Cowardice

from Three Gods & Me by Hungry Lights

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This is the final chapter of "Three Gods & Me." Reflaugh asks Prill to give him the prize money he won in The Pit, and in exchange, he will call Prill's debt cleared and let him go home to his family. Prill was famous now. He was a hero. He had redeemed himself from his failures in "The Awry Ascent" and "Heavy Is The Crown," and he attained everything he could ever want. It could be all over, but he just cannot bring himself to give Reflaugh the money. He cannot humble himself enough to let go of all the pain Reflaugh had caused him, so he brutally murders Reflaugh and Atah'xia, and in doing so, he finally feels free. #cliffhanger

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Every time I disgraced,
I felt like I was on top of the world
A flash in the pan had laid me
Right where I wanted to be

Suffering’s never enough
‘Cause surely my soul was as sharp as my teeth
I’m in between right and wrong—a blurry line
A change happened to me...

I’ve grown crooked up the fence,
‘Cause I couldn’t pick a side

I didn’t follow the outset
The waves forebode a storm was coming for me
But I had plans of my own
-A couple of cards stashed deep in my sleeve

I’ve grown crooked up the fence
‘Cause I couldn’t pick a side
Don’t I feel strange…
‘Twas coming along
-My great design
It had come…
And who was I not to believe?

Yah dahdahdah dah-
Daah dahdah dahdah
Yah dahdahdah dum

I’d been blessed
No more that weak, pathetic twig on the fence
How would it feel to prove you wrong?
Let’s wait and see…

Look how my conscience was cleared!
There’s no more bothering
No chirping nonsense on my shoulder
All whispers melted to sighs
And you fell silent,
Speaking nothing of my insurrection
I was glad to finally be rid of
All you piquing beggars
You had bound me safely to the tightrope
I was kept from making the dive
My dear, at the bottom I found solace
Seeking what I once thought the end

Caught in the triumph,
I saw myself brighter than ever before
And the chaos and wonder inside my head?
O’ I couldn’t hear anymore!
I flourished, the fever I had was gone
-A plashet of oil and tar
The outside now echoed my victory
I shined like a star!

Then I made to look inside myself,
And I found nothing I could value
So I took my head down from the clouds
And I pulled out that spear

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from Three Gods & Me, released December 31, 2017

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Hungry Lights

Hungry Lights is my solo music project. The plan is to release five concept albums all surrounding a character named, "Prill," who is a plesiosaur hunter on a quest to better his life, but everything he does just adds to his own delusion and lack of self-worth. The music is the musical interpretation of a book series I have been writing called, "From Windfall To Hell." ... more

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