The Charioteer
The stories and cries of sadness and pain
Disturb the peace of my quiet reign
Tossed to the tempest - drawn from rest
Seduced and captured by hungry nets
Cast by clowns to capture fools
Temperatures rise as chaos rules
Called to destiny and drawn to flame
Scorch the earth - there is no shame
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
I can't see the way from here
I can't see beyond my fear
Gentleness scorched out of me
Branded by flames of patriarchy
Seeded by the fruit of my family tree
Can't sleep at night is my legacy
Lost in my castle built upon sand
Sad to find I've become an angry old man
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
Born in the fields of fragility
Where same is safe - don't think differently
I was deaf to the truth and I could not see
The stories and lies being fed to me
Like I was, blessed beyond the rest (They told me so in church)
It was a story I loved, I must confess
That I swallowed the pill to ease the stress
Truth suppressed, I acquiesced. I acquiesced
Held back, held down now too long
Promises broken now I'm making a new vow
To myself and to the earth
I'm gonna use my voice, I'm gonna cry for her
And the sons and daughter of hypocricy
Ignorance has been a luxury
I'm waking up from complacency
This complicity it ends with me
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
Disturb the peace of my quiet reign
Tossed to the tempest - drawn from rest
Seduced and captured by hungry nets
Cast by clowns to capture fools
Temperatures rise as chaos rules
Called to destiny and drawn to flame
Scorch the earth - there is no shame
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
I can't see the way from here
I can't see beyond my fear
Gentleness scorched out of me
Branded by flames of patriarchy
Seeded by the fruit of my family tree
Can't sleep at night is my legacy
Lost in my castle built upon sand
Sad to find I've become an angry old man
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
Born in the fields of fragility
Where same is safe - don't think differently
I was deaf to the truth and I could not see
The stories and lies being fed to me
Like I was, blessed beyond the rest (They told me so in church)
It was a story I loved, I must confess
That I swallowed the pill to ease the stress
Truth suppressed, I acquiesced. I acquiesced
Held back, held down now too long
Promises broken now I'm making a new vow
To myself and to the earth
I'm gonna use my voice, I'm gonna cry for her
And the sons and daughter of hypocricy
Ignorance has been a luxury
I'm waking up from complacency
This complicity it ends with me
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
What have you outgrown?
How far will you go?
Are you prepared to stand alone?
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Writer(s): Parker Johnson
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