Drop Your Guard
Unveiling Vulnerability: Quiet Arrows' Plea to Drop Your Guard
Lyrics
I hear what you are saying
I am attentive to your words
I’m just a little wary
I am a bit cautious or hesitant
Of how the words are carried
Concerned about how your words are conveyed
Behind your teeth
Hidden intentions or emotions behind what you say
Malice in your translation
Negative intent in your interpretation
Replay the accusations
Replaying and emphasizing accusations
Until the final phrases
Continuing accusations until the final impactful words
Cut like defeat - cut like defeat
The impact of words feels like a deep emotional cut
Drop your guard now
Encouraging someone to lower their defensive stance
Put down your arms
Encouraging someone to disarm metaphorically
Won’t you let your heart breathe
Asking to allow emotions to surface
So often reenacted
Repeated patterns and behaviors
Shadows of darkened habit
Habitual actions with a negative impact
Tongue like a hidden dagger
Sharp and potentially hurtful words
Quick to release
Quick and easy release of hurtful words
Time now to pause and wonder
Suggesting a pause for reflection
How we’ve been torn asunder
Reflecting on the damage caused over time
Long are the years and moments
Long periods of conflict and the moments lost in between
Lost in between - lost in between
Feeling lost in the midst of conflict
Drop your guard now
Reiteration of lowering defenses
Put down your arms
Reiteration of disarming
Won’t you let your heart breathe
Reiteration of allowing vulnerability
Fury the fire that crumbles
Intense anger that destroys everything
All else reduced to rubble
Reducing everything to ruins
Gather the poison plunder
Gathering the negative consequences of actions
Dead at our feet
An end result of destruction
One flame can flicker forth
A small positive action can grow into something significant
Until it ignites a chorus
Until it becomes a collective expression
Destroy the spark that bore it
Destroying the source of inspiration
Ashes to dreams - ashes to dreams
Transformation of inspiration into disappointment
Drop your guard now
Final plea to lower defenses
Put down your arms
Final plea to disarm
Won’t you let your heart breathe
Final plea to allow vulnerability
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