Legends

[jayce_xt]

Note: I dreamt one night that Serj Tankian was singing this. I have no idea why. The lyrics, the vocal melody, and the instruments were so moving that I spent many days trying to piece it back together. Of course, I forgot much of it. It still doesn't feel the same as it did then, but... it's close, at least. I can still almost hear it.

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Hidden in sleep
My dreams are perfect
Untouched by the world
Uncorrupted
Yet we all must wake
And invariably
The song of the nightmare
Brings us back

I don the mantle that was left behind

One day, you're a prodigy
And another, you're a heretic
Then the next, you're embodied hope
But someday, you'll be forgotten

Pushed out of mind
The nightmare ripens
Growing from our neglect
It's eating us all
Broken off from reality
Can we tell the beast from each other?
The answer lies in front of us
Right behind our closed eyes

I don the mantle that was left behind
Born of formless and nameless notions
Admired and revered
Reviled and forgotten
No matter how important the words are
The cycle repeats

Everyone forgets everything
Even you...

One day, you're a hero
And another, you're a criminal
Then the next, you're immortalized
But someday, you'll forget yourself

Oh, if your words were made real
Then so would end all calamity
And if your intentions bloomed
Then so would die our pained cries
But I guess this will have to do
Your touching songs lost to the wind
An exquisite duality
Between our words and our actions

You're our prophets
You're their prophets
And yet you profit no one
You profit no one
You profit no one
You profit no one
You profit not one of us

Because at dawn, you're rising stars
And at dusk, you're vulgar bards
Then in twilight, you're vision'ries
And by today, it's all forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten
Forgotten
These words and these dreams
You and I have forgotten

The tattered hope we've clung to
We are forgetting