The Race

Are we here

To compete

Does that make you

Feel complete

Do you know

What you've lost

I guess winning

Has a cost

Do they know

What you've said

What you've done

To get ahead

Can you feel

The wretched pangs

My disease

And other things

So listen up

Play it cool

Calm it down

You little fool

You had me once

I didn't know

It was just a race

To let go

What do I win

Or do I lose

Who has the time

To pick and choose

You're still ahead

I'm still behind

Search for reasons

I cannot find

Race to the bottom

Who'll get there first

I think winning

Might be the worst

So go on by

I'll let you win

If you promise

To let me in

So listen up

Play it cool

Calm it down

You little fool

You had me once

I didn't know

It was just a race

To let go

Now walk away

And plug your ears

Pretend you can't hear me

For 15 years

I'm on my knees

I scream and pout

You hold the power

Of holding out

I miss my friend

I miss my soul

Is this the end

The story's whole

I said I'm sorry

I'm all to blame

Can you forgive me

I'll do the same

So listen up

Play it cool

Calm it down

You little fool

You had me once

I didn't know

It was just a race

To let go

Go Get Him Guys

Iambic Lambic drink with me
Drink not, drink one, drink two, drink three
Pose all the words you want to prose
These words will not kill not one of those

Yeah I see the wrinkles in his eyes
I saw them before I'm not surprised
Who let him in go get him guys
Shoot at the hip hey here's a tip
Go get him guys

There's a body
There's somebody
Attack at will
There's the scent
I'm Hellbent
I could just kill

Well maybe if we all think differently
Well yeah but what's in it for me
Yeah I see the wrinkles in his eyes
Hold out my hand until you demand the other prize

We'll never confuse him for genius now
He sits there amazed and just wonders how
He constantly constantly well he tries
It's all OK well I always say go get him guys

"Now Serving"

How many of these am I supposed to take?
How many to prevent me from being awake?
There's a hole in this world that I'm sinking in
That's how it feels when your poison is medicine

What's a bottle between good friends?
You know if you asked I'd come again
There's a hole in this world that I'm sinking in
That's how it feels when your medicine is poison

I'm addicted
I'm afflicted
I just can't win

I'm afflicted
I'm addicted
Need my medicine

Doctor, Doctor, it hurts right here
The pain is somewhere between my ears

Give me something
Give me nothing
I'll get my fix

Give me nothing
Give me something
Let's see what sticks

Will I Ever Know

Turn on your receiver
Tune your frequency
To the great deceiver
Child delinquency

I'm sending out a beacon
I'm sending S O S
You are what I am seeking
I'm alone I guess

Did you really come?
Did you really go?
Will I ever know?

Did you really come?
Did you really go?
Will I ever know?

Proof of you lives on
In the scars upon my wrists
Though you may be gone
You're at the top of all my lists

I know that you're still angry
And damn it so am I
But God himself can't change me
I just can't live a lie

And lies can be so hurtful
Like when you say that you'll be there
As I approach my downfall
And you're not anywhere

But you found greener pastures
While I'm buried in the mud
These all important gestures
Well I'm not feeling good

Did you really come?
Did you really go?
Will I ever know?

Did you really come?
Did you really go?
Will I ever know?

Did you really come?
Did you really go?
Will I ever know?

Did you really come?
Did you really go?
Will I ever know?

The Confounder

Traversing through the midnight squallor
Standing firm and growing taller
I met a worker, nay, a scholar
To be my night's best caller

Her eyes were pools of glistened water
Bruised like life had beat and fought her
This was someone's sister, daughter
Now only canon fodder

I tried to love her, true I did
I gave my heart and cast my bid
When I looked, I found she hid
So I made myself be rid

I won't forget this one encounter
Each night I look but haven't found her
Writher, writher, suffer, flounder
I must find my confounder

Untitled

There's but one place
To treat this wound
Inside my mind
I am cocooned
Rroots and branches
Rarely pruned
Reveal a corpse
With blood festooned

And here inside
My capsuled soul
Is where I now
Fulfill my role
Myriad thoughts
I make my cull
In torment now
I thus am whole

Regret not but
That I am late
I've left my dearest
Ones to wait
Spurning ever
After fate
With thoughts my mind
Can never sate

Tripwire

"Tripwire" by Nathan Langford

I said that I love you
You called me a liar
I told you I hate you
But oh I admire
Your sudden restraint
The heartbeat is faint
I fell on the tripwire

You changed your number
And went back to sleep
In some wicked slumber
You made not a peep
You set the trap
And started to clap
When I fell on the tripwire

And you won't say where you've been
And you won't say what you've done
You didn't fall for all of it again
This time you said the battle's been won

My thoughts fade to black
When I step in the fire
An ambush attack
Stuck in this quagmire
I'm a sitting duck
I ran out of luck
I fell on the tripwire

And you won't say where you've been
And you won't say what you've done
You didn't fall for all of it again
This time you said the battle's been won

A victorious defeat
I retreat, I retreat
I'm bloody and bruised
I was tortured, beat, abused

I'm just so fucking tired

So I fell on the tripwire