I’m Born to Run – American Authors
It’s a childhood spent running as fast and as far as your legs will carry you. Laughter is easy and triumphant. You never did learn how to wait for others, did you? Much less how to ask for others to wait for you. You barreled forward without knowing a single thing.
Gonna Be Legend – The Phantoms
Your head is filled with delusions of grandeur. You wanted to be a hero but somehow, everything is different than what you expected when you left home. The stories don’t talk about long nights of nothing but potato peels curling at your feet. They don’t write stories about people like you.
I See Fire – Celtic Woman
The city burned and people died and yet… you weren’t a hero. Five years and you were barely a soldier. You were just lucky. You’ll smell like blood and fire until the day you die. Nothing can wash that out.
Heart of the Darkness – Tommee Profitt, Sam Tinnesz
After the heat of the inferno everything else seems cold. You can’t get through the night, you wake up coughing phantom smoke. Days run together like liquid, deep and amber and burning. It warms you for a time, numbs you, makes you sleep. You can’t even light a candle.
Battle Cry – Beth Crowley
There is a calmness to the hunt, tense but not anxious, like the string of a bow. It’s cold but it’s better than the sleepy warmth of the drink. Helping her is fulfilling. She’s using you but its a purpose, something you haven’t had in months. It’s not healthy, none of it is. That’s okay. It’s a reason to wake up.
Mother & Father – Broods
She’s gone when you wake up. The loneliness is surprising even if you’d been telling yourself for weeks that she would do this when she got tired of you. The urge to go home is almost overwhelming but… what would you say? If they saw you, they’d know you’d been lying. No. Better to stay. Better to work. Better to forget.
Faith – Bon Iver
The temple is warm and dark inside, the pews filled with strangers staring up at Her dark countenance. You’d passed it a hundred times since coming to the city, never entering before. There is a priestess speaking but you aren’t listening. Faith is something you had but never needed before, but today of all days… It nice to think that someone might be guiding them past the veil. You think you’ll light a candle for Her this year.
Weight of Living, PT II – Bastille
You’ve been so stuck. Stuck in remembering who you failed to be, stuck not knowing who to become now. You need to take a step forward. A change of scenery will be just the thing.
Glitter and Gold – Barns Courtney
You’re older, smarter. Better. You’re still not a hero and no matter how you try to move on the guilt of that day eats at you. It’s better now. Always there with you but not all consuming. It won’t kill you. You’ll prove it every day until you believe it.
Superheroes – The Script
Two years out and you can still see the scars left by the fighting. You’ve been all over, met all kinds. You try to put more good into the world than bad. It’s not much but maybe its worth it. You don’t always succeed but there are people you can rely on; People who rely on you. It’s something real and sometmes it fills you up until you feel like you’re drowning… but sometimes it’s small and warm and worth protecting more than anything.