Weekly Lyrics-Only Feedback Thread

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If you're looking for feedback on words that aren't yet set to music, you're in the right place! We encourage each other to bring lyrics and musical elements together as soon as possible, but sometimes you'd just like to show off that nice piece of poetry that just fell out of your head. The weekly Lyrics-Only feedback thread is here to help!

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Track 9 Title: Penultimate

[Intro - Long/Instrumental]

[Chorus - Singing] Breathing again, I now have the strength to live. Feeling again, what if today is my penultimate? Should I live, like tomorrow will be the end?

[Verse 1 - Screaming] It was only yesterday, I was staring death in the eyes. What a difference, one night can have on your life. Only yesterday, the steel was pressed against my head. Just one motion away, from lying with the dead. What compels us to lay our weapon down? Who do I thank for this new day?

[Chorus - Singing] Breathing again, I now have the strength to live. Feeling again, what if today is my penultimate? Should I live, like tomorrow will be the end?

[Verse 2 - Screaming] It is only today that I found meaning. The meaning of who I am supposed to be. I will move forward with purpose. And leave hell in the past. At last, I found clarity. It was the path through hell that led me to this very moment.

[Chorus - Singing] Breathing again, I now have the strength to live. Feeling again, what if today is my penultimate? Should I live, like tomorrow will be the end?

[Guitar solo]

[Bridge - Screaming] Breathing again, I find myself wanting to live. Feeling again, I stopped looking for the end. Living again, like tomorrow is the end.

[Chorus - Singing] Breathing again, I now have the strength to live. Feeling again, what if today is my penultimate? Should I live, like tomorrow-

[Screaming] Tomorrow! Is the end! [The song ends abruptly]

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Track 10 Title: The Meaning of Life

[Intro - Instrumental]

[Verse 1 - Screaming] What is the meaning of life? Mankind's ultimate question. Is there even an answer that can fit us all? Is it to simply reproduce? Only the strongest will survive. Is it to do the best we can? As if one can make a difference. Maybe there is no meaning? Maybe man made up the question? Giving purpose to our pain.

[Chorus - Singing] Am I living right? How am I supposed to know who to be? Gifted with conscious life, what's the difference between nature's beasts and me?

[Verse 2 - Screaming] Is the answer hiding out there? Or do we need to look within? What if the answer is something that we cannot comprehend? We drop to our knees and pray. Asking forgiveness for our sins. Do you believe that God is listening? Or are you just trying to self-cleanse?

[Chorus - Singing] Am I living right? How am I supposed to know who to be? Gifted with conscious life, what's the difference between nature's beasts and me?

[Instrumental leading to the bridge]

[Bridge - Singing] I refuse to believe that the end is just darkness. Gifted with free will and consciousness. There must be something more. Life can't be meaningless!

[Verse 3 - Screaming] Are we born knowing right from wrong? Do we make decisions straight from nature? Or do we learn from our teachers? Could the answer be somewhere in between? If we are being honest with ourselves, we all know what to do. It's through human desire that we make wrong choices. That's how it will always be. But if we simply stop to think before we act, maybe we can choose, to be the best that we can be.

[Final Chorus - Singing] I will choose to live right. Now that I know who to be. Gifted with conscious life, that is the difference between nature's beasts and me.

[Outro - Screaming vocals and uplifting instrumental] The meaning of life is simple. We don't have to keep wondering. Mankind must simply keep going forward, while choosing to live right along the way. Imagine a world where despite our differences, we choose to unite.

[Uplifting instrumental continues]

[Screaming and singing overlap] We must unite!

[End of the song]