Finally, I'm actually bored enough to make another entry on this, but I don't really have anything to say. So... here's another wonderful song to read and shit. It's long but it's worth it to take the time to read.
Well the animals laugh From the dark of the wilderness A baby cries hard In an apartment complex
As I pass in a car Buried under the influence The cities driving me out of my mind
I've seen a child he's caught In the sad trap of gravity He falls from the lowest Branch of the apple tree
And lands in the grass And weeps for his dignity Next time he will not aim so high Yeah, next time neither will I
Now, a mother takes loans out Sends her kids off to colleges Her family's reduced To names on a shopping list
While a coroner kneels Beneath the great wooden crucifix He knows there’s worse things than being Alone.
And so I’ve learned to retreat At the first sign of danger I mean, why wait around if It’s just to surrender
And ambition I’ve found Can lead only to failure I do not read the reviews No I am not singing for you
Well I stood droppin' a coin Into the pit of a well And I would throw my whole billfold If I thought it would help
With all these wishes I make I should buy something real At least a telephone Call home
Well my teachers they built This retaining wall of memory All those multiple choices I answered so quickly
And got my grades back And forgot just as easily But at least I got an A And so I don’t have them to blame
Well I should stop pointing fingers Reserve my judgment Of all those public action figures And cowboy presidents So loud behind the bull-horns So proud they can’t admit When they’ve made a mistake
While poison ink spews From a speech writers pen He knows he don’t have to say it So it don't bother him
Honestly, accuracy, It’s just popular opinion And the approval rating's high And so someone’s gonna die
Well ABC NBC CBS bullshit They give us fact or fiction I guess it's an even split And each new act of war's tonight's entertainment We're still the pawns in their game
As they take eye for an eye Until no one can see We must stumble blindly forward Repeating history
Well I guess we all fit into that slogan On your fast food marquee Red blooded white skinned and oh the blues Oh and the blues I got the blues that’s me
Well I awoke in relief My sheets and tubes were all tangled Weak from whiskey and pills In a Chicago hospital
And my father was there In a chair by the window Starin’ so far away I tried talking just whispered So sorry so selfish He stopped me and said Child, I love you regardless There's nothing you could do That would ever change this I’m not angry, it happens But you just can’t do it again
And so now I try to keep up I been exchanging my currency While a million objects Pass though my periphery Now I’m rubbin' my eyes 'Cause they're starting to bother me I been staring too long at the screen
But where was it when I first heard That sweet sound of humility It came to my ears in the Goddamned loveliest melody
How grateful I was then To be part of the mystery To love and to be loved Lets just hope that is enough
Samuel...
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