Just you wait and see
Just you wait and see This sure as hell turned out to be An awfully funny horror story Shared in snippets and whispers Around that dying campfire In need of urgent kindling But we won’t add another tree We do not need to kill a forest Just to prove what they can’t see To drive the punchline home, safely
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Look for me between inhale and exhale In that space your yawns pass through
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Stand under that almost fallen bridge Understand it A sad excuse of a passageway Only allowing the occasional trespasser The lonely hitchhiker
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Rage against your darkest instincts Spineless trees fall off the face of earth Unpass the test of time
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You were born out of rage Behold, My creation You will die out of love My sweet carnation
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If we speak Our shadows clash Not parallel lines Sooner or later meeting In the middle
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The question that won’t let me sleep is, who leaves after the first act?
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First there were the stars And there was the sun You were there too Star stuff Human souls
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An Invitation
I might invite you to the darkest pits of my tortured soul on a random Sunday But you won’t find out where I’ve been That’s nobody’s business but mine Collect the candid photographs Write your story Dates and hours and minutes Journal entries Music recommendations Book reviews Red string Murder scene Revival
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I hate crowded places Seemingly endless chatter Head piercing white noise But for you I would Any day Any time For you, only, I would
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After the claps and hollers and whistles After the curtsy bow Would you stay?
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I’ll be the unwritten books The unheard of symphonies
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In my dream you woke up In my dream you lived on
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I can say life’s good but I wish you were here to see it
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Stop digging your own grave Stop lying Inside that cave
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How can you say nothing? How do you quantify nothingness? How do you verbalize silence?
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Once I was a star Once Once I drove my car Once Once I parked my car Once Once I drove up far Once Once I had a scar Once Once I played guitar Once Once my door ajar Once It was so bizarre Once
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And since I lost you to sleep in the morning I’ve been awake at dawn
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Oh that’s an endless knot Is eternal and infinite any different after all?
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In case I go away Will you know that I was here? In case I couldn’t stay Will you tell me all your fears In case I had to say What I couldn’t all those years In case I start to pray And you’re washed away with tears In case In case you will one day Get a hold on silver spears In case they start to whisper And you hear them getting near In case they want to show you And they get inside your ear In case In case In case Keep me here
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Nothing to say Nothing to do Nothing Nothing to keep Nothing to lose Nothing Nothing to prove Nothing to choose Nothing Nothing to save Nothing to crave Nothing You’re nothing I’m nothing We’re nothing
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Ever been so lazy you were productive? Ever automated every button you had to press upon waking up? Ever changed every lightbulb to control with the sound of your voice? Ever tried to play god in your little human room?
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We’ll get back to you Sooner or later We don’t abandon our brothers here We resuscitate dead bodies
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I know you’re not dead when I look at them
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Wrath of The Father
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In the ambulance On my way to meet my creator I thought I was In a yellow submarine
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Instead of numbing it you dive right into it Right into the seemingly bottomless pit of despair Then you’ll find out it’s all an illusion The bottom is also the top Only it feels a little different
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We have the same brand of Madness so I understand
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The roads in this faraway town They don’t look as bright as The roads in that other town Where I spent my weekends alone
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The sky hasn’t kissed the ground in a while
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Don’t renew that suffering contract
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Bad books on fire and sweet smelling candles Dead buried insects, aspiring vandals Summers that quietly turn into springs These are a few of my favorite things
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Terrified every time the heat wave crashes on my shores, lest it take me with it. Evaporated and incinerated.
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These days I dress like an NPC I walk until my legs give out
These days I sleep like an NPC Awake until the lights go out
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Life is so fragile that it’s miraculous we eluded death this long Life perseveres
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You want to be surprised again so bad you keep erasing your memory Keep me here
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There’s a perpetual yawn that never ends
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Because if I stay put it will catch up to me
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Where do you go? You’re never really here even when you are
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Not everyone gets remembered The more you want it the more it slips away from you But those who never cared for being known Who just wanted to know Who wanted to do the remembering They get under your skin
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What are you running on Which tank is fueling you?
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Life favors the bold and brave Those who look death in the eyes Without blinking Life won
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I could die happy now Don’t go But I want to go up No Stay You’ll keep me here?
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I will go and You will stay and In a while we’ll Be okay and You will go and I will stay and In a second I’ll Start to pray for You and I to Be okay now Me and you to Be okay now You and me to Be okay now
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My baby looked at me like I was his world In that moment I was
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You’re their joker The winning card The make a wish well*