Within The Mirror

This one has three different aspects. First is on a personal level, second is professional, third is public, all of which are from the perspective of a fallen soldier before and after death.

Sitting alone,
Just me and my thoughts
Reading the words from
The battle we fought.
I watched the fear,
The first time I died,
Fuel the hate, kill the love,
Bury me with the lie.

From within the mirror I see
The life that was not possible.
I take my seat and watch the lust
Submerge the dream that’s plausible.
Dead and gone, my heart lies still
While the shock holds true.
The world moves forward without me,
Thoughtless towards what I’ve been through.

Night and day,
I waited for my time,
Waited for the word
To find the plot sublime.
Oblivious, I walk
Into the ambush site.
Flash of red, cloud of dust,
On the ground, lost the fight.

From within the mirror I see
The life that was not possible.
I take my seat and watch the lust
Submerge the dream that’s plausible.
Dead and gone, my heart lies still
While the shock holds true.
The world moves forward without me,
Thoughtless towards what I’ve been through.

(Spoken Word)
I’m set in hindsight, watching the masses of carbon copies walk their daily lives in blissful ignorance as my brothers and I have fallen as ash from the end of a cigarette. They exercise their right to ridicule us for doing our job whether we believe in the cause or not. After all, it’s not about the orders set forth but our obedience to them (it's not the reason why, but to do and die). In the end….

(Singing)
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
Are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.

From within the mirror I see
The life that was not possible.
I take my seat and watch the lust
Submerge the dream that’s plausible.
Dead and gone, my heart lies still
While the shock holds true.
The world moves forward without me,
Thoughtless towards what I’ve been through.

In a world corrupted, we stand alone. Apart from false realities, we come together as a last attempt at redemption. We are the unsung superheros, we get no credit, none at all. But rest well knowing we'll catch you, when you fall. For we are All That's Left.

Originally Posted by Inskeepruler

In a world corrupted, we stand alone. Apart from false realities, we come together as a last attempt at redemption. We are the unsung superheros, we get no credit, none at all. But rest well knowing we'll catch you, when you fall. For we are All That's Left.

Spoken like a true soldier. Are you in the service?

From a veteran; very nicely thought out and written. And by including some of the 'contradiction' that a soldier might feel, or have to deal with, or have to squelch ... in a dead or dying heart, even more of a paradox ... the final shock is accentuated.

Or maybe I'm reading more into it than you intended ...

Again, very nice.

This song does what a good song should, it makes you think and it makes you feel.

Very nice. I like the message and the way that its written.

The following really stood out to me as powerful writing:

Fuel the hate, kill the love,
Bury me with the lie.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
Are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.

From within the mirror I see
The life that was not possible.
I take my seat and watch the lust
Submerge the dream that’s plausible.
Dead and gone, my heart lies still
While the shock holds true.
The world moves forward without me,
Thoughtless towards what I’ve been through.

Thanks a lot for the kind words. It truly means the world when my work appeals to others.

I don’t like myself. I don't like looking myself in the mirror every morning.?
Parental Control Software

Originally Posted by jackloms

I don’t like myself. I don't like looking myself in the mirror every morning.?
Parental Control Software

No, nowhere near self-loathing. This one's from the perspective of a fallen soldier. The first verse is about the soldier finding out that his "signigicant other" cheated on him while he was overseas. The second verse is where he gets killed doing a routine patrol. The spoken word segment is about what the soldier sees when he looks in on the world after he's gone. The analogy with the mirror is based on a certain belief that when we die, our souls go to another realm hidden from our reality, but they are still aware and can see everything that is going on in our world, kind of like they're looking through the mirrors we have. I just thought it would be an interesting way to portray the way a lot of our troops overseas think and feel. There is no real self-loathing intended.