking.)

A lightning in my eyes / A twitch inside my hand

Sickening sensations / A sudden strip of sand

Tangled up in tang / My life is washed ashore

These are not the riverbanks / That I was steering for

Stripped of all my sanity / Struggling to stand

Breathing and marooned / On godforsaken land

Salt in my saliva / I stumble to the trees

The heavens keep on shaking / (Shake) me down upon my knees

In this dreamless, hopeless night

A graceful spectral light

Can you hold me now I’m wrecked?

Can you help me to connect?

I must know why she was taken

(And) I need answers to awaken

The will to breathe once more

Give me someone to adore

Following the sirens / Groping in the silence

Tiptoeing through fire and / Screaming

As I keep on falling / I hear echoes calling

Me to give it all a / Meaning

Spirit, guide me deep into / the chasms of my soul

Help me, heal me and / Spirit, make me whole

Spirit, with your guidance / I stumble to my past

A distant silhouette / Spirit, her at last –

The contours of my once beloved / Motionless and carved in stone

I fall down at the sacred socket / Dejected and alone

Gazing up and hoping for / A repentant and benign

Look upon her past / I see her face is mine

Sunshine in my nostrils / Seagulls – above ground

I open up my eyes / And hear the rushing sound

Of the waves that carry / my lonely raft back home

Of the winds that blow / that guide me through the foam

I’ve cast away dependence / And broken all the spells

I have become much more / Than just somebody else