Best of 12roots

Try to ignore me
Try to postpone me
But you cannot decide
The hour I arrive
Don’t worry darling
Don’t worry darling
Although I’m meant to take you 
You’re how your maker made you

Even the girl with the prettiest face
Will turn to compost at the end of her days
Dust to dust, ashes to ash
Human beings
Gone in a flash

Do you feel uneasy
Like you could be queasy
When you think of me
When you try to picture me
There’s no need to fear me
All generations know me
I have many names
But most know me as Death

Some reach old age, but all must die
Remember it, it’s in your design
Your identity will not last forever
remind yourself, and forget it never
Take not the flesh as an idol my friend
One thing’s for sure, it will meet its end
But consciousness is what will live on

Nothing’s meant to last

Memento Mori

Traveling through space
An astronaut named Ace
Found something strange 
A great wormhole
An artifact of some event
long ago

He witnessed the birth and death of stars
He experienced heavens near and far
He could see three-hundred-and-sixty degrees
He felt like he touched eternity

As he journeyed even farther
Time broke down
And he dissolved
He was no more
But was aware
Of it yet

That’s when he reached the singularity
The realm of every possibility
From the nothing the everything is born
The great at-one-ment, now here, nowhere

Back on earth his kids await
The return of their dad some day
Ace remembers and starts to wake
“How long was I gone?”
“Sir, just a few minutes”

And when they pulled the IV from his hand
It all came rushing back
He was debriefed
And the data was collected
For the experiment

An Astronaut Named Ace

You don’t have to look to the core of the earth
‘Cause the devil lurks beneath the crust
Under the thinnest layer of your skin

It’s 6 PM now
And I’m feeling anxious now
Looking for a way out
Looking for something…

The evil courses through your veins turning you restless
The venom bites in your blood till you feel reckless
It’s an uphill battle against your own tendency
It’s a war you’re fighting inside your own flesh and bones 
It’s tempting to try to drink the sorrow away
Or for some they like to get lost in the smoke
But It always leaves you feeling blue
“Why do I do this?” Is what you’ll ask you

Sip of things make me feel better
Do you see? It falls on you and it falls on me
It will be the death of me
Catastrophe of self annihilation

Gustation
Temptation 

It’s not easy
to resist
It feels so hopeless

It’s so easy to just drink

It Falls on You and it Falls on Me

Hybrid Moments

Johnny was a splendid man
He was just starting to get his life on track
He’d been sober about a year
His battle with addiction was severe 
When liquor stores are deemed essential what are you to do
When they mandate a shutdown and close down your AA group
Johnny called his sponsor, joe
But joe was failing to pick up his phone
Johnny had no place to go
No support group, nothing, he was on his own
When liquor stores are deemed essential what are you to do
When they mandate a shutdown and close down your AA group
And you don’t have nothing else cause they took your job from you
Johnny left us on his birthday
They found his body on the bedroom floor
With fire Johnny always played
He couldn’t help himself from wanting more
When liquor stores are deemed essential what are you to do
When they mandate a shutdown and close down your AA group
And you don’t have nothing else cause they took your job from you

Non-Essential Johnny

I fell in love with the sound of bands like Rancid, blink-182, and Green Day when I was 11 years old. At 13 I started writing my own music on the guitar, albeit very amateurishly. I quickly realized how much fun creating my own songs was. My recording skills and access to equipment were virtually non-existent until I was about 18 years old. I am now just starting to get the hang of recording and producing quality sound. Currently I am trying to become better at the instruments I play including my singing voice. My favorite instrument to play is bass, which I first started playing at 15 years old.