A Moment of Truth (Piano/Vocal)

3 May 2018 · 4 min

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The piece is a lyrical monologue that explores the speaker’s ongoing battle with inner demons and the temptation of fantasies. It repeatedly returns to a “moment of truth” where excuses and imagined desires reveal their ugliness. The speaker describes a desire to cut through these destructive thoughts with a blade, while wrestling with conflicting drives for love, fame, faith, and pride. Past influences—heroes from youth—are portrayed as having led the speaker away from truth, yet a lingering inner voice, likened to a childhood friend, remains a steadfast guide. Themes of personal baggage, repeated failures, and the relentless pursuit of a metaphorical crown illustrate a struggle between self‑destruction and perseverance.

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took me in. Days that were insane. Now the demons in my brain had an open feast. A forever battle with the beast. In a moment of truth, my excuses and the fantasies I chase show their ugly face. If I had a blade, I'd run them through. My joy and my pain, the quest for love and fame, pull me astray and would ruin me if they had their way. Heroes of my youth flew me far away from truth, stole my heart and mind and put me on a path of lies. But in a moment of truth, my excuses and the fantasies I chase show their ugly face. If I had a blade, I'd run them through. My faith and my pride, the hidden voice inside, a childhood friend, stay with me until the end. Things I've come to know by tripping up and falling low, still reach for the crown. Sometimes my baggage weighs me down, but in a moment of truth, my excuses and the The fantasies I chase show their ugly face. If I had a blade, I'd run them through. If I had a blade. If I had a blade, I'd run them through.