Train Wreck Cinema

Apr 9

Train Wreck Cinema is an instrumental song, inspired by the poem below, from Train Wreck Cinema (Escaping The Library of Blank Slates, Vol I)

Looked myself in the mirror

The day came, it's finally here

Put my heels on

Practice my lines one more time

I hear lights flicker on

Muttering on the stage behind me

Time to walk forward

Time to be your swan

I'll show you my best performance

Make sure I get every step right

Words come flowing one after another

I'll get it all right by the end of the night

Welcome to my cinema

I'll get it all right by the end of the night

Slow steps now, I walk on the stage

Lights shine on me now

I turned my own page around

You can't take me down

This script is mine to shout

I live to see another day

My woes, I killed them, and threw them away

Spent all those months perfecting my solo scenes

Repetition turned me into a rundown machine

Knot by knot, held on by your braided tether

Through it all, I didn’t break any feathers

Sometimes life, it feels like a show

But at the end of the night, we both know

All of this is to live, breathe, see, and believe

All of this is to live to be free

I'll show you my best performance

Make sure I get every line right

Words come flowing one after another

I'll get those lines right

Welcome to my cinema

I'll get it right, I'll get it right

It's not what I thought

I'm not

No, I’m not a train wreck cinema

Adeline Boettcher

Retrospect