I am King - Lights

I want it all-Before curtain falls

Untraveled Road

Monster

This was another song I wrote during those same emotionally turbulent high school years in the mid-1980s. If "Breakin' My Heart" was about the immediate shock of betrayal, "Shattered Illusions" dug deeper into the aftermath - that hollow feeling when you realize everything you believed about someone was built on lies.

The opening line "Midnight shadows, a phone that won't ring" perfectly captured those sleepless nights, waiting for someone who was never going to call. I remember writing that verse thinking about how naive I'd been, how I'd "built castles on empty words." The metaphor felt so real to me then - all those promises and dreams just crumbling down.

What I'm proud of in this song is the pre-chorus structure. Adding that extra emotional build before hitting the chorus made the impact stronger. "Shattering my world" felt like the perfect phrase to describe how completely someone could destroy your sense of reality when you're seventeen and think you know everything about love.

The bridge represents growth - moving from victim to survivor. "I'm done with your lies, done with the pain" shows that progression from hurt to empowerment that I was learning to navigate as a teenager. The outro ties it all together with "Your love was fiction, but I'll rise from this fall" - probably the most mature line I wrote at that age.

Like my other lyrics from that time, this sat dormant for decades until AI technology gave me the opportunity to finally hear these words with music. There's something magical about bringing teenage angst full circle with today's creative tools. The song now has that dramatic, emotional sound that matches the intensity I felt when I first wrote these words.

Shattered Illusions

Normandie - Awakening

lyrics: 
It's loud again, these are the longest days
I cover up my face, think of another place
”I swear I easily bruise” was always my excuse
and now it’s loud again loud again loud again

The weight of the world is forcing me down down down (the weight of the world)
I can’t make a sound, there’s no one around
The weight of the world holds me down

It's loud again, it’s just another day
sick of being brave here in the awful place
”I swear the fault wasn’t his” only the drunken fists
it’s so damn loud again loud again loud again

The weight of the world is forcing me down down down (the weight of the world)
I can’t make a sound, there’s no one around
The weight of the world holds me down

Why don’t you leave me alone?
Just leave me alone!

The weight of the world is holding me down
The weight of the world is forcing me down down down (the weight of the world)
I can’t make a sound, there’s no one around
The weight of the world holds me down

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Self Deception - Weight Of The World

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Music & lyrics by ALESTI
Production & Mix by ALESTI Productions
Released: 2018, December 12th

Lyrics:

The touch of our innocence is fading
(We wish, we hope, we pray)
No answers for questions we keep evading
(Go away, go away)

Before the sun we're none
We can point the blame but it doesn't matter
It ended before it begun
Now we run

But this shadow lingers on

We feel the devil's stare
But we move on like we don't care
'Cause inside this house of glass
We're throwing stones and we just
Pray for it to last

We're standing as one but we're divided
(We fight, we kill, we hate)
Our days pass us by but they're spent misguided
(Now it's too late)

We must decide on our own
If this story should end or go on

We feel the devil's stare
But we move on like we don't care
'Cause inside this house of glass
We're throwing stones and we just
Pray it lasts
We feel the devil's stare
But we move on like we don't care
'Cause inside this house of glass
We throw stones and we just
Pray it lasts

(We're throwing stones and we just
Pray for it to last)

Somewhere deep inside 
Find your reasons, unify
Raise your head stay strong
It's now or never

We feel the devil's stare 
But we move on like we don't care
'Cause inside this house of glass
We're throwing stones and we just
Pray it lasts
We feel the devil's stare
But we move on like we don't care
'Cause inside this house of glass
We're throwing stones and we just
Pray for it to last

(Inside this house of glass)

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House Of Glass (feat. James DeBerg)

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I want it all-Before curtain falls

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