Driven by the Battle Drum Lyrics

Is pain the only way to tell if we're awake

Caresses do not help us differentiate

Is the joke of our mortality

That we can only frame our reality with our malady

Can we know abundance without scarcity

What would be the flavor of my stanza

If I only knew bonanza

A pinch is not sole way to ken a dream

Epiphany affords me lucidity like a daylight beam

Tiffany's told me that I am a gem

Of a cut and a clarity quite unseen

Conveyed to them, key to my gleam

Is that I reflect only light from a heavenly source

Never divorce

Your passion from your action when you choose a trail

Roughness in the path can offer traction

Use the wind to sail

Fame's a fragrance that you cannot sample

And once it's sprayed upon you

It can only be removed with time or scalpel

And unbridled anger or vigor

Is Russian roulette with a skeleton

And echo chamber's bullet in the chamber

Love is a god that demands worthy sacrifice

Time and commitment and vulnerability

Readily I will deliver my heart to pay price

To the best of my present ability

I don't want to be the train

Off which you feel you cannot leap

Barreling toward future

You're not ready to conceptualize

You said

You had

No doubts

And yet my

Name's a secret that you keep

Asked to see your family

And I saw fear within your eyes

Keine Lügen liegen in deinen Augen

Wir sind die Sonne und die Welt

Und ich sehe Wolken am Himmelszelt

I'm a professional

I could write outside of witching hour

And my work would still be seminal

Scarce precedent, yet still preeminent

I don't need a heartbreak as a catalyst

Or for assistance in making the face of woe evident

Sigue la verdad, y la rectitud

Y fortalece su mentalidad y actitud

La manera en que las sigues

Es madera de su mente

Puede construir

Su nave

O su ataúd

Fie on a letter of recommendation

I'm walking the path of my edification

Discover me truly through a conversation

Uncover me fully by seeing creation

What the Spirit has given to me is a compass, not map

Redirection may come as a need and surprise

But I'm unafraid—be it a mountain or trap

Stage at a festival

Is a plank and a pedestal

I sing and dance on an auction block

And a podium

When I perform in a stadium

Till I'm in the Lord's embrace

No move from me will be perfunctory

I understand a long life, and a sweet death

Are a luxury

Rather be misunderstood

Upon a rightly-pointed trail

Than to be quite understood

Upon the wrong path

Stood for righteousness

And as a consequence travailed

Than for nothingness

In order to avoid man's wrath

I, watered my dreams with brine

And sowed my deeds in love and passion

My heart's a battle drum

Whose beat to which my flesh is marching

The step that follows for the sun

Does separate the dusk from dawn

On your horizon

Is star, setting or rising