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D​é​jà Viewpoint (Produced by Trybz)

from Taking Backroads Home by Errol Hem

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New blend to an old twist along a relative fray
Loose ends tied to a home stitch that still extends this way
Hesitate
Settle back into the nesting place
Benefaction and a selfless grace
Unending thanks and praise and attempts to repay someday, some way
Young, dumb, elevated age
Try to negate the anguish slanged over decades
The whole endgame seems like a joke
So I'll hold those closest to me and keep some hope
Before I go hit the old dusty trail, I must prevail this rusty nail in the heel
Set straight dented past debts and mistakes
Generate steps fashioned with the flames of an everyday-spent passion for the chase
Renovate steadfast in-the-head space
Demonstrate faith in a fate that's made through a regular basis of changes and lessons kept from in the flesh to the veins to the center of the brain
Intending to stay, but with plans to escape
First, mend the abrasions left from before when the path was first strayed
Misdirection can give correction to detours
You can never really be sure if you're on the right path or caught in sidetracks
Just becoming the creature that exists on the inside, scraping
Aging, changing
Still chasing daydreams
So selfish
Overzealous
Helpless childlike tendencies rest in a boyhood grasp
Stretched to the point of a snap out of that funk 'cause here comes full collapse
Intending to leave, but this pendulum speeds up and gives pressure to keep up with the tree-trunk-chop feet clunk reruns
Clean cut means nothing when you're stuck in a landfill at a stand still
Falling faster than an anvil
Mannequin stance with some hand-in-the-slit ventriloquists' handles
How to cancel connection to that and still survive in this plexus
This and that repeated
Cycles reflected
And I'd like to find the exit
Out the side door
Let the chest arch
Get a little fresh air for a fresh start
Catch a breath and prepare for the next march into the darkness
Set to reflect heart
(Each step is the benchmark)

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from Taking Backroads Home, released April 19, 2013
Produced by Trybz

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