2025 Competition Entry:

Captor Within by Jo Downing

Genre

Rock

Artist

Website

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Vocals – myself, Keyboards – James Hawkins, Drums – John Clark, Guitar – Will Cragg, Bass – Nick Wood

Description

This describes my thoughts when I was at my worst with anxiety, trapped within my own mind, but largely hiding it from those around me.

Bio

Lyrics

Captor within
Tearing me into a thousand pieces
It’s wearing thin
I’ve run out of credible excuses

My mind it’s clenched
It keeps me prisoner and locks away
All common sense
The fear is here and it wants to stay

There’s no logic
Here in my panic room
Hard to fight it
Sense of impending doom

Chorus:
Internal conflict, threat undefined
Losing sight of what makes the norm
Silent and bound within my mind
I’m alone in this raging storm
I’m falling down as I’m giving in
Can’t free myself from the captor within

So, every day
Alarm stops sleeping as I awake
And I must pay
For all the rules I refuse to break

To all outside
No indication anything’s wrong
A bold façade
Lost in a world where I don’t belong

Long to break free
Unshackle from these chains
Trapped by thoughts that
Ensure the fear remains

Repeat Chorus

It all comes crashing
It all comes crashing
It all comes crashing in
I can’t keep fighting
I can’t keep fighting
The captor within

Repeat Chorus

It all comes crashing
It all comes crashing
It all comes crashing in
I can’t keep fighting
I can’t keep fighting
The captor within

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