I suspect a spector detours him from where he should be A present that regressed to past prematurely He's being held by hope, cared for by his key To happily ever after but to him it's already history Done is done Past is past But deja is viewed And so it lasts There's something on his mind tonight Someone in his head Conversations spinning in his head tonight Of words expressed and never said And there's something on his mind tonight Spirits in his psyche Unfinished pages of old chapters tonight In his autobiography Tonight... There's something on his mind His visage smiled, but his subconscious revealed Possibilities wrapped up and put away but not sealed Trying too hard to appear strong when he's not yet healed From the dungeon of desires he keeps concealed Loss is hope Of eventual return Love is lessons Left unlearned There's something on his mind tonight Commanding his attention Old songs teasing his brain tonight Of sentiments unmentioned And there's something in his mind tonight Unexterminated Wisked away on an astral flight Peacefully exasperated Tonight He's getting carried away

Commentary Usually i tend to store different songs and lyric sheets in different places depening on how i feel about them...my best/favorite stuff in one folder...second tier songs that i love enough to regularly perform in another...songs that didn't seem to me to hit the mark elsewhere and songs that no longer represent me as when originally written in another... I found this one in my folder reserved for my best stuff and it originally ended with the lines "Loss is hope/Of eventual return". I wracked my brain trying to remember if that's where i intended it to end or if it was just unfinished...Given the layout on the page and knowing my style at the time, i eventually decided that it was unfinished and took it upon myself almost a decade later to complete it...everything after the aforementioned lyric is from 2003. I remember the feeling i was trying to capture though i no longer have the faintest idea what had inspired it...i think it may be possible that this was even one of those rare songs where i was trying to capture a feeling or state that didn't have a root in a specific event...like i had a good first line that led to the next line and just let it write itself.

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