I will find myself
In these memories
Bring control into the chaos
Storming deep through all of me
Find the light I lost
Stem the entropy
The light it fades but I remain
Will I always be
A shadow of myself?
Yet again, I pick up the pieces
Repeat and repeat till the sequence ceases
Trying to write a thesis defining me
In defiance of all the anxiety
It's like cryosleep
All those years locked away
While the whole world got to play
Self left to rot, decay
Now I'm not the same
But it's not too late
'Cause I've got today
But what's today?
All the flashbacks are cracking
The memories oscillate
As I grasp at the fragments
A destiny lost to shade
My whole past on display
Path gone astray
And I forgot where I lost the way
So, allow me to postulate
On the nature of what it takes
To find heart to say that I'm not the fake
They say I'm fearless
They say I'm strong
They say I'm peerless
And they're no wrong
But I was engineered for a job that's gone
So I spend the years just grinding on
Tell me, does it make you free or worthless
If you can't complete your purpose?
Am I the character between curse and cure
Or just surplus 'neath the surface?
I will find myself
In these memories
Bring control into the chaos
Storming deep through all of me
Find the light I lost
Stem the entropy
The light it fades but I remain
Will I always be
A shadow of myself?
What's a hedgehog supposed to do
When resolution's overdue?
It's been 20 years since I first appeared
And I still don't know the truth
Ain't nobody lived a life so gritty
As I blaze through midlife-crisis city
On a motorcycle with a loaded rifle
In the hopes the fight will quiet the nihilist in me
Cast from a demon and the dreams of madmen
That dream cast me left asleep, abandoned
Had my light dashed
Still I see the pattern
Of an arc so dark it'd eclipse it's canon
How many chapters and pages left?
As I cling to the past to escape the next
As I sift through the past on a razor's edge
As I pick which path on the stage select
How to find a way now I'm not programmed?
Now I've got no cage
But I've got no plan
On a final chase trying to find a place
But how am I to face when the clock throws hands?
What's the point of running at light speed
If I'm running from the choice of who I might be
Live the life I lead looking behind me
Because things were so much easier in the nineties
It was just a simpler time, you know?
I will find myself
In these memories
Bring control into the chaos
Storming deep through all of me
Find the light I lost
Stem the entropy
The light it fades but I remain
Will I always be
A shadow of myself?
Can't you see me at the window
With my hand against the glass?
Time is leaving me in limbo
Forced to languish in the past
Now a future lies before me
As I break from this machine
Live and learn to write my story
Until I am all of me
I will find myself
In these memories
Bring control into the chaos
Storming deep through all of me
Find the light I lost
Stem the entropy
The light it fades but I remain
Will I always be
A shadow of myself?
The age I was playing Sonic Adventure 2 was probably the last point in my life
I remember actually understanding everything who I am, where I'm going
The biggest problem in my life was trying to beat Canon's core
And now I have a mortgage
Adulting is hard