Highway to everywhere and nowhere

Posted by Otto Robba in Poetry on 01. Dec, 2007 | No Comments

I left behind an entire world

I left the right places for the wrong ones

And still it was not a mistake

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I left a solved world

For a giant puzzle masterpiece

Dazzling daydream of change

I’m not sure when it will end

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I slept in parking lots

I sold all that I had

I visited places I would not dare

But I was right all along

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Right in being wrong

Just as I am

Right when writing down this song

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Went against a lot

Lost a lot and won so much more

And it all changed me

For I’m not an anachronic man

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I’m just a boy at heart

Don’t dare to scatter my sand castles

The dunes you make

Are from ill-minded cattle

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Don’t you dare to cut me out

I drive as I feel I must

And this should be enough.

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But it never is.

Not for you or those people,

All the glory and beauty I see

Comes across as mere dreamscape fantasy

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I assure you

I married my mind and my soul

I see a goal

I only lack your faith in me

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Enough is enough,

And so here it stops

So I can keep on going

Until I cross the last bit of road

Mirrors staring

Night March

Posted by Otto Robba in Poetry on 13. Nov, 2007 | No Comments

We don’t know where we are going

But still, we keep on roaming

We left everyone behind

We left all that we had

And yet we don’t find ourselves empty handed

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We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

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We got tired

We got sore

But we can’t stop

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We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

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Our shouts echo, in the midnight sky

Our moon is shining, over us

For tonight, our destination is unknown

And so will it be tomorrow and on and on because…

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We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

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Finally we can breath

Finally we are above the clouds

Bathed in blue light

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We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

We keep on Marching, Marching on we go!

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And on and on until there are no dreams left

Because then we can be assumed as dead.

How can anybody deny?

Posted by Otto Robba in Poetry on 12. Nov, 2007 | No Comments

Shivering hearts and cold stares

This is not where I belong

I knew something was wrong

Since the day I was told to lie

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Wronged and scorned

But the world turns

And what once was impossible in their eyes

Becomes improbable

And what once was improbable in their eyes

Becomes reality

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When nobody can deny,

When nobody can contest,

Then I’ll put my pen to rest

Until I can’t deny

That I must once again put the pen to the test

Glimpse

Posted by Otto Robba in Poetry on 11. Nov, 2007 | No Comments

We were young, we were naive, we simply went along

We simply believed.

But oh, honey honey, the illusions are starting to fade

Words like dead roses

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And their thorns

Since we were born

Made us torn

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Some will sit down and cry

Some will lie down and die

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But oh, honey honey, we catch a glimpse

Among all these clocks

And all doom-sayers

We catch a glimpse

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Some will sit down and cry

Some will lie down and die

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Deep in our hearts

The strings still echo

The colors are not pale

The sky can be made blue

The dreams do not have to stale

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Some will sit down and cry

Some will lie down and die

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We’ve got to keep on trying

Or we might aswell give up

And keep on dying

Disarray

Posted by Otto Robba in Poetry, Writings on 05. Nov, 2007 | No Comments

I’ve faced my demons
Wrestling these angels to the ground
And all that I could find
Was a thin line between
All the saints and villains
It was crossed in my own eyes

Someday I’m gonna find it
Wish I knew what I was looking for
Inside the disarray (inside the disarray)
I woke up this morning
Don’t know where I’m going
But it’s alright
I wouldn’t have it any other way

I’m struggling between the facts and fiction
I’m alone
But I’m alive
Everyone around me is trying to make a statement, then there’s me
I’m just trying to survive

Someday I’m gonna find it
Wish I knew what I was looking for

Inside the disarray (inside the disarray)
I woke up this morning
Don’t know where I’m going
But it’s alright
I wouldn’t have it any other way
If this was any other day
I pretend to know where I stand
I Just don’t know (just don’t know)
I Just don’t know

Someday I’m gonna find it
Wish I knew what I was looking for
Inside the disarray (inside the disarray)
I woke up this morning
Don’t know where I’m going
But it’s alright
I wouldn’t have it any other way
Someday I will find it
Wish I knew what I was looking for
Inside the disarray (inside the disarray)
I woke up this morning
Don’t know where I’m going
But it’s alright

–Lifehouse