Lost Within A Melody (Turn Out Suite)

Lost Within a Melody has been published in All of Me Vol. VI, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Turn It Out (Crowdpleasers Remix) by Fantastic Max.

Listen to Lost Within a Melody by Richard Charles Stevens (Turn Out Suite)

Lost within a melody
Lost within a melody
Lost within a melody profound
(Found)
(Found)
(Found)
(Found)
.
Lost within a melody profound
Lost within a melody profound
(Profound)
(Found)
.
Fraught the course of extrovert when justice is perverted
Suddenly I’m introvert
My every thought subverted
Flirting with disaster
While averting gaze from learning aids that masquerade as end of days and devastate hereafter
Earning praise from smirking faces claiming to be master
Spurning predetermined ways to paddle any faster
Undercurrents all-embracing
Back to front when forward facing
Only words concurred of the remaster
.
Every word a stepping stone to Home as it is better known to me
Set in stone expressive tone
Directly bled from way below the bones of me
Boundless my enthusiasm for the spoken word
Turning phrases
Turning pages
Disconfirming token worth
Unswerving in faith that led me back here to the source
To all of me there’s ever been and evergreen reserves
.
Perched beneath the cursive tree of vast imagination
Nourished roots to sow the seeds of lasting fascination
Encouraged bleed
Relieving seething earth beneath my feet
And marvelled at the urgency of preening cultivation
.
Every word a stepping stone to Home as it is better known to me
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No boundaries to dally at
No barrier to sound
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No seasons left to pass away
No pains to disavow
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No boundaries to dally at
No barrier to sound
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No seasons left to pass away
No pains to disavow
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Every word a stepping stone across the cut-throat rapids
Every time I wrote another furthering the habit
Had to learn one version of me purposely emphatic
Had to turn off interfering static
Find a place where I could be romantic to excess
Wine and dine the English language
Fall in love with words again
Life made perfect sense to me when everything felt dead to me
Replenishing the quill for every last drop spilled was bled from me respectfully
Emotional vasectomy no longer necessarily appealed
For here within my entropy I learned again to feel
Here within my entropy I learned again to feel
Learned again to feel
.
It was summertime and winter
In the spring of my becoming
There was beauty in the beast
That waded deep the river running
There was little indiscreet
About the silence of the trees
As they entitled me to breathe free of succumbing
.
My fears were uninhabited
My favour multifaceted
For every single breath
Attested heartbeat left to haggle with
Should something wicked this way come
Then I would swiftly bang the drum
Drown out sound of compound bound
To crown behaviour more profound
Take straight razor to my pains
And bleed each vein through art
Weave the braid of same eyes seen
Through mane of each braveheart redeemed
To beat within
Entitled keep
Defiant in reclining breeze
.
(To beat within)
(To beat within)
To beat within
Entitled keep
Defiant in reclining breeze
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No boundaries to dally at
No barrier to sound
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No seasons left to pass away
No pains to disavow
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No boundaries to dally at
No barrier to sound
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
No reason to be found
No seasons left to pass away
No pains to disavow
Natural this habitat
For sacred are these grounds
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
Lost within a melody
Lost within a melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
Lost within a melody
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
A melody profound
.
Lost within a melody
A melody
A melody
Lost within a melody
Lost within a melody
Lost within
A melody profound
.