Jay_Quessir
28th September 2005, 01:44 AM
This is written for a friend to perform at our Fellowship of Christian Athletes Meeting Next Monday. Comment in the same forum as before!!! This is a song by Relient K called "Be My Escape." I hope these are keeping y'all entertained!!!
-Jay
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I’ve given up on giving up slowly,
I’m blending in so you won’t even know me
Apart from this whole world that shares my fate
I’ve fallen for the media and I long for that attention that everyone dreams of: stardom. I’ve wanted it all my life and it’s becomes my only dream. I dreamt of love, I dreamt of life but forgot them quickly. I’ve had friends but they only got in the way of my dream, my ultimate goal. I had to give them up…and they had to give me up the same.
I’m stronger than anyone else and better than them too. I’ve got my talents, I’m by far a lot better than you. I see them on the stage and congratulate them when they’re done, but when I step up, they can see I am truly numero uno, the best, number one. So I tell them congratulations, but it’s all a part of my skill. One day I’ll be famous and they’ll still be in some rinky-dink town working at a theater that has 3 regular mediocre actors. I’ll be on Broadway, they’ll be in the slums of New Jersey.
This one last bullet you mention
Is my one last shot at redemption
Because I know to live you must give your life away
Going to church one day I realized the error of my ways. I had one final bullet before I fell forever. I was slowly slipping away from even my family on my way to fame. I was nearly there, just a few more years and I would be ready for the ultimate stage…but I had to give that life away.
And I’ve been housing all this doubt and insecurity
And I’ve been locked inside that house
All the while You hold the key
And I’ve been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there’s no way in knowing where to go,
Promise I’m going because
My life seemed so grand: Best Actress, 1st in State, Best Monologue, the way was truly paved for me. Yet I knew all along that there was something missing deep within, a void that was growing larger and larger as I began to shun all those around me, all those who loved me.
I was locked up in a world of perfection and limelight that blinded me from the door, but I realized that Sunday that the shade was with the Lord. I’ve been dying to escape from such an empty void and now I see the light. Although I don’t know where this new beam will lead me, I must go because it’s the only way to live.
I gotta get outta here
I’m stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I’m begging You,
I’m begging You,
I’m begging You to be my escape.
I need to leave this life behind, this void that I created by mistake. I need to find the right path again, but I do not know the way. I need a guide, I need a guide to lead me to an escape.
I’m giving up on doing this alone now
Cause I’ve failed and I’m ready to be shown how
He’s told me the way and I’m trying to get there
I’ve tried before to find my own way, but it never worked out in the end because stardom was only a hollow victory. It fulfilled me to the very core but left me as soon as it came and I was filled with an empty void.
Reading the Bible, I was shown the way and now all I have to do is travel on his road and pray that I make it to my escape.
And this life sentence that I’m serving
I admit that I’m every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
I deserve what I get now for being such a prude, for thinking I knew how to live a life fulfilled. I know that this trek that I’m taking is hard, but the Lord meant for it to be this way. I know that the grace of God will one day see me through to my mistake and I’ll be fulfilled.
I am a hostage
To my own humanity
Self detained and forced to live in this mess I’ve made
And all I’m asking is for You to do what You can with me
But I can’t ask You to give what You already gave
I tried to make my life my own but I know it doesn’t belong to me and I have to live in this friendless void that I’ve created for myself. I made mistakes before and lost His guiding life that He gave. I want Him to do what he can now, although I cannot ask for what He already gives to me, everyday. I just want to make it to him, to my escape.
I fought You for so long
I should have let You in
Oh how we regret those things we do
I tried to escape from the Lord all my life, to live in sin and pride in myself. I fought to reach fame and fortune, but in that, I lost You. I should have allowed you in and my life would not have turned out this way. Now I’m lost and need you to show me the way.
Oh how I regret losing you all those years ago when I turned my back on the Righteous for the sin of my own pride. I strove for something other than what you wanted of me, and here I am wallowing in my broken life, waiting for a an escape.
I fought You for so long but I needed You to show me an escape. I needed you to show the way and I just shoved you the way. If I had accepted you all those years ago, I would have been better but now I must suffer but through grace will I find an escape.
And all I was trying
To do was save my own skin
I just wanted to have the perfect life before, I wanted to live like a rich girl in fame and fortune. Without them, without You, all alone in my perfect little limelight. I would live in the Big NYC and love my life on Broadway. I was trying to save myself from failure, but ultimately I fell. I was trying to build my perfect life…
But so were You
So were You…
I’ve gotten out of there and found my way to You, my escape.
-Jay
~_________________________________________~-_-~__________________________________________~
I’ve given up on giving up slowly,
I’m blending in so you won’t even know me
Apart from this whole world that shares my fate
I’ve fallen for the media and I long for that attention that everyone dreams of: stardom. I’ve wanted it all my life and it’s becomes my only dream. I dreamt of love, I dreamt of life but forgot them quickly. I’ve had friends but they only got in the way of my dream, my ultimate goal. I had to give them up…and they had to give me up the same.
I’m stronger than anyone else and better than them too. I’ve got my talents, I’m by far a lot better than you. I see them on the stage and congratulate them when they’re done, but when I step up, they can see I am truly numero uno, the best, number one. So I tell them congratulations, but it’s all a part of my skill. One day I’ll be famous and they’ll still be in some rinky-dink town working at a theater that has 3 regular mediocre actors. I’ll be on Broadway, they’ll be in the slums of New Jersey.
This one last bullet you mention
Is my one last shot at redemption
Because I know to live you must give your life away
Going to church one day I realized the error of my ways. I had one final bullet before I fell forever. I was slowly slipping away from even my family on my way to fame. I was nearly there, just a few more years and I would be ready for the ultimate stage…but I had to give that life away.
And I’ve been housing all this doubt and insecurity
And I’ve been locked inside that house
All the while You hold the key
And I’ve been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there’s no way in knowing where to go,
Promise I’m going because
My life seemed so grand: Best Actress, 1st in State, Best Monologue, the way was truly paved for me. Yet I knew all along that there was something missing deep within, a void that was growing larger and larger as I began to shun all those around me, all those who loved me.
I was locked up in a world of perfection and limelight that blinded me from the door, but I realized that Sunday that the shade was with the Lord. I’ve been dying to escape from such an empty void and now I see the light. Although I don’t know where this new beam will lead me, I must go because it’s the only way to live.
I gotta get outta here
I’m stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I’m begging You,
I’m begging You,
I’m begging You to be my escape.
I need to leave this life behind, this void that I created by mistake. I need to find the right path again, but I do not know the way. I need a guide, I need a guide to lead me to an escape.
I’m giving up on doing this alone now
Cause I’ve failed and I’m ready to be shown how
He’s told me the way and I’m trying to get there
I’ve tried before to find my own way, but it never worked out in the end because stardom was only a hollow victory. It fulfilled me to the very core but left me as soon as it came and I was filled with an empty void.
Reading the Bible, I was shown the way and now all I have to do is travel on his road and pray that I make it to my escape.
And this life sentence that I’m serving
I admit that I’m every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
I deserve what I get now for being such a prude, for thinking I knew how to live a life fulfilled. I know that this trek that I’m taking is hard, but the Lord meant for it to be this way. I know that the grace of God will one day see me through to my mistake and I’ll be fulfilled.
I am a hostage
To my own humanity
Self detained and forced to live in this mess I’ve made
And all I’m asking is for You to do what You can with me
But I can’t ask You to give what You already gave
I tried to make my life my own but I know it doesn’t belong to me and I have to live in this friendless void that I’ve created for myself. I made mistakes before and lost His guiding life that He gave. I want Him to do what he can now, although I cannot ask for what He already gives to me, everyday. I just want to make it to him, to my escape.
I fought You for so long
I should have let You in
Oh how we regret those things we do
I tried to escape from the Lord all my life, to live in sin and pride in myself. I fought to reach fame and fortune, but in that, I lost You. I should have allowed you in and my life would not have turned out this way. Now I’m lost and need you to show me the way.
Oh how I regret losing you all those years ago when I turned my back on the Righteous for the sin of my own pride. I strove for something other than what you wanted of me, and here I am wallowing in my broken life, waiting for a an escape.
I fought You for so long but I needed You to show me an escape. I needed you to show the way and I just shoved you the way. If I had accepted you all those years ago, I would have been better but now I must suffer but through grace will I find an escape.
And all I was trying
To do was save my own skin
I just wanted to have the perfect life before, I wanted to live like a rich girl in fame and fortune. Without them, without You, all alone in my perfect little limelight. I would live in the Big NYC and love my life on Broadway. I was trying to save myself from failure, but ultimately I fell. I was trying to build my perfect life…
But so were You
So were You…
I’ve gotten out of there and found my way to You, my escape.