Once

Once is the first single from my podcast episode, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Once Once I was in love with my future. It was lit like a Japanese city. My life was charmed. I got into fistfights I turned on a dime. I was fiercely optimistic. I was the luckiest man alive. Once, I was shot out of a cannon, I landed on the moon, I killed seven with one blow, I balanced ten torpedoes on the tip of my tongue like a sailor. The future was up for grabs, The past was simply a benign ghost living in the back of my head. Then one night, the gods had had enough and manufactured a monster to distress my every dream. Soon the days muddled into months. Was I half asleep or half-awake? No sound was distinct. All the colors on the wheel ran together into a bleak, unlovely gray. Now, a complete disappointment, I let down my guard, and gave up the ghost. I was surprised to find myself eager for doom. The Future reared up for a final foray, but changed its mind. It came inside, and stayed inside. Once I felt certain the Future would make the Past pay. It would shove its face into the mud until it whimpered, and slinked off into the dark woods forever. Once, I saw the moon disappear like it had been deleted. Once, as per your request, I dreamed a little dream of you. Words and music © 2021 by Scott Taylor More at Scott Taylor's cover is blown