The energy people can project can be some powerful stuff. I should know, I have empathy on a level I feel most people I have encountered don't have. I only started seeing any type of similarity within other music artists. We would never talk about it, but I would see how they reacted to certain energies around them and I would see the same reactions, same emotions all over them. It hit me that I actually have kindred spirits in this world when it comes to this empathy thing. I then started to wonder as my mind does if there are people not involved in the arts that experience this but don't know how to express how it makes them feel. I also began to wonder if all my feelings of rage, disappointment, even happiness were nothing more than a by product of what someone else was feeling at the time and if that were true, was I even a real person. Deep stuff right? Well, after wrapping my mind around all that I wrote a song about it in much more detail. Specifically the areas and moments it has affected my life. I named it 'Knights In Shining Darkness'. The darkness being the energy from the people I have encountered. The Knights represent people like myself who still stand firm yet silent when taking on those loads of emotions. Click below to listen to the song.
Hook
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
Verse1
It may sound strange an ambiguous to some
But I can feel the emotions of other humans
A deep empathy from the time I was young
For example I’d have a great day & good fun
Then someone high strung clearly so glum
Under their thumb I’m pressed & so done
A shadow inhaled an then passed through the lungs
That’s where a knight in shining darkness comes from
A man at his post haunted by ghosts
As long as this energy always stays close
I’m bound to the pain wrapped round my throat
The knight in shining darkness no chain mail for coat
So overwhelming I’d keep to myself
Sensory overload circuits would melt
Hours of scrubbing to bring back my health
I wiped myself so hard I gave my skin welps
Writing through pain always helps out a bit
If they pain go away, will I cease to exist??
Hook
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
Verse 2
As I matured new strength had been forged
my focus became sharp as a sword
negativity was strings & some chords
pinpointing its location like blips on a board
Like hearing a ford with ears to the floor
I can feel it coming like never before
Like clothing extra layers and a cauldron
under piles of bodies the heat is engulfing
It came back to me once where I was working
This shorty caught cancer death had been certain
her depression had altered my person
When she left the building I felt a resurgence
full optimism, sunlight through curtains
Now depending on the link I have with the person
I can predict their words before they’re emerging
Feed their pain through distance & deterrent
The knight in shining darkness guides through the current
uphill struggle climate cold & undeserving
The band leader orchestrate tide for the turning
Walk through the pain I know my soul is burning
Hook
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
My knights in shining, Darkness we dwell again
