1st Bite

Look out for this one coming to youtube soon as a fully-fledged song with a rhythmn section and everything. The title is a reference to this film: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2978808601/

Born with a rattle in my bones
took me far, far from home.
I won't just sit there and decay.
Brought me to a distant shore
The promised land I had hoped for.
You won't recognize my new face.

I don't know if you'll miss me,
when I'm all the way over there.
I'll send you a postcard,
but I won't tell you from where.

Now I've found the rattle's back.
I don't know where I should be at.
There's too goddamn much in this world.
A question's reasoning, reasoning's doubt
My mind's the prison and I can't break out.
I will just sit here and decay.

And maybe you'll see me
up there on the stage.
You got two eyes don't you,
so look over this way.

It's so stupid to say, "I don't know"
'cause nobody knows but they keep trying.
It's so stupid to feel so alone
'cause we're all born alone
'till the day we are dying.

We live in the present
and the days ahead.
These bones are sure to rattle
until the day I'm dead.