the-song-of.mp3

[Verse 1]
I grew up in a suburb where the houses stood in rows,
Neat lawns like patchwork quilts in soft suburban glows.
A parkette down the street, a quiet wind’s domain—
A childhood painted gently, untouched by hidden chains.

[Verse 2]
We biked past bungalows warm as lantern light,
Through cul-de-sacs that held the lingering dusk just right.
We rode to the lake where the wild horizon lay—
A middle-class freedom untouched by measured day.

[Pre-Chorus]
We took your medicine, trusted your food,
You said that progress was always for our good.
But rules crept in like ivy, silent and slow,
Veiling the sky we once thought we’d always know.

[Chorus]
If I think for myself, you shelve what I say,
A script revised to keep dissent at bay.
Clowns in a government painted to please,
Dancing on strings tugged by hands no one sees.

[Verse 3]
You promise a future that never arrives,
A lantern held distant to govern our lives.
Leaders in makeup pretending to lead,
Turning our yearning into something they need.

[Rebellion Verse]
Yet embers awaken where quiet hearts stand,
A murmur of fire beneath the managed land.
No throne of shadows can govern the brave—
We walk past the fences they expected us to crave.

[Bridge]
Still I remember that sun-warmed street,
The tidy row houses, the rhythm so sweet.
Like seeds in the soil of the life we once knew,
Freedom endures in the memory’s view.

[Final Chorus]
If I think for myself, you shelve what I say,
But some truths refuse to be taken away.
The world is only theirs if we let it be—
And I remember what it feels like to be free.

[Outro]
We will not drift quietly into borrowed design,
Nor trade our lived freedoms for someone else’s line.
Together we stand where the quiet truth leads—
Steady, unshaken, the keepers of our deeds.

Keepers of our Deeds

Professional software developer. Amateur composer, photographer, chef. (Note I am not the other Geoffrey Falk in Toronto who writes music. That's Geoffrey David Falk, who often goes by just "Geoffrey Falk.")

Keepers of our Deeds

Geoffrey Trueman Falk

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