Let the Ivory Towers Fall

If imaginary friends were real, what would their last words be to us before we inevitably left them in our childhoods?

Let the Ivory Towers Fall

Relentlessly merciless are the worlds in which we live

Tearing down the magic with the touch of metamorphosis

I remember the moment the sober summer solstice ended

But before I let you go, I have one last message to send

One day it will come, the requiem of your childish whims

And all that remain is a cradle of fragmented prisms

But I want you to vow that when the waves break the bow

You will hold out and make the most of the time you're allowed

Let the ivory towers fall down

As the diamond sky drowns in a sea of burning eiderdown

The cities of our hearts can slowly become ghost towns

And our minds are left calcified by cold truth personified

But we must not ever forget we wage a war with time

One day it will come, the requiem of your childish whims

And all that remain is a cradle of fragmented prisms

But I want you to vow that when the waves break the bow

You will hold out and make the most of the time you're allowed

Let the ivory towers fall down

Traverse the tundra and reach the Beaches of Elan

And embrace the warmth of five thousand lithium suns

One day it will come, the requiem of your childish whims

And all that remain is a cradle of fragmented prisms

But I want you to vow that when the waves break the bow

You will hold out and make the most of the time you're allowed

Let the ivory towers fall down

Think not that this is goodbye, but just as the end of this lullaby

Imagine if the imaginary friends when we were young were actually real, but we just didn't know it because they resided in a different universe than ours, and then imagine if they knew and cherished the connection they share with us, and were aware of the fact that we would one day forget them, and decided, despite how futile it might be, to send one last message to us in the hopes that, if we heard it, we would heed whatever advice they had to give us.  That would be something, wouldn't it?

Author's Note

Geez, I'm sorry I haven't uploaded anything for about a month. It seems that my creative drive has run dry lately (even writing this piece here was a bit of a struggle), and this is really the first thing I have written in a month. I feel like this might just be the weakest, scratch that, WORST piece of writing I have ever written, but I've decided to keep and post this anyway for some weird reason. Anyway, tell me what you think, as always, and be honest! :)

Reviews

[Valentine]

Dan, as always your writing is great. I like the idea for this write and see it more as a deep poem than a song. If a song, all I would hear is the drummer going, bang,bang,bang, in so fast a beat I would not catch the words. You really have a brain for wordage. Valentine

[DoormanDan]

Thanks Valentine, I'm really trying to get my creativity going again, for it's been in a drought for quite a while now. That's why I decided to go somewhat outlandish with this piece, and I'm really glad you liked the results. It may seem as if it would be to an extremely fast song, but I actually wrote it to the beat of a ballad called "Final Masquerade" by Linkin Park(sadly I can't say I come up with my own beats for my lyrics. Every time I try to come up with my own beat, I either forget it or don't like it at all). Thanks for reviewing :)

[Valentine]

Dan, have you ever tried to contact known writers on the internet and ask them questions on if they have the beat and then the words? I would think the beat would be running around in the creators head, Kathie

[DoormanDan]

I haven't actually talked to anybody about it, but I have looked into it a bit, and I do know that some song writers do write the lyrics before they come up with a beat(and some lyricists who work with people who are good with music write lyrics to go with music and vice versa). I'm never going to be in a band(because I don't have any sort of musical talents), and the chances of me managing to sell any of my songs are only so-so. Perhaps one day I'll find somebody who can help me with beats for these lyrics, but until then, I'm just going to keep writing them the way I write them so that I can satisfy my desire to express things creatively. :)