Young Hamlet

By Authentic Intelligence

Released on June 12, 2015

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[Break 1: Pentatonix]

A light in the room

It was you who was standing there

Tried it was true

As your glance met my stare

But your heart drifted off

[Excerpt from Kenneth Bragnaugh's Hamlet:]

To be or not to be...


[Break 2: Pentatonix]

Like the land split by sea

I tried to go, to follow

To kneel down at your feet

[Excerpt from Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet:]

To die...


[Break 3: Pentatonix]

I'll run...


[Verse: A.I.]

To live, to die

To end the struggles in one swift but hesitant emotion

One pill, one jump, one bullet, one rope away

From all my troubles, all my pain

The pain of disappointing, disappointment

It hurts to know that you give your all to someone

But it never seems to be enough

Enough of their expectations

Staring at the pavement from such high elevation

(P: I've been settling scores...)

Tired of people dumping their unwanted emotions on me

And not considering the consequences

(P: For so long...)

And the very second I need them the most

They're nowhere to be found

(P: Our kingdom is gone...)

What is it that we truly fear?

The fear of death?

Death is nothing more than an extensive sleepless sleep

Where pain is numb

And harmful things have come to an end

(P: I've got broken bones and tattered clothes...)

But in that sleep we call death

Long after our bodies hold us to this earth

Will we dream?

(P: I'll run...)

And if so, what will we dream?

Will we dream of peaceful things at last?

Or will we dream of torments worse than we could ever imagine?

[Excerpt from Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet:]

Puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action