My Music & Works
Rob Chapman's Music
[Lyrics]
On and on and on it goes
On and on and on, so painful and slow
Separation's got me anxious
Society just seems so jaded
What else can I really do
Against the odds, if I can't prove
That I'm real?
I feel, so I'll beg borrow and steal
Yeah I'll push to the top
But the top pushes me away
On and on and on it goes
Division's growing wider though
"Us and them, we aren't the same"
He said to me, yeah
We've since parted ways
I don't need to tell you that
This day and age is as happy as it is sad
Sad to think that all of the progress we have made
Hhas been for naught
Well, I guess that's how life goes,
But tolerance should not be an afterthought
Fallin' in a straight line
Tension's such a downgrade
Caught in separation
Forcibly in apartheid
I can feel the tension
Tearing us apart now
Try so hard to fight it
I can't even fake this
Forcibly in apartheid
So far gone while on it goes
Silently awaiting slow
Methodlessly I fall apart
I should have seen this from the start
Fallin' in a straight line
Tension's such a downgrade
Caught in separation
Forcibly in apartheid
I can feel the tension
Tearing us apart now
Try so hard to fight it
I can't even fake this
Forcibly in apartheid
Apartheid
I wrote this song during a two week trip to Truro, Nova Scotia, that was supposed to involve recording an album. I was a fool in thinking that I could record an entire album in two weeks, let alone write one. This is one of the only 3 songs that got written during that time. The other two were a nameless instrumental, and another instrumental that I made the last night we were there, titled "Apologies", as in "sorry for being so foolish". This track is about discrimination and separation. For better or worse, it was the first song I ever wrote on a guitar. The latter being because I can't play guitar. That said, I don't think it's a bad song at all.