Flashbackwards - K Rino

Flashbackwards

What if we could?

What if we could on our own?

And what if we didn’t have a choice?

A picture captures a moment, the song speaks to the soul

A prayer strengthens the spirit, the world seeks to control

The mind triggers an action, your life’s part of the whole

The eyes can tell a story that the mouth has never told

Here I stand, a full grown man

Assessing my future plans from the point where I am

My memory opens up and then it starts to expand

And aspects of life began to be reran

Normally I’m moving fast, no thoughts that’ll past keep

Now things from childhood are more vivid than last week

Recollections from my foreign immediately past creep

Feelin partially sedated or should I say half sleep?

Had to sit down and think, what’s happenin in my mind?

How come my brain is now just recapturin the times

I can see my whole history in flashes of my prime

Clear visions of my existence are graphically defined

Nothing blurry or cloudy, they definitively come

Instead of tapering off they continually run

Across my timeline diametrically directed

Manifesting quicker than my aptitude to process it

A picture captures a moment, the song speaks to the soul

A prayer strengthens the spirit, the world seeks to control

The mind triggers an action, your life’s part of the whole

The eyes can tell a story that the mouth has never told

I can feel myself goin back (Goin back)

I can feel myself goin back (Goin back)

I seen it all and done it all without knowin that

When the trouble winds blow at me I’m blowin back

How can all these thoughts navigate this fast indeed

24 billion miles per second is the average speed

I’m still alive, I ain’t dyin, don’t confuse the game

Life ain’t flashin before my eyes, it’s travelin through my brain

Buildin up my character to face a better foe

Preparing me for somethin bigger than I’d ever know

Some of my points of stress have not been honestly addressed

Can’t be my best with dark moments subconsciously suppressed

A total sum of me is what I made it become

All categories of life inside a day that it’s won (All of em)

You have to make your life, do it, not do what it makes you

You have to take the world over before it overtakes you

A picture captures a moment, the song speaks to the soul

A prayer strengthens the spirit, the world seeks to control

The mind triggers an action, your life’s part of the whole

The eyes can tell a story that the mouth has never told

The cause, will soon materialize shortly

A couple of hours of thought took 5 years off me

Lights strikes in my eyes, I’m instantly energized

Within a matter of minutes I looked and I’m 25

I smile when I arrive, celebrated all the way there

When I reached 22, I was wishin I could stay there

But I kept goin backwards, lookin younger in the mirror

Every stage that I entered played music from the era

It was beautiful as ever, I was youthful, I was clever

Didn’t want to move from it cause I knew that it was better

I slipped to my teen years, now whether spoken or not

I feel that I’m goin too far back, hopin it stops

Middle school, elementary school, no longer older

Now I can’t talk, I can’t even walk, I’m in a stroller

Then back to the day of birth, somehow I remember though

Back into the belly, changin from fetus to embryo

Then a sperm cell exitin the egg and reverse

Then out of the memory of both parents I disperse

Then I heard a voice say how ungrateful that I had been

And said «When you appreciate life I’ll send you back again»

A picture captures a moment, the song speaks to the soul

A prayer strengthens the spirit, the world seeks to control

The mind triggers an action, your life’s part of the whole

The eyes can tell a story that the mouth has never told