Playing the Fool

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Playing The Fool-

You touch the image in the glass, a reflection of the past
turns to dust right before you recognize it.
You look for life you've always known in the grass that's overgrown.
Now you go to the place where it all started.

You have the need again to clear the webs away.
A tragic prisoner who's caught inside the play.

You play the fool to empty aisles and to your knees you fall.
Soliloquies fill the shadows in the silent hall.
You use the masks to wear your smiles when tragedy befalls
bowing through the curtain to ghosts of old applause.

You bask in light of yesterday on the threshold of your disarray
as you fall through the arms of your departed.
You held the world within your hand, once a giant of the land
but now you're cold and your skin hangs in the closet.

You lose your heart again, they took your world away.
The prince of mockery that faded in the play.

You play the fool to empty aisles and balconies that fall
crush your rightful encore beneath the crumbling hall.
You use the masks to wear your smiles when tragedy befalls.
Sitting with your shadow the final curtain calls.

You played the part again inside a world of gray.
One eye saw harmony, the other turned away.

You lost your heart again.

Copyright 2021 J. Brower

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from Mourning Knight, released April 14, 2021

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Mourning Knight Mount Kisco, New York

Hailing from Westchester County, NY, Mourning Knight is a project that goes back to the mid 90s and continues to this day. Heavily influenced by the atmospheres and musical soundscapes of the Progressive seventies, passion, drama and a sense of the cinematic are brought together with lyrics that convey the darker, melancholy side of life. ... more

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