11+ min 3-song composition: 'The Illusionist / Lucifer's Carnival / Oxymoronic Binge.' 'The Illusionist' was influenced mainly by the Beatles but came off sounding a bit like Jeff Buckley...?(in my eyes). maybe Jeff Buckley was influenced alot b
One-man band. Original rock music
i'm paul. this is my one-man band.
Story behind the song
The 'plot' is a vague sketch of someone realizing they are mentally unstable. They have a mental breakdown and become delusional. Then there's a point where this person comes to realize their former beliefs weren't real, but then falls back into the quicksand again.
(Lucifer is the character who has the disease; the illusionist is the disease; the voice is a third-person entity)
Lyrics
"The Illusionist (Introduces You to the Carnival of Delusion)"
Voice:
Time is repetition
You never know where you're going
Just another position
The illusionist changes everything to you
Lucifer:
(Victim of this black-out)
I'm just an ordinary man blocked out by the illusion
(There's no warning)
I'm just an ordinary man
(And I'm in the front row)
The illusionist:
So watch the show...
"Lucifer's Carnival"
The illusionist:
The sun will not shine today
Lucifer:
Day by day, I try to find an answer
For this curse that destroys dreams
Losing my mind, trade it for no education
Trying to hide from everything
"Oxymoronic Binge (Bad Trip in the Hotel Halls)"
Lucifer:
I awake in a hotel room next to an hourglass
Dread brooding at the door, beckons: "come closer"
Far overhead, I hear a cry
Death flirts among the northern sky
The illusionist:
Tell me what you want to have
I'll give it to you, but not in one piece
You seem to forget that I'm the one on your side
Lucifer:
This once latent frequency
Uncovered another way
But now I know
There is no plan
It was only an excuse to numb the pain / Don't need your lies or contradictions
Voice:
Holes in December and burning ember
Bring us closer to the end of the line
Lucifer:
And I drift down an empty sidewalk
Demolished by all the times I couldn't think straight
And now this sidewalk's taking me away
