5090 by FAWM: "21 Eyes"

21 Eyes

Liner Notes

Lyrics

21 Eyes

From the darkness, they are watching me
Watching every step
Taunting, staring, I believe
In the cold god of indifference

Long forgotten and faded jubilees
Pictures of the dawn
Silence is for you

Trapped in spirals of
cascaded memories
They’re growing as we go
Silence is for you

21 eyes I’m counting
21 eyes they’re all the same
No escape, salvation
All is futile
All in vain

Desperation, fate and disbelief
I’m kneeling at their feet
Fragile moments from the other side
My silence is for you

Still, this place we call home
While we‘re drifting apart
To search for another world
Hope, is all that is left here
When everyone’s gone
To live in another world

Haunted places, when the time has changed
Are just places in my mind
Pretending that I have a choice
I keep rolling the dice

From the darkness, they are watching me
Watching every step
Taunting, staring, I believe
In the cold god of indifference

21 eyes I’m counting
21 eyes they’re all the same
No escape, salvation

All is futile
All is pain

I can take my fate and turn it to dust
Something done, something better

This is the other world
This is the other world

Somehere behind the ocean’s blue
Something true, something better
This is the other world
This is the other world
This is the other world
This is the other world

With 21 eyes

Comments

@ritschialpenstern 6w

21 eyes is the sum of the eyes on a standard D6 dice. It's about chance. @richaux

@richaux 6w

21 Eyes? No idea what that's about ... but I don't care; really like the song. Nice jangles and bass drum thumps and bass growls: all ebbs and flows neatly. 👏

Like the vocal delivery too -- cool hints of Placebo* -- confident and fragile in the right places!

* not my usual genre, so might have misremembered this 🙄

@gm7 6w

LOVE the opening...soft guitar then the biting guitar take over and those progrock vocal!. I am a fan of dynamics in a song so your arrangement is cool IMO.