Solo of a Caged Bird

Released July 20, 2018

Smiling Corpse Records

1. Beethoven

- Instrumental -

2. Warp

Parallel shadows on my path

Cutting me in half

As I stare into the sun

I see the people

Smiling from the outside

I'm not wondering who locked this cage


Do you know the meaning of freedom?

Do you know how to -


Break me out

Shattered in the rain

But I am whole again

Break me out

Criticism overridden

I'm not my own prison

Bend the pillars of the earth

Nothing can hold me


Blue hot and razor sharp

Do you understand the reason why

Our desire to escape

Kills what we cultivate?

No, I'm not afraid

I know this house is going to crumble

Foundations crack

And the walls are caving in on me


If you cannot break the lock

Then you'll have to warp the bars

If Atlas has shrugged

Then I guess we're going for a ride

If you look in the mirror

Did you give yourself those scars?

If you cannot break the lock

Then you'll have to warp the bars

3. Dreams

I'm daring to close my eyes again

Same rush beneath my skin

Will carry me away

Knowing and consciousness escapes

Abandoned to my fate

And I'm falling


Piercing light

Fills my vision

Calls me every night

Come away

Filled with dread

And it seems that I'm awake


Tides awaken, all misshapen

Full moon lights my nightly haven

Peaceful slumber drowned in thunder

Rolling from my dreams tonight


Haunted, hunted, I'm the prey

My own mind will betray

A worry-shackled id

Colors never seen before

Are standing at my door

I'm welcoming the vultures


Carve me up

Make me see and

Guide my searching hand

Heed the call

After all

There is no rest for the damned


Swallowed alive and I'm terrified

The world I know isn't real


Hellfire in a haze

Rolling from my dreams tonight

© Copyright Veronica DaVanzo