the project matter

trouble on the right and not far behind
giving in to easy and trouble’s what you’ll find
not giving up on right, not giving up
on sight lines, hard to find the right time

        caught up in a moment such that I
        want to undo, an undue I
        caught up in a world that keeps such lies
        fought in our hearts and for our lives

the battle of the mind and I know what’s mine
is yours of this I’m sure
I’m not giving up on me, not giving up on me
cause we will traverse this reckoning

wars at my door, I’m called to life
I’m free to die, to hemorrhage or be called to life,
a call to life as a satellite of hope and right

 

Most people are going to call this song "Oscillation", that's what I refer to it as, but I wanted to give it a really specific title like something that I imagine my favorite painters would have had.  In general, I am much more interested in choosing titles that convey a broad sense of the meaning of the work, rather than just a word from it.  I have been ridiculed for this :)

Feel free to check the Wikipedia page for a more than detailed mathematical description of a harmonic oscillator, but basically it's like a pendulum. 

There have been many times when I've felt like my response to life was one of oscillation, between what I know is right and wrong, what I want or don't want to do, etc.  I've felt helpless, at times, to overcome the repetition of mistakes...like a dog to his vomit, perhaps?

I want to progress, not live in some state of static limbo. 

So in this case, the questions--and answers I think--reside in the bridge...which I guess would be a metaphor in and of itself :)