Unearthed Lyrics

I have made a discovery. I was cleaning out a closet tonight and found some school papers among some other writings of mine. Some time in college, maybe sophomore year, I had an English class. I'm pretty sure it was one of those writing English classes, rather than the reading kind. Every few weeks we'd get a long list of words for vocabulary study. For our vocab tests, we had three options. We could just go through and write out all the definitions, or we could write an essay using all the words, or we could write a song or poem using all the words. I always opted to write a song. So, here are my songs. If a word seems out of place and overtly pompous and brainy, then it was probably one of the vocabulary words.

::ahem::

Running Over Labyrinthine Walls
by Joshua Smith

I am so dismayed, that it's hard to convey
All the garbled thoughts I'm thinking today
I am not hallucinating, it's so intimidating
When my soul's so hurt it's incapacitating

Intrinsically I chide my mind- I will find solace in time
Can my cowardice keep my bravado primed?
I'll acutely search my life, no more cursory glances
I won't alienate myself from this chance

Ch:
I'm running over labyrinthine walls
Not accentuating their lethality
After this change I'll be undistinguishable
From the anomalous gringo I was

In twenty years I will suffer from insomnia
And all the perpetrators who attack my mind
But in retrospect I'll see they were only meant to be
A pre-requisite to easing my mind

If I can now assimilate what I've tried to communicate
And tried to say so affluently
No matter what your mind thinks, you have the power down deep
To make right the incongruities

Egocentricity
by Joshua Smith

Vs1:
There is something I must begrudgingly say
In speaking, I'm apt to deduce and foray
I'm facing the world with its egocentricity
"Discard those self-thoughts, for their thought unethically!"

Ch:
The problems of this world
Will bring chronic dysentery
To those who are duelists laboriously-
Fighting the flow instinctively
The quantitative souls who are lost
Are symptomatic of the high cost
The affluent will pay to tell those
Who love others to egress

Vs2:
I'm not charismatic, but I make this citation:
"Your loathsome self-centgeredness will lead to privation
of sustenance crucial to this blessed nation,
Which raises sated kids who are an exacerbation."

Br:
Now to the neurological center I ingress
I hope you're alarmed by my intransigence
Though abrasions may come I will not be silent
"Think of others and we all will win."

A Song for My Generation
By Joshua Smith

Vs1:
I look and see the world today
The pundits emanate their hypocrisy
While I'm complacent with my adaptivity,
They won't allow change- subverted by their mediocrity

Vs2:
The pedagogues continue to lambast my firm beliefs
Hoping for dire corruption to come upon me
But I am adept at watching captiously
Those hypocrites, secure in their vapid litany

Ch:
They can't hear my lamentations
My cries for help they do not heed
But their downfall comes so imminently
Who is their scapegoat? The young like me

Br:
With prowess tehy begin to come after me
But it takes no courage to imperil me
They see me sitting there so vulnerably
They think I want to argue with their expert polemies:
They compensate for their mistakes
By impoverishing you and me-
And they take away our mind's vitality



So, these read a little like "Mad Libs," but they were good for a few A's. Thanks for reading :-) And I'm up for co-writing songs with anybody, just let me know.