Delusions

from Freedom From a Rented Life by Karen McCabe

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Signs or delusions?
Help or confusion?
Something to trust, or a test of our fears?
Is every lit pathway safe to proceed on?
Sometimes it leads to madness in here.

Speak to me straight
don’t want codes to decipher
and please don’t trust words from a snake in the grass.
Were these truly signs
or egotistical desires?
Cos we are all narcissists
as much as we’re empaths.

It took fourteen pages to clear out my head
Seven sides of words that I’d never said
Always seeing those ‘signs’ everywhere
Am I learning from you?
Do you learn from me too?
Fourteen pages to clear out my head
Twenty-five years of a pattern inbred
Now you can be you, and I can be me
If it blocks out your sun
it’s not meant to be.

Do I stay or go?
Please recite my dilemma.
Let me hear it out loud.
Are we losing ourselves in the woods forever
Because we are too proud?

Same songs sung but different meanings behind
Constantly misinterpreting signs
Unfinished business abound.
Oh what a beautiful position to be in…
your second choice,
quietly on hold in the background.

It took fourteen pages to clear out my head
Seven sides of words that I’d never said
Always seeing those signs everywhere
Do you see them too?
Too good to be true?
Fourteen pages to clear out my head
Twenty-five years of a pattern inbred
Now you can be you, and I can be me
Just another scene
in my living movie.

Signs or delusions? (Signs or delusions)
Help or confusion? (Help or confusion)
Minds want to see
but our hearts cannot hear.

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from Freedom From a Rented Life, released June 4, 2021
Written, performed and recorded by © Karen McCabe 2020
Track photography by Karen McCabe
Audio mixing by Matt Fleming at Minus Tone

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