Sauron’s Gaze ♬ ✍

by Dada de Dada

Another experiment in placing the words at the front and centre of an audio production. Sauron’s Gaze is almost acapella with just intermittent drums and bass backing (plus a few sound effects) to convey a runaway train that appears to be gathering momentum in our world by the day.

Play the SoundCloud embed below to listen to the result. Choose play ‘Listen from Browser’ button below if you haven’t got a SoundCloud account (free). It is best enjoyed with good speakers or a decent set of headphones. Playing direct from a phone or tablet speaker just degrades the experience and intention.

Lyrics

White heat of conviction
Forging lens of truth 
Witchfinder generals 
Sharpen claw and tooth 
Fueled by fraud or fury 
Tall tales disseminate 
Gathering momentum
Propagating hate 
Runaway trains 
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back 
Picking up passengers 
Travellers to hell
For Sauron’s Gaze 
Casts its evil spell

Conspiracy warriors 
Congregated thought 
Self righteous disease 
A truth to be taught 
Online obsessives 
Gather in their cave 
Hearing the echoes 
To sacrifice or save 
Runaway trains 
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back 

So mobs now gather 
Lunacy is blessed 
Martyrs step forward
Victims confessed 
Ease of connection 
Rewiring our kind 
Good and evil 
Moulding the mind 
Confirmation bias
On easy tap 
Fast food outlets 
Serving up crap 
Algorithms push
Eyeballs collect 
Extreme is the normal
No shield to protect
Runaway trains 
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back  

Conspiracy fills
The compassion well
Village gossip 
Becomes tidal swell 
Cloaked in compassion
Plots proclaim
Pointing the finger
The ‘other’ to blame
Amplify resentments
Harvesting the hate
Irradiating righteousness 
No critics contemplate. 
Sin seekers see
Demons every where 
Magnifying monsters
Inflating every scare
Runaway trains 
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back 

Awaken the sleeper
Who slumbers so light 
Blow winds of bias 
Till embers ignite 
Perverting protest 
Embedded within 
Meme virus growing
Recruits to win
Runaway trains 
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back  

Exploiting freedoms
Imprison with lies
In mind dungeons 
Deaf to all cries 
Intolerance of tolerance 
Feed factional fight 
Destroy from within 
Blinding insight
Runaway trains 
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back 
For believing nothing 
Unless other believe 
Built into a brain’s
Waft and weave 
Leaves a landscape 
The knowing surveys 
Preparing the fields
For Sauron’s Gaze.

Runaway trains 
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back 
Picking up passengers 
Travellers to hell
For Sauron’s Gaze 
Casts its evil spell
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Runaway trains
Hurtling down a track
Locked to the rails
No way of turning back
Runaway trains
Runaway trains ...
No way of turning back
No way of turning back ...

About

First up, for those less familiar with Tolkien’s multi-layered worlds Sauron is indeed pronounced as ‘sow(as in female pig)ron’. Sauron’s power was to penetrate the mind defences of those who he wished to defeat or control making him a fitting figurehead for this production. Like a black hole he sucked all who came too close into his orbit. Seeking out the ‘receptive to the deceptive’. Those he could not control he sought to destroy. There are currently many actors on the world political stage who could play this part. I explore this theme in more depth in other poetic or musical posts, e.g. Just Tell Me a Story or Freedom’s Dark Mirror or Articulate Shark or In Their Minds v2 or In Their Minds v1 or Truth Dies or The Beast of Expectation. I invite you to read/listen to them as well.