This is a 30 second clip of the song "Velveteen" by Delayed Priority. Get the full version on our EP.
Guelph Ontario Hardcore
Delayed Priority is a hardcore band from Guelph, Ontario.
Story behind the song
This song is based on the story of the Velveteen Rabbit...it's about love and love gone wrong.
Recorded, produced and mixed by Chris Taylor, December 2003.
Lyrics
Velveteen
V1
Wish on a star, wish we were together
The shelf is lonely, I find myself in you
Countless thoughts of us together (I cherish every one)
A vision, dream of hope and reality (will I ever feel real?)
I know this loneliness isn’t true
Chorus 1
Will you ever love me?
We are so ignorant
Plastic eyes haze over
Endless thoughts of you and me
Will you ever love me?
V2
Memories of summers spent together
Skies stained an amaranthine blue
Countless hours spent together (we cherished every one)
A synthetic lining blinded me to reality (For once I felt real)
Hid what we both knew to be true.
Chorus 2
Will you still love me?
When summer is over
Plastic eyes are opened
When our layers fall apart?
Will you still love me?
Bridge
But summer past
Cold November winds set in
The seasons overlook me
Dim light strains my thoughts
An older me looks down on you
Seasons passing leave me tired
And I can feel it rising…
This emptiness inside
V3
My reality burned away in a scarlet fever
And I realized that all I trusted and knew
Everything in which I was a believer (every single one)
Was jaded and ruined by belligerent fallacy (nothing seems real)
Why couldn’t you just stay true?
Chorus 1
Ending
My happiness and existence
Mere sawdust in velveteen shells
