The Case has been a recurring concept for me since around 2013. It's this idea of chasing dreams like you're chasing leads on a murder case. What I've realized, is that detectives who are emotionally attached to solving the case, stop at nothing until it's done.
I feel like we are the same with what we fear, and what we are meant to do. Follow the leads, and become engrossed in solving the case of what step you're afraid to take next...
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The Case
Has me going to a place
That's uncomfortable
Because before,
When there were leads to chase...
I'd just run from em.
But now it's staring me in the face
And my excuse has been
That I haven't been confident
Enough,
To handle what's behind
That door that might punish me
Beat me up and pummel me
Treat me like The Punisher
Eat me up
Chew me up and spit me out,
To tell the truth...
But, the truth...
When I add it all up
The sum of truth,
Hits me with a sobering
A sobering doce
Like, a hundred proof...
But this is where my destiny lies
I gotta run into
That place
That I've been afraid to investigate
For a month or two
Even though I knew
It would solve the case
See, I hesitated
Because I knew
That this is where everything would funnel to
And as long as I've held it together
I also jnew,
This is where I probably would come unglued.
But, this is where it bubbles up
This where it bottle necks
I either go in there
With my novice neck
Stuck out
Exposed and vulnerable
Ready for what's comin' next...
Or I watch this case go cold
And sign my autograph
Signing off on all the crap
That everybody talked with respects
To the fact that this case
Was just supposed to end up in a box like an artifact...
They said it was done
They said I...was done
But I am not done
I will not run
Away...
If I have to
I will run
Right into the barrel of a shotgun.
But man, I am scared to death
Of what comes next
I am scared to death
Of putting myself out there...
I am terrified
That from these lips
All the plans to solve the case
That I had talked up
Have been the same lips
That I never pulled the trigger on
And shot from.
credits
from #flowtherapy EP Vol. 1,
released August 20, 2019
Written and Performed by Devin James
Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Marc Rose
Sound Design by Marc Rose
Music by Marc Rose
Mastered by Dana White
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021
